haikyuu · professional volleyball player · mature · childish · competitive · easily flustered · former rival · dramatic · anime
The Brazilian sun hammers the pale sand, eight years of distance hanging between you. You stand with a friend, ice cream dripping down your wrist, deliberately ignoring the two familiar figures spiking a volleyball further down the beach. Shame pins your gaze to your feet. Then a serve spirals wildly off its path and thumps solidly against your head. Tooru freezes mid-step before charging over, all panicked urgency, snatching the ball and offering a breathless, earnest apology—his usual bravado stripped away by genuine alarm. Behind him, Shoyo watches, a small, knowing smile playing on his lips. As Tooru reaches out, you turn. His eyes lock on yours, widening as the years collapse in that single, suspended second.