![]() ![]() Feel free to post your thoughts on any expectations, excitement, etc. This discussion section is a place for TOM members to talk and discuss the product. Maybe if he fights with all he can, maybe if he's a good opponent, then Oikawa will know how he feels.This product cannot be shipped to the following countries due to copyright and other region restrictions: business days. He realizes just as quickly that he doesn't know how to. The way Oikawa comes in the next day, a bandage over his nose but acting like nothing happened, makes it seem like a hazy dream. No shining robe is going to heal the wounds on Oikawa's heart. They walked on similar concrete, ate similar food, and went to the same school. He was born here, on Earth, the same place where Kageyama was born. The incident ends without a tragedy, but when Kageyama stumbles to his locker, he wonders over and over again what he did wrong.īut in the end, Oikawa isn't from the heavens. Oikawa looks at him, and Kageyama's stunned by the hate simmering in his gaze. "Please teach me," he asks, one night after practice. ![]() Volleyball is all he loves, after all, just volleyball and. Kageyama will reach that peak one day, he knows it. "No," is the quick response, snappy and final.Ī perfected serve is just as good as a dragon's jewel. Blue juice runs down his fingers, like he'd dipped them in the night sky. Oikawa scoffs, taking another bite out of the popsicle. “You think so?” he says, and Kageyama’s fingers feel cold. Oikawa’s eyes go hard, and his white teeth flash. “Because you can’t stay here, doing this forever, right?”ĭust floats in the dying light. “And why am I going to be going away again?” Immortals aren’t meant to be on Earth, they're just visitors. He thinks of Kaguya, and how she was her most brilliant when the citizens of the moon came to whisk her away. Do you like living here? What's it like, serving the ball across the court like that? Do you see the way normal people do?Ī shade of sunset washes over Oikawa's face. He wonders what sort of thoughts an immortal has. He pulls them together, trying to tuck them under his uniform. Kageyama's suddenly aware of how unsightly his knees look, scraped and bruised. Oikawa chomps on a popsicle that Iwaizumi bought him earlier. They sit on the gym steps together, watching the sun bleed red into the sky. As the team captain, Oikawa waits with him until Kageyama's parents can come pick him up. One time, Kageyama strains his ankle and has to stay behind after practice. He can't force the way to perfect serve out of Oikawa, so he just has to be persistent. Immortals are tricky like that, but Kageyama knows the trick. Kaguya gave her unwanted suitors impossible tasks to get them to give up. Oikawa says no, but Kageyama expected that. He holds out the ball, worn and scratched up from many practices, and finally says, "Can you teach me how to serve?" When Oikawa turns to look at him, Kageyama hesitates, not sure of what form to give his desire. It's a little nervewracking, but he holds his volleyball in front of his chest, a small barrier that he can control, and shuffles up to Oikawa. He likes looking across the court to see Oikawa bathed in the sun. Kageyama's not sure if he's worthy enough to be in Oikawa's shadow, but he likes it there. Oikawa works harder than anyone, he unites the team, he stuns Kageyama's heart every time he's on the court. His serves miss just as many times as they hit, but when they land, the thud across the gym floor echoes in Kageyama's ears. But when Kageyama first watches Oikawa smash a serve across the court, he thinks- this is a person who's come from the heavens. He's in middle school now, grown up enough to know that rabbits don't live on the moon and spiders aren't hiding underground to snatch up any unlucky children. The woodcutter's daughter, whose luck and talent brought wealth and blessings wherever she went. Tonight is the tale of Kaguya, the moon princess who fell to earth and was found in a bamboo tree. He rolls the small plush volleyball between his hands, and listens to his mother read from the latest picture book. Kageyama's parents always tell him fairy tales when he's tucked into bed and about to fall asleep. ![]()
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