Finale.

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The breeze is light and cool against Hajime's skin.

Somehow he's glad he's under the shaded place. He flops down on the grass, sets down the picnic basket and puts on his earphones. He listens to his favorite music. The music matches the cool atmosphere and the blue skies, and it warms Hajime's heart. He realizes he's forgotten something in the car, so he rushes back to get it.

He returns and sets the white tulips down on the polished stone before him.

"It's been two years. I'm happily enjoying the world in color now, Tooru," he lies. It's not the same without you. "I still haven't met someone as dumb as you are." He tries to laugh it off like he always did, but it comes out empty and meaningless.

He waits and waits for that happiness and acceptance he promised Tooru to sink in before fate took him away.

But Hajime knows better; it doesn't come.

"I'm so sick of missing you, you idiot," his voice breaks, tears pelting the gray stone where the long gone team captain's name is engraved.

It will never come.

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