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The way it happened was a little ridiculous.
The Seijoh boys were ending practice and cleaning up. As usual, the boys were fooling around and playing jokes with each other and chasing each other around. Oikawa laughed at the others and picked up the stray volleyballs lying around.
With a bunch of volleyballs filling his vision, he didn’t see the things lying in his path. Yuda looked over to where Oikawa was stumbling at and turned to warn the Captain.
“Tooru!! Watch out for the things on the ground!!”
“Huh?”
The brunette turned his head away from the pile and stepped on the towel that was on the ground, causing him to fall back with a yell.
The rest of the members stopped and turned to look at Oikawa, who was sitting on the ground and rubbing his lower back a bit. Iwaizumi rushed forward and leaned down to talk to his boyfriend. They saw the Captain wince as he tried to get up. Iwaizumi hissed a bit and carried his boyfriend towards the bench and gently sat him down. He turned towards the others.
“Someone go and get the coaches!!”
“Uh…hai!!!”
Kindaichi nervously called out as he left the gym to go for the coaches. The older men and the middle blocker came running into the door. By then, the others had resumed cleaning to avoid being yelled at by the coaches. Both men made their way towards the bench.
“What happened?” Irihata asked curiously.
“Tooru was picking up the balls and didn’t see a stray towel on the floor. He slipped on it and he may have sprained his ankle.”
Yuda answered the older man. The coach nodded and sat on the bench next to Oikawa’s next injured foot and felt around, causing the boy to hiss. The older man shook his head. He asked Mizoguchi to grab the first aid kit. The other coach came back and he gently removed the shoe and shock and quickly wrapped the bandages around the ankle and placed a packet of ice on it.
“The ankle luckily isn’t damaged a lot. He would need to keep ice on it for a while and try to keep off of it for a while. IF he does this, then he should be as good as new by the end of the week.”
The Seijoh members stared at their Captain, but the brunette was only looking down at his lap. Iwaizumi nodded at the coach and promised to make sure that the brunette would keep off of his feet.
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Iwaizumi was bridal carrying Oikawa towards the taller boy’s house. The brunette was strangely quiet the entire way home. Either out of embarassment or something else, Iwaizumi didn’t know. But, Iwaizumi being Iwaizumi, knew why his boyfriend was so silent, but he wanted to wait until they got to Oikawa’s room to have that conversation.
Once in the brunette’s room, after a long and embarrassing conversation with Oikawa’s mom, Tooru was finally settled on his bed, leg elevated and being iced. Iwaizumi sat on the ground next to the brunette’s futon and stared at him.
“Kawa?”
Oikawa cleaned at his pants and the first few drops of tears fell from his eyes. Iwaizumi’s eyes widened and he looked at his boyfriend in worry.
”Kawa? C’mon, talk to me. What’s wrong?”
“I…messed up…”
Iwaizumi blinked at the words his boyfriend muttered finally caught up with his brain. He moved closer to his boyfriend and brought him into his arms, rubbing one hand up and down the brunette’s arm.
“Baby, why would you say that?”
Oikawa had started to openly sob now and Iwaizumi mentally scolded him for unknowingly making his boyfriend cry harder.
“Baby, you have to use your words. Now, tell me what’s wrong, hmm?”
Oikawa sobbed for a bit longer before looking at his boyfriend.
“I-i just feel so stupid. Who the hell gets and ankle injury like this before a tournament? I just feel so useless now.”
The brunette turned his head and buried it into his boyfriend’s chest. Iwaizumi frowned at his boyfriend calling himself useless, but that would be a different conversation for another time. Iwaizumi hugged Oikawa tighter and laid them both down on the futon.
“Hey now, everyone makes silly mistakes like this, but you only need to sit out for a couple of days. Maybe, it’s your body’s way of telling you that it needs to rest. Plus, it’s lucky that it happened now and not in the middle of the tourney.”
If possible, Oikawa turned paler than he already was at the thought of that happening. Iwaizumi quickly reassured his boyfriend that it was a ‘what if’ scenario. Oikawa glared at his boyfriend and began whacking him across the chest softly for scaring him like that.
Bonus:
When Iwaizumi and Oikawa entered the gym a couple of days later, Makki and Mattsun dramatically retold the story of how Iwaizumi had bravely carried his bride home from the school all the way to the brunette’s house. Oikawa had turned a bright red and froze on the spot while Iwaizumi chased them around the gym, volleyball in hand. Everyone else wished that they had different third years.