Out of Bounds

Shinji couldn’t be bothered shutting the laptop down so he just tugged the power out of the wall and flopped back onto the bid with a wince, glaring at the ceiling, imagining it was Tatsu and that somehow it was all his fault. Always better to blame someone else for the little things.

Pulling his jacket tighter around his shoulders, Shinji knocked on the door and slipped inside, thanking An quickly and heading upstairs, ignoring the weird wink she gave him. He pushed his way into Kippei’s room and blinked. It was warm inside but he couldn’t quite shake the chill of outside, so when he saw Tatsu [...]

Shinji stared at the water over the side of the boat and blinked. Again. When he had given Tez a fishing day…he had thought fishing as in standing by a river, or something…on dry land. Not out on the water with a line over the side of a boat with questionable hull integrity.

Four O’clock. Kirihara sighed and looked down at his watch, he’d arrived early not wanting Kamio to beat him. It was a small competition he had set up in his own mind, the other player, of course unaware, had taken last place. He kicked a sandaled foot against the ground making a scuffing noise and [...]

Shinji was still towelling his hair dry when he walked into their room and sighed. Akira was still at his desk, scribbling madly. He’d been there when Shinji woke up after his afternoon nap, had been there when Shinji went to have a shower and was there now. That was too much time at a [...]

Shinji didn’t bother knocking on Atobe’s door, it was almost never locked anyway and there was music playing inside so he knew he was home. He checked the kitchen first, realized Atobe wasn’t there rather quickly and then headed for the bedroom where the large, lumpish form of Atobe was rather odd looking under the [...]

Tez had finished cleaning the last surface in the kitchen, leaving nothing else unclean. Syuusuke would be at school for a little while yet, and his lack of homework was making him feel useless. He wandered into the living room, hoping to find something else to occupy his time until his saiai got home. Kafe [...]

Inui backed through the library doors, paying no attention to his surroundings. All his attention was focused on the sheaf of papers balanced on his stack of books.

The was distracedly quiet, but not overly so since it was usually only ever Akira’s mum who was home. Shinji hadn’t bothered going home yet, dropping Sada off with his dad to regale him with tales of her adventure while he plodded to Akira’s old house, since Aki had mentioned going there in his journal [...]

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