Aoi works the graveyard shift at a homey restaurant in the middle of nowhere. Usually it's as barren as a ghost town, but one day one of the most amazing and inspiring women she's ever met finds her way into it and into her life. Non-despair AU in which they're both out of high school and Aoi's training for the Olympics.

Sakura is trying to put up a strong front, not wanting to appear bothered with what others think of her. Asahina is having none of it. Saku/Hina, small fluff, rated T just in case

Not once in my lifetime have I met a more beautiful girl. Eyes like stars and a voice as soft as the sea. She was a girl on fire whose soft skin was as frigid as her personal aquatic purgatory.