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Nothing beats an ice cream in this hot weather, especially after practice.
Yamaguchi and Tsukishima are walking home, eating ice cream on a popsicle stick. Silence is overflowing them, and Yamaguchi's itching to open a conversation, but knowing Tsukishima, he knows that it's better to shut his mouth up and finish his ice cream.
He thought that was it when, suddenly, Tsukishima opened a conversation he didn't expect them to have. Not even in his wildest imagination.
"Hey, do you think you can talk with your mouth closed?"
Yamaguchi, in the moment of licking his ice cream, looked up to his friend, "I don't think so..."
"But you can hum it, right?"
Yamaguchi thought about it for exactly a minute before answering, and he's still not sure he should be answering the question, however, it's Tsukki, so there's no harm in answering back.
"Y-Yeah, some of them..."
"Especially the vowel letters," Tsukishima said as if saying it to himself.
They found their usual spot in the park. A bench under the shade of a tree. No one was walking around, only them. This direction only has a few people passing by, especially at night. This makes a perfect place to spend time with someone.
Yamaguchi did not bother answering back. And just took his seat behind the tall blond.
"Hey."
"Hm?" Yamaguchi hummed back when he got called again.
Tsukishima's looking at him, turning his body to properly look at him. It almost made Yamaguchi blush, and he didn't know for what reason!
"Bite your lower lip and pronounce 'O'." A very serious command he got.
Distancing his ice cream from his mouth, Yamaguchi swallowed and cleared his throat twice.
Okay, here it goes.
He gently bit on his lower lip and loudly pronounced the letter O, which to his embarrassment sounded like a moan.
His eyes widened, and his face was now comparable to a ripe tomato. Even his ears are red from the realization. He shifted his body to the other side and anxiously bit his ice cream, earning an amused chuckle from the blond.
"You're gullible," Tsukishima commented as he chuckled.
"I-It's your fault! You w-were seriously asking me to pronounce that letter while biting my lower lip! How can you do that to me, Tsukki!" Yamaguchi burst out, finally facing his friend, even though his face is still as red as Snow White's lips.
"You're so loud."
"Gomen...Tsukki."
"I like it..." Tsukishima whispered (Yamauchi didn't hear it) and turned back to properly sit and just finish his ice cream quickly. He was secretly smirking at how...well, cute, Yamaguchi was. The embarrassed face he makes is making him do things that would make the brunette always blush.
The next day, Yamaguchi couldn't come to practice. Unfortunately, he caught a cold. But Tsukishima knows better. The brunette must have been so down that he couldn't bring himself to face the team, couldn't accept the fact that he's getting left behind by everyone else.
To prove the blond right, Yamaguchi was indeed feeling down from being the only one who couldn't do anything better for the team. Though he actually caught a cold from thinking all night, the embarrassment from yesterday did not even help.
It's already 5 in the afternoon, and he's sure as hell that the practice is over. He just spent the whole day rotting on his bed, overthinking things...thinking about some sort of feelings.
A knock on his room's door took him out of his staring contest with the ceiling.
"Yes?"
The door opened, revealing a tall blond in his uniform. Yamaguchi immediately stood to sit, he was shock from his friend's sudden visit. He didn't expect Tsukishima to come and visit him. Or was he forgetting that Tsukki actually cares about him more than he thinks the blond does?
"Tsukki?"
Tsukishima took a seat at the side of his bed. "You feeling okay now?"
"Yeah, I managed."
"Don't get sick with me again, Yamaguchi."
"Gomen, Tsukki." Yamaguchi has his hands behind his head, scratching apologetically.
Tsukishima looks down at his hands, intertwined on top of his knees. "I'm always here if you need a shoulder to put your legs on."
"I know......" Yamaguchi was fast to answer without processing the words completely. But when he did, he jolted away from the blond and even covered his body with his blanket. "Ehhh???!"
And because he's facing the blond's back, he didn't see the smirk lingering on Tsukishima's face.
With a mischievous grin, Tsukishima took his leave. Leaving the poor Yamaguchi in a state of...mixed emotions.
Why is Tsukki being too dirty with me lately? He's creeping me out!
Tsukishima was wearing his headphones on the way to eat his lunch when Yamaguchi appeared in front of him, all smiley.
It has been 5 days after the brunette got a cold, and it's also been 5 days since Tsukishima was being weird with him. Since then, he hasn't heard any lame dirty jokes from the blond again. So, he's been on a high level of energy today.
"Tsukki, let's eat lunch!"
"You're so loud, Yamaguchi," Tsukishima stated in answer and put the headphones around his neck.
"Gomen, Tsukki." He apologized but still followed the blond to the rooftop, their usual lunch break spot.
And as usual, again, they are eating their lunch in silence. Only talking when Yamaguchi asks something about volleyball or things related to classes. Other than that, silence envelops them again.
Not until they touch on the topic of science, and Tsukishima went back from giving him those dirty pick-up lines.
"Tsukki, is it true that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body?"
Yup! It was he who opened the situation for himself. No one to blame but him. He didn't know Tsukishima was fast with his dirty response, alright!
"Yeah. They say that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body, wanna fight?"
The last piece of octopus hotdog fell on his lunch box after hearing those words come out of his friend's mouth.
Yamaguchi just sat there, frozen in his spot, looking at his friend with utter shock. Tsukishima's also looking at him, or more like staring at his lips, closely. So close he didn't know if they were this close earlier. Just how fast did the blond move to narrow the space between them? Unknown!
"Ts-Tsukki..." Yamaguchi called out when he realized that Tsukishima was getting even closer. And it's the type of closeness that is not so good for his heart. However, his voice was so low that it did not sound convincing enough for the blonde to stop.
Yamaguchi closed his eyes for...for whatever reason.
His heart is beating so loud, and his back is already against the wall, he's being directed to a kabedon trap. The lunchbox? Forgotten!
He only snapped back to his senses when their nose touched, and that was it, he pushed the blond away from him. So hard that Tsukishima groaned loudly from hitting his butt straight to the floor, meters away from Yamaguchi.
"I-I'm sorry! Tsukki! Yo-You...what were you just about to do???" He was gasping for air, it was like a marathon. Clutching his chest and rose to his feet.
Tsukishima was glaring at him while feeling his own butt that went numb for a moment. "If you hadn't pushed me, you would have known."
"What?"
"Seriously! Just how dense are you, Tadashi?"
Yamaguchi doesn't know either. Is he dense, or was he just defensive? But one thing's for sure, and that is Tsukishima's dangerous right now, and he needs to get himself out of corner situations so that he won't be easily preyed on.
They won't be having this conversation at this moment. Nope! He's not ready yet.
He walked straight to the door and was ready to leave. Twisting the doorknob open, he looks at his friend, who's already helping himself up.
"Is your ass okay?" He asked, trying to hide a grin from showing. Tsukishima looks at him with a face that says, 'Are you kidding me?' He almost threw himself off, but he cleared his throat and continued, "Show me later."
With that, he left the blond, gaping from his suggestive words. He knows that he just drove himself into that point, but he won't back down without a comeback.
"Tadashi, come back here?!" He heard the blond shout from the other side.
Naahhh. Not today.
He bolted straight to their classroom. Praying that Tsukishima will forget everything and just go back to being the usual Tsukki that he knows. Though he kind of, somehow, likes this side of the blond. It's creepy, but it's Tsukki, so it's completely okay.
End:-)