And everybody wants to hear
He hadn't gone back that night, and with their class schedules it was a good three days before Takao confronted him.
"Te chan, you know I love you, but sometimes you do some really stupid stuff." He sighed as Takao sat across from him. He had been sitting in the on campus Maji burger, sipping at his vanilla shake peacefully before his friend and roommate had joined him. He sighed.
"Which stupid thing are you referring to?"
"Like, all last week, Shin chan told me about you seducing Aomine at his party, he wasn't too thrilled at having a front row seat. And then he complained to me about his bathroom smelling weird after everyone left …"
"Oh yeah, we had sex in the bathroom."
"You fucked in Shin chan's bathroom?! Te chaaaaan, you know how much of a clean freak Shin chan is!"
"What he doesn't know won't hurt him. Besides, it's really just the counter, the sink, and the toilet."
"That's practically the whole place."
"Oh yeah, and I came on the cabinet under the sink, I'm pretty sure Aomine cleaned that up though." He averted his eyes as Takao groaned. "I left before that though, so I don't know for sure."
"Okay, so, Shin chan can never find out about that, and I am going to scour that whole bathroom until it's spotless the next time I'm over there."
"Why? He doesn't know."
"Yeah, but I'd feel bad otherwise. Besides, he likes it when I clean for him." Takao smiled and Kuroko almost thought that was the end of it. "I was going to let it go, because I know I forced you to go to that party and that's just how you are, but I only bring it up because, last week, when I went out with Shin chan he started complaining about you again. He told me that Akashi had told him to tell me to control you. Care to elaborate on that?"
"Hey, that wasn't just me, okay? Yes, I may have started it, but he was the one using my face as a sex toy by the end. He has no right to be complaining."
"You had sex with Akashi too?" Takao almost whined.
"No, I blew him. It was that night I was at his place working on that group project. He was super pent up, I offered to help. He got to get off to my awesome felatio skills, and I got to add his name to my list. It was a win-win."
"Except that Shin chan got chewed out for telling me stuff that Akashi told him, because it got around to you."
"I didn't even say I knew anything bad, it was just about his crush. Midorima's probably exaggerating."
"I hope so. And then to round out the week, on top of all that, Shige chan called me just a little passed two in the morning, fuming about Hanamiya and his crew being at the apartment when he got home with Momoi chan." Kuroko turned his head back at that to level a glare on Takao.
"Am I not allowed to have friends over when you guys leave? I get that I shouldn't have let Kojiro light up while he was there, but that's really the only thing either of you can be mad at me for! I like their company and you guys weren't home. Excuse me that I thought I could use the house that I live in too to entertain a few friends!"
"You can have friends over Te chan … it's just that we don't really trust those guys." He sounded like he felt guilty. They had had this argument numerous times.
"I don't care, I trust them, shouldn't that be enough? You trust me, you trust my judgment, why can't you accept it when it comes to them?" he felt his chest tightening, he really hated arguing with Takao and Shigehiro, but he was frustrated that they wouldn't even give them a chance.
"Because while we trust you, they've proven that they can't be!"
"When have they ever wronged you?! You personally!"
"That's beside the point-"
"No, that is exactly the point! You're judging them for things that they've done to other people, things that you have no clue about the reasoning behind!"
"One of them was arrested for theft Te chan!"
"And then it was dismissed, wasn't it?"
"Another has a rumored history of drug abuse!"
"So what? People abuse drugs all the time, people who look like normal, upstanding citizens, and you don't go spouting hate about them! And since when do you listen to rumors anyway?"
"When they are all over campus and could hurt one of my friends, I listen."
"Well they're my friends, and I don't like you bashing on them!"
"Te chan, I didn't come here to fight with you. I just want to make sure you're okay."
"Why wouldn't I be?" He huffed in annoyance, sucking obnoxiously loud at his shake.
"Shige chan was super worried about you when he called me. He said that when he came back the second time you weren't home, that you had been drinking heavily and that the others had wanted to get you high."
"Kazuya was joking. He only said that because Shige kun accused me of it first, which, I wasn't. And yes, I was drinking, but I'm twenty one Takao, I'm allowed to drink if I want to."
"I know, but-" He sighed. "Where did you go that night?"
"I went home with Makoto. No, we didn't fuck, I just didn't want to go home."
"Are you sleeping with Hanamiya?"
"Occasionally."
"When?"
"When I'm in a bad mood, when I'm horny and don't have anyone immediately around that I can ask, when I fucking feel like it. Why? Why does it matter to you?"
"Do you like him?"
"Of course, why else would I sleep with him so often?"
"No, I mean romantically. Do you like him enough that you could date him? I'd be willing to give him a shot if you were dating him. Because you're happiness is more important than a petty grudge, but until then, I'm not obligated to try."
"Neither of us are the dating type Takao." Kuroko felt his heart drop, his eyes focusing on the straw of his mostly gone shake. He felt his chest twist again, his lungs felt suffocated with the need for more air. He took a deep breath and just held it there. He closed his eyes before letting it back out.
"But you do like him like that, don't you?"
"I can't do relationships Takao, you know that. He's the same way."
"I think that makes it the perfect reason you should both try."
"Neither of us can be monogamous."
"That's fine, have an open relationship. Such things do exist."
"And you're saying you'd really be okay with that? If I started dating " He spat the word out with distaste "Makoto, having an 'open relationship' with him, that you'd support me." He looked over to Takao with thinly veiled doubt.
"I would try, because it's important to you." He paused and grinned. "Besides, it might make you reconsider fucking Aomine on Shin chan's bathroom sink again if you're in a relationship." Takao snickered as Kuroko rolled his eyes. And then the third degree was over and they were back to talking about everything else. Tests past and future, professors that had boring lectures, guys Kuroko wanted to sleep with, and most importantly, joking about Shigehiro and Momoi's relationship
They were back to normal.