we're the broken ones

even when they get older and their lives get busier, kise tries to go w midorima to get the lucky item of the day, schedule allowing

one day the lucky item is a candle and midorima is like all ready to go shopping for a candle bc that’s such an easy thing to buy and carry around and kise is just like ‘oh my god midorimacchi wait for two seconds’

and he just shuffles over the cabinet and pulls out a single small leftover birthday candle and hands it over and is like ‘there. now you can go do whatever you need to do today.’

and midorima just stares down at it like ‘oh’ bc for whatever reason he just didn’t think of the fact that they have candles at home and was all ready to go on this Quest for the perfect candle to help him get through his day and kise just so easily handed it over

me:

both wearing the exact same outfit on the metro au

two separate robbers breaking into the same house au

one is too short to reach a can of soup at the supermarket au

their dogs start uncontrollably barking at each other in the quiet vets office au

one accidentally punched the other in the face while gesturing wildly au

one breaking into the others house accidentally when drunk au

they had the same friends for multiple years but somehow never met until some birthday party au

One night he wakes, strange look on his facePauses, then says: you’re my best friend

-

Shintarou never manages to stay awake through an entire movie when they curl up under a blanket, but Ryouta doesn’t mind. It’s nice to be close to him, to have Shintarou next to him. He lets the television switch back to the menu screen, not quite ready to disturb Shintarou.

He adjusts Shintarou’s glasses, pushing them slightly up on his face so they don’t fall off into the blanket. The motion is enough to make Shintarou stir, and Ryouta feels that familiar flutter of emotion again. He thinks he started feeling it in high school, but that would make it years, and he can’t process that.

“Mm, Ryouta,” Shintarou says, eyes opening, “did you let me sleep through another movie?” He blinks, pushing a hand through his hair.

“You’ve been so busy studying,” Ryouta says instead of directly answering.

“But we were supposed to spend tonight together,” Shintarou says, a whine creeping into his voice.

Ryouta kisses him impulsively, even though they’ve only had a handful of kisses. This thing between them is taking time, and Ryouta doesn’t mind. He never expected their friendship to evolve this way, even if he’d hoped.

Shintarou stares at him when Ryouta pulls away, hand reaching out to stroke the curve of Ryouta’s chin. “You’re my best friend,” he says.

Ryouta thinks he knows what that means, and he kisses Shintarou again.

- The team captain is a stone-faced third-year with glasses and an implacable voice. The team captain is the last to leave the court. The team captain cannot leave the court. The team captain is imprisoned in the court by a line of salt.

- The team goes up into the mountains for hell training camp. From the window of the bus you see one tree catch flame, and then another. There are twenty people on the bus, but you only brought food enough for twelve. This is where the regulars will be selected.

- You are getting stronger and faster. Your night vision has improved and your fingernails keep growing. You cut them every night, but they are talons by morning. Your training is paying off. That know-it-all first-year has been a jackal for weeks now.

- There is one alumnus of the team who works at a shop near your school. He comes to cheer your team on sometimes. You catch him crying on the sidelines during a time-out. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry,” he says. The team manager has to lead him away.

- Despite being fifteen years old, one of the second-years on the team has the body of a full grown man. You help him bury it out back behind the clubhouse near the chain link fence. It is the last in a line of mounds of earth stretching far off to your left. To the right, you can see the flatter mounds of older graves. You have almost caught up with them. The second-year leans on his shovel, wiping sweat off his face, and smiles broadly. “Call me senpai,” he says.

- The I N T E R H I G H is coming. The I N T E R H I G H is almost here. You have to do your best at the I N T E R H I G H for the sake of the third-years. It is their last chance.

- Last year’s champions are at the I N T E R H I G H. One of your teammates tells you that they call them the Four Gods. Four Gods of what? you wonder, and are careful to avoid their gaze. They travel in a pack, tongues lolling, toenails clicking against the floor. “Their teeth weren’t that big last year,” your teammate whispers quietly, but not quietly enough. Their smiling vice-captain turns towards you and cracks open his eyes.

- Your captain achieves self-actualization in the middle of the final match. The pitch crumbles underneath his feet and all the spectators tip into the abyss, falling without a sound; outside the gym windows, the sea has come up to meet you. Across the net, the last of the Four Gods smiles slowly. “Did you think that this is my final form?” he says. Flies and wasps come pouring out of his mouth. His body begins to twist and change.

- The court goes on forever. The court goes on forever. You haven’t seen any of your teammates for days, but the game is still going on. Nobody swims free.

pt one

“my friends bet me i couldn’t get a free meal at a restaurant if i pretended i was stood up, so i did it and you were my really cute waiter and i didn’t end up getting free dinner but i did end up taking you home with me (you really hit it off with my cat)”

“you’re the random stranger who accidentally hit me in the face with a door because you didn’t know i was behind it, and you practically carried me to the nurse even though my nose only bled a little”

“we’re bitter rivals in a dog grooming competition and our dogs seem to have fallen in love so we had to spend the whole competition weekend together”

“you were waving to someone but i thought you were trying to high five me, a stranger, and i accidentally bopped you on the head because i have terrible aim and you weren’t going for a high five at all”

“i tried to rescue you from a goose that was chasing you in the park but it ended up chasing me too and instead of helping, people were taking videos of us being attacked by this evil goose”

"we live in different countries and got paired up as pen pals for a project for school" au

"i crashed your family member’s wedding for the free food but hi there" au

"i’m a techie, you’re the lead actor in a show" au

"the person running the rollercoaster is really hot" au

"sorry that text was meant for someone else but hi there who are you" au

"we’re in a breakfast club style all day detention" au

"i don’t want to go alone to my ex’s wedding and our mutual friend said you’re free that night" au

"i signed up for a dating website to get my mom off my back" au

"we’re in the same rocky horror troupe" au

"hey asshole quit kicking the back of my seat it’s a 10 hour flight" au

"your dad is my least favorite teacher" au

"my significant other cheated on me with you, wanna team up to destroy them?" au

"i’ve been coming to this club for years but you’re the best performer i’ve ever seen" au

"i’m rich and i’m not supposed to talk to servants but the person that scrubs my floor is really cute" au

"i was hitchhiking and you picked me up and WHOOPS YOU’RE A FAMOUS ROCKSTAR" au

"we met on a reality show" au

"my family owns the hotel your family is staying in" au

"someone tripped me in the hallway and you’re the only one that helped me up" au

"my parents kicked me out and you’re the only person that bothered to ask the crying, obviously lost kid with a suitcase if something was the matter" au

"you accidentally left your ID in a library book" au

"i had a one night stand the night before i started a college class and WHOOPS I ACCIDENTALLY BANGED THE PROFESSOR" au

"i’m on a school trip to another country and one of the locals is seriously hot" au

"i’ve never met you before but i went to a huge party at your house with my significant other - who then proceeded to dump me" au

"you’re the cutest waiter at my favorite restaurant" au

"we didn’t come to this anime convention together but we dressed up as characters that are a couple in the show and people keep assuming we’re together and asking us to pose for pictures so hi there what’s your name" au

“hey we hooked up last night and it turns out you are my childs teacher” au

“we both play this stupid game online and you keep beating me every single goddamn time so i called you out and you are pretty cute but can you not” au

“im a bartender and you just came in here without shoes sat down and ordered a chocolate volcano and idk what the fuck that is and im scared to ask” au

“we are neighbours and every night at 3:14 am you start yodeling for no fucking reason??? why???? is that you yodeling??? its been 2 months???” au

“im a pizza delivery person and i just delivered a pizza to someone in the middle of a satanic ritual and they gave me their number???” au

“i woke up this morning to find you sitting in my living room with a goat in a poncho??? who are you??? why is the goat wearing a poncho??? how did you get the goat in here i live on the 12th floor???” au

“we work out at the same gym and you always look super legit but i know you sing hannah montana in the shower and you know i know” au

"im a cashier and i saw you stuffing you pants full of potatoes and i would stop you but you already have 27 and i want to see how many you can fit"au

“its 4 am and im drunk as fuck in a mcdonalds and you have been watching my trying to eat this burger for 30 minutes” au

things you said that made me feel like shit

"This is just a fling for you, isn’t it?"

Kise had thought that Midorima knew him better than that, that even if he didn’t he would at least give him the benefit of the doubt. And yet he said it so easily, so casually, as if he had never given a thought to the possibility of having a serious relationship with Kise.

He swallowed around the lump in his throat and forced himself to smile.