rewatching: PIXIV > 52495150 (in safety of this radiant light)
hisashi watanabe ( 渡辺久庇 ) ([personal profile] rewatching) wrote in [community profile] outfields2015-10-06 11:50 pm
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#noriforace2kforever

[summer numbers. a year ago it seemed like an impossibility, a mirage he'd have no part of, their age still waiting in the wings as they followed the backs of their seniors, the other front-runners who walked before them like giants.

hisashi doesn't have a number in his hands, and at first that had hurt, a lot. he still feels brittle and hollow, all those months of toil bringing nothing but a scorebook in the dugout and no chance at bat, when he thinks about it, but it's never been just about him. the team means too much to him to be angry with his teammates, instead of himself.

and when nori is finally wearing the one hisashi knew he could take, that's their age standing on stage, their giant walking among them.

it's getting late in the evening when he finds nori, sun down and the team scattering to dorm rooms. it takes him five minutes of peeking around before he follows his instincts and passes through the cafeteria to the opposite exit. there.
] Nori. [ he moves carefully into his space, hands linked in front of himself casually. ] Don't stay up too late, ace. [ he smiles, and there's honesty in it. ]
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[personal profile] sidewind 2015-12-12 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[not that he could ever be anything else; he's long since learned that he isn't built to emulate others, and the best way for him to succeed is to slowly, piece by piece, embrace the things that set him apart. if asked, he certainly wouldn't be able to explain what exactly a very nori kiss is like, but as he's done with baseball, he'll learn to make this his own as well, in time.

hopefully it's something nice enough to do more than once, because he's feeling like he's going to combust from happiness, enough where he finds himself smiling too much to continue kissing, and he breaks away with something suspiciously like a giggle.]
Ah-- sorry, sorry, I just... [yeah, no, that's an actual giggle.] I'm-- happy.