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"Oikawa, why the hell is /he/ here," Yahaba whispered to his captian.
"I was about to get to that," Oikawa whispered back, "Everyone! Say hello to our returning teammate, Mad-Dog-Chan, or I suppose Kyoutani. Please give him a warm welcome!"
The boy with the bleached hair stared around the room. His intense gaze judged everyone who stood in front of him, well maybe not Iwaizumi, but mostly the other two second years. Yahaba and Watari.
"Dude, look, your little boyfriend is back," Watari teased Yahaba.
Something Yahaba could (frustratedly) admit was how he used to have somewhat of a
/thing/ with Kentaro. A friends with benefits almost, but the benefits weren't sex or making out (okay, the latter maybe a few times), but more dates and cuddles. It peeved Yahaba to even think about it.
Luckily the only people who knew about his... curious stage... were Kyoutani himself, Watari, and Oikawa. No one else needed to know, no one needed to know ever for that matter.
Yahaba attempted to keep his composure as Oikawa talked about finals, graduation, the spring tournament, all of that boring stuff, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stop staring at Kyoutani.
Well, until he turned his head, looked back, and realized Kyoutani was looking at him. They both turned back in a split second. Yahaba knew this was gonna be a pain in the ass to deal with.
To put it simply, practice was awkward. Yahabas setting game was off the entire time and maybe it had to do with the lack of practice, but Kyoutani wasn't doing too good either.
When Yahaba got home he immediately grabbed his phone and dialled Oikawa.
"Ahh, hello Creampuff kouhai, why did you call?"
"Cut the shit, Oikawa, you know what's wrong. Why would you let him on the team?" Yahaba nearly screamed into the phone.
"Why so rude? You can't deny that Mad Dog is a good player,"
"Dude? I thought you knew this, he's my.. kind of ex? Don't you think this could go bad, its been, like, a year since we spoke and-"
"Do you still like him, Creampuff?"
Yahaba stared down at his phone. There was no way. Zero chance he still did.
Memories from their "break up" flew in.
"Shii I- um.. I think I should tell you something.' Kentaro said as he grasped onto Shigeru's hand.
"What is it?" The grey haired boy anticipated.
"I... I think this is getting too real," Kentaro said backing off from Yahaba, "I'm really sorry, I can't do this with you anymore, I wish you luck in finding someone for you,"
Yahaba stood in silence. What the hell happened?/
"Dammit Oikawa, it just... I miss what me and Ken had, that's it."
"So you like him?"
"If that's how you want to define it, sure, I guess I still like him."
"Oh Yahaba, be prepared for a life changing text veryyyy soon..." Oikawa said with laughter in the background. Was that Iwaizumi?
"Oikawa wait what the hell-" Yahaba said until he was cut off by the beeping of Oikawa hanging up. That bastard.
Yahaba spent the next 5 minutes freaking out over what it meant. Surely Iwaizumi didn't know, he would hope. In those 5 minutes he got nothing. No call or text from anyone, what sick joke was this?
Then he saw it. A message from Mad Dog.
'wna meet at the prk? ill bring moch if u wnt'
Yahaba never ran out of the door so fast.
When he arrived at the park, he was happily met with Mochi, Kyoutanis goldendoodle puppy Yahaba grew a soft spot for. He was unhappily met with Kyoutani himself.
"Someone missed you," the stern boy said looking down at the dog with her tail wagging, "and I thought we could talk?"
Kyoutani was truly a mature person. His aura simply makes him seem cold and rebellious, but knowing him longer than a month and he really starts to care.
"Fine, for Moch though. Why did you text?"
"Yahaba, I'm just going to get to the point because you probably already know, but I still like you. I, uh, I always have."
Yahaba looked into the other boys eyes. Not a shred of anger or resentment shined through. Then it hit him. Kyoutani liked him.
"H-hold on when you say always you mean..?"
"Even before we dated, well I guess faked. Do you really see me as the kind to go out with anybody?"
"Hah- I don't see anyone else who would want to date you..." Shigeru stopped when he realized what he said, the cover was up.
"Now isn't the time for- wait, what? Anybody else?"
"Dammit, it was supposed to be more romantic than this but yeah. I like you too. You think I would pretend to go out with anyone else for no reason?"
"I guess your request back then was pretty stupid."
"Well, I guess we're pretty stupid for waiting so long"
"Huh, I guess so. Kentaro said as he kissed his now /actal/ lovers lips. Tasted better than it did when it was pretend.