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    Tsukishima covers his own face with his palm. It’s not enough to fully hide his expression. He’s so embarrassed, more than Tadashi’s ever seen him, but he also can’t stop the smile that’s splitting wide across his face. “This is so lame,” he mutters to himself. A few seconds later, he removes his hand, having better composed himself, and glances at Tadashi. “Sorry,” he tells him. “I’m not used to this whole… dating thing.”

    In which Tadashi and Tsukishima figure out how to transition from being friends to being in a relationship.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    Hinata babbled on. “Natsu’s just so annoying sometimes. Everyone comes over and is like, ‘But oh, she’s so cute!’ and, well... yeah, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t like pushing all my buttons, you know? I mean, this is the third time she stole my blue furoshiki, so I had to wrap my bento with her stupid cat one!”

    Kageyama’s hands knotted up in the bottom hem of his shorts. “Little sisters are the worst,” he tried.

    Hinata’s nose scrunched up, and Kageyama’s stomach threatened to tie itself in knots. That had been the wrong thing to say. “Well, she’s not the worst,” Hinata corrected. Kageyama felt stupid for speaking up.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    Ever since his best friend had basically ditched him to play beach volleyball in fuck-off nowhere, clear on the other side of the world, Kageyama had developed some unhealthy fitness habits. Namely, running so far and fast that all thoughts left his head in favor of pure exhaustion.

    As it turns out, realizing that you’re in love with your best friend of three years as they’re leaving the country to live abroad for an indefinite period of time is really inconvenient.

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    Hinata goes viral on Twitter, causing a chain of event that lead to a happy ending.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    Yaku doesn’t let Kuroo derail him. “You don’t even have that excuse. And I’ve known you and Kenma too long to think that these feelings didn’t exist, before today.”

    There’s a truth in what he says. Kuroo’s chest feels too small to contain his heart, beating giddily against his ribs. Even if he falls into his usual back and forth with Yaku, everything is different today.

    “It’s not like that,” he says softly. He cups both hands around his mug, looking into the dregs of his coffee. “It’s like… I couldn’t even let myself think of it before, you know? I couldn’t let my mind even go there, because it would’ve been unbearable, to know and not be able to do anything about it.”

    Yaku shakes his head, kicking at Kuroo’s legs under the table. “Oh my god,” he says. “You’re going to be hopeless now, aren’t you?”

    Five years after high school— what changes, what doesn't, and what really matters, in the end.

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    14 Jan 2026

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