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Chapter 2: running circles ‘round your mind

Summary:

Akaashi:
Congratulations on becoming the captain of Inarizaki, Atsumu

Shirabu:
Oh fuck no

Notes:

this is set after the third years’ graduation

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Akaashi has added Atsumu

 

Akaashi:

Congratulations on becoming the captain of Inarizaki, Atsumu

 

Shirabu:

Oh fuck no

 

Yahaba:

I know this isn't in your vocabulary but be nice

 

Shirabu:

To him?

That's like asking me to praise Goshiki 

 

Yahaba:

Which is fully within your limits to do so?

 

Shirabu:

Fuck no

 

Atsumu:

hey im a delight to be with

 

Shirabu:

I think I'm going to throw up

 

Atsumu:

and thanks akaashi

i didn't expect it

so is everyone here setters

 

Kenma:

nearly

its only ennoshita

 

Ennoshita:

Hi I'm the captain of Karasuno, Ennoshita Chikara!

Nice to meet you

 

Atsumu:

nice to meet ya too 

atsumu miya, the better twin

 

Shirabu:

The more you say it, the less I believe it

 

Atsumu:

it's a fact of life

and ya've never even met samu before

 

Shirabu:

I don't have to

 

Yahaba:

Technically, Kenma and Akaashi have

 

Atsumu:

what

when

why have i never heard of this

 

Yahaba:

You have though?

That incident with Sakusa-san in the setter's chat

 

Akaashi:

Oh

He and Suna-san simply laughed when it happened

 

Kenma:

mood

 

Yahaba:

Well

 

Ennoshita:

I'm feeling kind of lost

 

Atsumu:

its nothing!!!

nothing at all

 

Shirabu:

Atsumu mistook Komori-san, Sakusa's cousin, as his lover instead and made a fool of himself in public

And then left the setter's chat out of sheer embarrassment 

Oh because he's in denial about his crush on Sakusa-san

 

Atsumu:

okay WHAY RHE FUCK

i DO NOT like omi

 

Yahaba:

I saw that coming

 

Ennoshita:

Omi?

 

Akaashi:

It's his nickname, among others, for Sakusa Kiyoomi

 

Atsumu:

wow

all of ya sure are airing out my dirty laundry

 

Shirabu:

And I'd do it again

 

Ennoshita:

One of the top high school aces?

I mean

When you put it like that

 

Atsumu:

no i do not like omi

why would i like him

 

Kenma:

he's objectively hot

 

Atsumu:

uh no

he looks ridiculous 

 

Shirabu:

You look ridiculous with that horrific shade of hair

 

Atsumu:

uncalled for??

 

Ennoshita:

Hmm, from what I know of Sakusa-san, he seems pretty introverted and keeps to himself a lot

But he's an extremely talented spiker, according to Kageyama 

 

Atsumu:

he's fucking mean

and rude

and a menace to society

 

Yahaba:

You're not denying the extremely talented spiker part

 

Atsumu:

he's 

average

 

Shirabu:

Did your nose grow longer when you typed that out

 

Atsumu:

just say ya hate me???

 

Shirabu:

I do

 

Atsumu:

wow

 

Shirabu:

You're probably going to set for him one day

 

Atsumu:

no fucking way

don't curse me like that

 

Akaashi:

Hmm, I'd like to try setting for Sakusa-san

 

Kenma:

me too

 

Yahaba:

He seems like he'd be interesting to set for

 

Ennoshita:

Uh I'd want to see one of his matches live

 

Atsumu:

???

NOBODY is setting for omi

 

Akaashi:

That's quite the contradiction

 

Atsumu:

akaashi please

 

Kenma:

appealing to keiji is useless

he’s in it for the drama

 

Atsumu:

he’s what

 

Yahaba:

He’s not some angel you know

 

Akaashi:

Ah of course I’m not

 

Kenma:

he’s as bad as suga

 

Ennoshita:

Yeah

Suga-san looks like an angel but he’s not

 

Atsumu:

okay so that’s a terrifying thing to learn about

 

Akaashi:

They’re exaggerating

 

Kenma:

no

 

Ennoshita:

Circling back

Why doesn’t Atsumu-kun like Sakusa-san?

 

Shirabu:

No he does

 

Yahaba:

He just doesn’t want to admit it

 

Atsumu:

do they actually hate each other

 

Akaashi:

No, they’re good friends

 

Shirabu:

Fake

 

Yahaba:

Bitch just accept it

 

Shirabu:

Fuck you

 

Kenma:

why else would he have throw a tantrum

 

Yahaba:

I can’t get over it

Thinking Komori-san is Sakusa-san’s lover, I mean

 

Atsumu:

IT WAS AN HONEST MISTAKE

THEY LOOK NOTHING ALIKE

 

Akaashi:

That’s true

They really do look different

 

Ennoshita:

Komori Motoya is Itachiyama’s libero, right?

Oh 

I wouldn’t have been able to tell that they’re cousins

 

Atsumu:

and sunarin knew too

but the asshole didn’t say anything

 

Shirabu:

Can we kick Atsumu out and add Suna instead

 

Atsumu:

sunarin would eat ya alive

 

Akaashi:

Or maybe they’d get along

 

Atsumu:

that’s stuff from my nightmares

yeah no ya ain’t meeting sunarin

 

Yahaba:

He’ll find out anyway

Probably

 

Shirabu:

Hm

 

Kenma:

ominous

 

-

 

Atsumu:

I HAVE A JOINT INTERVIEW WITH OMI

FUCK MY LIFE

 

Akaashi:

Oh?

 

Yahaba:

Why the two of you

 

Akaashi:

Likely because they are the top few setters and spikers

 

Atsumu:

my life is over

 

Shirabu:

So dramatic

 

Atsumu:

can ya imagine if this was ya

 

Shirabu:

But it isn’t

 

Atsumu:

why’d i come here 

 

Yahaba:

When’s the interview?

 

Atsumu:

in a week

cuz we have a practice match against em

 

Kenma:

don’t be gay on tv

 

Atsumu:

oh fuck ya

that ain’t possible

 

Kenma:

you never know

 

Atsumu:

fuck ya and your weird mysterious thingy

 

Kenma:

i have a boyfriend

 

Akaashi:

We get it Kenma

 

Ennoshita:

We get it

 

Yahaba:

Gotta say it’s pretty good

 

Shirabu:

I will shove your team photo up your ass

 

Yahaba:

The fuck leave my photos alone??

And didn’t you basically get confessed to?

 

Ennoshita:

You what

 

Kenma:

?

 

Atsumu:

what

 

Shirabu:

It’s not my fault he’s a coward

 

Yahaba:

Or you could contact him like a normal fucking person

 

Shirabu:

No

 

Yahaba:

Why do I even bother

 

Atsumu:

wow this is who’s making fun of me?

 

Shirabu:

Have you seen yourself

 

Atsumu:

im perfect whaddya mean

 

Ennoshita:

Back to the topic

What will the interview be about?

 

Atsumu:

fuck if i know

i stopped listening after when it’s gonna be

 

Shirabu:

Point proven

 

Kenma:

it’s probably about normal vb stuff

 

Yahaba:

If they can stop arguing for five minutes

 

Akaashi:

That’s a tall order

 

Atsumu:

i can absolutely go five minutes without arguing with omi

 

Shirabu:

You’ll get cursed like Pinocchio with the amount of lies you’re spouting

 

Atsumu:

fuck no

i’ll prove it

 

Akaashi:

We’ll be waiting

 

-

 

Shirabu:

(video: taken from a three-quarters angle, it showed Atsumu and Sakusa, both sweaty and tired, standing in front of a camera and a lady with a microphone. Sakusa was wiping his face with a towel while Atsumu polished off nearly a whole bottle of water.

 

Interviewer: Miya-san, have you ever wanted to set for Sakusa-san?

 

Atsumu: (pretends to consider for a few seconds) Nah, that’d be a waste of my hard-earned skills.

 

Sakusa: (cutting in before the interviewer could speak) That’s fine. I doubt he’d be able to keep up with me anyway.

 

Atsumu: Ya think what? I kept up with ya throughout that whole match, Omi. That’s just bullshit.

 

Sakusa: Barely. 

 

Atsumu: Oh ya—

 

They dissolve into arguing, Sakusa cold and sharp, Atsumu fiery and loud. The interviewer looks flustered, glancing between the two of them. The video cuts.)

 

Yahaba;

That’s barely one question

 

Shirabu:

Congrats, at least they didn’t start arguing the moment they were next to each other

 

Ennoshita:

That might be because they just played five sets

Then again that never seemed to stop Kageyama and Hinata’s arguments

 

Yahaba:

My condolences for having them as your kouhai

 

Ennoshita:

It’s alright, I’ve gotten used to it

 

Akaashi

Looking at them next to each other, they are quite opposite in the way they act

 

Yahaba:

I bet Atsumu was trying to rile up Sakusa-san

 

Atsumu;

WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET THTA

 

Shirabu:

I have my sources

Obviously

 

Atsumu:

i’m gonna kill sunarin

later

he’s in samu’s room

 

Yahaba:

And?

 

Atsumu:

i don’t wanna scar my eyes

 

Kenma: replying to ‘i can absolutely go…’

five seconds

 

Atsumu:

he started it

 

Shirabu:

You said, and I quote, ‘setting for him would be a waste of my hard-earned skills’

 

Atsumu:

it would!

i was being honest

ya know, like ya wanted

 

Ennoshita:

That was the trigger for your argument, though

 

Atsumu:

no it wasnt

he’s the one who insulted me

 

Ennoshita:

After you said that?

 

Atsumu:

yeah and

 

Shirabu:

No wonder Sakusa-san dislikes you so much

 

Atsumu:

fuck ya mean by that

 

Akaashi:

Is it safe to assume the interview will be scrapped?

 

Atsumu:

yeah

 

Akaashi:

Pity

 

-

 

Kenma:

are you going to do it

 

keiji:

Yes, soon

 

-

 

Akaashi:

I have recently obtained the number of a captain from another school

 

Shirabu:

Fuck no not again

 

Yahaba:

Wow you sound so terribly excited

Who is it?

 

Akaashi has added Sakusa

 

Yahaba:

Oh

 

Ennoshita:

Is this a good idea, Akaashi?

 

Shirabu:

I take back what I said

I want to see this

 

Akaashi:

It’ll be fine

Hopefully

 

Ennoshita:

Hello?

Sakusa-san?

 

Sakusa:

What is this

 

Ennoshita:

Welcome! 

It’s a captain's chat

 

Sakusa:

I’m only here because Motoya made me

 

Kenma:

real

 

Ennoshita:

Should we do some introductions?

 

Sakusa:

No

I don’t care either way

 

Yahaba:

Oh so he’s a different kind of asshole from Shirabu

 

Shirabu:

Bitch square the fuck up 

 

Yahaba:

No

 

Ennoshita:

Well

 

Atsumu:

SAMU ATE THE LAST COOKIE

this is because i ate the last ice cream isn’t it??

karma i tell ya

this ain’t fair

?

hello??

 

Sakusa left the chat

Akaashi added Sakusa

Sakusa left the chat

Akaashi added Sakusa

 

Akaashi:

Sorry, Sakusa-san, but Komori-san said you must stay for a minimum of three days

 

Sakusa:

You don’t have to listen to him

 

Akaashi:

Ah but I do owe him

 

Atsumu:

what the fuck

WHY THE FUCK IS HE HERE

 

Ennoshita:

Because this is a captains chat and we’re all captains

 

Atsumu:

who died and made him captain

 

Yahaba:

I’ll take a wild guess

His senpai gaduated?

 

Atsumu:

fuck no

he’ll taint the purity of this chat

 

Sakusa:

I’m still here, if you weren’t aware

And if anything, it would be your presence that’s a stain on this chat

 

Atsumu:

fuck ya 

 

Sakusa:

No, it would be a waste of my time

 

Atsumu:

this is for that interview isn’t it

omi i knew ya remembered 

 

Ennoshita:

I can’t tell if they hate each other or not

 

Sakusa:

You’re severely mistaken if you think the world revolves around you

 

Atsumu:

admit it omi 

ya think about me

 

Sakusa:

About how I would beat your team in the next match, yes

 

Atsumu:

ohh fuck ya

that last practice match was bullshit

 

Sakusa:

You’re just sore that you lost

 

Atsumu:

no i want a rematch

ya cheated

 

Sakusa:

Very mature of you

 

Yahaba:

This is relatively okay?

Like it’s not that different from Shirabu and Semi-san talk

 

Shirabu:

We don’t talk like that

 

Yahaba:

Yeah, because you barely text at all

 

Akaashi:

I admit I expected it to be worse

But I suppose this is a good thing

 

Sakusa:

I still want to leave

 

Akaashi:

Unfortunately, you’re stuck with us for the next two days

 

Kenma:

one for all all for one

 

Sakusa:

I hate it here

 

-

 

Yahaba:

So one of my kouhai rammed another into a wall

 

Akaashi:

Are they alright?

 

Yahaba:

The one who did it is fine

The one who got rammed is not

 

Akaashi:

What happened?

 

Yahaba:

Hell if I know

From what I heard, apparently they were arguing and it escalated

The ramming was on accident though 

Apparently 

 

Shirabu:

They're continuing the tradition

 

Yahaba:

Will you ever drop that

 

Shirabu:

No

 

Atsumu:

id do that to omi in a heartbeat

 

Sakusa:

Like a child at a playground

 

Atsumu:

fuck did ya call me

 

Sakusa:

Your eyesight is deteriorating if you couldn’t read that

 

Kenma:

why did yaku leave

i’m going to lock lev out of the gym

 

Akaashi:

You said you’d do your best and try

 

Kenma:

you said that

not me

 

Shirabu:

Fuck my kouhai

 

Yahaba:

You just have it out for Goshiki

 

Shirabu:

As I fucking should

 

Ennoshita:

Are my kouhai the only normal ones?

Even Kageyama and Hinata are getting along better now

 

Yahaba:

We’re still beating you to go to Nationals

 

Ennoshita:

Keep hoping

If you hope long enough, maybe it’ll come true

 

Shirabu:

Fuck you two it’s going to be Shiratorizawa

 

Atsumu:

pfft doesn’t matter none of ya are making it past inarizaki

 

Ennoshita:

We did it before and we’ll do it again

 

Atsumu:

not this time

we’ve got ya all figured out

 

Kenma:

^

 

Akaashi:

No team politics in the chat

 

Atsumu: 

yeah yeah killjoy

nothing to say omi?

 

Sakusa:

This debate is meaningless 

We'll win anyway 

 

Atsumu:

no way

inarizaki’s got ya this time

 

Shirabu:

Delusions are a sign of illness

 

Everyone has been muted for five minutes

 

Atsumu:

dang it kaashi-kun i had a good comeback 

 

Akaashi:

It will happen again

 

Atsumu:

fine fine

 

-

 

Atsumu:

at least i know how to interact with people 

and not look at them like their dirt on my shoe

 

Sakusa:

You should look at your own grammar first before looking at others

 

Atsumu:

fuck ya bitch

we all know what i mean

 

Sakusa:

With the way you translate your accent into your texts, I doubt it

 

Atsumu:

go fuck yerself

my accent’s fuckin great

 

Sakusa:

Did your fangirls tell you that?

Admiration make people view the world through rose-tinted glasses

Though I pity the people that admire you

 

Ennoshita:

Alright timeout 

 

Sakusa has been kicked from the chat

Atsumu has been kicked from the chat

 

Ennoshita:

They’ve been going at it for two hours

Do they not have other things to do

 

Shirabu:

If they’ve got so much time to argue, they can go and practice 

 

Yahaba:

Not everyone has unhealthy habits like you

That aside

Is it just me or does Sakusa-san really only respond to Atsumu in the chat?

 

Akaashi:

I’ve noticed that too

 

Yahaba:

So that at least means he tolerates Atsumu the most out of all of us

 

Ennoshita:

That’s a surprise

For how much they say they hate each other, they’ve got no qualms interacting for more than two hours

 

Kenma:

a quarter of it wasn’t really arguing

 

Yahaba:

So they don’t hate each other?

 

Akaashi:

It’s difficult to tell, but it seems to at least be out of the realm of extreme hate now

 

Shirabu: 

Isn’t today the third day

 

Yahaba:

Oh yeah

Maybe they won’t notice 

 

Akaashi has added Atsumu

Akaashi has added Sakusa

 

Sakusa:

It’s been three days

I don’t have to be here

 

Sakusa has left the chat

 

Shirabu:

You were saying

 

Yahaba:

Yeah yeah 

 

-

 

Atsumu:

ive been thinkin about it

 

Shirabu:

What a shocker

 

Atsumu:

fuck ya

anyway

i think i have a crush on omi 

 

Yahaba:

What

 

Ennoshita:

Uh congrats?

 

Shirabu:

Ew

 

Kenma:

?

 

Akaashi:

Oh?

 

Atsumu:

what the fuck

why did that summon all of ya 

 

Shirabu:

Because we’ve been waiting for fucking ever

 

Atsumu:

did everybody know except me

 

Yahaba:

Yeah

 

Akaashi:

I could guess

 

Kenma:

ye

 

Ennoshita:

Yeah?

 

Shirabu:

Obviously 

 

Atsumu:

this is betrayal 

yer all on my blacklist

 

Ennoshita:

At least you've made the realisation?

And aren't definitely stuck in a one-sided crush?

 

Atsumu:

wow who hurt ya

 

Ennoshita:

We're not talking about this

 

Yahaba:

Oh we will

Later

But congrats Atsumu

 

Shirabu:

Congrats you're not an absolute idiot with the emotional range of a teaspoon

 

Akaashi:

Congratulations, Atsumu

 

Kenma:

congrats

 

Ennoshita:

Congratulations!

 

Atsumu:

thanks

 

Akaashi:

How did it happen?

 

Atsumu:

sunarin pointed out how much time i spend talkin bout him

and then i realised that he's actually 

unfortunately 

very hot

and awkward

and he's nice

sometimes

 

Yahaba:

Uh you get points for that I guess

 

Atsumu:

then i crashed out for three days

 

Ennoshita:

Ah I was wondering why it was so quiet

 

Atsumu:

boo

i know ya missed me

 

Shirabu:

The fact that you could see past your own ego for once is a surprise

 

Atsumu:

who asked ya

 

Shirabu:

I'm in this chat

Unfortunately 

 

Ennoshita:

So what are you going to do now Atsumu?

 

Atsumu:

idk i still don't like being around him

 

Yahaba:

That's weirdly contradicting

 

Atsumu:

so i gotta get used to it

so im gonna text him everyday

 

Shirabu:

How the fuck did you come to that conclusion 

 

Akaashi:

Good luck

 

Yahaba:

Wow

 

Ennoshita:

All the best 

Sakusa-san is hard to talk to

 

Kenma:

i called it

enemies to lovers 

 

Atsumu:

we ain’t lovers yet

 

Kenma:

it's getting there

 

-

 

Atsumu:

IVE BEEN BLOCKED

NOOOO OMI

 

Yahaba:

That's what

the fourth time this week?

 

Kenma:

better than last week

 

Ennoshita:

Last week was terrible

Was it twelve times?

 

Shirabu:

Fourteen

I'm more surprised it wasn't past twenty

 

Atsumu:

ya've got so little faith in me

OMIIIII UNBLOCK ME

AKAASHI PLEASE

 

Akaashi:

I've got no guarantees 

 

Shirabu:

He's going to block Akaashi next

 

Atsumu:

i know yer in contact with him

 

Yahaba:

Yeah no don't count on Shirabu

He wouldn't help you

 

Atsumu:

yea that's why i haven't asked him

 

Ennoshita:

What did you do this time anyway?

 

Atsumu:

nothing!!!!

 

Akaashi:

He repeatedly sent memes and photos after Sakusa-san told him not to

 

Atsumu:

boo

it's not my fault he can't appreciate em

 

Shirabu:

I would've blocked you faster than you sent the next one

 

Atsumu:

omiiiiiiii

omiomi

omiomiiiiii

 

Yahaba:

Is he going through withdrawals already

 

Kenma:

it's been three minutes

 

Atsumu:

TOO LONG

omiiiiiii

omiomi

kiyo

ki

kiki

kiyooo

kiyooooooomi

omiomiomiomi

 

Yahaba:

He's like a broken recorder

 

Shirabu:

And what do we do with those

We throw them away

 

Atsumu:

yer never getting rid of me

 

Shirabu:

Fuck you

I hope Sakusa-san keeps you blocked for the next three days

 

Atsumu:

he wouldn't 

 

-

 

Atsumu:

FUCK YA SHIRABU

ITS BEEN THREE DAYS

IM DYING WITHOUT MY OMI

 

Shirabu:

Loser

 

Ennoshita:

That's longer than usual

 

Atsumu:

i can see the light at the end of the tunnel

 

Shirabu:

Good riddance

 

Akaashi:

Should I ask Sakusa-san?

 

Atsumu:

PLEASE KAASHI

ILL GIVE YOU MY FIRSTBORN CHILD

 

Akaashi:

That's not necessary 

 

Kenma:

dunno why you'd do that to yourself

 

Akaashi:

Well

 

Atsumu:

KAASHI PLEASE

IM ON MY KNEES

 

Atsumu:

Okay okay

So he forgot about it

 

Atsumu:

HE WHAT

 

-

 

Miya:

OMI

I CANT BELIEVE YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME

 

omi omi:

I should've kept you blocked

The peace was nice while it lasted

 

Miya:

OMIIIII

NOOOOO

 

omi omi:

Stop calling me that

 

Miya:

no it suits ya

omi

omiomi

 

omi omi:

I will block you again, Miya 

 

Miya:

yer still callin me that?

 

omi omi:

Yes

 

Miya:

yer mean omi

the meanest

whatre ya doin

 

omi omi:

Trying to study

 

Miya:

but that's boring

yer gonna go bald at thirty

 

omi omi:

I fail to see the correlation 

 

Miya:

cmon omi

play kart with me

 

omi omi:

What is that

 

Miya:

mario kart?

do ya not have a switch omi

omi?

omiiiii

OMI

where'd ya go

 

omi omi:

Motoya has informed me that Mario Kart is a game

 

Miya:

duh

what did ya think it was

wait

omi

have ya never played kart before??

 

omi omi:

I haven't 

 

Miya:

WHAY

no wonder yer so pent up all the time

wheres ya childhood omi

cmon play with komori and i and samu

omiiiii

pleaaaasse

omiii

omiomi

ommiii

kiyooooo

omi

 

omi omi:

I'll be hearing this in my nightmares 

 

Miya:

aw omi ya dream about me

 

omi omi:

I have studying to return to

 

Miya:

NOO

OMI

WAITTTT

PLAY EITH ME

OMIII

 

incoming voice call from Miya

 

.

 

.

 

.

 

voice call accepted

 

 

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