this is our path to the future!

Summary:

“Because you're Kaijou’s Kise,” Kasamatsu says, as if it’s so simple, so obvious—and maybe, it really is. “Because you love basketball and keep pushing no matter how good you are. Because you’ve learned to believe in your teammates and motivate them to be better. You’re our pride and our light, Kise—it can’t be anyone but you.”

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kismet (n.) - destiny; fate

The growing pains of third year Kise Ryouta, captain of the Kaijou basketball team (and yearner for one Kasamatsu Yukio).

Summary:

The line between loathing and l*st blurs, bleeding out like watercolor.

Ryouta is beautiful and dangerous and resplendent like Helios himself. Shougo has festered in the bitter slant of his shadow for so long, captive and unable to reach him. But when he spots Ryouta across the dim bar that night, poorly camouflaged by a baseball cap, he wonders if the heavens are finally granting him a chance—and he’d be a fool not to seize it.

Fic Summary:

Kise doesn’t know when it all begins. He doesn’t know when the blinding camera flashes start to give him earthworms instead of butterflies, crawling around in his stomach. He doesn’t know when his manager berating him about his diet becomes the focus of every phone call, even when he’s trying and has nearly passed out twice in the past week. He doesn’t know when the glitz and glamour peel away like the gold sticker with his name affixed to the dressing room door, fake and gaudy and easily replaced.

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Diamonds don't always form under pressure. Kise snaps, but Kasamatsu and the Miracles help put him back together - and with Kasamatsu, build something new.

Chapter Summary:

Kise comes to a realization of what he should do about his career, with the help of his old friends. He and Kasamatsu also finally "revisit it."

Summary:

Kise doesn’t know when it all begins. He doesn’t know when the blinding camera flashes start to give him earthworms instead of butterflies, crawling around in his stomach. He doesn’t know when his manager berating him about his diet becomes the focus of every phone call, even when he’s trying and has nearly passed out twice in the past week. He doesn’t know when the glitz and glamour peel away like the gold sticker with his name affixed to the dressing room door, fake and gaudy and easily replaced.

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Diamonds don't always form under pressure. Kise snaps, but Kasamatsu and the Miracles help put him back together - and with Kasamatsu, build something new.