2. Chapter Daddys Time

During the afternoon the dust settled down again. Kenma left the Kuroo family just after lunch. Like always he mumbled to the remaining maniacs that he would met the other guys at the training. Bokuto stayed a little bit longer. Only to discuss the latest developments from work with Tetsurou, of course. In the meantime Daiki and Hiroki were helping their mother with the dishes. Meant, they helped to carry the plates into the kitchen and rushed over to their rooms as fast as possible, before she could ask for more help.

By herself, she decided the work in the household could wait until she had time for it. Now was something much more on top of the to-do list. Kuroo and the little ones would be going to the gym, where they met and trained together with the others ones their beloved volleyball. To be fair Tetsu was just training. The little boys were watching and cheering for their dad. They were always so excited about the training, they recounted it to their mom again and again and again - to the tiniest detail. But there was still a little bit of time, before they had to go out. At least 45 minutes were left she realised, while looking at her watch. There was not much time left to pack their training clothes.

Of course they also could pack the stuff themselves, but they would ask her about everything and anything, they couldn't find at the first look. Like: "Mummy, where are the shoes and socks?" or "Mummy, where are the water bottles?". This happened constantly, the second they started to pack their bags. It was so annoying to answer them every few minutes,she started to pack them herself, almost automatically. Just to shut them up and to get them out of the house as soon as possible. Besides she was way faster than her little kittens.

At some time Bokuto was leaving, standing in their yard, waving goodby to the whole family and shouting through the whole neighbourhood, that today he would be definitely attacking Tetsus blocks. It was common practice, that the neighbours would be complaining about it again. Like every Friday. She didn't even notice or cared anymore about any of the insane, lunatic and way to loud habits of her husband's friend.

The time flew by and the young woman finished the last bag in just the right pace. Her boys stood in the hallway ready to go, waiting for her and the bags. She rushed over to them and with a smile handed the big sports bag to Kuroo. Just to hear her giggle, he pretended to lift a sack full of stones and not just his practice bag. The kids just rolled with their eyes, already knowing the whole spectacle inside out. After all their dad did play it every time, they left for training. Hiroki stretched his arms out to his mom and she bowed down, so she could give him a goodbye kiss. Daiki was supposed to be too old for this. Funny enough that he also turned his cheek to get a kiss.

With blushed cheeks he bubbled the whole time: "You know Mom I'm too old for this and I don't need it. I'm just soooooo generous because you want this soooooo bad."

And with that he got the kiss and a head-shaking from his mom. It was the turn of the oldest one, he was waiting for it the whole day. Kuroo stood there with a smirk on his face. Dramatically he opened his arms for her, inviting her to come closer and to give him his reward for being a good boy. And then her normal and reassuring routine went off with one big blow. At the very moment she stepped closer to him, the Symphony No.5 from Beethoven shrilled through the house. She groaned immediately, knowing this meant a whole lot of stress. That was her mobile phone and this was the ringtone for work. Apologetically she looked up at her husband. He sighed and made it quite clear to her that she better should go and pick up the phone. Not even giving him a last glimpse of her face, she rushed over to the living room and just a few seconds later the three boys could hear humming sounds and a loud sigh coming from behind the door frame. Kuroo followed his wife with his eyes as his boys already scrambled instantly. He didn´t get a kiss from her today again.

"Dad, we are running late!" Hiroki whined, while Daiki was already out of the door. With a last look to the living room he left, closing the door behind him.

The gym wasn't that far away. The whole ride the boys were very energetic and chattered about, how cool uncle Tsukki was cool when he blocked. Suddenly their dad went awfully silent. He wouldn´t ever admit it, but the jealousy was spreading through him, that his kids adored his friend and kouhai so much more than him. His pride was under attack and somehow he had to protect it even by shading means. So he told his little copies, how the blond guy was in his first year. How Tsukushimas was lacking skills and couldn't block anything right. How lame he was at the beginning. Not the nice and fair way, but nobody said, that Kuroo played fair when it came to his pride in volleyball.

"What are you? Film stars, celebrities, the president?! You're 20 minutes late." They heard an annoyed voice just around the corner of the gym as they entered.
"That would mean that I would be more popular then you and get more attention from the other sex. Oh wait. I´m actually are more admired then you, because a beautiful and sexy woman is waiting for me at home", said Kuroo with a teasing tone towards Tora and smiled victorious.
"But captain, she just recognized you at your last year of high school and this just thanks to Bokuto.", sounded a naive voice from the entrance to the locker rooms. Pissed Tetsu turned to the owner of the voice and stared into big, pure green eyes. Lev even smiled completely innocent as he spoke and didn´t even know that he designed his own death notice. But right now it was someone else's turn to die.
"Owl, you Idiot! I´m going to kill you!",the black haired man shouted on his way to the locker rooms. The kids weren't even aware of the usual bickering between the long-time friends. Daiki and Hiroki were already changing their uniforms and were searching their very special family member.

"Uncle Tsukki!",escaped it unison from their mouths the moment they saw him. They ran as fast as their little feet could carry them to hug their most favorite person. Knowing it better the blonde giant didn´t even try to avoid the clash. In the past, of course, he tried to abscond from these two. But he always failed hiding from this cuddle monsters and even if he was successful, they would find him anyway. They would hug him, even when he was giving them his best annoyed and nauseous glare. However, right now they both showed him this very special smile, which they clearly inherited from their father, and he knew: He wouldn't get rid of them.

/Damn with this cheerfully smile and this big puffy eyes…/, he thought feeling the impact of their charm. "My, my, the little devils are back.", he instantly greeted them with his emotionless voice but still hugged them back. It made Hiroki smile even bigger and brighter.
"I too want a hug!", it came loudly from behind Tsukki and Daiki saw an already waiting Lev, who was spreading out his long arms towards them. "Nahhhh…It´s just you Lev.", the older said, while Tsukki snorted at his comment. The silver haired man looked to his friend with a said face.
"They are always so mean to me.",theatrically he said to him with a sad voice. Kei just looked at him and answered in his usual sarcastic way: "Yeah….They are growing and learning so fast, it makes me proud." Finally Hiroki took pity on him and had the mercy to embrace Lev, who instantly lifted the little boy in his arms.

"Uncle Tsukki, I have a question. Do you know, how Dad met mom?", Daiki asked, not even slightly interested in Hirokis behavior and faced his Idol instead. Tsukki looked somewhat thoughtful.
"If my memories are right, he met her on the last day of his second Year, right Cod-Ace?", the blond one asked Lev, who was playing with Hiroki.
"Jep. As I heard it, it was a little sport festival with the Fukurōdani school and so Bokuto was of course also there."
"And how did dad notice her?", Daiki asked impatiently.

Time skip

The last day of school was always a busy one. Students were running through the hallways and everywhere you could see smiles and sad faces. That depended on the school certificates, they got. It was already the end of the day and most of the students just wanted to go home. But the sport festival still had to end and many were cheering for their schools. The whole tournament was split into smaller sections, which began at the same time. In the first event there was the sprinting event, then the soccer competition and in the main hall should start the Volleyball game. The Teams were almost complete, just the both Team Captains weren´t there.

Kuroo was on his way to the gym facing his exam scores, not satisfied with them. It wasn´t that bad, but it wasn´t not good enough for him. He always wanted the best he could get. A bad habit of him. On the other hand he looked to his friend. Bokuto was really satisfied with his grades and was running through the hallway like a maniac.

"Don´t run or you will fall.", Kuroo said to his buddy as he went downstairs.
"Hey, hey, hey. I´m the greatest so how could I walk just like you with such results.", he was saying and stood on the edge of the stairs down looking to the sea of black messiness. At first Kuroo was wondering, why his friend was so happy with his scores but on the second thought, this was Bokuto. So the black haired just smiled as he shook his head in disbelief.

"You´re so simple minded"
"Yeah I know and because of who I am, I will beat you in today's game, hey hey hey."
"As if.", Kuro responded right away and turned around to the ace.
"We will beat you and your damn team, Owl-idiot." He noticed a girl in the corner of his eyes and wanted to act cool. Right now she walked upstairs in their direction, so he wanted to impress her. At least he needed a little complacence today. Bokuto smiled as wide as he could and was just about to go downstairs to face Kuroo at the same height. But this was Bokuto after all so he wanted to go down heroically and of course it happened what had to happen. He missed one of the steps.

In the next few seconds the whole hallway could hear a loud noise and then nothing.

In one second Kuroo saw Bokuto falling and in the next he felt something weird on his face. Especially on his lips.

"Oh my God! There are two guys kissing!"

At this moment Kuroo was too shocked to move and his mind was completely blank. His body was extremly stiff and he couldn´t even move a finger. Seconds were passing through as finally something in his head made a light click and he realized the situation. His eyes were wide as fuck as he pushed his best buddy away from his face. Bokutos face spoke volumes. He was still in totally shock state, his face got paler and paler each second and his eyes expressed emptiness. Kuroo, still on the ground, noticed an ever-growing crowd, who were watching closely what happened. The most guys were laughing their ass off. The girls were screaming. Some from excitement and the others from shock.

"Just leave them alone. Who knows how long they were hiding their feelings for each other. Didn´t you here such a thing like: Rumour has it?!", It was a melodic voice behind him, which was making the situation even worse and him more nervous.
He could imagine whose voice this was and as he looked up, he guessed right. There stood the beauty from earlier and wanted just to pass through. She noticed the guys on the floor, but she didn´t care much. Her gaze was stuck on her own results.

The black haired guy didn´t know what the hell was going on. If it was, that his first kiss ever did go to Bokuto or that he fell instantly in love at first sight with this girl, which didn´t care about him and even worse thought, that he was in love with his best buddy. Hell, he didn´t even know, if he was going to laugh or to cry about the whole mess. He looked after her as she disappeared in the group.

Time Skip

"Sounds like mom. What happened to the game?", asked Daiki.
"So far I know, there wasn´t a game either. They didn´t appear at this day.", said Lev with his innocent smile.
"Dad betrayed mom with uncle Bokuto?" There stood a little Hiroki who didn´t understand this whole thing. All he understood was, that his dad kissed his uncle. "Poor mommy!", he said and was starting to cry.
Lev tried to rescue this mess and started to grimace what got the attention of the youngest Kuroo member.

"So back to the original question. This was really the first time your father saw your mother. A very misfortune situation." Tsukki looked at his godson, who stood there thoughtful, as he heard a very quiet and bored voice behind them.
"That´s not true. He noticed her earlier. On his first year." Kenma, who stood behind the little group and heard everything, was passing by as he let out his little comment. Half way on his way to the court he stopped and turned around to his teammates.
"You should be brave in todays training. Because of you, it will be a pain in the ass." With this he went out of the line of fire.

Suddenly, the whole spot hall felt really, really cold and Kei could sense something weird behind him. Lev knew very well, what this feeling meant. Bloodlust. He didn´t made the mistake to turn around. But Tsukki did and he knew right in that moment: they screwed up big today.
There were Tetsurou and Bokuto. Each of them with an expressionless face. Just their eyes showed their fury and the wish to kill both of them. The megane could have sworn, that right in this moment he heard a scream somewhere else.

"I will take Lev and you get the other Idiot.", whispered Kuroo dangerously, pinned both of them with his gaze and the Owl head nodded with a scary looking face. Tsukki would be proved right, they screwed up and boy would he regret talking about this incident.

The training was merciless for the whole team. The others were wondering, what was going on, but didn't complain, it could get even worse. In the end of this torture training Kuroo was sitting on Levs back, who tried to make just one push up and Bokuto was still smashing his best shoots at Tsukki. Both victims were almost dead after this hell and Kenma stood by the side lines the whole time and took pictures of it.

"I told you not to mention the kiss.", he muttered poking Ley just to check if he was alive.
"They asked and got the truth.", said the blond guy beside him, sitting on the ground polishing his glasses. Kenma sighed and shook his head.
"But that wasn´t the true story."
Daiki who sat near his godfather cocked his ears and look puzzled to the setter.
"I don´t know all the details. Tetsu doesn´t speak about it, but I know, when he changed and that was at the beginning of high school." In this way he answered the unstated question of the little one and made arrangements for leaving. It was true that he wasn´t around as Kuroo fell in love, because he was stuck in middle school at this time. But he was his best friend and could tell easliy, that the bigger one was acting odd at this time. A year later he also was in high school and suddenly Kenma could tell why Kuroo was acting strange. He was pretty surprised by this site of character his best friend showed him.
The memory of a blushing and shy Kuroo instead of his bold attitude let Kenma smile catlike the whole walk home.