[5 times tkkg's makeout session was interrupted and the one time it wasn't]
[hinata]
Kei wonders what he did in his past life to deserve this, really, he wants to scream, or maybe bash his head into the wall. Stupid captain's orders, making him the unwilling tutor to his royal highness, Kei is sure, absolutely certain, there's a hidden agenda here, because Sawamura is either blind or willfully ignorant to the fact that him and Kageyama could barely keep up a civilized conversation, for less than five minutes before bickering again, throwing biting insults and sneers and glares that could definitely kill. Maybe this is punishment for the time — when he was ten, mind you — that he ate all of the strawberry short cake his mother made, not even sharing a single slice with his annoying older brother.
However, Kei's woes didn't begin at him becoming their simpleton setter's long-suffering tutor, it began roughly around the Seijou practice match. Kei never thought his type would be a hot-headed, perpetually scowling, black-haired setter. Kei should've checked himself into a hospital the exact second he associated the word cute with Kageyama, and when he started feeling that stupid fluttery nonsense bubbling in his chest. How he managed to feel anything more than contempt, maybe slight envy, is beyond him. And now he has to be his tutor, and spend even more time with him, alone. Kei really should've shared a piece of cake with his brother.
"It won't be that bad, Tsukki," Yamaguchi consoles, patting Kei on the back as they walk home, "at least it's not Hinata."
Yeah, Kei thinks to himself, but Hinata doesn't have pretty blue eyes, a ridiculously adorable pout, or silky black hair Kei's fingers ache to play with, Hinata isn't a distraction like Kageyama.
"He's distracting," Kei grumbles.
Yamaguchi was the first to find out about Kei's complicated set of emotions towards Kageyama, of course he was, he wasn't Kei's best friend for no reason. Yamaguchi always pushed him to talk to the setter, be nicer, though the nickname King started to lose its bite overtime, becoming more of a term of endearment. One time Yamaguchi made him stay back to do extra practice with said idiot duo, and Kei wanted to throw up, no one should be that energetic this late in the evening.
"Think of it as a blessing in disguise," Yamaguchi reasons, when did he become so levelheaded, "you don't need an excuse to talk to Kageyama now."
Oh, Kei didn't think of it that way. Huh.
Being Kageyama's tutor, while it had its downs, there is significantly more ups, and Kei is honestly impressed, because, one: they haven't killed each other yet, two: they've actually become more friendly, and three: Kei's stupid crush keeps getting more and more intense. Kei learnt a lot about Kageyama during these sessions, he learns bits and pieces about his home life (he has an older sister, his parents are always busy with business trips), Kageyama has a soft spot for cats, but he thinks they don't like him ("I don't think they like me, though," he murmurs, lips pulled down in a pout, and Kei swears he feels butterflies fluttering in his stomach). So Kei made it his personal mission to get Kageyama familiar with his neighbourhood cat, (also, Kageyama sneezes like a kitten and Kei's heart can only handle so much, damn Kageyama and his obliviousness to his own adorable actions), and Kageyama choice of drink outside of milk is tea, decaf of course. Also, despite what Kei thought initially, Kageyama is definitely not completely hopeless when it comes to school work. Mathematics and Physics are Kageyama's best subjects, much to Kei's surprise, he actually gets passing grades, though he has to relate a lot of the work back to volleyball for Kageyama to fully understand, which no complaints there once he stays above fifty percent. English and Morden Literature still needs work, and Kei isn't one to run away from a challenge, especially if said challenge is Kageyama.
