Colorless Strings [Haikyuu FANFICTION]

When I was little, my mother always read me a bedtime story before I fell asleep. She loved reading to me, but there was only one story she would tell every single night.

It was a story about strings.

Invisible strings that connected people to one another. Some represented romantic love, while others symbolized friendship, family, hatred, or the unique bond shared between two people.

Each string had its own color. Red represented love. Black symbolized hatred. White stood for family ties. Every other color represented friendship or the many different kinds of connections people could form.

I never believed that story.

Not even once.

But every time my mother read it, her face would light up with the brightest smile. Seeing her so happy made me feel warm inside, so I never complained about hearing the same story over and over again. If listening to it meant seeing that smile, then it was worth it.

Everything changed the day I lost her.

And not long after her death...

I began to see the very strings I had spent my whole life believing didn't exist.

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⚠️ ATTENTION ⚠️

I do not own any of the Haikyuu!! characters featured in this story. The only character I own is my original character (OC), Shizuki, along with any original side characters introduced in future chapters.

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