Chishima Is Super Strong, but Has Issues

[I'm truly sorry, everyone. My work has changed, and my new job is extremely busy. I'll do my best to find time to stockpile updates.] Chishima Chidori is an "ordinary" middle schooler. He has a rich childhood friend who can make a tennis ball dance, an elementary school classmate who loves swimming, and a younger neighbor who's a neat freak but loves volleyball like it's his first love. Until he started middle school, he thought he would keep devoting himself to swimming. Who could have guessed that a rare genetic condition among the Banyu, hypothermia syndrome, would rob him of the joy of swimming freely, and even prevent him from doing overly strenuous exercise? After moving back from Tokyo to Miyagi, Chishima Chidori enrolls at Kitagawa Daiichi. He originally plans to keep his head down, but who could have guessed that a mistakenly filled-out club application would land him in the volleyball club, and that he'd somehow become a regular player? "Chidori, you have to become the pillar of the volleyball team!" Wait, Captain, why do you sound so much like someone? "Chii-chan, play volleyball with us! Let's beat Ushijima together and make it to Nationals!" Oikawa, I'd love to say yes, but our chances are really slim! But life always comes with regrets. During their three years of middle school, they never managed to beat Shiratorizawa in the finals. Then, after their last match, Chishima Chidori paid a terrible price and had to take a year off from school to go abroad for treatment. On his first night back in Japan, Sakusa called him "Chidori, do you remember our promise?" "Come to Itachiyama. Let's play volleyball together." All right, then. For the sake of that promise, Chishima Chidori returned to Tokyo from Miyagi and enrolled at Itachiyama. Later, he and Sakusa won many championships together, but the memory that stayed with him most vividly was from their second year of high school. In the locker room after winning a championship, Sakusa pulled him into a corner, his hot breath lightly brushing Chidori's ear "Chidori, if we win another championship next year, let's get together." That year, Chidori was eighteen and Sakusa was seventeen. Chidori had already decided that he would stay with this person forever. Reader's Guide: 1. The pairing is SKS. The romance begins when they're adults. There may be some ambiguity earlier, but nothing is made explicit. 2. The setting follows the world of Wild Lovers. This won't affect your reading; the only addition is that Banyu can turn into animals at certain times. 3. The characters may be out of character, so please be gentle. Upcoming Novel After Ushijima Finds His Secret Crush Diary Upcoming Novel Blurb: Shimizu Mayo is known as a good boy in his parents' eyes. Being obedient is what he does best. The two most rebellious things he's ever done were changing his college application in high school to go to Shiratorizawa, far from home, and joining a dating reality show after starting work, then quitting the promising journalism job everyone approved of to become an artist. His parents can't understand the pressure of working at a job he has never liked, or the pain of constantly being bullied by his boss. All they ever tell him is to put up with it, because jobs are hard to find... Then he's forced to join a dating show, where he meets Ushijima, who was tricked into coming by the team manager. Mayo thinks Ushijima must have long forgotten who he is, but Ushijima looks at him and asks [Long time no see, Shimizu. Are you still drawing?] No one knows that, in that moment, the flower that had withered long ago takes root and blooms again because of those words. * Shimizu Mayo is famous in the art community as someone who's immune to love. What he's best at isn't drawing, but finding graceful ways to turn down confessions. Every day, he's either rejecting a confession or on his way to reject one. Then one day, this love-proof artist posts a series of photos on Twitter. His sharp-eyed fans spot clues in them, and finally conclude that this love-proof artist has fallen in love at last! After learning that Shimizu Mayo is dating someone, his fans, who've long worried about his love life, start wildly guessing who his partner is. At last, they identify the likely candidate Ushijima, star outside hitter for the AD team. Shimizu Mayo attends every one of Ushijima's matches. Whenever Ushijima has a hater, Shimizu Mayo is sure to be there fighting back. Most importantly, they always show up at the same restaurants one after the other... A huge crowd of CP fans springs up and spreads everywhere, while neither of the two people involved confirms or denies anything. Then one day, Shimizu Mayo is confronted by a hater [You're really good at clout-chasing, Teacher Qingye. Do you honestly think Ushijima would give you the time of day?] Then one person's comment sets the whole internet ablaze: [Is there anything wrong with my boyfriend posting a photo of us together?] Seconds later, #IllustratorQingyeAndVolleyballPlayerUshijimaDating# shoots to the top of the trending topics. * Shimizu Mayo has a secret: he's been in love with Ushijima for years. He once had a secret-crush diary filled with portraits of Ushijima, but he lost it the year he graduated from high school. All the feelings of his adolescence disappeared that spring. Ushijima has a secret: the year he graduated from high school, he found a diary filled with portraits of himself. It belonged to the gentle class monitor in his class. On an impulse, he didn't return the diary to Shimizu Mayo, but took it home and put it on the top shelf of his bookcase. They both thought there would be no sequel to their story, but the gears of fate turned once more and brought them together again. [This time, he doesn't want to miss his chance again.] [This time, he wants to get to know the real him, hidden beneath that gentle exterior.] Theme: Passion can overcome instinct