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Almost ten years down the line, Iwaizumi hops on a plane to spend New Year’s with Oikawa, and they contemplate the passage of years as they await what lies ahead.
This is study of care and its languages, a lifetimes' worth of soft, quiet mornings, and what it is to love and be loved by Oikawa Tooru.
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17 Sep 2021
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“You have all my mornings. You have all of me.”
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In which Sakusa Kiyoomi is raised to believe that gay people go to hell but then takes one look at Miya Atsumu and thinks, then why the hell did God make them so fucking hot?
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- Part 1 of Miya Four Vs. The World
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20 Feb 2021
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“I’m not gonna apologize to you just yet.” Sakusa declares.
Atsumu’s eyes widen very slightly, the only thing that gives out anything on how he’s feeling.
“There’s too much I have to do, too much I have to settle, so many things I have to make up for, a whole fucking… lifetime of unlearning to do.” He says, making sure he keeps his eyes on Atsumu, faces him head on, “But I’m gonna do all of it. And I’m gonna be a better fucking person, a braver person, and I’m gonna make sure that you know it happened because of you.”
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It is the last day on earth, December 2nd, 1985, when you realize you're in love with him.
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- Part 4 of ad astra
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02 Mar 2016
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“So who would you spend the day with, Iwa-chan?”
“What?”
“If the world were to end, and you only had one more day.”
“See, now that’s a weird question to answer. You could give Matsukawa Issei a run for his money.”
“But, Iwa-chan.”
“What?”
“Could you answer me, anyway?” -
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It’s Tokyo 2021, backdrop for the XXXII Summer Olympiad Games. Oikawa Tooru returns to Japan after a triumphant, eight-year long run as pro setter in Argentina’s professional volleyball League. And it's been just as long since Hajime watched him disappear across the oceans, maybe never to return.
On reuniting with your best friend, standing atop the world stage, and trying to catch wisps of a golden boy. An Olympic tale, one lifetime in the making.
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17 Oct 2020
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Hajime blinks, then looks around him. The living room is packed. All of a sudden, he’s surrounded by strangers, holding the flag of a country they’ve got no ties to. People he doesn’t know and people who don’t know him. People who don’t even know whose apartment they’re in, but who’ve edged themselves into the first available space to watch the match, to cheer for the team that’s painted like the blue skies, for the Japanese boy in their midst who’s exceptionally pretty and so, so talented.
Emotion wells up in Hajime’s chest, fills him up to the brim. Stabs his eyes. God, god. He wishes Oikawa were here right now. Look at this, he wants to tell him. Look how many people have fallen for you.
Oikawa’s no stranger to fans and fangirls, but this—this is different. This is fans on a mightier, global scale. This is karmic reward, for all those years he tried and tried and tried, and always fell one step short of greatness. This is getting on a plane at the age of nineteen, flying continents away from home, relearning everything he thought he knew about his own talent, his own worth, and coming back to carve a place for himself into the margins of something great.
Somewhere in the throngs of people they’ve collected, Hajime meets eyes with Hanamaki, then Matsukawa, and knows they’re thinking the same thing.
This is Oikawa. Seijou’s very own golden boy.
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It's too late and with a dawning kind of horror that Hajime realises his worst nightmare isn't his nemesis, the Grand King. No, his worst nightmare is the Grand King getting hurt.
The silhouette of a hero and a villain is identical, what differentiates them is who appears when they come into the light.
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- Part 4 of Meet me in the grey area
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10 Oct 2020
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At the cusp of daybreak, Hajime sits with the man who is meant to be his enemy on a rooftop in the city. [...]
There’s a shade that the sky is painted, before the black fully transitions into glorious shades of rose and amber, that seems almost grey, almost colourless. Perhaps it’s a shade so incandescent that the human eye cannot see it, but it casts something soft onto Oikawa’s face, illuminating the way his lashes flutter as he looks away from Hajime, the way his brow furrows even as his mouth tugs up a little at the corners.
A real smile.