Bokuto's college life was certainly something he enjoyed, he'd gotten in on a volleyball scholarship and from there it was a straight shot to becoming the college team's ace. Best part of it, was he wasn't entirely alone either. His best friend from high school was his roommate—Kuroo, and fellow teammate. Of course he was the team's Middle Blocker, there was no other position Kuroo did better besides maybe Captain.

And he was graduating as they came in, and now the position was up for grabs. Though they'd joked about the best man winning, Bokuto wanted Kuroo to be the Captain because deep down he knew he would make a better Captain. Bokuto did wonderfully in Fukurodani, but he knew Kuroo was better. He was a better teacher and had a more commanding presence when he was there. He just...commanded better respect than Bokuto, and he was perfectly fine with keeping to just being the Ace, it was where he belonged in his opinion.

Naturally he told Kuroo nothing of those thoughts he had, Kuroo always gave him pep talks when he talked down about himself, but sometimes he just didn't need that.

Regardless practice was great—Bokuto, Kuroo and the other first years got along great. Especially that other guy Iwaizumi. He was a little critical of Bokuto's loud personality, but not in a way that made him go into that dejected state of being. Kuroo appreciated that, it was always such a pain to get him out of that mind set.

The parties were even better, Bokuto was one of the biggest social butterflies Kuroo knew and he loved to dance with everyone and get drunker than shit. Which wasn't always great, he was an even louder drunk or over emotional. Kuroo usually had to drag his ass back to the dorm with Iwaizumi's help.

But usually it was either Iwaizumi or Kuroo he was hanging out with, though the team was already calling him their Ace they weren't as close together as he was with the Fukurodani team, and everyone had just sort of...drifted apart after graduation was done with.

And as of late, Kuroo hadn't even been there that often. A few months into college and Kuroo was suddenly dating the love of his life, his childhood friend from Nekoma Kenma. Bokuto called him pudding head.

Bokuto was really happy for Kuroo, but he spent almost every free moment back in his hometown with Kenma, or the latter was spending the night with them at the dorm. Either way, Bokuto was home alone most of the time and it was starting to make him lonely. He tried going out to parties to keep himself busy and happy, but they weren't friends-friends, just people to drink with.

Even with Iwaizumi it wasn't as fun without Kuroo, because Iwaizumi wasn't as...accommodating as Kuroo was with his personality. But Bokuto didn't want to seem like some lonely chick, but the fact of the matter was Bokuto couldn't live without someone to talk to, he got lonely.

And then one day, his Social Studies teacher brought up Pen Pals.

"Usually when you join a Pen Pals website, you have no idea who you're talking to or where that person is in the world. However a few universities have decided to try and build a stronger relationship between students through Pen Pals by each university giving their students a chance to anonymously send letters to each other. How it will work is you will give us one of your letters and we'll send it to a randomly selected university, and whichever student picks it out of a bowl there, will be given the choice to reply back to you. Of course you don't have to do it if you don't want to; it's entirely your choice." Everyone looked excited and eager to do it, and so did Bokuto.

Maybe this was how he could stave off his loneliness, by writing letters to people and getting to talk to them when he was lonely!

"I will give you the rest of this period to write your introduction letter, use the envelope on your desk to seal it and then put it in the bowl on my desk on your way out and it will be sent out. Please keep in mind anything you write will be seen by someone, and if you decide to write something stupid, perverse or harmful in any way they have the right to report you and I will find out." Bokuto shuddered at the dark look in his Sensei's eyes before he noticed the envelope.

Jeez he was spacey lately but how did he miss that...?

Regardless, Bokuto was excited.

It was a shame his hand writing was so fucking horrible.

To make up for that, he drew a cute little doodle of an owl on the envelope before he dropped it in the bowl with dozens of other letters and moved on to his next class, eager to see Kuroo and tell him what he decided to do—just not the reasons why he was doing it.

(I noticed it was a trend for BokuAka fans to write fics of these two passing notes and messages, I decided to give it a shot myself and see what happened. xD It's an AU of course, Akaashi and Bokuto haven't yet met in this fic. I thought about them having an entirely different profession, but I decided to stick pretty close to the original stuff. There will be some twists to it of course.
There will probably be some KuroKen and other side pairings, but mostly it'll be about BokuAka~
It was kind of thrown together at the last minute, and I should probably be focusing on my Yosen story but I missed doing yaoi when I finished My Sin is Greed. qwq And I've been dying for some Bokuto love, but sadly I can't find an rp buddy for Haikyuu in general so I thought I'd blow some steam off like this.
Anyway, tell me what ya think about it! I love reviews :3
Oh yes this wasn't Beta'd by anyone, sorry for mistakes and I am not experienced in Pen Pals so I just made this up on the fly xD
Also, sorry the prologue's kind of weak, but I promise the rest of the chapters are much better.
I promise gratuitous smut in later chapters as well if that grabs your attention ;3 )