Love didn't interrupt their career-it asked them who they were without it. Yuki Ishikawa is more than a volleyball player-he is Japan's pride. At thirty, he captains the Japanese National Team, wears jersey number 14, and lives a life ruled by discipline. Playing in Italy for Sir Safety Perugia, his world revolves around training, matches, and unwavering devotion to the game. There is no girlfriend. No distractions. Volleyball is his everything. Astrea Aleair lives by a different rhythm. A physician based in New Zealand and one of the face doctors of Apollo Medical Hospital, she volunteers in medical missions across the world. She heals where she's needed most, yet still finds time to travel, paint, and breathe life beyond the hospital walls. Two lives. Two definitions of commitment. When a man devoted to the court meets a woman who believes life should be fully lived- what happens when distance, duty, and love collide? A slow-burn romance about devotion, choice, and the space between two hearts. Hera A.O ✍🏼 | Your author of Prescribed Distance.

He was Japan's giant - the middle blocker with a smile bright enough to fill stadiums. She was the childhood best friend he left behind, the girl with green eyes he once called summer. When Himari returns to Tokyo years later as a translator for the national team, she doesn't expect to find him again - older, sharper, and still heartbreakingly familiar. Between flashing cameras, late-night ramen, and ghosts of a past love, their worlds collide once more. But this time, it's not just a game - it's a second chance. Because sometimes the hardest match isn't played on the court, but in the heart.

He speaks in silences. She lives in noise. Together, they find balance. When Hana Miyazaki, a spirited photographer, crosses paths with Kento Miyaura, Japan's quiet volleyball star, their worlds collide in the most unexpected way. She captures moments; he hides from them-until she becomes the one he can't look away from. The Quiet and the Chaos is a slow-burn love story about stillness, noise, and the harmony that happens when opposites finally meet in rhythm.

Irene "Rie" Rochechouart has never belonged to just one world. Born of four cultures, fluent in nine languages, and determined to stay invisible, she hides behind a camera during a semester in Tokyo until one impossible photograph captures Japan's national volleyball captain, Yuki Ishikawa, mid-serve... and looking straight at her.

They were each other's secret shelter before the world knew their names. She was a wide-eyed dreamer with stars in her voice. He was a rising athlete chasing gold with fire in his veins. Together, they dreamed of forever-until fame demanded silence, distance, and heartbreak. Years later, she's a global icon-leader of the most powerful P-Pop girl group in the world. He's the nation's beloved volleyball captain, untouchable on the court but haunted off it. Their paths were never meant to cross again... Until a fated reunion throws them back into the same frame-same shoot, same city, same feelings. But time has changed them. The girl who once cried in the rain is now an untouchable queen. The boy who once held her heart now hides behind media-trained smiles. When the cameras roll, they act like strangers. Behind them? A history filled with unfinished songs, unreleased letters, and the kind of love that never really left. Can two hearts torn apart by timing find their rhythm again? Or will fame, fear, and the ghosts of their past drown their second chance before it begins?

Status: Hiatus 🔨 Start: May 3, 2025 Finished: ???? Ambrose De Luca, half-Italian, half-Japanese, was used to living in two worlds. Her career as a model took her across continents, gracing runways in Milan, Paris, and Tokyo. When she was home, her family's tradition of hosting international volleyball players for the season rarely affected her. "What haven't seen any model before?" " No, It's my first encounter with an arrogant one"

Mayumi Amano is a 28-year-old CEO who seems to have it all - beauty, success, and confidence. But behind her polished image is a secret crush she's kept for years: Japan's volleyball star, Yuki Ishikawa. When her mom, a spirited Filipina now married to Yuki's coach, drags her to one of his practices, Mayumi finds herself face to face with the man she's admired from afar.

"Two souls, worlds apart, bound by an invisible red string of fate-seen only by their hearts." --- Danielle "Ella" Reid was a college student at Oxford University. She never believed in fate. Raised by her father alone, she grew up with a front-row view of what she called "a broken illusion." Her parents were joined in an arranged marriage-loveless and cold. When her mother claimed to have found her "true fate," she left. Just like that. Years later, her mother filed for divorce and married the man she believed was truly hers. Since then, Ella dismissed fate as nothing more than a selfish excuse. "My red string of fate? I'm not planning on finding mine." Ella scoffed one evening, staring out the rain-drenched window. --- On the other side of the world was Yuki Ishikawa, a rising star in Japanese volleyball. Unlike Ella, Yuki was a believer. He carried the hope quietly in his heart-that somewhere out there, someone was waiting. His soulmate. His fate. Call him a romantic, call him a fool-he didn't care. "I believe she's out there," Yuki said with a calm certainty, lacing up his shoes before a game. "I don't know when or how... but I'll find her. No matter what."

"oh? it has been that long since you two last saw each other? how come do you still remember him?" "hmm, it was the love that i have for him." he looked up at her with a puzzled expression, not seeming to get what the older girl means. "the four seasons remind me of my love for him so it was never easy to forget." - a yuki ishikawa high-school au.