In the moment, all Oikawa could do was lay on his bed, his shirt on the floor and his pants halfway down his calves. Ushiwaka had just been above him, and they probably would've gone all the way if he hadn't left.
Why did he invite Ushiwaka in, anyway? He was obviously scared, and lying about not being a virgin. Or maybe he was- no, that couldn't be right.
There was no way he was jealous. Iwaizumi had sent him a snap earlier. A few guys on his team had invited him to a mixer with some girls from another school. He couldn't possibly be jealous of the girls-
Why would he be jealous of the girls? Iwaizumi wasn't that great, with his stupid giant arms and his mean nicknames for him and the smile that lit up the room, on the rare occasions that he smiled, making it feel like he was witnessing a rare comet or something-
Holy shit. Had he always had it that bad? There was the time they were seven and he said he wanted to marry Iwa-chan. Then there were all the times that Hanamaki and Matsukawa teased them about needing to get a room (making themselves major hypocrites in the process). Precious Yahaba, the next captain and setter, frequently modeled himself after him… most recently by having a relationship with the gruff, rough around the edges but loyal ace. Even Kunimi, who slept most of the time, managed to get in on the act.
For all that Oikawa made fun of him, saying he wasn't as attractive as him, he was the one who fell in love first. How could he ever confess when things were like this?
There was no denying it, though. He couldn't do anything about Iwaizumi until he figured out why Ushiwaka left.
Here goes nothing, Oikawa thought. Since they didn't have practice on Sundays, Oikawa knew he would be in his room for about ten more minutes before he went for breakfast. Since he knew he would lose his nerve if he didn't do this right now, he reached his hand out and knocked on Ushiwaka's door.
He opened it for about five seconds before closing it again, so Oikawa kept knocking.
"I see you won't leave until you get what you want, so out with it."
"Why did you leave last night?" All Ushijima could do was stare blankly, as if to ask, Are you fucking kidding me?
"I don't like being a backup plan, Oikawa. It was bad enough when she did it, but you, too?"
"What are you talking about?"
"She at least had the decency to say my name when we were together."
"Did I not do that?"
"You said Iwa-chan."
Oikawa had realized the truth by this point, but it wasn't until Ushijima's words that he truly understood the extent of things.
"So it's been him all along, huh? I can't say I like how things have turned out, but some things just weren't supposed to happen, I guess. I know when I'm beaten."
Oikawa never thought he would feel bad for Ushijima, but he was proven wrong. He knew that there was nothing he could do to make things okay between them, but he knew he had to try.
All that was left now was to make things right with Iwaizumi.
Why did Iwaizumi's school have to be on the opposite side of Tokyo? Setagaya was so far away from Itabashi! He practically had to leave the ward just to get on the train! Once he finally got there, he had no clue how to read the map! He liked Tokyo and all, but public transport was so much easier in Miyagi! So he was on the dark blue line, but wait, that's the wrong way! So he just had to take Yamanote to Shinjuku, going past Ikebukuro, but stopping before Harajuku and Shibuya, and the Keio line would take him the rest of the way! He was kind of upset that he wouldn't get to take the subway, but he could do that another time, when the map didn't look like a mess of jumbled string.
Luckily for Oikawa, Iwaizumi's school was right by the station. This being the first time he'd really been out since coming to Tokyo, he was amazed by just how much of everything there was. Things, people… Sendai was one of the bigger cities in Japan, he knew that, but it couldn't have prepared him for Tokyo.
He briefly allowed himself to laugh at their respective positions. Iwaizumi was the one who was in the big school by the train station and all the expensive-looking stores, while Oikawa was the one who was pretty much in the suburbs, who had to leave the neighborhood just to get on the train, and would probably have to go to Ikebukuro just to do any shopping. He was sure that most people who knew them would be surprised, would be sure that they should be reversed.
He wondered why he was doing this that particular day, the day after he tried to hook up with Ushiwaka. He really should've done that in Ushiwaka's room, but that would mean that either Ushiwaka would've kicked him out, or they would have gone all the way, and Oikawa wouldn't be a virgin anymore. Not that he'd ever cared before, but now that he knew he was in love with somebody, might as well save it for Iwa-chan, right? Either he'd be flattered, or he'd try to do a chokeslam on him again.
After what felt like a million years on the train, alone with his thoughts and his phone, he finally made it to Iwaizumi's school. He'd tried to talk to him on every social network he could think of, even resorting to texting and calling him, but he hadn't received a single response. He had forced Iwaizumi to tell him his dorm room address before they left, so that they could visit each other, but after two months with almost no contact, visits were becoming less and less likely. Maybe they wouldn't have seen each other at all until summer break back in Miyagi if Oikawa hadn't come today.
Just as Oikawa was about a block away from Iwaizumi's building, he spotted a lone man jogging. He wasn't the first person Oikawa had seen, but he was the first person to stop dead in his tracks after seeing him. Sure, there had been a group of female joggers who had given him a second (and third) glance, but none of them had reacted this drastically. And as the man walked closer, he quickly realized why.
"Holy shit, it really is you. What are you doing here?"
Hajime Iwaizumi stood, even more attractive than Oikawa remembered him being. When did he start jogging shirtless? Maybe if he'd started about four years earlier, then they'd already be dating. Now he looks mad, and he's saying something, what's he saying?
"-staring? I asked you a question, Shittykawa, why aren't you answering?"
"Well, I thought you might want to be graced by the great Oikawa Toru's presence on this lovely Sunday- morning? Afternoon? Day." Iwaizumi looked less than pleased with this answer. "Okay, I was wondering how your group date went."
"Why would you come all this way just for that? Couldn't you just have called me or something?"
Oikawa sputtered. "Don't you think I tried that, Iwa-chan?"
"Sorry. I was lifting earlier, and you can't bring your phone into the weight room. Anyway, I know there's something you're not telling me, so I'm going to get dressed, we'll get lunch, and you will tell me what this is about."
Oikawa both was and was not expecting a ramen place for lunch.
"Alright, spill."
"So, I went to a party last night."
"Yeah, and? I thought you went to parties all the time."
"Sure, but Ushiwaka wasn't at any of those other ones."
And as Oikawa told him the story of how he and Ushiwaka had actually started to be okay, he felt himself feel better about the whole thing. And as he expected, Iwaizumi's reactions to the surprising revelations about Ushiwaka's personal life were hilarious.
"That guy had a girlfriend? Seriously?"
"Yeah! I didn't believe it, either. They had sex, too. And apparently she said he was good at it."
Iwaizumi about spit his ramen out at that. "That is not something I want to think about while I'm eating. Or ever."
"I almost hooked up with him, too. I got so jealous when I thought about you with those girls that I had a freak out and tried to have sex with the guy that I knew liked me, until he left when I said Iwa-chan. I know I fucked up, and I have to apologize somehow, and I have to-" They would never know what else Oikawa had to do, because Iwaizumi chose that moment to kiss him.
"Stop freaking out, dumbass. None of those girls were any fun, anyway. They only wanted to talk about boring stuff, when I wanted to hear about aliens. And yeah, you are going to have to apologize to Ushiwaka at some point, but I'll be there with you, even if that guy probably hates me right now. So stop worrying so much. I like you, too."
Oikawa couldn't have possibly asked for anything more.
Hi, everyone. You may or may not know this, but Coach Ukai's VA, Kazunari Tanaka, passed away on Monday from a brain hemorrhage. It really stuck with me for a couple of reasons. I've had a relative who died from that, and while I was pretty young when it happened, I remember it was pretty sudden, as that kind of condition tends to be. And when I saw how old he was, that hit me even harder. He was 49 years old, the same age that my father is right now. A lot of your parents are probably around that age, too.
So that's why Coach Ukai will eventually sound different, possibly even before the end of the third season, depending on how much of the voices they have recorded. (Personally I'm always kind of reminded of Kazuya Nakai whenever I hear him speak, but maybe that's just me.) I don't know. I just thought I should say something about it.
Anyway, thanks for reading!
~Aurora
