MAIN ROUND ONE: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[intricacies]

TITLE: Crossing the End Line
SERIES: Haikyuu!!
SHIP: Kageyama Tobio/Oikawa Tooru
RATING: T
CHARACTERS: Kageyama Tobio, Oikawa Tooru, Iwaizumi Hajime (briefly), Neighborhood Association (briefly), Original Character (briefly)
SIDE PAIRINGS: N/A
MAJOR TAGS: Slight Sexual Content (condoms, innuendos)
ADDITIONAL TAGS: Aged Up Characters, Future Fic
SUMMARY: Oikawa wears a pineapple shirt. Kageyama still has something to prove. It's a long journey chasing after the golden promise of Los Angeles, but they'll get there one way or another.
WORK COUNT: 3705 words, 5 images
SCRIPT: Script | Image List
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Comments

[justlikeswitchblades]

“Kageyama’s heart is in his throat. He wants.”

I was hooked right after the line. The variety in sentence length just in the section that accompanies the first image has such lovely flow, and then, oh my goodness, the contrast in the next section - “And here is just a man, wearing an ugly t-shirt.”

“is this how Hinata felt for his very first toss?” is also a line that made me yell, the writing in this piece is phenomenal!

The third section (!!! olympics!) is really cool to see a transition for Oikawa from using Tobio-chan to Tobio, and then:

“Kageyama is more than the lessons he’s learned. He just wants to be seen past the shadow he isn’t.” honestly I was so excited to read this I nearly missed the “please watch me too" bit and damn is it worth it. Them being together in the end is a well-deserved resolution over the development of the course of the fic, though it matches the sort of open-endedness I got from the ending; they still have plays to go, but it's still positive. Oikawa and Kageyama's relationship in canon is really intriguing, though I can't say I was really inclined to ship them till now - thanks for the new perspective!

[intricacies]

thank you so much for the kind comment from all of us, especially since you don't ship oikage!! we were a bit wary with how this dynamic might put people off if they aren't already into oikage, but it's comments like yours that ease those worries. thank you, again!