[Blue Lock] I Deserve a Reward

Rin Itoshi knew he could endure this pain, but he couldn't accept being separated from his older brother, nor could he understand what the pain was for. From the moment he was born, he had already been branded with Sae Itoshi's name. That was the fate of being a younger brother. To him, blood ties were never a choice, but a destiny, one he had no need to deny.

So on a snowy night after a long separation, before he could feel the joy of reuniting, four years of anxious fear of abandonment overwhelmed him. Standing in the snow, Rin Itoshi finally decided he would refuse to be pushed away. He knew Sae Itoshi's choices meant something, and that his lessons had never been gentle. But why did they have to begin by casting him aside?

Just as he had when he was little, he thought with fierce resolve and no regard for the consequences: If my future is one without my brother, then I don't want that future.

Reader note: Lots of my own brother-and-younger-brother kinks and invented backstory. Can be read alongside the previous story,