weird, personal, and... okay, I guess - THREE WORDS CHALLENGE W/ KENMA
by blackcatnya
31 minutes ago . 4,921 views
The video opens up with only Kenma onscreen. He's curled up on the couch, 3DS in hand, and doesn't even look up when Kuroo whines, "Hey, Kenma, want to make a video with me?"
"Not really."
With that, the video swiftly transitions from just Kenma sat on the couch alone to Kenma and Kuroo sat together on Kuroo's bed. The man's blurred-out bedroom is the same as always - cat plushies are everywhere, a couple of trophies from his high school days on his dresser, along with his volleyball that sits safely away from the trophies. His black and white duvet is slightly messed, but then again Kuroo has made a videos where his bed is a whole lot messier, and his red wall is decorated with letters and post cards he's received over the past year. Kuroo's hair is also the same, with it being the unbrushed mess that he woke up with that morning. Kenma sits, on Kuroo's right, with his hands in his lap whilst Kuroo tells the viewers what will be going on in the video.
"S'up, kiddos! Today, I am here with the amazing 'Applepi'!" Kenma lifts a hand to offer a small nod and wave. "As you may have seen over on SunshineShouyou's channel, Hinata has started a new challenge, which is incredibly cool and I just had to do it right away. If you didn't see it, I will leave a link down below as well as at the end of the video. It's called the 'In Three Words' challenge, and, very simply, you must answer some questions, but in three words and three words only. Alright, here we go!"
Before the video cuts to the first question, there is a soft mutter from Kenma; "They're not really questions, though..."
There is a short slide with only text on it, along with Kuroo's voice reading out the text: "Describe your favourite: youtuber, movie, video game, and sport."
Once the viewers are returned to the view of Kuroo and Kenma, they are greeted by Kuroo grinning at the camera whilst a light blush paints Kenma's cheeks. Kuroo's eyes turn to his mostly-blonde friend, an action in which numerous fangirls pick up on and scream that Kuroo is staring at Kenma in the most lovingly way possible, and he proposes that Kenma goes first.
"My favourite youtuber..." Kenma begins, looking off to the top corner of the room as he thinks over the words he can use, and his eyes momentarily flicker back at Kuroo - again, something that doesn't go unnoticed by the viewers. "Short, cheerful, orange." Kuroo's smirk drops immediately and now Kenma is the one to wear a smile as he glances into the camera and says, "I love all your videos, Shouyou. I can't wait to do another video with you." Kenma then continues with his answers. When he answers his favourite sport is "ha, good one" Kuroo insists that that isn't an acceptable answer, for Kenma to reply that Shouyou, as the challenge creator, will excuse it. Kuroo pouts, but doesn't argue any further, and begins to answer himself.
"My favourite youtuber is reserved, calm, and... smart." Kuroo scratched his chin as he pondered on the last word, but nodded his head once after thinking it over, as if to say yes, very smart, indeed. Kenma rolled his eyes when Kuroo described his favourite video game, wearing the most serious expression the man could muster, with "catch them all" and raised an eyebrow at Kuroo's description of his favourite sport, "can't touch ground."
Kenma comments his surprise about how Kuroo didn't just say 'ball is life' as his sport description, and Kuroo, realising his missed opportunity, gasps with wide eyes before saying, "Fu-!"
WIth excellent editing skills, the video cuts once again so that none of Kuroo's younger audience can learn any inappropriate terms. The next set of text reads: "Describe your: hair, eyes, clothes ;) and interests."
"Blonde, black roots." Kenma states with ease. "These ones are relatively easy. Gold, cat-like. Red, white, comfortable. Video games, pie." Kenma frowns slightly, most likely because the word limit prevented him from being able to specify which sort of pie perks his interest.
"Black, bed head." Kuroo frowns with his answer - no matter how hard he tries, he just can't get rid of his bed head. "Cat-like, pretty. Black, thin, and... simple, I guess. Volleyball, youtube, and pranks." A grin grows on Kuroo's face as he lets out a soft 'heh' and Kenma wrinkles his nose. As most of the viewers are well aware, Kuroo loves having Bokuto come over to his and Kenma's apartment in order to have a prank off. In fact, Kenma constantly hears Kuroo whine about how he wants to do a massive collaboration with two other youtubers, Ryunosake Tanaka and Yuu Nishinoya, who are quite possibly the best pranksters on youtube. Kenma hopes that should Kuroo's dream of pranking with them come true, that they don't all team up to prank Azumane Asahi. That man has it rough enough with just Tanaka and Nishinoya.
Another set of text appears, and instead of asking for a description, Kuroo's voice reads out: "Define: aliens, ghosts, dinosaurs, youtube, and tumblr."
"Aliens..." Kenma twiddles his thumbs, pursing his lips slightly. "Possible space people. Ghosts: not dead yet; Dinosaurs: extinct big animals; Youtube: people making videos, and Tumblr: weird, weird website."
"Otherworldly beings, false but scary, cool but dead, home of losers, home of nerds."
"Isn't otherworldly one word?"
"...Hypothetical otherworldly beings."
There's another cut, the final task, and the order is: "Summarize your youtube channel." The image of Kuroo and Kenma returns, and Kuroo is looking at Kenma as he says "I'll do you and you can do me?" which causes Kenma to cast a quick, concerned look into the camera. Kuroo emphasizes this with his editing, by zooming in on Kenma's face and a small, quick text of "fuk he dint sey n0 h0mo" in the top left corner of the screen.
Kenma summarizes Kuroo's channel as "weird, personal, and... okay, I guess?" whilst Kuroo, who had edited out the few minutes he spent insisting his channel content was more than "okay", summarizes Kenma's channel as "simple yet intimidating."
"Alright, children, that's it for this video!" Kuroo claps his hands together, as both he and Kenma smile into the camera, "I hope you liked it, and if you did, then please be a dear and give this video a thumbs up! If you want to see more of this kid, then click on his face, or, for those of you on mobile, go into the description, he is Applepi on youtube and we actually did a video on his channel! So, yeah, you should check that out, I'll leave a link to that, too!"
Kenma smoothly follows up, "Also, don't forget to watch Shouyou's video. He came up with this challenge, and he's actually invented a ton of tags and challenges, so be sure to check him out as well."
"Ah, yes, don't forget to check out Kenma's favourite youtuber," Kuroo laughs, "No, really, SunshineShouyou is brilliant and you should definitely subscribe to him, too. Alright, well, I hope you had fun! I had fun. Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe, and I will see you all soon! Bye!" Kenma joins in on waving and wishing the audience a goodbye, and, though it's edited out, Kuroo turns off the camera.
Kenma's video with Kuroo is fairly simple. Kenma had bought Five Night's At Freddy's and, knowing that his audience wouldn't be amused with just his unafraid face and commentary, he invited Kuroo to play it with him. Of course, he neglected telling Kuroo the game is filled with sudden noises and jump-scares. His only warning had been, "apparently it's scary."
So, Kenma was pretty satisfied with the video's outcome. The two were bantering for the most part whilst they checked the cameras and the doors, and the video ends with Kuroo getting so startled that he jumps in his chair - or rather, he jumps and falls out of his chair, whereas the most startled Kenma gets is a raise of the eyebrows followed by a slight "oh" which was completely drowned out by Kuroo's obviously very manly shriek.
Later in the evening as the two watch television, Kenma receives a text from Shouyou. He tells Kuroo this, as his roommate had glanced over after hearing the noise, and Kuroo smiles softly. "Excited about being your favourite youtuber?" He asks, and a slight smile grows on Kenma's face.
"Hard to tell. Too many exclamation marks."
Just before Kuroo can reply, he receives a text himself. He naturally asks the first thing that comes to his mind, which was, "Kenma, did you just text me?" and the question earns him a long, silent stare from his bottle blonde friend. Moving on, Kuroo glances at his phone and finds a number of text from Bokuto and he snorts, reading them aloud to Kenma.
From: Brokuto
bro i cant brolieve you right now
From: Brokuto
i thought i was your favourite youtuber bro
From: Brokuto
u BROke my heart bro
Kenma chuckled gently at Bokuto's messages as he typed out his own reply to Shouyou, and Kuroo sat up on the couch as he texted Bokuto.
To: Brokuto
remember that one time i asked u to do a video w/ me but u said no because u insisted that akaashi would look cute that day
From: Brokuto
ok but in my defense i was right he looked absolutely beautiful
To: Brokuto
yea well so did i ! fuk u !
From: Brokuto
fuk fuck u! im never speakin 2 u agen!
To: Brokuto
gud!
btw we still on for saturday
From: Brokuto
ye ofc bro
Kuroo smiles at his phone before turning towards Kenma, who still seems to be in a conversation with Hinata. Getting up, Kuroo catches Kenma's attention and the smaller boy requests that Kuroo makes him some green tea. Whilst in the midst of making the tea, Kuroo received another text from Bokuto, except this time about how Yamaguchi will be coming over to rehearse a duet with Akaashi, which excites Bokuto to no end because the man absolutely loves hearing Akaashi's singing voice.
Kuroo tells Kenma this news upon his return, and Kenma hums in response. "I like Yamaguchi's music," he mumbles, "He's really talented. Have you heard his ukulele cover of Thinking Out Loud?"
"I'm not sure, sing it for me?"
Kenma responds with a harsh 'no' and throws one of the cushions at Kuroo's head. Kuroo laughs after the cushion only just misses him, and goes to retrieve it. "He is talented, though. I wish I could play an instrument." Kuroo grins as he sits back down, this time much closer to Kenma than he was, "Hey, remember that one time I learnt to play Darude Sandstorm on a toy trumpet?"
"Wasn't it because of that video that Tanaka and Nishinoya to subscribe to you?"
"Yes!" Kuroo answers with a bit more enthusiasm than Kenma expected, "God, I really want to make a video with those two."
"I know," Kenma interrupts Kuroo before the man can ramble about how brilliant the pranksters are, "Trust me. I know. Everyone knows."
"I'd also like to make a video with Matsukawa and Hanamaki. Do you watch them?"
"Are they the ones who do cooking videos and make their friend eat what they made and there was that one time their friend was just sobbing into the food?"
Kuroo laughs, remembering some of the videos that have been made by the two boys. The friend Kenma had referred to was none other than Oikawa Tooru, who's been in a few videos with Akaashi. There's even a number of videos on SweetLikeSuga's channel - Sugawara Koushi - with the three of them, and all the comments are just people pointing out how pretty a trio the three boys are.
"Oh, by the way, I'm going to go see Shouyou tomorrow," Kenma suddenly recalls, glancing up from the game he's been playing on his phone and looking at Kuroo, "You'll come too, right?" There's a pleading look in Kenma's eyes, and Kuroo knew exactly why. Shouyou lives two train stops away, and Kenma hates getting on public transport alone.
Kuroo nods. "I've been meaning to see Daichi, anyway. Do you know how long you'll be?"
"No later than four?" Kenma answers with a slight shrug of his shoulders, "I'll text you. Once we finish filming, we'll probably just play some video games for a while anyway."
"What is the video you two are filming about?" Kuroo asks, suspicious that Kenma will literally just be playing video games all day. The corners of Kenma's lips turn up in a small smile and he replies:
"You'll have to wait and see."