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An Oikawa Tooru is born on July 20th, in the year 1993. We know this date is, of course, incorrect due to the fact that we have already seen this story, we already know how it ends. This Oikawa Tooru is… Different. He’s an Oikawa set on a new path and most importantly for you to realize is that he is not OUR Oikawa.
Dear Oikawa, however, is unaware of this fact. The Oikawa of this time is not only unaware of the existence of a book story featuring (not starring, which if he knew, but that he doesn’t, would surely send him into a complete rage), but also an infant.
We do, though, have an awareness of this book, therefore we know that Oikawa is now too young to play his perfect part in the original story, a story that if younger Oikawa knew about he would be quite happy with but never truly content with the path taken. A life though, that is now sadly out of his reach.
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Oikawa is born a year early.
It changes everything.
(it changes nothing).
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When Tooru meets Iwa-chan for the first time he is AGE to Iwa’s AGE. They’re at the park and while Tooru is great at making friends he’s not great at keeping in touch with them. At the moment the park is filled with Big Kids who don’t want to play with him and Tooru has no one sudfnsnvisdnvisnvs ELEPHANT.
Iwa-chan is alone in the trees instead of on the play structure or basketball courts and once Tooru sees him he can’t look away. He just looks really cool Tooru. It felt like he’d known him forever and like one day they were going to be the best.
When Iwa-chan looks up to see a lost looking little boy (Tooru’s actually only about an inch or two shorter than Iwa but he’s got some serious baby face) well he can’t help the fact that his mama raised him right and he has to go help.
(and, if maybe, there’s something in him that tells him that one day they’d be great, well, it didn’t matter much now.)
Their first meeting goes a little something like.
“Hello there ototo-san, are you lost? Do you need help?” Iwa-chan asked like the good boy he was.
“Ah,” Tooru mumbled, “No, I’m fine.”
Iwa-chan, yet again being an absolute angel didn’t leave the strange boy on the playground all alone, instead he asked, “Do you want to come play with me?”
And Tooru, he rather well did. He nodded his head and began to follow Iwa-chan back the hill into the trees. Halfway down the hill Tooru starts talking. Three Quarters of the way Iwa-chan responds. By the time they reach the bottom Iwa-chan is slinging insults and Tooru has already given Iwa-chan his still beloved, clearly, lifelong nickname.
Iwa-chan tries to trick Tooru with a beetle he found. Sadly for Iwa-chan Tooru was completely unbothered by the sight of a bug. Not one to be outdone Iwa-chan threw the beetle at him which actually got a few seconds of screaming panic- and maybe a few tears- (Something which Iwa-chan still feels bad about).
By the end of the day they’ve made plans to meet everyday. By the end of the year Tooru makes Iwa-chan Pinky Promise to still play with him even when he finds new school friends. By the time of Tooru’s application to elementary he has run his mother rapsod convincing her to sign him up for Iwa-chan’s school.
Tooru is born a year early but him and Iwa-chan are just fine. They’re going to be just fine.
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For Tooru the year between elementary and middle school when him and Iwa-chan were apart was
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This was supposed to be like a what if Oikawa was born a year earlier and how it changed the whole plot (and left it the same) because of the changes. Like Oikawa is the only one a different age so Iwaizumi is a year older than him and Kageyama is only a year younger than him so theres a time when Kageyama and Oikawa are alone going to school together and that Oikawa and Kageyama probably switched a lot as setter and it probably made Oikawa really angry (but also maybe kind of they're a little friends maybe except oikawa still hates him)
And there was supposed to be this whole running thing throughout that like none of them know that they're in the wrong story BUT they kind of do. In like a very. he had a feeling in another world this had gone very differently or like they knew that person was going to be somebody in the story kind of fucky mind shit.
Then finally at the end we get like. Oikawa becoming the main character of the story its a whole thing bro.... Literally imagine if Oikawa were like cognizant and realized that most of the time he was a side character and at his biggest he was an antagonist.
Anyways I just think it's funny how Oikawa Yahaba and Kyoutani would be in the same year... And they'd totally have another year to get to nationals it'd be a whole thing.
ALSO Matsukawa and Hanamaki absolutely tease the shit out of Oikawa and he teases back but everybody knows when someone is in a lower grade than you they have so much less teasing power. Teasing force if you will.