The King Fell and Needs Help Getting Up

Chapter 12

It was later in the night, Hinata and Yamaguchi had gone home after dinner and now Kei and Tobio are in Kei's, their room. They were working through the school work Kei had brought home for the setter. He can do more of it on his own once Kei explained the lesson for him. Tobio looks up and over at Kei sitting at his desk working. He watches him, watching how his fingers grip the mechanical pencil and how his hand moves across the page. He observed the blond's face that was stuck in his usual straight face and how his glasses rested on his cheeks. His lips, ah those lips

"I can feel you staring." Tobio blushes and turns away quickly. Kei turns his chair around and looks at Tobio.

"What's got you staring? Don't you know you have work to do?"

"Uh!! It's just.... um...." Kei tilts his head and gets up.

"Are you worried they'll say something to the senpais? They won't, well Hinata might but you should have a bit more faith in them."

"It's not that... I mean, I'm worried about the senpais' reactions but it's not why I was staring... I... I wanted to kiss but you looked busy..." Kei smiles at the confession and leans down, his hands tilting Tobio's face up and kissing him. He can feel the blood rush to the younger's cheeks and the tensing of his squeezing his eyes shut.

"Better now your highness?" Kei says softly, almost sweet, almost.

"One more? Then you can go back to doing your work." He says.

"Fine, But you have to kiss me. I always kiss you." Kei says wanting to tease the setter. Which works because he becomes a pink, blubbering mess. Kei can't make out what he's saying as he flails his arms a bit from embarrassment.

"S-sit down..." Tobio says and Kei does. He doesn't expect the setter to go through with it, Kageyama still wasn't good at showing affection. What he also didn't expect was the setter climbing onto his lap. Kei can feel the nervousness radiating off Tobio, he can see the setter red cheeks and how he is hesitating to continue. Kei can feel Kageyama shaking, with his legs on either side of Kei and the setter's scarred arms wrapped around his neck, it was hard not to. Kei could hear the beating of Tobio's heart, how uneven his breathing was, he could even hear the younger's tongue licking his lips. It was torturous in a way; all Kei wanted to do is kiss the blue-eyed boy but he also didn't want to let the other see how desperate he was for him. He challenged Tobio to kiss him so he'll wait until the setter presses his lips against his.

"Hey, are you going to do it or what?" Kei asks, smirking to try and hide the embarrassment he felt from having the younger straddling him.

"I-I'm gonna!" he says and Kei fully sees the embarrassed look Kageyama is sporting. Jaw clenched, cheek rosy pink, a pout on his lips, nose scrunched up and eyes squeezed together. Kei honestly wondered how since when Kageyama was this cute. He was getting impatient though, it had been a few minutes since they had gotten into this position and there has yet to be a kiss.

"I won't wait all day, I do have work to do," Kei says hoping to motivate Tobio, which he does. Just as he finishes, he feels lips pressed against his. He smiles and kisses Tobio back, moving his hands around the boy's waist and pulling him closer. His fingers rub small circles in Kageyama's hips as they kiss. Kei decides to be adventurous and licks Tobio's lips as they kiss, hoping the setter would open them. He does and Kei deepens the kiss, easily taking the lead. As they were making out, Akiteru walks in.

"Kei! To-kun! Dad is- Ah!!! Sorry!!!!" He yells as the two boys quickly pull away from each other, Kageyama falls on the floor.

"You can't tell anyone! Forget you saw!" Kei says panicking.

"Uh! Yeah! Got it! I'll make sure to knock next time. Uh... Dad's back and brought gifts, even for To-kun. I'll see you downstairs and remember to use protection." Akiteru then quickly disappears before Kei can kill him.

"Oh god... I'm sorry bout that... it probably hurt when you fell." Kei says and leans down to help Tobio up. The setter shakes his head.

"I'm fine, I'm just as embarrassed as you..."

"I mean, I'm alright, if he tells we'll just explain the situation. But that's a compromising position to be caught in... We might be getting the talk."

"The talk???"

"Oh, right... you wouldn't know. It's fine, you don't need to." He says and carefully checks Tobio's back.

"Alright, I've made sure you're fine so we can go downstairs now."

"... I'm nervous... What if your dad doesn't like me? What if he wants to kick me out?"

"He won't, he got you a gift, that doesn't say kicking you out, now does it?" He says and kisses Kageyama's forehead.

"You'll be fine, just calm down." He says before dragging the black-haired boy with him downstairs.

"Kei, and you must Kageyama." Kei's father says. Kageyama notices how much he and Kei look alike.

"Yes sir, it is nice to meet you." He says and shyly bows his head.

"Nice to meet you too. I am, Tsukishima Takeshi. I heard from my wife you really like milk so I brought some from Hokkaido."

"Ah, thank you. It means a lot that you got me something even though we had never met. I greatly appreciate it." He says and Kei smiles at the evidence of his hard work. Kageyama interacting like a normal human being.

"I got Kei strawberries, they're really big and were quite expensive but they looked too good to pass."

"Thanks, dad, just put them in the fridge I'll eat them tomorrow. Do you want your milk now?" Kei asks Tobio, who shakes his head.

"Alright, you boys get to bed, we're going out tomorrow," Hotaru says and ushers the two high school students upstairs.

Kei cleans Kageyama's books off the bed before packing his own away. Kageyama changed as the blond cleaned up. He feels arms wrap around him when he is trying to put his shirt on.

"It's hot, leave it off, I don't need you to be sweating all night," Kei says and Tobio listens to him, truly believing Kei had better judgement than him and in most cases this is true. He drops his shirt on the floor and relaxes in Kei's arms, not bothering to ask why the blond was holding him, just enjoying it. He almost falls asleep standing up but that's when Kei lets him go and sends Tobio to the bed. Kei quickly changes to match Tobio and climbs in with him after turning the light off. Tobio cuddles close, Kei pets his hair before he begins lightly grazing his fingers over the marks that fill Kageyama's body.

Tobio squirms, Kei's fingers were making him ticklish and he was too tired for it. He could sense the smirk on the blond's face. He looks up and sees Kei's face quickly change. They stare into each other's eyes for a couple of minutes, Kei's being more dominating as he licks his lips.

"You really don't have any clue about how you affect me do you?" He asks and Kageyama, confused, shakes his head before he's being kissed, tongue and all. Kageyama kisses back, letting Kei take over.

Kei's hands roam, feeling every mark, enlisting shivers and small whimpers from Kageyama. Kei pulls back and can feel Tobio's breath on his lips, it was short ragged gasps and pants that drove Kei kinda mad. He waits a minute to see if Tobio would pull away but he didn't.

"I told you, I like you. It has nothing to do with you helping me. I liked you before that." Kei is frozen, he can't believe what he is hearing. Kageyama, liked him before everything happened... What kind of dream was this...

"Are you sure?" He asks, they've already been really intimate but before Kei moves further he needs reassurance from the younger boy.

"I'm sure, as long as you're careful, we can continue, I don't need the talk."

".... God, you're annoying sometimes. Just go to sleep we'll talk in the morning." Kei says and pulls the setter against his chest to cuddle. Tobio happily wraps his arms around the taller boy and falls asleep.