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Tsukishima Kei has added Tsukishima Akiteru, Kuroo Tetsurou, Bokuto Koutarou, Akaashi Keiji and Sawamura Daichi to the chat

[21:21] Tsukishima Kei: I need your advice on something.

[21:21] Bokuto Koutarou: ?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?

[21:22] Kuroo Tetsurou: my first thought was homework but that doesn’t explain the bokuto

[21:22] Bokuto Koutarou: HEY FUCK YOU MAN I GOT A 32 ON MY LAST CALCULUS TEST

[21:22] Kuroo Tetsurou: my bad man ernest rutherford quivers in his dead ol boots

[21:22] Bokuto Koutarou: I DONT KNOW WHO THAT IS BUT AKAASHI KUROO IS BULLYING ME AGAIN!!!!

[21:23] Akaashi Keiji: lol

[21:23] Bokuto Koutarou: AKAASHI!!!!!!!!!!!

[21:23] Tsukishima Kei: I regret this already

[21:23] Tsukishima Akiteru: Gasp….. Could it be…… I thought this day would never come (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

[21:23] Bokuto Koutarou: WHOOOOOOAAAA TSUKKI BROTHER ?!?!?!??!

[21:24] Tsukishima Akiteru: Ah…. Kei made more friends…. 。゜゜(´Ｏ`) ゜゜。

[21:24] Tsukishima Kei: Can you stop??? You are more embarrassing than Kuroo-san I swear

[21:25] Kuroo Tetsurou: hey now that’s hurtful!

[21:25] Kuroo Tetsurou: i put a lot of work into being the most embarrassing

[21:25] Sawamura Daichi: You succeed

[21:26] Bokuto Koutarou: SAWAMURA HAIIIIIIII :3

[21:26] Akaashi Keiji: Bokuto-san please don’t make that face

[21:26] Bokuto Koutarou: 3:

[21:26] Kuroo Tetsurou: aaaa sawamura…. i was just thinking you’d been too quiet… could it be that you were shedding real tears over our little tsukki all grown up and asking for advice? :3

[21:27] Sawamura Daichi: No

[21:27] Kuroo Tetsurou: ooooo i sensed hesitation :3c

[21:27] Bokuto Koutarou: o okay akaashi i get it now

[21:28] Tsukishima Kei: Sawamura-san please tell me you are not actually crying

[21:28] Sawamura Daichi: I’M NOT

[21:28] Kuroo Tetsurou: so defensive daicchan~

[21:29] Tsukishima Akiteru: Kei your friends are so funny!!!

[21:29] Tsukishima Akiteru: Thank you all for taking care of my baby brother I know he’s a pain in the ass so it means a lot (･ω<)☆

[21:30] Sawamura Daichi: Kuroo next time I see you I am gonna kick your ass SO hard it’s going to flatten that shit like a pancake. Your ass is gonna be inverted by the time I’m done with you. Fucking concave.

[21:30] Kuroo Tetsurou: lol

[21:30] Tsukishima Akiteru: 〣( ºΔº )〣

[21:31] Sawamura Daichi: I am so sorry I promise I am a normal and responsible senpai to your brother

[21:31] Akaashi Keiji: Kuroo-san nice kill

[21:31] Tsukishima Kei: Sawamura, why is Sugawara texting me that you are actually crying? Is he seeing this?

[21:31] Tsukishima Kei: Also, what the fuck.

[21:31] Sawamura Daichi: Ah yeah, sorry Tsukishima, he’s staying the night so he happens to be reading over my shoulder because he is a serial busybody who can’t keep his nose out of everyone else’s business

[21:32] Tsukishima Akiteru: Kei that’s like five whole friends I’m so proud!

[21:32] Tsukishima Kei: The ice you are standing on is so thin I hope you know that.

Tsukishima Kei added Sugawara Koushi to the chat

[21:33] Sugawara Koushi: FINALLY

[21:33] Sugawara Koushi: the fact that you thought about any of these fools before me is insulting and you will owe me one meatbun in emotional damages

[21:33] Tsukishima Kei: No

[21:34] Sugawara Koushi: TWO MEAT BUNS

[21:34] Tsukishima Kei: … No

[21:34] Sugawara Koushi: well it was worth a shot

[21:35] Kuroo Tetsurou: now that we’ve determined the amount of meatbuns suga-kun is owed, are you gonna tell us why you gathered us all here tsukki?

[21:35] Bokuto Koutarou: o yeah i completely forgot lol

[21:35] Kuroo Tetsurou: lol

[21:36] Akaashi Keiji: Would you two be quiet you aren’t giving him much of an opportunity to explain

[21:36] Tsukishima Kei: Thank you Akaashi-san

[21:36] Tsukishima Kei: To be brief, I’m going to confess to Yamaguchi

[21:36] Tsukishima Akiteru: YES

[21:36] Tsukishima Akiteru: YES OH FUCK YES

[21:37] Tsukishima Akiteru: I NEVER THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD COME

[21:37] Tsukishima Akiteru: I WOULD LIKE TO THANK NOT ONLY WHATEVER GOD WAS LOOKING OUT FOR ME AND ANSWERING MY PRAYERS BUT ALSO THE ACADEMY

Tsukishima Kei removed Tsukishima Akiteru from the chat

[21:37] Bokuto Koutarou: what academy?????

[21:37] Bokuto Koutarou: but congrats tsukki!!! yamaguchi-kun is way cute

[21:37] Akaashi Keiji: He hasn’t confessed yet Bokuto-san

[21:37] Bokuto Koutarou: well duh but yamaguchi-kun is OBVIOUSLY going to say yes! tsukki is so handsome and good at blocking now that he’s practiced against my spikes ☆*:.｡.o(≧▽≦)o.｡.:*☆

[21:38] Sugawara Koushi: update daichi is crying harder

[21:38] Sawamura Daichi: SHUT UP

[21:38] Akaashi Keiji: Sawamura-san…

[21:38] Kuroo Tetsurou: jeez sawamura he’s getting a boyfriend not leaving the country

[21:39] Sawamura Daichi: LEAVE ME ALONE I AM JUST VERY HONOURED THAT TSUKISHIMA RESPECTS ME ENOUGH TO WANT MY ADVICE ON THIS MATTER OKAY THEY ARE LIKE MY CHILDREN

[21:39] Tsukishima Kei: That’s a little weird, Sawamura-san, we’re not that much younger than you

[21:39] Sawamura Daichi: YOU WILL ACCEPT MY AFFECTION FOR YOU THAT IS AN ORDER DO YOU THINK KAGEYAMA AND HINATA ARE GOING TO GIVE ME THIS SATISFACTION ANY TIME SOON??????

[21:39] Sugawara Koushi: tsukishima i think you may have broken him

[21:40] Kuroo Tetsurou: ooookaayyyy sawamura’s breakdown aside do you have any ideas for how you’re going to ask him out?

[21:40] Tsukishima Kei: No

[21:40] Kuroo Tetsurou: like… not even one?

[21:40] Tsukishima Kei: No

[21:40] Bokuto Koutarou: 3:

[21:40] Akaashi Keiji: 3:

[21:41] Bokuto Koutarou: okay well, why don’t you start by telling us what you like about him!!!

[21:41] Tsukishima Kei: Everything

[21:41] Tsukishima Kei: Except anyone who voluntarily eats fries when they get soggy probably has something fundamentally wrong with them

[21:42] Kuroo Tetsurou: okay step 1 is don’t say that to him

[21:42] Tsukishima Kei: I have told him this before

[21:42] Kuroo Tetsurou: you make it so hard to be supportive of you since sometimes you say things that compel me to push you into a locker

[21:43] Sawamura Daichi: I hate to agree with Kuroo on anything but I expected smarter from you, Tsukishima

[21:43] Sugawara Koushi: idk i think yamaguchi might be into it

[21:43] Bokuto Koutarou: oooohhhh like a kink thing?

[21:43] Sawamura Daichi: DO NOT ANSWER THAT

[21:44] Tsukishima Kei: Sugawara for the sake of my sanity I am going to pretend you didn’t just say that

[21:44] Tsukishima Kei: Also ugh one second

Tsukishima Kei has added Tsukishima Akiteru to the chat

[21:44] Tsukishima Akiteru: I have been told to behave

[21:44] Tsukishima Akiteru: But Kei I’ve been waiting for this day literally for years, how could you need any other opinions besides big brother’s?

[21:45] Tsukishima Kei: Because they all have partners and you do not

[21:45] Bokuto Koutarou: damn tsukki went for the jugular

[21:45] Tsukishima Akiteru: _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):_

[21:45] Bokuto Koutarou: akaashi did i use that right

[21:45] Akaashi Keiji: Yes Bokuto-san

[21:45] Akaashi Keiji: Tsukishima-kun nice kill

[21:46] Tsukishima Kei: Thank you :)

[21:46] Tsukishima Kei: Kuroo-san, I wanted to ask you how you confessed to Kozume-san since you two have known each other a long time, just like Yamaguchi and I

[21:46] Bokuto Koutarou: (o･ω･o) oooo yeah kuroo tell the story i don’t think i’ve ever heard it 

[21:47] Sawamura Daichi: Actually, I don’t think I have either, which is odd considering how much time you spend talking about him

[21:47] Kuroo Tetsurou: ah i guess that’s because there’s not really a lot to tell?

[21:47] Sugawara Koushi: if you say you’re not actually dating i’m coming to tokyo to punch you myself

[21:48] Kuroo Tetsurou: so violent suga-kun!

[21:48] Kuroo Tetsurou: we are dating, no punching needed

[21:48] Kuroo Tetsurou: it’s just a bit of a special case i guess?

[21:49] Akaashi Keiji: Kuroo-san with all due respect I think everyone thinks their relationship is special

[21:49] Kuroo Tetsurou: 1) fuck you everyone’s relationship IS special in its own way 2) i really mean it because we didn’t really confess

[21:51] Tsukishima Kei: How do you date without confessing?

[21:51] Sawamura Daichi: I’m pretty sure you just gave me at LEAST five more gray hairs

[21:52] Kuroo Tetsurou: kenma and i have known each other for a really long time okay? i knew when his feelings about me started changing and he knew when mine changed too and it really didn’t take a big conversation because we’ve kind of always been on the same page

[21:54] Akaashi Keiji: I’m actually a little shocked

[21:54] Bokuto Koutarou: yeah dude you’re always the one telling me to talk about my feelings and stuff

[21:55] Tsukishima Kei: I think I get it actually

[21:55] Tsukishima Kei: It’s not like you don’t want to talk about them or that you’re afraid of them, it’s just that it makes sense without some in depth analysis of why you feel that way, right?

[21:56] Kuroo Tetsurou: yeah that’s pretty much it

[21:56] Kuroo Tetsurou: kenma’s shy, but he’s never been shy about telling me how he feels, and he expresses himself in words when i need it but that was not one of those times. i knew he liked me, he knew i liked him, and what else did there need to be?

[21:56] Kuroo Tetsurou: are you feeling something similar with yamaguchi-kun?

[21:57] Tsukishima Kei: Kind of

[21:57] Tsukishima Kei: I feel like he’s been purposefully making himself harder to read in the last couple of months which is really frustrating because I hate feeling that distance, but I think he feels like if I figure him out I’ll feel pressured into liking him back

[21:58] Tsukishima Kei: Which I don’t, by the way, I like him all on my own

[21:58] Sawamura Daichi: Tsukishima I say this with immeasurable amounts of pride but I think I would struggle to name someone who I think would be less susceptible to peer pressure than you

[21:58] Sugawara Koushi: futakuchi-kun dateko

[21:59] Sawamura Daichi: Suga this was supposed to be about supporting Tsukishima and also I’m actually not fully sure that kid is a real person he might just be a manifestation of malevolent energy

[21:59] Tsukishima Kei: True enough

[21:59] Kuroo Tetsurou: ??? everything okay in miyagi fellas

[21:59] Tsukishima Akiteru: Yeah all par for the course, Karasuno has always been this weird

[22:00] Tsukishima Akiteru: Actually Kei, I think you play with the brother of this girl who used to pocket all the boys and then she sewed all the pockets together to make a sun shade on the roof

[22:00] Tsukishima Kei: Tanaka?

[22:00] Tsukishima Akiteru: Yeah!

[22:01] Bokuto Koutarou: what do you mean pocketing all the boys? like she put them in her pocket?

[22:01] Kuroo Tetsurou: nah if you pull on the breast pocket of a school shirt hard enough and quick enough you can detach it from the rest of the shirt without damaging it. that’s pocketing

[22:02] Sugawara Koushi: i’m actually so shocked you don’t know what pocketing is bokuto it seems like something you’d be really into

[22:02] Tsukishima Akiteru: What school do you go to that doesn’t pocket???

[22:02] Akaashi Keiji: Fukurodani

[22:02] Tsukishima Akiteru: Okay yeah that checks out

[22:02] Akaashi Keiji: Bokuto-san do not even think about trying to pocket someone

[22:03] Bokuto Koutarou: fiiiiiiiine

[22:03] Tsukishima Kei: As riveting as this detour has been

[22:03] Tsukishima Kei: I have a problem and it has not been solved

[22:04] Tsukishima Akiteru: He won’t sleep until we solve it, Kei’s always been hard-headed like that

[22:04] Tsukishima Kei: And you got caught by Ono-sensei shoving your hand up Sasaki-san’s shirt in the west-end second year stairwell so I suppose you’ve always been dumb

[22:04] Tsukishima Akiteru: TSUKISHIMA KEI?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

[22:05] Kuroo Tetsurou: tsukki nice kill

[22:05] Tsukishima Akiteru: I literally can’t believe you’re making me look uncool in front of your friends

[22:05] Tsukishima Kei: You do not need my help for that

[22:05] Akaashi Keiji: Tsukishima-san you do appear to be setting yourself up for this quite badly

[22:06] Tsukishima Akiteru: I cannot believe my own baby brother would be so cruel… (っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ

[22:06] Sawamura Daichi: This is making me afraid for when my brothers grow up

[22:06] Sugawara Koushi: lmao you have so much to look forward to

[22:07] Tsukishima Kei: What about you, Sugawara-san?

[22:07] Sugawara Koushi: oh my little brother is an absolute shit but unfortunately for him i am a gemini

[22:07] Sawamura Daichi: I apologize for him he has gotten inexplicably really interested in western zodiacs

[22:07] Sugawara Koushi: it’s called a coping mechanism if i can blame all my problems on the planets i’m gonna do it whoever invented this system was a genius

[22:08] Tsukishima Kei: I would love to see a scientific study conducted of your brain

[22:08] Tsukishima Kei: But no, I mean how did you and Sawamura-san confess to each other?

[22:08] Sugawara Koushi: ooooooh

[22:08] Sugawara Koushi: lol

[22:08] Sawamura Daichi: Oh you know it was pretty normal and boring haha

[22:08] Sugawara Koushi: you really don’t wanna know lol

[22:08] Kuroo Tetsurou: hmmmmmmmmmm

[22:09] Bokuto Koutarou: that makes it seem like sawamura did something embarrassing huh

[22:09] Sawamura Daichi: No I didn’t why would you think that

[22:09] Kuroo Tetsurou: i can smell your fear ଲ(ⓛ ω ⓛ)ଲ

[22:10] Tsukishima Kei: Sawamura-san I had so much faith in you

[22:10] Sawamura Daichi: I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING NOTHING HAPPENED

[22:10] Tsukishima Kei: Sugawara-san?

[22:10] Sugawara Koushi: he got so nervous he threw up

[22:10] Kuroo Tetsurou: BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

[22:10] Tsukishima Akiteru: Nooooo Sawamura-kun

[22:10] Akaashi Keiji: Sugawara-san nice kill

[22:11] Sawamura Daichi: We are getting a divorce

[22:11] Sawamura Daichi: And I am taking the house in this imaginary settlement

[22:11] Sugawara Koushi: very cute that you think we have a house in this economy daicchan

[22:12] Bokuto Koutarou: oh yeah i’ve been that nervous before was it because suga is so pretty?

[22:12] Sawamura Daichi: No it’s because he’s a menace who spent six months of first year imitating Asahi’s verbal slipup from our club introductions so I knew he’d never let me live it down if I fucked up

[22:12] Sawamura Daichi: And yes, because he is intimidatingly pretty and I had it so bad for him and I couldn’t imagine what would happen if he turned me down. I really don’t think I could have handled it, and it honestly makes me a bit queasy to think about, even now

[22:13] Sugawara Koushi: you are so sweet ʕ •̀ o •́ ʔ

[22:13] Sugawara Koushi: also if you do need to repeat your performance please aim it away from me thank u

[22:13] Sawamura Daichi: I stand by that menace statement

[22:13] Tsukishima Akiteru: Well, confession blunder aside, it seems like it worked out for you two?

[22:14] Tsukishima Kei: It did, they’re kings of PDA

[22:14] Sugawara Koushi: kings of pda, king of the court… you ever think our dear baby tsukki might have some sort of complex about royalty?

[22:14] Tsukishima Kei: Stop that

[22:14] Tsukishima Kei: I will tell everyone that Sawamura-san threw up on you when asking you out if you ever repeat that thought

[22:14] Sawamura Daichi: DON’T DRAG ME INTO THIS!?

[22:14] Tsukishima Akiteru: Be nice to your senpai, Kei, they’re doing you a favor

[22:15] Tsukishima Kei: Debatable whether or not they’re actually helping

[22:15] Sugawara Koushi: sorry sorry (シ_ _)シ

[22:15] Sugawara Koushi: shall i tell the story properly?

[22:16] Bokuto Koutarou: yes!!!!!! i want to know

[22:16] Tsukishima Kei: Okay

[22:16] Sugawara Koushi: first of all, daichi didn’t actually throw up on me or anywhere near me, he just had to sprint to the nearest bathroom and i was so worried that i followed him in and, well

[22:17] Sugawara Koushi: my mother always told me love is who you’re willing to sit in the bathroom with on their worst nights, and even though the boy’s toilets are disgusting and daichi’s gut was committing acts of rebellion worse than hinata’s, i was still endeared

[22:18] Sugawara Koushi: i don’t really think i needed him to be grand about it, in hindsight. it was funny at the time, hearing him sob his way through a confession into a toilet bowl but in all honesty it was strangely intimate, just me and him in a pretty low moment

[22:18] Sugawara Koushi: he is blushing so hard by the way he can’t even make eye contact with me

[22:19] Kuroo Tetsurou: that’s really sweet suga

[22:19] Akaashi Keiji: It really is

[22:19] Tsukishima Akiteru: You kids are going to make me cry too

[22:19] Tsukishima Akiteru: Don’t you have teenage things to do?

[22:20] Sugawara Koushi: daicchan is withholding weed from me so not currently no

[22:20] Kuroo Tetsurou: cruel and unusual punishment daicchan

[22:20] Bokuto Koutarou: yeah daicchan also btw what is your address

[22:20] Sawamura Daichi: He’s being facetious Tsukishima-san our teenage things to do is each other

[22:20] Kuroo Tetsurou: BROOOOOOOO

[22:21] Akaashi Keiji: Sawamura-san???

[22:21] Tsukishima Akiteru: I cannot believe how single I feel

[22:21] Tsukishima Kei: Thank you for the further mental scarring, Sawamura-san

[22:21] Sawamura Daichi: Sorry Tsukki :)

[22:22] Kuroo Tetsurou: Sawamura nice kill

[22:22] Tsukishima Kei: I am grateful that you told me the whole story, though

[22:22] Bokuto Koutarou: whoa

[22:23] Tsukishima Kei: You know, when I was younger, there was a time when I had a really bad fever

[22:23] Tsukishima Akiteru: Oh, I remember that! It was terrible, you poor thing, you were so sick we all thought you were on the verge of death

[22:23] Tsukishima Kei: Yeah

[22:24] Tsukishima Kei: I was delirious for most of it and I only remember bits and pieces, but I remember so clearly at one point I opened my eyes and Yamaguchi was just there, holding my hand and staring at me as seriously as he possibly could

[22:24] Tsukishima Kei: Undercut seriously by the fact that he was maybe eight years old and looked on the verge of bursting into tears, but he was still looking out for me

[22:24] Tsukishima Akiteru: Tadashi’s father had to physically pick him up to get him to leave you alone, he was so adamant about staying. Did you know that?

[22:27] Tsukishima Kei: I didn’t

[22:27] Tsukishima Kei: Love is who you sit in the bathroom with on their worst nights, huh?

[22:27] Sugawara Koushi: or something like that

[22:28] Tsukishima Kei: I’m not supposed to tell you this but Yamaguchi and I got invited to a party by some of our classmates, and Yamaguchi got very very drunk and we spent several hours locked in one of the upstairs bathrooms while Yamaguchi was very very sick

[22:28] Sugawara Koushi: oh the poor thing

[22:28] Sawamura Daichi: Getting this isn’t the end of the story but you know you don’t have to hide stuff like that from us, right? We’ve all done dumb shit like that and you should be able to talk to us so you can learn from our mistakes

[22:28] Kuroo Tetsurou: cosigned

[22:28] Bokuto Koutarou: cosigned (2)

[22:29] Tsukishima Kei: I’ll keep that in mind

[22:29] Tsukishima Kei: The point is, usually I wouldn’t sit around for someone like that, but the thought of leaving him there to deal with it by himself made me feel terrible, and watching him suffer like that made me want to carry that for him just to alleviate some of his pain

[22:29] Tsukishima Kei: I know you all think I’m somewhat of a smart-mouth but I don’t think I really have the vocabulary to express to you what Yamaguchi means to me, how many lows he’s weathered with me, how many worst nights on metaphorical bathroom floors we’ve had

[22:30] Kuroo Tetsurou: i get it

[22:30] Kuroo Tetsurou: i think it’s only natural when you’ve known someone as long as i’ve known kenma or you’ve known yamaguchi-kun that they become an intrinsic part of your history

[22:31] Kuroo Tetsurou: kenma is, to me, fundamentally inextricable from some of the worst moments of my life because he was the person i turned to for comfort in those times, and i think removing him from those memories would remove the sense of peace i have surrounding them, because he is what made those moments okay

[22:32] Kuroo Tetsurou: but tsukki, you’re never gonna lose that, okay? some things run bone-deep and if by some miracle we’ve all managed to misinterpret yamaguchi-kun’s longing stares and wistful sighs, you are not gonna lose him for having a feeling

[22:32] Tsukishima Kei: just one

[22:32] Kuroo Tetsurou: of course, any more than that and we’d start to worry

[22:33] Sugawara Koushi: you guys are making daichi cry harder than he does in ghibli movies

[22:33] Bokuto Koutarou: well he has a point because IM crying

[22:33] Bokuto Koutarou: I LOVE YOU TSUKKI

[22:33] Tsukishima Kei: Thanks, Bokuto-san

[22:34] Tsukishima Akiteru: You know, I worry about Kei more than I should, probably, but I feel some sense of peace having met you guys because good gods above you seem like you have it together

[22:34] Akaashi Keiji: Appearances can be deceiving, Tsukishima-san

[22:34] Sawamura Daichi: At the end of the day, we’re all just kids but I think we’re all kids who’ve walked miles in each other’s shoes

[22:35] Bokuto Koutarou: and kuroo says that talking about your feelings is really important and keeping all your struggles internalized will only hurt you in the long run but expressing them in a wild way will also cause you harm so it’s better to be able to air them in a space where you feel comfortable and supported so you can address and unpack them to help yourself live a healthier and happier life!

[22:35] Sawamura Daichi: Seriously Kuroo, what kind of a person are you?

[22:36] Kuroo Tetsurou: i spend a lot of time on jstor and my obaa-chan is a very nice old lady okay

[22:36] Kuroo Tetsurou: and besides, part of the joy of volleyball for me is connecting with other people and what’s the point of connection if you’re going to live your life like you’re all alone?

[22:36] Tsukishima Akiteru: KUROO-KUN STOP IT I AM BESIDE MYSELF

[22:37] Tsukishima Kei: Kuroo-san you really will make him cry

[22:37] Tsukishima Kei: But you do have a point about connection

[22:37] Tsukishima Kei: It’s very weird to think that Yamaguchi could have been just… some kid I met once if he hadn’t come to the gym to try volleyball

[22:38] Tsukishima Akiteru: The way Kei tells it, he used to think the boys in all the other sports were too scary

[22:38] Akaashi Keiji: How’s volleyball working out for him in that regard?

[22:38] Tsukishima Kei: He is in fact taller than our coach and I think that has been giving him somewhat of a power trip

[22:39] Sugawara Koushi: i would pay money to see him outgrow kageyama if only because i want to watch the poor thing get super competitive about growing taller

[22:39] Tsukishima Kei: It would be funny until he started competing with me

[22:39] Sugawara Koushi: now that would be even funnier since you are just a freak of nature

[22:40] Bokuto Koutarou: sorry tsukki i have to agree no normal sixteen year old is as tall as you

[22:40] Tsukishima Kei: We played a team with a 2-metre tall sixteen year old for Spring High qualifiers

[22:40] Bokuto Koutarou: WHY

[22:40] Akaashi Keiji: I believe you have to play the teams assigned to you by the bracket in order to progress to Nationals

[22:40] Bokuto Koutarou: AKAASHI

[22:40] Akaashi Keiji: :3

[22:41] Tsukishima Kei: Bokuto-san, how did you and Akaashi-san get together?

[22:43] Bokuto Koutarou: WHAT

[22:43] Bokuto Koutarou: ME AND AKAASHI?!??!?!??!?!

[22:43] Bokuto Koutarou: HAHAHAHA YOU’RE FUNNY TSUKKI

[22:43] Kuroo Tetsurou: buddy this is just sad

[22:43] Bokuto Koutarou: WHY WOULD YOU THINK WE’RE DATING THAT’S SO FUNNY I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’D THINK SOMETHING SO DUMB HAHAHAHAHA

[22:44] Tsukishima Kei: Bokuto-san are you aware that when you slap someone’s ass it sounds very different to when you slap a volleyball

[22:44] Tsukishima Akiteru: ??????????

[22:44] Akaashi Keiji: Fuck I told you someone heard

[22:45] Bokuto Koutarou: i’m sorry i couldn’t resist you have such a cute lil butt

[22:45] Kuroo Tetsurou: lev owes me 500 yen nice

[22:45] Sawamura Daichi: You’re making bets on people’s love lives with a first year???

[22:45] Kuroo Tetsurou: a bet would require fair odds what i am doing is extorting lev for money because he is not very bright and he is easily lied to

[22:46] Tsukishima Kei: You know nii-san is about to make me stop hanging out with you guys, right?

[22:46] Tsukishima Akiteru: On one hand I respect the hustle on the other hand I am a little afraid for what you could possibly be teaching my poor little brother

[22:46] Kuroo Tetsurou: mostly wholesome things like how to block and the power of friendship and also varied quick attack plays that will make your enemies want to shrivel up and die

[22:47] Bokuto Koutarou: stop scaring tsukki-nii kuroo!!!!!!

[22:47] Bokuto Koutarou: now that they all know can we talk about it akaashi?

[22:47] Akaashi Keiji: I am getting the impression they may have always known Bokuto-san, but yes, we can talk about it

[22:48] Sawamura Daichi: Suga says to tell you guys that you’re not subtle

[22:48] Bokuto Koutarou: SO AKAASHI ASKED ME OUT AND IT WAS SUPER AMAZING

[22:48] Bokuto Koutarou: okay well maybe he didn’t make it the whole way through what he was trying to say because he got distracted on some metaphor about stars but it’s okay i knew what he was saying

[22:49] Kuroo Tetsurou: and?

[22:49] Akaashi Keiji: What do you mean ‘and’?

[22:49] Kuroo Tetsurou: i’m noticing a pattern and something tells me you didn’t do any better than the rest of us

[22:50] Bokuto Koutarou: akaashi no i love you so much don’t give him this ammunition

[22:50] Akaashi Keiji: I’m sorry, Bokuto-san

[22:50] Tsukishima Akiteru: This is better than the soap-operas Okaa-san is obsessed with

[22:51] Akaashi Keiji: He jumped on me to kiss me before I was done and I headbutted him in surprise

[22:51] Akaashi Keiji: He bit through his lip and we ended up having to go to the emergency room

[22:51] Sawamura Daichi: Ouch

[22:51] Kuroo Tetsurou: akaashi nice kill

[22:52] Bokuto Koutarou: akaaaaaaashi how could u

[22:52] Akaashi Keiji: I’m sorry Bokuto-san

[22:52] Akaashi Keiji: Why don’t we tell the team tomorrow, okay? I think we’ve kept it secret long enough now

[22:52] Bokuto Koutarou: ok!!! i love you

[22:53] Tsukishima Kei: Why did you keep it a secret?

[22:54] Bokuto Koutarou: akaashi wanted to make sure it was good first

[22:54] Sawamura Daichi: ???

[22:55] Akaashi Keiji: I don’t think I’ve been particularly subtle about my feelings for Bokuto-san possibly ever, but the fact of the matter is we are both still very young and I have so little experience with relationships and this relationship fundamentally changes aspects of something very important to both of us, and I didn’t want to publicly complicate things within the team and then have it not work out almost embarrassingly early

[22:37] Akaashi Keiji: And over the course of this conversation I think I’ve realized that perhaps that wasn’t fair to you, Bokuto-san, I know it’s been hard not to tell anyone and I’m sorry for insisting on it

[22:37] Bokuto Koutarou: don’t beat urself up akaashi!!!!!

[22:37] Bokuto Koutarou: i love u and i did it because i love u and i want you to be happy and it wasn’t an inconvenience because i love u

[22:38] Kuroo Tetsurou: guys i’m getting the vibe bokuto might love akaashi

[22:38] Bokuto Koutarou: I LOVE AKAASHI SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

[22:38] Akaashi Keiji: I love you too, Bokuto-san (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

[22:38] Bokuto Koutarou: ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ

[22:38] Bokuto Koutarou: I AM COMING OVER I NEED TO HUG U SO BAD RN I WILL NOT SLEEP UNTIL I CAN DO IT

[22:39] Akaashi Keiji: BOKUTO-SAN NO

[22:39] Akaashi Keiji: IT IS ALMOST ELEVEN PM AND ALSO MY PARENTS DON’T KNOW ABOUT US YET

[22:39] Akaashi Keiji: I’m coming to yours I’ll tell my parents we’re going to volleyball practice extra early tomorrow

[22:40] Bokuto Koutarou: OKAY!!!! i am gonna wait outside with the torch though walk safe and keep on your phone so we know you’re okay okay?

[22:40] Akaashi Keiji: Okay

[22:40] Akaashi Keiji: Tsukishima-kun I hope that was, in some way, helpful for you

[22:41] Tsukishima Kei: Yeah thanks

[22:41] Kuroo Tetsurou: okay maybe i’m not a yamaguchi level expert but i may be detecting a hint of bullshit

[22:41] Sawamura Daichi: Oi

[22:41] Sawamura Daichi: But in all seriousness Tsukishima, that sounded even less sincere than usual

[22:42] Tsukishima Akiteru: Kei, don’t overthink it

[22:42] Tsukishima Kei: I’m not sure how I’m supposed to underthink it

[22:43] Tsukishima Kei: You all seemed to have such perfect relationships and I really thought if I could just do what you did then I could be like that for Yamaguchi, because I will not give him anything but the best, but all I’ve learned is that if I kiss him wrong I could seriously injure him, Kuroo-san might genuinely be telepathic and Sawamura throws stones in glass houses when it comes to Hinata’s gut problems

[22:43] Akaashi Keiji: Tsukishima-kun, can I ask you a question?

[22:43] Tsukishima Kei: I guess. It’s not like I haven’t already said far more about myself than I thought I would tonight

[22:44] Akaashi Keiji: Why now?

[22:44] Akaashi Keiji: I mean, I assume you’ve thought about this a lot, as you’ve proven not to be the kind of person who just jumps into things without thinking them through, so why is now the time? Why so urgently? What made you decide this was the right moment?

[22:45] Sawamura Daichi: You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to, Tsukishima. We’re not trying to push you

[22:45] Kuroo Tetsurou: all joking aside, you’re our friend and we want you to trust us with your problems, so if you’re uncomfortable talking to us about it we can drop it and talk about who would die first in a horror movie or whatever

[22:45] Bokuto Koutarou: akaashi says no horror movie talk before bed

[22:45] Akaashi Keiji: You sleep-punch, Bokuto-san

[22:45] Bokuto Koutarou: demons don’t need to sleep i have to always be on my guard

[22:45] Tsukishima Kei: It’s fine

[22:47] Tsukishima Kei: I’ve known that I liked him for a while, and I thought he might feel that way too, but I always just assumed relationships were more trouble than they were worth and I really, really didn’t want to do anything that might have destroyed our friendship like that

[22:48] Tsukishima Kei: And then we had this… fight, I guess? At the training camp and then I didn’t want to confess because I knew how he must see me and I didn’t want him to think that I saw my feelings for him the same way that I see everything else, and I wanted to prove to him that I could be serious about things, and serious about him, specifically

[22:49] Tsukishima Kei: And now we’ve been to nationals, and he’s all up in arms about the way I’ve started to take volleyball seriously, and so I know he knows that I can be serious, so I think it’s right, and I don’t want him to draw any further away from me because he feels like his feelings aren’t wanted when they are, because before anything else he is my best friend and anything that hurts him hurts me, and being the cause of his pain is literally worse than anything else I’ve ever experienced

[22:50] Tsukishima Akiteru: So tell him that

[22:50] Tsukishima Akiteru: I mean it, Kei, before you get all snippy at me

[22:50] Tsukishima Akiteru: It doesn’t have to be more complex than that

[22:51] Tsukishima Akiteru: It’s been interesting learning about your friends as a complete outsider, trying to piece together what they must be like and how you must see them and what parts of their relationship you must want for yourself, because I know you and I know that’s what you’re thinking

[22:51] Tsukishima Akiteru: So maybe it wasn’t exactly the fairytale romance you were expecting, but I think they’ve given you some much more important advice in all honesty

[22:52] Tsukishima Akiteru: Who cares how you confess? How could it possibly be wrong when it’s with the right person?

[22:52] Tsukishima Akiteru: Tadashi cares about you, that’s a fact anyone with eyes could see from a mile away, and even if you’re wrong about his feelings, he’s not going to hurt you just because he doesn’t feel the same way. That thing you just said about hurt? I guarantee you he feels the same about you, at least on that front

[22:53] Bokutou Koutarou: tsukki-nii is right, tsukki!! maybe i expected our first kiss to be way better than that but i still wouldn’t trade akaashi fussing over me like that for anything, and we can laugh about it now!!! and we’re going to tell our kids about it one day and laugh and laugh and laugh and remember how silly we were when we were young and in love

[22:54] Akaashi Keiji: Bokuto-san I’m still in high school, it’s too early to be thinking about children

[22:54] Akaashi Keiji: But I want two, and a hypoallergenic dog

[22:54] Bokuto Koutarou: (っ˘з(˘⌣˘ ) ♡

[22:55] Sawamura Daichi: Suga won’t admit it but he’s fallen asleep on me so I have a free pass to say this without repercussions, but he looooooves doting on me. It’s like crack to him. He’s been watching massage tutorials before he sleeps so he can train for when I get knots between my shoulderblades

[22:55] Sawamura Daichi: And I THREW UP trying to tell him I liked him

[22:56] Kuroo Tetsurou: yeah kind of hard to get worse than that 

[22:56] Kuroo Tetsurou: but see? it’s okay if it goes a little pear shaped tsukki

[22:57] Kuroo Tetsurou: the thing is, i don’t think anyone has that perfect storybook romance that you might have been looking for, and i think that’s okay. inherently, people are a little messy and a little stupid and sometimes relationships reflect that

[22:57] Kuroo Tetsurou: but at the end of the day there’s no one i’d rather laugh at my own idiocy with than kenma, you know?

[22:58] Tsukishima Kei: Yeah, I guess I do

[22:58] Tsukishima Kei: Thank you, really, all of you

[22:58] Sawamura Daichi: You’re welcome Tsukishima

[22:58] Bokuto Koutarou: no problem tsukki anytime!!!!

[22:58] Akaashi Keiji: It’s not at all an issue, Tsukishima-kun

[22:59] Tsukishima Akiteru: Anything for my baby brother ♡( ◡‿◡ )

[22:59] Tsukishima Akiteru: Also, I expect updates about how it goes

[22:59] Kuroo Tetsurou: hard same tsukishima-san, i think we all agree

[23:00] Tsukishima Kei: I really can’t stand you all

[23:00] Tsukishima Kei: But I’ll let you know what Yamaguchi says

[23:00] Sawamura Daichi: Fuck yeah

[23:00] Sawamura Daichi: Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to pass out Suga’s hair smells so good I have been valiantly fighting sleep for the past twenty minutes but I’m tired now and I want to go to sleep so I can stop feeling the dead weight of my boyfriend crushing my elbow

[23:01] Kuroo Tetsurou: night sawamura

[23:01] Akaashi Keiji: Bokuto-san and I are going to sign off too, but if you need anything else Tsukishima-kun you can always text me and I will reply as soon as I can

[23:01] Bokuto Koutarou: we’re always here for you tsukki!!! 

[23:02] Bokuto Koutarou: except maybe not for the next twenty minutes because i’m gonna make out with akaashi so much

[23:02] Tsukishima Kei: Thank you for the disturbing visual

[23:02] Akaashi Keiji: You’re welcome Tsukki (♡˙︶˙♡)

[23:03] Kuroo Tetsurou: oh akaashi you glorious sleeper bitch never change

[23:03] Tsukishima Kei: You should sleep too, Kuroo-san, you don’t have to stay up to watch over me or whatever you’re thinking

[23:04] Kuroo Tetsurou: you flatter yourself so much tsukki!

[23:04] Kuroo Tetsurou: i still have some exam prep to finish so i’ll be around, but i won’t lose any sleep over it because i know you’re going to be perfectly fine

[23:04] Tsukishima Kei: You paused exam prep for this?

[23:05] Kuroo Tetsurou: some things are more important than schoolwork, tsukki

[23:05] Kuroo Tetsurou: and also i’m a boy genius and any university would be lucky to have me

[23:05] Tsukishima Kei: Ah, for a second I thought you were actually being sincere and I was about to be worried

[23:06] Kuroo Tetsurou: you go to sleep too, four-eyes, and don’t you even think about stressing about this okay?

[23:06] Kuroo Tetsurou: just say what you feel. you can’t get it wrong if it’s the truth

[23:07] Tsukishima Kei: Yes, Kuroo-san

[23:07] Tsukishima Kei: And tell Kozume-san I say hi

[23:07] Kuroo Tetsurou: :3

Private Messages between Tsukishima Akiteru and Tsukishima Kei

[23:15] Tsukishima Akiteru: Hey

[23:15] Tsukishima Akiteru: I know you’re probably going to get all grumpy about me being patronizing but I’m really proud of you for making friends with those guys

[23:15] Tsukishima Akiteru: I know you think I don’t need to worry about you so much, but you’re my little brother and I care about you, so I always will to some degree

[23:16] Tsukishima Akiteru: And I know it’s been you and Tadashi against the world for so many years, but I’m a little relieved it’s not just you two on your own anymore. I’m glad you have those boys looking out for you, too

[23:16] Tsukishima Kei: Yeah, me too

[23:16] Tsukishima Kei: Don’t tell them that, though, it’ll give them bigger heads and then there’ll be no dealing with them

[23:16] Tsukishima Kei: And thank you, too

[23:16] Tsukishima Kei: After all this time, I suppose you still know me pretty well

[23:17] Tsukishima Akiteru: We’re brothers, Kei, you’ve never been that complicated to me

[23:17] Tsukishima Akiteru: But don’t worry, your secret’s safe with me (･ω<)☆