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“Oooh! It says we should talk about our crushes!” Lev’s voice was way too…Lev, there, being a bit too excited.
Inuoka and Yuki’s faces both turned red. “Uh, Lev, I don’t…that might be a bit embarrassing!” Yuki had curled up and was holding Inuoka’s arm.
“Yeah, that’s a bit scary Lev. Besides, it’s a bit…uh well one of us is more obvious that the others, so its kind of at a disadvantage.” Inuoka had instinctively wrapped his arm around his smaller friend.
“Wait…who are you talking about So?” Kenma looked up from the gas station sushi he had bought. Sleepovers aren’t that bad. Inuoka and Yuki are very sweet and nice. Lev is too, even though he’s a nuisance. “I don’t think I know that any of your crushes are more obvious than the others’.”
Lev went quiet as he stuck a mayonnaise covered California roll in his mouth. Yuki and Inuoka quietly shuttered. Lev, you’re scaring our friends with your rankness. After swallowing, Lev opened his mouth. “Kenma, he was talking about you. We all have your crush narrowed down to one of two people.” Lev’s face went bright instantly. “Wait!!! W-what makes you think you know who we like??”
Kenma shrugged and looked away from his friends for a moment. “You guys. I’m very good at observing people.”
Inuoka shrugged. “Oh. Well I guess we should talk about it since I’m pretty sure that if you know who I like it makes it really awkward, huh?”
Kenma’s eyes squinted. “Inuoka, just say who you like to confirm.”
Inuoka’s lips puckered and he poked his fingers together. “I-I like Hinata. From Karasuno. He’s cute and funny and we both like trampolines.”
Yuki’s was brightened and he giggled. “That’s a wonderful reason for liking him, So.”
Kenma turned to Inuoka, honestly. “You guys think I like Shoyo?”
Lev gasped. “Do you not? I was sure it was him!”
Kenma slowly shook his head. “No, I really do just seem him as a really fun friend. But attentive and positive boys kind of make me nervous. Not in a way that would stop a friendship, but he’d be too overwhelming for me to date.”
Yuki went from his sitting position on Kenma’s bed to a kneeling one. He, Inuoka, and Kenma were on the bed, Kenma laying on his pillows, with Inuoka and Yuki sitting at the foot, on the side. “Wait! So that means I’m right huh? It’s Kuroo-san?”
Kenma shook his head. “Nope. Been there, done that.”
All three first year faces lit up in shock. “What? It’s not him? We were sure it was one of them!” Inuoka’s voice was one of wonder. Inuoka and Yuki are so innocent and sweet. They’re like children who want to know about mommy’s love life.
Lev, who was sitting on Kenma’s spinning desk chair, stood up in shock. “What??? What do you mean ‘been there?’ Are you guys exes?”
Yuki held his cheeks. “Oh! Sorry, was that insensitive to ask? I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to bring up old or sad stuff.” He was sniffling.
Kenma handed him a tissue. “It’s not sad. We dated in his first year. I was still in junior high, but his house is on this street, so, you know. He had been really doting on me for a while, so we tried it. I had the same problems I talked about with Shoyo. And he saw I was uncomfortable, so he broke us up, but he seems like he’s kind of in a good place now. I think he’s got someone he likes, but it’s a girl in his Chemistry class.
Yuki’s face was marvelously astounded. “Wow. That’s insane. So…who do you like?”
Kenma smirked a little, much to everyone’s surprise. “You guys keep guessing mine. Its time for me to guess yours.”
Lev and Yuki both froze, with Inuoka looking at them in amused pity.
“Lev, you like Bokuto-san, actually,” Lev’s face exploded in pink. “Yuki, you’re in love with that guy from Karasuno. The really talk wing-spiker. Uh, the ace, right? What’s his name, Azumane-san?” Yuki held his mouth in wonder and embarrassment.
“K-Kenma-san? How did you know?”
“Yuki you draw scribbles of him in your notebook surrounded by flowers and hearts.” Yuki’s eyes went a little wide.
“Aw! Yuki! Why are you such a cutie pie!??!” Inuoka flung his arms around Yuki and was smiling. “Hey! We both want date a Karasuno wing spiker! They’re like, ace one and ace two right? Oh man!”
Yuki giggled. “Great minds think alike, huh?”
Lev was still frozen. “H-how did you know about Bokuto-san? I never talk about him, and I don’t keep anything with him around me!”
“I saw you looking at black hair dye, probably to mimic his hairstyle, or maybe look more like Akaashi, since you probably think Bokuto likes him. You also said at practice you think long kneepads look cooler, but only if you have ‘thicc thighs.’ But like, you pronounced it the silly way people pronounce it when its spelled with two cs. Then in our last match you were staring at his ass.” Lev’s face was on fire, and Yuki and Inuoka were giggling their heads off. “Oh and you said you wanted to practice rebounds, and then you asked if we could invite Fukurodani to a picnic after our practice match, and you have a volleyball magazine in your locker that has a bookmark in it, and I don’t know the page, but I know Bokuto has a shirtless-spread in there. And you also said ‘hey hey hey” in the bathroom the other day, but not in Bokuto’s voice, but in the voice of the other Fukurodani guys when they’re trying to support him. And you also—”
“STOP!! STOP IT! KENMA!!” Lev put his hands over Kenma’s mouth to keep him quiet. “Okay! I get it, you notice a lot of things, but stop! You’re bullying me!” Lev felt a wetness against his hand and pulled it away and wiped it on his pyjama pants. “Ewughuhgu! Kenma! That’s so gross!!!”
Kenma wiped his tongue against the box of his sushi container. “Your hand is gross. You sweat.”
Inuoka and Yuki burst out laughing. “Kenma, you’re too smart for us!” You’re too cute, Yuki. “So, okay, you called us out! Now you have to tell us!”
Inuoka nodded in agreement. “Please?”
Kenma sighed. “It’s Fukunaga.”
Yuki and Lev gasped in unison. Inuoka went insane. “Fukunaga? The Fukunaga? The terrifyingly ominous and eccentric Fukunaga? The one that never ever spikes out of bounds and always gets one touches?
Kenma’s face furrowed. “Okay, calm down, he’s not the Joker. I just…he’s really nice, but also doesn’t harass me or anything. And he’s really pretty.”
Yuki and Inuoka’s faces melted. “That’s so sweet!” they said in harmonic stereo.
Lev sighed. “You’re the only one whose around his crush very often, you should probably confess.”
Kenma shook his head. “I don’t think so. Fukunaga doesn’t seem to be impressed or anything with me.”
Lev’s silently squinted.
A bell rang from the kitchen. “Oh, that’s the oven. My mom finished her pie for us. I’ll bring it in. I promise blueberry-peach pie is better than it sounds.”