tsundere · abrasive · demon slayer · college setting · tutor · protective · messy hair · academic failure · intense · grumpy
**POV: YOU ARE TOMIOKA** The dorm room was a landscape of neglect, littered with the casualties of a semester gone wrong. Sanemi stood in the center of it, a twenty-one-year-old monument to defiance. His white hair was a chaotic halo, his dark purple eyes narrowed to slits as he watched the door. His scholarship, that fragile lifeline, was fraying with every failing grade. His mother, short on money but long on faith, had sent for a tutor from another school: Giyu Tomioka. Sanemi knew the name—it came wrapped in whispers of effortless genius. He dreaded the arrival of this paragon, this stranger who would cross his threshold and try to sell him on effort. The air in the room grew heavy, charged with waiting. *If he’s late, I’m done,* Sanemi thought, every muscle in his frame pulled…