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They do not say anything more to each other; Iwaizumi simply steps back, a silent invitation to enter. It is a language they used to speak in childhood, one without any words at all, and to fall back into it with ease is something that makes both hearts seize with love.
It is so easy to fall back into someone, to let the edges of your body mold to their curves and feel them take the burden of existence from your shoulders. And that, though it may be unknown to them at this moment, is exactly what they do.
They fall.
Mamihlapinatapai - A look shared by two people, each wishing the other would initiate something they both desire but which neither wants to start.
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08 Apr 2026
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If he had to keep watching this, Oikawa was going to dig his own eyes out with a spoon.
They were in chemistry, and their teacher had paired them up instead of letting them choose for themselves. This meant that instead of getting to work with Iwaizumi like he usually did, he was with Hanamaki, who was both insufferable and terrible at every practical experiment they’d ever done.
Not that it mattered. Oikawa was way too distracted to be paying any attention to Hanamaki ruining their titration results.
Because Iwaizumi was paired with Miyamoto Ema, the most beautiful girl in the class.
Alternatively: Five times Oikawa was jealous, and one time he realised he didn't need to be.
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31 May 2025
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Iwaizumi lived in a world of silence.
Or rather, due to his profound hearing loss, the world was much quieter for him than it was for most other people. That may have seemed sad to some people, but Iwaizumi, at the ripe old age of seven, thought those people were stupid. Hearing was terrible. The moulds of his hearing aids always hurt his ears when he kept them in for too long, and when he did wear them, everything was so loud, from the clicking of keyboards on the computers at school, to the jumble of voices when everyone in a room seemed to be talking all at the same time.
Most days, Iwaizumi chose to forget his hearing aids, lose them at home, or simply refuse to wear them. At home, there was no need for them; his parents also had hearing loss, so they tended to communicate through sign language, though they did speak aloud and encouraged him to do the same to practice lip reading. Neither of them wore hearing aids. His parents got by just fine, and so would he.
He only wished the rest of the world could understand that.
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17 Apr 2025
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don't look down, the plates start shifting by to_andromeda_and_back for homeboundsky
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
01 Mar 2025
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In a million imagined timelines, there were never any where Oikawa and Iwaizumi had to say goodbye.
Tokyo, Japan is 12 hours ahead of San Juan, Argentina.
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No matter how far I go, it moves around me.
I found my place in the world, tell me you've found me.-
aka, it's just Oikawa and Iwaizumi being angsty for like 10+ years
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13 Apr 2025
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Eventually, his hand slides downward, cupping the back of Oikawa’s neck. With a firm squeeze, he whispers, pleads, “Bite me.”
He thinks Oikawa might’ve choked on the first syllable of Iwaizumi’s name, a failed protest gliding down his throat, and Iwaizumi takes the opportunity to repeat his words once more. There’s a gentle roll of his hips against Oikawa’s own. “Tooru,” he breathes, “Fucking bite me.”
or: vampire!oikawa feeds on iwaizumi after getting injured.
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23 Feb 2025
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Kuroo grins widely. “Y’know, that you have a big, fat crush on Iwa—”
“Shut up! Shut up, I do not!” Oikawa glances frantically at the hallway to the washroom even though he can literally hear the shower running.
“I don’t think you would deny it like that if it wasn’t true,” Kenma points out helpfully. Curse the socially-anxious induced perception skills he has. Oikawa glares at him and hopes Kenma can feel the bad vibes he’s sending over.
Kuroo gasps loudly as if he just found out that his whole life is a lie. “Is that why you and dickwad broke up? Because you’re in love with Iwa—”
“In love? What the fuck is wrong with you,” Oikawa hisses. “I am not in love with Iwa-chan.” And now that he says it outloud, it feels entirely untrue. Fuck. That’s not a good sign.
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in which oikawa is not in love with iwaizumi aka his roommate aka his fwb aka best friend. not at all.
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01 Feb 2025
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The leaves rustled overhead; Hajime gazed up—and just about managed to reach out before Oikawa landed onto him with a yelp, knocking them both to the ground in a heap of limbs.
“You absolute bastard—”
Hajime was faintly aware of his sheathed sword trying to stab him on the thigh. He shuffled around and belatedly realised he’d landed on top of Oikawa in his rushed, clumsy attempt to catch him.
“Well,” Oikawa panted, “this might be the first fortunate thing that’s happened to me in days.”
in which the demon king gets cursed, and he seeks the help, of all people, of the man who’s supposed to kill him.
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21 Jan 2025
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They weren't a couple, weren't even friends; just allies at best. Hajime didn't care for him beyond that room, and he made a point to be transparent about that.
"Of course," Oikawa said. "I wouldn't expect anything else from you."
Hajime had everything planned. He had a list of names, one he’d been slowly chipping away at over the past five years. He wouldn’t let anything distract him from enacting his vengeance, wouldn’t let anyone come close to him, for his sake and theirs.
Then, along came Oikawa.
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Toru knew his place as an admirer turned ally. Regardless of the budding trust between them, he knew none of it would ever result in anything more than what they have now.
Still, that can’t stop him from wanting more.
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08 Dec 2024
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Oikawa is asked to give the best man speech at Kageyama and Hinata’s wedding. It goes roughly as well as one would expect.
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04 Nov 2024
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It’s nothing new—Hajime knows him more than Tooru himself does, it’s always been that way. He feels like a fool, thinking those thousands of miles or too long years spent apart could ever change that. They made a promise all those years ago, to find what they were looking for, to strive to be the best, with one hand wrapped around the string that ties them together. Tooru was the first one to let go—he thought he was setting Hajime free. But here they are, Hajime holding that red thread out to him—stubborn, selfless, perfect Hajime, willing to tie himself to Tooru and all his ridiculous shortcomings.
“It’s been a decade,” Tooru says, voice barely a whisper. “Really, Hajime?”
Hajime chuckles, like Tooru’s being stupid. “That doesn't change anything for me.”
It’s these little things that anchor Tooru down to Hajime’s orbit—they were always meant to come back to this moment.
With a decade's worth of dreams finally in his clutch, Oikawa comes home.
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13 Oct 2024
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hajime is in paris for the first time in his life and is immediately accosted by how dirty it is.
or: at their second olympics games, hajime and tooru find they can still learn something they’ve always known.
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26 Sep 2024
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Tooru leans into him, a steady comforting presence against Hajime’s side, and Hajime holds onto this moment — grabs it tightly with two hands and allows himself to live in a reality where he has everything. He’ll give in to those unnamed emotions, pulling them briefly to the surface rather than hiding them behind a veil of indifference.
For a moment, he is able to pretend.
(or: iwaizumi and oikawa go drinking after the jva all-star match with both teams, and go home together.)
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01 Sep 2024
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18 Aug 2024
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No one on the team has mentioned it to him yet, and he prefers to keep it that way. They likely don’t remember that he and Oikawa Tooru, #13 of the Men’s Argentina National Volleyball Team, played on the same team in high school. And even if they do, they certainly wouldn’t know that they were closer than just the ace and his setter.
If God truly loves him, his team will stay both ignorant and away from him.
When Miya Atsumu sits down next to him, propping his chin on the heel of his hand and staring at him with an unnervingly knowledgeable gaze, Iwaizumi knows that God has forsaken him.
Or; it's the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, and the Volleyball Olympic gold matchup is between Argentina and Japan. Iwaizumi Hajime, the athletic trainer for the Japanese Men's National Volleyball Team, observes the #13 Argentinian setter from afar. He tells his team that he doesn't know Oikawa Tooru as well as he used to, and he tells himself that the concern he feels for his estranged best friend is just his mind playing cruel tricks.
Until Sakusa Kiyoomi, outside hitter for Team Japan, convinces him otherwise.
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- Part 1 of season of the sticks
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10 Aug 2024
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It’s only been a week since Iwaizumi first started thinking of the color purple. And also, he’s fallen in love.
Or, alternatively: Oikawa confesses. Iwaizumi tries to forget.
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05 Aug 2024
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Pessimistic days—realistic days—most days—Iwaizumi does what he always does: sigh, step back, lets Oikawa walk right through the fucking door.
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04 Aug 2024
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Anyone who knows Oikawa Tooru must be aware, to some extent, of this fact: once Tooru sets his sights on something, he’ll stop at absolutely nothing until he gets it.
Or: Oikawa and Iwaizumi are lab partners. They shouldn't work well together, until they do.
[Written for Iwaoi Week 2024 Day 1: College AU]
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17 Jul 2024
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It is the dead of winter, and Iwaizumi swears to himself that by the time the snow melts, he'll have fallen out of love with his best friend.
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- Part 1 of bloom
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29 May 2024
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Iwaizumi had seen other vampires feed. He'd seen the way they ensured that not a single drop of blood was wasted. They'd separate themselves from the neck of their prey, and other than the distinct pallor of the victim, it would be impossible to detect any remnants of what had just occurred.
Perhaps that skill came with practice, Iwaizumi wondered, as he felt Oikawa's tongue drag against his skin, catching and smearing a rivulet of blood that had made a run for his collarbone.
Or maybe Oikawa was just messy.
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Oikawa is a vampire. Iwaizumi and Oikawa have an arrangement. Oikawa drinks Iwaizumi's blood, and maybe they both enjoy it just a bit too much.
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24 Mar 2023
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Legend has it that a soul can take the form of a butterfly. Legend has it that everyone has a soulmate. Legend has it that having a soulmate means you'll be loved.
Iwaizumi is pretty sure that all those legends are full of shit. Some people never meet their soulmate. Some soulbonds are born broken and others are built up to break. Sometimes a butterfly is just a stupid butterfly.
(Or, Oikawa is Iwaizumi's soulmate. Iwaizumi is not his. Hanamaki and Matsukawa are soulmates. Neither know what to do about it. They're all making it much more complicated than it needs to be.)
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- Part 1 of hearts of our own design
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11 Feb 2023