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and they said that boys were boys (but they were wrong) by flylittleswan
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
16 Oct 2025
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"I dunno. It just feels like a whole lot of nothing." Kenma pulls the closet door shut, stuffing their hands into their pockets. "Like, there's nothing I need to be or do. It feels...freeing."
Now that they say it out loud, they realize that it feels more and more right to say it's freeing. When they said they were a boy, they felt weird for liking girly things. When they said they were a girl, they felt guilty for wanting to act more girly.
When they say that they have no gender, it frees them of all of the stupid societal restrictions that held them down. They are well and truly outside of every norm of society.
They are well and truly a freak.
And that's okay with them.
"I'm...just Kenma," Kenma ends up saying, to finish off the conversation. "And that's enough for me."
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The five stages of Kozume Kenma's life where he questioned who she was, and the one stage where they found the answer.
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In which Kozume Kenma spends two decades trying to figure out what the deal with gender is.
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- Part 2 of Haikyuu Boys' Birthday Fics
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07 Sep 2026
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The Lacuna by anodymalion
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
21 Apr 2026
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After graduating high school, Yoshiki gets what he's always wanted—an escape to university in Tokyo, far away from the village he's been dying to flee for years. He's doing well there. He's finally happy.
He is not in Kubitachi the night the hole collapses and takes everything with it.
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23 Jul 2026
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“You won’t forget about me when you make all these shiny new college friends, right?”
He played it off as a casual question, but Kenma sensed the underlying seriousness in the almost delicate way he asked—vulnerability seeping through his voice despite the attempted nonchalant delivery.
“I couldn’t even if I tried,” he admitted as his head lay on Kuroo’s chest, the older man rubbing his back like a cat. It was intimate moments like this that made Kenma question everything, having to remind himself that they were just friends.
Kenma has depended on Kuroo all his life—to feel comfortable, to make friends, to be understood. Until he realizes that he’s gay, and that he has to go on this journey of self-discovery himself, lest his secret feelings for his straight best friend make things even harder.
So he ventures out to college on his own in an attempt to understand himself and his sexuality, and to prove to himself that he didn’t need Kuroo by his side to do it (also to tamp down his feelings for the guy, but that proves to be much more difficult).
It makes him feel freer than he thought, and it makes Kuroo feel a little sidelined. Realizations ensue.
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30 Dec 2025
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What Happens After I Want You? by Good_Angel1
Fandoms: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった | Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta | The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All (Manga)
13 Jul 2025
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After dating for a few months, sexual desire starts to become really hard to ignore. How are they supposed to navigate that on top of driver's ed., choosing schools, balancing family, and a whole other slew of issues?
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04 Nov 2025
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Gaze at me with your soul by Nekef
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
27 Oct 2025
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"Fuck, I'm sorry... I wasn’t watching where I was going," she said, realizing she had bumped into another girl, who had landed on her backside.
Vi extended a hand to help, but received no reaction from the other girl, who silently got to her knees and began feeling around for something on the hospital's polished floor.
‘Oh shit. Fuck.’
Vi dropped to her knees instantly, realizing she had just knocked over a blind woman.
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- 103,776
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27 Oct 2025
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And At Every Table, I'll Save You A seat. by local_anomaly
Fandoms: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった | Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta (Manga)
24 Sep 2023
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Koga works in a record store run by her uncle, Aya works in a small cafe down the street. Aya has a crush on the attractive worker in the record store, Koga develops a crush on the pretty girl who serves her coffee every day after school.
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14 Oct 2025
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Kenma Kozume, a quiet and intelligent commoner trained in herbal medicine and poisons, is forcibly taken from his small village to serve as a low ranking servant in the Inner Palace. There, he tries to keep a low profile, until his sharp mind and strange behavior attract the attention of Kuroo Tetsurō, a charismatic and cunning court official who is closer to the Emperor than most realize.
As Kenma becomes tangled in the mysterious illnesses, poisonings, and political schemes within the palace walls, Kuroo continues to test and push him, sometimes out of genuine concern, sometimes for reasons Kenma can’t quite read at first.
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04 Oct 2025
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Vi looks at the big clock on the far wall. 7:46AM. She’s one minute late today. Every morning for the past six months - well, every morning Vi’s been on shift, so she’s just assuming about the other days - she’s passed by at exactly 7:45AM, always at a brisk walk, always in a perfectly-tailored suit, not a single long, silky-looking hair out of place.
7:47AM. The crisp clack of heeled boots on concrete pulls Vi out of her musings. There must have been some sort of emergency, because the subject of Vi’s (minor) obsession walks past the fire station at a faster clip than normal. Which is sort of saying something, because Mystery Woman’s got legs for days, long and slender, visibly toned with long, lean muscle through her suit pants. At the faster clip, Vi has less time to admire her ass and tiny, tiny waist as she walks by, but that’s fine, because the view as she leaves is fantastic.
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Caitlyn's route to work as a detective at the 51st Precinct takes her right by Fire Station #516, and Vi's been pining after the gorgeous Mystery Woman for six months...what will happen when she finds out that Caitlyn's a cop (AKA: The Enemy)?
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- Part 1 of Emergency Services Lesbians
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- 50/50
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09 Aug 2025
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Every evening they walk home together, Kuro smelling of salt and suntan lotion, Kenma’s hands sore from scooping ice cream all day, and it feels nice. Peaceful.
He’s glad Kuro came, after all.
((During the two weeks he spends manning his uncle's ice cream booth on the coast, Kenma decides that maybe he likes his best friend back, after all))
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11 Jun 2025
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Kuroo exhaled slowly, the kind of breath that carries no weight but still feels necessary. His spine ached in three places. His eyes burned. He tried to remember something beautiful about the day—maybe the way the gym lights caught the dust during practice, or the sound of sneakers squeaking on polished wood—but the memory didn’t rise. Just paperwork. Sponsorship decks. A coach yelling into his phone. A player with a twisted ankle. Apologies. Smiles. Endless scheduling.
He rubbed his temples with the pads of his fingers, then leaned back again. His reflection in the window looked like someone he might have passed in the hallway and forgotten to say hello to. He felt transparent. Not in a sad way—just in the way that paper left in the rain becomes too soft to hold its shape.
(In which Kuroo has the worst housing crisis of his life, is way too used to concealing his feelings, and maybe doesn't need the spare room after all.)
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- Part 1 of endgame conditions
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12 May 2025
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Mystery Work
Part of Anonymous
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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06 May 2025
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Caitlyn, a vampire and enforcer, has been assigned an undercover mission to gather intel on the infamous, but mysterious, gang of werewolves called the Moonfighters. The goal? Quell any uprisings in the undercity, and use the intel she gathers to destroy each werewolf gang in the undercity, one-by-one.
She doesn't expect, though, to have an annoying, cocky, -- and yes, admittedly hot -- werewolf to contend with.
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- Part 1 of CaitVi Supernatural Stories
- Language:
- English
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- 118,085
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- 35/35
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10 Mar 2025
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Tales of a Family by pitiluis
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
08 Jun 2025
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It was a room. A very precarious state of what should be a room. Or maybe cell was a better description. There was a sink and a toilet on one side. A metal bed attached to the wall in front of her. Everything seemed very old, as if it had been stored and forgotten there for years.
Caitlyn saw she was not alone. Under the bed, occupying the smallest possible space, there was a person.
A child.
"What's your name? I'm Vi," she continued when there was no response. If Caitlyn couldn't see the girl's chest rising and falling, she'd doubt whether she was even alive. "This is Caitlyn. Who are you?"
The minutes passed. Caitlyn was already thinking of her fifth contingency plan when the child moved. An almost imperceptible movement. A slight lift of her neck, allowing for a better view of her intruders. "Lavender," her voice was thin, yet hoarse, as if it hadn't been exercised in a while.
"Nice to meet you, Lavender."
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After a mission in Zaun, Caitlyn and Vi find a child. This is a story about how they become a family
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- English
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- 134,590
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- 22/22
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23 Feb 2025
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One Crown Prince. 35 men selected. Which one of them will steal Prince Kuroo Tetsurou’s heart?
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After making a decision out of spite rather than a quest for true love, Kozume Kenma finds himself amongst 34 other men in a competition of a lifetime to fight for the position of Prince Consort—a spot by Prince Kuroo Tetsurou’s side and in his heart. What he has to lose is nothing, but what he might gain is possibly more than he can ever imagine for himself.
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- Part 1 of the selection
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19 Feb 2025
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When Kuroo brings Kenma along to his table tennis sports club, he actually finds he's kinda good at it. He likes winning in a way that doesn't exhaust him like all the other sports do. He likes this game specifically cos he can win at it. And when Kuroo offers him his old sports kit to wear, just until Kenma can get some new stuff of his own, it suddenly sparks feelings in Kenma that he can't quite comprehend. But he sure wants to do something about them.
And he keeps Kuroo's old sports kit in his room for wayyy longer than can be explained platonically :)
Essentially a super slow burn Kurooken that winds and meanders between a few different storylines and just about as many POVs as I could fit in there. Started as a fun escape from another writing project, and it tends towards an wavering 'friends to lovers' the further it goes, helped on by Hinata on Kenma's side, and Nekomata on Kuroo's side. Humour, romance, fluff, comfort, crack, everything's in there somewhere. More explained in the first chapter. Hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed the writing!!
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19 Feb 2025
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Spiked Brew Café by Gabb_y
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!, ハイパープロジェクション演劇「ハイキュー!!」| Hyper Projection Play "Haikyuu!!" RPF
21 Nov 2024
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Kuroo and Bokuto opened their own Café after college.
Spiked Brew Café is, of course, a volleyball themed place where their friends who play professionally now gather.
While Bokuto has a happy relationship with Akaashi, Kuroo is single.
One day, he closes the Café and a strange customer comes in at the last minute. He's skinny, tired and apparently homeless. From the first moment, Kuroo knows he has to help him.- Language:
- English
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- 30/30
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19 Feb 2025
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And I know I kissed you before
But I didn't do it right
Can I try again?Bookmarked by messoftears
19 Feb 2025
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"You don’t look like our usual crowd," Vi said, her voice low and meant only for her. "What brings you here?"
The blue-haired woman blinked, startled, before drawing a sharp breath. Her composure cracked just enough to let her awe slip through. "I—uh—I came with my friends."
"Friends?" Vi’s gaze flicked briefly to a dark-haired woman standing a step behind, then slid back to cobalt-blue. "What’s your name?"
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Vi is the singer of a popular rock band on tour and she spots Caitlyn in the crowd. And is instantly down bad.
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- English
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- 5/7
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10 Feb 2025
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The Soft Dive of Oblivion by RifulOfTheWest
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
09 Feb 2025
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“Now that everything’s out in the open,” Vi started again, her voice heavy, heady, husky, “the question is: what are you gonna do about it?”
Caitlyn worked her jaw, looking like she was stumped on a bar exam question. “What are you going to do about it?”
Vi chuckled. “Attorneys and their fucking questions.”
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Caitlyn and Vi work at a law firm together, and Vi keeps purposely spelling Caitlyn’s name wrong in their email exchanges. Caitlyn is not amused, until she is.OR
A fic in which Vi calls Caitlyn: “Corncob Kiramman” at least once.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 22,731
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 249
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- 36,155
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10 Feb 2025
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I Would Bring You the Stars and the Moon by GutterWitch
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
09 Mar 2025
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“Houston, do you copy?”
Caitlyn panicked, feeling extraordinarily unprepared having been thrust into her new position without so much as even a handbook to consult. What were the formalities? What was she supposed to respond with? Where was the damn push to talk button…
“Hellooo? I said Houston, do you copy?”
Caitlyn fiddled with her headset, having finally found the green button on the side and hastily letting out a rather breathless reply. “Um, yes. Hello? This is Houston. I copy.”
There was a long pause in which Caitlyn sat twiddling her thumbs, anxiety pushing the frantic pulse of her heartbeat through her eardrums. Was that wrong? Did she already fuck up? She took a steady deep breath, finger hovering over the talk button until the familiar voice of the astronaut came through her headset once more.
“Damn, Houston. I didn’t expect you to sound so sexy.”
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Caitlyn has been assigned as the personal capcom to one of the astronauts currently on a year long expedition at the international space station. Cue long months of pining and desperate longing.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 94,555
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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31 Jan 2025