OiIwa/IwaOi
(The day is Wednesday cuz why not)
Three days ago Iwaizumi would have told you he was ready for valentines day. He would have looked you right in the eye and say, "I have been mentally preparing myself for almost a month. I don't need to worry and neither do you." Now, though, he was stood in his room, looking at his reflection ready to just collapse onto the floor. He was ready for school earlier than necessary as usual, and just staring at the mirror. He could see the fear on his own face as he analysed whether he looked fine or not. His hair was okay, as was his uniform. All that was out of place was the fear, and the nerves on his face. He needed to get rid of them as soon as possible. After all he did have to leave to school soon and a nervous look wasn't something he could pull off, in his opinion at least.
When he checked the time, he saw it was time to leave the house. He grabbed his bag, tossing it over his shoulder and casually walked out of his room. He went down the stairs into the kitchen, where he knew his present for Oikawa was, and picked it up too. It was only a box of chocolates, lame really but the best he could do in a couple of hours. He got the present literally the night before. Now that he thinks about it, he was only mentally preparing himself. Preparing himself for all the things that could go wrong, but also for all the things that could go right. You never know what you may happen. And even if you did, you wouldn't be able to control it. Things happen on their own accord. He wasn't in any way shape or form prepared physically, however. He completely forgot that he probably should have bought Oikawa a present. But now, even him mental preperations were for nothing as he could feel himself wanting to break down.
Maybe it was just Iwaizumi's imagination, but he felt his heart sink as he got closer to Aoba Johsai. He could feel himself breaking down inside. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to buy Oikawa anything. He had many admirers and wouldn't notice if one more person gave him something. On the other hand, Iwaizumi was his boyfriend and Oikawa wasn't such a person to ignore a gift from his partner just because he got bombarded with gifts from other people. But that didn't put Iwaizumi at peace. He still felt he owed it to his boyfriend to give him something better. Especially that almost every other day of the year, birthdays and Christmas excluded, involved Iwaizumi getting mad at Oikawa one way or the other. Of course that wasn't the case all the time. Their relationship didn't revolve around the two boys arguing and fighting every five minutes. Who would want a relationship like that? However, they did have a lot of arguments. This was for a variety of different reasons. Mainly the group of girls that followed Oikawa's every step which left the boys no choice but to be less lovey-dovey with each other. Iwaizumi wasn't jealous of the girls. Sure, Oikawa spent more time with them than him sometimes, and he does think of his 'fans' a lot, but that doesn't mean Iwaizumi had to be jealous of the girls. They were mere followers that spent their every waking hour following Oikawa. Jealous wouldn't be the right word to describe him. Frustrated, annoyed, angered, irritated, ready to kill, furious and mentally drained, they seemed like the right words. The girls following Oikawa meant the girls following Iwaizumi as the two boys were together quite often. And that was one of the main things that annoyed him about the group of girls. They didn't realize when they had to leave. It's like they thought they were invited to everything Oikawa did. Luckily, they never followed him home. At least they knew that was too much. Good thing they knew when they went too far in their obsession with Oikawa.
Iwaizumi pulled out his phone from his front pocket to look at the time. He had a couple minutes before he had to be at school. Tthe next thing he noticed was the message that was shown on his lock screen. It was from Oikawa and it was a very simple message. A small, 'Hello, Iwa-chan. I hope you're not being your usual grumpy self.' Which left Iwaizumi with a small smile on his face. He wouldn't let the smile be too big. That'd ruin his reputation. As would the fact that he smiled over a message from Oikawa. But that can be a secret he will kepp to himself.
Once Iwaizumi walked through the front gate of the school, he was met with the sickening, loving atmosphere that was around every Valentines day. It made him want to turn back and just walk back home. But before he could do that, an arm was thrown across his shoulders. Two arms actually.
"And where do you think you're going?" Asked Hanamaki from his right.
Iwaizumi looked up at him with an annoyed look. He then turned to his left to see Matsukawa flashing a smug smile at him.
"I was just about to go home. But I'm guessing I'm staying at school." He said with a loud sigh.
Matsukawa nodded, "You sure are. Today is valentines day,"
"Valentines day," Hanamaki replied in a quiet breathy whisper, as if it was a really exciting secret he couldn't wait to share any longer.
"And we all know what that means," Matsukawa said looking ahead of himself. Hanamaki from beside him, nodded his head and copied the boys action.
"It means sex. Iwaizumi, if you go home now, Oikawa will think you are poorly and you will not get laid."
"Just when I thought you guys were being serious," Iwaizumi said sighing again. He seemed to be doing that often with these two around.
"What do you mean? We're always serious. It's just that our serious subjects aren't very serious to you." Hanamaki said looking at Iwaizumi then back ahead.
"Okay, if that's what you think," Iwaizumi said rolling his eyes at his two friends. They always liked annoying the boy. Well, actually, they enjoyed annoying most of their friends. They just like Iwaizumi's reactions the most. They were the most fun to look at. Especially when it was Oikawa that annoyed him. Iwaizumi's expression then was just priceless. He always looked like he was ready for murder.
But it was okay. It was just the way the boys were and everyone knew that. Unless you didn't know that. But that only means you don't know them.
The three boys walked like that till they got to the building. Hanamaki's and Matsukawa's arms around Iwaizumi's shoulders, Matsukawa's hand barely scraping Hanamaki's arm. When they finally did get to the school building, Hanamaki and Matsukawa dropped their arms from around Iwaizumi. Now knowing for sure that he wasn't going to turn back. The three of them seperated as they all walked to their seperate classes. When the bell finally rang, Iwaizumi was sat in his seat ready for the first lesson of the terrible day to start.
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Normally, Iwaizumi had no problem with Oikawa recieving gifts from his fans. He also didn't mind hearing about all the things that Oikawa was given or all the adorable things the girls did. It was actually kind of amusing. Hearing about how three of the girls asked him out and he had to politely reject them. Or even being with him as the girls asked Oikawa out which made it awkward yet amusing for some reason. But today was too much. Every time Oikawa and Iwaizumi saw each other during the first half of the day, Oikawa would either brag about the number of gifts he recieved, or complain about how he couldn't carry all the things he was given. It was okay the first couple of times. Iwaizumi understood that it must have been difficult carrying all of the things he was given, especially the big presents he recieved. It was understandable. He could deal with it. But as the day progressed, and Oikawa kept talking, and complaining, and just bragging about every single thing the girls gave him or did for him, that's when Iwaizumi began feeling his blood getting hotter. He could feel his anger bubbling up. The frustration of not being like those girls, not giving him what they did. The constant feeling that Oikawa might, just might, leave Iwaizumi for one of the girls because Iwaizumi wasn't good enough. Every reminder that Oikawa was popular with the girls, oh so very popular, and had the girls wanting him and just him. Everything. It all made Iwaizumi feel worthless. Made him feel mad. He wanted to just tell Oikawa to shut up. He didn't for obvious reasons, but it was tempting. The amount of times in the first three hours of the day that Iwaizumi felt the words, 'shut up' on the tip of his tongue were too many to count.
"- An't believe she actually got me a new phone and all. One of the girls said she bought me a puppy but couldn't bring it into school. I don't blame her, I mean you can't exactly bring puppies in to school. Another girl gave me this huge teddy that was about," Oikawa put his hand at the height of his hips, "About this big. It was so adorable," Oikawa began smiling widely, "She started blushing and then ran to me, wrapping her arms around me in a really tight embrace. Another girl, well she bought me this shirt-"
"This shirt with an alien on it that had fan art of you in the back ground in the UFO taking pictures of everything around you. Yes, we know. You have told us this twelve time already. I don't think any more are necessary unless you want to put us all to sleep." Iwaizumi said as he sat up from where he was laying with his feet up on the table.
It was currently lunch time, Iwaizumi, Oikawa, Hanamaki and Matsukawa were all sat together eating lunch in a classroom. The usual group of girls was staring through the door window, making sure Oikawa wasn't getting hurt or anything like that. Oikawa was just saying about how he got so much things, explaining exactly what he got and what it was for, his opinions on it and why he thought the girl that gave him it was adorable. To be fairly honest with you, Iwaizumi was getting annoyed with it, as were the other two boys. They all heard about the presents before. All knew what the order of each present was and the exact description of the girls that gave Oikawa the presents. One of them being a little first year that had blonde hair pulled into pig tails, no taller than 149cm tall. According to Oikawa, she was the cutest thing he ever saw.
"It must be nice having all these girls going after you," Said a voice. It was Kindaichi, "Even if you won't date any of them because you are taken. It still sucks that you get all the girls." He said sighing, dropping into a seat beside them all.
"Maybe if you changed your hairstyle you'd get a chance." Kunimi said sitting in a seat next to Kindaichi.
Kindaichi gasped, shocked by his friends rudeness.
"Okay, guys, is there any particular reason you came here?" Iwaizumi asked trying to sound as nice as he could with all the things that irritated it crashing down on him.
The two boys, Kindaichi and Kunimi, looked at each other then raised their hands in the, 'I don't know, do you know?' way.
"Nope. No particular reason, just wanted to talk to out senpai's." Kunimi said.
Iwaizumi nodded his head. He leaned back in his seat and shut his eyes trying to block as much of the world as he could. Everything that was happening was adding onto his nerves. considering the fact that valentines day was one of the days that Iwaizumi disliked most, and that his boyfriend was talking about other people the whole time was bad enough as it was. But the fct they soon had their final tests wasn't helping and neither was the first years reminding him about all the girls obsessing over Oikawa. He was reminded enough by Oikawa as it was. He didn't need anymore people to remind him.
"What's up?" A soft, soothing voice whispered into his ear. It was one that had helped his nerves so many times before, yet today it was just making them intensify. The voice belonged to Oikawa.
"Nothing," Iwaizumi breathed out, shaking his head simultaneously. His arms were still crossed over his chest making him look very relaxed. But Oikawa isn't stupid. He may look it and sometimes act it, but he really isn't.
Oikawa layed his hand upon Iwaizumi's upper arm, squeezing gently to calm Iwaizumi's nerves.
"I don't appreciate you lying to me." Oikawa said, slightly louder than before.
Iwaizumi sighed once again, opening his eyes to face Oikawa. He only just realised how close they were together. Oikawa had moved his chair to sit closer to Iwaizumi. He was now leaning on him with his chin resting on Iwaizumi's shoulder. His body pressed against Iwaizumi's side. When Iwaizumi turned his head to look at him, his lips were just a couple centimeters from Oikawa's. All the boy had to do was move his head slightly forward and bring it up. Iwaizumi could smell Oikawa's hair. It smelt of the usual strawberry scented shampoo. The more Iwaizumi looked into Oikawa's chocolate eyes, the more he felt himself sink. Sink into a place he wasn't sure he could get out of. Wasn't sure he even wanted to get out of. Oikawa had his puppy dog eyes that made Iwaizumi want to tell him everything he needed to say. Everything that was bothering him. He just wanted to kiss him. Let his emotions out through the kiss. But unfortunately, as quickly as those thoughts came to mind, they disappeared. A huge swarm of girls came running in, screaming and shouting at Oikawa to look at them. Some shouting about how lucky Iwaizumi was to have been so close to the one and only Oikawa.
Oikawa looked Iwaizumi in the eyes one more time, contemplating whether or not it was a good idea to leave this as it was, but decided it was best to go to the girls. Either way, whether he would have left it or not, he would have had to go to the girls sooner or later. If not now then after volleyball practice. If not then then the next day. It was also best as he could feel Iwaizumi tense up as the girls started screaming his name.
"We're not done here, understood?" Oikawa asked, frowning.
Iwaizumi nodded his head nonchalantly saying, "Go away already."
Oikawa rolled his eyes, smiling at his boyfriends immaturity. He then took his head off Iwaizumi's shoulder and stood up to go to the girls.
"Good afternoon, ladies. How are you all feeling today?" He asked walking towards them.
"Yo!" The voice snapped Iwaizumi out of his day dream. He looked at the owner of the voice, Matsukawa.
"What?" Iwaizumi asked putting on a confident face.
"Is everything all right? You seem pretty down today." Hanamaki asked.
Just as Iwaizumi was about to answer, Kindaichi said, "Of course he's not. How would you feel if your boyfriend had a group of desperate fangirls following him like he was some celebrity, asking him out everyday and giving him gifts, expecting some sort of relationship out of it?"
"It's nice knowing you know more about me than I do myself." Iwaizumi said sarcastically. Once again his eyes closing.
"And I wouldn't call them desperate. More like, obsessive. And even if I am upset, it's not because of that. It's more the fact that today is valentines day and it's one of the days of the year that I hate the most."
"Oh." Hanamaki said. Kindaichi and the other two boys agreeing with him.
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As practice rolled around, Iwaizumi's frustration minimised. He no longer felt as angry and annoyed as he did before. That was until the end of practice of course. As the boys were getting changed into their school uniforms to go home, Oikawa kept going on about how he was given so much more. He kept bragging and bragging that Iwaizumi couldn't take it any more.
When the boy was done dressing he opened his bad whipping out the box of chocolates he was only just reminded of as Oikawa proceeded to talk about what he got.
"A couple of the girls got me some chocolates. They were really good. I ate some during lessons and I had a problem with stopping. Would any of you li--" Before he could finish, Iwaizumi threw his box of chocolates at Oikawa's face.
"Oh my God! Just shut up about all the things you were given! Can you not tell none of us care?! Just shut the fuck up!" With that Iwaizumi shut his bag and stormed off out of the club room.
He began walking to the front gate when he heard the familiar whining of his boyfriend.
"Iwa-chaaaannnnn! You're so mean! Why are you such a bully? Why didn't you just tell me you didn't enjoy my stories? Iwa-chan! You need to tell me stuff like this. Communication is the key to a successful relationship. Why would you throw chocolates at me? Iwa-chan, that hurt me. I think I'm going to get a bruise now. Iw--"
Iwaizumi cut him off before he could say anything else. He pressed his lips against Oikawa's in a rough, yet soft manner. He let their lips stay like that for a couple of seconds before stepping away again.
"I can't deal with you whining. Seriously trashy Oikawa. Just shut up. Please. At least till we get to the café." Iwaizumi said beginning to walk again.
Oikawa was slightly taken aback by the sudden kiss in the middle of the public. But Iwaizumi's words snapped him out of it.
"Does that mean a date?!" Oikawa exclaimed excitedly.
Iwaizumi looked back at him then ahead again, "Well it is valentines day so we might as well."
Oikawa began jumping. To say he was excited was an understatement. Iwaizumi never usually invites Oikawa out onto dates. To his house? Yes. To the Iwaizumi family gatherings? Sometimes. But on dates, it's always Oikawa that has to ask. So to think that it was Iwaizumi asking him on a date, it made him ecstatic.
Oikawa quickly skipped, catching up ro Iwaizumi. He slowed down his movements once he was by Iwaizumi's side and took hold of hand. They intertwined their fingers together, as subtly as they could incase any of Oikawa's followers saw them.
"So where are we going?" Oikawa asked after a couple of minutes of walking, curious of where Iwaizumi might take him.
Iwaizumi looked like he was thinking for a while before answering, "I haven't thought that far into it. I guess we'll just go where it seems fit at the time."
Oikawa's jaw dropped. He expected Iwaizumi to be slightly unprepared, but to think he hadn't planned a date until the last minute shocked Oikawa to say the least.
"You are truly useless!" Oikawa exclaimed, offense presence in his voice.
"Well where would you like to go?!" Iwaizumi asked, slightly angered at his boyfriends behaviour already.
Oikawa wasn't sure himself. He wasn't aware they were going to go on a date until a few minutes earlier. He looked up contemplatively but looked down just as soon as he did. He had no clue where to go.
"That's what I thought," Iwaizumi said bumping into Oikawa's side gently. Oikawa smiled at that. At least the boy was trying. Points for effort, which they both knew neither of them put in.
"Let's just go to get coffee and see what happens from there." Iwaizumi said, Oikawa agreeing with him.
It felt nice. The two of them together, no one following them for once. Just the two of them walking around with no care in the world. It felt natural. Like this was what they were supposed to be doing every time. Like this was what they were made for. Of course that wasn't one hundred percent true. But it was close enough. It was nice to just do something like this once. For Oikawa it felt nice getting away from the crowd every once in a while. It felt nice being with his boyfriend and only his boyfriend. For Iwaizumi, it was the fact that he finally got to be with Oikawa alone. Plus some other things like stress from school and other things like that. This felt long over due. The last time they got to be 'alone' wasn't even properly alone. It wasn't just the two of them. Oikawa's family was with them which meant that once again, they were surrounded by people.
When the two boys finally got to a random coffee shop, the two of them ordered a coffee each, then sat at a table furthest from the others. They waited a while before talking. Sometimes it was important to just sit in silence. Appreciating the peacefulness that the quiet brought with it. It was nice noticing things you probably wouldn't have noticed if you were talking. Like the way Oikawa played with his hair every couple times. Or the way he would fiddle with his fingers, that were around the cup, from nerves. Or how his eyebrows came closer together as he drank the hot coffee. Or even something as stupid as the way he smiled every time he caught Iwaizumi looking at him.
"What is it?" Oikawa asked finally, catching Iwaizumi staring at him for the eighth time.
"Nothing." Iwaizmi shook his head.
"Sure," Oikawa rolled his eyes but left the topic as it was.
"How was school?" Iwaizumi asked Oikawa, trying to make conversation.
Oikawa snorted, "Iwa-chan, are you my mum?"
Iwaizumi's face must have represented something to do with anger as Oikawa looked very apologetic. But before he could apologise Iwaizumi told him not to bother. It was pointless. If he apologised Iwaizumi would have just gotten more frustrated and probably would have made a grudge against Oikawa for no reason. It was kind of complicated, their relationship, but they somehow understood just what they meant with one look. Like right now Oikawa was trying to help the situation, not make it worse.
"Anyway, should we go now then?" Iwaizumi asked.
Oikawa whined, "But we just got here! Can we just sit for a tiny bit longer? It's such a nice atmosphere."
Iwaizumi looked around the place. It was still just as empty as before.
"Fine, but once it gets full we are leaving!"
"Yay!! Thank you Iwa-chan! I love you so much," Oikawa said in a loud, enthusiastic voice gaining them some looks from people around them. Iwaizumi began blushing. For two reasons.
"Okay shut up, dumbass."
"Sorry, sorry." Oikawa said composing himself.
As the time ticked by, Iwaizumi and Oikawa got more into the conversation. Currenty they were talking about some TV show they watched last night. It was a new episode from a show they both watch, they usually watch it together but there were occassions when they watched it seperately. But some familiar giggles, snorts, and a few "Shut up, they'll hear you!","Then stop tickling me!" Made them trail off topic.
"Hanamaki, Matsukawa. Why are you hiding and spying on us?" Iwaizumi called out to the two boys stood behind what seemed like a wall behind them.
"Oh shit, they heard you you loud shit!" Matsukawa whisper-yelled.
"No they didn't. If we pretend to not be here they'll forget about us." Hanamaki whisper-yelled back.
Iwaizumi stood up from his seat leaving Oikawa sat alone. Not that he minded. He seemed to be amused by the scene that was about to unfold. Iwaizumi went to the wall that was behind them and grabbed the two boys by the ears.
"I don't think that's how life works, Hanamaki." Iwaizumi said.
"Shit. You got us caught!" Matsukawa said kicking at Hanamaki.
"Why were you spying on us anyway?" Oikawa asked laughing quietly.
"Seemes like a good idea to begin with." Matsukawa started.
"Turns out we aren't very good at camouflaging ourselves." Hanamaki ended.
"Any other reasons?" Iwaizumi asked after he let go of them.
"Thought maybe it'd be funny or something," The two boys said simultaneously.
"It was at the beginning," Hanamaki began saying.
"But then you became boring so we had to entertan ourselves," Matsukawa added.
"As it turns out, we're so funny that we got caught." Hanamaki finished.
Oikawa looked at Iwaizumi with an amused expression.
"You can sit with us if you like," Oikawa said not thinking at all.
"No you can't!" Iwaizumi said angrily.
"We weren't going to anyway." Matsukawa said sticking his tongue out at the black haired boy.
"Speak for yourself!" Hanamaki said, "I'm staying." The boy sat down next to Oikawa.
As Matsukawa was walking passed he grabbed hold of Hanamaki and dragged him out of the coffee shop leaving Iwaizumi and Oikawa alone once again.
"Do you want to go before something even more weird happens?" Oikawa asked.
Iwaizumi nodded as he stood up, taking hold of Oikawa's hand. The coffee they drank had already been payed for which meant they didn't need to worry about it.
The two boys walked together to their houses. Being neighbours seemed to be a good thing after all. Except the fact that they never walked to school as they both set off at different times. The walk home was quiet. They were once again hiding in their own little world that was protected by that silence. Their only form of communication being the two hands fiddling with each other.
When they finally got home, Oikawa kissed Iwaizumi. It was a short, chaste kiss, but it left them wanting more. And that's what Oikawa needed now. He needed to know there was still the longing Iwaizumi felt for him at the beginning of the relationship.
As Oikawa was about to head to his front door, Iwaizumi stopped him and whispered in his ear, softly and ever so affectionately, "I think I might be in love with you,"
Oikawa was left breathless. It was only nine words but the impact they had on him was incredible. He could feel his heart speed up.
"I think I might be in love with you too."