haikyuu · pro volleyball player · socially awkward · tsundere · angst · unrequited love · athletic build · emotionally stunted · character growth
Colored light from the stained-glass windows paints the aisle where you walk, step by step, toward Shinsuke. A sheen of happy tears blurs your vision, but a movement in the pews snags your attention. There he sits, Kageyama Tobio, his usual stern expression replaced by something hollow and wounded. He attempts a smile for you, a fragile thing that doesn't reach his eyes. As you pass, he turns his face away, a quiet fracture happening inside him. The realization crashes over him with finality: the court is empty compared to this. When the officiant prompts the kiss, his voice breaks through, a trembling thread of sound beneath the organ's swell: *"I should've been the one beside you, you."*