Set Us Up | 私たちを立てて | Kenma Kozume

| two x twenty |

After school, Yamomoto had temporarily forgotten about his unspoken suspicions when he was too busy getting hyped up for volleyball practise. He stormed in head first with two hands in the pockets of his shorts but stopped, eyes widening at the sight before him.

Two people were standing together, incredibly close as one of them sat on the bench on the side of the court, their fingers tapping away on their phone as the other person stood before them, in between the seated persons legs as they touched their hair.

Kenma, the setter of Nekoma and also the 'heart' and 'brain' of the team had been on the bench with his legs open a little so his best friend could situate himself there. You on the other hand, couldn't help feeling the butterflies when Kenma let you touch his hair that was half brown and half blonde. It made you remember the days when his hair was completely brown and then when he showed up at your house after claiming that he didn't want to 'stand out.'

Your knees touched his, often touching the inner parts of his thighs and your cheeks felt warm from the contact. The other second year male didn't look fazed at all as he held his phone further from his face than usual so you could also see what he was looking at but the only difference was that it was upside down for you.

Your fingers threaded through his hair, picking up small tresses as you moved them between your fingers or looped your fingers through his hair. He didn't flinch every time you reached for a different part of his head and you often found his head subconsciously moving towards your hand when you lost contact with him. It made you smile, continuing the actions as Kuroo stood by as he spoke with Lev on how to receive as the four of you waited until the rest of the team arrived.

Nobuyuki Kai arrived soon after, apologising to his captain promptly, "Sorry I'm a little late, I had to take worksheets to the faculty office." His stoic voice got Kuroo's attention, the latter nodding as he smiled without a care, "We're still waiting for the others, Kai, it's alright." Shouhei Fukunaga also came in, immediately heading towards the equipment closet to pull the volleyballs out in their ball cart.

Yamomoto took the opportunity to grab Kai by the back of his white shirt and pulled him back a little, his two beady eyes not leaving the scene of the two second years as they remained in close contact in a borderline affectionate way that had the ace wondering if he had any prior knowledge on the emotions you may have towards Kenma, or that he may have for you.

"Yamamoto-san, please let g-"

"Do you know why they're like that?" He was quick to cut the vice captain off and Kai only looked towards where he was indicating so that he would be able to leave. Kei didn't make a face, he just looked calm though his eyes almost looked like they were analysing the scene before him. He stepped back a little when Yamomoto finally let go and then answered, monotonously, "Perhaps they like each other.. I wouldn't know, Yamamoto-san."

He then moved his sight towards the second year, the boy with the blonde mohawk only scowled lightly as his brows were furrowed, "It isn't my business, neither is it yours."

He looked back to see three more team members approaching and moved aside from then when they all stepped in while Yamamoto felt his eyes widening, repeating the same question eagerly, "Tell me what you see there!"

Morisuke Yaku raised a brow, frowning a little at the loud shriek from his kouhai and looked to the bench to see you sitting there alone, "[Name] sitting on his- no Kenmas' phone." He looked as if he was ready to scold the ace as Inuoka Sou and Yūki Shibayama watched the interaction as well.

Kai left, he went to help Kuroo tighten the volleyball net on the poles of either side and Kenma had taken that action as his queue to get up, leaving you with his phone to look through the memes he had been looking at with pictures of cats as well. He had recent searches of video games that you only briefly knew the name of but now you knew what you could but for him if he ever got mad at you; which you tried your best to prevent from happening.

"No! Before, I mean before Kenma, he was sitting there and [Name] was just- just standing between his legs, touching his hair- it was really cute!" He flailed his hands, hopelessly speaking in between a yell and a whisper as the three watched him. Yaku looked at him a second longer before he turned to the side to look at Inuoka who also met his eyes, wondering what was going on, "Alright? Is something wrong with that?"

Shibayama kept to himself diagonally behind Yaku but he spoke up timidly, gaining their attention, "I'm.. going to go sit next to [Name]."

The black-haired boy jumped when Yamamoto sprang up and grabbed his shoulders, "Yes! Go and ask him! You're so smart, Shibayama-san~! Go see if he likes our precious setter!"

Inuoka shrugged his shoulders when the boy in the aces hold gave him a look of help but also couldn't help looking in between Kenma and you to see if he actually got to catch what Yamomoto was talking but about, and there it was.

You looked away from the phone for a second to see what was going on as Lev began to whine about wanting to skip receives for todays practise but you had also caught Kenma's golden eyes. Kenma didn't mean to get caught but he had and now that he had, he didn't look away. He once again found himself entranced by the two sparkling eyes of his best friend and the smile that was ignited to his face.

You did a double take, first you hadn't realised that he was looking at you but then you noticed he was and you didn't look away. You didn't want to look away. Kenma only stood on the corner of the court, his posture slouched as he stayed in one spot lazily while waiting for something to happen. He was beginning to regret moving from your side and when you softly patted the bench beside you, his feet started moving in your direction.

This caused the smile on your face to grow, the golden eyes of the setter to glow and Yaku had seen all of this happen; the looks of adoration passed between the both of you, the way your visible emotions practically controlled Kenma to come to you, walking smoothly your way and it was you who brought his eyes to illuminate as they did, making his face - the normally lazy and unapproachable setter - lighten up in a way that made him look so much more content than he usually was when he was with his team or maybe hanging out with them after school.

Yaku almost smiled, almost. His lips twisted up and a single brow raised on his face when Yamomoto practically yelled out, "Hey! Didn't I tell ya! H-"

"Shut up! You're too damn loud!" Yaku almost kicked him, opting to punch him in the shoulder instead as the ace flinched and yelled again in pain, he held his shoulder as he stared daggers to the libero. In turn, Yaku frowned deeply in an angered way and Kuroo spoke up, having been quietly listening to their not-so-quiet discussion and he opened his mouth that was pulled into a grin, "Let's get started!"

Kenma stopped and turned back with a grim face, a sad smile appearing on yours as you watched him turned away and now both Kenma and yourself had five team mates watching you like a group of gossiping high school girls all thinking the same thing,

'We have to set them up.'

oh jeez i seriously hope the way i spoke of the team and their interactions is alright