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ego finally let them out of the training facilities for a break after god knows how long they'd been stuck in blue lock. and, of course, like any other blue lock player, isagi decided that the first thing he would do was return home and meet his family. to be honest, it was a more than welcome change from the constantly competitive and almost stuffy atmosphere of blue lock's dorms. home was... something entirely different. it was isagi's safe haven, a place where he could finally unwind and let his worries go.
he was still going to do some physical exercises, of course. he wasn't going to lay around at home and burn off all the hard work he'd put in to get in shape to improve his stats.
“yocchan, dinner’s ready!”
isagi immediately jumped out of bed and stretched, laying his phone on the bed. "i'll be there!" he replied to his mother, leaving the room and down the stairs to the dining room with a small smile. his father was already at the table, reading his newspaper after returning from work. his mother was just cleaning up a few cooking tools that she used earlier, and from the looks of it, she had just finished. iyo turned and smiled as she was greeted with the sight of isagi, wiping her wet hands on her apron before taking a seat across from her son.
“oh, they are showing it again! record it, record it!” issei said happily, pressing on a few buttons on the TV remote. “yocchan’s interview? i wanna see!” isagi’s mother asked excitedly, and the teen could clearly see the sparkles dancing in her orbs. he could only laugh since he didn’t really know what was so special about that- it was the same one as the other day’s, anyway.
"ah, that's right! I just remembered. My colleague got free tickets to the amusement park- your mom and i are too old for this sort of thing, and there are only two tickets anyway.. so why not go with a friend instead?" issei said as he rose from his seat and walked towards a table in the living room. he returned shortly after with an envelope, which he handed to the black-haired boy. isagi accepted it wordlessly, pulling out the paper inside. there were indeed two tickets to the amusement park, as mentioned by his father.
he.. guessed he could go. it’s been a while anyway.
but who will he bring, is the true question?
maybe nagi? no, that guy would probably say it’s too much of a hassle. chigiri? oh, he did mention having something to do with his sister yesterday. bachira?
bachira would probably work. he’ll just ask him after dinner then. he took another bite out of his meal and hummed happily, already knowing that his mom’s katsu curry was the best in the world. the rest of dinner carried on with light conversation and small laughters, with the occasional questions about football even though both iyo and issei knew nothing about it.
the teen went back to his room after, sitting on the edge of the bed and resisting the urge to lay down. he had just eaten after all. isagi took his smartphone from his nightstand and immediately opened the messaging app, wanting to hit up bashira and ask if he would be up to hang out tomorrow. as expected, the reply was immediate.
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: hey
𝗺𝗲𝗴𝘂: whats uppp
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: i got tickets to amusement park tomorrow. wanna go together?
𝗺𝗲𝗴𝘂: woulda love to, but i have plans tmrw :/ try askin chigiri?
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: he said he had plans the other day..
𝗺𝗲𝗴𝘂: how bout rin-chan?
isagi blinked.
rin..?
considering how he received a death threat just the other day on the football field, he didn’t even want to imagine what would happen if he asked him to hang out.. but does that guy even have friends? wouldn’t he be lonely on this two-week break? is he planning to live and die with football that human interactions wouldn’t matter to him at all?
how unhealthy.. he guessed it was worth to try.
isagi turned to look at the screen again to resume chatting with bachira, only to see a screenshot that almost made his eyes pop out of his skull in surprise. when he was in his little monologuing world, bachira had took it upon himself to ask rin for him!
“bachira..” he sighed exasperatedly, pinching his temple.
𝗺𝗲𝗴𝘂: i asked him for u. u should be thxful (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: WHY DID YOU DO THAT? WHAT IF HE KILLS ME ༼ ༎ຶ ᆺ ༎ຶ༽
𝗺𝗲𝗴𝘂: ilyt (⋆ˆ ³ ˆ)♥
UGH THIS-
isagi flopped onto his pillow face first, trying to figure out how he was going to face this situation. wait- how did bachira say it to rin again?
𝗺𝗲𝗴𝘂: rin-chann, isagi wanna talk to u
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he screamed into his pillow as he read that. there was no way rin would hit him up first right? but even if he doesn’t, he would wait for isagi to message first.. what if isagi kept him waiting if he didn't reply to him anytime soon? ah, he was about to collapse from overthinking! as he was trying to sort himself again, he heard a notification ‘ding!’ from his phone. isagi slowly reached out for his phone and his eyes widened at the sender name.
𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙄𝙩𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙞 𝙍𝙞𝙣 !
Calm down, heart. He won’t kill you, maybe.
He opened the chat with his eyes closed, slowly peeking at the screen.
𝗶𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗿𝗶𝗻: what did you want to talk about?
Okay but why does he sound nice?
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: hi! uhh, it’s just that i got two tickets to the amusement park and i was wondering if you’d wanna come?
now isagi felt like turning off his phone and going to sleep, trying to get away from the embarrassment that might come and bite his ass later. that, is for future him to worry about! but.. He can’t help but feel curious when he heard another ‘ding’ from his phone.
He doesn’t expect anything to be honest. He’ll probably reject him.
𝗶𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗿𝗶𝗻: sure. where?
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: ahh, thought so!
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: wait what??
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: oh! at xxx amusement park!
𝗶𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗿𝗶𝗻: tomorrow?
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: yeah!
𝗶𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗿𝗶𝗻: is 10 am okay?
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: of course! Let’s meet up at xx train station?
𝗶𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗿𝗶𝗻: okay.
he agreed. It felt so.. unreal.
Whatever- maybe it was time to sleep. He turned off the lights and made sure to set the alarm at about 9 AM before he finally hit the hay.
–
morning came and isagi did some stretches before he headed into the bathroom for a shower. strange.. He felt sort of.. excited. maybe it was his chance to grow closer to rin? And why didn’t rin refuse in the first place?
Even though he should be grateful for it, he found himself to still be curious as to why he wasn’t rejected. It sort of came naturally to him that rin wouldn’t want to get himself involved with the older other than for football purposes, after all.
But whatever.
He dressed himself in khaki coloured pants and a dark blue hoodie, fixing his hair in front of the mirror. he sprayed on some cologne as well and slipped on a pair of white socks before he left the room and down the stairs. “i’ll be out, mom! i’m going out with a friend!” isagi called out, knowing full well that iyo was in the kitchen. “careful, yocchan! Have a safe trip!” the teen walked out of the door soon after in a pair of black and white sneakers, clutching his sling bag close to him.
The train station should be a 15 minute walk from here. Looking at his watch, it was only 9:40 AM, so he would get there just in time. he pulled out his phone to look at the chat of him and rin, deciding to ask him if he’s already there or not.
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: morningg, are you there yet?
𝗶𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗿𝗶𝗻: should be there in about 10 minutes.
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: okay!
10 minutes huh? He should probably quicken his steps then! He wouldn’t want to keep rin waiting, after all.
—-
isagi arrived at the train station at 9:56 a.m. and immediately looked around for the younger. He hoped the other wouldn't have to wait too long. I sagi smiled as he noticed a tall figure leaning against a wall, looking down at his phone. "rin!" he exclaimed as he approached. “sorry! I got a bit late , but shall we be on our way now?" h e asked, chuckling guiltily. he'd found an injured kitten on the way here and couldn't help but treat it before leaving. fortunately, it was only a small cut, so it didn't take long, and he still arrived on time. “It’s nothing.” rin replied, and without agreeing to isagi’s question, he walked towards the train and entered it, not bothering to wait for the older. how rude!
isagi didn’t pay much heed to it though, and only entered the train along with the other and sat next to him.
“hey, rin-” he was cut off when he turned to look at his junior, only to see that he had earphones in both ears. He seemed to notice isagi talking to him though, since he opened one of his eyes and peeked at the other. Without saying a word, rin took off the one in his left ear and handed it over to isagi, who was blinking in disbelief.
..huh..?
itoshi rin, out of the football field, was surprisingly a whole different person.
he accepted it from the other without much thought, plugging it into his ear and scooting closer to the younger. the earphone strap wasn’t that long, after all. still.. this was rin’s choice of music, huh? he thought the other would be and r&b kind of guy, but he really fits into the cool guy persona by liking classical music.
though he couldn’t lie, it was quite sleep inducing. isagi could already feel his eyes growing heavy from fatigue. without realising it, the older slowly drifted off to sleep, his head resting on his junior’s shoulder.
rin didn’t do anything about it, but he did rest his head against the other’s the whole ride to the amusement park.
–
isagi was woken up by a shake on his shoulders, and the teen slowly raised his head to be met with rin’s face which was merely inches away from his. he backed away with widened eyes, surprised that the other was that close. had he leaned in only a little bit more, their foreheads would’ve touched, and their lips, too..
ah! whatever! it didn’t happen!
he nervously chuckled as he stood up, looking at the younger as he handed the left side of the earphone back to him. “t-thanks for this. and.. come, let’s go.” he said to rin, walking out the train and stretching a bit. that was quite a nice nap, and really comfortable too..
once he made sure that rin was indeed following behind him, isagi immediately walked while looking at the map in his phone, noticing that the amusement park wasn't that far from the amusement park. “ah! it’s just around that corner. come, rin.” he said to the other, walking ahead of him and pulling out the tickets for the both of them.
he gave it to the old man guarding the entrance, and the man would scan it over a barcode reader. the path would then unblock itself and the two would go through it. the amusement park, despite it being quite early, was lively as ever. children were all over the place, and some couples too. it was a weekday, so the place wasn’t as busy as usual, but there were enough people to make the place not feel lonely.
“have you eaten? let’s have breakfast first?” he asked the younger, smiling brightly.
rin shook his head. “it’s still early, so i haven't eaten yet.” he said, and isagi would only take the other’s arm and pull him towards a nearby cafe inside of the amusement park, taking some time to read the menu. “i would like.. the peanut butter and chocolate waffle set, please. for the drink, i want the iced tea. what about you, rin?” he asked the other, but rin was still looking at the menu. “hot coffee, and egg salad sandwich.” he said to the vendor after a few seconds of thought.
“how do you consume sweet things this early in the morning, isagi?” he asked the older, the expression on his face clearly one of judgement. Isagi would only stick his tongue out at the other, not bothering to reply to him.
–
“which ride do you wanna get on first?”
“up to you.”
“i’m telling you to choose!”
“then.. that one?” rin asked, randomly pointing towards the pirate ship. isagi could almost feel his blood draining from his body at the sight of that ride. the pirate ship, also known as the scariest ride on this particular park. but he did tell rin to choose.. he can’t go back on his words now!
“right.. let’s go!”
–
isagi swore he left his stomach up there. it was so terrifying to be held up in the air that long, not to mention nauseating. he had been on the verge of puking for so long now, and rin seems just fine, even when he was still on the ride! how was that fair..?
“you’re not.. dizzy..?” he asked the other in disbelief, looking at the younger who only shook his head.
tch. typical cool boy behaviour.
“ah, whatever! how about we go on that one this time?” isagi turned to look at the taller, a bright smile replacing that gloomy look on his features. finally, the shine returned to his face. Rin’s gaze followed where isagi’s finger pointed, and saw that it was the rollercoaster.
“okay.” he replied, and they would both go on their merry way to queue.
the rest of the day went by just like that, with a few rides being repeated twice or more. some were just more fun than the other, after all. then they reached the last attraction of them all.. the ferris wheel.
isagi stared at the wheel for a while before he turned to look at the younger with a nervous chuckle. that ride is a couple’s attraction, after all, there was no way-
“we still have that one.” rin said softly, pulling on isagi’s hand to lead him towards that ride and leaving no space for argument. there wasn’t a queue- probably because the ferris wheel isn't that popular during the day. isagi stepped into one of the carts wordlessly, sitting on the seat opposite from his junior. they didn’t say anything, even when the door closed and the wheel started moving.
to be frank, it was awkward. as he mentioned before- this was a ride meant for couples! and even if it wasn’t, it was meant to be enjoyed with a beautiful night time view.. what is there to see in broad daylight?
“uh.. what’s your favourite food, rin?” he asked the younger, awkwardly smiling his way. “ochazuke. with bream.” he replied, nodding his head at the other. “ah, i see! i like katsu curry.” he replied, in which rin only nodded his head in reply. then they were back to the silent, tense atmosphere from before.
even though being in silence was completely fine, isagi still felt obligated to say something, to keep a conversation going. he didn’t want rin to be awkward around him- especially since he was the one to invite the other to this little.. hangout session.
“rin-” he was cut off again for the umpteenth time today, but this time, not by rin or by anybody else, but from the sudden shaking of their cart. it swung over to rin’s side, and isagi’s eyes widened as he was lifted from the seat. trying to find his balance, the older closed his eyes and put his hands on something sturdy. when he opened his eyes only did he saw how close he was to his junior, and his hands were placed onto the other’s shoulders.
“..how lukewarm.” he heard the other whisper, and before isagi could even move away, an arm circled around his waist and pulled him closer to the younger’s body, bringing isagi’s face closer than ever to his own. the shorter was stunned, his eyes widened as he stared into rin’s beautiful teal eyes.
“why did you not invite me to this date yourself, isagi?” the younger asked, bringing his other hand to gently pinch the other’s chin and force him to look at him when he noticed isagi’s eyes began straying elsewhere.
“d-date..? what do you mean? i told you that this was just a hangout.” isagi laughed nervously, trying to maintain his cool as he gently pushed rin’s hand that was on his chin. “bachira said you wanted to ask me on a date.” he said, raising one of his eyebrows. bachira?
that sly bee.
now he doesn’t even know what to say in defense to himself!
“uh..”
it doesn’t seem like the cart was moving soon. They were really gonna be stuck here for a while. And HE was going to be stuck in this position until the problem is settled. And he was almost in rin’s lap!
“cat got your tongue?” rin asked.
his face was warm, and his face was as red as a tomato. ah.. this was going to be a problem. If rin has his face this close to his, it would be hard to hold himself back.. up close, he was even more attractive. he could see his long lashes, his beautiful teal eyes, perfectly sculptured face.. what did he do in his past life to be blessed this much in terms of looks?
beautiful.. before he could even think of what he was going to do, isagi leaned in and pressed his lips against the younger’s for a solid second before he finally realised what he was doing. he flinched away from the man, his eyes widened in panic. “sorry, sorry-” he said frantically, trying to move away. but he couldn’t even move- rin’s arm around him wouldn’t budge!
“you can’t do that and try to run.” he heard rin whisper, pinching isagi’s chin once again and turning his face so he was facing rin, before he pressed another kiss onto his lips.
the older’s eyes widened, not expecting rin to be returning his feelings.
was this.. why he didn’t hesitate when isagi asked him out?
“let’s go out.” rin said to the other, leaning their foreheads together.
fuck you bachira.
but he sort of had him to thank.. he guessed. whatever it was, bachira was going to get a scolding soon.
–
𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶: you’re so dead, bachira.
𝗺𝗲𝗴𝘂: (✿◠‿◠)