Sae and Shindou are two totally different personalities and dating them both has its pros and definitely has its cons. YN has been dating them since college. Years of arguments, flirting, jealousy, and love. Now they’re full adults, working late, making friends, building a life, all while juggling this complicated relationship of theirs. Their friends are getting married, having kids, and they’re stuck in this polycule wondering how to proceed. - Modern Blue Lock AU
Campus playboy and fraternity president Itoshi Sae has never struggled to get someone’s attention—until he meets the one girl completely unimpressed by him. As his interest turns into something deeper, Y/N must decide whether Sae is capable of being more than the reputation he’s built for himself.
sae has never been comfortable with affection, but dating y/n changes that. what starts as simple gestures—a hand in his, fingers fixing his hair, a touch on his shoulder—slowly becomes something he can’t imagine living without. for someone who never needed comfort before, y/n’s affection begins to mean everything.
Y/N has spent every summer at the beach house with Rin Itoshi and Sae Itoshi, always seen as the little sister tagging along behind them. But when she returns one summer older and changed, the brothers begin to see her differently, turning lifelong friendship into a tense, messy love triangle filled with jealousy, rivalry, and feelings none of them can ignore.
Y/N’s relationship is slowly falling apart, and her boyfriend doesn’t seem to notice. Meanwhile, Itoshi Sae has spent two years watching from the sidelines, knowing he could treat her better. Determined to become the person she trusts most, Sae quietly sets out to win her heart—and replace the boyfriend who never deserved her in the first place.
Sae plays with complete, unsentimental precision. He doesn't celebrate unnecessarily. He reads the game the way he reads most things — ahead of everyone else, without commenting on it. He plays the pass in the eighty-third minute of a Euros final because he knows where you'll be. Not where the system says. Where you actually go. He's been filing that distinction for months. The stadium sees a midfielder finding his striker. He walks over when the group breaks apart and says I knew you'd get there in a voice nobody else catches. Public. Private. The two-second look that costs something to keep contained.