Unhealthy obsession (Haikyuu AU)

Chapter 37

RECOMMENDED SONG: KISS ME BY ED SHEERAN

"Kuro-chan~" said Oikawa's sing-song voice when Kuroo answered the phone.

"Oikawa-kun, wassup? I've been waiting for your call."

"You know you can call me whenever you want instead of waiting for me to call you, right?"

"Yeah, I know. But I like to be a tough dude."

Oikawa laughed happily on the other side and Kuroo smiled widely with his heart pounding in his chest and a pleasant feeling of fullness inside him.

"You're a lost case," Oikawa said with a mock sigh.

"And yet you keep calling, I consider that to be an absolute and outrageous success," Kuroo said proudly.

"Or I'm an idiot, a lot of people tell me I'm an idiot, it could be so," Oikawa laughed again.

"That's bullshit, pretty boy. You're everything but an idiot, trust me," Kuroo replied, to which Oikawa laughed softly once more.

"Well, thank you Kuro-chan. However, what I was gonna say," he said. His voice had become somewhat uncertain. "I've called you because I've wanted to go out to dine with you for a long time, but I haven't dared to ask until today. It's okay if you say no, it's just-"

"Sure, when and where?" Kuroo interrupted him.

"Really? Do you really want to?" Oikawa asked. Kuroo could hear the illusion in his voice.

"What a question," Kuroo chuckled. "Of course I wanna go on a date with you, why do you think I would refuse?"

Oikawa opened and closed his mouth a couple of times, his cheeks tinted a rosy color and his happy, eager eyes shining brightly. He kept twisting a lock of hair maniacally around his index finger, like a nervous tic. He wanted to answer, but he didn't know what to say so as not to sound like an idiot.

"You could have other plans, or you could not have wanted to because... I don't know, a thousand reasons," Oikawa said so quickly that the words joined each other.

"None of that, I'm free," Kuroo replied. "I just need the hour and place and I'll be there."

"A-alright," Oikawa replied nervously and happily. "I'd booked a table tonight at a somewhat secluded restaurant in case you said yes. At 8pm, in front of Asakusa station. Is that okay?"

"Great, I'll be there," Kuroo replied excitedly looking at his watch. There were only 2 hours left. "Will we be alone? I'm not telling Ryan."

"Yeah, I'm not taking my bodyguard, not this time. I've been going everywhere with him for two months, when I go out with you or when I go out alone, and the paparazzi haven't published photos of me again, so I don't feel like bringing him today too knowing nothing is gonna happen. I feel like being with you alone for once," he said with a sigh.

"Well, it's true that we've had more dates after the one in the park and no one has taken photos. Maybe it was just a fluke," Kuroo said with a shrug.

"Well, our dates were accompanied by my idiot bodyguard and your new bodyguard," Oikawa replied. "I don't know if you can consider that a date."

Kuroo laughed. Since the park date, they had met four times in the last two months, and while it was true that they were never alone, no one had bothered to take photos and then edit them and delete Iwaizumi and Ryan (Kuroo's new bodyguard, an American with dark hair and light eyes who never spoke) to publish them again in magazines. It was possible that after the boom and the release of the film, the paparazzi had gotten tired. Even though the movie was still a resounding success and the revenue was breaking a record never seen before in a pornographic film, there was a lot of gossip that the press could not miss, and thank goodness, neither Kuroo nor Oikawa entered the gossip.