Ship: Imayoshi/Hanamiya Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED Word Count: 421
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If there was ever any doubt which way Imayoshi was going (that is, if he believes in an afterlife, which is debatable at best) this is what seals the deal. True, he hadn’t tried enough in middle school; he’d said things, done things, in high school; he’s made mistakes and he’s had regrets. That’s not enough to send him to hell on its own, or if it is, then there’s going to be no one in heaven anyway, so who gives a damn.
He could have taken the coward’s way out, quit basketball because of the physical strain and lack of financial reward awaiting him and become the boring sort of salaryman who smokes on the terrace and looks like he’s hiding something but it’s only ever that he’s behind on his credit card bill or something, the boring kind of shameful secret. At least, that’s what he jokes about; it probably never would have been enough for him, but he could have had it if he’d let it happen to him, if he’d tried for it at all.
That would have landed him in hell; Imayoshi’s no fool. He’s not going to search back on the twisting road of his life to find out where the sweet little boy he’d once been (ha!) had gone wrong, turned out rotten to the core. People like to simplify it, call one thing or another the turning point, but there were so many along the way that there isn’t one distinguishing, definitive; it’s everything at once. Maybe a lot of those things had had to do with Hanamiya but, well. Now it certainly does.
He’s no wishy-washy waffler; this is the path he’s on and he’s going to commit to hell cheerfully, with a long kiss on Hanamiya’s mouth, something he’s going to enjoy. What’s the use in pointless repenting when you don’t mean much of it anyway? What’s the use in an empty apology to an entity that may not exist? Especially when he plans on doing so much more in the future, the knife gripped in his hands, twisting with a surety that Hanamiya doesn’t have. He’s troubled, a blustery dark, a gale force; Imayoshi’s a much simpler man; the world is as it is. There’s no use complicating it when there are tasks to complete, when the sooner they finish the sooner it’s just them, the sooner they can forget (or not) the acts they commit and condone, the sooner they can enjoy the hell they’re headed to together.
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 421
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If there was ever any doubt which way Imayoshi was going (that is, if he believes in an afterlife, which is debatable at best) this is what seals the deal. True, he hadn’t tried enough in middle school; he’d said things, done things, in high school; he’s made mistakes and he’s had regrets. That’s not enough to send him to hell on its own, or if it is, then there’s going to be no one in heaven anyway, so who gives a damn.
He could have taken the coward’s way out, quit basketball because of the physical strain and lack of financial reward awaiting him and become the boring sort of salaryman who smokes on the terrace and looks like he’s hiding something but it’s only ever that he’s behind on his credit card bill or something, the boring kind of shameful secret. At least, that’s what he jokes about; it probably never would have been enough for him, but he could have had it if he’d let it happen to him, if he’d tried for it at all.
That would have landed him in hell; Imayoshi’s no fool. He’s not going to search back on the twisting road of his life to find out where the sweet little boy he’d once been (ha!) had gone wrong, turned out rotten to the core. People like to simplify it, call one thing or another the turning point, but there were so many along the way that there isn’t one distinguishing, definitive; it’s everything at once. Maybe a lot of those things had had to do with Hanamiya but, well. Now it certainly does.
He’s no wishy-washy waffler; this is the path he’s on and he’s going to commit to hell cheerfully, with a long kiss on Hanamiya’s mouth, something he’s going to enjoy. What’s the use in pointless repenting when you don’t mean much of it anyway? What’s the use in an empty apology to an entity that may not exist? Especially when he plans on doing so much more in the future, the knife gripped in his hands, twisting with a surety that Hanamiya doesn’t have. He’s troubled, a blustery dark, a gale force; Imayoshi’s a much simpler man; the world is as it is. There’s no use complicating it when there are tasks to complete, when the sooner they finish the sooner it’s just them, the sooner they can forget (or not) the acts they commit and condone, the sooner they can enjoy the hell they’re headed to together.