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Isagi has a lot of secrets and things he’d prefer to keep a secret. One of them being his embarrassingly stupid crush on none other than Alexis Ness, his fellow teammate. Isagi doesn’t know why, Ness hates him with all his heart, yet, Isagi can’t help but sneak small glances at Ness every once and a while.
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“Whatcha lookin at, Isagi?” Hiori pokes Isagi’s shoulder which causes him to ever so slightly flinch. Isagi blinks a few times before looking back down at his food. He’d been staring a little too long at Ness, who was a table ahead of his.
“I see, Isagi likes Kaiser”
“What- I don’t!” Isagi is quick to defend himself
“Then why are you staring his way? Unless you actually have a reason to, to” Kurona butts in
“Well…uh” Isagi doesn’t really have an answer to that. Well, he kind of does, he just doesn’t want to admit he’d been staring at a certain magenta-eyed midfielder a table ahead of him. Ness likes to face Kaiser while eating, so it’s a perfect opportunity for Isagi to marvel at Ness’ pretty features. Ness already looks perfect the way he is, but when he smiles to laugh at one of Kaiser’s jokes, he looks like an angel straight from heaven.
“So, what's yer reason Isagi?”
“If you like him just admit it, it”
“Seriously I don’t! I swear! I was…just observing things!” Isagi quickly makes up an excuse. Unfortunately, none of his teammates seem to be buying it.
“Sure Isagi, observing” Hiori teases, Isagi can hear faint giggles and snickers from the others. Oh how he wishes he could just shut them all up before someone else hears. Soon everyone dropped the teasing and the subject was changed into football. Isagi continues to eat when he decides to glance up to view Ness again. This time, however, their eyes meet for a brief second, magenta-colored eyes clashing with ocean blue ones. Isagi quickly looks at the table, heat rising to his face.
Ness and Kaiser sit at their usual spot. Any empty table that's far enough from others. Ness starts chatting as soon as they sit down to keep Kaiser entertained for a while. Every now and then Kaiser would say something and Ness would listen attentively, laughing or adding on hoping that Kaiser would compliment him or say something good about him. Even small ones count. “You’re right”, “Good job Ness”, hearing Kaiser say those kinds of words makes him feel loved and cared for, something he didn’t experience growing up. Kaiser starts rambling on about football tactics when Ness’ focus starts drifting off away from Kaiser’s face and rather the cafeteria and the tables behind them. Ness’ eyes soon land onto Isagi, who’s already staring right at him. Ness furrows his brows as Isagi swiftly looks away.
“What are you looking at?” Kaiser’s voice soons snaps Ness out if it
“Sorry Kaiser, I’m just a little tired”
“That better not affect our plays, you got it?”
“Yes, Kaiser”
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“Let’s practice together, Kaiser!” Ness calls Kaiser from the viewing room.
“Later, I have things to do” Ness’ smile slightly falters as he walks inside the room. Kaiser is watching game highlights of Isagi. Lately, Kaiser has been interested in someone other than Ness, who is none other than Isagi Yoichi, Blue Lock’s poster boy. Ness wholeheartedly hates Isagi, he outright disrespects Kaiser and yet still gets attention from him and even compliments.
“That’s alright. I’ll go by myself” Ness closes the door as he heads out, his mood completely soured. He walks through the empty and dull halls of Blue Lock, fingers shoved deeply into his palms.
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Ness positioned the ball on the ground when he suddenly heard the doors open.
“Oh sorry, I didn’t know the field was taken-”
“Seriously stop watching me you creep. I’m not stupid.” Ness’ eye twitches at the sight of Isagi.
“What are you talking about?” Isagi’s cheeks warm up with embarrassment realizing he wasn’t as subtle with his admiring as he thought he was
“The cafeteria, at practice, the lockers, and now you're starting to follow me. What the fuck do you want from me? ” Ness starts to raise his voice. Isagi slowly backs away, trying to not escalate the situation even further.
“I honestly can’t see why Kaiser’s so infatuated with you. You’re just a shitty loser” Isagi can hear Ness continue on as he walks out of the practice field. Isagi grits his teeth. Not only is Ness aware of everything, it only made his hatred towards Isagi even worse.