sportsanime | Bonus Round 1: Memory

Let's start our summer by looking at the past—things that happened in canon, or maybe in an AU, or maybe just as wishful thinking...

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on June 9 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. (There are changes from last year!)

RULES

Submit prompts by commenting to this post! You prompt should consist of one scenario beginning with the phrase "Remember when", along with any ship/ot3/etc. from our list of nominated fandoms.
- Your prompts can take the form of recalling canon facts/events ("Remember when Nozomi and Eli got parfaits after school?"), non-canon events ("Remember when Megumi and Jin met at the Tadokoro Family Reunion?"), or somewhere in-between ("Remember when Bokuto and Kenma first met?"). Headcanons and AUs are welcome!
- Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. (This is not the sports anime gen olympics.) Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Rei & Nagisa). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Rei/Nagisa). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
Post fills by leaving a responding comment to a prompt with your newly-created work.
Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.

FORMAT

Brand-new works only, please.

Required Work Minimums:

400 words (prose)
400px by 400px (art)
14 lines (poetry)

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For prompts: 5 points each (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)

First 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points each

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Split Ends

"Just do it," Asahi said, eyes closed tight and looking miserable. Sugawara and Daichi looked at each other over his head. Daichi frowned, looking pointedly down at Asahi and then back up at Sugawara; Sugawara raised an eyebrow like what do you expect me to do about it?.

"It's just for interviews," Daichi said, trying as always to smooth things over with logic. "You can grow it back out."

"When's he gonna do that?" Sugawara said in an undertone. "Isn't the goal that he actually gets the job?"

"Will you shush?" Daichi hissed at him.

Asahi opened his eyes to roll them up at the other two. "I can hear you two, you know." He shrugged, making the towel wrapped his shoulders shift. Daichi looked sheepish, but Sugawara sighed, fingering the ends of Asahi's hair, damp from the shower and falling against his shoulders.

"Sassy beard," he accused. He gave the piece of hair he was holding a yank. "You should go to a salon. If I do a terrible job it won't look any better than you just keeping the long hair."

Asahi shook his head, jaw set stubbornly. Sugawara was right, but if Asahi was going to cry, it was going to be in the privacy of their clubroom and not in public. Plus Daichi's nervous hovering was making it worse. And anyway, it wasn't really about hair which, as Sugawara said, he could always grow back out.

It was about high school ending, everything ending. A bunch of other things would start, Takeda-sensei kept saying, but at just this moment Asahi didn't care so much about that. He cared about not seeing his best friends every day, about having to start new things without them and having to be strong for them even when he felt the most scared. But there was nothing he could do about it, so he might as well start right now.

"Just do it," he told Sugawara again. He closed his eyes. "I trust you."

"Even if you say that," Sugawara grumbled, but Asahi heard him pick up the scissors, then the soft, sharp noise of the blades sliding against each other.

Asahi focused on taking slow, deep breaths and visualized how he was calmly going to look when it was done and tell Sugawara he'd done a nice job. He might look like his dad, as far as he remembered, or the wedding picture of his grandfather that sat on his grandmother's desk. Sugawara and Daichi's presences were somewhat calming, except for how every now and then Sugawara made a noise of dissatisfaction, and Daichi was shifting restlessly from one side of Asahi to the other.

"All right," Sugawara said what felt like fifty years later to Asahi. "Go ahead and take a look."

"I've changed my mind, I don't want to," Asahi said plaintively.

"Really, you baby," Sugawara scolded poking him right between the eyes so Asahi's eyes snapped open on their own. His eyes were sympathetic as he handed over the mirror. "Take a look."

"It's weird," Daichi said, then caught himself. "Oh, but not bad! I like it!"

Visualization had not prepared Asahi for the first look of himself as a respectable job-hunter, and he couldn't help the wave of panic and sadness that washed over him. Just as he opened his mouth, the clubhouse door swung open and Shimizu strolled in with a basket of washed uniforms.

"Oh!" she said when she saw, blinking in surprise. "That surprised me! But it suits you, Azumane-kun. Should I get a stylish haircut too, I wonder?"

"Stylish?" Asahi spluttered, but then the moment for panic was over, and Asahi resigned himself to moving into the future reluctantly, reaching up to touch his hair with a scrunched expression. And just because he saw the wink Shimizu gave Sugawara on the way by, that didn't mean Asahi didn't appreciate her sentiment all the same.

Seniors had to stick together, after all.

So sweet! Grooming stories are my jam. And sad leaving high school stories. And Asahi being worried stoies. <3

pffft every story is an asahi being worried story, even some stories without Asahi actually in them XD

TRU FAX.

This was really sweet. I'm with Asahi, it's scary when things have to change. Also, I want to use the nickname Sassy Beard for the rest of my life.

Oh gosh, that was so cute - and with a healthy dose of sad, which is totally my jam. Thank you!

thank you! yeah anything that deals with 3rd years is probably going to be at least a little sad, especially when you know Asahi already said he's dropping volleyball and not going to university.

also kudos to you for having an amazing username, heyyy.

Ahhhh, this broke my heart and put it back together all at once. Facing the great unknown is terrifying, but at least Asahi isn't going to face it alone <3

thank you! aww that coward is never alone in his heart.

Bonus Round 1: Memory

FILL: Team Kuroo Tetsurou/Tsukishima Kei, G

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