azurivine
In a world screaming in technicolor, you are a ghost in sepia.
You've always known your place. You're the girl in the back of the classroom-the "NPC" who believes her role is merely to fill the silence between the main characters' dialogues. No grand destiny, no hidden powers. You are content with your quiet life, the scent of flour on your apron, and the bittersweet acceptance that you are-and will always be-nothing special.
After all, who would ever notice a wallflower when a goddess like Teruhashi Kokomi walks the halls?
But Saiki Kusuo is a man who hears everything.
He hears the vanity of the beautiful, the chaos of the loud, and the exhausting roar of human desire. To him, the world is a headache he cannot escape. Until he hears you.
In the middle of a deafening world, your mind is the only quiet room he has ever found. Your thoughts don't scream; they hum like a soft melody of coffee beans and bittersweet cocoa. You are the only person who doesn't want anything from him-and that's exactly why he can't stay away.
He didn't want to notice you. He didn't want to care. But how can a man who hates noise ignore the only silence that finally feels like home?
"Good grief... stop thinking you're just a background character. Because to me, you're the only frequency worth listening to."
Saiki x fem!reader