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    Jimin bottles up joy the way people store and save honey.

    He does it so often, in fact, that when he looks up — all he can see is darkness.

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    10 Mar 2019

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    It’s July 10th, 2024, and Oikawa Tooru is an Olympian. His smiling face airs on an NHK promo every 45 seconds. He’s captain of the national men’s volleyball team, reigning star of the professional leagues, and he hasn't spoken to Iwaizumi Hajime in two years.

    He has, however, sent Iwaizumi tickets for the 2024 Los Angeles Summer Games.

    “So go,” says Matsukawa's voice. “It’s only a few weeks. You’ve got a whole city to hide in if it gets awkward, and if it doesn’t get awkward, well…”

    It’s like watching the future reconfigure, like being in high school again, watching team after team fall to Oikawa’s faultless planning and shameless charm.

    “I’ll get to watch a whole lot of volleyball,” Hajime says, and resigns himself to fate and/or Oikawa Tooru.

    “Hey, when you get there, can you bag a gymnast for me?” Hanamaki asks, and Matsukawa squawks.

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    02 Nov 2016

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    Tooru imagines fields of grass and wheat and flowers covering the now-barren landscape, fed by the scattered lakes and underground water reservoirs of Carystus, and tries not to think of the life on the planet they left behind. Tries not to think of his rooftop garden, or the apartment he used to inhabit, or Hajime’s broken expression on the night they whispered their goodbyes before Tooru’s launch, attempting to push it all to the back of his mind behind visions of this alien world terraformed.

    It doesn’t work, but at least he tries.

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    02 Jul 2016

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    Not once in his twenty five years of life did Iwaizumi Hajime consider that he would have to work after his death. Post-mortem employment prospects aren't high on anyone's priority list, and he had better things to consider while he was still breathing. But now he's drawn his last, he finds himself with a new job, a new best friend named Oikawa Tooru, and a pain that never seems to fade.

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    16 Jan 2016

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    To Iwaizumi, sound's nothing.

    It's not something he wants to experience or wishes he had the privilege of knowing. Sound's nice, he's sure, but he's doing just fine without it. It's made him observant, careful with his surroundings. He sees his lack of hearing as a blessing rather than a curse, free of anyone's harsh words or snide conversations around him that everyone else might be subjected to.

    Sound's nothing to him, and that's his normalcy. Oikawa effortlessly adapts to it.

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    01 Jan 2016