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His phone vibrates off the ledge and drops on his nose with tear-jerking insistence.

Fucker.

Satori rolls over with the grace of a half-dead street rat before he sits up, feet touching the clean, cold concrete of his apartment. Tenderly he rubs at his face, fingers prodding as he inhales deeply through his sore nose.

Nothing is set in stone and all that. But he has a really good feeling about that.

Tooru groans, loud and frustrated, and dramatically throws himself over the steps at his back. Proper, respectful Consortium Wizard rolling around in the streets like a five-year old.

His tabby Princess has slipped onto the pavement between Satori’s knees. She licks her paws, smooths them over her ears and her face- left first. Entirely unbothered by the flamboyant man next to them.

A Princess that doesn’t bother with the jester.

“You gotta stop this, princess,” he sighs as he feels the weight of her small body spreading over his feet.

The tabby looks up at him with a slow, content blink as she oozes herself all over his shoes.

“I’m gonna pick you up and bring you home if you’re not careful, and you don’t even know what kind of man I am,” he lectures her, “that’s no way to find yourself a human.” But even as he chides her, he bends, scratching her behind her dainty, bright ears.

She pushes into his touch, eyes closing into a content cat-smile and Satori can’t help but echo the sentiment.

But Tooru had to, somehow, have the bad luck of attracting the soul-searching eyes of pretty Ushijima Wakatoshi with his taciturn nature, dry wit and soothing quiet; an ass of epic proportions simply because Tooru cannot figure out for the life of him, how a Wizard of Ushiwaka’s stand can be so terribly unimaginative and dull.

It’s off-putting to say the least and if Tooru hates anything then it’s a) people who are better than him and b) especially if they have nothing that makes them stand out from an average crowd of Wizards in The Consortium.

Traits which unfortunately also apply to Ushijima Wakatoshi.

It’s one of the reasons he doesn’t quite know what to do with Satori.

Aside from the fact that Tooru is pretty certain that he shouldn’t be caught dead with the redhead who has been excised from The Consortium at thirteen, he knows that was Satori has is special.

Tooru doesn’t know what it is, but it’s…

It has bite.

It has teeth.

There’s a prickle of something metallic and acidulously dangerous at the back of Tooru’s tongue every time he gets to witness Satori’s Magic up close and personal.

Most days, thinking about Satori makes him angry.

Weathering with You - 天気の子 - Tenki no Ko

That moment in editing

when you're revising your document, rewriting where it needs, editing out-editing in, in the flow

and then suddenly you REALIZE

that you've fallen prey to the 'it's logical'-goblin that every writer knows that tricks you into believing that you've set up all the foreshadowing necessary because it all makes sense to YOU

but you realize with dawning horror

that you're not just the reader, you're also the writer

and so of course it makes sense if Character A is a cat for 20+ chapters, turns human for only 2 chapters and then has a full-on make-out session with Character B

it makes sense

because you wrote it

and the "it's-logical"-goblin told you that it's logical when you read it

because the logical-goblin is an effin' logical fallacy is what it is

and now i don't have enough foreshadowing

gfdi

My contribution for @marchingduck's HAIKYUU RARE PAIR MONTH 2025

Prompt: White Day

How to Fluster (Step One: Accept the Chocolates) (1591 words) by Out_Of_Custody Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Haikyuu!! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kyoutani Kentarou/Yamaguchi Tadashi, Tsukishima Kei & Yamaguchi Tadashi Characters: Yamaguchi Tadashi, Kyoutani Kentarou, Tsukishima Kei Additional Tags: Yamaguchi Tadashi-centric, Haikyuu Rare Pair Month 2025, Prompt Fill, White Day, Soft, Protective Tsukishima Kei, Tsukishima Kei: Reluctant Wingman, Tadashi is Not Ready for This, Volleyball Dorks in Love, Aromantic Tsukishima Kei, Asexual Tsukishima Kei, Bisexual Yamaguchi Tadashi Summary:

The gym still smells like sweat and rubber, the echoes of sneakers against polished floors fading into the hush of a mostly empty hallway. Yamaguchi Tadashi stands rooted in place, the weight of a small, wrapped box pressing into his palm as he watches the blond glance at him—then away. A hand rubs the back of a tense neck, and then the Seijoh spiker is gone.

Dotonbori - Osaka, Japan

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