Maki Katsuragi is a boy who appears cool and smug but in actuality is a timid scared boy who tries to avoid his abusive father.And Toma Shinjo a boy who loves soft tennis and is the boy's soft tennis club president meets Maki.Maki and Toma are friends, as well as partners on the court.But it didn't start out like that...
How do you know when you're on fire? Not in the literal sense, of course. As a metaphorical statement, how do you know you're on fire, and how do you douse the inferno before you are nothing more than bubbling, crispy flesh, a shell of who you once were? Katsuragi Maki didn't know it, but he's been on fire for a long...
You needed people in your life to be your friends so you could be a normal kid while your mother tried to gatekeep you from having a teenage experience, your dad protected that and encouraged you to go out and have fun with your friends. They constantly were at each other's throats with you in the middle of it all. It...
Maki had never wanted to be in that club but now, it's the only place he wants to be. Him and his teammates have the next tournament to focus on, but can they play their best with so much going on behind the scenes? Can they overcome these challenges and come out on top, together? This is basically continuation of Sta...
But right now, in this very moment right here, the Soft Tennis Club, with Mitsue behind, is right now starring at Maki as he looked and stopped in his tracks and was looking at a very strange man. They have so many unanswered questions. Who was this guy? Why was he trying to hit Maki? Where was the strong and confiden...
Maki had problems of his own. He had problems that didn't involve his tennis teammates, and he wanted to keep it that way. But he couldn't breathe. Everything was suffocating, and he just... He couldn't breathe.
"He reached down, grabbing his son's hair in a fist and pulling painfully so their faces were only inches apart. 'Stealing?' He laughed. "You belong to me. Your mother belongs to me. Your money belongs to me, got it?'" -- Maki's life has been looking brighter each passing day ever since Toma had stood up against his f...
Maki froze when he opened the door... It wasn't his friends.
Kanako gets a call from Maki at night, and he doesn't sound okay.
His voice broke... he was crying, She tried to sound as non-threatening as possible in order to calm him down, "Maki? Hey, Maki?" "NO, NO, No, no, no" his voice just kept getting quieter... "I DIDN'T... I DIDN'T LOCK IT! HE'S GOING TO-" (basically Mitsue finds Maki after his dad comes to visit, and the team shows up t...
"I'm so sorry." He forgets who says it. But it's enough to make him break down, to just lose it. Maybe he'll never be enough for him, but maybe he could be enough for them.
The 6 times Maki was able to help some of his friends deal with their issues and the one time the team realized maki needed help as well
⚠️TRIGGER WARNINGS⚠️Mentions of: Abuse, suffocating, chest pain
Stars Align needs more recognition so here I am to give it that! I will be trying to complete this ASAP so yea! 'Sigh. Maki couldn't go home after, no that would be too risky. The park. Perfect. It was already dark so it'd be empty. No one to worry about; just being by himself. Perfect. That's where he ended up. The p...