Day 4 : Flowers
Hanahaki Au ✔
Flowershop Au
Snow/Rain
Late nights/Early mornings
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Caramel eyes stared into chocolate brown eyes. Shirabu felt breathless as the ash blonde stared into his eyes. Both eyes stared into each other, one full of annoyance, the other, weakness.
"Everyone get in the bus we're going back!" The coach called out. The older turned his eyes away and began walking towards the rest of his team. Shirabu finally felt his breath return to him. What the hell was that? . He shrugged it off and joined the rest of the team. He entered the bus and sat beside kawanishi. Not staring at the team's pinch server was becoming harder by the minute. He didn't want to admit it, but his senpai was indeed very handsome. An explanation popped up in his head which was quickly dismissed by the stubborn setter. There's no way I'm crushing on him of all people.
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Practice continued like normal. The VBC's third years were still coming to practice. As the next captain, Shirabu practiced a lot, especially with Goshiki. He received many pieces of advice from his senpais, especially Semi and Ushijima. Semi had been nice to Shirabu and that only made shirabu fall for the ash blonde even more.Shirabu had stopped making snarky remarks and faking politeness. He felt attracted towards every little thing, from his senpai's smile to the way he pouted when annoyed. He had butterfies biting away at his flesh every time Semi talked to him or looked at him with an expression that wasnt annoyance. Shirabu had certainly felt attracted towards his ash blonde senpai,he had even accepted it by now. As he sat down to take a break, he began having a small coughing fit. Did I somehow get sick?. He excused himself, went to the bathroom and kept coughing untill a single cherry blossom fell out of his mouth. Shirabu Kenjirou was confused. He didn't eat cherry blossoms, heck it wasn't even spring. He decided it to ignore it but as the days kept going, he kept coughing up more and more. Eventually, he decided to finally see what it was . he typed in "why do I keep coughing up cherry blossoms?"on google. The results all had one thing in common. Hanahaki disease. He to decided to search up hanahaki, not knowing what it is. "The hanahaki disease is born from unrequited love,the patient's throat will fill up with flower petals and they will continue to cough them out untill they suffocate from the petals". Shirabu read with his eyes wide. The only sound in the room was kawanihi's soft, barely audioable snoring. I'm gonna die just like that? No way I have it. The copper haired setter convinced himself that he didnt have the previously mentioned disease before going to sleep.
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The next day he kept coughing up more petals then normal, especially when he was around Semi. That confirmed that he did indeed have the disease. He also found out that the only cure was a surgery to remove the flowers from the lungs,however, those who do get surgery lose the ability to love, which most considered worse then death, Shirabu included. He decided to just let it blow over. Semi was graduating soon anyway,it wouldn't work out anyway. He assumed he'd lose his love for the pinch server once they were no longer around each other.
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The coughing fit he had at the third years' graduation was the worst one he ever had. He found himself in the bathroom retching out cherry blossoms and blood while hunched over a toilet. His throat felt so sore he couldn't express it in words.he sat down on the floor hugging his knees as hot tears began stinging his eyes,though he didn't want to get rid of this pain. It was proof that he was in love. And that this love wasnt mutual . He heard the front door open. Taichi must have come to find me. He wiped the blood travelling down his chin and flushed the toilet before moving out to meet his roommate. "Kenjirou are you ok? You look really pale" his worried best friend queried. " I'm fine I just feel a little sick" Shirabu replied, nodding his head for no apparent reason. Please just leave me alone for a little while. "Alright, you should rest I'll tell the senpais that you can't make it there" Kawanishi straightened his face back to it's poker face and left. Shirabu went back to his spot on the floor beside the toilet.
