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3 years ago

''Wine doesn't hurt,'' Tooru says. ''Wine is fruit, and fruit is good for you.''

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3 years ago

Hajime closes his eyes, and takes a deep breath, and that look... it's what Hajime had looked like, when Tooru moved out of their Koto apartment, or whenever Tooru introduced him to a new girlfriend after that.

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3 years ago

''I used to fall asleep best the days you slept over, or afterwards, when my pillows smelled like you.''

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3 years ago

His skin had been lightly glazed with sweat, and despite it still being early in the spring, the sun had already kissed him tan.

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3 years ago

Hajime's voice is deeper now, and doesn't crack at the end of his insults.

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3 years ago

''You're obsessive and you never go home,'' says a smooth voice behind him, and familiar fingers slide up into his hair, nails scratching lightly into his scalp and tugging at forever unruly strands.

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3 years ago

"After, it was like everything we had in common started to disappear, just like my plan for the future." He laughs, making himself smile. "I wonder if we stayed friends so long because we had volleyball together?"

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3 years ago

He watches the muscles in Hajime's back move through the thin material of his shirt as he strains the kombu and bonito from the dashi broth.

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3 years ago

''Then you’ve got me,'' Hajime had replied, with a slow, crooked grin. ''I’ll remind you that you’re doing all right, most of the time, for an ant.''

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3 years ago

"Maybe you're an alien." Tooru hums thoughtfully. "Eyes in the back of your head, that face--"

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3 years ago

''I wasn't trying to get rid of you,'' Hajime says. ''I would never... want to do that. Because you are important, and I do… want to be around you.''

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3 years ago

There's no one at home, because his fiancée has left him, and the apartment he'd signed the lease for ten weeks ago, with an extra bedroom for the kid he's never been sure he wants, has only one occupant, and that's Tooru.

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3 years ago

''Haven't you always known I was in love with you?'' Hajime asks, and Tooru hides from the memory of the way Hajime had kissed him, that night after the play, lips so warm against Tooru's cold forehead.

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3 years ago

Now, though, Tooru texts Hajime on the train home more nights than he doesn’t, meeting him out for meals or just inviting him around to Tooru’s too big, empty apartment.

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3 years ago

Suddenly, Tooru had found himself pulled into a half-hug, Hajime's arm heavy across his shoulders but carefully not pulling him in close enough to jar his knee.

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3 years ago

Tooru rests against Hajime for balance as they make their way outside, and Hajime smells like volleyball, Tooru thinks.

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3 years ago

"You didn't make it short," he says, and Tooru meets Hajime's eyes in the mirror. "No," Tooru says. "It looks nice, a little longer." "Oh," Hajime says, licking his lips. "Okay."