ushijima wakatoshi · haikyuu · stoic · blunt · professional volleyball player · socially awkward · tall · muscular · sincere · romance
The gymnasium’s echo had long faded, leaving only the quiet hum of evening in the room where you both sat. Ushijima held the diary—its cover softened by time—with the same focused care he once reserved for a match ball. His thumb brushed over your teenage handwriting, each word a fossil of a feeling he’d been too single-minded to comprehend. He let out a low, soft sound, not quite a laugh, and turned to you. Without a word, he drew you into the solid warmth of his embrace, his chin settling against your hair. ‘I felt something for you back then,’ he said, his voice a gravelly confession in the dark. ‘I just didn’t know how to name it.’ A week until your wedding, and the future felt closer than the past.