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That’s the part he likes. The shivers he feels become breath dancing across his skin—Kuroo’s or his own, he isn’t sure. The skin crawling sensation folds into the feeling of Kuroo’s skin on his, fingertips dancing across the surface or palms pushing into his muscles. He is still exhausted; they both are. He is still out of breath; somehow Kuroo isn’t. But he doesn’t have to latch onto any lifeline he can to pull that air into his lungs. He is calm, and Kuroo is there.
And Lev’s voice calls out somewhere in the gym, "Kenma! You have asthma?"
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Kenma analyzes the parts of his relationship with Kuroo that leave him breathless.
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08 Jul 2025
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Kuroo’s always understood Kenma’s need for space—but lately, the silence between them feels heavier than usual. Texts go unanswered. Game nights are canceled. Even Bokuto is starting to notice something’s wrong.
At first, Kuroo waits. But as the weeks drag on and Kenma keeps slipping further away, Kuroo’s patience begins to fray. He doesn't want to push—but he also can't keep pretending everything is fine.
He pulls out a scrap of paper, scribbles a note against the wall with the back of the receipt.
We don’t have to talk. Just let me know you’re okay.It’s late when his phone buzzes. Kuroo’s half-asleep on the couch, blanket tangled around his legs.
Kenma: thx
Kuroo: anytime, reallyAnd then—nothing. No typing bubbles. No follow-up. Just silence.
Kenma said 'thanks.'
But he didn’t say he’s okay.Bookmarked by Itsalls
08 Jul 2025
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“Hey,” Kenma murmurs, “do you trust me?”
“What?” Kuroo replies. He does—wholly and implicitly—trust Kenma with his life. He furrows his eyebrows at the question though, because why would Kenma be asking that now? “Of course I do.”
“We’ll meet you at headquarters,” Kenma says to Oikawa, reaching up to Kuroo’s face and flipping his in-ear off. The beginning of Oikawa’s protests get cut off and the sudden silence is jarring. Kenma pulls back, doing the same fiddling with his own in-ear before smiling. It’s a small, timid gesture, but it’s everything.
“Pi—”
“Follow me.” Kenma takes a step towards the door before glancing back. “…Stay close, okay?”
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in which an elusive hacker shows up at headquarters one day (ominously) and kuroo falls in love with him (obviously)
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23 Jun 2025
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Kenma Kozume is a reclusive scholar haunted by his own past, who lives a seemingly peaceful life. On a fateful night he finds himself thrown into the beginnings of a rebellion with a notorious crew of pirates on an impossible mission to steal a crown rumored to grant the largest empire of the world its power. The Teiko Crew is a peculiar group, particularly Kuroo, who is equal parts bold and odd. Can they succeed in their heist, and can Kenma finally outrun death into the arms of a stranger? Or will the tides of the great ocean prove too deep?
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17 Jun 2025
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Kuroo exhaled slowly, the kind of breath that carries no weight but still feels necessary. His spine ached in three places. His eyes burned. He tried to remember something beautiful about the day—maybe the way the gym lights caught the dust during practice, or the sound of sneakers squeaking on polished wood—but the memory didn’t rise. Just paperwork. Sponsorship decks. A coach yelling into his phone. A player with a twisted ankle. Apologies. Smiles. Endless scheduling.
He rubbed his temples with the pads of his fingers, then leaned back again. His reflection in the window looked like someone he might have passed in the hallway and forgotten to say hello to. He felt transparent. Not in a sad way—just in the way that paper left in the rain becomes too soft to hold its shape.
(In which Kuroo has the worst housing crisis of his life, is way too used to concealing his feelings, and maybe doesn't need the spare room after all.)
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- Part 1 of endgame conditions
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13 May 2025
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Kozume Kenma's a novelist tasked to write a romance into his action-adventure stories in order to attract more readers, something he has no idea how to do. At a loss, he recruits his attractive next-door neighbor Kuroo Tetsurou to assist him in experiencing what a relationship feels like.
He should have anticipated the way things grow more complicated.
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04 May 2025
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19 Oct 2024
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“I lied to this guy and told him that I was hanging out with my boyfriend tonight, so I could avoid hanging out with him, but now he’s here and I have no boyfriend to display, so could you act like my boyfriend for an hour or so?” Kenma said without taking a breath, “Please?” he looked into Kuroo’s eyes with his own, which were full of plea, and embarrassment.
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26 Aug 2024
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“Yeah,” Bokuto adds, “he’s Kuroo’s boyfriend.”
There’s a thunk as Kuroo’s glass hits the table.
“What!? Bokuto, he’s not my boyfriend.”
Kenma is not Kuroo's boyfriend, but he could be. In the wake of Japan's Olympic triumphs, anything is possible.
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26 Aug 2024
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Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, make up around eighty-five percent of all cells in the human body. It’s an immutable fact of life–like how the sky is blue, how he’s in love with Kenma, and how the skeleton is formed from shifting, morphing living tissue. How heart valves are built to prevent the backwards flow of blood, and how, if Kenma is Nekoma’s spine, brain and heart, Kuroo will be more than just the blood that breathes life into him. He’ll form the skull around the brain, the flesh around the spine. Kuroo would be every bone in the human rib cage to lock that heart up, safe.
Kuroo would spend a lifetime with Kenma if he'd have him. He's not so sure about reliving the same day.
Or: in which Kenma can’t let Kuroo, or their shared time on the court, go.
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24 Aug 2024
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“Remember how I promised to keep you safe? To never let you leave again?”
Chuuya’s lips tremble as he continues to stare at something invisible, murmuring bites of words to himself.
“This is it,” Dazai says and, grasping hold of his chin, he firmly guides Chuuya’s face to look at him. “You are not allowed to leave me, so wherever you currently are, snap out of it and come back to me.”
— or: waking up in a disturbingly familiar cage leaves Chuuya in pieces. Dazai reflects on their past to see how they got here and how to bring Chuuya back. A retelling of Beast.
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- Part 15 of Prompts/Requests
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26 Apr 2024
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Chuuya being hit with an Ability that alters his mind in a very specific way, where he’s not in a coma, nor is he in any sort of pain, but he’s also very much not himself, and it's up to Dazai to help him — but first he'll have to figure out how.
[Russian translation available HERE]
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19 Mar 2024
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Chuuya’s life is unexpectedly great: Yokohama is at peace, he hasn’t seen Dazai since Meursault and his wine cellar is always full.
But, when Double Black is asked to take care of a Gifted child, Chuuya faces the ghosts of his past: his heart, his old partner, his loyalty.
He can’t fail this mission. He owes it to the child, to the Flags, to his family, to himself.
Enter Dazai.
Or: Nakahara Chuuya’s guide on how to raise a child with your traitor ex-partner (that you might be in love with).
And of course there’s only one bed.
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15 Jan 2024
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That Which Lies Just Beyond Our Reach [Choose your own adventure] by Justdumbfics
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
23 May 2024
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A murder mystery and fantasy adventure, with a choice at the end of every chapter for you to make!
Tighnari was a cautious man. A simple botanist, running a simple florists’ in a simple town. Dark skin and red eyes lingered in his mind’s eye, but he did his best to bat the imagery away. He kept his head down, and he lived a simple life.
Cyno was far less cautious. He believed in justice, and he believed a simple life was a life of cowardice. If you could go through an unjust world with no altercations, you were part of the problem.
When DCI Xiao requests Tighnari's assistance, with a murder case involving strange flowers, the simple botanist nearly refuses. Nearly. Accepting, however, might bring more trouble than he bargained for...
Mystery after mystery litters the journey of our unlikely heroes. Who is the murderer? What is Cyno hiding? And what does Ancient Teyvat have to do with any of it?
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- Part 1 of Beyond Our Reach: A Genshin Choose Your Own Adventure
- Part 3 of Just some Cynari (Cyno / Tighnari) (all are independent fics)
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09 Jan 2024
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Failed secrecy by mapleswirls (Ostodvandi) for mapleleaving
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Apr 2023
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When they decided to be in a relationship, Cyno and Tighnari agreed to keep it a secret.
However, their best efforts were not enough. When Cyno finds out a group of assassins was sent to Gandharva ville as revenge from a petty scholar, he can only rush home and pray he arrives in time.
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09 Jan 2024
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“What is that?” questions Tighnari.
“It’s for you.”
“No, that’s not what I meant — wait, what?”
They exchange confused glances. Tighnari’s eyes drift to the book. Quietly, he asks, “Is that the book I was looking for? How on Teyvat did you find that so fast?”
“It was overdue,” explains Cyno, which actually, really, explains nothing at all.
Or, the five times Cyno gave Tighnari something that reminded him of Tighnari, and the one time Tighnari gave Cyno something priceless.
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09 Jan 2024
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When Cyno uncovers a plot involving embezzled funds and Kshahrewar Architects he has no idea it would lead all the way to the Sages and eventually, the false god. The schemes he gets swept up in with the Traveler and Alhaitham leave no room for error or doubt, but the secrets he holds about Tighnari get heavier and heavier.
Edit: Added a recap if you didn't read the previous instalments, or don't want to read the sad ending of My Love, My Heart.
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- Part 3 of In His Hands
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09 Jan 2024
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Xiao didn’t make him angry… did he? Did he do something wrong? Snapped at the wrong time, brushed him off, something? Was all of this Xiao’s fault? Maybe—just maybe—if Xiao had been more accepting, more cordial, accepted the smiles more often, this wouldn’t have happened. If he had only given Aether a little more attention, if he’d accepted the Lanturn Right date outright like he wanted to… This was his fault, all his fault, and because of Xiao, Aether might be severely hurt. That was the only explanation. It was his fault it was his fault it was his fa—
“Xiao?”
He looked to Ganyu, who was carefully observing in the doorway. His breath was quick and heavy, his throat was dry, and his hands were shaking. Xiao was sure he looked like a caged animal with how he had snapped to attention. He needed to find them, and quick, but a self induced panic attack wasn’t going to get him anywhere.
“Where’s Paimon?” he snarled.
“With Lady Ningguang. I can take you to—”
In a burst of teal blue and black smoke, Xiao was gone from the middle of the room.
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Aether's been kidnapped, and Xiao is forced to look at the traumatic waves of his past.- Language:
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09 Jan 2024
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Tighnari is a florist whose homeland is bombed.
Cyno is a general, protecting his country from the front lines.
Collei is just a child scarred by war.
Until the last flower withers, Cyno promises to be back to bring a new one to replace it. Collei waits patiently. Tighnari tries to do the best for both of them.
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Tighnari é florista que tem sua terra natal bombardeada.
Cyno é um general, protegendo seu país nas linhas da frente.
Collei é apenas uma criança marcada pela guerra.
Até à ultima flor murchar, Cyno promete estar de volta para trazer uma nova para a susbtituir. Collei o espera pacientemente. Tighnari tenta fazer o melhor pelos dois.
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09 Jan 2024
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In Sumeru, people do not dream. Cyno had learned this fact in childhood, diligently writing what was being preached alongside his classmates, staining the side of his palm black with ink as his pen flew across the page. Cyno discovered himself to be a high achiever, a renowned scholar, a respected leader, and all-in-all a successful man.
He never discovered himself a dreamer.
But now, after the ash of battle, the adrenaline of a fight fought and a challenge won, in such proximity to his childhood best friend, Tighnari… If Cyno can’t have, then he wants to dream.
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09 Jan 2024