reikoandgardenias
a See Me fanfiction, originally by jackssfox, follows the story of the daughter of Juliette Ferrars and Aaron Warner, and the daughter of Kenji Kishimoto and Nazeera Ibrahim.
AVIANNA WARNER doesn't sleep much. She fills the hours with early practices, late-night drills, and the kind of discipline that makes her captain of the national ice hockey team before anyone thinks to question it. She likes control. She likes ice. She likes things that move fast enough to keep her thoughts from catching up.
NESRI IBRAHIM-KISHIMOTO lives on rhythm. Ballet mornings, volleyball evenings, repetition and precision and grace earned the hard way. She is reliable, focused, and quietly formidable - the kind of person people trust without realizing when it happened. She believes in structure, in showing up, in doing things right.
They've been in each other's lives for as long as either of them can remember. Same street. Same school. Same orbit. Different teams, different worlds, still somehow circling back to one another every time.
What starts as habit stays that way for a long time. Friends. Neighbors. Constants. Until it doesn't.
Between sleepless nights, shared victories, political pressure, and the slow realization that closeness can change shape, Avianna and Nesri find themselves pulled closer than either of them planned. Not all at once. Not dramatically. Just steadily--until the distance they're used to disappears.
It was never sudden. They were just still in each other's orbit.