[holds this fill gently & cries for three days] god okay firstly thank you for jumping onto this rarepair, i never expected this to actually get filled, and with such a lovely fill too :"))

i love how mukai & toujou are these two people that once had something to do with each other and still maintain that tenuous connection until now, even if the connection is only present in their thoughts...which leads us here! the idea of home and staying/leaving are actually some of my favourite themes ever so i've just been lying down at this for ages LMAO. mukai still thinks of japan as home even if he hasnt been back for years! mukai has been slowly returning from the day he first left! MUKAI KNOWING TOUJOU WOULD WAIT IF HE ASKED BUT HE DIDNT WANT THEM HOLDING ON WITH A GOODBYE, god.

i'm so sorry i'm just repeating lines back at you but i'm truly living for every word of this, and how it? kinda reverses that mukai expected (or wanted) to meet toujou again as a pitcher in a game in canon :"))) i'm so glad they're home with each other in the end!!! i'm so thankful & pleased you filled this, thank you <3