kunikage makes me feel sad like idk whenever kageyama talks abt kunimi it makes me feel like in shows when theres a divorced couple and then the husband just keeps seeing his ex-wife everywhere and knows theyre never gonna go back and he just remembers everything that he didnt notice before. like when he comments on kunimi being smart like AUGH THEY'RE DIVORCED BUT THEY MOVED ON
yeah and kindaichi is also in this whole divorced concept but like imagine this guy gets so caught up on kageyama and he just cant move on even if kunimi convinces him its fine. like yeah theyll heal eventually but that year when theyre all still freshly divorced, ughhhh id say kinkuni fight but in my head kunimi just crashes out and doesnt speak to kindaichi for a while until he finally gets out of his bumand realizes, oh, kunimis still right here, and he has to start thinking of the future. so he talks with kunimi who obviously is still mad at him, but understands hes caught up in the past
meanwhile kageyama just looking back on junior high and his quiet understanding that hes never made kunimi smile during a match. like the sadness that he got when he realized that kunimi could actually smile and move during a match and that he was "inferior" to oikawa because oikawa managed to do what he couldn't. Draw out kunimis potential. And then he's just beating himself up over it bc its his own realization that he was an asshole to kunimi and kunimi just... took it
i do wanna believe that kunimi forgave kageyama quite early on but stood by kindaichi bc he knew kindaichi was still hurting
another thing that makes go ugh is kunimi never knowing how kageyama acknowledged him during their matches. so obviously i thought of a happy ending
basically during the ballboy arc, Hinata mentions offhand how Kageyama keeps calling Kunimi really smart and Kunimi having a crisis bc his image of how Kageyama saw him just got rewritten, and then Hinata just praises Kunimi like "yeah! When you were conserving your energy and then beat us all up, Kageyama kept muttering about how you were always thinking!"
thats just another idea for a fic i had and then it would be introspection on the events of junior high from kunimis perspective.
chat lmk if we would like that cause i would
