that's one reason among many. also: my facebook account doesn't even have my real name on it.
[ it's true. he's on facebook as ＣＡＴ ＤＡＤＤＹ．, to match bokuto's ＯＷＬ ＨＯＴＴＹ． display name. auntie landlady must've been a PI in her younger years or something. ]
man, we should've met sooner. could've used this information back in high school. certainly would've made junior/senior year a lot more hilarious, looking back on it.
and what are you talking about, "keeping me under control"? who do you think you are, oikawa-san?
[Must have been. But it probably wasn't as hard as Kuroo's thinking it was.]
We know each other now! That's the important part. Remind me to introduce you to Makki and Mattsun sometime. Except you have to promise to be on my side.
I'm not actually going to control you. Well, beyond making sure you don't destroy the apartment. But that's the image we're trying to sell, Kuro-chan! Keep up! And if Daichi says yes it's a sure thing!
Anyways. The solution, once I get the security deposit down, is to party elsewhere. Like Bo-chan's place.
i've heard enough of iwa-chan yelling "shittykawa" through your phone to have an inkling, man. i've got your back as long as you've got mine when bokuto's acting like a dumbass and akkachi isn't around.
(your former teammates sound like food the way you introduce them, btw. it's creepy.)
[ he's a little scared of akaashi, truth be told. any person who can handle the BoKuroo tag team (hah) with such ease can probably conquer the inter-collegiate volleyball circuit with ease. ]
and we're back to "we have a 250K yen problem".
bokuto's hooked up with akaashi, i'm not getting in the middle of that. what about ushijima's?
are you two still doing that territorial pissing contest or have we all collectively moved on from that?
They like those nicknames, so I'm not changing it. They've built it up to be a comedy routine of the annoying sort.
And deal. When my teammates gang up on me you're not allowed to join in, and I won't join in when Bokuto starts in on you. Prefect. I'll throw your teammates in as a bonus.
[Adding Oikawa might make it difficult for poor Akaashi. It really depends on he's feeling that that day.]
Yes back to that.
We're always going to measuring our dicks against each other. But for the moment we're okay.
Still... might be fun. So long as we don't spend too much time in each other's presence. And if really annoys me I can piss all over his flowers.
flowers? what are you talking about?? ushijima has flowers???
[ look, the entirety of miyagi prefecture's volleyball clubs are weird to kuroo. maybe it's a regional thing, maybe nekoma's own weirdness is just a different flavor. but what the fuck is this actually?
what fucking flowers??? ]
your fish stick friends and iwaizumi's "the punching man" routines are about as weird as this entire conversation, oikawa.
whatever. deal. let's shake on it.
or don't if that dick measuring thing was literal. i don't think i'm ready for that level of friendship just yet.
[ suddenly all of the freak duo's yelling about "concrete" and "asphalt" and "sidewalk grass" makes sense, if what kenma's told him is anything to go by. ]
and how do you know we haven't given him one? i wear my "pain in the ass kuroo-san" tag proudly, oy.
[ he probably shouldn't, though. ]
he's always talking about you, though. you know, like you're the one who got away from his perfect dream team or whatever. you're sure there's nothing there?
[That's true, but Oikawa really can't judge 'cause he's just as much as one.]
I'm pretty sure he has a huge ass crush on me. And it'd be hard to play with/against him if I put a restraining order on him.
Things are better now. We've grown up some. And even if things were still like they were in high school we wouldn't need deadbolts. Ushiwaka-chan is a lot of things. A stalker isn't one of them.
[ makes a mental note to invest in deadbolts anyway, because you never know when those might come in useful. look, he can be practical too! ]
that's got me into thinking though - how many rivalries do you think we'd have lost if teams fraternized in that way, back in high school?
i mean we all have those two - or more - teammates who thought they were being lowkey in the background, but inter-team seems like it'd resolve a lot of on-court fighting, you know?
[ it's come up before. from bokuto, of all people. kuroo had turned them down, because he likes his friendships intact, and akaashi's been nothing but great to them both. it's still an interesting thought exercise, though, unwinding everyone else's romantic entanglements.
...he had to find his own entertainment when chemistry and volleyball didn't cut it, thanks. ]
Honestly? Probably none. I know Iwa-chan and I have already gotten pretty fired up about facing each other on the court.
[It was so weird seeing Iwaizumi on the other side of the net. It sometimes made Oikawa do a double take. But it was also exciting. Different. And while sometimes it made it harder to have his best friend/boyfriend on the other side, it wasn't like Oikawa shied away from hard work.]
We'll probably see more of what happened between Yamamoto and Takamatsu did* except maybe a bit... more since they're, reportedly, just friends.
[Honestly Kuroo, why you couldn't be normal like him and be obsessed with aliens?]
"just friends." suuure. everyone in the circuit can smell that bullshit from miles away. that's like saying you and iwaizumi are "really close" and bokuto and akaashi are just "very supportive of each other."
[ Kuroo doubts he'll have the same sentiments when Kenma graduates. He can guess at the likelihood of him joining the college circuit; it's a low probability even if Kenma's lowkey agreed to go to the same university Kuroo's attending now, unless the freak duo decides to join Kuroo and Oikawa here in Tokyo and that's not for another two years yet. Given how hard those two are getting, they're likely going to end up in Ibaraki instead, or pull some stupid sentimental move like stay in the Miyagi prefecture.
Kuroo wouldn't put it past them. They're both too damn guileless it's almost irritating. ]
wait, so when iwa-chan smashed that volley at your face last practice, that was flirting?
[Compared to gardening and overthinking other people's romantic relationships? Loving alien movies is normal. Maybe not to Oikawa's near otaku love of them.]
That's why I said 'reportedly'. But yes, they for sure a thing. It was really cute.
[As far as Oikawa's concerned the Freak Duo can stay in Miyagi. Though he wouldn't mind Chibi-chan on his own. But it's probably best for his sanity if Tobio-chan goes elsewhere. Like Mars.]
Iwa-chan is a caveman. That's how they flirt; by hitting their beloved and taking them off somewhere to have their way with them.
[Or Oikawa had been teasing him something fierce and Iwaizumi got fed up with it. You can never tell]
[ Gardening and emotional projecting is a lot more common than channeling one's inner Mulder, thanks. ]
try not to pull one of those moves when we're playing against iwaizumi-san's team. i don't think our poor coach's blood pressure can take it. think of his daughters.
[ which, basically: do it anyway lol i have a bet running with bokuto. ]
also you realize that's not a good way of expressing affection, right? that's. really bad.
[ "shittykawa crappykawa trashykawa" is not a fun refrain to get stuck in the head, roommate. especially when it sounds like your dude. ]
I won't! I might like to goad people, but I always play by the rules. I'm not Daishou.
But... Maybe after the match. I'm sure our coach wouldn't mind some flirting after we win.
His daughters are cute, though. Maybe Takeru could have a play date with them when he comes to visit. They are about his age.
[Oikawa will do it when the mood strikes him. More or less.
And a small pause while Oikawa gathers his thoughts on this... delicate subject]
It's one of the reasons Hajime and I decided to go to different schools. We're aware that our relationship is...
Well, it's not a normal relationship, but we're not normal people, and we've known each for possibly way too long. We've always been in each other's back pockets. It's not as bad as you think it is. Out of all the people who insult me, which is a lot, Hajime's insults are the ones that have the least amount of impact.
He's always the one the to get me out of my funks. Sometimes violently... but that hasn't happened since middle school. Before we got together.
[ here's a majestic example of a kettle shading at a pot. ]
your nephew? aren't you a little young to be playing matchmaker? kid's not even in junior high, i thought.
[ ...it does make him wonder, though, if kenma's ever going to have a girlfriend. or boyfriend. a someone. he knows what he's doing when he goes home for the semester break. ]
if i may?
yaku and lev kick the shit out of each other, too. well, yakkun does, and lev handles it like a champ. i only know them, and i don't know you or iwaizumi-san enough to assume more than i already have at this point. but those two, loud as they are, i know they talk about it all the time, even now that we've graduated.
i guess what i'm saying is, we're roommates and teammates now. we're not in high school fighting each other for the nationals (thematically, i mean). college is a chance to reinvent.
i realize i sound like i'm suggesting something weird and insidious, but hear me out.
you got this far, you're likely not going to lose him if you both ease up with the punching.
Play dates aren't real dates. They're really just excuses for caretakers to get together and gossip while the kids play on a playground. Or in my case, endear myself to the coach in case Iwa-chan does drag me off the court and bangs me senseless in the locker room after a game. Also, to keep me in the forefront of his mind when choosing starters.
[Oikawa has priorities, after all. And those priorities include winning]
Takeru's just turned nine!
[Oikawa takes this moment to spam pictures of his nephew's birthday party at Kuroo. Takeru's expression in them ranges from happy, to unimpressed, to doting tolerance, including one where both Oikawas are laughing and smashing cake into each other's faces. One would think Oikawa was his nephew's parent with the amount of photos he takes.
Of course, that's really a distraction as he gathers his thoughts about the heavier subject.]
Only you would call that suggestion weird and insidious, Kuro-chan.
But you're right. And it's something we're already trying to do. Baby steps! We've had... oh jeez, I think some of my earliest memories are of him climbing our fence. We... were three? Four? Anyways, over a decade of bad habits to weed out.
I'm not afraid of losing him. That's probably not going to happen. But I am... wary of the nature of relationship changing drastically. But that's nothing I can really stop from happening. On either end.
[ Kuroo waits for the barrage of pictures to stop, fully aware that these pictures are a risk for both of them - Oikawa may be garbage (though Kuroo will keep his thoughts to himself on that, no matter how much he agrees with Iwaizumi's assessment), but he's also a genuinely good person inside.
Very very very deep inside. Buried under a mountain of crap. Somewhere there.
The photos with his nephew though — Kuroo's relationship with his own family mirrors his relationship with Kenma a bit, where they're pretty much left to do whatever they want. He's about as close to his parents as any regular teenager, sure, but Tokyo runs on a different timetable by virtue of being Tokyo. The volleyball club as good as family; he sees more of him than he does of his own parents, these days.
Oikawa looks genuinely happy. (It's a little bittersweet to look at.) ]
well, not everyone's into unsolicited advice. i had to tack on the disclaimer. and you're decent people, oikawa. a hell of a handful when you're missing your shampoo, but you're not terrible.
we should have more talks like this. they make you sound less like those aliens you really love.
[Deep down, yes. One day, he'll be a mature human being.
Probably when he's thirty.
Though Kuroo is wrong about one thing; sharing this pictures aren't a risk for Oikawa. Oikawa would share these pictures with strangers.
... but Takeru would be mortally embarrassed. The Oikawa clan is a really tight knit bunch. And a bunch of nerds. All of them; his parents, sister, and brother-in-law, all play MMOs together when they can. Takeru thinks they're all embarrassing.]
hmmm.. true! but I'm perfectly able to ignore if I want.
My hair doesn't look right when I don't shampoo it. You've seen it. It's a monstrosity!
We should! It feels nice to get these things off my chest.
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i thought i hit post already, sorry
[ it's true. he's on facebook as ＣＡＴ ＤＡＤＤＹ．, to match bokuto's ＯＷＬ ＨＯＴＴＹ． display name. auntie landlady must've been a PI in her younger years or something. ]
man, we should've met sooner. could've used this information back in high school. certainly would've made junior/senior year a lot more hilarious, looking back on it.
and what are you talking about, "keeping me under control"? who do you think you are, oikawa-san?
Happens to the best of us.
We know each other now! That's the important part. Remind me to introduce you to Makki and Mattsun sometime. Except you have to promise to be on my side.
I'm not actually going to control you. Well, beyond making sure you don't destroy the apartment. But that's the image we're trying to sell, Kuro-chan! Keep up! And if Daichi says yes it's a sure thing!
Anyways. The solution, once I get the security deposit down, is to party elsewhere. Like Bo-chan's place.
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(your former teammates sound like food the way you introduce them, btw. it's creepy.)
[ he's a little scared of akaashi, truth be told. any person who can handle the BoKuroo tag team (hah) with such ease can probably conquer the inter-collegiate volleyball circuit with ease. ]
and we're back to "we have a 250K yen problem".
bokuto's hooked up with akaashi, i'm not getting in the middle of that. what about ushijima's?
are you two still doing that territorial pissing contest or have we all collectively moved on from that?
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And deal. When my teammates gang up on me you're not allowed to join in, and I won't join in when Bokuto starts in on you. Prefect. I'll throw your teammates in as a bonus.
[Adding Oikawa might make it difficult for poor Akaashi. It really depends on he's feeling that that day.]
Yes back to that.
We're always going to measuring our dicks against each other. But for the moment we're okay.
Still... might be fun. So long as we don't spend too much time in each other's presence. And if really annoys me I can piss all over his flowers.
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flowers? what are you talking about?? ushijima has flowers???
[ look, the entirety of miyagi prefecture's volleyball clubs are weird to kuroo. maybe it's a regional thing, maybe nekoma's own weirdness is just a different flavor. but what the fuck is this actually?
what fucking flowers??? ]
your fish stick friends and iwaizumi's "the punching man" routines are about as weird as this entire conversation, oikawa.
whatever. deal. let's shake on it.
or don't if that dick measuring thing was literal. i don't think i'm ready for that level of friendship just yet.
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Like you and Bo-chan haven't done weird shit either. Don't lie. It's amazing you haven't given Akaashi-chan an ulcer.
But I'll shake your hand when I get there in the morning.
[Seriously Kuroo, it must be a 'grass is weirder on the other side' kinda deal.]
And ew, no. It's not literal. I don't want anything to do with him like that!!
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[ suddenly all of the freak duo's yelling about "concrete" and "asphalt" and "sidewalk grass" makes sense, if what kenma's told him is anything to go by. ]
and how do you know we haven't given him one? i wear my "pain in the ass kuroo-san" tag proudly, oy.
[ he probably shouldn't, though. ]
he's always talking about you, though. you know, like you're the one who got away from his perfect dream team or whatever. you're sure there's nothing there?
have you considered restraining orders?
should we be investing in deadbolts, oi-san.
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[That's true, but Oikawa really can't judge 'cause he's just as much as one.]
I'm pretty sure he has a huge ass crush on me. And it'd be hard to play with/against him if I put a restraining order on him.
Things are better now. We've grown up some. And even if things were still like they were in high school we wouldn't need deadbolts. Ushiwaka-chan is a lot of things. A stalker isn't one of them.
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[ makes a mental note to invest in deadbolts anyway, because you never know when those might come in useful. look, he can be practical too! ]
that's got me into thinking though - how many rivalries do you think we'd have lost if teams fraternized in that way, back in high school?
i mean we all have those two - or more - teammates who thought they were being lowkey in the background, but inter-team seems like it'd resolve a lot of on-court fighting, you know?
[ it's come up before. from bokuto, of all people. kuroo had turned them down, because he likes his friendships intact, and akaashi's been nothing but great to them both. it's still an interesting thought exercise, though, unwinding everyone else's romantic entanglements.
...he had to find his own entertainment when chemistry and volleyball didn't cut it, thanks. ]
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[It was so weird seeing Iwaizumi on the other side of the net. It sometimes made Oikawa do a double take. But it was also exciting. Different. And while sometimes it made it harder to have his best friend/boyfriend on the other side, it wasn't like Oikawa shied away from hard work.]
We'll probably see more of what happened between Yamamoto and Takamatsu did* except maybe a bit... more since they're, reportedly, just friends.
[Honestly Kuroo, why you couldn't be normal like him and be obsessed with aliens?]
((ooc: This is totally a thing that happened))
(i saw that all over facebook! it's so cute and scary)
"just friends." suuure. everyone in the circuit can smell that bullshit from miles away. that's like saying you and iwaizumi are "really close" and bokuto and akaashi are just "very supportive of each other."
[ Kuroo doubts he'll have the same sentiments when Kenma graduates. He can guess at the likelihood of him joining the college circuit; it's a low probability even if Kenma's lowkey agreed to go to the same university Kuroo's attending now, unless the freak duo decides to join Kuroo and Oikawa here in Tokyo and that's not for another two years yet. Given how hard those two are getting, they're likely going to end up in Ibaraki instead, or pull some stupid sentimental move like stay in the Miyagi prefecture.
Kuroo wouldn't put it past them. They're both too damn guileless it's almost irritating. ]
wait, so when iwa-chan smashed that volley at your face last practice, that was flirting?
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That's why I said 'reportedly'. But yes, they for sure a thing. It was really cute.
[As far as Oikawa's concerned the Freak Duo can stay in Miyagi. Though he wouldn't mind Chibi-chan on his own. But it's probably best for his sanity if Tobio-chan goes elsewhere. Like Mars.]
Iwa-chan is a caveman. That's how they flirt; by hitting their beloved and taking them off somewhere to have their way with them.
[Or Oikawa had been teasing him something fierce and Iwaizumi got fed up with it. You can never tell]
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try not to pull one of those moves when we're playing against iwaizumi-san's team. i don't think our poor coach's blood pressure can take it. think of his daughters.
[ which, basically: do it anyway lol i have a bet running with bokuto. ]
also you realize that's not a good way of expressing affection, right? that's. really bad.
[ "shittykawa crappykawa trashykawa" is not a fun refrain to get stuck in the head, roommate. especially when it sounds like your dude. ]
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I won't! I might like to goad people, but I always play by the rules. I'm not Daishou.
But... Maybe after the match. I'm sure our coach wouldn't mind some flirting after we win.
His daughters are cute, though. Maybe Takeru could have a play date with them when he comes to visit. They are about his age.
[Oikawa will do it when the mood strikes him. More or less.
And a small pause while Oikawa gathers his thoughts on this... delicate subject]
It's one of the reasons Hajime and I decided to go to different schools. We're aware that our relationship is...
Well, it's not a normal relationship, but we're not normal people, and we've known each for possibly way too long. We've always been in each other's back pockets. It's not as bad as you think it is. Out of all the people who insult me, which is a lot, Hajime's insults are the ones that have the least amount of impact.
He's always the one the to get me out of my funks. Sometimes violently... but that hasn't happened since middle school. Before we got together.
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your nephew? aren't you a little young to be playing matchmaker? kid's not even in junior high, i thought.
[ ...it does make him wonder, though, if kenma's ever going to have a girlfriend. or boyfriend. a someone. he knows what he's doing when he goes home for the semester break. ]
if i may?
yaku and lev kick the shit out of each other, too. well, yakkun does, and lev handles it like a champ. i only know them, and i don't know you or iwaizumi-san enough to assume more than i already have at this point. but those two, loud as they are, i know they talk about it all the time, even now that we've graduated.
i guess what i'm saying is, we're roommates and teammates now. we're not in high school fighting each other for the nationals (thematically, i mean). college is a chance to reinvent.
i realize i sound like i'm suggesting something weird and insidious, but hear me out.
you got this far, you're likely not going to lose him if you both ease up with the punching.
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[Oikawa has priorities, after all. And those priorities include winning]
Takeru's just turned nine!
[Oikawa takes this moment to spam pictures of his nephew's birthday party at Kuroo. Takeru's expression in them ranges from happy, to unimpressed, to doting tolerance, including one where both Oikawas are laughing and smashing cake into each other's faces. One would think Oikawa was his nephew's parent with the amount of photos he takes.
Of course, that's really a distraction as he gathers his thoughts about the heavier subject.]
Only you would call that suggestion weird and insidious, Kuro-chan.
But you're right. And it's something we're already trying to do. Baby steps! We've had... oh jeez, I think some of my earliest memories are of him climbing our fence. We... were three? Four? Anyways, over a decade of bad habits to weed out.
I'm not afraid of losing him. That's probably not going to happen. But I am... wary of the nature of relationship changing drastically. But that's nothing I can really stop from happening. On either end.
You're a good friend, Kuro-chan.
sorry for the late tag :c
Very very very deep inside. Buried under a mountain of crap. Somewhere there.
The photos with his nephew though — Kuroo's relationship with his own family mirrors his relationship with Kenma a bit, where they're pretty much left to do whatever they want. He's about as close to his parents as any regular teenager, sure, but Tokyo runs on a different timetable by virtue of being Tokyo. The volleyball club as good as family; he sees more of him than he does of his own parents, these days.
Oikawa looks genuinely happy. (It's a little bittersweet to look at.) ]
well, not everyone's into unsolicited advice. i had to tack on the disclaimer. and you're decent people, oikawa. a hell of a handful when you're missing your shampoo, but you're not terrible.
we should have more talks like this. they make you sound less like those aliens you really love.
it's cool
Probably when he's thirty.
Though Kuroo is wrong about one thing; sharing this pictures aren't a risk for Oikawa. Oikawa would share these pictures with strangers.
... but Takeru would be mortally embarrassed. The Oikawa clan is a really tight knit bunch. And a bunch of nerds. All of them; his parents, sister, and brother-in-law, all play MMOs together when they can. Takeru thinks they're all embarrassing.]
hmmm.. true! but I'm perfectly able to ignore if I want.
My hair doesn't look right when I don't shampoo it. You've seen it. It's a monstrosity!
We should! It feels nice to get these things off my chest.