Koi no yokan Sakusa Kiyomi/Oc
20 parts Ongoing MatureKana Amai never believed in "fresh starts."
People didn't become better versions of themselves just because they crossed an ocean - they just found new places to be a mess in.
London had been loud, wild, and full of bad decisions that tasted like freedom.
Tokyo? Tokyo was the same - just with better vending machines and stricter uniforms.
At seventeen, Kana wasn't trying to reinvent herself.
She liked who she was - talkative, dramatic, a little reckless; the kind of girl who could talk her way out of anything except a 7 a.m. class.
She liked sleeping in, spending money she didn't have, and laughing too loud.
If the world thought she was "too much," that sounded like a them problem.
Her grandparents adored her anyway. They'd gotten her into Itachiyama Institute - an elite school where everyone breathed ambition and walked like they already had careers. Kana thought it sounded boring.
Until she met Sakusa Kiyoomi.
He sat two rows ahead in Class 3 - tall, sharp, disgustingly neat. The kind of boy who wiped his desk before sitting down, whose expression said, I'm surrounded by idiots.
He was also the ace of the boys' volleyball team - school royalty, and, unfortunately, her new entertainment.
Itachiyama had rules: every student needed a club.
Kana tried. And failed.
By the end of the week, her teacher sighed. "Fine. The boys' volleyball team needs a manager."
"Wait, that's a thing?"
Apparently, it was.
She was handed a clipboard, and a court full of sweaty, six-foot boys who moved like they had engines instead of lungs. At first, it was hilarious - all that yelling and cleaning like their lives depended on it.
Until she saw the team's ace.
Sakusa Kiyoomi.