It took Bokuto approximately 3 seconds before he realised what he did and bolted off. Leaving me standing alone in the hallway, a still unconscious Akaashi at my feet.

I took a deep breath and…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA," Momentarily I paused to regain some air, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

"What is going on here!" Akaashi was the last person I had expected to cut me off. Or yell.

Turns out I was loud enough to wake him up. Oops?

To be fair, I was freaking out quite a bit. Bokuto kissed me and then just, ran off. Do forgive me if it takes a bit before I fully comprehend that situation.

I was still frozen in place, my mouth half open and eyes wide with panic.

Akaashi stood up. "Matsuo-kun? Are you okay?"

"Er, let me think about that for a second. No, I'm not okay." I answered speedily, eyes still focused on the spot Bokuto once stood.

"What happened?"

"Well," I began, "Koutarou might have, sort of, kissed me? And ran off?"

Akaashi blinked slowly. "Bokuto-san kissed you?"

I nodded, for a lack of anything else to say.

"And he ran off?"

Again I nodded.

Akashi sighed and rubbed his forehead. "I didn't think he'd make his move so soon…"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Akaashi smiled. "Bokuto-san isn't the brightest tool in the shed, I honestly didn't think he'd figure out his feelings so soon."

I laughed sheepishly. "Yeah, I might have explained love to him…"

"That would do it."

We stood there in a comfortable silence for a while.

I wasn't all that bothered that Bokuto had run off after his abrupt kiss. He wasn't the best with feelings, especially not love. Bokuto was likely just confused about how he felt about me and, realistically speaking, I couldn't help him with that.

I couldn't decide Bokuto's feelings for me, that was something only he could do.

"Right," I suddenly remembered, "sorry about making you, you know, faint."

"Oh don't worry about it," Akaashi waved my concerns off, "that was an accident- was it an accident?"

Yeesh, the speed at which Akaashi turned to accuse me hurt. Not that I could blame him, I was a little shit. And Akaashi knew that very well after my stunts during the training camp. So that was all on me.

"I just wanted to tease you a bit…" I grumbled. "Not make you faint."

"That was what I expected you to say." Akaashi sighed again. "You're not the type to purposely make someone faint. I overreacted so that's on me."

Always good to know that a friend doesn't blame you for something you definitely did. Even if it was an accident.

"Thanks." I smiled. "What were we talking about before you fainted?"

"Not much I believe," Akaashi rubbed his chin, "something about nationals."

So something irrelevant. Got it.

All of a sudden I got the urge to hug Akaashi and, for a total lack of shame, I went through with it. I hugged Akaashi and completely loved how he froze up. So cute~

"Ma-Matsuo-kun, what are you doing?" Akaashi seemed rather flustered at my simple touch.

"Hugging you." I simply stated as I buried my head into his chest.

"I can see that, but why?"

It was unlike Akaashi to get so flustered over a simple hug, or to get flustered at all really. He wasn't the type.

Though that likely had something to do with the fact that he had a crush on me.

Wait a minute…

This felt suspicious. Really suspicious. I had received four confessions in the span of one week. Being so close with another one of my suitors, one that hadn't confessed yet, raised a lot of questions.

Mainly if he was planning on confessing too.

I looked up from the hug to look Akaashi in the eyes. "Hey Keiji, I've got a question."

"What is it?"

"Are you planning on confessing to me?" Best to get the question out quickly and not hesitate with saying it. It could cause confusion or worse, a misunderstanding.

Misunderstandings were the cliches that I really didn't like, at all. It always caused some kind of drama that was almost always completely unnecessary. The only use it tended to serve was to increase the already stupid amount of drama.

So do forgive me if I tried my hardest to avoid that cliche.

Akaashi turned beet red at my question and turned away from my gaze. "...Is it that obvious?"

He was planning on confessing!

I felt like screaming again. Though this time in joy. The prettiest setter around wanted to confess to me! Me! That was possibly the best thing that could ever happen to me. Permanently.

"Can you not look so delighted?" Akaashi asked, sweat dropping at my face.

No doubt my face was expressing the utter glee I felt. Unfortunately, though I would very much love to, I didn't fall for someone just because of their looks. Their personality was important as well. No matter how cliche that sounded, it was true. The personality was the most important part of a person.

It certainly helped if they were good looking though...

Which raised the question; did I have actual feelings for Akaashi? The answer was the same as with the others, I didn't know. I had no idea.

I wanted to have feeling for them, for all of them. But something like that just wasn't possible. Having feelings for all of them seemed like such an impossible thing that it could only ever be a dream. There was no way all of them would be willing to share me. No way.

"Then tell me," I said, "then confess."

Akaashi smiled wryly. "If you say so."

Despite saying that I could tell that Akaashi was nervous. Who wouldn't be? Confessing to someone was always scary, not matter who it was. The way I was able to tell was because of his trembling hands which he moved to play with. Akaashi had a habit of playing with his fingers after all.

Akaashi took a deep breath. "You know, I never really thought that it would come to this. Me falling in love at all I mean. It's something that I hadn't ever meant to do. Especially with you."

That made me raise an eyebrow. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing bad," he assured me, "just that, I hadn't thought that I would fall for someone as kind as you. Someone like you that has no problem carving their way through my walls, only to stand at the wreckage and smile. You dragged me out of that castle and showed me that perhaps it wasn't so bad to show my emotions. To let the world know who I was. I hadn't expected to fall for someone so far out of my league."

Akaashi swallowed thickly and looked me right in the eye. "So thank you. Thank you for showing me what it's like to love."

With those words behind him Akaashi approached me and kissed me on the forehead. Not the lips. That was different. Not bad, just different.

Akaashi pulled back. "I didn't want to kiss you on the lips all of a sudden so I decided to do that instead."

For some reason, my face was redder than when I was actually kissed on the lips.

"You probably already know this but I just want to make it crystal clear for you."

Akaashi took a deep breath and smiled. "I love you."