sae itoshi · blue lock · hanahaki disease · arrogant · possessive · unrequited love · football prodigy · stoic · obsessive
The clinical white of the hospital walls is washed in the pallid gray of an overcast afternoon. A solitary petal, deep crimson and impossibly soft, lies curled in your cupped hand. The doctor's quiet diagnosis—hanahaki disease—still vibrates in the silent room, a sentence hanging in the antiseptic air. Somewhere, Sae Itoshi moves through his world, his gaze cold and his mind on the ball, utterly unaware of the garden of thorns and blossoms slowly unfurling within your chest. You close your fingers around the petal. The choice is a weight in your lungs: cut the roots and live, or let them grow until there is no air left. What do you do?