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“Makoto...?”
There’s no reply, of course. There never is. Regardless, as evenly as you can manage, you tell him, “Go back, please. Wait for me inside, alright? I don’t want you to see this.”
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“‘Haruka’,” you find yourself offering him, then, on little more than an impulse. Along with an outstretched hand, and an unexpectedly effortless curl of your lips. “My name. It’s Haruka. Nanase Haruka.”
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Aside from an absolutely incomprehensible “The ocean exacted a heavy price today, Matsuoka-kun.”, nobody tells you what happened. Your mother — pale-faced and red-eyed — clearly can’t, and the members of the coast guard currently swarming the Centre simply won’t.
All you know is that your father is gone.
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“Rin,” Haru says, again, like he’s trying to convince himself that this is real: you, and him, toe-to-toe (and, for once, eye-to-eye). “I — ”
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The shutter sound of an instant camera isn't all that different from the starting signal at the beginning of a race, really. You only ever get one shot at those, too.
[A globe-trotting swimmers story (focusing mainly on Haruka & Rin), written for the Timeless Bonds zine.]
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interruption by reclamation
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
24 Jul 2025
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She watches a lot of television, but she finds herself watching the neighbor more often. The guy who lives next door—Darrel—isn’t hard on the eyes, after all, and the window in the den gives a perfect view into his dining room.
If anyone is having a more boring summer than her, it’s that guy.
『 Or, Darry’s neighbor invites herself over. 』
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Note: You do not have to read the first story in this series to understand this one.Series
- Part 2 of empty nest
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24 Jul 2025
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But right then, standing in the darkness of their living room with only the yellowed beams of streetlights streaking in through the windows, Rin Matsuoka glowed with earnest, beaming with so much unabashed happiness that he seemed to create starlight of his own.
Haru suddenly couldn’t speak, couldn’t even breathe, for the sight in front of him was overwhelming.
In between the last snowfall of winter and the first blush-pink blooms of spring, it dawns on Haruka Nanase that he may be in love.
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01 May 2025
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bud and bloom by reclamation-ex (reclamation), reclamation-shorts (reclamation)
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26 Apr 2025
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After an injury, Rin has to take a break from swimming. Since he can't swim, he goes back to Iwatobi high school to watch the swim team instead.
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28 Apr 2025
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To start their life in a new house, Haruka and Rin have decided to plant something very special together.
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25 Apr 2025
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Rin isn't there to pick him up at the airport, but that's to be expected. Haruka had waited until he was thirty-thousand feet above sea level before telling him, after all.
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10 Mar 2025