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Kozume Kenma is a fairly popular youtuber and streamer, he goes by the username Kodzuken online but isn’t secretive about his real full name. He’s 26 but has been streaming for almost 7 years now. He began his channel on a whim, backed with encouragement from his at the time boyfriend.

He’s known for being a somewhat stoic content creator with almost no reaction to any games he plays (which is a large variety) and a dry sense of humor that tends to get anyone watching or talking to him laughing. People tended to recommend games for him to play, just to see if they could get any kind of scared or shocked reaction but very very rarely did it ever actually work. Soon, he's also known for being a content creator with a mystery fiance that nobody can seem to find anything out about.

Right now, he’s been streaming for close to 6 hours and it’s starting to get to be the time his fiance gets off of work, which means he’ll be home any minute now, so he should end the stream. Seeing a message in chat about when he’s ending stream tonight gives him the perfect segway into doing just that, “When am I ending the stream?” He reads the question out loud, “I think we’re coming to an end right now, actually. My roommate will be home from work soon and he’s definitely gonna want me to eat, so I should probably get a head start in making dinner for us so he doesn’t have to.”

Chat
JJ297: awww i dont want the stream to end yettt :((
GreatBigToad: since when do you have a roommate???
Picklez1999: dont end yet i just got here
Dolphins17: aww hes gonna make dinner for hsi roommate that s sweet
ghastlypenguin: ive been a fan of kenma for 2 years and didnt even know he had a roommate thats wild
tobecontinued32: nooo dont end kennn!!
Blopty: cmon guys, hes been streaming for 6 hours already, he’s gotta eat at some point.
bigflamethrower588: damn i just got here and hes already ending
Clizer: what @Blopty said fr
Yellowarsonist21: yea! Go eat Ken!!!

Kenma sighs at everyone begging him to stay but is appreciative of the few people telling him to go eat and whatnot, “Don’t worry guys, you still have your daily video to look forward to tomorrow. It’s a good one this time, I’m proud of it.” He says, the faintest smile dancing on his lips. He’s always liked his videos, he wouldn’t upload something if he didn’t think it was good. His anxiety would never let him do that so if he uploads something, he’s gotta be confident in it. Not that he has much confidence to give out. Either way, he’s really happy about how his video turned out, the one he’s uploading tomorrow. It’s super cool in his opinion, he even showed it to Tetsurou before it’s been uploaded, which isn’t something he does very often. He was just super happy with how it turned out. “That being said, I do have to get going so I will see all of you next week and-”

Well, the universe must have heard him thinking about Tetsurou because the man walks in and says, “Hey Kenma, love, I’m ba-” He stops in his tracks the moment he realizes Kenma’s still streaming. Thankfully Tetsurou’s face isn’t in frame, just his torso and arms, but what he said is enough to make his chat go wild.

“I’m streaming!” Kenma shouts, urgency lacing his tone because Testurou isn’t supposed to be on stream, this isn’t what they had planned and fuck. The way he spoke definitely isn’t something any of his viewers are used to, they’re used to his almost bored way of speaking. Not shouting.

Chat:
yellowhearts7: did kenma just yell?
LeavesOnTrees: omg, Kenma lives with THAT?
Lilypadsrcool77: jalksdhglj GUYS kenma just yelled, no??
Shad0w: he totally just yelled
Peanutbutternjelly: I can’t believe I just witnessed history being made. Ken yelling.
JJ297: Can we please talk about THE GUY HE YELLED AT?
Theseusernamesarebreakingmybraincells: wtf just happened? kenma yelling? a man calling him ‘love’? the change in his voice? the man in question? i can’t even start to process this wtf.
Clizer: Guys calm down, this is his personal life, he barely even shouted. We shouldn’t be getting involved.
UPGBopz: we need to talk about this ‘roommate’ of his calling him ‘love’ bc what?? Does ken have some secret lover?
cheesygarlicbread22: ken yelling def wasnt on my bingo card this year
JJ297: omg @UPGBopz youre so right, HE HAS A SECRET LOVER! SECRET LOVER POGGG
Blopty: How about we take @Clizer ‘s advice? This is Ken’s personal life.
bigflamethrower588: AH SECRET LOVER POG!!!
Justxq: secret lover POG
usernamesaredifficult: SECRET LOVER POGG!!1!!!1!
Giraffes_idk_27489: secret lover pog? I just got here.
Lilypadsrcool77: SECRET LOVER POG.
Icanteven: secret lover pog.

Kenma takes a very stressed deep breath as he watches his chat spam different versions of ‘secret lover pog’ and decides he should end stream before it gets out of hand, “Okay, we’re ending it here guys,” He says quickly but hits the ‘end stream’ button even quicker.

He turns to Tetsurou who is already looking at him with an apologetic look on his face, “I’m really sorry.” He mumbles.

Kenma shakes his head, sighing heavily, “You know you can’t come in here while I’m streaming, Kuro. I tell you that all the time,” He says, disappointed that the man didn’t even think to knock first.

“I know you have,” Testurou takes a step forward, taking one of Kenma’s hands in his own, “and I’m sorry, my love,” He brings his fiance’s hand up to his lip and presses a small kiss to the man’s knuckles, “I didn’t know you were still streaming but I should’ve knocked or something first. I am very sorry.”

Kenma looks up at Tetsurou and tries to stay angry but he knows that it’s useless to do so when he looks at the face that brings him so much joy every single day, “You better knock first next time because now that’s gonna be all over twitter and-”

“And it’ll be fine, Ken,” Tetsurou mumbles and leans around, hovering around Kenma’s lips, a clear kiss offering, “I love you?”

“I love you too,” Kenma says without a second thought, though he does hesitantly accept the kiss. He wants to stay mad at Tetsurou but with his lips right there and his face so pretty and his words so soothing? It’s difficult to do so.

The kiss is quick and before Kenma knows it, Tetsurou is standing up straight again, “What do you want for dinner?”

Kenma was planning on cooking but after that whole disaster, he has to go see what the backlash on social media is going to be like. Plus, he really needs a shower, he hasn’t taken one since yesterday morning and he feels like he needs it. He just shrugs, telling Tetsurou that he doesn’t care what’s for dinner, “I’ve gotta take a shower though, so, that’s where I’ll be.”

“Okay,” Tetsurou mumbles, biting on his lip, and spins as Kenma walks past him, “I’m still really sorry about walking in before knocking. I don’t want this to affect your career in any way and I definitely don’t want people talking shit about you, Ken.”

Kenma turns back around so that he can face Tetsurou. His face softens the moment he sees Tetsurou’s, because he can tell how genuinely concerned he is, despite all of his usual joking and fooling around, he knows when the proper time to apologize is and he knows how to do it.

Kenma runs a hand through his hair, “Kuro, it’s not me I’m worried about.”

“Then-”

“I’m worried about you,” Kenma admits, a sigh threatening to escape from his lips if he doesn’t keep talking, so he does, “Kuro, people on the internet can be mean. It’s a sea of angry people saying whatever they want because they can hide behind their screen in the comfort of their own home,” He speaks the truth of the internet because, being a content creator, he knows the harsh truth of it all, “that clip is probably going to float around social media for a while and I’m just glad that your face isn’t in it,” He shakes his head softly, thinking about all that could happen if Tetsurou’s face had been in it, “if it was, people likely would’ve found your social media accounts by now and would be spamming you with some assholery.”

“What? So instead you’re just gonna get all the asshole comments?” Tetsurou questions, clearly not happy about that.

Kenma nods, “Yes, it’s better that way.”

“Bullshit.” Tetsurou crosses his arms, “I don’t want people to be dicks to you because of some stupid mistake I made. I couldn’t care less what people say about me, Ken, love.” He lets his arms fall to the side as he closes the already small gap between him and his fiance, bring his hands up to cup Kenma’s face, trying to get him to relax a bit by running his thumbs along his cheeks, “Your streaming career is very important to you and therefore it’s very important to me. I made a mistake and now it’s gonna cause people to be mean to you? How could anyone be mean to someone so perfect?”

Kenma blushes and rolls his eyes at his stupid fiance’s stupid words that are stupidly perfect, he crosses his arms, “Well, I’ve gotta take a shower, so go make dinner. I’m sorry for yelling at you.”

Tetsurou chuckles softly and leans down to press a small kiss on Kenma’s hairline, “It’s okay, my love. I love you.” He mutters against his forehead, eyes shut.

Kenma leans up to press a kiss to Tetsurou’s lips and tells him, “I love you too.”

They part ways, Tetsurou going to the kitchen to start cooking, while Kenma heads toward the bathroom to take a shower. Once Kenma is done with his shower, he meets Tetsurou in the kitchen and they spend the rest of the night together; eating, watching a movie, cuddling, and falling asleep.

By the morning, the clip of Tetsurou walking in on Kenma’s stream is all over Twitter and it’s the first thing that Kenma sees when he opens it. It’s earlier than usual when Kenma wakes up, 9AM, so it’s not like they even had a full 24 hours to post about it either. Yet, still, it’s everywhere.

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@Paltumro12 -
@Kodzuken actually shouting! (Also- secret lover?) #rareclip #SecretLoverPog #kodzuken
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@Claire_Feizer
I was watching that stream. Yall need to leave the poor man alone. Respect his personal life :/
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Kenma groans, reading everything everybody is saying, “I figured the clip would be all over Twitter,” He says to Tetsurou, who is, surprisingly, not gone yet, “I just didn’t think so many people would be talking about it.”

Tetsurou comes out of the bathroom and sits on the edge of the bed next to Kenma, “I’m sorry, I really should’ve thought before I walked in.” He reaches for Kenma’s hand under the covers and squeezes.

Kenma shakes his head, “I’ve told you it’s fine,” He takes his hand away to stretch his arms above his head, letting out a small sigh as he does so. He forces himself to get out of bed now because if he doesn’t, then he’ll end up staying here until Tetsurou gets home and forces him out of bed.

He walks over to the bathroom, grabs his toothbrush out of the holder, and turns the faucet on, running the toothbrush underneath the cold water. He grabs the toothpaste and pops the cap off so that he can squeeze some of it on the toothbrush before running it back under the water. It’s the only right way to prep your toothbrush. Tetsurou just throws toothpaste on a dry toothbrush and calls it a day. Couldn’t ever be Kenma.

Tetsurou walks over to the bathroom and steals a quick kiss before he can start brushing his teeth, “I’ve gotta head out but I’ll see you as soon as I get home, okay?”

Kenma starts brushing his teeth and gurgles out a, “Uh-huh, I love you,” Though it doesn’t quite sound like that with toothpaste filling his mouth.

Tetsurou chuckles at the struggles of his fiance, “I love you too.”

After that, Tetsurou leaves Kenma to finish brushing his teeth and whatnot. The rest of Kenma’s day is filled with editing new videos (he already has a week of videos edited but he likes to have his videos ready in advance, just in case), mulling over what he sees on Twitter, editing a bit more (he really likes to have videos ready in advance, okay?), looking back to Twitter for a second (it seems the tweets just will not stop coming each time he looks, there’s always a new one), uploading a video, editing a bit more (look, he uploaded a video so now he has to finish editing one in replace of it, okay?), and then, finally, looking at Twitter just a tad bit more.

After he gives his new video a few hours to gain some views, he decides to check out some of the comments. He doesn’t like to let them all pile up because, otherwise, he’ll get too overwhelmed and then end up not looking over any of them.

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Klemtones: So we aren't acknowledging the thing that happened yesterday, coooool….
Likes: 3.3k Replies: 53

Bloptyyy: can't we just like… keep this comment section about the video? Like, wow, surprise, but ken has a personal life. Just leave him alone guys. It's really not that difficult.
Likes: 8.4k Replies: 500 liked by creator

TwoTooShoe: I cant even watch a kodzuken vid without thinking abt the end of his stream yesterday, anyone else rlly wanna know whats going on there???

Clizerr1999: Dudessss- leave Kodzu alone. He doesn't need to be spammed on Twitter, and you definitely don't need to fill his comment section with things unrelated to the video.
Great video ken! I really enjoyed it :D
Likes: 6.7k Replies: 439 liked by creator

Hurbtar12: Can I get a Secret Lover Pog?
Likes: 2k Replies: 500
*

He shuts off that tab and, from that point, decides maybe he’ll take a bit of a break from streaming until he figures out what the hell he wants to do.

He leaves his gaming room entirely and heads to his bedroom, thinking that a nap might be the way to go for now. He falls asleep after about 15 minutes, thankfully, and only awakens to the soft hands of his fiance slowly moving hair out of Kenma’s face and humming, “Ken, my love, I’m home. Dinner is ready,” He whispers so softly, like he doesn’t really want to wake Kenma up but he knows he has to so that the man will eat, and so he’s doing it as nicely as he possibly can.

Luckily for Tetsurou, Kenma is a very light sleeper so wakes up to the light touches and soft whispers. “Hi,” Kenma squints up to see his fiance and a smile takes over his face before he can even think about it.

“Hey,” Tetsurou whispers back at him, “let’s go eat?”

Kenma nods, not really in the mindspace to disagree with anything being said to him by such a beautiful man. Once Kenma wakes up a bit more, after a few bites of food, he decides to bring up everything happening on social media with Tetsurou. Kenma asks what he thinks he should do about it and what he’d be comfortable with him doing.

Tetsurou tells him that he’s comfortable with anything Kenma wants to do and that it’s entirely up to him, so, Kenma makes the decision to reveal his relationship status whenever he happens to stream next.

That’s not until two weeks later (when he usually streams a few times a week). He feels as though the gossip about him is finally dying down, though, and he’s given the internet enough time to process whatever happened with Tetsurou and so, Kenma’s sitting in his chair, his setup completely ready, and just stares at the ‘go live’ button for a few moments to just completely contemplate what he’s really about to do.

Not only come out to his fans but let them know that he’s in a relationship. Not just a relationship, but engaged.

To a man.

He sends Tetsurou a quick text to let him know that he’s about to go live. One, so that Tetsurou doesn’t make the same mistake he already did, and two, so that Tetsurou knows that Kenma is filled with anxiety as of right now.

Tetsurou sends back a “good luck” text and that gives Kenma all he needs to press ‘Go Live’.

People start flowing in instantly, they’re a bit confused as Kenma’s streams never usually start with just his face. It’s normally his face in the corner (if it is a face cam stream) and the game already booted up.

Except this time, it’s not.

Nonetheless, Kenma welcomes people as they join, looking at all the variations of hello in the chat, “Hi, hey, welcome in everybody.”

Chat:
Penguins0109: hey!
TulipTarnation: Hi :D
Clizer: 'ello! :))
Lilypadsrcool77: Heyyoooo
Blopty: Heyy
Pluxx: Hi!

It doesn’t take long for the viewer count to reach that of 10,000 and Kenma decides that’s enough to start talking about what he wants to talk about. 10K is his usual average in viewers anyway, so he thinks it’s a good number of people to speak to, “Okay, hi,” He takes in a nervous deep breath, hoping his nerves don’t really come across to his viewers, “I kinda feel like I owe a tiny explanation of what some of you guys saw at the end of my last stream and if you weren’t there to see it live, I’m sure most of you have seen a clip floating around. Either way,” He tugs on his fingers, making sure they’re not in frame, “I see a lot of you already asking questions about where I’ve been and whether that clip was the reason I left for a couple of weeks and I am thankful to those of you not prying,” He says, “There have been a couple of you that have been trying to get everybody to calm down and, to those people, Clizer and Blopty and a few others whose names I can’t remember, thanks.”

He does notice a ‘Clizer’ and ‘Blopty’ in particular that are consistently trying to get people to, in simple words, shut the fuck up.

Chat:
Blopty: you don't owe any explanation.
Harrisbarbs: YES! EXPLANATION! FINALLY!
Vienna14: EXPLANATION POGGG
Luxxqparks: POG
Imaginehavingagooduser: POGGGGG
Clizer: @Blopty pretty sure you are the only other sane person in this chat, you're right. Ken doesn't owe any explanation.
Blopty: @Clizer right back at ya

“Thank you guys again, the people not prying,” Kenma thanks them, rubbing awkwardly at the back of his neck, “but I do feel like you guys all deserve some kind of explanation, even if it is a small one.” He gulps and, again, really hopes his viewers can’t tell how nervous he really is about this, “I’m not going to be going into to very much detail out of courtesy of my privacy and the privacy of the person who walked in a couple of weeks ago but I will tell you guys who that was and everything, even if it does happen to be a little personal.”

He takes a few breaths before noticing a vibration coming from his phone on the desk, it turns on with a text from Tetsurou up front and center, ”You’re doing great my love, keep going :) it’ll be okay <3”

That gives him the rest of the encouragement he needs to finish with this explanation and so he goes at it, “The person who walked in last stream isn’t actually my roommate,” He stops himself there because, “Well, technically he is but, like, that’s not all he is.” He scratches at the side of his face, trying to not be super awkward. Games? He can do that. Talking about his personal life? Not so much. “As some of you guys guessed, the man that walked in is my fiance. I have been trying to keep my personal life more separate from youtube and twitch for the most part but, unfortunately, that wasn’t able to happen.”

He then goes into an explanation of why everything happened, “Long story short, my fiance and I have been a couple since before I even started creating content, he was actually the one who encouraged me to do it and not give up,” The faintest smile crosses his lips as he thinks about all the encouraging words from Tetsurou that led up to this very moment, he takes a deep breath and continues, “he just moved in with me a couple weeks before he walked in and, so, he was still adjusting to me streaming while he’s here and he just forgot to ask when I would be done that day.”

Chat:
Clizer: see y'all it was a simple explanation.
Lilypadsrcool77: Yo! Kodzuken has a fiance?!
Pluxx: damn…
Blopty: Guys, must I say it again? He's a person with a life just like everyone else.
Gravyisgood: Woah- when are you getting married then Kenma?
vxcqt: When are you getting married???
Dant3: wedding day??????
Clizer: Omg everyone, just let him stream the game. Please. He doesn't need to tell you about his life to entertain you :/

Kenma takes a deep breath, he was expecting questions like this so he’s not sure why it’s still so overwhelming to him. Still, he handles it, “I won’t be saying anything more than what I’ve already said. I gave the explanation required and nothing more is necessary to you guys. You can use context clues to figure out when my wedding is because I won’t be streaming that week.” He says, minimizing his face cam so that he can actually start playing the game he had planned for this stream, “I should let you all know that I do not tolerate any homophobic language and if anything of the sort is said, or anything bad about my fiance is said, me and my mods will be watching and will ban you as soon as we see it.” He warns them just so that people might decide to keep their mouths shut.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

Chat:
Nofuxgiven: fucking f*g. I'm unsubbing and unfollowing you from anywhere. You're disappointing.
Blopty: Hey, hey, wtf, no. None of that.
Clizer: @Nofuxgiven chill out bro. His life doesn't affect you at all. He'd probably be happier if you stopped watching him anyways. Byeeeee.
TectonicHarvest: Hey, right after he gave a warning too. You really give no fucks, huh?

Kenma sighs at the immediate disregard for what he just said and turns back to the monitor he has his game on, letting his mods take care of that instead of taking the time to do it himself. He clicks on ’anywhere’ in the sentence ’click anywhere to start.’

He streams for almost 7 hours, having missed streaming a little bit, he decided at the beginning that this would be a longer one than usual.

Unfortunately, his dumbass fiance decides to make the same mistake he did just a couple of weeks ago, bursting into the room with a smirk on his face, “Kenma, my love, I’m home and I brought flowers,” he says in a sing-songy tone, getting dangerously close to his face coming into frame.

“Stop!” Kenma shouts at him, standing up so that he can cover his webcam with his hand, just in case. He takes a deep breath and sighs, looking back at Tetsurou, “I’m still streaming.”

“Shit,” Tetsurou mumbles, looking around and seeing the setup. The game on Kenma’s main monitor, the chat on his second monitor, headphones on Kenma’s ears, and the microphone previously by his mouth (before he stood up), “I did it again,” He sighs, gulping. Kenma can tell he’s frustrated with himself, “fuuuuuck,” He groans, “I’m sorry. I’ll go put these in the kitchen,” He trails off and leaves the room as quickly as he can.

Kenma takes a deep breath as he uncovers the webcam and plops back into his seat, revealing to his viewers the faintest smile on his face brought by his amusement at Tetsurou’s frustration. He can’t help but want to be happy at the fact that Tetsurou cares so much.

His smile disappears from his face quickly upon realizing that his viewers can see him.

Chat:
Lilypadsrcool77: omg, he's backkkk! Kenma's fianceee!
3darkpark3: okay but that smile? Kenma actually smiled? There is a god and we have just been blessed with the first ever kodzu smile!
UPGBopz: Damn, this has given me enough serotonin for a lifetime- I can die happy now.
Pandas_bestanimal92: awwwww he brought Kenma flowers and he sounded so excited about itttt!!! That was adorable!!!1!1!!
Clizer: Okay, even I gotta admit that smile was amazing. (Y'all should still respect his privacy tho.)
Blopty: @Clizer couldn't have said it better myself
Opalhearts2: I can live the rest of my life in peace now. I've seen ken smile. This is great. We've been blessed.
jj765: Immaculate.

“Sorry guys,” Kenma apologizes quickly, sighing, “We should really figure out some kind of system so that doesn’t keep happening,” He pauses in order to focus on the game for a second before picking back up, “at least all I need to worry about now is him accidentally face revealing,” He rolls his eyes, knowing it’s more likely than it sounds when it’s Tetsurou. When his game starts to calm down, he looks over to his second monitor and reads the chat, furrowing his eyebrows, “Yes, actually, they were white tulips and irises, how did you catch that?” The flowers were only on screen for a few seconds so he’s surprised some of his viewers were able to see what kind of flowers they actually were.

He continues reading chat and sees a question asking him if those are his favorite flowers, “Yeah, I mean, together I like those. I know white tulips typically mean like condolences and whatnot but I just think they’re neat looking,” He shrugs, “I’m not a big flower fanatic but my favorite individual flower are peonies because they remind me of my fiance,” He doesn’t mention that peonies are Tetsurou’s birth flower because he doesn’t want to reveal even the slightest bit of personal information about him but that is why he likes them. Kenma fights off a smile as best he can but it doesn’t beat the way the chat immediately blows up at his comment.

Chat:
ijustthinkitsneat: AH THATS SO CUTE HE LIKES PEONIES BC THEY REMIND HIM OF FIANCE MANNNN
Clizer: Aw, that’s so sweet what :(
USERNAMESAREDIFFICULT7: peony sales in japan rn 📈📈📈📈
Stuffy_Curtains12: why was that so cute?
Pleaseoffmenow: anyone else catch him trying not to smile rn?
Blopty: Awe, Ken
Im_so_tired: PEONIES ARE AWESOME
NoSeriously: ken is so unintentionally sweet istg, hes never sweet when he tries to be but the moment he just gets to talking hes the nicest person on the planet
Ivebeenawakefor22hours: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
NotThatBad: THATS SO FCUKING SWEST SLKDGLFKGJ
But_Still: he’s totally trying not to smile rn
ImTired: he’s such a sweet guy

After a little longer, Kenma gets to a good stopping point in his game and presses pause, “Okay everybody, I think that’s where I’m gonna end it for tonight. Thanks for joining, see y’all next week,” He does a quick wave before ending his stream and not taking a second longer to leave the room and go downstairs to see his fiance.

He heads into the kitchen, where Tetsurou is getting the flowers ready to go into the vase he’s already prepared, “Oh hey,” He smiles upon seeing Kenma walk in, “sorry about walking in. Again.”

“It’s fine,” Kenma shrugs, walking closer to Tetsurou, “not that big of a deal as long as your face isn’t in it. You are an idiot, though. Doing the same thing twice.” He scoffs lightheartedly and shakes his head, “I thought I told you to knock first next time?”

Tetsurou chuckles sheepishly, “Hey, you’re the one who agreed to marry me so who’s the real idiot here?”

“Yeah yeah,” Kenma leans over to bump his arm into Tetsurou’s a couple of times before leaning into him, “don’t remind me,” He teases, looking up to Tetsurou already looking down at him, and they press a kiss to each other’s lips.

Tetsurou continues to work on the flowers in silence for a moment before seemingly coming up with an idea, “We should get some kind of sign,” He suggests, “for your gaming room. Like one that flips and on one side it says ‘streaming’ and on the other side it says ‘not streaming’ or something.”

Tetsurou puts the flowers into the vase and detaches himself from Kenma to go and place them on their dining table. Kenma lingers in the kitchen, “Yeah, I think that’d be a good idea,” He agrees, “I can head to the store tomorrow, if you want? Like an art store, probably. They’ll probably have some blank signs.”

“Perfect,” Tetsurou hums happily, a soft smile on his face, “What do you want for dinner?”

Kenma sighs, he’s horrible with decisions and hates being asked what he wants. He shrugs, “You can choose, Kuro. You cook basically every night, it’s only right you get to choose,” He chuckles.

Tetsurou takes a deep breath, looking at him pitifully, “Kenma, my love, my darling, light of my life,” He says all dramatically, “You survived off of takeout and energy drinks before I moved in. If I try feeding you something ‘too healthy’, you might resort to your old ways.” He says, a teasing smirk dancing among his face, “So it’s best for both of us, you choose sometimes.”

“Oh fuck you,” Kenma holds back a laugh and grabs the closest thing to him (which happens to be a sponge) to throw at Tetsurou, aiming directly at his chest.

Unfortunately, Tetsurou catches the sponge with relative ease and laughs, “You can’t be mad because it’s true!”

***

The next day, Kenma is in an art store looking for a blank sign that he can write something on when someone walks up behind him, politely saying, “Excuse me?”

Kenma turns around and moves out of the stranger’s way, “Oh, sorry. Did you need something from here?”

“No, uh, wow” The stranger chuckles awkwardly, a smile on her face and disbelief in her eyes, “Okay, sorry if this is weird or something, I know being stopped in public might be a little weird or something but, uh,” She scratches nervously at the side of her neck, “you’re Kozume Kenma, right?”

“Oh,” Kenma smiles, realizing that she’s a fan. Her awkwardness makes a lot more sense now, “Yeah, I am. Nice to meet you,” He gives a quick bow to her.

She bows back quick, “It’s super nice to meet you too. Wow, I can’t believe this is actually happening. I’ve been a huge fan of yours for a really long time,” She tells him, it’s clear by her voice that she’s really nervous, “and I’m super sorry if this is weird, I’m like a huge preacher of letting content creators keep their privacy and whatnot but, like, you’re just a really funny person and I really enjoy your content and I just had to come say hi but I can definitely go, I’m super sorry again.” She apologizes for what feels like the hundredth time.

Kenma just chuckles it off, shaking his head, “No, don’t worry about it at all,” He waves his hands in front of him, “I love being able to meet fans in public.” Most of his fans are actually from other countries so he doesn’t usually meet a ton of his fans while in Japan so Kenma thinks it’s pretty cool when he does get to.

The fan’s smile grows and she sways from foot to foot, “Really? Y’know, you actually mentioned my name in your stream the other day and I’ve been kind of freaking out ever since, not gonna lie.”

Kenma’s eyes widen as he takes the fan in, “No way, really? What’s your username?” He furrows his eyebrows, he’s trying to think of who he mentioned in his most recent stream. He knows he read out a ton of fan donations but he’s fairly sure a fan wouldn’t be this excited over that, right? Maybe it was closer to the beginning of the stream when-

“I’m Clizer,” She tells him, “It’s a mix of my actual name, Claire Feizer.”

His eyes widen as he comes to the realization of who she is, “Oh shit, really?”

She nods enthusiastically.

“Damn, I wasn’t expecting to run into you,” Kenma admits honestly, “Small world, hey?”

“Yeah,” She agrees, brushing a piece of hair from her face that was getting into her eyes.

Kenma continues, “Well, I just wanna thank you for being so supportive of me and being so helpful,” He says truthfully because he really does mean it. With everything going on, she’s been there throughout the whole thing, trying to keep people in place and whatnot. She’s one of his mods so she’s been monitoring everything and banning the necessary people and she’s honestly been such a great help, “Y’know with-” He stops himself from saying Tetsurou’s name, “everything that’s been going on with my fiance, you’ve been super helpful with anything.”

She stares at him with a shocked expression on her face before she gets it in her to start speaking again, “Okay wow, I can’t believe you just thanked me,” She chuckles excitedly, “I should be the one thanking you because of all you help me through. I honestly look forward to your streams so much, you’re my favorite streamer.”

Kenma can’t help but smile at such a genuine message, “Well now I’d feel bad if I didn’t follow you on twitter or something,” He admits, “do you have twitter?”

Claire nods with a blank expression on her face, as if she’s processing what was really just asked of her. Her favorite streamer asking to follow her back on twitter.

“Great,” Kenma pulls out his phone from his pocket, swiping it unlocked, and opening up Twitter quickly, “What’s your username?”

“Really?” She asks for clarification.

Kenma just nods and says, “Yeah, definitely,” He goes to where you can type in usernames but the moment he’s about to ask her again what hers is, his phone starts to ring. The name ‘Kuro’ popping up on the screen, “Oh, give me one second, sorry,” He clicks the answer button and turns slightly away from her, “Hey Kuro, why are you calling?”

”Are you still at the store?” Tetsurou asks from the other line.

Kenma nods into his phone, not that Tetsurou can see that, which is why he also says, “Yeah, I am. I’ll call you whenever I get home, you okay?”

”Yeah I’m fine, I was just thinking I could meet you there?” Tetsurou suggested, ”I can help you look for a sign.”

Kenma thinks that’s a good idea and quickly agrees, telling Tetsurou he loves him and that he’ll see him soon.

”I love you too, I’ll see you in a minute.”

Then they hang up and Kenma turns back to Claire, “Okay, I’m sorry about that, what’s your user?”

“Uh,” She stares, still a little stunned, but does ultimately respond, “Claire_Feizer.”

Kenma types in the username and clicks on the first profile that shows up, “Is that you?”

She nods for confirmation and he clicks the follow button, officially following her back, and giving her a quick parting message, “Well, it was nice to meet you and, again, I’m very grateful for your support. I really do appreciate it a lot, it gets hard without support.”

"No, no, thank you. I look forward to your videos every day and your streams every week. They really help me out so much." Claire said, sincerely and it seems as though her nervous walls are somewhat coming down, "Meeting you is like a dream come true, if I’m gonna be a little cringey about it. Also, the amount of support I give you should be normal, honestly. I hate seeing people push you about your personal life. You literally take so much time out of your life to give us content, there's no reason we should ask for anything more."

Kenma chuckles, not expecting that from her based on how nervous she was earlier, “That was very well said, thank you Claire. You’re the kind of person I enjoy making content for, truly,” He tells her because it’s true. Kind, honest people are who he set out to make content for at the beginning of it all. He just wanted to give good people decent entertainment, “Did you want a picture or something? I’d be more than happy to.”

Her eyes light up and her mouth forms a little ‘o’ before nodding and saying, “Yes please.” She pulls out her phone and switches to the camera app as quickly as she can. They stand next to each other, both smile at the camera, and she presses the button to take the picture, “Thank you so much,” She bows a little deeper than necessary and when she comes back up there’s still a smile on her face.

“I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you smile more right now than I ever have watching your streams,” Claire says jokingly, “and I’ve been watching for 6 years.”

“Wow, really? Thank you, Claire,” Kenma thinks it’s his turn to be shocked now because he never once thought that someone who watched him that long ago would have stuck around this long. His streams were terrible quality back then, “and yeah, I’m actually a bit awkward on the camera so how I portray myself on streams and how I am in real life are a bit different. The viewers seem to like it though.”

Before Claire can say anything more, there’s a voice from behind them yelling, throughout damn near the entire store, “Kenma!” Kenma sighs heavily, knowing that there is only one person dumb and bold enough to do that. As well as hearing the voice…

Tetsurou.

Claire covers her eyes the moment she hears the voice, likely recognizing it from stream, and Kenma can already see those nervous walls building right back up.

Tetsurou makes his way closer and stares, confused, at Claire. He points at her and gives Kenma a look who chuckles slightly and takes a step toward her, “Claire, it’s okay. You can open your eyes. I don’t mind as long as you don’t reveal anything about him or post anything.”

“For the record, not my decision,” Tetsurou retorts.

“Uh- I would never,” She starts ranting nervously, “never post anything about anybody without their permission ever. In fact, I think I’d much rather keep my eyes shut like this so that I can’t accidentally reveal anything,” She starts backing up, clearly trying to make an escape in a way she doesn’t have to see Tetsurou. However, she ends up running into something and falls. Mid fall, she removes her hands from her eyes and opens them in order to attempt to catch her fall but Tetsurou catches her instead.

“Dang it,” She mumbles, staring up at him as he lets her go, “I saw you.”

“Claire, it’s fine,” Kenma assures her again, “I’m sure you won’t reveal anything and if you do, by accident, we’ll take care of it.”

“Is this a fan of yours, Love?” Tetsurou asks, looking back and forth between the two.

Kenma nods, “Yeah, she’s one of my mods. Shows up on stream a lot,” He tells him, “I think I was telling you about her the other day?”

Tetsurou looks as if he’s thinking back to it but probably can’t remember any specific event because Kenma talks about his fans a lot.

“I’m so sorry, I feel like I’m invading your privacy,” She bows again, a lot deeper this time, “It was very nice to meet you. Again, I’m very sorry.”

“Claire, it’s fine,” Kenma tries to reassure her because, really, he doesn’t see any instance that she reveals something about Tetsurou, even by accident. “There really isn’t any need to apologize. It’s not like you came hunting us down or something, you just happened to stumble across us.”

This seems to make her calm down a little bit as she gets up from her bow but she still seems nervous, eyeing Tetsurou a little bit and going back and forth between him and Kenma.

“Look,” Tetsurou starts speaking, “If Kenma is saying it’s okay, then it’s completely fine, dude,” He tells her, grabbing Kenma’s hand while he does so, “Ken’s the one who doesn’t want me on stream anyway, so I really don’t care. He just wants me to be safe,” He shrugs, “so, trust me, if Kenma thought there was even the slightest chance you’d do something he was uncomfortable with regarding me, he’d let you know,” He chuckles awkwardly, “He’s, surprisingly, very protective.”

Kenma let go of Tetsurou’s hand to hit him softly on the shoulder, “Oh shut up.”

“Okay,” She mutters out nervously, seemingly a bit more calm now, “thank you guys so much. I’m gonna go now,” She bows again before rushing off, definitely still a little baffled by the entire situation but nowhere to be seen anymore.

Kenma turns to Tetsurou and hits him on the arm, “Why’d you have to yell my name like that? Freaked the poor girl out,” He chastises, “You traumatized her.”

Tetsurou gapes his mouth open, “I did not,” He scoffs playfully, which turns into a laugh as his face falls into a more calm expression, a smile still prevalent on his face, “I think it was sweet that she wanted to let us have our privacy.”

“Yeah, she’s a consistent viewer too,” Kenma reaches down to grab at Tetsurou’s hand, walking down the aisle to keep looking for a sign, “she watches all my streams and even submitted an application to be a mod last year so I followed her back on twitter.”

“Aww,” Tetsurou coos and, in a very much teasing tone, says, “look at little Kenma, following his fans back on twitter. How sweet,” He holds out the final word just to set in stone the teasing.

Kenma rolls his eyes, hitting Tetsurou’s shoulder with his own, “Shut up, Kuro.” He mumbles.

Tetsurou just laughs and they keep looking for a decent enough sign. After a few more minutes, they finally do find a double sided blank sign that they can easily flip if it’s hanging on the door of Kenma’s gaming room.

They ended up deciding they’d turn this project into a mini date of sorts and so they get some paints and whatnot at the store as well, bringing it all home and painting the sign together. Tetsurou paints one side, while Kenma paints the other.

Tetsurou paints his first and ends up just basically doodling all over his side. He has things from a little teddy bear to a snake on his side of the sign.

Kenma, however, paints cats, of course. Would you expect anything less of him? He paints all different kinds of cats. Tabby cats, tuxedo cats, black cats, the orange ones, white cats, gray cats, and when he runs out of normal cat colors, he even ends up painting a purple cat.

Once the pain is all dry, they write on each side of the sign. On Kenma’s side, he writes “Livestreaming” and on Tetsurou’s side is written “Not Livestreaming”.

“It’s perfect!” Tetsurou praises, “just like you are,” He holds the sign up next to Kenma’s face and makes an act of looking between the two, “yep. It fits. You’re both beautiful.”

Kenma lightly huffs from his nose, an amused smile on his face and heat rising to his cheeks to let Tetsurou know that he’s a bit flustered, “Oh shut up, you’re an idiot.”

Tetsurou chuckles, “Yeah? But I’m your idiot,” He smirks, placing the sign down on the table behind him and grabbing at Kenma’s waist, pulling him closer until their lips are just about touching. Even after so many years of being with Tetsurou, the way he walks and talks and looks and laughs and touches and everything gives Kenma butterflies every single time.

Kenma brings his arms up and rests them on Tetsurou’s shoulders, melting into their kiss.

***

The sign definitely works, thankfully. The last couple of weeks of streaming have been great, there haven’t been any accidental walk-ins and it’s been good. He’s been able to stream in peace for the last 2 weeks.

He’s been able to get back to his normal streaming schedule where he streams a few times a week, one longer stream (anywhere from 5+ hours) and a few shorter streams (under 5 hours, usually closer to 2 or 3). This week he hasn’t been able to get to any longer streams and has just been fitting in the shorter ones.

He looks over at the chat of his current stream but doesn’t see anything worth mentioning or any questions, really. It’s mostly just people spamming emojis and whatnot.

He receives a donation and a robotic voice reads out the message paired with it, ”What is your favorite experience from meeting a fan in public?”

Kenma looks over to his second monitor so he can see who asked that question, “Thank you for the donation, Grass_NotGreen.” He hums, “Hm, now that’s a good question,” He thinks about it for a moment. He really doesn’t meet very many fans in public, except for when he happens to be out of country for some reason (which isn’t very often, Kenma doesn’t usually have a reason to be out of Japan).

He continues to play the game on stream, just a horror game that he was recommended about a week ago that he’s finally gotten around to playing, while he thinks of an answer to Grass_NotGreen’s question. He supposes that it’s his most recent interaction with a fan, actually, “You know, I did run into a fan a couple of weeks ago in the store. I was trying to find a sign for my door so that my fiance wouldn’t keep walking in here while I was streaming. Anyway, I was looking for a sign and my fan walks up behind me and we started talking until my fiance, whom I love from the bottom of my heart,” He delivers with the most dry tone and neutral face, “yells my name from across the store and then my fan just immediately covered their eyes,” He explains, “it was very sweet of them, actually, to respect our privacy so extremely. I told them they didn’t have to cover their eyes but they got all flustered and started apologizing and said they would just go, however, they ended up almost falling and opening their eyes to see my fiance, which resulted in even more apologies. It was very sweet but, I’ve gotta admit, it was a bit funny to see them that flustered over seeing my fiance,” He admits to his stream, the faint ghost of a smirk showing up on his face, “I mean, they were almost as flustered as me when my fiance and I had our first kiss.”

Kenma refuses to look at the chat after that comment, knowing people are going to be freaking out, “Anyway, I do actually like interacting with my fans so if you see me in public, don’t be afraid to come say hi.”

He takes a deep breath and looks over to the chat.

Chat:
Lilpadsrcool77: omg Kenma found something funny… we're making major discoveries these past weeks.
BlueOutcasts_47: so we not gonna talk about the fact that someone, probably in this chat, knows what Kenma's mystery fiance looks like?
Tobecontinued: KENMA? I WAS NOT EXPECTING HIM TO TALK ABT HIM BEING FLUSTERED AND A KISS? WHAT?
Alix.Hi: somebody fr knows what the fiance looks like, that’s wild
Blopty: c'mon y'all. Is Kenma not allowed to go out in public with his fiance now? People are bound to spot him with his fiance so just respect the fact that he doesn't want his fiance's face out there.
Pluxx: damn… Imagine meeting Kenma AND his mystery fiance- And then joining this stream to hear Kenma, seemingly out of nowhere, talk about how flustered he was when he had his first kiss w his fiance. WIld.
Blobclueless: I wanna know what he looks like now- like did you all see his arms?? (they were BUFF)

“I mean,” Kenma sighs, looking back to the game, “I really don’t mind people knowing what he looks like, guys,” He tells them, not even taking a moment to pause his speech to focus on the game because it’s simple enough, “it’s just that I don’t want him to get any hate,” He shrugs, “He’s got a very sensitive ego and, as much as he doesn’t want to admit it, he relies on the opinions of others and,” He takes a deep breath, trying to keep his face fairly neutral, “I just,” He sighs, “He’s not a big social media person and I don’t want him to get a bruised ego from the assholes online.”

“MY EGO WILL NOT BRUISE THAT EASILY, IT IS VERY GREAT THANK YOU VERY MUCH,” Tetsurou screams from who knows where in the house, likely their bedroom, and Kenma is confident it’s difficult to hear on stream, but still possible.

“Are you watching the stream right now?” Kenma shouts back at him, not nearly as loud as him.

“MAYBE!” Tetsurou yells back even louder, probably to make it easier to hear on stream.

Kenma rolls his eyes and in the driest tone says, “My fiance, everyone. Watching my stream and making comments in real life, isn’t he the best?” He stares directly at the camera, “Stop watching my stream and go feed the cats.”

Chat:
Imsad444444: okay but why was that whole interaction like adorable?
Wally_wall19: I think Kenma’s fiance is my new favorite person, that’s so sweet.
Samanthais_myname: omggggggg that was so cute- them shouting across the house lmao
Clizer: that was really cute
Blopty: it was adorable
VanessaL22: wait a minute… does that mean that mystery fiance is reading the chat rn? What if he's been here during every stream?
Pluxx: omg
Tobecontinued: FIANCE WATCHING THE STREAM? THATS SO CUTE

Kenma shakes his head at his chat and them always jumping to conclusions, “He’s normally at work when I stream, guys. So he doesn’t normally watch them live.”

As he was saying that, his door opens and in comes Tetsurou. He stops by the door so that his face doesn’t come into frame and he leans on the doorway, “I’m pretty sure I’m more popular than you at this point, Ken,” He smirks and chuckles, not that his stream can see how perfect he is when he smirks.

Chat:
Farissblack: that laugh was hot-<
Overly_confused: lmaoooo mystery fiance isn't wrong tho
Yester_day69: pfft I like mystery fiance.
Johnadams99: mystery fianceeeeeeeeee POG

The chat continues to spam it’s love for Tetsurou while Kenma has to deal with the man in person, “K-” He almost says his nickname off of instict but, luckily, stops himself before he does, “Babe,” He pauses the game really quickly and spins around in his chair so that he can face his fiance, “as much as I love you, go away.”

“Aww,” Tetsurou pouts, “Do you not love me anymore.”

“I literally just said-” Kenma starts but gets cut off by Tetsurou.

“You def don’t love me anymore,” Tetsurou frowns and crosses his arms.

“Oh shut up,” Kenma rolls his eyes, spinning his chair so that he can get back to the game, “I couldn’t stop loving you if I tried,” He mumbles, just barely loud enough for Tetsurou to even hear.

Tetsurou walks forward some more, making sure to keep his face out of the frame. Kenma had adjusted his camera after the second surprise appearance to make it so that, with Tetsurou’s height, it wouldn’t be easy for him to accidentally show his face on stream. It’s still possible but, if Tetsurou is paying attention, it’ll be fine.

Tetsurou makes it directly behind Kenma, his height making it so that his face isn’t on camera, and starts playing with his hair. He runs his fingers through it, taking it out of the ponytail he had it it in, and just starts messing with it, “When’ll you be done streaming?” He asks.

Kenma can’t help but lean into the touch at first until he realizes he’s still on stream. He sighs and mutes his mic, forgetting to turn off his camera as he turns around (physically turning in his chair, not just spinning his chair because that’d be too easy obviously) to Tetsurou, kneeling on his chair so that the majority of his back is, luckily, covering the camera. “Kuro, I’ll be done soon. Can you just go feed the cats or something, please?”

Tetsurou sighs, “Okay, okay, I will go, I apologize,” He says dramatically, leaning down to kiss Kenma, who reciprocates easily since he thinks the camera is turned off.

“Okay now go,” Kenma says the moment they pull away from the kiss and turns back around to sit in his chair normally, sitting back down. Then, he unmutes his mic and goes to turn his camera back on when he realizes that he never turned his camera off. “The camera was still on?” He asks out of shock.

“Oh,” Tetsurou winces and holds his mouth in an ‘o’ shape for a second before saying, “Well, I think I’ve got some cats to feed. Bye, I love you.” He walks out of the room.

Kenma sighs in disbelief at himself. How did he even make that mistake? “Sorry guys, I thought I turned the camera off.”

Chat:
Hugsxd: they kissed!
Heartstonez: oop- Kenma done messed up
Pluxx: well, that was… an experience.
Wiwkxekdozk: that was a kiss right? It was hard to tell from the angle
TruestTime: ken out here getting carelessss
jj765: @Wiwkxekdozk it may have been hard to tell, but that was def a kiss! Did you see the way Kenma's head moved (spicy ;))

"C'mon guys, please," Kenma rubbed at his forehead, "I thought I turned off the camera and I didn’t. It was my fault.” He sighs, “I guess I should be thankful I didn't forget to turn off the mic," He mumbles with a shrug and unpauses his game, "let's just continue the game and forget about that."

Chat:
Liykersont: AYO! I'd like to know what was said- he's thankful the mic was muted 😳
Clizer: @Liykersont prolly just said his name or something bro.
Blopty: @Clizer exactly. Or something personal. I'm sure it wasn't anything bad?

Kenma reads the chat but turns back to his game while he speaks about what’s being spoken about there, “I just said a nickname I have for him but it’s close to his actual name and I don’t want you guys figuring out his name.”

He finishes playing the game and once he ends his stream, makes his way to Tetsurou and spends some time with him.

In the following month or so, Tetsurou becomes sort of a regular on Kenma’s streams. Kenma’s fans love when he shows up on stream and, as long as Tetsurou’s face isn’t shown, Kenma loves it too.

With Tetsurou’s somewhat regular appearances on stream, his chat decided to give him a nickname so they weren’t calling him “mystery fiance” and whatnot all of the time. What is the nickname, you ask? Steve. Just Steve. Why did they come up with that nickname? Kenma isn’t sure, it just sort of happened one day and everyone just kind of went with it. He’s fairly sure that new people coming into his streams are fairly confused by the constant talk of someone called “Steve” but Kenma isn’t gonna sit here and explain it every stream, they can use their context clues.

Chat:
Pluxx: Is Steve gonna show up this stream?
Tobecontinued: we miss steve
Allswellthatendswell: Steve should def come on stream today

Kenma shakes his head at his chat, “You guys know I normally stream while he’s at work because I like spending time with him once he gets home,” He progresses further into the game, “so he’s at work right now.”

His chat starts spamming versions of “aw” at the comment Kenma made.

Something pops up on his screen and he looks at it confused for a second before just moving past it, “Was that supposed to be a jump scare? Or?” Kenma asks, confused, “It wasn’t even a good attempt.”

Kenma is currently mid stream so his views are in it’s peak right now, about 39,000 people, a lot of which start spamming “no” in chat and telling him it wasn’t supposed to be a jump scare, “Oh okay,” He mutters in response, “What was it supposed to be then? That was just weird.”

Just then, Kenma hears his door open behind him and glances to his second monitor to see Tetsurou standing there in the doorway. Kenma furrows his eyebrows, he’s not supposed to be home yet. He doesn’t get off of work for another hour.

He turns around and sees tears falling down his face and immediately rips his headphones off of his head, tossing them onto the desk, and walking up to Tetsurou, not even caring about turning off his camera or muting his mic, “What’s wrong? What happened?”

Tetsurou sniffs, “Nothing, sorry,” He mutters, slinking out of the room but Kenma follows him, “seriously, Kenma, it’s okay,” He says as he sees Kenma following after him, he wipes away his tears, “just finish your stream, I’m just gonna go take a bath or something.”

“Hey no,” Kenma shakes his head, grabbing Tetsurou’s hands and holding them between them both, rubbing a soothing thumb over his knuckles, “don’t do that. Tell me what happened, c’mon. Why are you crying,” He lets go with one hand to wipe a tear from Tetsurou’s chin, “what happened, Kuro?”

Tetsurou shakes his head, refusing to say anything but Kenma pulls him out of the room, shutting the door behind them.

Chat:
Nothisispatrick: ...what just happened?
Pluxx: was he crying? It kinda sounded like it
3darkpark3: I hope he's okay…
Yardsale666: Kenma didn't even pause the game, it's probably something serious
Blopty: I hope that they are okay…
Username1111112: I just joined, what's happening? Where is Kodzu?
Clizer: Hopefully everything is okay
Opalharts2: Kenma seemed shocked I've never seen him like that before…
Pluxx: @Username1111112 Steve came in crying and Kenma ran up to him and they left the room- We don't know anything else.

“Can you please tell me what happened, Kuro?” Kenma asks again, looking into his eyes as he shuts the door, “Please?”

“Really, Kenma, it’s fine,” Tetsurou licks his lips and forces a smile, “it was stupid. Honestly. Just go finish your stream, I’m sorry.” He insists but Kenma does not buy it. He doesn’t see Tetsurou cry very often so when he does, he does everything in his power to make sure he’s okay.

“I couldn’t care less about the stream, Kuro,” Kenma says genuinely, sighing and trying to get Tetsurou to just believe that he cares more about him and making sure he’s okay than he does about his stream, “I’m not going anywhere until you tell me what happened and I know that you’re okay.”

“I’m okay Kenma, really, I just-” Tetsurou hesitates, sighing heavily. Very clearly not okay despite how much he insists he is. Finally, Tetsurou gives into Kenma’s worried stare, “I came home early from work and I didn’t want to bother you so I took a nap but I just, I had a nightmare about you dying and I just wanted to make sure you were okay,” He gulps, with working as a detective, Tetsurou tended to have a lot of nightmares about finding his loved ones murdered.

Kenma hates that he’s not able to prevent it at all but what he can do is comfort him afterward and he sure as hell isn’t going to leave Tetsurou to go through it alone, “Oh Kuro,” Kenma grabs Tetsurou’s face, bringing their foreheads together and looking into his eyes, “I’m okay, I’m right here. Don’t worry, babe.” He whispers.

Tears fall down Tetsurou’s face as he pulls Kenma into a hug that lasts for a couple of minutes, he mutters, “I love you.”

“I love you too,” Kenma mutters back, running his fingers slowly though Tetsurou’s hair and when Tetsurou pulls them apart, Kenma suggests, “How about I go end my stream and then we can take that bath you mentioned together?”

Tetsurou nods, the smile Kenma loves so much appearing on his face, “That sounds good.”

“Okay, go get the water started, I’ll be there in a minute,” Kenma says, dismissing himself back to his gaming room but only after Tetsurou leaves first, but not without a quick kiss.

He walks back to his chair, sitting down and pulling his headphones back over his ears, “Sorry about that guys, I’m gonna have to end the stream here.”

He quickly pauses his game and takes a look at his chat.

Chat:Clizer: We hope everything is okay!
Lilypadsrcool77: ken is back- he looks fine, so I guess nothing too extreme happened?
Blopty: Don't worry about us Kenma!

His viewers have dropped down to 9.7k now, which is still more than Kenma thought there would be due to the fact that nobody was even on stream, "Thanks to those of you who stuck around but I am going to be ending early, my fiance is shaken up about something. Bye." He ends the stream and puts his headphones down on the desk so that he can meet Tetsurou in the bathroom like he said he would.

***

The next morning, Kenma wakes up to see the clip of him jumping from his chair to go comfort Tetsurou all over twitter. Literally everywhere.

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Kenma places his phone back down on the nightstand and rolls over to wrap his arm around Tetsurou’s side of the bed only to realize he’s already gone. He takes a deep breath and sighs it out, eyeing the clock on the nightstand on Tetsurou’s side of the bed.

“Damn,” Kenma mumbles to himself, it’s already fairly late. 1:02 PM. He figures he might as well just spend his time editing until Tetsurou gets home.

He gets out of bed and walks to his gaming room to see a sticky note stuck to his keyboard, he smiles down at it fondly, ”Don't forget to eat, there's some food for you in the fridge that you can heat up. I love you. -Kuro”

He mumbles out, “I love you too,” Taking the note off of the keyboard before then realizing that he’s literally talking to a freaking note. What has his life become? He rolls his eyes at himself and sits down at his chair, re-sticking the note to the top left corner of his computer so he won’t forget about it.

A couple of hours later, the time reaching about 3:00 PM, he decides to go to the kitchen and reheat whatever food Tetsurou left him, that way he doesn’t get yelled at by Tetsurou whenever he gets home.

After he finishes eating, he heads back up to his gaming room and hops onto a call with his best friend, Hinata Shoyo, and they decide to play Minecraft together. All in all it’s a pretty laid back day while he waits for Tetsurou to get home.

And when he does get home, he heads straight for Kenma’s gaming room to greet him. Kenma says his goodbyes to Shoyo and heads off the game so that he can spend time with Tetsurou. He gets out of his chair, pushing it in, and walking over to where Tetsurou is standing in the room, “Hey babe, how was work?”

“It was fine, my love,” Tetsurou responds, shrugging. A tired smile is on his face and he leans down to kiss Kenma as a greeting, “how was your day?”

Kenma also shrugs, “Pretty boring to be honest, I missed you.”

A grin appears on Tetsurou’s face, letting Kenma know he just said something to give his ego an immense boost and to fuel Tetsurou with about an arsenal of teasing.

Tetsurou awed but, ultimately and thankfully, held back on the teasing in favor of making sure Kenma took care of himself, “Did you eat what I left you?”

Kenma nods as they walk out of the room and toward their living room, Kenma figures they’re probably going to watch a movie together. “How could I forget with your note staring me in the face the entire time I was eating?”

Tetsurou chuckles, “Good, it did exactly as I intended it to.”

Kenma rolls his eyes, sitting down on the couch with Tetsurou quickly following his lead.

***

The next 4 months go by without anything too crazy happening. Just the usual Tetsurou showing up on stream and whatnot. With their bantering spreading everywhere online, Kenma has even gained some extra followers, his average peak views going from 39K to 43K.

"Babe, that's not how the game works. I can't just spawn the ender dragon, you know how to play Minecraft. Are you being serious?" Kenma laughs, which was a rare occurrence even with Tetsurou showing up on stream.

"Well…" Tetsurou sighs, trying not to admit defeat, "what if- why can’t you fight the ender dragon?"

"Because I'd have to go to the end to fight the ender dragon" Kenma explains slowly and hesitantly, "which I've already done once in this world. You know how Minecraft works-"

"But- Can't you just… go into creative and spawn one in the overworld? Or like, respawn it? That's a thing, right?" Tetsurou asks.

"Stop acting like an idiot. We literally play together all the time." Kenma shakes his head, "I'm not going into creative, and respawning it is too much work for right now, plus I’d still have to go to the end.”

Chat:
Lilypadsrcool77: why must they be so adorableeeeeeee
Garyfromspongebob: omg, Steve is clueless lmaooooooo
Pluxx: Imagine being this unknowledgeable about the game, couldn't be me /lh

About an hour after that entire thing, it’s nearing the end of the near 5 hour stream and Kenma decides to finally close it out, "Alright guys. This is the end of the stream. Thank you all for showing up," Tetsurou has since left the room already, so after Kenma ends the stream, he’s going to go hang out with him, "I will not be streaming for the next couple of weeks, since Saturday is actually my wedding day." He drops it on them quickly, not wanting to stay streaming for too much longer after he tells everybody, "and then I will be going on my honeymoon, so no streams."

Chat:
jj765: omg, it's actually his wedding day- the day has come when he shared it with us.
Tobecontinued: NO WAY THEYRE ACTUALLY GETTING MARRIED :O finally
3nder_drag0n: omg theyre getting married?
bruhhhhh: omg theyre actually getting married? How long have they even been engaged for??
Itis2am: wait wht theyre getting married this week???
JadeSwfit13: omg I cant believe theyre getting married
Clizer: it's not that surprising, they have been engaged for like- at least 7 months now. Likely longer

Kenma decides to answer a question in the chat, just because he feels like being nice today, "We've been engaged for a year and a half.” He says, “He just moved in a little over 6 months ago though." He explains, his views are down to 2k now, so chat is easy to read and understand as it isn’t going a million messages a second, "Anyway, that’ll be the end of the streams for the time being. I'll still be uploading videos regularly as I have, in fact, made sure to have some videos ready, edited and all, for my honeymoon and, there might be a small surprise in store for everyone brought to you by my fiance. So go ahead and thank him, I suppose.”

Chat:
Pluxx: pog???
jj765: is it a face reveal?!
Larpcat2: surprise???!? What surprise?
Lilypadsrcool77: what kind of surprise?
GalaxyMika5: Kenmaaaaaaa what's the surpriseeeee??
PenguinPog: Wow- just gonna leave us with that? :(
GoingHome: he fr is just gonna drop that on us and then leave for 7-10 business days

Kenma decides to just let them think about that one and doesn’t say anything more as he ends the stream and pulls his headphones off of his head, setting them on the desk. He walks out of the room and to their bedroom but there’s no Tetsurou in sight, which tells Kenma that he’s probably in the living.

He heads downstairs to the living room to see that he was right, Tetsurou is laying on the couch asleep, with a cat on his lap, both fast asleep.

He walks over to give a quick kiss to Tetsurou’s forehead before wandering over to the kitchen to grab a snack of sorts. He ends up getting a bag of chips and walking back to the living room, he sits down where Tetsurou’s feet are resting and lifts them up to place them on his lap.

Their cat walks over to Kenma and starts purring immediately once she lays down on Kenma’s lap, over Tetsurou’s feet. Kenma opens his chips and starts eating them for a couple of minutes before Tetsurou wakes up, stretching his arms over his head, and taking a deep breath, “Ken?”

“Yeah?” Kenma responds, looking over to Tetsurou.

Tetsurou sits up, causing their cat to meow in annoyance as she gets disturbed, “‘Re you done streamin’?” There’s still that tired sound to his voice.

“Mhm,” Kenma answers, nodding, “I finished up about 10 minutes ago.” He picks up their cat to place her back on his lap, allowing her to get comfortable again.

Tetsurou swings his legs over the edge of the couch, so that he’s sitting on it normally now and he slides over to Kenma, cuddling up next to him, “Hm,” He hums out, resting his head against Kenma’s shoulder, “You ready to get married?” He says the word as if it’s some unbelievable concept. As if he can’t believe it’s actually happening.

And if Kenma’s being honest, he can’t believe it’s actually happening either. He leans his head to his right to rest it on top of Tetsurou’s, a soft smile showing up on his face, “absolutely.” He answers him and the two of them lay like that, with their cat, in silence for who knows how much longer.

***

The very next day is the day of their wedding. Kenma has a few nerves but- Okay, well, he has a lot of nerves, wondering if Tetsurou would realize that he doesn’t actually want to marry him or if Tetsurou just wouldn’t show up but Hinata helps calm him down, reminding him of how in love they are.

The wedding is a somewhat small occasion. Nothing too huge but nothing too minor either. Their families both show up and their friends from high school that they’ve kept up with until now show up, all in the audience watching as the couple delivers their own, self written vows.

"Kenma Kozume. You are the light of my life and I honestly do not know what I would do without you. Today is a really amazing day," Tetsurou laughs out of pure happiness, causing Kenma to chuckle wetly, "You are so gorgeous right now and I am so lucky that you're about to be my husband. After today, I get to call you my husband. My husband." There’s a huge grin on his face as he says the word, just trying it out over and over again. "I love you more than anything else in this entire world." He looked Kenma up and down, "I am completely honored to be standing here in front of you today, Kenma, and I promise to always love you no matter what happens and to cherish our every moment together till death do us part." He gives his hand 3 squeezes as a silent way of letting him know how much he loves him.

Kenma’s tearing up from Tetsurou’s words, "Jeez… you're gonna make me cry," He chuckles softly, bringing his hand, that Tetsurou’s hand is still holding, up to his face to wipe the tear falling down his cheek to compose himself as he begins his own vows, "Tetsurou Kuroo. Tetsurou." He chuckles again, "That feels,” He scrunches his nose, “it just feels weird, I don't say your given name often," the crowd laughs and so does Kenma and Tetsurou, "Kuro. I love you so much. You've helped me through a lot and sometimes I feel as though I don't appreciate you well enough, but I try my hardest and today,” He trails off, attempting to get rid of the tears in his eyes, “Today, I get to call you my husband. So that means I get the rest of our lives to show you the appreciation you deserve. Until death does us part, I love you Kuro never ever forget that. I will always be here for you and I will always love you.”

They don’t hold their tears back anymore, letting them fall down their faces. The wedding officiant speaks for a little while longer until she announces, "You may now kiss."

Kenma and Tetsurou locked their lips, and everybody clapped. The after-party went on for the majority of the night and then Kenma and Tetsurou went on their honeymoon.

Everybody in the audience claps and cheers as the couple lean in to lock their lips together, kissing for just a moment and letting that feeling linger on their lips as they pull away and move into their after party.

Speaking of the after party, that goes on for the majority of the night until they have to leave to go to the airport to fly to where their honeymoon is taking place.

***

They enjoy their honeymoon for the first few days but on day 4, Kenma tweets out this.

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@Kodzuken
Here's the surprise… A #q&a with my *now* husband (or as some of you know him, 'steve'). Ask us questions and we'll answer some of them.
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Replies:12k Retweets:40k Likes:56k

>@kodzuken_fan_112
Omg omg omg omg!!!!! It's happening- we get to see him-
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In the attached media file is the thumbnail of the video, which is a picture of Kenma and Tetsurou sitting down on a white couch with Tetsurou’s face blurred out so much that you can’t see any of his features and could only tell that he has black hair.

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q&a w/ my husband. (he's an idiot.)
Uploaded June 4th, 2021
556,981 Views

The video opens with just Kenma sitting on the same couch from the thumbnail, “Hey everybody,” He waves kind of awkwardly, he doesn’t normally do videos like this, which he moves to acknowledge with his next words, “I know that the majority of my content is gaming stuff and I don't normally post these kinds of things, however, you guys have been very,” He puts emphasis on that word, “curious about my husband, who was my fiance when you guys saw him last but,” A smile shows up on Kenma’s face, probably the most prevalent one that has shown up on camera before, “now he’s my husband. So I've decided on doing a Q&A with him. You can thank him for convincing me to do this." He sighs and looked to his right, towards an empty part of the couch, and waves his hand in a 'come here' motion. That’s when someone starts walking onto the screen, just his body shown on camera. Just as he’s about to sit down, the video cuts to the intro.

The video blurs into black as the channel name pops up on the screen, “Kodzuken” in simple, white block letters. It’s a basic intro.

It then cuts back to the man sitting down, a huge grin on his face, “Hey!”

“Here he is,” Kenma gestures to his now husband, grabbing his hand as Tetsurou sits down. He looks sort of beyond the camera as he shakes his head, “I can’t believe he convinced me to do this,” He looks straight at the camera now, “but he convinced me that he wouldn’t get a bruised ego from all the hate so,” He takes a reluctant deep breath, “let’s see how that goes.”

Tetsurou gives a very dramatic gasp, his head moving at the speed of light to look at Kenma, offended, “My ego does not get bruised that easily, Ken.” He insists, “Besides, you made me private all of my accounts so…” He trails off as if the rest of his sentence should be obvious.

“Mhm, okay hon’, whatever helps you,” Kenma pats Tetsurou’s hand with his free hand before using it to grab his phone. “Now, the questions,” Kenma gets right to it, “our first one is from ‘Blue_Pidgeon33’ but pigeon is spelled wrong?”

“How is it spelled?” Tetsurou asks, curious, trying to lean over to see the phone.

“P-i-d-g-e-o-n,” Kenma reads it out before shrugging and moving on, “but whatever, their question is ‘What’s his name?’”

Tetsurou blinks at his husband and then toward the camera for a second, “Okay, well, uh,” He chuckles, “that’s an easy one. My real name is Kuroo Tetsurou. Not Steve.”

Kenma nods, a light smile on his face from the mention of the name Steve. He’s still not completely sure where that name even came from, it just sort of popped up one day and all of his fans went with it. “I normally call him Kuro though, I have for a really long time,” Kenma adds while looking at his phone, searching for another question, “Okay, here’s another question. This one is from ‘Bloptyyy’, who is actually one of my admins so shoutout to them, I suppose. Now, Blopty asks, ‘When/how did you two meet? If you’re comfortable sharing ofc.’ Well yeah, we’re comfortable sharing. I wouldn’t have agreed to this if I didn’t want to share how we met,” He laughs awkwardly, he’s really not used to making these kinds of videos.

“Oh!” Tetsurou jumps up, staring at Kenma with an excited look on his face, “We met when we were-”

Kenma cuts him off before he can go any further, “Kuro,” He stares at him for a second, trying not to look thoroughly amused by the excitement coming from his husband, “Look at the camera, not at me.”

“Oh, right,” Tetsurou turns around, his face trying to hold back a laugh. He sits back down and takes a breath, easing his excitement just a bit. Kenma won’t ever tell anybody, but he was kind of upset that Tetsurou wasn’t as excited anymore. Tetsurou continues the story, “Uh, okay. So,” A smile finds his way to Tetsurou’s face, “we met when we were 8 and my family had just moved next door to his so we wanted to go greet our neighbors and-”

Kenma cuts him off, a smirk lilting on his face, “But Kuro was very shy. Like, I mean very shy. He was hiding behind his mom’s leg and everything. Eventually, we became friends and bonded through, like, video games and volleyball. We played together a lot.”

“Shush,” Tetsurou interrupts him, “this is supposed to be about me, they get to hear your voice all the time. I’m special today.” He declares.

Kenma doesn’t even think before looking at his husband, smiling at him, and saying, “You’re special everyday.” Then his smile droops as he remembers he’s on video, a light blush creeps on his face and, in defeat, he sighs, “I- Yeah, okay, that was,” He clicks his tongue, “I’m just gonna go ahead and edit that one out,” He sighs at himself but can see as Tetsurou is holding back his laughter.

***

In white text on a black screen, the words “He did, in fact, not edit that out (I’m too tired lol)

Under those words, “It’s 3:49AM, give me a break lmao” show up.

And in super tiny text at the very bottom of the screen, one more sentence pops up, “and kuro might have convinced me to keep it in.”

***

The normal video then continues to Tetsurou cooing at him, “Aww Kenma, how sweet,” He brings Kenma’s hand up to his mouth and lightly kisses the knuckles.

Kenma wills his blush to go away but he’s not sure how much good that’s doing, so instead he just speaks, “We’re moving on,” He decides, finding a new question to ask, “Here, how about this one. From another admin, who I have actually met, ‘Claire_Feizer’, who asks us, ‘What is your favorite thing about each other?”

Tetsurou immediately grins at this and Kenma just prepares himself for the sappy words that are about to come from him, “So, Kenma will stream, right?” He says, “Well, yeah, obviously,” He says to himself, “Anyway, not the point. Kenma will stream and, like, no matter how long he streamed and how tired he is, he will always, no matter what, come find me, wherever I am after he finishes streaming and he’ll make sure he spends time with me. It can be something as small as us literally just taking a nap,” He explains, “Or eating dinner while watching a movie or something but it’s always something. Every time. No matter what. I just find it so nice that however stressed or tired or overwhelmed he is,” Tetsurou squeezes Kenma’s hand, “He’ll always spend some time with me. I just, I guess I never thought I’d be able to find a love like this and, I dunno,” He looks to the ground for a split second that if Kenma were anybody else, he wouldn’t have been able to tell that Tetsurou is holding back tears, “it’s a simple thing but it makes me happy.”

Kenma knew that something sappy was going to come out of his mouth but he was definitely not expecting something to that extent, “Aw, Kuro, that was really sweet.” He doesn’t even bother to hide his smile.

Then Tetsurou just completely switches up, “Also, his eyes are fu-” He pauses mid sentence, turning to Kenma to ask, “Can I swear?”

Kenma snorts, “Yeah, whatever, go for it.”

“His eyes are fucking gorgeous,” Tetsurou continues, not holding back the swears, “Like damn near perfect, I swear. You guys haven’t seen them in, like, real life, but I can tell you that they are fucking gorgeous,” With his free hand, he grabs Kenma’s face and veers it toward himself, looking into his eyes, “Yeah.” He veers his face back to the camera, “Do you guys see that? They are just the absolute most jaw dropping things I’ve seen in my entire life, I could stare at them all day and-”

Kenma sighs, very embarrassed at the fact that his husband talking about his eyes is now going to be on the internet for everybody to see. So to stop from being even more embarrassed, he cuts his husband off and starts on his own answer, “So, my favorite thing about Tetsurou is,” He trails off, trying to think, “I honestly don’t think I can choose just one,” He bites at the inside of his cheek in more thought, “Okay, uh, I guess if I had to choose, it’s be that he always leaves these, like, little notes everywhere,” He decides to explain in a little further detail and gives some examples, “Like, they’ll be on my computer screen, my keyboard, the nightstand on my side of the bed, on our door, on the fridge, on the door of my gaming room,” He moves past that because, at this rate, he’ll be naming everything in their damn house, “just everywhere. It’s just simple things like reminding me to eat or telling me he loves me or to have a good day. Simple stuff like that but it always like,” He gives an amused breath of air from his nose, “I can’t believe I’m about to say this on the internet,” He mumbles carefully before just going for it, “it always puts a smile on my face.”

“And I won’t ever stop,” Tetsurou is staring at Kenma with this super fond smile and this look in his eyes as he gives Kenma’s hand a squeeze.

“Also, before we lived together, I always got a text with some little message for me in the morning and he’d text me throughout the day whenever he was thinking of me.”

“Which was a lot, I can confirm,” Tetsurou grins.

Kenma nods in agreement and starts to look back down at his phone now, that question took a long time. He finds a new question after a little bit of scrolling and reads it out loud, “‘KevinKelt’ asks ‘When did you guys get together?’,”

Tetsurou is the first to start answering this one, thankfully, because Kenma’s not sure how he would even explain it, “Hm, okay,” He thinks for a second, “this one is kind of confusing because we were pretty much together for the majority of high school but we danced around an actual title for a while so we weren’t really ‘official’,” He uses air quotes with his fingers around the last word, “until we were 18.”

Kenma finds himself nodding yet again, it’s kind of nice not having to do the majority of the answering because in the time Tetsurou was answering, Kenma already found the next question and reads it the moment Tetsurou finishes, “Our next question is ‘Who proposed to who?” and that is from ‘Pokemon_catchemall’.”

Tetsurou’s smile turns proud and holds his free hand to his chest, “I proposed to him,” He points at Kenma.

Kenma, however, is not smiling in any way, he just glares at Tetsurou for a second before saying, now looking back at the camera completely deadpanned, “This man proposed to me in the middle of a restaurant for the free dessert.”

Tetsurou holds his hands up defensively, “Listen, it was a good dessert, no?”

Kenma scoffs lightly, he doesn’t know how he’s actually in love with this man, rolling his eyes in a mostly playful manner, “You didn’t even warn me and that couple walked up to us to congratulate us, Kuro,” He says distressed, shaking his head as he tries to forget it, “It was scary.”

All Tetsurou does is laugh at his husband’s misery.

Kenma sighs and looks back down at his phone, finding a new question pretty quickly, “‘gold_silver22’ asks ‘Do you guys want kids?’.”

Another one where Tetsurou answers instead of Kenma, albeit he hesitates a bit this time, “Um, well, we’ve definitely talked about it. It was important for both of us to be on the same page about everything before we got married and yeah, we do want kids. Eventually. At some point. But not for another while. We’re still young now but we also don’t want to be too old while trying to raise kids so probably anywhere from 28 to 35.”

Kenma nods yet again but also decides to add another piece of information because why not? He’s feeling generous today. “Mhm, we also want to adopt. We don’t want any surrogate or anything. We don’t think there’s a need to bring any new children into the world when there’s already so many who are in need of a home, not that there's anything wrong at all with wanting a kid through surrogacy,” He says, “we just want to be able to give a kid a safe place but, to be able to do that, we need to be settled in ourselves and we both know we are not nearly mature enough or ready for a kid of any age right now,” He finishes off his explanation.

Tetsurou is finally the one nodding and, after that, they answer a few more simple questions before Kenma closes out the video, “Alright, that’s all. I hope you guys enjoyed finally meeting my husband. If I see any hate toward him, you will immediately be banned so, if you don’t want that, I suggest that you all be very nice to Tetsurou.”

“That was kinda hot-” Tetsurou says, absolutely shamelessly before the outro of the video cuts him off from saying anything more.

*

Bloptyyy: Kenma, calm down with the daily uploads on your honeymoon bro.
Just enjoy your honeymoon.

Great video though, you and your husband are adorable <3
Likes: 11k Replies: 64 liked by creator

Clizerr1999: Amazing video as always. Really enjoyed it! I'm surprised you still remember our meeting!
Enjoy your honeymoon you two. Don't worry about us Kenma.
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KenmaKozumeGames: You are one of my main admins, and we talk on discord a lot lol. Ofc I'll remember you Claire, we're friends. :)
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Actuallyaperson: Omg, this was actually adorable. It's the moment we've been waiting for people- Kuroo has been revealed. (Also, Kuroo, that last comment of yours 😳😅)
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Pattonlol: I loved this vid so much. U guys are amazing.
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*

"Annddd…." Kenma presses a couple of things on his laptop before giving a final click to his trackpad and says, "uploaded publically."

Tetsurou chuckles, laying in bed next to him, he rolls over and reaches for Kenma so that they can cuddle, but Kenma was trying to get away so that he could put away his laptop. The whole thing results in a fit of giggles.

***

It’s his first stream after his honeymoon and, yes, he might have only been home for less than a day but he was ready to get back to streaming, okay? He definitely thoroughly enjoyed his honeymoon but he also missed streaming. A lot, "Hey guys, hey. Yep, it's good to be back," he says as he reads the chat, which is mostly welcoming him back but there is that not so uncommon message asking about Tetsurou, "Yes, I'm sure Kuro will decide to make an appearance, he can’t help himself. Though, he's really tired from traveling and everything so it will probably just be a quick pop in." Kenma explains, knowing that his husband is asleep right now and will probably pop in when he wakes up, just to see what he’s doing. Kenma looks at chat and reads one of the questions out loud, "Why am I streaming then? Because I haven't streamed in a week and, to be honest, I miss it." Kenma answers.

He waits for the game to load, good old Minecraft because he’s not sure he has the brain capacity for much more. It was either this or Stardew Valley and his chat wanted Minecraft so here he is. Once he’s logged onto the server he’s playing on, he minimizes his facecam down to sit in the corner and starts talking, getting used to being back on stream, "We're going to be playing on this random server I made with my best friend, Hinata Shoyo. He's been on stream a couple of times," Kenma looks over to his second monitor to see a message from Shoyo pop up asking to voice chat, "let me go ahead and get into a vc with him, one sec."

He quickly joins the voice chat with Shoyo who immediately shouts in his ear, because of course Shoyo would, "Kenma!"

"God damn, that’s loud,” Kenma winces at the screaming in his ear and decides to turn Shoyo’s voice down a little bit, that way he isn’t the reason for any of his viewers losing their hearing. "Okay, is that good chat?" He asks while Shoyo just says random things in order to test the volume

The chat fills up with some simple "yes"'s, which gives Kenma some relief. He hasn’t lost touch with streaming completely just yet.

"Okay good," Kenma turns back to his main monitor, where he’s playing the actual game on, "jop on Sho."

"Alright just let me leave hypixel- I was playing that while I waited." Shoyo says, a clear focus happening in his voice as he switches servers.

"Hey, Blopty, Clizer, I know you guys are watching, do you wanna come on as well?" Kenma asks after seeing both of their names in chat at one point or another since the stream started, "Message me on discord if you want in and I’ll send you the ip."

After a couple of minutes, they both say yes and Kenma groups all 4 of them into a vc so that they can play the game together without any difficulties with communication..

About 2 hours into the stream, the three of them were, very annoyingly, dead set on their attempt at taking Kenma’s minecraft life. Unfortunately, none of the three were too great at PVP. "You guys do realize that even if you guys attempts any form of teamwork,” Which they weren’t in the slightest, they were all just throwing themselves at Kenma, “you won't be able to kill me, right? It’s not going to happen," Kenma sighs, killing Blopty as he tried to kill Kenma, obviously unsucessfully.

"Well, this wasn't even my idea!” Claire argues, “I was peer pressured." She claims, a certain distress lacing her tone..

Shoyo just laughs then fakes offense in order to try and make Claire feel bad, "Wow, gonna blame this all on us Claire?"

"I-" Claire sighs, "I can't win either way, can I?” Her minecraft character looks around a little in game before she takes a deep breath and says, “Y'know what? I'm running away from all of you. Gonna go… make a house at the bottom of the ocean or something." She runs away in game, leaving Shoyo to chase after her while Kenma fights Blopty again.

That's when Tetsurou walks in, just as Kenma assumed he would. "Oh, hey babe," Kenma turns around so that he can look at Tetsurou, who definitely looks completely exhausted still, despite having slept since they’ve been home. The chat starts going crazy upon seeing Tetsurou, they are, clearly, very excited. Although, that isn’t anything new. If anything, there were less ‘Steve’’s in chat and more his actual name.

"You're streaming? We've been home for like… 4 hours Ken." Tetsurou asks, the sleep very clearly showing through his voice and him rubbing his eyes with one hand while he practically throws himself onto Kenma, wrapping his arms around his husband’s shoulders. This kind of starts messing up his gameplay but Kenma doesn’t really mind, "how long have you been streaming?"

"Uh…" Kenma looks at the monitor that shows the length of the stream, it’s the only way he can keep himself from accidentally streaming for too long. A constant reminder, "2 hours 11 minutes."

Chat:

Opalhearts2: aww Kuroo tired
Forestsare_blue: Love that Kenma stopped playing mid stream to talk to Kuroo lmaoooo
Terrancelikechips10: It's so weird actually seeing Kuroo's face lol so used to them doing their all to hide it

"Who're you on a call with," Tetsurou asks after seeing that he has discord up on one monitor. He gets off of Kenma now, which allows Kenma to finish the fight he has going with Blopty (and Shoyo who has stopped chasing Claire because he lost her already).

"Shoyo, Claire, and Blopty." Kenma tells him, "We're playing Minecraft."

"Tell him I say hi!" Shoyo says eagerly in the call.

"Shoyo says hi." Kenma repeats the message for Tetsurou.

"Oh, hey Sho!" Tetsurou waves as if Shoyo is in the room with them, which causes Kenma to let out a small chuckle from his nose, "I'm gonna go back to sleep." Tetsurou tells Kenma and Kenma can tell that he’s going to knock out the moment he lays back down.

Kenma nods in understanding, Tetsurou has been ready to get back to their bed since night 2 of their honeymoon, "Alright, I'll end the stream at the 4 hour mark and come join you."

Tetsurou sighs, clearly not completely pleased by that answer but accepting it nonetheless. He leans down to kiss Kenma, who was just expecting a quick peck on the lips. Alas, it was not. Kenma was not expecting for Tetsurou to lock his lips onto Kenma's and deepen the kiss. Kenma quickly moves to press the hotkeys he has to turn off the camera, mute his mic, and deafen on discord. All the while Tetsurou is still kissing him. Once he manages all of that, he breaks from the kiss and scolds Tetsurou, "I am live, Kuro. There are, like, 13 year olds that watch my streams."

"Oh, right,” Tetsurou winces at himself, “I’m sorry, I'm just tired and I really don’t know how you have the energy to stream right now." He chuckles, tiredly.

"I just missed streaming," Kenma shrugs, that being an answer enough for Tetsurou because they know each other that well, and Tetsurou walks out of the room. Kenma now turns everything back on and decides to risk it and turn to look at chat, knowing all too well that they’ll just be talking about the kiss..

Chat:

Bopz1999: oop- spicy
Tristian33: 😃😳
lordsaveme: okay so def gonna have to make a comment on the way his lips l a t c h e d
Lilypadsrcool77: w o a h

"Sorry 'bout that everyone, I'm back." Kenma says, choosing not to make any comment about it.

The 4 continue to play Minecraft for a little less than 2 more hours but at 3 hours 58 minutes, Kenma decides to close out so that way he doesn’t break his promise to Tetsurou about stopping at the 4 hour mark, "Alright. I'm gonna end the stream here and go take a nap with Kuro, because, even though I did want to stream, I am exhausted from our flight,” He sighs, rubbing quickly at his eyes with one hand, talking while doing so, “Also timezones. Like those things are annoying. There was like a 9 or 10 hour difference or something in Costa Rica, so Kuro and I are all messed up."

The chat starts spamming different variations of "bye".

"Bye Kenma," Hinata gives his goodbye but they do have plans tomorrow so, he also adds, "I'll see you tomorrow."

"Bye Shoyo, see ya. Bye Claire, bye Blopty." Kenma says, saying bye to all of his friends because it’s the polite thing to do before ending the stream..

"Bye Kenma!" Claire responds with her own goodbye.

Blopty answers as well, "talk to you later Kenma. Rest well."

"Thanks, have a good day." He deafens himself on discord first so that he can turn back to his stream and close out completely, "alright guys, thanks for watching. I'll probably stream again tomorrow, maybe even tonight, because I am a bit stream deprived. That said, I did tell Kuro I’d end at four hours so bye." He says meekly and hits the 'end stream' button.

He takes off his headphones and places them on the desk, allowing himself to stretch in his chair, bringing his arms above his head and twisting in the chair. After a quick stretch, he walks out of the room so that he can head to his bedroom to see Tetsurou.

As he enters, he finds Tetsruou sitting on their bed watching some tv, "Hey babe, when did you wake up?" Kenma asks, flopping down onto the bed right next to his husband (he doesn’t think he’ll ever get used to that term).

Tetsurou’s eyebrows furrow into themselves as he thinks about it, "Uh, like 10 minutes ago? I think."

"Mm," Kenma hums while scooting closer to Tetsurou, so he can cuddle up next to him, "I'm gonna…” He trails off, hsi voice tired, “Take a nap," He mumbles, his eyes already falling shut from how heavy they, apparently, are. He hadn’t realized how tired he was until he was actually in bed, laying down.

Tetsurou just laughs quietly at Kenma, probably knowing this was going to happen. He plants a kiss on the top of Kenma's head, who is already damn near asleep.

Kenma wakes up about 5 hours later to his absolutely favorite thing; Tetsurou stroking his hair, moving it out of his face and behind his ears. Soft strokes along the shape of his head. A whisper comes from Tetsurou’s mouth, "Kenma, love, I made dinner."

"Mm," Kenma sits up after taking a minute to look around. Right, he’s not on his honeymoon anymore. He’s finally home. As he sits up, he rubs the sleep out of his eyes and takes a deep breath, "Mkay," He hums, smiling a soft smile up at his husband.

"Our sleep schedules are fucked up, huh?" Tetsurou laughs after noting the time out loud (7:30 PM on the dot).

Kenma nods, rubbing at the side of his face which is no doubt a bit red, probably from sleeping on it so hard, "Yep, we were like 10 hours ahead in Costa Rica, Kuro. We’re jet lagged."

"9 hours," Tetsurou corrects him, always having to be precise about everything. He grabs Kenma’s hands and starts tugging him off of the bed, saying, "Let's go eat, Kenmaaa I’m hungry."

Kenma grumbles at Tetsurou, "I can get off of the bed myself.” He tries to swat at the man but unable to seeing as said man has his hands in custody.

Tetsurou chuckles at his husband’s antics, "Yeah, I know, but it’s more fun this way,” He smirks. After a bit more playful fighting, they walk to the kitchen and eat the food that Tetsurou made them. Kenma was sure that they would end up ordering in today so he’s surprised that his husband (he’s going to mention that as much as he possibly can because he just loves it so much) actually decided to cook.

"Ugh, I wanna stream again," Kenma complains into a sigh, "but I can't stream twice in a day, can I? I mean, I did say I might stream again tonight but I was mostly just joking.”

"You really missed it, huh?" Tetsurou chuckles (he’s really good at laughing at Kenma) and reaches across the table for Kenma's hand, grabbing a hold of it and kissing the top.

Kenma squeezes his hand back, replying a quick, "Yeah," He lets out a small frustrated groan and takes a bite of his food with his free hand, "thanks for dinner Kuro. It’s amazing." His savors the food in his mouth.

A gentle smile falls onto Tetsurou’s face, looking at Kenma as if he’s the most important thing in the world (which is so obviously wrong when Tetsurou is clearly the most important thing in the world. Duh.) "You're welcome." He kisses Kenma's hand again, likely unable to help himself if Kenma had to make a guess..

After they finish all of their food, they start on the dishes together. Tetsurou does the actual washing while Kenma does all of the drying and putting away, simply because Kenma doesn’t love the feeling of his hands turning wrinkly from being wet. It’s to the point where they don’t even have to discuss who does what anymore, Tetsurou just automatically goes for the sponge. It’s such a redundant thing but Kenma likes that Tetsurou just knows. It makes his heart feel all kinds of full.

"Are you gonna go stream again after this?" Tetsruou questions while handing Kenma a plate, knowing his husband all too well because, yeah, he was definitely thinking about streaming again.

Kenma dries the plate and turns to place it in the cabinet behind him, where the plates all go, "Yeah, probably. Might just do another Minecraft stream, those are pretty easygoing." He shrugs, grabbing the offered cup from Tetsurou and drying it, placing it in the cabinet to the right of the plate one.

"Hey, you should let me stream with you," Tetsurou suggests, while scrubbing another cup.

Kenma chuckles, the request kind of throwing him off. Kenma figured that Tetsurou was probably just going to go back to bed after this, "really? You're not too tired?"

"I slept for like 8 hours once we got home, I'm not too tired as of now." Tetsurou tells his husband, a smile on his face as he hands Kenma the cup and starts on the second to last dish.

"Alright then, you can bring your chair from the office into my gaming room after we finish this."

***

Once they finished the dishes, Kenma walks into his gaming room so that he can get everything set up for a stream while Tetsurou goes to get his chair, that way he doesn’t have to stand the entire time like he usually does when making simple appearances on the stream.

"The chair has arrived!" Tetsurou announces, as he rolls the chair right next to Kenma’s and sits down.

"'Kay, here." Kenma hands Tetsurou a pair of headphones; the pair he used to use before he got the pair that he’s wearing now, "put those on."

"Ooo professional." Tetsurou smirks, sliding the headphones over his ears.

Kenma rolls his eyes, amused by him as per usual, "Okay, shut up.” He waves a hand at him to silence his snickering, “I'm about to start the stream."

Tetsurou kisses Kenma's cheek just before Kenma presses start on the stream, his mouse inching closer and closer to the button.

Kenma blushes and mumbles, "better not kiss me on stream again." That was way too embarrasing for Kenma’s liking. A quick kiss every once in a while is fine but what he did today? Never again.

Tetsurou kisses him again, muttering against his lips, "guess I better get all the kisses in before the stream starts."

"5… 4…" Kenma starts counting down the seconds before he starts the stream, in hopes to deter Tetsurou from kissing him anymore but it just causes Tetsurou to smother him in even more kisses, "and… 1." He says, pressing the button to start the stream.

Tetsurou gives him one last, very quick, kiss and then turns to the camera with a smile on his face.