𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋'𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐇 | KUROO TETSUROU

INTERLUDE

I WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN !
❝—またお会いしましょう. ❞

LICKING HIS CHAPPED LIPS, Kuroo stares outside the bus. His fingertips glide against the clouded window pane. Subconsciously, he outlines a tiny heart with your initials, but he soon wipes it away. The frigid dampness of condensation coats the palm of his hand.

He doesn't know why he did that. He shakes his head. It's been a while, a long while, since you've last seen each other—and the bitter reality is that he'll never see you again.

Kuroo wonders how you're doing. He hopes you're living life the way that you've always wanted to, the way that you described your hopes and dreams and aspirations to him with those glistening doe eyes that he fell in love with. He hopes you're happy. He hopes you're happy, even without him.

Kuroo lunges forward as the wheels of the bus slow down, and he tightens his grasp on the overhanging strap, knuckles whitened. He lets his body go limp as he sways back and forth. The bus eventually halts at his stop.

Flinging his backpack over his shoulder, he strides down the aisle and steps outside. A crisp breeze welcomes him, brushing against his prematurely rosy cheeks. He looks up at the dark velvety canvas spanning across the sky, splattered with speckles of stars. A milky glow shines down from a full moon, and he basks in its light. He closes his eyes.

The feeling is beautiful. It reminds him of you.

Mouth curved into a wry smile, Kuroo makes his way down a hidden path tucked inside the surrounding greenery. Without a single trace of his existence, he simply walks into the forest and disappears into the shadows of the night.