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Summary
What seemed like a dream quickly turned into reality. Match after match, they saw, cheered, and roared Ippo’s name as another star was added into his streak of KOs. Umezawa bragged about him to his other friends, of course. They knew each other, right? They were basically friends.
But his chest ached with every win.
Each time, he wanted nothing more than to drag Ippo into some quiet corner and say the words he’d swallowed for years. Yet shame, pride, and envy tangled too tightly inside him to unravel. The timid Ippo he had once written off as a wimp was blazing forward; growing into a star at such a pace that he could only watch as he slipped further from reach. Toward a future he wanted, opposite of Umezawa himself, only following where life took him.
So he settled for cheering, loud enough to drown out the ache.
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Umezawa struggles with himself as he tries to sort out his feelings towards Ippo as his former bully and now friend, and perhaps something more if the world is kind enough. (Smut's only at the end of chapter one if you wanna skip it)
Series
- Part 1 of Boxer's "Sparring" Partner ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)