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“Handa-kun has a boyfriend…?” Yukio surprisingly repeated, as he saw the rest of the Handa Force slumped over in a depressive state at the Handa HQ, “Where’d you three get an idea like that?”
Now it’s not like he was one to doubt the Handa Force of all people when it came to their ever intelligence of all things Handa-kun related, but he had to admit it was kind of hard to imagine that Handa of all people was taken by someone else already without everyone in the whole school knowing it by now.
“You know that one cafe Handa-kun always goes to, at the same time after school?” Aizawa started to push up his glasses and explain, “The one where he orders the Black Bean tea, at everytime?”
“Yeah?”
It was probably bad that he had ended up indirectly following… No, who was he kidding here? Stalking Handa enough, with the rest of the Handa Force’s help, to recognize that place without a moment’s hesitation.
“Well, he’s been meeting up with a kid called Kawafuji a lot recently there,” Aizawa continued to clarify, “I looked him up and he’s apparently a student from another class at our school.”
“So maybe he’s his friend?” Yukio casually suggested.
If he was being nice about it, then he could admit that the other members of the Handa Force had the unnatural tendency to jump to conclusions about Handa from time to time that weren’t always entirely that accurate, so it wouldn’t surprise him at all if this was one of those times as well. I mean just because you might have happened to meet up with someone a lot after school at a cafe certainly didn’t indicate by itself that you were dating them after all. Maybe that just so happened to be both of their favorite spots to hang out at or something?
“You don’t understand Yuki!” Reo started to frantically tell him with a new kind of desperation that he had never seen from him before, “Handa-kun was smiling at him in a way that he has never done for anything or anyone else before! It was like he was on another enlightened plane of existence when the two of them were alone together!”
“Yeah, it was totally something else,” Tsutsui crossed his arms and agreed with a serious look on his face, “when a man makes that kind of serious expression with someone else it's obvious it goes beyond just a normal bromance.”
He should know afterall, many girls used to accuse him of stealing their boyfriends when they made the exact same stunned look on their faces to him when he first started to go to high school. At least, that’s what used to happen to him a lot before he suddenly decided to bulk up anyway.
“Maybe it was, but have any of you actually seen the two of them umm… I don’t know…?” The shorter brunet started to stumble around and say, “Kiss or something to confirm it? Like have you actually heard either of them call each other boyfriends or anything like that?”
Because to him at least, all this evidence just seemed a bit circumstantial at best no? I mean maybe Handa was just the type of person that got easily happy when being with a friend? Or maybe it was possible that he did have feelings for Kawafuji like they all were saying, but he just hadn’t confessed them yet, so they couldn’t exactly be classified as official either.
“Well, no… Not exactly…” Aizawa awkwardly began to trail off and say, realizing that Yukio may actually have a point there, “but we all had a similar gut feeling when we saw them together that we couldn’t ignore either!”
Sure, maybe they hadn’t gotten anything definitive about the two of them, but he swore that when the three of them all saw the two of them together like that, they all got this same strange tingling feeling in their chest that something was wrong and…
“Have you ever considered that the three of you just might be jealous?” Yukio spoke up and asked.
“Jealous…? Jealous of what?” Tsutsui repeated in confusion at the other boy’s suggestion. He didn’t quite understand what Yukio was getting at here.
“Of the idea of Handa-kun going out with someone else," Yukio casually answered, “you all are… extremely dedicated to him so I guess I just simply figured you all have your own feelings for him too?”
He thought that much was obvious at this point, that Aizawa’s, Tsutsui’s, and Reo’s dedicated for Handa went beyond just normal fan behavior at this point, but the three of them were staring at him like they had no idea what he was talking about, like they had no idea how deep their… affections for Handa seemed to an outsider. Then again, now that he thought about it, everyone was a little intense when it came to Handa-kun, so maybe they didn’t think their feelings for him were any different from the rest?
“Of course we all do! But ours are just pure admirance!” Aizawa started to defensively say with a light blush on his face, “I mean to think that any one of us alone could be worthy of Handa’s affections all by ourselves, well it’s just unthinkable isn’t it?”
“Yeah, we just admire Handa, like how another man can look up to another soldier in battle!” Tsutsui started to look up to the sky and insist, with a sparkle in his eyes as if he was speaking about some grand hero that was only told about in legends, “I mean with how strong Handa is, you can’t help but wonder what kind of muscles he must be naturally packing underneath his clothes to contain it all. Like sometimes, late at night, I find myself wondering what it would be like if I could slip my own hand under Handa’s uniform to caress his abs to feel what the true strength of man is like so I can…”
“Sure, maybe I can admit that Handa has bested me in looks in some ways,” Reo cut off his fellow delusional friend and began to answer Yukio, “But I don't know if I’d go as far as to suggest that I like him like…”
“Well actually, no maybe…?” Reo clearly interrupted his own train of thought and said as he clearly internally debated it.
“Reo!” Aizawa suddenly shouted to snap the other guy out of it, “What are you saying?! As members of the Handa Force we are supposed to ensure the greatness of Handa is shared equally!”
He knew how tempting it was, how tempting it was to succumb and become one of Handa’s fans that thought.. terribly indecent thoughts about the other man, but as members of the Handa Force they had to stay strong! To remain impartial in these trying times for both Handa’s sakes and his fan’s own ones, so they could keep the harmony between them!
“But because we’re members of the Handa Force doesn’t that mean it’s understandable if we feel that way?” Yukio started to point out, “because we’re… some of the people closest to him?”
Sure, they certainly weren’t close in the traditional sense, since it was really that they only admired and cared for Handa from afar more than anything else, but still wouldn’t it be understandable for anyone who was that dedicated to someone else to develop feelings for them at that point? I mean it certainly wouldn’t be the craziest thing any of them had done so far for Handa anyway.
“Because we’re members of the Handa force…?” Reo turned over to face Yukio and repeated, after he caught the double meaning behind the other teen’s words, “So does that mean you have a crush on him too, Yuki? Is that why you’ve been insisting on this topic so much so that you don’t feel alone?”
“What?!”
That… That hadn’t been what he meant at all! He was just giving an example here! Just trying to justify why it wouldn’t be weird for anyone here to feel that way about Handa! It had nothing to do with him specifically!
The ex-model quickly ruffled the top of the shorter brunet’s head before he wrapped an arm around him and pulled him flush against his side, “C’mon don’t be shy, Yuki. There’s no judgment here when it comes to this kind of stuff. You can admit it, Handa’s your type.”
“Seriously that’s not it all…” Yukio frustratedly mumbled out, despite knowing that none of the other boys would ever actually believe it.
He was just trying to help the other guys be honest with their own feelings here, so how had he gotten wrapped into it as well?
“Fine, you know what?!” Aizawa suddenly started to blurt out and declare, “New game plan, as leader of the Handa force I vote we all confess are feelings together and become Handa’s boyfriends at the same time so that will solve everything,”
“Huh?! What are you saying?!” Yukio suddenly whipped around in shock at this new development, “I thought you said before that Handa’s amazingness should be shared with everyone?! Like it wouldn’t be fair if he was tied down to just one person?!”
Didn’t he realize what he was suggesting now was the complete opposite of what he was saying before? Did he know it was not normal to switch up that quickly?!
“Yes, I may have, but…” Aizawa started to concede with a slightly flustered look on his face for a few moments before it turned to one full of pure determination, “Then I realized that if we all have feelings for him then it might be better if we all dated him at once to keep an even closer eye on him, as per our duty as the Handa Force afterall!”
It’s not like they were cutting off Handa’s greatness from the rest of the world here, they would still share him to an extent of course. It’s just that, the four of them might end up getting a closer look of him compared to most people, and if that’s what Handa hypothetically wanted as well, then how could they as the Handa Force, his most dedicated followers, refuse him that?
“Yep, we’ll finally be able to become the ever loyal knights that get to stand by his side all the time and protect him!” Tsutsui added with a dreamy smile after that, “He’ll always be less than an arm's distance away from us so we can always keep him safe.”
Even when he goes to the bathroom too…? Yukio silently looked back at the delinquent and internally questioned.
Honestly, knowing how serious Tsutsui, and frankly the rest of the Handa Force, was when it came to Handa’s safety the answer was probably a yes, whether Handa himself had a say in it or not.
“Mmhmm, and of course he’ll need someone stylish by his side to keep up with the trends too,” Reo followed up and replied, while also obviously hinting at himself for the position, “Yuki-chan you also need to be there too.”
“Why?”
“Well, you’re part of the Handa Force too and this was originally your idea afterall, so you’re got to take some responsibility for it don't you?” Reo leaned in and teased the other teen, "Telling your real feelings for him alongside the rest of us shouldn’t be that hard should it?”
Hard? It being hard is the least thing I’m worried about here! Yukio internally yelled back at him. He was more worried about Handa’s reaction to the whole thing!
I mean suddenly having four separate guys you barely spoke to suddenly confess their feelings for you all at the same time out of the blue would take anyone off guard! Plus, with how paranoid Handa seemed to naturally be, he’d probably just realistically think the four of them were making fun of him more than anything else!
But if Handa somehow did realize that none of them were messing around and were being genuine in his feelings here, then maybe it was possible that he would actually accept them and…
No! No! No! What was he suggesting?! He was just getting ahead of himself here! That kind of thought was just wishful thinking; there was no way Handa would actually accept the idea of all of them becoming his boyfriend at the same time.
But wait, if he was admitting that was wishful thinking on his part then did that mean a part of him actually wanted Handa to accept all of their feelings for him and…?
Yukio felt his face burn red, he had been hanging out with the rest of the Handa Force way too long at this point. He was starting to think the exact same insane thoughts they were at this rate.