Cold - An Inuoka X reader Love story

4 - Realization

Y/n POV

I walked up to my room and flopped onto my bed, my cheeks still burning red. What is this warm feeling in my stomach? And why are my cheeks so hot? I think to myself. I flip over with my face facing up and my hands covering my face.

"UGHH Why do I feel this way...?" I groaned. I sat there for a few minutes before hearing my door crack open. I look over at the door to see Kotaro standing there with a volleyball in his hands.

"You want to play a little?" He says, smiling at me. I look back at him and smile a little.

"Sure..."

Kotaro was the only person I ever smiled at. My smiles were usually small and not very noticeable. On top of that, I rarely ever smiled. But Kotaro made me feel so comfortable to smile and talk to. I told him about everything, especially since Kira was always busy and stressed out about everything.

I didn't want to put more weight on her chest, so I never told her any of my problems. I obviously texted her when I was going out and I treated her as if she was my mom, checking in every 20 minutes when I went out, asking her to go hang out, etc. She was strict about those rules because we were all she had left and we didn't want to lose eachother. But she never hit us or anything, she was just super caring.

Obviously we had our fair share in acting like siblings at some points. Like sometimes she would playfully smack the back of our heads if I was unconsciously being rude or if Kotaro was being pushy/too hyper.

I was outside passing the ball back and forth with Kotaro. We hit it down to  eachother occasionally and I didn't talk at all. But Kotaro was talking about what him and Akaashi were doing today and whatnot. Then he turned to me.

"So I saw you hugging Inuoka... he always hugs you before you come in but you hugged him back so I'm thinking there's something going on that I don't know about-"

"It's nothing" I interrupt. I spike the ball hard, and he shanks it. He runs to go grab the ball then runs next to me.

"Hmm" he examines me. I just stood there and looked at him with no expressions. After about 3 minutes of him examining, thinking, and squeezing my cheeks (I winced when he did, but I hoped he didn't notice) for some reason, He leads me to my room and puts the ball away in his. Then he tells me to sit on the bed. I sit there and look at him, confused. He bends down to my level and touch my cheek.

"So where'd those come from, y/n?"

"What?"

"Don't play stupid with me you little bird, I know there's a huge bruise there"

I shake my head. Then he grabs the cheek and squeezes it hard. I swat his hand away and Yelp.

"Asshole" I mumble to myself.

"Language. Now can you tell me what happened?" He looked at me sternly. I looked back at him and just stared blankly into his eyes. My eyes started to water because everything the girls said rung in my head. He noticed this and sat next to me. He looked at me with soft eyes. He tilted his head to the side a little and wrapped his huge arm around me. I looked at my feet, then shoved my face into his chest. I cried silently, not wanting my older sister to hear and worry about me. I cried until I fell asleep. Then Kotaro tucked me in and left the room, closing the door behind him.

**TIMESKIP**

It was in the morning and I changed into my uniform: a white top and a matching sailor collar with a bow on it. And a dark colored skirt. I walked out, then walked to Inuoka's house where I saw Shibayama waiting outside for him. I walked up and stood next to him.