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"I think Akito and Toya would."
At the mention of his name by An, Akito startled back from his thoughts. "What? We would what?" He had been zoning out for quite some time enjoying the chill hangout they had been having. And maybe getting a little buzzed was half a reason.
An had come up with an idea to hold a sleepover after practice, when she had spotted Toya being reluctant to leave home. They ended up getting snacks and some drinks on the walk to the Shiraishi residence which lead Kohane pulling up jenga. They had come up with a habit to play it anytime they would hangout casually outside of practice.
The girls were clearly in a very social mood and after an hour of semi active chatting An had decided to pull up her contacts and start to think who to invite to play. They had played jenga too many times at this point so there was rarely any new information no matter how personal the questions got. Expect on Akito's part, he had limits thank you very much how much of a fool he would make himself out to be.
An had called Mizuki who happened to be hanging out with Ena and dragged her out with them to the WEEKEND GARAGE's upstairs. Ena had taken some convincing to leave since it would be kind of awkward to get drunk with Akito in the same space, but lost the fight in the end.
"You're not going to sleep anyways until the wee hours of the morning come!"
Which is how they ended up with 6 of them in An's led lit room with music blasting on the background.
"Most likely to hook up out of this room!" Mizuki piped in from the sofa where they had draped legs over Ena's lap.
"Wait wait what?? Where's this coming out of nowhere?" He sputtered from his spot on the floor. Where he had been leaning... against Toya for quite some time. After breaking physical contact Toya adjusted to sit a little more against the wall and gave his neck a crack.
An laughed and took a sip from her drink. "We're still playing jenga, are you that much of a lightweight?" she said while putting the piece back on the tower.
"I pulled hot seat and Mizuki asked 'Who's the most likely to become a couple in here?' and me and Kohane are one already~"
Akito turned to glare at Mizuki. "What the hell man, that's weird to ask with just 6 of us playing, did you want affirmation of you two getting together or what?" He pointed at where Ena was playing with the hem of Mizuki's skirt.
Mizuki gave a mischievous smile. "Oh but we hooked up already a week ago, I don't need more affirmations from outside." The revelation was quickly followed up by a slap to their arm.
"Amia I told you he didn't need to know yet!" Ena whispered in a growl.
"That's even dumber to ask then! There's no other option here!" he grumbled.
"We could turn up poly, I mean An's real hot I wouldn't mind." Mizuki wiggled their eyebrows at An. "Oh or I'd love to see Ena with either of the two to look at it would be..."
"Ewww gross I don't want to hear that about my sister." he grimaced.
"But you've been melting more and more against each other as the night has been going on." An giggled. "You seemed so snuggly."
"Now it's automatically gay for guys to have physical contact as friends? That's not very feminist of you An." Akito scoffed, but got up from the floor breaking contact with Toya before leaning down to pick up his empty can. Toya's shook the arm Akito had been leaning on, feeling
"I'm getting another drink, Toya do you want more?" he asked extending his hand towards the other's drink.
Toya shook his can for a moment, chugged the bit that was left and offered it to the waiting hand.
"That would be nice. I put mine on the fridge door I think there's one or two left." He smiled gently at Akito who was already half way to the kitchen.
"Akito you still haven't asked An a question! We can't continue until you do!" Ena hollered after her brother.
"How does it feel to be gay?"
"Excellent but shouldn't you know about it personally too!"
Muted cursing could be heard from the kitchen while all rest of them began to laugh, Toya included.
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On their usual way home the two boys were talking. Well more like Akito kept rambling about new song releases from his favourite artists and drunkenly tangenting from one topic to another while Toya kept nodding and chiming in with small comments.
Akito kept stopping while talking to point out this and that and at a certain point Toya decided to grab his hand to pull him along so they would at some point be able to sleep that night. "
Waiting at street crossing Akito's talking slowed down just enough for Toya to start a speaking. "Akito, I've been thinking..." Toya brushed his thumb over the other's knuckles while and brought his gaze to their joined hands.
"Hu?" Akito smiled drunkenly at him. "Did one of the songs sound interesting? We can listen to them tomorrow before training."
"When do you think you would be, uh..." Toya stammered while continuing to stroke his thumb over Akito's hand. "Ready to tell others we're dating? I mean, we don't need to tell everyone, but I think telling Shiraishi and Azusawa should be alright right? Since they're also dating and we're a teammates..."
If there was any alcohol left in his system it had instantly vaporized from his body.
"Toya stop stop, you're going too fast!" Akito cut in. "I'm sorry what did you say we would tell them?"
"About us? About us being boyfriends?" He squeezed their hands tighter. "I know you don't like being open about things. But they would surely not disapprove at least."
Akito was staring at him his mouth open, face slowly flushing under the streetlights. "We're, dating." he repeated, it coming out as more of a question than a statement which got him a confused look back.
"Yes? Ever since you asked me out? We even went on a date earlier this week Aki."
"I asked you out?" was the only thing Akito could get out having been thrown completely new information at. "I'm sorry I, we." His face flared up completely red at this point. He had had a crush on Toya for the longest time but had pushed it away from his mind, because he thought Toya didn't like him back.
Hearing the uncertain answers Toya also got flustered. "Yes you, told me you never wanted to be with anyone else and that you were glad to be my partner just before asking if we should go out?" He let go of the other's hands.
"I'm so sorry, did I, did I completely misunderstand?" Toya's ears were burning bright red and a unusual panic could be seen on his face and he stepped backwards. "I'm often told I misread situations but everyone else thought so too, An thought it sounded like a proposal as did Tsukasa I'm." He turned away and brought a hand to hide his face.
Face still flushed from being told he had been dating his unrecruited crush still on his fac,e Akito "You like me? Like like in a not a platonic but want to go on dates and do other, other..." he couldn't finish his sentence.
"Yes I'm so sorry I'm grossing you out right I really thought you had asked me out-"
"You're not!" Akito raised his voice and grabbed at the hand Toya was using to hide his face.
Startled, Toya shut his mouth. The loud denial brought his attention back to what Akito was actually saying from his spiraling thoughts.
"Damn it Toya just give me a moment..." Akito groaned and rubbed his neck and took a deep breath.
"I'm not grossed out Toya, I could never be." he said while his gaze began to wander, not having the courage to have their eyes lock. "I have, I also, fuck this is hard." He glanced up at Toya who was staring and concentrating on every word that left his mouth even though he looked ready to cry.
"You like me and thought we were, going out already?" Toya nodded and bit his lip. Akito couldn't stand Toya's sad expression anymore and blurted out.
"I got no idea how you ended up thinking I asked you out. I wouldn't be able to actually come out and say that out loud to you like shit man you're so perfect and out of my leag-"
Toya's eyes blew wide open. "I wasn't wrong that you like me, just that you didn't ask me out." He talked slowly while processing what Akito had just told him.
"Mm yeah." He mumbled a reply. Courage fleeing from Akito's body he pulled his hood over his face in embarrassment.
Toya let go of their hands and took a gentle hold of the other's face to bring his face back into view. Akito's face was thoroughly red and his browns in such a deep frown that it broke Toya into laughter. Which only made Akito try and pull back to the safety of his hood.
"I'm sorry just now you were, you were so cute." Toya composed himself before continuing. "Akito, would you like to be my boyfriend?"
Akito pulled his face free. Instead of verbally replying, he took a hold of Toya's hand and began to pull him to continue their way home. "Come on, it's been green for a while." he mumbled, but took extra care to hold on tightly to Toya's hand the whole way.