All of a sudden, Oikawa starts acting differently in the locker room. Normally he would be the one to talk too much, boast about how great his body is etc., it would literally take him hours to get ready and he'd be the last one to leave. However, now he gets changed in some corner, facing the wall, all quiet and sneaky. He gets ready quickly and waits for the rest of the team outside. Iwaizumi is the first one to recognize this change in behavior, of course. He also remembers Oikawa taking a break from the activities, calling in sick but back then, he didn't dwell on it much since Oikawa was the sort of person who has the ability to take care of himself but expects others to do it for him. Getting a bit irritated, Iwaizumi requests from the rest of the team to leave Iwaizumi and Oikawa alone in the locker room so he can get to the bottom of this.
After training, at last they are in the locker room. Oikawa senses that something's off but he cannot quite put his finger on it. Iwaizumi closes in on Oikawa and asks if there is something wrong with him. Oikawa starts fidgeting and sweats unusually but thanks to the training session, it's not visible for now. In a shivering voice he cannot control, tells Iwaizumi that everything is going a-okay. Iwaizumi, knowing Oikawa for a long time, pushes him into the corner, not believing him. Oikawa's sweat is now obviously not because of the training, he tries to come up with several excuses but Iwaizumi brushes each and every one of them off. Finally Oikawa's back hits the lockers with Iwaizumi leaning on him, their faces are really close, he tries to push Iwaizumi out of his way, yet he catches Oikawa's wrists and secures them on the locker, on top of his head. He almost yells at him, trying to convey that he's concerned because after getting sick the last time, Oikawa's movements have slowed down and he always seems like he's in some sort of pain. Oikawa can clearly read his expressions, Iwaizumi is angry and knows the reason why; he hates it when Oikawa tries to hide something even though Iwaizumi sees through his excuses. Oikawa bites his lower lip, blushes and averts his eyes, mumbling something that Iwaizumi couldn't hear at first. Oikawa repeats : "Iwa-chan, lift up my jersey."
Iwaizumi has hard time believing the thing poured out of Oikawa's mouth at first but he notices that he is serious. Not knowing what to expect, with shaky hands, he reaches out to Oikawa's jersey, tucked in his shorts and starts to lift it up. What he sees, is definitely the option he'd least expect from Oikawa : A navel ring. Nevertheless, Iwaizumi was more amazed at his own reaction than Oikawa's because he finds himself in a dilemma; contemplating on whether to yell at the top of his lungs for getting it secretly and taking a break, lying about being sick OR to get permission to touch his body because, damn, that black-ish grey piercing, shining on Oikawa's silky white and flat abdomen looked like a black pearl, almost screaming to be noticed and explored.
But, in truth, I have wept too much! Dawns are heartbreaking.
Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Acrid love has swollen me with intoxicating torpor
O let my keel burst! O let me go into the sea!
"Drunken Boat" by Arthur RIMBAUD [*]