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There are three things you need to know:
i. Kuroo’s eyes are a rich, deep, dark black, pulling you in like a siren leading sailors to their death and his smile is so similar to that of a cheshire cats that if you squint your eyes and turn you head you might just find yourself going mad
ii. Kenma did not want there to be this much drama during training camp (and after), they did not want to see their best friend suffer from heartbreak and they most certainly did not want Lev to ask them for another serve
iii. Tsukishima Kei received his first kiss in a locker room, a corner digging into his shoulder blade, feeling dizzy and so unbelievably good that he just gave in
Only one of these is relevant to the story. But the other two were still worth mentioning.
…
i have found what you are like
the rain,
(who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields
easily the pale club of the wind
and swirled justly souls of flower strike
the air in utterable coolness
deeds of green thrilling light
with thinned
newfragile yellows
lurch and.press
-in the woods
which
stutter
and
sing
And the coolness of your smile is
stirring of birds between my arms;but
i should rather than anything
have(almost when hugeness will shut
quietly)almost,
your kiss
e.e cummings
...
They had been eating watermelon on the hill when Kenma had sat down beside Tsukki and said:
“I wouldn't care if you dated him.”
Tsukishima raised one eyebrow, unimpressed.
“Kuroo,” Kenma clarified.
Tsukki choked on his melon. Kenma turned back to their game.
…
They had been cleaning up after another day of practice when Kuroo said:
“I think I’m in love.”
“No shit,” Kenma replied.
“What should I do?”
“Ask him out.”
“What if he says no?”
“He won’t.”
“But what if-?”
“He’s staring at you.”
Kuroo tripped into the wall
...
The first time they had kissed it had been warm. too warm.
almost.
(so warm that his shirt had stuck to his back and his hair to his head and his socks to his ankles)
it had been intoxicating.
it had been
(an ocean of warmwarmwarmwarmwarm. pushing, wanting moremoremore, taking moremoremore.
(later, karasuno would bet on who gave tsukki the kiss swollen lips and the ruffled hair and the hickey on his neck
(yamaguchi swears he doesn’t know and yamaguchi never lies) but for now it was just)))
b l i s s
…
They had gotten reckless―sneaking away during breaks, hiding in bathroom stalls, tiptoeing out into corridors at night―so it should have been no surprise when Bokuto found them.
“You wanted me to grab brooms right? Okie dok-OH MY GOD AKAASHI PLEASE TELL ME THERE IS BLEACH IN HERE FOR MY EYES!”
“Bokuto-san, please calm down.”
“CALM DOWN? CALM DOWN? WHAT I HAVE SEEN CAN NEVER BE UNSEEN!”
“Boku-”
“MY POOR VIRGIN EYES!”
...
(Suga and Noya won the bet)
...
They had exchanged phone numbers before Karasuno left the city.
(Tsukki almost wanted to protest, but then had remembered the late nights stargazing and the lazy kisses at meals and swallowed his pride.)
...
(neitherofthemtexed)
…
It had been three years since that exhilarating summer. Kenma was fed up of seeing their best friend upset. They had Hinata (“Why would I help that four-eyed stupid jerk face and smirky rooster head!?”) anonymously text Tsukki an address (it was the coffeeshop where Kuroo was working)
…
There are three things you need to know:
i. Somewhere in Tokyo there is an apartment building, it is tall, rectangular and normal looking. Two middle blockers live there.
ii. Two years ago when the blonde one had first moved in they had been bickering over who could carry more boxes (it was the one with the unruly bedhead and the dark eyes) meanwhile, two empty to-go cups could be seen in a nearby garbage can….
iii. If you were to look through the window right now you would see the shorter one (with a cup of coffee in one hand and a book in his lap) sitting on a beat up sofa while the other (with a steaming mug of tea) kisses his forehead.
...
fin