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It had all started in their second year of high school. When all the truth started to come out and all the drama had begun, but what really started it all was a stupid group chat.
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Oikawa has made a group chat
Oikawa named the group chat “Their teams only hope or maybe just half of you”
Oikawa has added Akaashi, Ennoshita, Shirabu, Kenma, Yahaba, Yamaguchi, Osamu, Terushima, Hanamaki, Konoha, Suna to “Their teams only hope or maybe just half of you”
Shirabu and konohan are online
Shirabu: Why, Just why? We're not even on the same team. You hate my captain, so why?
Oikawa: Why not! :))))
Shirabu has left the group chat
Konoha: No, if I have to suffer, you have to too.
Konoha has added Shirabu to the group chat
Konoha: leave. I dare you. 😃
Shirabu: Watch me mf.
Konoha has added Semi to the group chat
Shirabu: Okay, okay, calm down. 😒
Semi: What? Wait, what's happening?
Oikawa kicked Semi out of the group chat
Oikawa: Okay, so anyways, I have added you all on here because you are all my very special friends! Feel honored weirdo's.
Ennoshita is online
Ennoshita: No offense Oikawa, but we’re friends? 🧍
Oikawa: Enno-chan, how could you say that? Of course, we're friends.
Kenma is online
Kenma: Do I even know any of you?
Yamaguchi is online
Yamaguchi: No, we JUST somehow have each other's phone numbers, and hangout on weekends.💀
Kenma: Hi Yamaguchi.
Everyone is online
Akaashi: Hello, everyone.
Terushima: Akaashi, please no stop the punctuation. The grammar its to clean not smexy at all. 😩😞
Ennoshita: Literally shut up, Terushima.
Yamaguchi: Do you know him, Enno?
Ennoshita: Yeah, he was the second year at Johzenji high... at least I think he was. 🤷 I didn't really pay much attention to him.
Terushima: Enno, I even said hi to you before the game started. :(
Hanamaki: What is this group chat even for, Oikawa-san?
Oikawa: Well, my dear Hanamaki, I'm glad you asked!
Osamu: Shut up, and get to the point already.
Oikawa: I'm going to pretend you didn't say that.
Oikawa: Okay anyways, I made this group chat because I was bored, and I thought about the most entertaining people I know.
Shirabu: I'm sorry, but why is Kenma here then?
Kenma: What does that mean dipshit bangs?
Shirabu: Okay, I see how it is sleep deprived bitch.
Terushim: Not him calling Kenma sleep deprived and a bitch.
Konoha: @Shirabu get it I guess best friend?
Yamaguchi: Nah, Ken Ken, don't let the shit bangs drag you.
Shirabu: Shut up, your hair looks like literal seaweed.
Yamaguchi: Oh...
Kenma: Oh dang, Shirabu, you must have a death wish.
Akaashi: Yamaguchi, remember what Enno and I talked to you about last time breathe. Don't do anything rationally or stupid like last time.
Ennoshita: Yams… you okay buddy. I'm sure Shirabu is just joking about your hair.
Terushima: Freckles, you okay dude?
Yamaguchi: Pull up, you dumb trick ass hoe!
Shirabu: Whoa, calm down, Yamaguchi. I was just joking.
Yamaguchi: Too late mf. You decided to talk shit about my hair. When yours looks like every barbie doll my little cousin has tried giving a haircut to. Meet me at the park near your school.
Kenma: HOLD ON! I'LL BE THERE IN 5 MINUTES!
Akaashi: I'm guessing we're all going if it means we get to see a fight...
Kenma: ^
Yahaba: ^
Osamu: ^
Terushima: ^
Ennoshita: ^
Hanamaki: ^
Shirabu: Wtf guys? No, help me out of this, Yahaba?
Yahaba: Yeah, no, sorry, I want to see a fight go down, bro.
Everyone except Ennoshita and Oikawa are offline
Oikawa: Ennoshita, ft me when you get there, so I can see Yamaguchi rock the shit out of him!
Ennoshita: Huh, you're not coming?
Oikawa: Uh, do you not remember where I am?
Ennoshita: Oh Yeah, okay, I'll call you when I get there. Bye, Oikawa.
Oikawa: Bye-bye Enno!
Everyone is offline
***
It was 12 in the afternoon when they all planned to meet up, having no clue who most of them were. Yamaguchi was already there waiting for Shirabu to show up so he could start the fight, even if no one had gotten there. Not long after Yamaguchi got there, Osamu got there too. Then, Ennoshita, Kenma, Akaashi, and Terushima got there. Ennoshita was on facetime with Oikawa.
“Tell Shirabu to hurry his slow ass up. I don't have all day.” They could hear Oikawa saying from Ennoshita's phone.
Ennoshita had an annoyed expression on his face, rolling his eyes, knowing that Oikawa could only see Ennnoshita’s hair on camera. “ Do I look like Konoha to you, No. “ Yamaguchi was at the swings talking with Akaashi and Kenma. They waited for Shirabu to make his grand entrance as he was running late.
“ Yamaguchi, are you sure you want to fight Shirabu? His kinda... you know crazy, ” Akaashi said, as he leaned on one of the poles near them. Kenma walked up to Akaashi and sat down next to him, pulling out his PSP.
“ Yeah, I'm sure! Don't worry about me, Akaashi. Plus his raggedy-looking ass needs to get beaten up, and he also called Kenken a sleep deprived bitch, ” Kenma lifted his head. His gaze moving from his PSP to Yamaguchi. The boy gave Yamaguchi a look of disgust before returning his gaze back to his game.
“ Don't call me that, ” Kenma said, hissing at Yamaguchi. Akaashi looked up at the sky that was slowly turning dark, the sunset looking beautiful like always. Their attention went to the sun as it was slowly going down until they heard shouting coming from not so far away. They could see Shirabu being pushed in their direction by Konohan. Shirabu was kicking and screaming so loud that it might have woken up some of the people in the neighborhood, and just before Konoha could place Shirabu down, he punched him in the nose-making Konoha step back, putting a hand on his nose groaning in pain.
“ You still sure Kenma isn't just a sleep deprived bitch? ” Akaashi said, in an anxious tone. Yamaguchi looked like he wanted to back out, but there was no time for that now. Even if he wanted to, he was the one that started it in the first place. He took a big gulp as he felt a lump form in his throat, he was starting to become a nervous reck palms sweating, his heart beating faster and faster by the minute he was sure he was going to faint at any given moment.
“ Maybe you're right, Akaashi. ”Yamaguchi closed his eyes and took in a deep breath as he tried to calm himself down.
Before you knew it, people were shouting “fight!” in the middle of the playground as Shirabu and Yamaguchi were throwing punches at each other left and right. Yamaguchi had punched Shirabu so hard that his knuckles were bleeding. He groaned from the pain that he felt in his hand, every time he would punch Shirabu back. Shirabu on the other hand had a black eye and it was all swollen up. Shirabu cursed under his breath from the pain he was in. They had each gotten their fair amount of punches in, but this one had decided who won the fight. Shirabu couldn't stand up from the pain he was in. Yamaguchi was cringing from the burning and aching sensation he felt all over his body, but he was still standing, so the others decided to end the fight there. Plus, they had two hours' worth of fighting on footage already. Terushima got a medkit for their injuries, and so that the two could calm down, they separated them .
“ Yamaguchi, I told you not to do this. Now your team will be wondering where all these injuries came from, and what will you say to your parents once you get home?" Yamaguchi looked down at his shoes, staying quiet and not answering Akaashi. All that was going through his mind was what Akasshi had said a second ago; what was Yamaguchi going to tell his parents? They didn't know he was even out of the house this late. All of a sudden, a stinging sensation from his hand had just traveled all over his body. It was because of the gauze drenched in alcohol that Terushima had just placed on his hand.
“ Sorry, Freckles, but it would have hurt a lot more if you knew it was coming. ” Terushima said, as he placed Yamaguchi's hand down, and he opened the medkit looking for band-aids and ointment to fix Yamaguchi's hand and face. Yamaguchi had never really talked to Terushima since their match together during the Spring High Preliminary . That was a long time ago. Something about the boy made Yamaguchi feel comfortable. However, they had not talked, nor did they know each other well enough to be friends. Yamaguchi flinched at the cold cream that Terushima was trying to gently apply to Yamaguchi's skin, but to ever touch the cold cream on Yamaguchi's skin was like fire; he would often make a painful groan.
“ Its fine, Akaashi, you're starting to sound like my mom right now.” Not even a minute after Yamaguchi could already feel the regret in the words that had come out of his mouth.
“ Can you lift your head, Freckles?” Terushima asked Yamaguchi as Akaashi stared at them both with a mortifying look.
“ You messed up Freckles; I say run as fast you can, ” Terushima whispered to Yamaguchi with a smirk that annoyed Yamaguchi in every way possible.
“ Yamaguchi, get your sorry ass over here right now! ” Yamaguchi could hear Akaashi yell those words to him as he ran to the other side of the park where the rest of the group was. Not long after, Terushima found himself putting ointment on another of Yamaguchi's injuries.
“You know, Freckles, I could kiss your injuries away if you want me to. That would work much quicker too,” Terushima said in a flirtatious voice, giving Yamaguchi a wink Yamaguchi faked gagged.
Kenma squinted his eyes furrowing his brows, as he looked at the two boys with disgust. “ Get a room; you two disgust me. ” Kenma said, as he shuffled his way to Akaashi's side. Kenma rested his head on Akaashi’s shoulder.
“ I could blow your back out behind the bushes right now if you want me to too. You're just my type so I'd be a win, win don't you think, freckles,” Terushima said, putting an arm around Yamaguchi's shoulder. They both looked at each other, making eye contact, both looking at each other with a neutral look on their faces.
“ Good to know but you're not mine.” Yamaguchi said, pushing Terushima off.
“ Ahhh, come on freckles give me a chance! ” Yamaguchi patted Terushima's back then shook his head making sure Terushima got the message. Akaashi walked towards them both.
“ Yamaguchi, have you seen the video Suna posted on his story yet, ”Akaashi said, in an anxious tone; his face looked concerned.
“Huh, no, I haven't checked my phone in a while; why is it important? ” Yamaguchi asked with a confused expression.
“ I don't think you have to tell your team about what happened anymore,” Akaashi said in a quiet voice. At that moment, it had hit him that Osamu didn't do anything without recording it. After hanging out with Suna for so long he had made it a habit to register any drama and send it to his best friend to let him decide whether to upload or not. It seemed like the fight between him and Shirabu had piqued his interest. Yamaguchi looked for his phone and fiddled with it while trying to turn it on and unlock it. The video had more than one million views in less than 30 minutes. Yamaguchi's eyes widen as he sees the comments and messages from his friends.
“ No, no, no, What am I going to do? My parents can't find out about this guys! ” Terushima held Yamaguchi up as he started to slowly wobble and sink down to the floor. His breathing started to worsen, and he was slowly tearing up . He was rambling on and on about something, but he was saying everything too fast that none of the boys could understand what he was saying.
“ Akaashi, what's wrong with Yamaguchi !” You could hear Ennoshita shout from afar in a worried tone running as fast as he could to the group of boys. All the boys seemed worried about Yamaguchi, but they didn't know what was happening, so they didn't know what to do.
“ Teru, can you help me carry him to the bench, ” Ennoshita asked, as he massaged Yamaguchi's shoulder, trying to help him calm down.
“ Of course. ” Terushima picked up Yamaguchi in bride style, letting Yamaguchi wrap his arms around his neck and burying his face in his shoulder, feeling every tear that fell from Yamaguchi's eyes Ennoshita noticed the look on Terushima's face he could tell he felt pity for Yamaguchi an idea had then suddenly just popped up in his head something that might help Yamaguchi calm down.
“ Teru take Yamaguchi to the bench and try to calm him down while I try to fix things, ” Ennoshita said, before walking back to the group of boys arguing about the situation; Terushima walked to the bench placing Yamaguchi down, letting him fix himself in the position he wanted. Yamaguchi curled up, hugging his knees to his chest, his breathing still heavy.
“ Yamaguchi, do you want me to hug you if you think that will help at all?" Yamaguchi took a moment before hesitantly nodding; Terushima then opened his arms, letting Yamaguchi snuggle into the warm embrace. The boy then seemed to slow down his breathing after being in that position for at least thirty minutes. Yamaguchi held on to Terushima tightly.
“ Thank you, Terushima, ” Yamaguchi said in a soft and quiet voice. Terushima couldn't help but tighten the hug.
“ Terushima, you can let me go now,” Yamaguchi said as he scooted away from Terushima slowly. His eyes were puffy and red.
“ Just kiss already! ” They heard Hanamaki shout at them as he looked grossed out by how lovey-dovey the two boys were with each other.
“ We can all see the sexual tension happening between you since the moment you talked to each other, ” Akaashi said, rolling his eyes.
“ Nah, bro, that's weird,” Yamaguchi said as he stood up.
“ Unless, ” Terushima said, pulling Yamaguchi back down onto his lap with a devilish smile.
“ Boo, we all know he would kiss me any day, ” Kenma commented while Akaashi put his arm around Kenma's waist, resting his head on his shoulder. Kenma didn't lose concentration on his game the whole time.
“ Do you guys want to get McDonald's? Osamu is paying for it. ” Akaashi said in a sleepy voice. Everyone agreed, and Osamu tried running away, but Konoha pulled him back by the ear. They all sat down at a table, letting Ennoshita and Akaashi order the food with Osamu.
***
“ So Yamaguchi, what happened in the park earlier? You don't have to tell us if you don't want to, but we would really like to know why that happened, ” Akaashi said. Yamaguchi knew he was just worried about him, but he still hesitated so he never really told anyone about this since he always wanted to keep it a secret.
Yamaguchi hesitated and played with his fingers before he spoke, “ Oh yeah, about that, I have panic attacks from my anxiety, and I didn't think this would happen, so I didn't have my pills with me. ” Akaashi and Kenma looked at him with pity. It was a look Yamaguchi was used to now. They knew Yamaguchi had a troubled past, but they didn't realize how badly it affected him. They quickly changed the topic when Terushima slid into the seat next to Yamaguchi.
“ Hey, guys, what are you talking about! ” Terushima said in a loud, obnoxious voice. Only Kenma seemed to be bothered by it. Akaashi was used to Bokuto being loud, so he wasn't bothered by it at all, and Yamaguchi found it charming. He had never really hung out with people like Terushima; his best friend was always quiet and snarky around others. He seemed cold. Still, Yamaguchi knew he was only trying to protect himself. Tsukishima didn't like lies or liars since middle school and what had happened with his brother. Hence, he made a wall to protect himself and keep those he saw as a threat away from him, and when they were alone, it was almost like he was a completely different person, more open and cheerful. However, he was still nothing like Terushima from what he knew; Terushima looked like a total playboy. Still, he was just a sweet, flirtatious boy who tried making everyone laugh, so the noise made Yamaguchi feel like Terushima was comfortable around him to be this loud.
“ Hey Terushima, ” Akaashi said, pulling out his phone from his pocket.
“Sup,” Kenma mumbled, looking up.
“ Hi ,” Yamaguchi said, pulling on the strings of his hoodie Terushima placed a tray with the food they had ordered, placing their drinks in front of them Kenma somehow grabbed his food without looking away from his game, only dropping some fry on the tray that Yamaguchi and Terushima fought over.
“ Hey, Yams Tsukishima asked about you. Do you want me to tell him that you're with us still or are you going to ignore him?”’ Akaashi asked, as he stuffed his face with his burger.
“ Tell him I feel asleep. I don't really feel like talking to him.” Akaashi nodded and looked back down at his phone screen.
“ Why don't you wanna talk with the bean poll Freckles?” Terushima asked, softly nudging at Yamaguchi's shoulder.
“ I know he's worried about me, but I need some time to think about how I'm going to explain this all to him and my teammates except Ennoshita. That I got beat up over something as dumb as this... again, ” Yamaguchi said, before stealing some of Terushima's fries. He didn't even get the chance to slap Yamaguchi's hand away from his fries.
Terushima said in a playful voice, “Hey, so you don't have time to talk to your team, but you have time to steal my fries.” Yamaguchi stuck his tongue out at Terushima, and before he could do anything, his friends were already wooing them from the table next to them.
“ UGH, do you guys ever shut up, ” Terushima said in an irritated voice.
“ Not at all, ” Hanamaki shouted from his seat.
Akaashi looked up at them before saying anything.” We should all get home; it's getting pretty late. ”
“ Yeah, we have school tomorrow too, ” Ennoshita said as he went to throw away the food wrappings left.
“ Fine, we should meet up again. This was fun besides the fact we had a whole fight bye, guys. ” Shirabu said, taking his jacket; Yahaba and Hanamaki said their goodbyes and left as well.
“ Well, bye guys, me and Kenma are going to get going. It was nice hanging out for the most part.”Akaashi and Kenma left.
“ Hey, Freckles and Enno wanna walk home together,” Terushima said, with a soft smile on his face.
“ You should leave them alone, Ennoshita. We don’t wanna ruin their make-out session, ” Osamu said, putting an arm around Ennoshita's shoulder
“ Hey Osamu, why didn't Suna come? ” Yamaguchi asked in a curious tone. Osamu's face quickly changed to an annoyed look; Yamaguchi felt like he had said something wrong at that moment. The room went awkward.
“ He's a lazy ass; why did you want him to come? ” Osamu said, raising an eyebrow at Yamaguchi.
“ Nope, just asking is all. ” Ennoshita and Terushima were already standing at the door.
“ Come on, Yamaguchi, or will leave you here with these idiots. " Yamaguchi said bye to the boy and ran to Terushima and Ennoshita. Suddenly being hit by the cold night air causing him to shiver, the boys talked until they got to their homes Terushima and Yamaguchi making flirtatious jokes and comments, leaving Ennoshita to feel like he was third-wheeling them.
“ Alright, I'll cya tomorrow Ennoshita and Terushima hope to see you again soon,” Yamaguchi said with a grin on his face, waving at them goodbye before walking into his house.
“ So~ did you like today, or did you like Yamaguchi's face more? ” Ennoshita said, nudging Terushima's shoulder with a playful smile on his face.
“ Enno, you know that even if I did, I don't want to date anyone right now. ” Terushima said, looking at his feet kicking a rock that he found.
Ennoshita sighed. “ I know, but Yamaguchi is still an option if you ever feel like you're up to dating aging. ” Ennoshita could tell that Terushima was starting to get uncomfortable, so he decided to change the topic.
“ Anyways, I didn't know you were so experienced in the medical department Teru, ” Ennoshita said.
“ Huh, yeah, my parents want me to go to medical school, you know, my dad is a CEO, and my mom is a lawyer which makes people hold high standards for me. ” Terushima never likes talking about his parents. He didn't like talking about his life with anyone. Terushima only told Ennoshita this right now because talking about his love life was worse than talking about his parents.
“ WAIT, WHAT YOUR DAD'S A CEO, Terushima, why did you never tell me this? No wonder you're so filthy rich. ” Ennoshita said loud enough for Terushima's eardrums to hurt.
“ SHUT UP, and sorry! He's the company founder of the metallic blaze you know which one I'm talking about right? ” Terushima kept walking before he noticed that Ennoshita was no longer walking beside him. He turned to look back, and Ennoshita's eyes were wide open, his jaw dropped, and he looked shocked at Terushima’s response.
“ TERUSHIMA YUUJI, not only is your dad a CEO, but he's part of the big three. How loaded are you, man?” Terushima regretted talking about his family now.
“ I don't wanna talk about him anymore, Ennoshita. ” Ennoshita had a confused look on his face, and he walked as fast as he could to catch up with Terushima putting a hand on Terushima's shoulder, stopping him from walking and turning him around so that he would be facing Ennoshita and looked directly at his eyes not breaking contact with eachother.
“ Whoa, Terushima, what's so wrong about your dad that you don't like talking about him? I mean if he was my dad I'd be bragging to everyone about it.” Terushima seemed so pissed at Ennoshita's response that the blond male hesitated before speaking, scared he might say something too harsh because of the anger he felt. No it wasn't anger. It was more frustration and the ignorance Ennoshita had to the topic.
Terushima let out a harsh sigh. “ The fact that he is a self-centered prick who ruined my childhood and tore my family apart may be the start of why I don't like talking about that man, ” Terushima said, heading towards the train station.
“ I had fun, but I have to get back home bye, Ennoshita, ” Terushima said, walking off as the midnight air blew his hair to the side and regret started to seep into him.
“Bye, Teru. Get home safe.” Ennoshita let out a sigh starting his way back home.