#halscampfirestories

[softshuji]

Track 1 feat Ran Haitani (part of the campfire stories collection)

Ran remembers it clear as day. The day he gave up the Girl he loved for his baby brother. It was hardly a surprise.

They were both young and free and spirited and you had come at just the right time, when they were both finding themselves, finding a foothold in the world, a steep climb on an even steeper cliff and you had come just then like cool breeze in summer.

Truth be told, he hadn't expected Rindou to like you as well. You weren't the type of girl he assumes he'd like. Or himself for that matter. You're opinionated, independent, the kind of Girl that spells trouble for the both of them and he warns Rindou, and himself, to be careful of you when he realizes the turn things are taking. How serious they're getting when you leave a toothbrush at their place and they let you hunker down because your parents are giving you trouble and you're scared of going back and he wonders often, why the two of them even cared at first.

But it was hard not to. And in the beginning, it hadn't bothered Ran that you'd spend so much time eating convenience store food with Rindou at night. The two of you hunkered down under blankets watching a rerun of some show you'd already seen but wanted Rindou too as well.

And you turn to Ran who walks in after cleaning the kitchen and offer a bite of sushi and scoot over to make a place for him and his chest feels a bit funny at it all. But he's watching Rindou more than the TV. That syrupy glaze, a smile that's hidden behind his palm holding his chin up and a thought occurs that he'd rather not dwell on too much.

You're Rindou's first real friend and there's nothing wrong with that. He likes that he's opening up to you, that there might be someone else who loves him when Ran knows he hasn't entirely succeeded as a brother and their parents are nowhere to be seen. He had tried, in some way, to get Rindou to pay less attention to this gang stuff. Focus on school perhaps, get a decent job and settle with a pretty girl like his brother deserves and he wonders often, whether some prayer has been answered when he finds the two of you poring over a textbook while Rin pushes a pen behind his ear and the plate of oreos is left abandoned on the table. Shouldn't he be happy?

He knows he should. But perhaps he can't avoid this feeling in his chest forever. When he hears your laughter in Rindou's bedroom and the door is slightly ajar to you laying on his bed as you scroll through your phone and showing Rin something over your shoulder. And his chest sinks at it all. Becuase Ran has always been a giver, has always wanted and needed and known sacrifice for Rindou's sake. Whether it be beatings, money, food and now you. It's just one more thing he can give that he'd like to, because Rindou is all he has and he could never ask for brother that's any more his own son in some way, someone he raised all by himself.

So he is proud, if a little upset by it all.

Rindou really likes you, he knows this. And you could be good for him, in the same way you would have been good to him too. So he doesn't mind , even if it aches, even if it burns when you reach over and brush his brother's hair back and Rin flinches and flickers with embarrassment.

It's just one more sacrifice to make.

reblogs and feedback appreciated!

[softshuji]

Campfire stories

A collection of drabbles and short pieces centering around various Characters and topics in the Tokyo rev universe. Each piece will be labelled accordingly with the first being titled "track one" featuring the chosen Character. Warnings will be individually on each track. There will be no taglist for the series since people can read what stories interest them but all tracks will be under the hashtag #halscampfirestories

Track masterlist: TBA

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MY HEART 😭

Track 1 feat Ran Haitani (part of the campfire stories collection)

Ran remembers it clear as day. The day he gave up the Girl he loved for his baby brother. It was hardly a surprise.

They were both young and free and spirited and you had come at just the right time, when they were both finding themselves, finding a foothold in the world, a steep climb on an even steeper cliff and you had come just then like cool breeze in summer.

Truth be told, he hadn't expected Rindou to like you as well. You weren't the type of girl he assumes he'd like. Or himself for that matter. You're opinionated, independent, the kind of Girl that spells trouble for the both of them and he warns Rindou, and himself, to be careful of you when he realizes the turn things are taking. How serious they're getting when you leave a toothbrush at their place and they let you hunker down because your parents are giving you trouble and you're scared of going back and he wonders often, why the two of them even cared at first.

But it was hard not to. And in the beginning, it hadn't bothered Ran that you'd spend so much time eating convenience store food with Rindou at night. The two of you hunkered down under blankets watching a rerun of some show you'd already seen but wanted Rindou too as well.

And you turn to Ran who walks in after cleaning the kitchen and offer a bite of sushi and scoot over to make a place for him and his chest feels a bit funny at it all. But he's watching Rindou more than the TV. That syrupy glaze, a smile that's hidden behind his palm holding his chin up and a thought occurs that he'd rather not dwell on too much.

You're Rindou's first real friend and there's nothing wrong with that. He likes that he's opening up to you, that there might be someone else who loves him when Ran knows he hasn't entirely succeeded as a brother and their parents are nowhere to be seen. He had tried, in some way, to get Rindou to pay less attention to this gang stuff. Focus on school perhaps, get a decent job and settle with a pretty girl like his brother deserves and he wonders often, whether some prayer has been answered when he finds the two of you poring over a textbook while Rin pushes a pen behind his ear and the plate of oreos is left abandoned on the table. Shouldn't he be happy?

He knows he should. But perhaps he can't avoid this feeling in his chest forever. When he hears your laughter in Rindou's bedroom and the door is slightly ajar to you laying on his bed as you scroll through your phone and showing Rin something over your shoulder. And his chest sinks at it all. Becuase Ran has always been a giver, has always wanted and needed and known sacrifice for Rindou's sake. Whether it be beatings, money, food and now you. It's just one more thing he can give that he'd like to, because Rindou is all he has and he could never ask for brother that's any more his own son in some way, someone he raised all by himself.

So he is proud, if a little upset by it all.

Rindou really likes you, he knows this. And you could be good for him, in the same way you would have been good to him too. So he doesn't mind , even if it aches, even if it burns when you reach over and brush his brother's hair back and Rin flinches and flickers with embarrassment.

It's just one more sacrifice to make.

reblogs and feedback appreciated!