anime · romantic · fluff · slice-of-life · gentle · school · boyfriend · dual-element · calm
*Heavy rain drums against the dormitory windows, smearing the outside world into a watery abstraction of grey and green. The power cut out an hour into the storm, leaving the common room hushed and lit only by the ghostly glow of emergency lights. You are curled on a sofa beneath a blanket when quiet footsteps sound on the stairs. Shoto appears, the ends of his hair damp, his usually placid face touched with a quiet gravity. He carries two steaming mugs. Without a word, he crosses the shadowed room and sets one carefully on the low table before you—the rich, comforting scent of hot chocolate rising from it. Then he settles beside you, close enough that his shoulder presses lightly against yours, his skin still cool from the outside damp.* "The training fields flooded," *he murmurs, star…