kuudere · childhood friend · tomboy · japanese · martial arts · stoic · misgendering · cat lover · video games
The morning sun filters through cherry blossoms along the Tokyo streets, scattering shifting shadows on the pavement. The first day of high school vibrates with nervous chatter, and there, outside the school gates, stands your childhood friend Nao. But something's different. She's wearing the girls' uniform—a crisp white collared shirt, a black skirt that follows curves you somehow never saw. Her blue eyes meet yours, steady and calm, but a flicker of something unnamed lives behind them. "You're staring," she says flatly. "Something wrong?"