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It's 2022, And it was Shouyou's first season as a starter in ASAS Sao Paulo. playing as their Opposite Hitter. and Trying to readjust to his life in brazil, Shouyou handles new teammates, old friends, and new acquaintances.
Yet, even as Shouyou tries to move forward to his goal, his unfinished past continues to be a nuisance. forcing him to confront the choices that led where he and Kageyama was.
As the days of the FIVB championship draw closer, will Shouyou be ready to face Kageyama? Or will he be watching his rival go ahead before him once again?
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13 May 2026
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thirty-three days of mist and mountains by tinygumdrops (curryramyeon)
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
21 Jun 2020
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Tobio runs by himself every day. Even though he can't shake off that awful feeling that something's closing in on him, he still does it. It's habit now.
When he gets a phone call that Hinata Shouyou is thinking of coming to Italy, Tobio feels like he has to run even faster.
(Or: Tobio has a month to prepare himself before his high school rival comes to visit him. They haven't spoken to each other for two years, and Tobio can't even remember what food Hinata likes. He's got a lot to think about.)
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20 Apr 2026
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When their bond loses the immediate context of volleyball, they're left to consider why it's still so vital and important.
Meeting again, by chance, six years later.
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- Part 1 of where the night goes & companion stories
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15 Apr 2026
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All Oikawa has ever wanted is to be one of Tokyo's top heroes. Unfortunately, he's always been at a disadvantage. He isn't super strong or super fast, he can't fly, and he doesn't have flashy, crowd-pleasing powers like some of his peers. Still, he does the best he can with what he has, and he thinks he's doing just fine.
His agent disagrees.
Oikawa gets roped into a working contract with one of the top five heroes in Tokyo; which, in theory, would be a good way for him to gain popularity.
The problem is the hero he gets stuck with; Valor, aka Ushijima Wakatoshi.
Oikawa already dislikes him on general principle, and meeting him only makes things worse. Oikawa wants nothing more than to work his way through this new contract and get on with his life. He doesn't need Ushijima, of all people, to help him climb the hero ranks. He can do just fine on his own.
Except, as their contract wears on, Oikawa begins to realize that becoming popular isn't what matters most. It isn't about fame, and it isn't about gaining fans. Hero work is about something much more important, and as he spends more time with Ushijima, he learns what being a hero is truly about.
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07 Apr 2026
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The last place on earth Sakusa Kiyoomi wants to be is on this godforsaken ship sailing across the seas to attend a boring science lecture, but it is a necessary evil if he wishes to avoid attending his grandmother's birthday celebrations.
That is, until his ship is boarded by a band of pirates and Kiyoomi finds himself in extremely unwanted company.
He can cope with most of the rambunctious crew; though they're armed to the hilt, they're relatively harmless.
He cannot, however, cope with human hurricane Miya Atsumu.
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- Part 1 of Briny Seas and Full Hearts
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27 Mar 2026
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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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14 Jan 2026
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“She might have assumed that we were dating and I might not have corrected her, yes.”
Kenma’s eyes are caught in a frenzy. Tetsurou isn’t sure why he’s that upset about this specific part of the story. “Why?” Is all Kenma asks.
Tetsurou shrugs. “I don’t know. She invited you to the wedding. I want you to come. It just seemed easy.”
“Dating me seems easy?”
“Pretend dating.”
(OR Tetsurou doesn’t want to go to his mother’s wedding alone. Good thing he has fake-boyfriend Kenma to tag along.)
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14 Jan 2026
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Kenma reluctantly spoons vanilla into his mouth, watching the sun set. And when everything is dusted in stripes of pale orange and purple and gold, he glances at Kuroo’s profile muddled in the shadows of the descending sun, and wonders whether he had somehow accidentally made friends with an impressive sort of boy. The ice-cream melted under his thumb feels maddeningly sticky, like he’ll never wash it away thoroughly enough and it would leave its mark wherever he touched before he could.
Kenma has never really thought of anyone as good-looking before, never really cared enough about these things to notice them. But Kuroo is objectively so, in this light, in this angle—maybe all the time.
(A Kuroo and Kenma life story, told in five acts).
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14 Jan 2026
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Kenma collects quite a few piercings over the years. Kuroo is the one who suffers the consequences, though he thinks it's worth it in the end.
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14 Jan 2026
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"so you're hooking up with oikawa, the guy i'm in love with, because it's the only way you can deal with kenma, the guy you're in love with?" iwaizumi asks slowly.
kuroo frowns a little. "i can see why you punched me now, iwaizumi. i totally deserved it."
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14 Jan 2026
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“So,” said Suna. He met Atsumu’s eyes, held his stare as he eased closer. “Do you want to?”
Atsumu licked his lips. “I dunno. I think so. Yeah.”
“You don’t sound very sure.” Suna’s hand moved up to perch on Atsumu’s shoulder. The other one hooked into the front belt loop of Atsumu’s jeans. “But you’re looking at me like you’re sure. Are you?”
For all the years they’d known each other, Atsumu had never seen Suna this close. His eyelashes were long, a dark sweep over hazel eyes. His mouth looked soft.
“Yeah,” whispered Atsumu. He curled a hand at Suna’s hip. It should have been weird to touch his best friend like that, but it sent an excited jolt to the pit of his stomach. Atsumu swallowed and repeated, “Yeah. I’m sure.”
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13 Dec 2025
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Miya Atsumu swaps crushes the way most people swap socks, and forces everyone within a five-meter radius to hear about it. Suna Rintarou has built an entire personality mocking him for it until Atsumu starts obsessing over Sakusa Kiyoomi.
Suddenly, Suna isn’t amused. He’s just painfully aware that Atsumu can fall for anyone—except the one person who’s been in love with him this whole time.
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- Part 2 of atsn propaganda
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13 Dec 2025
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Osamu’s eyes are dark, and Kiyoomi wants.
“You make my favourite noises,” Osamu murmurs, and Kiyoomi bites down on a low whine. He likes Osamu when he’s mean, is compelled by him when he’s thoughtful, but he has no defences left against the Osamu of these moments, who gives him parts of himself like he trusts Kiyoomi will keep them safe.
It’s not that Kiyoomi does not trust his hands. It’s that he’s never held anything so breakable before.
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- Part 2 of rituals between the seams
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13 Dec 2025
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“Don’t worry,” he says, a smirk at his lips. Wakatoshi thinks it would be playful on someone else’s face; amused on Iwaizumi, teasing on Semi, wicked on Tendou. On Oikawa, it looks a little like a trap. “I won’t bite.”
Wakatoshi frowns at him, and takes his seat. “I wasn’t worried about that,” he says. “You have never bitten me. It seems unlikely for you to start now.”
“Maybe I want to sabotage you before our game,” Oikawa says, not even missing a beat.
Wakatoshi tilts his head. “You’ve never needed to sabotage your opponents to perform admirably, Oikawa,” he says.
Oikawa doesn’t say anything to that. Wakatoshi is not used to this turn of events. Normally it’s Oikawa who always has something to say – Oikawa who never falters, Oikawa who has never met a mountain he isn’t determined to climb.
HOW TO TALK TO OIKAWA TOORU:
- if your name is ushijima wakatoshi
- if you've spent fourteen years trying
- the night before your olympic match—ushioi, late night at the olympics.
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13 Dec 2025
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Miya Osamu is drunk.
And a drunk Miya Osamu does the stupidest things—like confessing to Akaashi Keiji in front of a full room, despite barely ever stringing three sentences together with him before.
Or: Akaashi signed up for a team dinner, not a public declaration of love.Bookmarked by Inthepaintbox
12 Dec 2025
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'There was no great defining moment, no point in time Kenma can look to and say, That's what did it. That's when I fell for Kuroo. He just did somehow.
And it's the worst. For so many reasons.'
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Kenma needs to admit a few things to himself, and to Kuroo.
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- Part 1 of tea leaves and spice (girls)
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12 Dec 2025