#i'm not gonna lie i didn't Really edit it lol but like. AHHHHHHH

[that-was-anticlimactic]

falling slowly, eyes that know me

“How’s the sky?”

And Kojiro sighed, because of course Kaoru noticed. Of course Kaoru could see through all his forced bravado and flirting. Joe was supposed to be easy. But he wasn’t tonight.

"It’s—” he began, a lie already dancing across his tongue, but he couldn’t lie, not to Kaoru. He tried, once, but when he couldn’t keep it up anymore, he ran away to Italy. “Dark,” he mumbled, closing his eyes. The sunset vanished before him, covered by colorless trees and a desolate fog.

“How dark?”

Kojiro felt like a child again—like the scared little boy wandering through the cold alone. And he was swinging on the broken swing, his feet dragging through the mulch. “Foggy,” he admitted, flinching as he tried to grab the fraying rope, tried to hold onto something, and it fizzled into nothingness. It wasn’t connected to anything anyways, just an endless rope hovering in the sky.

[or: kojiro is sad and kaoru is his lighthouse]

🌤5,051 words | matchablossom🌤

written for @chasvchalilah & @aromanticmara - happy matchablossom friday🌸 🍵 

#corey writes:) #ahhhhhhh i hope this is okay! #i'm not gonna lie i didn't Really edit it lol but like. AHHHHHHH #thank you for flooding our dash with matchablossom every friday <3 #also i wanted to spread the joe w/ depression agenda #joe with depression #sk8 #sk8 fanfic #nanjo kojiro #sakurayashiki kaoru #matchablossom #cherry x joe #joe x cherry blossom #i’m really proud of certain parts of this and kind of :/// with other parts tbh but like it’s okay because i managed to write it and it’s 3k #longer than i thought it would be lol #this was so fun to write and kind of a mess (affectionate i think lol) and also wow i am so sorry joe lol #okay just gonna post this now and then instantly go edit it haha