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[bokurroo]

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers (Chapters 5 & 6)

Chapter 1 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6

Hi there and thank you for caring enough to click on this after four (4) years. Full disclosure, I have been hoarding these two chapters for at least three of those years. I had a plan to not post another chapter until I could finish the fic so I could stop feeling like I was disappointing people, but then time just kept going and I never had it in me to write any more. I really wanted to go through the whole entire thing and fix the mistakes that I know are in the published chapters and sort of re-present this fic as one finished story, instead of random chapters written in very different parts of my life. But that obviously didn't happen.

I decided the other day (while in the shower, of course), that I was going to just post these chapters as they are. I'm not at all in love with them, and I'm not sure any one is going to care after all this time, but I just felt like I needed to do it. All I can hope for is that during these absurd and troubling times around the world, and for those of you who may be having a difficult time this holiday season, as I am, that I can make at least one person smile by uploading these chapters.

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Fandom: Haikyuu!! Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou, Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru Characters: Kuroo Tetsurou, Bokuto Koutarou, Oikawa Tooru, Iwaizumi Hajime, There's one really relevant OC, Kozume Kenma, Haiba Lev, Nekoma makes an appearance, Akaashi Keiji Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, College/University, Post-Canon, Basically it's in the canon verse except there are soulmates, Miscommunication, Mutual Pining, Friends to Lovers, Boys who don't know how to deal with feelings, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Excessive swearing?, I feel like that needs to be added, Like if you don't like the f word as much as I do I am very very sorry

Summary:

Kuroo remembers the moment fondly. They were in their second year of high school, laying on the floor of an empty classroom one night during training camp. Kuroo learned so much about him that night. He can still remember how he felt, staring at this beam of sunshine in the dark room, watching him as he spoke about everything and anything, with passion for all of it.

That’s why he knows how much having a soulmate means to Bokuto. And while Bokuto has expressed a genuine fear of never getting his soulmark, Kuroo has always done everything to reassure him that that won’t happen. Bokuto deserves the kind of love that people dream about. And Kuroo knows that it’s out there waiting for him. The universe would never disappoint its greatest creation.

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Alternatively: local university boys don't know what to do with their emotions even when the universe does most of the work for them.

[bokurroo]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Haikyuu!! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru Characters: Oikawa Tooru, Iwaizumi Hajime, Matsukawa Issei, Hanamaki Takahiro, Oikawa Tooru’s Family, Some other characters make a very brief appearance but let’s not spoil the surprise Additional Tags: Christmas, Kissing, First Time, Holidays, Friends to Lovers, I guess it’s technically, Canon Compliant, Sex, Like sex occurs but it’s not explicit at all, did i mention there’s lots of kissing, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

“I do,” he insists. And the desperation tears another hole right through Tooru. “Please just let me have this. Have you. If you just promise me one thing. You have to be there when I wake up. Just let me wake up next to you and then I’ll let you go again. I won’t ask you to stay. I promise.”

Tooru sniffles, but he somehow finds the strength to form a smile. It’s not fake, not completely, but he knows Hajime can still probably see everything he’s hiding behind it. “It is tradition.”

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This is a tale of kisses and holiday traditions, of falling in love and falling apart. Being strong enough to walk away, but brave enough to come back together.

Loosely inspired by Taylor Swift’s “‘tis the damn season.”

[wiccankonan]

*stubs toe*

Me, through gritted teeth: Fuck Danzo

[wiccankonan]

The hate to make this happen is so funny and also incredibly valid.

[wuntrum]

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

[alivehouse]

t shirt that says if you do not give me written instructions i will kill myself

[boundwithpurple]

cat haters so darksided to me…“cats don’t love you” ok even if that was true…why is your need for control so tyrannical that you can’t accept the PRIVILEGE of a beautiful little creature that occasionally gallops like a pony in your house and shits in a box and eats food you buy and hates you…you should still be so lucky…

[cheruib]

i love music i love having ears so i can listen to music

[cilantrhoes]

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

in an isolationship

[skarchomp]

college should be free so that the first time you go can just not count. that's just to test the waters. you should be able to be like "well that was weird! okay now this time for real"

[nsnojutsu]

[iluvsatc]

[pagliahater]

[art-is-art-is-art]

Chekhov wrote it before Camus

[andysambcrg]

- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

[meangirlnurse]

i feel like no one really wants to hear that sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration are major factors in treating mental health issues bc we’ve all talked to that person who thinks your depression would be cured by one good session of goat yoga or whatever but unfortunately they do help and i’m chronically annoyed about it

[negativepeanuthoarder]

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

[armandgender]

writing is so fun

[armandgender]

writing is impossible why does anyone do this

[hybridbarbiecar]

🎨 @drawnbymabel

[bokurroo]

AND IF I RESTART THE HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIDE FICS BY MOUSECAT AND NOTALLBALLS JUST SO I CAN FEEL ALIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS??? WHAT THEN??????