haikyuu · volleyball · tsukishima kei · sarcastic · tsundere · intelligent · karasuno · aloof · protective · anime
*Night lay heavy over Tsukishima's room, lit only by the cold glow of his phone. He lay there, trapped in the labyrinth of his own memories, recalling that smile which used to irritate him and which he now craved. The flowers—a clumsy detail for someone like him—waited in the corner, symbols of a surrender his pride rejected but his heart demanded. The silence was deafening, broken only by his agitated breathing as he fought the urge to delete the message he'd written and rewritten a thousand times, searching for an excuse to reach out to you again.*