#*tries to hide the 5 yrs worth of oofuri content I've consumed and made*

[rddyatbat]

Mutuals, oofuri fans, and friends alike how would we all feel about an au where Mihashi retires from baseball because of Tommy John Surgery complications and takes up art instead and watches Abe continue on in his baseball career eventually becoming a coach for a group of lowsy but impressionable first years.

All the while Mihashi draws Abe and the places they go together. Mihashi aches to be on the field again, to feel his cleats digging into the well raked dirt of a mound, and to be able to be the only one Abe sees again. Even if just for a second he wants to be the only one Abe focuses on, he wants Abe to look at him and yearn for him the way his sketches of said man reflect his own yearning.

It's a terrible slow burn (because oofuri is nothing if not just one two decade long slow burn) and Mihashi thinks Abe will never want him the same way he wants the catcher turned coach, but Abe has only ever been looking at Mihashi.

He sees Mihashi everywhere, in nervous tics he picked up from the blond during the time he spent with the retired pitcher, he helicopters the kids on the team because he can't do it with Mihashi anymore and finds himself making extra riceballs when he packs his own lunches before work (he doesn't realize it until him and the first years are eating during practice but he hands them out to the kids who want them or whoever wins at rock paper scissors or an at bat challenge lol hes a bastard).

There's a film over his eyes that makes him only see Mihashi no matter how much he tries to blink or rub it away.