Prompt: Different Sports. T, 2053 words. Tsukki would look so good playing tennis, don’t even pretend like he wouldn’t.
All fills on my tsukkiyama month tag.
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The Akiteru Incident pushes Tsukishima into tennis because it’s solitary and doesn’t have crushing familial disappointment weighing it down. It’s a good decision and he doesn’t regret it, even if he loses sharing a sport with Yamaguchi in the process.
What’s surprising, though, is that he doesn’t lose Yamaguchi’s friendship: “I like volleyball,” Yamaguchi had said back in elementary and Tsukishima wistfully thought, Well, it was nice having a friend for a little while. But then Yamaguchi continued, “And I like Tsukki, too! I’ll cheer you on at tennis.”