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“Um, excuse me… Toudou-san?” Izumida peeked his head into the club room, where Toudou just got off of a phone call. The sprinter was on a mission, and Toudou Jinpachi was the perfect person to help him out.
“Hm?” Toudou spun around to look at the second year. “Oh, Izumida! What’s up?”
“Toudou-san… I need your help with something.”
“Yeah? What is it?”
“You’re good at getting two people together, right?”
“You want me to set you up with someone!?” Toudou perked up. After all, he was the #1 meddler on the Hakogaku bike racing team, and he was more than ready to meddle at the drop of a hat.
“No, no! Not me!” Toudou looked disappointed for a moment. “It’s just… I have these two friends. I know that they like each other, but they won’t admit it. But they belong together! I know if I could get one of them to confess, that they’ll be the perfect couple!”
“I know exactly how that is!” Toudou let out a laugh. After all, he’s set countless couple up before. “I’m surprised though, Izumida! I didn’t know you talked to anybody besides your own muscles!” He teased him.
Izumida was absolutely silent. He just stood there, glancing down at the ground.
“…No way.” Toudou was in shock. “Please tell me you’re not trying to set up your pecs on a date.”
“…Abu.” Izumida abu’d sadly.
The climber let out a sigh, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Why am I surrounded by weirdos.” He faced the younger boy, pointing at him. “Alright! It’s a weird request, but we’re going to get your pecs together!” Once Toudou was set on something, there was no way he was going to back down. Even if it was getting some pectoral muscles together.
“Abu!” Izumida abu’d happily.
“Alright , so how do you know they like each other?” Maybe the best way to go about this was to pretend that they were people and not muscles.
“Well… Andy keeps on giving Frank this look, and Frank can’t stop talking about Andy! I know they like each other, Toudou-san!”
“Uh, right.” Toudou began twirling a strand of hair as he began to think of a plan. “Well, from what you’re telling me, it sounds like they haven’t even realized it themselves yet.” Yep, this was much easier when he was pretending to talk about real people. “I mean, they need to realize it for themselves before they can tell each other!”
“How do I get them to realize it?” Izumida was new to things like this, after all.
“Talk to them!” Toudou insisted. “Talk to each of them separately, ask them how they feel about each other!” Can Izumida even talk to them separately? Toudou wasn’t sure, but whatever.
“And what about after that?”
“That’s when you convince one of them to ask the other out!”
“Ah! Got it! Thank you so much, Toudou-san!”
“No problem!” He pointed at Izumida as he let out a laugh. “Any time you need advice on something like this, just come to me!” Though hopefully next time it will be with actual people and not with muscles.
And then Izumida was off to convince his muscles to date.
“Andy.” Izumida looked down at his pec, covering the other one with his hand so that he couldn’t hear the conversation. Because that works, somehow. “How do you feel about Frank?” He was taking Toudou’s advice to heart. Hopefully it would actually work, and the two muscles would be in a happy relationship together forever.
The muscle flexed in response to his question. “Ah… Mhm… Oh! I see! I knew it!” Good, Andy finally admitted his crush on Frank. That was one step down. “Then why won’t you tell him how you feel?” The muscle flexed a few more times. “Hm… Oh… I see, I see.” Andy was afraid of getting rejected, huh? “You never know unless you try, though!” He encouraged his muscle. “Besides, I think he feels the same way!” Andy hesitated for a few moments before flexing again. “You will!? Really!? Good luck, Andy!” Well that was easier than he expected! He didn’t even have to talk to Frank!
He uncovered his other pectoral muscle, and allowed them to talk to each other, flexing back and forth for a few moments before Izumida burst into tears, hugging his own chest tightly. “I’m so happy for you, abu!” Finally, his pectorals had admitted their love for each other.
“The hell are you smiling about?” Arakita pulled his bike up next to the second year’s as they practiced.
“Huh?”
“Don’t you huh me! You’ve been smiling all practice! It’s weird!” Izumida didn’t normally smile that much while practicing. He was normally so serious during practice, after all.
“Oh, sorry. It’s just, I’m really happy today. I finally got Andy and Frank to get together and…”
“It worked!?” Toudou pulled up next to them as they continued riding along, and he couldn’t help but eavesdrop on the two.
“Yes! Thank you so, so much, Toudou-san!”
Toudou let out a laugh. “As I said yesterday, anytime you need advice, just come to me!”
“Wait a minute!” Arakita interrupted them. “You’re telling me that you’ve been acting even weirder than usual… because your muscles are dating?”
“…Yes?”
“And Toudou helped you?”
“That’s right!” The two spoke up at the same time.
“…What the fuck is wrong with this team.”