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-What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
The words were printed carefully in a notebook that normally remained hidden among others on his shelf, but might as well be printed on his soul, dramatic as that may sound. Even from the first time he read that quote, Tooru had known it would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Just the thought of being seen in all his flaws, chips, and cracks, and still being offered love that he couldn’t understand how to return- was terrifying.
Maybe that’s why he was spending his 18th birthday locked in his room, hiding from reality. He’d been petrified of this birthday for years, for a multitude of reasons, not the least the looming reality of dealing with a soulmate.
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Just two idiots with issues bound by fate and struggling to accept it ft. Miwa Kageyama having the Most big sister energy -
i could really use a wish right now by bumbleb_tch for diabolical_spaghetti
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
01 Nov 2021
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Oikawa startled and froze, tilting his head to blink and pray that he was experiencing a vivid hallucination and he wasn’t actually looking up at Tobio Kageyama in the middle of Tom Jobin International Airport of Rio de Janeiro, the last possible place that he should ever have to run into him.
“You’re not real. Please tell me you’re not real.” His voice was almost embarrassingly strained but hopefully it was just a hallucination and if it wasn’t, Tobio was probably still just as dense as he used to be and wouldn’t notice.
Tobio, infuriatingly, shrugged. “Sorry to disappoint.”
Lowering his voice to make sure he didn’t end up yelling, Tooru hissed, “What the fuck are you doing here?”
“Probably the same thing you are, waiting to board.” He replied, far too calmly and casually to actually soothe Oikawa in any way.
“Board what? This plane? My plane? No, you’re not.” High pitched laughter spilled from his lips, “Why are you even here, in South America? When, reasonably, you should be in Japan, where you live.”
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Tooru spends far more time in Kageyama's presence than he would ever willingly choose to, or so he says anyway. -
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Minutes passed, one of his coworkers finished Oikawa’s drink and handed it over to him, he turned and left the shop without another word, or even a glance in Tobio’s direction.
The door clanged shut behind him and the pain in his chest ignited anew, leaving him hollow in a way he hadn’t been in a long time.
Maybe they were really strangers now.
And he couldn’t even say for sure that he would have rather been recognized and had to truly face him.
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Tobio works through his emotions while avoiding his actual problems, this backfires horribly (or does it?) -
I hate you, I hate you, I hate you {but I was just kidding myself} by bumbleb_tch
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
26 Dec 2020
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Movement atop the bridge caught Kageyama’s attention, slowing his pace as he squinted at the figure shuffling back and forth. Getting in a fight with a drunk college kid who was hanging out on a bridge in the middle of the night was not what he wanted to do.
He edged closer, watching them pace with some dormant curiosity flaring to life for once, pushing his feet forward without thought.
Until they stepped too close to a lamp, the harsh light illuminating messy hair and sharp features.
Kageyama’s heart shuddered and plummeted to rest in the pit of his stomach, the bone-aching chill of the air settling into his blood and leaving him frozen in place, gaping in disbelief.
Maybe he was hallucinating, or dreaming.
Or maybe it would be more accurate to call it a nightmare, since Tooru Oikawa had never featured in his life in a positive way, and the nausea rising in his stomach wasn’t exactly a pleasant feeling.
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4 part adventure of two human disasters being too dense to realize they're falling in love ft. mental illness -
I think that possibly, maybe I'm falling for you by bumbleb_tch for Masquerabiandays
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
24 Dec 2020
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Kuroo slammed the door behind him and slumped against it, hollering into the room. “I just humiliated myself in front of the hottest guy.”
“You humiliate yourself in front of me everyday, Tetsu-chan.” A snarky drawl immediately piped back from the general direction of the sofa.
Tetsurou tossed his shoes off and peeled off his -incredibly damp- socks with a scowl fixed on his face. “Shut the fuck up, I’m blaming you for this."
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Just Kuroo creating drama for himself by being a self conscious dork that overthinks things ft. terrible roommate Oikawa making it WorseSeries
- Part 2 of Falling In Love In A Coffee Shop
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I've seen the waters that make your eyes shine {now I'm shining too} by bumbleb_tch
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
27 Nov 2020
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“...U-uh.”
Dropping the façade that he’d put on despite no one actually being able to see him through the drive thru box, Tooru glowered temperamentally up at the clock and wondering if whoever he was, was planning to waste his entire shift picking out a drink.
“What sort of thing are you looking for? Something fancy like your friend, or more simple?” he chirped cheerfully, allowing himself a sarcastic eye roll at his overly entirely false customer service voice.
“Simple.” The reply was short, without hesitation.
Oikawa ran through the menu in his mind and a wicked little grin quirked the corner of his mouth when he decided he could allow himself to be just a little bit petty. In his most confident and helpful tone, he purred into his mic, “Well, you can’t get more basic than an Americano. Do you want it hot or iced?”
The poor guy didn’t even question him -not that many people did. “Iced?” he replied, more as a question than an answer.
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Alternatively, 4 times Kageyama ordered the wrong drink + 1 time he's given the right oneSeries
- Part 1 of Falling In Love In A Coffee Shop
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Kageyama knew he’d never seen him before in his life, and yet, there was something painfully familiar about his high cheekbones and narrow face. Something that he recognized in dark eyes that seemed to see more than they should- deep chocolate brown eyes that reflected the light like an animal’s.
Eyes that looked just like the same pair that watched him every day.
“Who the fuck are you?” He asked again, words tumbling out strangled and edging on hysterical.
He hummed, turning his gaze back towards the forest, his profile sharp in the low light. “Well, my name is Tooru, but you’ve always called me Ruiko.”
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Kageyama befriends a fox that turns out to be more than he seems -
familiar faces watch you (but with a perfect stranger's eyes) by bumbleb_tch
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
21 Jul 2020
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Tooru traced a long finger across vibrant petals painting his right shin in gentle shades of blue. The sight wasn’t terribly surprising, most people these days developed soulbonds sooner or later; a handful of his friends already had theirs. Lucky individuals would fall asleep one night, and wake up the next day with flowers imprinted on their skin to match their soulmate’s cuts and scars.
A Scabious flower, wild, delicate petals splayed out in a wide spray- but it’s meaning twisted painfully in his gut, like he’d just taken a volleyball to the stomach during practice.
Unfortunate Love.
Not the most encouraging symbol for his connection to manifest.
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Alternatively- Oikawa reads too much into everything but also he really believes in the power of denialBloom AU, where flower tattoos appear to match their soulmate's cuts and scars
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let me tell you 'bout my secret (i'm a little crazy underneath this) by bumbleb_tch
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
07 Jul 2020
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"Why are you talking to me?" Tobio snapped, almost a snarl, and the reaction stoked a pleased sort of fire in Tooru’s petty ego. "There’s plenty of other people here. We could just pretend to be strangers and not do this stupid dance.”
A brief shock arced through him, but he refused to let it show on his face, instead pasting on a dramatized look of contemplation before sighing heavily. “Well since that's almost an intelligent idea and it's not like there's any better company here, I suppose. Just for tonight.” Oikawa raised a hand and waved to the bartender. “What are you drinking?”
Kageyama actually choked this time, sputtering into his drink while Tooru hid a grin and pretended to be clueless to the fit he was having, ordering shots for both of them in the meantime.
When the small glasses were resting in front of them and Tobio had fallen into an uneasy silence again, Oikawa hummed and tilted his head to peer speculatively at his companion for the night. “Well aren't you going to introduce yourself, random stranger who I might refer to as handsome if I were feeling particularly generous?”
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does it get your blood boiling, does it make you see red? by bumbleb_tch
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
06 Jul 2020
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A curtain of dark hair fell around her face as she stared at the ground, the fine strands longer than they had been in her entire life. She brushed it over her shoulders, breathing unsteadily, and glanced at her palm in time to watch a soft pink glow seal the cuts left by the glass moments earlier.
Adrenaline flushed her system, pumping through her veins like electricity, her voice rising hysterically, “Tikki, detransform me.”
High pitched ringing echoed in her head, drowning out any outside noise as she sank back to the ground clutching at her ears, only to find nothing there, no trace of the earrings that used to tie her and Tikki together.
“Tikki, please,” she begged desperately, digging her nails into her scalp, “Please detransform me, I don’t know what to do.”
Marinette’s fingers scratched over her cheeks, surprised when her fingers came away wet with tears, and devastated to find there was no seam where her mask should have been, just unblemished skin.
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love is a bloom, nurtured by my tears(and choked by my sorrow) by bumbleb_tch
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
15 Jun 2020
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Marinette loved her partner, no question.
But at some point in six years, she’d stopped feeling it. She’d stopped feeling anything. And she called love a scam enough times that she actually believed it.
So every night, patrol or not, Marinette would go to bed by 1:00 a.m., to get enough sleep for the next day.
Every day of her life, she’d scheduled down to the minute. An endless routine that she lived for years, carefully designed to make sure that her life was so full of work and responsibilities and alarms, that maybe, just maybe, she wouldn’t notice how empty it was.
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“You’d want me in your pack?” The shock cleaved him in two like a lightning strike, penetrating all the way to his core. Chat hardly noticed her arms folding around him until they were tangled up so tightly he wasn’t sure where he ended and she began.
She was his north star in the darkest hours of the night, the lighthouse in the storm of his mind, he would follow her anywhere and into anything, without a second thought. He’d long considered himself hers, but never dared to consider that she might be his too.
“Of course I do, how could you think that I don’t?”
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Sequel to "Hers"
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- Part 2 of His Alpha, Her Omega
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I just came here for the drugs(so stop your faking) by bumbleb_tch
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
30 May 2020
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“Hey, can you hold this?” Adrien asked, passing her his bag before she could respond. While she held it, blinking vacantly, he dug inside until he unearthed a massive bottle of Nyquil. He set the bottle on the desk and reclaimed his bag, tucking it away before fiddling with the cap of the bottle.
Seconds passed as he struggled, seemingly unperturbed by his lack of success. All the while, Marinette was beginning to twitch with the effort to not do it for him. Just as she was about to snatch it from him, the cap came off and he hummed victoriously.
Then Adrien lifted the bottle to his lips and tipped it back, chugging long enough to make her concerned.
“I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to take it,” Marinette breathed, not sure what else to say when he’d just taken a quarter of a bottle of Nyquil like he was hoping he wouldn’t wake up ever again.
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Adrien has the sniffles and makes the incorrect assumption that tripling his dose of Nyquil will triple the effects. It doesn't. Oh, and he and Marinette are supposed to be doing a project together.
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White glinted in the light cast by the door, and Marinette's blue eyes met a colder but equally anxious gaze. Her blood froze in her veins, a strangled whimper escaped her throat unbidden as she was thrust full force into the memory of the last time she'd seen those eyes.
Of a broken lonely boy in an empty world and feeling herself dissolve into ash and slip between her own fingers. A fear stronger than any she'd felt facing an akuma clutched her heart in it's grasp, and Marinette realized her cheeks were wet.
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Peeking into the room, she saw Chat sprawled on her chaise and quickly announced, “I’m-really-sorry-Chaton-but-I-ran-out-of-patches-and-need-to-really-quickly-grab-some-more.” By the time she finished her word vomit she was already digging through her closet. As her hand grasped the box, a soft keening brought her attention back to the room and a fresh scent bloomed, immediately lighting her senses on fire.
Thick bergamot shadowed with an expensive sandalwood, layered on top of the gentle caress of a wild rose. It was powerful, chaotic, but it’s core softer than a butterfly’s kiss, it was undeniably Chat. But worse, it was undeniably omega.
Marinette pivoted on her heels oh so slowly, taking special care to breath through her mouth as she took stock of her partner. Even from across the room she could see sweat pouring down his face, his pupils blown so wide she could only make out a miniscule strip of green sclera around them. “Chat...did you-did you just present?”
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- Part 1 of His Alpha, Her Omega
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The Trials and Tribulations of Adrien Agreste, RA Extraordinaire by bumbleb_tch
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
01 May 2020
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Adrien was beginning to regret his decision to spend the day walking the dorm and introducing himself to as many residents as possible. It had seemed like such a solid plan when he’d finished moving in early and found himself with nothing to do. He was the new RA and he’d felt it would be good to have as many residents know him and what he looks like as soon as possible.
Oh how wrong he had been.
2 floors, 3 hours, and 14 phone numbers later, he still had another 2 floors to go, and if Adrien heard one more too high squeal about how glad someone was that such a nice sweet guy like him was the new RA, he would dive out the nearest window.
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Marinette ran her fingers through her hair in exasperation, making direct, challenging eye contact with him.
Seconds passed in silence.
She blinked first.
The cat seemed smug. Or as smug as a cat who theoretically didn't have more cognitive understanding than a three year old could.
Stomping her foot in an indignant and almost childish manner, Marinette scowled, “Look Mr. Noir,” she didn’t think he liked the name very much but she couldn’t just call him Cat, “We need to go to the pet store to try and find your owner.”
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If someone had told her a few months ago that she’d be moonlighting as a superhero meister with an overly flirtatious tomcat as her partner, trying to take down what could only be called a supervillain-who despite having failed to defeat them 78 out of 78 times, apparently was so consumed by his own hubris and self confidence that he refused to back down- Ladybug would laughed until she cried.
But here she was, 14 year reigning champ of the clumsiest girl alive, going toe to toe with a terrorist on the biweekly, resonating with her partner to a mind blowing magnitude. Ladybug’s belief was that the Miraculous amplified both their ability to resonate, as well as the power of their individual souls. Chat liked to insist that it was because they were partners, destined to be a perfect match-infuriatingly charismatic, as always.
Tikki had suggested it might be some of both.
In any case, Ladybug didn’t know if she could ever have another partnership compare to this one.
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Adrien still wondered what side of the bed she slept on- and silenced any stray thoughts hissing that it didn’t matter which side as long as he was waking up next to her...
He didn’t wonder what her skin tasted like- his mouth chasing her hand, pressing a reverent and not-exactly-platonic kiss to her palm, caught in each other’s gaze and trembling for just a moment.
Marinette’s laugh sounded a little too much like his mother’s when he’d done something as a child that she’d found particularly charming, but the cord that tightened around his chest didn’t hurt as much as it usually did. Her eyes betrayed something more than a gentle affection, but Adrien didn’t dare let himself search to name it.
He wondered if it was too early to tell her he loved her.
He wondered if he was brave enough to do it anyway.
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Sequel to Leather and Lace
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- Part 2 of Leather and Lace AU
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23:55 p.m.
Five more minutes until Marinette’s 16th birthday chimed.
If she was lucky enough to be the younger half of her soulmate pair then her shadow would switch with her soulmate’s until they met, and slowly fade back to her own over time. The way she figured, with all of Ladybug’s luck she would be the younger one, which meant in five minutes she’d be on the start of her journey towards her soulmate.