Game- A Kuroken Story

kuroken- game

kuroken idea - kenma "i've always look at you as an achievement in a game"

Kuroo had been in love with his childhood friend for years. You could say since he had first laid eyes on him. He had been completely and utterly fallen for him. And he continued to do so over and over again. He was very obvious about it. It was obvious to everyone, except his love himself.

In Kenma's defense though, Kuroo flirted with pretty much everyone. Most people only wanted him for his looks but Kuroo never let it go farther than flirting. So while everyone assumed he was a fuckboy, Kenma knew for the most part that it wasn't true. He may have had 2 or 3 girlfriends in the past, only lasting a couple of months before breaking up for a stupid reason. 

To Kuroo, it wasn't a stupid reason. That's what it seemed like to everyone else though. He always gave them a stupid lie. For example, they just couldn't agree on who the mystery pokemon was at the end of each episode. Kuroo of course would be right because he's a nerd and he'd say that he couldn't be with someone who wasn't a pokemon expert. And somehow no one ever thought about if Kuroo was shallow enough to do that. The truth was is that he could never get his pudding haired best friend out of his head. Whenever he had been with a girlfriend, he felt like he was betraying them both. He just couldn't do relationships, not one that wasn't with Kenma. 

The question that remained was did Kenma feel the same? There were only 2 people that knew the answer to that. One had figured it out on his own and the other Kenma had told. He didn't even know the answer til someone had pointed it out. He had thought the feelings Kuroo gave him were weird but he never questioned it further. 

Yaku, Mother of the Cats, had known for quite some time now. Kuroo invoked his suspicions and caught on rather quickly. It was easy to figure out the bed haired cat but Kenma not so much. While they had been best friends since childhood, Kuroo couldn't read all of his faces. The one that frustrated him the most was the look Kenma would give him when he flirted. But while that was the hardest for Kuroo to decipher, it was the easiest for Yaku. Yaku didn't know much about love (though there was a certain Russian cat who could put that to the test) but it was obvious what Kenma was saying.

That he too was in love. 

What gave it away the most was the way Kenma was around him. The tips of his ears would light up every so slightly. His tone would go from bored to fascinated. A smile threatening to break through his facade. He would use his hair to hide his face even more. His words would come out more quietly. To the point where Kuroo would have to bend down to hear him (which was actually a tactic Kenma used to get him closer). But what gave him away the most was the way he looked at Kuroo. At first Yaku thought that look was towards the game, since he looking down at it most of the time.

But the truth was Kenma couldn't handle looking at Kuroo. He feared that his heart would burst and the butterflies would gnaw their way out of his stomach and his mouth would betray and tell him the very things he didn't want to say. On the rare instances he did glance at Kuroo, his eyes would hold such an endearing vision. One that said all the things he felt without him needing to. They held love, compassion, astonishment, curiosity, and most of all, happiness. 

He felt happy when they were together. Mostly because sometimes Kuroo could say the stupidest things, it hurt to laugh. But the happiness would never last too long. Because his fear and anxiety would come back to bite him in the ass. Kenma was terrified of commitment. More terrified than any terror he felt towards Granny. To anyone who knew him, that spoke volumes. What he was scared of about a relationship was how his parents would react and also the fact that Kuroo was much further experienced. He already had his first kiss, had been on dates, and maybe had gone beyond that. Kenma wasn't too sure about the last one but Kuroo could have anyone with his looks so he had just assumed.