Title: we failed that exam Ship/Character: Kunimi Akira/ Kageyama Tobio Additional Characters: Kindaichi Yuutarou Fandom: Haikyuu!! Major Tags: None Other Tags: angst, break-ups??, referenced canon post-time skip reveal but no spoilers (it's an easter egg iykyk) Word Count: 584 Remix Permission:See Permissions Sheet
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Q: Which of the following signifies the turning point of Kageyama Tobio’s relationship with Kunimi Akira?
Select all the reasons that apply.
Part E
Option 01:
Kageyama, Kindaichi and Kunimi bought a pet hamster in their second year of middle school to celebrate a year of friendship with each other. It was a 6-week-old winter white, and they named him ‘Haku’, after snow because winter was Kunimi’s favourite season. The plan was for them to swap the responsibility every 2 weeks, but they went to each other’s houses every other day to hang out or practice anyway. So really, it was shared.
Four months in, Kageyama stopped taking up his turn. Kindaichi had to take up more rounds.
Option 04:
Seven months in, Kageyama comes across a packet of hamster food in one of his drawers. It’s starting to fur with mould.
Option 05:
There’s a drawer in his room that Kageyama’s filled with Kunimi’s things. Two borrowed pencils. Nine math worksheets — all past their deadlines. One of his favourite t-shirts. Three hand warmers and a scarf because even though winter is his favourite he always complains about the cold. A forgotten packet of candy Kageyama had gifted him not long after their first kiss. (It was a shy peck on the cheek, but the damage was done and Kageyama couldn’t think of anything or anyone else for a week after). Two mints and five arcade stumps.
Twenty-four parts of Kunimi and not enough to fill the emptiness he had left behind.
Option 07:
The first time Kageyama heard of the phrase ‘two’s company and three’s a crowd’, he draws arrows and Venn diagrams between him, Kindaichi and Kunimi.
Kindaichi and Kunimi both are company to him, and definitely to each other even before he came around, so Kageyama concludes that he, in fact, must have the smallest share of the circle between all three of them.
The diagram ends up lopsided and warped in a way that made Kageyama’s gut churn, but he didn’t know how to pinpoint his feelings. Eventually, after weeks of scrutinising the diagram that’s been mentally burnt into his brain, he gives up on grasping his emotions and decides to stow away the piece of scrap paper and his feelings altogether.
Option 10:
Before the start of high school, they coincidentally bumped into each other at a bus stop near Kitagawa Daiichi.
The hurt Kageyama felt from the matches of their last season together was still gaping and raw, and he would have just walked to his destination if not for making piercing eye-contact with Kunimi. Shoulders heavy, he resigned to crossing the distance between him and Kunimi, each step painstakingly drawn out. Kageyama sits down next to him. Tense and stifled, Kageyama was choked by the awkward air that surrounded him.
Kunimi, as his character usually is, seemed unphased, taking to a light conversation that bellied their history. Kageyama, barely sentient while his mind was fueled with the nightmare of being abandoned by the people you once held close, barely uttered, “No” to Kunimi’s question of whether he chose Aoba Jousai as his preferred high school.
The conversation might’ve carried on, but Kageyama’s mind was trapped in an endless loop.
Somewhere in the distance, as the bus rolled to a stop by the curb of the stand, Kageyama heard these words leave Kunimi’s mouth, “Sometimes, I still think we could have loved each other.”
FILL: TEAM STARMATES, G
Ship/Character: Kunimi Akira/ Kageyama Tobio
Additional Characters: Kindaichi Yuutarou
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: angst, break-ups??, referenced canon post-time skip reveal but no spoilers (it's an easter egg iykyk)
Word Count: 584
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet
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Q: Which of the following signifies the turning point of Kageyama Tobio’s relationship with Kunimi Akira?
Select all the reasons that apply.
Part E
Option 01:
Kageyama, Kindaichi and Kunimi bought a pet hamster in their second year of middle school to celebrate a year of friendship with each other. It was a 6-week-old winter white, and they named him ‘Haku’, after snow because winter was Kunimi’s favourite season. The plan was for them to swap the responsibility every 2 weeks, but they went to each other’s houses every other day to hang out or practice anyway. So really, it was shared.
Four months in, Kageyama stopped taking up his turn. Kindaichi had to take up more rounds.
Option 04:
Seven months in, Kageyama comes across a packet of hamster food in one of his drawers. It’s starting to fur with mould.
Option 05:
There’s a drawer in his room that Kageyama’s filled with Kunimi’s things. Two borrowed pencils. Nine math worksheets — all past their deadlines. One of his favourite t-shirts. Three hand warmers and a scarf because even though winter is his favourite he always complains about the cold. A forgotten packet of candy Kageyama had gifted him not long after their first kiss. (It was a shy peck on the cheek, but the damage was done and Kageyama couldn’t think of anything or anyone else for a week after). Two mints and five arcade stumps.
Twenty-four parts of Kunimi and not enough to fill the emptiness he had left behind.
Option 07:
The first time Kageyama heard of the phrase ‘two’s company and three’s a crowd’, he draws arrows and Venn diagrams between him, Kindaichi and Kunimi.
Kindaichi and Kunimi both are company to him, and definitely to each other even before he came around, so Kageyama concludes that he, in fact, must have the smallest share of the circle between all three of them.
The diagram ends up lopsided and warped in a way that made Kageyama’s gut churn, but he didn’t know how to pinpoint his feelings. Eventually, after weeks of scrutinising the diagram that’s been mentally burnt into his brain, he gives up on grasping his emotions and decides to stow away the piece of scrap paper and his feelings altogether.
Option 10:
Before the start of high school, they coincidentally bumped into each other at a bus stop near Kitagawa Daiichi.
The hurt Kageyama felt from the matches of their last season together was still gaping and raw, and he would have just walked to his destination if not for making piercing eye-contact with Kunimi. Shoulders heavy, he resigned to crossing the distance between him and Kunimi, each step painstakingly drawn out. Kageyama sits down next to him. Tense and stifled, Kageyama was choked by the awkward air that surrounded him.
Kunimi, as his character usually is, seemed unphased, taking to a light conversation that bellied their history. Kageyama, barely sentient while his mind was fueled with the nightmare of being abandoned by the people you once held close, barely uttered, “No” to Kunimi’s question of whether he chose Aoba Jousai as his preferred high school.
The conversation might’ve carried on, but Kageyama’s mind was trapped in an endless loop.
Somewhere in the distance, as the bus rolled to a stop by the curb of the stand, Kageyama heard these words leave Kunimi’s mouth, “Sometimes, I still think we could have loved each other.”
“But I guess now it doesn’t matter.”
The loop didn’t seem to end.