Ship: Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke Major Tags: None Other Tags: None Square: history Word Count: 429
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Shuuzou fashions himself into a historian, fingers tracing over the calendar the way a geographer would with maps, committing to memory every second of a time that feels so long past that it might as well have taken place centuries ago. He finds himself walking the same paths that he once walked with company, stopping at street corners and remembering the way it felt to bask in the warmth of someone else, not having to be concerned about how much light they were giving off because there was no such thing as too much, or not enough, when they're off the basketball court.
In the end, it's only just a handful of days, playing on loop at the back of Shuuzou's mind like a song that he just can't get out of his head. He thinks of Tatsuya's smile, of his laugh, his gentle voice as he shortened Shuuzou to Shuu, with an easily familiarity that Shuuzou has never found anywhere else. He misses it, more than he ever thought he could miss such a short period of time. It's different to the way he misses his days at Teiko, or the way he misses being in Japan at all. Shuuzou would relive all of those moments if he could without changing a thing, but with Tatsuya, Shuuzou wishes that he could live every variant of those few days and explore every possibility. He thinks about every detail of every day and how tweaking one thing would change another, the way that Shuuzou smiling at Tatsuya in a certain way could have ended with them kissing before parting ways, just how Shuuzou wishes he had the chance to.
He has the upper hand over most historians though because he knows he will see Tatsuya again. He'll need to be patient for it, but he knows it's going to happen, and he'll have the chance to explore every possibility that he's currently wondering about. He'll learn what it's like to lean into Tatsuya when he's invited to, instead of keeping his distance. He'll learn how it feels to have their hands brush against each other as they walk, instead of carefully holding his hands by his sides.
He'll get to explore all of it, and he's sure that Tatsuya will surprise him even more, just as he always does whether it's face to face or over the messages that they send to each other. He smiles smugly down at his phone and tells himself that he has this advantage over other historians too. His time with Tatsuya isn't over yet.
FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, C2, G
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Square: history
Word Count: 429
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Shuuzou fashions himself into a historian, fingers tracing over the calendar the way a geographer would with maps, committing to memory every second of a time that feels so long past that it might as well have taken place centuries ago. He finds himself walking the same paths that he once walked with company, stopping at street corners and remembering the way it felt to bask in the warmth of someone else, not having to be concerned about how much light they were giving off because there was no such thing as too much, or not enough, when they're off the basketball court.
In the end, it's only just a handful of days, playing on loop at the back of Shuuzou's mind like a song that he just can't get out of his head. He thinks of Tatsuya's smile, of his laugh, his gentle voice as he shortened Shuuzou to Shuu, with an easily familiarity that Shuuzou has never found anywhere else. He misses it, more than he ever thought he could miss such a short period of time. It's different to the way he misses his days at Teiko, or the way he misses being in Japan at all. Shuuzou would relive all of those moments if he could without changing a thing, but with Tatsuya, Shuuzou wishes that he could live every variant of those few days and explore every possibility. He thinks about every detail of every day and how tweaking one thing would change another, the way that Shuuzou smiling at Tatsuya in a certain way could have ended with them kissing before parting ways, just how Shuuzou wishes he had the chance to.
He has the upper hand over most historians though because he knows he will see Tatsuya again. He'll need to be patient for it, but he knows it's going to happen, and he'll have the chance to explore every possibility that he's currently wondering about. He'll learn what it's like to lean into Tatsuya when he's invited to, instead of keeping his distance. He'll learn how it feels to have their hands brush against each other as they walk, instead of carefully holding his hands by his sides.
He'll get to explore all of it, and he's sure that Tatsuya will surprise him even more, just as he always does whether it's face to face or over the messages that they send to each other. He smiles smugly down at his phone and tells himself that he has this advantage over other historians too. His time with Tatsuya isn't over yet.