Unhealthy obsession (Haikyuu AU)

Chapter 46

"We didn't go out on the street, you know that!" Kuroo exclaimed annoyed.

"Yeah, I know, that's what worries me," Iwaizumi said scratching his chin. "I'm not blaming you. Maybe Ryan and I should've been waiting outside the car so we could watch the street."

"Do you think it would have helped?" Ryan asked shaking his head. It was obvious that he didn't think it would have worked.

Iwaizumi sighed and rubbed his eyes with a frown. "Ah, damn it, is the solution then not to get ourselves away from Oikawa and Kuroo?"

"I don't recommend doing that if Kuro-chan and I are together," Oikawa said. Kuroo licked his lips giving him an intense look. "Stop it, Iwa-chan, at least this time it couldn't be seen anything. Don't torture yourself with the image itself, but with the stalker behind us who can do more than just take photos. And you and Ryan were there, if you didn't see the stalker from inside the car, you wouldn't have seen them from the outside either. I don't know who the hell they are, but whoever it is, they know what they're doing. And I... I'm scared..."

The six men in the office fell silent, lost in their own thoughts. Several different magazines were on the desk, all of them with the images of Kuroo and Oikawa in the latter's house as the cover; there were different texts with large letters in which they speculated about their relationship with phrases such as "Boyfriends? Friends with benefits?" or "Could it be that the recording of Sexxx dreams came up with something more than a just an amazing movie?"

Although they tried to think of a way to prevent the stalker from stalking one of the two actors, they could not come up with a plausible solution. What's more, they didn't even know who they were harassing, Kuroo or Oikawa. What was clear was that they only harassed them if they were together. There were never any images posted when they were by themselves, and men in the office didn't know if that was a good or a bad sign. Did it mean the stalker wasn't following them if they weren't together? But... how did they know then when Kuroo and Oikawa were together? That could only mean that the stalker knew because they watched them all the time. And that was creepy.

"It gives me a very bad feeling," said Tsukishima.

"There must be some way to keep you protected," Akaashi added thoughtfully.

"No matter where we go, the stalker will follow us wherever we go," Kuroo said angrily. "If the problem were only this stalker, we could go elsewhere and end the problem, but the problem roots on being public figures; that's screwing us alive. We'll always have a paparazzi or a fan behind who recognizes us, publish photos of us with our location and then the stalker will look for us until he finds us. In fact... How do we know it's always the same person? There are a lot of weird fans when it comes to porn... Who says there aren't more stalkers?"

That thought planted in them a fear that they hadn't considered until that moment. What if it wasn't just one person? Of course what Kuroo had said made a lot of sense, so much so that it was even scary. How had they not thought before that they might be facing not just one but several threats?

Oikawa snorted furiously and pressed the heels of his hands to his eyes. Everything went black until he began to see little colored lights on his closed eyelids, which slowly filled with tears, not because he was crying but because squeezing his eyes so hard was hurting him. Then he felt the sofa sink next to him and he removed his hands from his face just as Kuroo pulled him into a loving hug.

"It's worrying," Iwaizumi agreed. "He's obsessed with you. You need more protection."

"The police can't do anything in these cases," Akaashi said, resting his elbows on his desk and clasping his hands to rest his chin on them. "As Kuroo-san has rightly said, they're public figures. Their protection doesn't depend on the state security forces, that's why Ryan and you are here. You two, as bodyguards, are the only ones who can protect them."