"Life's a bore if you don't challenge yourself".
"I'd guard your backs with my life if I have to".
"As long as I'm here, you're unbeatable".
"You can fly even higher".
"To the highest limit, to the farthest limit!"
Haikyuu!! gender-neutral reade...
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Kageyama Tobio
"I think I love you", he suddenly says, and you giggle, still not looking at him.
"Of course, you do. What's new about that?", your sentence is supposed to be funny but when he doesn't laugh or say anything back, you find yourself turning your head in his direction.
He has a box of your things in front of him and he is looking at it like he found something life-changing inside it. You leave the books you were putting on your new shelf to turn around completely.
"I didn't say it like that", he says, still not looking at you. "I mean that I think I do love you", you look straight at him and your heart skips a few beats when your brain processes the tone he used for that last sentence.
"Kageyama, I swear that if this is a joke, I'm- "
"Is not", he turns around to look at you, straight into your eyes. For some reason, his navy-blue eyes pierce into the bottom of your soul. "I'm not joking. I-I just realize that I love you, not like friends do, at least".
"What the hell you mean?"
He opens his mouth to explain, but for a few seconds, nothing comes out. He has never been good with words, that's something you know.
"I-I don't know how to e-explain it. I was just thinking about this", he points in the general direction of the apartment you two just move in together. "And that you have such weird and beautiful things inside that box", he points to the box he was looking at, where you packed your art stuff and some little sculptures you did. "And my first and only thought when I saw them was...", he makes a pause before he looks at you in the eyes again. "I love you. I do love you".
You blink a few times, still not understanding the current situation.
Kageyama and you have been friends since high school, you are currently best friends, best friends that made a promise to each other a few years ago and that were now fulfilling it. Was a silly promise at that time, because you were teens and the only thing you did at that time was dream, dream too big. But still, that didn't stop you from promising each other that if adulthood came and you two were still alone and with too many dreams to fulfill, you will move in together and fulfill them together.
At that moment it didn't sound weird because you two were too sure that you will get whatever you wanted, but now, now that you are in this very moment, that your best friend just told you "I love you" using a different tone and a different meaning, you realize that that promise could be interpreted in different ways.
Maybe that's why everyone thought you two were a couple. Maybe that's why everyone looked at you weirdly when you told them you were excited to move in with him. Maybe that's why you postponed so much the opportunity of your life, the one that was going to make you reach your dream. Maybe because you always wanted this. Wanted to live with him and be one together.
And is totally pathetic and super cliché that you realize it now. At this very moment.
You swallow, still holding his gaze.
"I-"
"You don't have to say it back. I know that you don't feel the same".
You roll your eyes and then you run to him and jump over him.
"You are such a baka, Kageyama".
"Don't insult me", he says, holding you in his arms.
"I love you too, Stupiyama. More than a friend at least".
You can't see his face, but you bet he is smiling, or at least that's what his sudden hug tells you.
