travelling home with you

by HopeaLumi

Summary:

Sendoh takes Rukawa down to Okinawa on a fishing trip that'll take them approximately 2 weeks of sharing Sendoh's 1978 Toyota Corolla. It's Sendoh's last summer as a high schooler and he wants to get good memories from it. Hikoichi was supposed to go but flaked out last minute so they're on their own. Quickly enough they find that they'd been ignoring their feelings. When you're out in the world, you're bound to meet and see people. These people end up taking a bit of you with them and leaving some of them in you.

Notes:

Hello. A rare English fic in this here fandom and ship. This is a fic I've started writing in 2015 but am only now finishing. As i'm posting this, it's not finished yet but it will be soon, if all goes well.

It's a road trip AU set in the 90s (since the canon is set in the 90s as well) and it's set all the way from Kanagawa down to Okinawa, where they hang out the longest and where they meet the most fantastic people.

There's plenty of this fic to read. It's low-key dated in some of the tropes because I wanted to get that old vibe in for my own enjoyment. Reminder that I wrote this mostly because I wanted to read a senru fic that fit the things I liked and thought about them. It's long, probably unnecessarily so, but it is what it is. I'm posting it now to commit to finishing it. I know this is a mostly dead fandom but I love this ship to death and I love Slam Dunk to death. Finally I'm posting a fic that goes with the pfp I have on here.

I hope that whoever decides to read it, enjoys it as much as I've enjoyed writing it on and off all these years. I hope I can really finish it soon. If even one person reads it and enjoys it, I'll be glad.

Chapter 1: Prologue - It's just you and me

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When Rukawa walked to the ‘78 silver Toyota Corolla with his sports bag hefted on his shoulder on that hot Tuesday morning and the familiar sweet scent of hair gel filled his nostrils before he noticed that the sole occupant of the vehicle was a smiling Sendoh with his perfectly spiked hair, he had the feeling that that approximately two week trip wasn’t going to go as smoothly as he’d expected.

“Where’s Hikoichi?” asked Rukawa through the rolled down window.

“Flaked out on me, something about his sister taking him on a work trip.” Said Sendoh with a shrug. He didn’t seem so bothered about it.

Rukawa made a face.

Or rather, the face.

Sendoh laughed out loud.

“Don’t make that face!” He said afterwards “I’ll start thinking that you’re dreading spending time with me...” His tone was mock hurt and he even pouted a little giving him a blatantly fake sad look.

Rukawa narrowed his eyes at him.

“So, how will it be? Am I going alone?” Sendoh asked with a friendly smile and a meaningful look in his eyes.

Rukawa held his look for a moment before he opened the passenger’s side door, slid onto the passenger’s seat and turned back to drop his bag on the back seat.

“Let’s just go.” He said firmly, closing the door with a loud thud.

Sendoh grinned before shifting the gear and driving off.

He knew that Rukawa wouldn’t fail his word.

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