1 Work by correspondingly
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rough (like the water when your ship rolled in that night) by correspondingly
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
19 Jun 2025
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The second time Tooru had met Hajime, he had been five, and Hajime had made fun of the ruffles lining the ends of Tooru's sleeves. Tooru had been miserable already, sick from the boat over, hot and stiff in the formal clothes his mother had forced his arms through. It had been fun to force Hajime's face into the dirt outside the stables, even if retaliation had been swift and unmerciful. When their parents had finally come looking for them, it was to find the both of them mud-covered and screaming, Tooru's formal clothes ripping at the seams, one of Hajime's shoes missing.
Tooru's mother had been the first to laugh.
“Well,” she had said, bundling a still squirming Tooru into her arms, futilely trying to wipe the dirt away from his eyes. “I guess they'll have to grow on each other.”
Still, on and on, as the summers passed, neither Tooru nor Hajime showed that they took to growing well. Like an invasive species, Tooru had rolled through Hajime's grounds wreaking havoc, sent back home after four months, only to be shipped off again once summer came back around.