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Two Worlds in One

Chapter 2: Giyuu Tomioka 2

Notes:

Hey guys!! thank you so much for all the kudos on last chapter, I really appreciate all the love.
this chapter is following Giyuu, we need to put that tag to good use somehow lol.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

As Giyuu stepped out of the ice rink after a four hour practice, his only priority was getting back to his dorm to sleep for the next three days of break.

He thought he was a good person. He thought there was good in everyone. Except his new hockey coach, god he hated his new hockey coach. The guy couldn’t have been any older than forty but he had harsh wrinkles on his face. In the three weeks he was their coach he never learned any of their names.

He called Giyuu “ponytail kid”, Sanemi “blonde guy number one”, Kyoujurou “eyebrows”, Obanai “mask”, and Tengen “blonde guy number two”. The guy never even introduced himself with his name, only “coach”.

Luckily Coach Urokodaki would be back after next week, but in the meantime Sanemi and Giyuu had to lead captains practice for the new freshman recruits. And boy did they not want to spend five days next week coaching eight freshmen.

“Hey Giyuu, wait up!” he turned around to see Kyoujurou running up behind him looking concerningly out of breath and determined. Giyuu stopped walking and as kyoujurou caught up, he threw his arm around Giyuu’s shoulder. “All of the guys are gonna go to this new arcade in the city tonight. Are you in?”

“Aren’t we a little old for an arcade?” Giyuu asked
“Nope!” Kyoujurou smiled so genuinely and his quick response got a laugh out of the taller, darker-haired boy.

“Okay okay, i’ll be there.” He agreed. Suddenly someone else threw an arm around him.

“Ow-!” Giyuu exclaimed as more pressure went on his back.

“Hey guys!” Tengen exclaimed right in his ear, “Kyoujurou, did you ask him?”

“You guys are aware that I'm in between you, right?” Giyuu managed to mumble out even as
they crushed him.

“Ya, he’s in!” Kyoujurou excitedly replied to tengen, seemingly unfazed about being crushed. Giyuu just nodded his head, in hopes agreeing would get them off his back; literally.

Kyoujurou and Tengen let go of Giyuu’s shoulders and began to run ahead to the dorm building.
“Be at Obanai’s room by six!” Tengen yelled over Kyoujurou’s shoulder.

“Okay i’ll be there” Giyuu yelled back. Tengen and Kyoujurou took that as good enough and kept skipping.

Five minutes later he finally got back to his dorm. He was scrolling on his phone as he usually did after an annoyingly long hockey practice, but this time as he walked the third floor hallway, he passed the window that looked over the ice rink entrance and something caught his eye.

No, someone.

He would recognize her anywhere. Shinobu Kochou.
He saw her around campus occasionally. Even if whenever they did cross paths she acted like he didn't exist. His junior year they were inseparable, his senior year they hadn’t said one word to each other. He missed her a lot, but mostly he was worried about her.

Almost as if to break Giyuu out of his trance; he suddenly was shoulder checked, and fell to the ground.
He looked up to see his friend, co-team captain and dorm neighbor Sanemi, on the floor next to him.

“God watch where you're walkin- oh it's you. Be more careful tomioka.” Sanemi was mean to a lot of people, but he really did care for his friends.

Sanemi and Giyuu only started getting along last year, thanks to Shinobu. Sanemi hated Giyuu because he thought Giyuu acted like he was better than other people just because he was very shy. They started getting along after they were roommates for a semester and Shinobu helped Giyuu come out of his shell.
He missed Shinobu, he really did.

“Are you going to the arcade thing tonight with the guys?” Sanemi asked, barely looking up.

“Yeah I was planning on it.” Giyuu responded looking right at Sanemi’s white hair.
Tengen and Sanemi were both very blonde. Sanemi's hair was naturally white, but Tengens was bleached. They all vividly remembered bleaching Tengen’s hair in their freshmen dorm room, and them all getting detention for accidentally bleaching the carpet as well.

As soon as he got back into his dorm room he threw his hockey bag on the balcony to air out before getting in the shower.

Giyuu exhaled as the water hit his back. The cold had never really bothered him, but something about the hot water after a long practice was incredibly soothing. He tended to
get lost in thought in the shower. He always thought of her.
He didn’t know what they were, or put better, used to be.

Last year they were quite literally inseparable. They would talk about anything, laugh together, share things from their souls. Giyuu couldn’t remember the exact moment he fell for Shinobu, but once he knew he knew. He remembered when they kissed at that party and then never mentioned it. He remembered carrying her back to her dorm room after and how she drunkenly called his long hair beautiful. He remembered finding her passed out on the ice, the blood in her hair, and feeling so nauseous from concern he almost dropped her. He remembered Shinobu reaching her hand up to his long black hair as she slipped in and out of consciousness.

He really did love her. Even now.

Notes:

I will be trying to update every other day but I am a student so it will occasionally fluctuate.
as usual I love your comments and hearing if you like my work!!