Oihina Week 2020 Part Two

a future for us

SUMMARY

Shouyou reflexes on his relationship with Oikawa while they are on a trip to the beach.

"Waiting  does not bother me, nor does the distance that is cropping up between  us. All I want is a true commitment and to know that your heat will  never change."
– Ting Stores

Shouyou sighs in content as he sits  down on his towel. It's been a while since he's gone to the beach, with  all the training he has now that he's on the MSBY Black Jackals, and he  has missed it. After five years of going every day to the beach, it's a  bit weird to go on about his day without it. But that's life, and he's  finally doing what he has longed to do for years, so he's not  complaining.

Now that Oikawa is visiting though, Shouyou managed  to get a few days off. Nothing much, three days, but it's enough for a  short trip to the beach with his boyfriend. They can spend the rest of  the two weeks Oikawa has off touring Tokyo after his practice ends - his  boyfriend has never been to the big city for for than a couple of days  at a time, and it was always spent catching up with friends, so that'll  be an adventure - and Oikawa said he wants to catch up with Iwaizumi and  go to Miyagi to see his family, so Shouyou knows he'll be busy.

For now though, the two plan to spend three days tanning in the beach, splashing in the water, and playing card games.

He  opens his eyes when he feels movement besides him. It's Oikawa, as he  suspected, who just got back from the car with the rest of their things.  He's sitting in the towel besides Shouyou's, applying sunscreen on his  arms, and when he asks Shouyou to do his back, the redhead sits up and  helps him.

The domesticity of it is something Shouyou will never  get bored of. When the two met again in Brazil they were just like this,  with the added volleyball. It was like they had been meant for each  other, and after Oikawa left, the two never lost contact, and they used  every chance they got to visit each other. Those visits are less  frequent now that Shouyou is back in Japan, after all a four hour flight  is a lot easier than a twenty four hour one, but they manage. They  won't let anything like distance put a hinder on their relationship, not  when they can make things work while achieving their dreams just fine.

The  two lay side by side on their towels, enjoying the sun and the smell of  the beach. It brings back memories, of a forheing language they both  became more or less familiar with, of volleyball games, of walks on the  sand, of laughs and sandcastle battles. It makes Shouyou feel warm  inside, because it's not often he gets to enjoy time with his boyfriend  like this, and he can't remember the last time they went to the beach.  Probably before Shouyou got back to Japan.

"What are you thinking  about, Shou-chan?" Oikawa's voice brings him back to the present, and  Shouyou turns to look at him. The brunet has his eyes on his, a  questioning expression softened by a loving stare.

"Nothing, just...  how much I've missed this. Being on the beach. Being with you," he  says, scooping closer to his boyfriend as he sighs in content. "It's  nice."

"I've missed you too, Shouyou," he hears Oikawa say before  he closes his eyes, letting the familiar sound of people laughing and  the waves crashing against the sand to lule him to sleep.

He  doesn't wake until a few hours later. Oikawa isn't next to him, but  there's an umbrella to cover his frame from the unforgiving sun, and a  smile unconsciously tugs at his lips. Stretching, he hears the  satisfying pop of his stiff limbs. He knows Iwaizumi would reprimand him  if he saw, telling him it's bad for his ligaments to make them pop that  carelessly. But Iwaizumi isn't there, and so Shouyou can do as he  pleases so as long as he makes sure his trainer never finds out.