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~Hinata~

"Do I look ok? Like genuinely, if I don't just tell me." I can feel my knees shaking beneath me. What can I say, the nerves are definitely getting to me. It's not like this is a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I'm only meeting my boyfriend's family, that's all, it's really not that big of a deal so I don't know why it's getting to me.

Kei sighs and ruffles my hair. Did he really have to do that? I spent ages trying to get my hair to cooperate with me and you really had to go and mess it up. "You look fine, Shoyo. You're adorable as always."

I feel a blush rise to my cheeks. "I-I-" God damn it Kei, why are you so good with your words? "D-damn it! You m-messed my hair up.." Why am I stuttering? Why the hell am I stuttering? Damn it voice, why do you betray me like this?

"Calm your stutter, it's getting annoying and we're not even at mine yet." His voice sounds harsher than it did before, just the old Tsukki that I fell in love with poking through. At least I haven't rubbed off on him too badly, it'd be awful if he lost his only personality trait which is being too salty for his own good.

"I'll try my best.." I plaster on a smile, smaller and weaker than usual but I have my reasons for that, it's supposedly cute to smile like that. "But only because it's you, I'd do anything for you~"

His face is going red, bingo, my work here is done. "You're going to regret saying that by the end of the night, trust me." Ughhhh just when I thought I had the upper hand in this game, he goes and says something like that. I need to try harder but, at the same time, I don't have the confidence to say anything even close to that. Anyway, I think this is Tsukki's house now. Either that or he has the key to some stranger's house which is highly unlikely. He steps aside, holding the door open for me. "Ladies first."

Are you kidding me right now? "Eh? I'm no lady!" I go inside anyway, why wouldn't I want to get out of the cold?

"Wait, really?" I watch as a surprised look covers his face. "Damn Shoyo, I always thought you were a girl..proves how much I know.." Is he kidding? He better be kidding, damn it! "Aww, don't make that face Sho chan." He ruffles my hair again; stop doing that already! "Can you really blame me? You're cuter than most of the girls in our year, you'd fit in pretty well among any of the girls teams.." He looks like he's getting lost in thought, his face is turning red. Damn it, if he's thinking weird thoughts about me hands are going to get thrown!

"Kei? Is that you?" Oh thank god, a random woman has come to save us. Wait, thinking about it that's probably his mum, they look too similar to not be related. She's smiling at me now, it's a sweet smile. I wish I could smile like that. "And you must be Shoyo, welcome to our humble abode."

I smile back at her. "Thank you Mrs Tsukishima." I know I've only known her for... less than a minute but she genuinely seems like a nice lady. Honestly, I was expecting Kei's family to be as grumpy as he is but apparently I was wrong.

"Oh sweetheart, there's no need for formalities." She walks forward and rests a hand on my shoulder. Not going to lie, it makes me feel less nervous. "Please, call me mum. I'm pretty sure our Kei is already planning on marrying you, so you might as well start thinking of us as your family right now." Wait, is she being serious? Oh my god, does he really want to marry me? Don't blush don't blush don't blush, it's embarrassing please Shoyo for the love of god do not blush.

I look over at Tsukki who, by the way, is blushing up an absolute storm. "Mum! Don't put words in my mouth!" Ooh someone's getting defensive. He wraps an arm around my shoulders and pulls me close. "Besides, it'd only be unfair to Shoyo to force him to spend his whole damn life with someone like me."

"Aww Kei.." I feel kind of bad now. Is that really what he thinks about himself? That it'd be unfair on me to marry him? That's such a lie, I'd be lucky to have him! "Don't think like that.." I wrap my arms around him, resting my head against his side. "You know full well that I'd be lucky to have someone like you."

"Stop fawning over each other and come inside." A tall man, who looks kind of like Kei but a couple of years older, speaks up. "The food's going to go cold."

Kei rolls his eyes and I swear he's holding me closer than before. "Oh whatever Akiteru, don't you have work tonight?" Akiteru, huh? Is this Kei's brother?

"Not tonight little bro." He ruffles up Kei's hair. He has to strain himself to reach his head though. Damn, it must suck being shorter than your younger sibling. If Natsu ever grows taller than me, I will riot. "Why, do you not want me here?"

"Ok boys, no arguing when we have a guest over." Mum leads all of us inside. This is going to be... either an amazing evening or a terrible one and, oh boy, am I willing to find out how this is going to play out.

Hey guys sorry that I cut this chapter off here. If I wrote any more of this chapter, it would go on for about forever and I wanted to get this up on Monday this week as usual, I didn't want to leave you guys hanging for another week. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter either way and I should be uploading as usual from now on. Thanks for sticking around :3