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Best RinHaru Sports Fanfics

The best sports RinHaru (Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Sport gives stories built-in stakes, structure, and physicality — and there is no faster way to bond or break characters than a match point.

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Top RinHaru Sports Fic Recs

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Teamwork for Hire

Sports

by junko

After the defeat of Aizen, Ichigo has lost his superpowers but not his skills so he's been hiring himself out to any sports team looking for a strong player. When Nagisa Hazuki approaches Ichigo to join the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club, something piques Ichigo's interest....

1,819 kudos 11,342 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
2

seen everything there is to be shown

by sauntering_down

Kink meme prompt: Rin has a nightly visitor in his dorm room. They don't notice that Nitori is very much awake on the top bunk of the bed and listening to everything that's going on below him.'Perhaps he should set up a throwaway email address and anonymously send Rin a link to the Amazon page for t

7,103 kudos 5,305 words 1/1 chapters Mature
3

but loving him was red

by sauntering_down

Kink meme prompt: One day at a relay or at practice, something goes wrong and Rin gets injured or falls unconscious in the pool. Haru is the first one to dive in after him, even before his own teammates. 'His feet move automatically and suddenly he’s sprinting for the opposite end of the pool, disre

5,226 kudos 3,189 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
4

You Smiled Because You Knew

by damaskino

Rin's a florist, and Haru's an art student who keeps coming to his flower shop. Rin has no idea what to make of it.

3,503 kudos 30,009 words 11/11 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Dead Even

by novembersmith

”So it is that ‘dead even’ means that two people or things aren’t just close in a competition. In fact, there is no way to separate them.” AKA, a competition in stamina. AKA AKA, shameless porn.

3,309 kudos 2,443 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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it's disgusting (how i love you)

by wino (thimble)

"Nitori, be ready to call an ambulance," Tall Redhead smirked as Other Redhead pushed the croissant out to eat it. He rolled his eyes, muttered something under his breath, and took a bite.Haru stiffened, and the rest of the shop seemed to wait with baited breath.Other Redhead chewed contemplatively,

2,783 kudos 5,427 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
7

Coming Home to You

by old_shizuumi151 (shizuumi151)

Everyone knows there's no way an omega will mate with a weaker alpha. After having been defeated by Haru, Rin leaves for Australia to train, telling Haru to wait for him. Haru hasn't seen Rin in almost three years, but he still holds onto the hope he will return. However, with mating season nearing,

2,637 kudos 11,850 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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The Smolder and the Glow

by Quente

Sousuke is aware that Tachibana has no clue, none at all. Rin warned him, of course, and Sousuke probably should've listened.These were drabbles and they grew.

2,514 kudos 27,372 words 9/9 chapters Explicit
9

Breach

by SleepingTsundere

Sometimes to find the most important person in your life, you have to look below the surface...or for some, above it.

2,453 kudos 105,836 words 29/35 chapters Mature
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In pursuit of Olympic dreams

by ladyzeia

Rin returns to Japan with one goal in mind: Rio. He's got it all planned out—kill it at the Olympic Trials, make the National Team, and—in Rio—show the world. Falling in love, though? That isn't supposed to happen… Olympic Free. Language, adult situations. RinHaru/HaruRin. About the rating: There w

2,190 kudos 588,471 words 45/45 chapters Mature
11

The Pain of Dreaming

by sunnyappleseeds

Sousuke had warned Haru to stay away from Rin, as he would only get in his way. However, the freestyle swimmer brushes off his advice, causing Sousuke to lash out against Haru. After suffering through the humiliation and pain caused by Rin's childhood friend, Haru found himself in a situation that n

2,185 kudos 27,213 words 17/? chapters Explicit
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click here to subscribe

by makuroshi

Haruka was never fond of the Internet, or any avant-garde technology, for that matter. He tries to avoid using them at all costs, and everything goes well until one fine day, Nagisa, Rei and Makoto introduce him to the blackhole from hell called YouTube.(in which Rin is a rising YouTube star, Haru d

2,157 kudos 59,213 words 16/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
13

Behind The Sea

by WhatTheBodyGraspsNot

Haru's side-job watching over the town's lighthouse has its disadvantages -- like having to clean up after the teenagers who break in to drink -- or the pesky seagull who can't determine whether it's daytime or nighttime -- or, most troublingly, the feeling of being watched by something from the sea

2,065 kudos 63,238 words 12/12 chapters Explicit
14

Inked

by ellerean

Each time the Samezuka Motorcycle Club passed Haru's tattoo parlor, he noticed that one member in the red leather jacket who'd never come to see him.Then one day, he did.

1,992 kudos 21,104 words 6/6 chapters Mature
15

3 Words from Falling

by gengar

Being a single parent and Olympic swimmer was hard enough already. The last thing Rin needed was his son's hot, stoic swim coach complicating things...

1,971 kudos 81,790 words 16/16 chapters Mature
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shave and taper

by achilleees

July 29, 2016 “Just think, babe. In four days, it's gonna be you and me and all the nude beaches in Rio.”Haruka would probably be enjoying his time in the Olympic Village more if his boyfriend weren't cheating on him. Surprise, surprise.

1,947 kudos 3,449 words 1/1 chapters Mature
17

Long Distance

by clandestine7

Rin leaves for college in America, but he pays Haruka one last-minute visit before he goes. Their relationship progresses in the lulls between academic terms, in the glimpses Haruka takes of the future, in the two steps forward taken for every step back.

1,923 kudos 157,605 words 23/23 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
18

Kiss and Tell

by overlymetaromantic

In which Rin is forced to run a kissing booth in a dress, and Haru is determined to be his number one customer.

1,829 kudos 3,024 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
19

Starpool

by Daxii

Rin is the frontman of a renowned boyband and Haru is the idiot he finds in his pool.You know when people have accidental pregnancies but roll with it anyway? And the little baby is super cute? But then they're maybe too cheeky as a child and straight up rebellious as a teen, and the parents kinda r

1,793 kudos 96,657 words 46/46 chapters Mature
20

moved my arms around

by novembersmith

“Did you ever think about any of us when you were away in Australia?” Nagisa asked cheerfully, years later at a joint swim practice.“I tried not to,” Rin said dryly.

1,793 kudos 5,271 words 1/1 chapters Mature

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Why Sports RinHaru Fanfiction Works So Well

Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka — Rin came back from Australia broken and turned a childhood relay into a feud, but it's also Rin who drags an aimless Haru to Sydney and hands him a future in swimming. The series runs on their cycle of rivalry, rupture, and racing each other free.

Sports — Fic where the game matters: training arcs, tournaments, rivalries across the net or the pitch, and the particular intimacy of teammates who sweat and lose and win together. Native to sports anime fandoms and exported everywhere as the sports AU.

They make each other want things — the rarest event in Haru's life — and that mutual ignition is the whole ship. Sport gives stories built-in stakes, structure, and physicality — and there is no faster way to bond or break characters than a match point. That's why sports RinHaru fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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