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Kenma woke up to the sound of his phone buzzing loudly on the table by his bed. Morning light had just barely begun to seep through his curtains. It was too early for this . He threw his arm over his eyes, silently wishing he had put his phone on do not disturb. After a few minutes of trying to ignore the constant buzzing, he caved and grabbed his phone. The realization of what day it was quickly set in as he read through the slew of messages.
BOKUTO : hey hey!
BOKUTO: HEY!!
BOKUTO: good morning!
KUROO: morning bro
AKAASHI: you’re both up early for a saturday
BOKUTO: sorry did i wake you up?
AKAASHI: it’s ok i should probably get up soon anyway
BOKUTO: well it IS a very important day after all !
KUROO: yes yes very exciting
BOKUTO : how does it feel to finally be living on your own from today akaashi?
AKASSHI: ya know it’s not on my OWN if I’ll be living with you three
BOKUTO: okay but like, not living with your family
AKASHI: honestly i’m more worried about you two
KUROO: hey we’re adults now there’s nothing to worry about :)
Kenma rolled his eyes at the exchange. He hardly considered Kuroo and Bokuto to be anything close to “adults”. He finally chimed in.
KENMA: you guys are so loud do u know it’s 7am
KUROO: wow i’m impressed ur awake I thought 7am was the middle of the night for you
KENMA: it is.
BOKUTO: come on guys you have to get up soon we have a big day moving ahead of us
KUROO: i’ll come over to get you in about an hour kenma, don’t fall back asleep
KENMA: fine.
Today was the day the four of them were moving in together. Bokuto and Kuroo had spent their first year of college in a dorm together where they had had plenty of fun making friends and getting into a healthy amount of mischief, but they had very much missed seeing their boyfriends every day. Kenma had definitely felt Kuroo's absence in his last year of high school. Kuroo had been at Kenmas side for the better part of 10 years, and there was no amount of facetime calls and weekend visits that could fill the space Kuroo had always occupied in his life. He wasn’t completely alone though, his social skills had improved and he was grateful for the friendships that he had time to strengthen in Kuroos absence. One being Akaashi. They had never really hung out with each other outside of volleyball unless Bokuto and Kuroo had dragged them along to something. Him and Akaashi had always been friendly considering the closeness of their boyfriends, but over the past year they had really begun to become friends independently of the two and was he grateful for it. They had both decided to go to the same college as Kuroo and Bokuto and the older two convinced them to skip the dorm life and move into a small two bedroom they had managed to find. It’s not that he was against the idea, Kenma was secretly very happy to be able to see Kuroo everyday but then there was the issue of Bokuto. It wasn’t that he didn’t like him, they were always friendly to each other, but Bokuto was loud and energetic and gave Kuroo stupid idea. They barely shared a brian cell when they were together. So he knew it would take some time to get used to.
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The hour had passed and Kuroo called Kenma to let him know he was outside. They spent nearly the whole day transporting and unpacking their belongings and cheap secondhand furniture into their new apartment. By the time they sat down for a break in the living room- *their* living room, it was already past 7pm.
Bokuto was splayed out on the cool hardwood and groaned “I’m hungryyyy”
Kuroo, who was draped over the couch next to Kenma agreed “ugh, same”
Kenma who was fighting back the urge to fall asleep mumbled out “I’m tired..”
Akashi placed a final box on the kitchen counter and suggested ordering some pizza. A unanimous yes rang out and bounced off the walls of their new home.
Once the pizza had arrived, the room was quiet for a while until everyone had officially recharged and refilled their stomachs.
Bokuto looked over with wide eyes at Akaashi and Kenma “Are you guys excited to be starting classes on Monday?” Akaashi finished his drink “I guess so but it’s a bit intimidating”
Kenma nodded “yeah, especially when I haven’t done anything like video production before at school.”
“That’s true,” Akaashi said, “ my literature courses should be okay, but I don’t really know what to expect for the business ones”
Kuroo leaned back in his chair and stretched his arms behind his head, “yeah, but you’ll soon get used to it. I’m kind of in the same position as you guys since i switched my major this year.”
Bokuto chimed in “Oh yeah! You’re doing the same thing as Akaashi right? That’s sooo much better than science dude, what a snore-fest, i can’t believe you stuck with it for a whole year.”
Kuroo faked offense and bit back “ Dude you literally do science in health and physical education too”
Bokuto rolled his eyes, “Okay but that’s not like, “real science” like that boring chemistry stuff you were doing”
Now it was Kuroos turn to roll his eyes “It’s not boring, i still LIKE science i just decided I didn’t want to do it for a job.”
“Uhh yeah, because it’s boorrring”
“Well you’re only at college for a back up if volleyball doesn’t work out”
Bokuto looked smug “Good thing volleyball will work out then.” He said with confidence.
There was no real heat behind their exchange but Akaashi was too tired for their back and forth after a long day of moving .
“Can you two please stop arguing,” he said with a sigh, dragging his hand across his face, “it’s only the first day of living together” Bokuto placed a hand in his boyfriend’s shoulder and smiled up at Kuroo, “S’not arguing right Ku? Just some friendly teasing.”
Akashi opened his mouth to say something else, but was cut off by Kuroo changing the subject at a realization “Oh Akaashi, since we’re the same major now we should see if we have any of the same classes.”
Akaashi pulled out his phone to bring up his schedule, “oh right, yeah come take a look” Kuroo moved his chair to sit next to Akaashi. They compared schedules and realized they had most of the same core classes together. Kuroo smiled at Akaashi, “looks like we’ll be seeing a lot of each other then” and nudged his arm with his elbow and Akaashi returned a soft smile, “It would seem so.”
Akaashi was secretly very grateful for this. Because as loud and goofy as Kuroo generally was, he knew that he was a good student and pretty smart so it would be nice to have someone he was familiar with in his classes that he could always work with and take them seriously. It would also allow him to get closer to Kuroo, which he knew would make Bukuto happy. They were best friends after all.
However Bokuto did fake sulk over the prospect that his best friend gets classes with his boyfriend instead of him. “No fair”, he pouted and rested his head on Akashis shoulder. Kuroo laughed slightly at the sight in front of him, “ no need to be jealous bro, you’ll get to see Akaashi every day and share a room with him”
Bokuto peppered a few kisses on his boyfriends cheek and hummed in agreement.