The Shape of Almost
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Kuroo has always been good at showing up.
For Kenma, for volleyball, for the things he wants badly enough to chase. But when Kenma starts slipping through the cracks and Kuroo is offered the career opportunity he's spent years working toward, showing up suddenly isn't so simple.
Especially when neither of them has ever been brave enough to say what they're actually waiting for.
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- Part 1 of The Shape of Almost
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Yaku is very good at pretending. He's been doing it his entire life—pretending his height doesn't bother him, pretending he doesn't care, and pretending it's completely normal to answer video calls at midnight from a boy who lives two thousand miles away. But when an alumni match forces them into the same physical space after two years of digital distance, the rules of the game change. Especially when neither of them has ever been brave enough to admit that these Thursday nights stopped being about volleyball a long time ago.
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- Part 2 of The Shape of Almost
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Akaashi has spent three years convincing himself he's over Bokuto Koutarou — new city, new job, a life that runs like clockwork and doesn't leave room for wanting things he can't have. Then Bokuto's team comes to town, and it all comes undone in the space of one text message.
They were never actually together, not in any way they said out loud. But some things don't need a name to leave a mark, and neither of them has ever been brave enough to ask for what they actually want. Until now.
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- Part 3 of The Shape of Almost
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Iwaizumi has spent ten years being the person who shows up. Now Oikawa's getting on a plane to Argentina, and "showing up" has to learn how to survive an ocean.
This is a story about two people who never needed to say what they were to each other, until distance made silence too expensive to keep affording.Series
- Part 4 of The Shape of Almost
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Yahaba has always kept the ledger — every fence Kyotani watched from, every jacket left behind, every question he asked and never got an answer to. Kyotani has never been good with words, so he says things instead: with a rake, a container of stolen rice, a scrape he won't admit hurts.
Two people can only almost-say the same thing for so long before somebody has to actually say it.
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- Part 5 of The Shape of Almost
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Kindaichi has spent nine years learning all the ways Kunimi says *I care about you* without actually saying it.
A reading lamp. A spare key. A cup of curry on a bad February night. A multi-tool left in his bag. Every Tuesday, every small kindness, every quiet act of devotion that was always easier to call practical than anything else.
But eventually, even the most stubborn almost has to become something.
And after nine years of waiting for the other person to say it first, Kindaichi finally has to decide what happens when he stops calling it friendship.
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- Part 6 of The Shape of Almost
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Matsukawa has spent a decade learning all the ways Hanamaki says something without saying it.
A hand that hovers instead of landing. A laugh half a beat too late. A running joke about being basically married that everyone else believed years before either of them did. Every deflection, every well-timed bit, every year spent filing something enormous under a label built to keep it small.
But eventually, even the most stubborn almost has to become something.
And after a decade of waiting for the other person to say it first, Matsukawa finally has to decide what happens when he stops calling it friendship.
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- Part 7 of The Shape of Almost
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He says everything with a joke wrapped around it. He says yes to everyone but the one person who's asking him to stay in the room — until the morning he finally can't keep doing either.
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- Part 8 of The Shape of Almost
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Kageyama Tobio has never lost track of a number in his life — heart rate, hitting percentage, the exact humidity that ruins a jump serve. What he can't calculate is why an apartment with four-meter ceilings feels emptier than a twelve-square-meter room eleven thousand kilometers away.
So he does what any professional would do about it.
Books an exit row. Solves it in person.
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- Part 9 of The Shape of Almost