#{ valentine's day 2k17 }

[imagine-that-haikyuu]

Hiya! Can I get some Suga headcanon son what dating him would be like thx fren!

i decided to put these together because there’s going tobe a lot of crossover and valentine’s day seemed like a good opportunity forthese! as with most dating headcanons i do, there’s sfw and then nsfw followingthe read more

SFW

You can bet that little Suga declared to everyonein the neighborhood and their dog that you would be his bride when the two ofyou could get married. He would announce it unprompted as well. Your parents thoughtit was the cutest thing.

Nowthat you’re older, your parents like to tease him and ask if he still wants tomarry you to which he always replies with a wide smile, “Yup!”

Even though the two of you see other people whendating becomes a thing in middle school, you’ve always had that lingeringthought that you should be with each other. Thankfully, you both get your actstogether by the end of high school and decide that you really are meant to betogether.

He surprisingly remembers a lot of your idiosyncrasies from your childhood that you’ve completely forgotten. When you’re kiddingaround with each other, he likes to bring them up, especially the silly thingsyou said or the words you made up.

Joke’son him because you remember some of those things about him, and mention them too!He swears he never said them, but you’ll just repeat them over and over againthrough pursed lips to tease him even more.

You might just be the only one he knows who canout-sass him. You like to keep each other on your toes.

It takes you by surprise that he goes to the gymregularly, but you mentioned one time while tipsy that those muscles he stillhas from playing volleyball are super sexy and he’d never forgive himself if didn’ttry to maintain that physique.

You cannot get a proper opinion from him when you need some for how an outfit looks on you. Unless whatever you’re trying on is really unflattering no matter who’s wearing it, he thinks you look great.

Although, it’s relatively easy to figure out when he really likes how you look in something: it takes him a moment to actually say something.

When you first start living together in college, you ask if there’ll be enough space in the apartment for two beds because neither of you have a lot of money to rent a larger place. Suga—cheeky as ever—promptly explains that there’s no need to worry because you’ll be sharing a bed.

Yousee right through that one though, because the night may start out all cuddlesand soft kisses, but if you’re on anything smaller than a queen-sized mattress—whichyou don’t have room in the budget for at the moment—, someone’s gonna getwhacked in the face by a stray arm or kicked in the shin. You had plenty ofsleepovers with him (and your other friends, of course) as kids.

Butyou still end up sleeping in the same bed on most nights anyway, even if you’renot necessarily going at it.

You’ve become a master at comforting him withoutsaying anything at all. Some nights you’ll find him with his hands in his hair,squinting at his laptop screen with a research paper open but groaning becausehe’s lost his train of thought. When this happens, you make him a cup ofsomething hot to drink, maybe put out a few snacks, and give him a peck on thecheek. It’s all the encouragement he needs: anything else you do is just anadded bonus.

Suga cannot stop thinking about you ever. You’repretty much always on his mind because he’s so in love with you. He wants tohurry up and graduate already so he can start making money to buy you a ring.

NSFW

It’s pretty vanilla with Suga at first, mostlybecause you’re both testing out the waters before you start bring up kinks. Somethingsdo slip from time-to-time

That beautiful voice of his makes dirty talksound oh-so-sweet. He’ll whisper the filthiest things in your ear, but you don’teven register his words right away because you’re so wrapped up in the sound ofhis voice rather than the content.

He really does remember everything fromchildhood, especially the places you’re most sensitive to touch (for example, you’d shy away from or shrug off someone when they’d try to touch your back atall). He’s not above using those to his advantage.

Suffice to say, he’s a huuuuge sadist. You’regonna have to beg for it when you’re at your neediest. Orgasm delay/denial isstandard with him.

Rilingyou up and teasing in public is also to be expected. If you don’t come at all before you get home, then he lets you have your way with him no questionsasked. But, man, is that ever rare.

Suga’s a bigger giver of oral rather thanreceiver because there’s nothing sexier than seeing you so worked up. 

[ask-earthbender-arthur]

[ SUPER LATE ARTIE VALENTINES FOR Y’ALL <3333 ]

[21dashes]

Happy Valentine’s day, friend! Have a great day!  LISTEN, KELLY

I LOVE YOU

you are the cutest bean to ever bean ♥

Thank you @kokiri-kelly for this lovely valentine's card

[matcha-chocolate]

A little thang for my Samsteve lovers on Discount Chocolate Valentine’s Day! It wasn’t that Sam was bored. They were just… comfortable. That tended to happen when you’d been dating for almost 5-- no, 6 years (that had been a source of a huge argument; Steve counted ‘On your left’ from Sam’s Car Gets Fucking Wrecked [And Other Adventures] as their anniversary, whereas Sam counted from ‘Home is home, you know?’ from Tony’s Murderbot Fuck-up-apalooza.) That was also 5 years of disastrous Valentine’s Days.

Read the rest here!

[addisonsncw-a]

@eliizadanvers

[drsncw-a]

@jamcsolscn | @shirtclad | @girlcftomorrow | @altruisticlies

[dawnthecreator]

Valentine’s Day 2k17

The Eldarya 2017 Valentine’s Day Costumes.  It’s not all of it.

[imagine-that-haikyuu]

Could I get a scenario of Ukai deciding to finally proposing to his s/o but keeps getting interrupted by the Karasuno boys each time he tries to ask her and after realizing what they accidentally kept doing the boys decorate the gym, with the help of Kiyoko and Yachi, to the surprise of their coach and his s/o and hold up signs saying 'will you marry our coach?'

what’s more romantic than a proposal scenario on valentine’s day? and with my husband too! this is so self-indulgent and i swooned the entire time i wrote it. i made the reader a teacher at karasuno for the sake of ease regarding the last part and also because i referenced this scenario in it too. 

 i had no idea how to decorate the gym forgive me so it’s very understated but the boys didn’t have a big budget

and that’s it for valentine’s day updates! even though i didn’t get to finish as much as i would have liked for the occasion, i was able to carve out some good chunks for some other request so expect them in the next few days!

This should have been easy. Ukai’s at a loss at what to do now. He’s been keeping that box in his pocket all week long, anticipating the right moment to pop the question to you.

The whole point of a casual yet intimate proposal is that, unless he really screws up the lead-in, it would go without a hitch. There’s no need to depend on others and potentially embarrass you in the process. Not that either of you like those over-the-top proposals anyway.

And yet, it seemed as if fate had other ideas this past week, using the team he coaches as a proxy for its chaos.

The first attempt was during one of his night shifts at the store. You always drop by to keep him company once he comes back from coaching and you finish things up at work. Not too many customers come in at night, so it’s never difficult to have a conversation even with Ukai taking care of responsibilities around the place. Given that things are busier than usual for the both of you at the moment, it’s nice to have some time alone.

“You should take a break from that,” he says upon returning from the backroom. In front of you on the table are the papers you’ve been marking up since you got there. Either you were very enthusiastic about using a red pen or those kids totally bombed the test you gave them.

“Only if you take yours now too,” you respond. You cap the pen and pat the empty chair adjacent to you. “Keep me company.”

It’s pretty early in his shift still to be taking a break, but there wasn’t a whole lot else to do anyway other than to mind the store. His mother had been taking good care of it in his absence. Until closing time, Ukai essentially is on a break unless customers came in.

“Alright, alright,” he drones in contrast to the smile on his face. “You drive a hard bargain, you know?”

“Hm? I didn’t offer you anything, though.”

You blink as he takes the chair beside you.

“Your company.”

You blink again, mouth forming into an “o” for a brief moment before you let out a laugh.

“Well, aren’t you sweet?” you tease. “And it looks like you’ve finally learned a thing or two about hitting on a woman.”

God, he loves that cheeky grin you have on. That alone is enough for him to confirm that he really does want to spend every day with you. Not that he didn’t before. The deal was already sealed when he decided to buy the ring; this was just extra confirmation. Plus, you just gave him the perfect opportunity to segue into the proposal.

“I haven’t even used the best one, though.”

Elbows already on the table, you interlock your fingers and rest your chin on top of them. You shut your eyes as if contemplating something, but still have a smirk on. After a moment, you open your eyes slowly and tilt your head. “Oh? And what would that be?”

“Well, it’s not exactly a pick-up line in the way you’re used to.”

Ukai’s hand reaches around towards his back pocket. He can feel the velvet black box on the tip of fingers. Outside, there’s a peal of laughter in the distance followed by an all-too-familiar voice chanting, “Meat buns! Meat buns!”

The commotion grabs your attention and you glance outside the shop windows. “Looks like your boys are here for the usual.”

The glass door slides open and sure enough, the Karasuno Boys’ Volleyball Club is making their way inside. With a “tsk”, Ukai repositions his arm from behind his back and reluctantly tends to the boys’s needs. Although, you know behind that grumpy exterior, he likes having them around. They really are a good group of kids, albeit a few of them could study a little more for your exams or not fall asleep during your lectures.

They’re already used to seeing you in the shop, so your presence doesn’t come as much a surprise to them. You’re still one of their teachers, so the team is sure to be respectful in greeting you. Realizing that it’s probably not a good idea to keep the tests you’re grading out while they’re in the shop, you begin to collect them into a pile.

However, a few of the team members manage to get a glimpse at some of the names on the exams. When they recognize their names next to the low marks, you’re dragged into having a tutoring session with them right there. Well, at least they’re eager to improve. As a teacher, that’s all you want, even if the impromptu lesson carries on later than you anticipated staying. When the boys head home, you collect your belongings and rise from your seat.

“I’m going to head back too or I’ll miss my train,” you sigh.

Ukai makes no attempt to hide his scowl or the low, frustrated groan as he approaches you. Time together was always limited and you’re also disappointed that said time had been cut short tonight. You smile despite it, offering him a kiss instead.

He can’t even bring himself to try again now that you’re alone together. The mood is all off.

The series of thwarted proposal attempts that followed in the next few days were almost comical (if he hadn’t been the one to become the victim). They could be perfectly cut and edited together like a montage in a sitcom or a movie.

For example, you swung by the gym for a moment during practice just to say hello before a staff meeting. Ukai quickly announced that he was stepping outside for a bit and before he could even say anything to you, a stray ball rebounded from a block hit him in the back of his head. Once again, the atmosphere couldn’t be salvaged between him snapping at the boys and you having to rush to your meeting in order to not be late.

They were situations along those lines, somehow involving the volleyball team every time. At this point, he’s positive the only way he could do this without being interrupted is late at night at either of your places during pillow talk. But that would be far from classy and also means that you’d have to concoct a cleaner version of story that you could tell others when they asked—especially your families—because you’d be getting that question a lot.

As he makes his way to the gym, he mulls over the places he could take you so that it’ll just be the two of you. Alone. Without even the slightest possibility of being disrupted. When he reaches the gym doors, Ukai shakes the thoughts from his head: it’ll have to wait until after practice is done. Not to mention the doors are shut and that takes him by surprise. Usually, they’re open and the boys are already warming up. He pulls on the handle only to find the door won’t budge. Even the times the door was shut, it was at least unlocked.

“What the—“

“Keishin!”

His head snaps in the direction of your voice only to find you running towards him, expression turning from fear to confusion as you slow to a halt in front of him.

“You’re okay?” you ask breathlessly.

“Uh…was I not supposed to be?”

You continue to stare at him dumbfoundedly as you catch your breath.

“Hinata just…” You turn around to see if the boy somehow ended up behind you, but he would have caught up by now. Your shoulders slump and you shake your head when you come to realization that you’ve been duped. “Takeda and I were on our way to a meeting when Hinata came up to us in panic and yelling about how something had happened to you. I darted off here without a second thought while Takeda offered to call for help.”

Now, it’s his turn to stare at you with utter confusion. He rubs the back of his neck, trying to come up with something that could give logic to anything that just happened. Nothing comes to him.

“That’s…weird. Really weird. I just got here.” It feels stupid for him to even say it, but your relieved smile is enough to recover whatever pride would have been lost for it. “But what’s even weirder is that the door is locked and I don’t hear the boys doing anything.”

“I just passed the other entrance, but I didn’t bother to see if it was even open or if they were inside. Maybe try there?”

Neither of you have a second to make your way there when you hear a voice—distinctly Tanaka’s—call out, “Now!” followed by a set of scrambling footsteps and a stage whispered, “Hurry! Hurry!”

The doors in front of you open, Shimizu and Yachi ushering you inside. You stare up in awe as you enter the gym. The banisters are decorated with white flowers, the green probably plastic vine they come on wrapped around the metal bars. Your steps are slow while you turn yourself around, finding that every bar above you is sporting the same decorations. The boys have all lined up, some of them casually leaning on or slumping over the rails to let their arms hang. It’s hard to gauge what they’re thinking: some look pleased, while others look like they’re trying to hold back a wide grin, and others look plain nervous.

“What the heck is this?” Ukai asks from the doorway, but his question goes unanswered as Daichi counts a “one, two” while he, Suga, and Asahi unravel a banner. The white fabric billows as it falls in a rather dramatic fashion.

In clear, black lettering are the words: “Will you marry our coach?” Underneath them are silhouettes of two crows, beak to beak with a red heart between them. Before you have a chance to process anything, the team shouts the same words featured on the banner.

The question hits you and you lose your breath for a moment. You turn to Ukai, with a surprised laugh, “Keishin, did you really?”

But he appears just as astonished as you are. Maybe even more so.

“N-no, I didn’t set this up,” he finally admits. He realizes as soon as he says it that it comes off as the opposite of his intentions. He quickly follows up with a sigh, “But I have been trying to pop the question for the past week.”

“Seriously?!” you cry. “Did I make it difficult or something?”

“No, it was those guys.” He motions his head up to the banisters. “Every time I tried to bring it up somehow they managed to butt-in.”

“Well, luckily I saw you put the box back in your pocket while sensei was distracted,” Suga boasts. “But the flower idea was Shimizu’s.”

You turn back towards the girl in question and she looks to Yachi.

“Hitoka designed the banner,” Shimizu says. The first-year beams with the recognition.

“And everyone else helped me paint it,” Yachi adds.

Hinata chimes in, “So we came up with the plan to get ___-sensei here by having me panic about an emergency involving you. When we reached the gym doors from the hallway, sensei was already making her way to the other side to meet you. Those doors were locked too just in case, so Yamaguchi had to stand-by to let me in.”

“You boys are sneaky!” you tease. You smile and shake your head, stopping only when you remember something. “But wait! Takeda! He was just about to call an ambulance when we darted off! What if one–”

“Actually, I was calling the team to let them know that you were on your way and to take their places quickly.” Both you and Ukai turn back towards the doorway to find your colleague standing there. Takeda pushes his glasses up his nose with a pleasant grin. “Now, Ukai-kun, I believe you still have something left you need to do.”

“Yeah, yeah. You don’t have to tell me,” Ukai scoffs. But his smirk and the slight tremble in his hands tell you that even the blasé façade he was trying to keep wouldn’t hold in his nerves.

Now he can finally reach into his damn pocket without worrying whether or not that black box would go right back in. Ukai steps towards you and holds the box out. It only takes a moment for you to bring your hand to your mouth and for the tears to start spilling despite your bright smile.

“If I go down on one knee you’ll never let me live it down, so I’ll stand for this,” he says.

One time, while you watched a movie together a while ago, you told him that you’d thought it would be nicer if the two parties stood on equal ground. It was only in passing and you were shocked to find that he remembered that.

You let out a small giggle along with a sniffle, “You know me so well, Keishin.”

“Marry me, ___.”

He pops open the box, but you can’t even see the ring that well through your tears. Not to mention you don’t want to break eye contact with him. You’re sure it’s simple, yet sophisticated, and that he probably didn’t have to look at too many rings to know that it was the one.

“Yes.”

You nod with an uncontrollably wide smile as Ukai slips the ring onto your finger. The team applauds and cheers—some of them are even in tears—, while the two of you break your usual rule about keeping PDA to a minimum; this kind of situation warrants a proper kiss.

Maybe it was for the best that his first attempts at this were impeded thanks to those kids because this was a much better story to tell.

[exploringxshadows]

Dmitriy holds out a bouquet of half a dozen red paper roses, tied together with a crimson bow. "I-I'm sorry these are late, Alastair. I didn't know it was Valentine's day yesterday until the anons sent a thing and it took time to make these and- I-um, I hope you like them."

If forgetting holidays could be a talent, Alastair wouldbe Olympic ready at this point. Luckily, he had beenreminded at the very last minute by busy strangers abouttown, rushing on the day of the 14th just as he was.He didn’t mind that Dmitriy was a day late - he was a day late as well.

The flowers were beautifully crafted, and more importantly,made by hand. Alastair accepted them with a fond smile,a pink tint across his face all the way from one ear to the other. Poor Dmitriy seemed so nervous about it all,but Alastair quickly attempted to remedy the situation bysilencing him by cupping his face with one hand and softly kissing his lips.

    ╣“I love them, Dmitriy, even more because they willnever wilt or die. It is a sweet gift. Thank you.         I, um, have a little something for you as well. Well,a couple things.”

Alastair had brought him a tall, slim bag, and inside wasa bottle of sweet wine similar to what they had alreadytasted, with a collection of fancy chocolates surroundingit. He wasn’t sure if he enjoyed candies and chocolatesas much as most people did, but they were fancy.

[21dashes]

SnapTash™ for Valentine’s day 💖

[lxttleking]

      – “I thought it was appropriate. Happy Valentine’s day. I hope it was a Brilliant one, love.”

“Great now anything I could possibly give you is going to suck.”

[addisonsncw-a]

@shrewdvisionary

[pixelatedlenses]

So I froze the choco-strawberries in an attempt to keep them from melting with the high heat from the kerosene heaters at school, but they are melting and well, it’s the thought that counts, right?

[asterolympus]

After Alex was done setting everything up for Bryony he’d made his way to his sisters room adding some decoration. all the tags are photos of the two of them over the years. As well as getting this. tapped to the front of her door before she walked in to see everything was this card:

“Yo Aster, I know there are rose petals everywhere, but it’s pretty right? When you walk inside it’s basically a tribute to how much I love you. You’ve always been there for me, and I sometimes don’t think I tell you enough how much that means to me. I couldn’t ask for a better little sister. I’ll always be here to listen to you, protect you, and support you. You are the most wonderful person I know, so don’t ever change. You have something very special in common with your namesake and that the fact you are a star. Shining so bright even on the darkest nights, and I’d be lost without you.

With all the love in my heart- Alex”

[khux-guides]

KHUx JP - 2/3 announcements

a new draw box has opened up!

it will be open from 2/3 0.00 JST to 2/10 23.59 JST

you can get the new limited fifth tier premium, Maleficent Dragon (reverse power)

if you draw 10 at once, you’ll receive ten VIP coins and a Cid 5 as a bonus

if you draw it, it’ll come with it ability upgraded to the third stage

if you draw ten at once, you’re also guaranteed one of the following reprint medals: Key Art #1 (upright speed), Xion illustrated ver. (reverse magic), Ansem illustrated ver. (reverse speed), Riku HD ver. (upright power), Kairi illustrated ver. (upright power) and Sephiroth (reverse speed)

if you don’t draw Maldragon in your first four 10-pulls, you’ll receive it in your fifth

you may receive some medals with a status bonus attached; Maldragon will have its attack and defense increased by +1000; all other medals will only have their attack boosted by +1000

another coliseum gaiden has started!

it will be open from 2/3 0.00 JST to 2/9 23.59 JST

you can earn a mickey & broom servant from this round

challenges are the exact same as the first magic mirror cup

a valentine’s day avatar event has begun!

it’ll last from 2/3 0.00 JST to 2/16 23.59 JST

earn event coins and trade them in for these special marshmallow boxer outfits

there’s a chance of summoning the event raid boss, cruel sweets, from the event quests; it’ll drop a large # of event coins

the marshmallow boxer scarves give +3 drop luck

as always, please feel free to ask me any questions either here or on Twitter, and have fun playing!

[imagine-that-haikyuu]

Hey hey HEY! Could I please request a fluffy scenario with Bokuto, Hinata and Yamaguchi where they're helping they're s/o coach younger kids how to play volleyball. BUt more like they're interaction with the kids than teaching them and the s/o like looks over and is like wow they are a child and i am so in love with them how did i get so lucky? like O>O i feel like they'd be so cute about it! thank you. youre amazing

kicking off valentine’s day with some fluffy scenarios! everytime you guys give me fluff, it’s like super fluff and i die a happy deathevery time i write them :,)

i also wanted to include the idea that hinata gets a bighead from being called cute and instead of getting all flustered, he starts toget cocky about it

Bokuto

“Hey, look at that! You got past the block like I toldyou that you would.”

Bokuto holds his hands up—or well, down really so that thechild he’s praising can reach them—for a high-five. He’s a good nine or tenyears older than most of the neighborhood kids you’re coaching, but they don’tseem to mind at all. After their friend was able to land a spike thanks to hisinstructions, there was already a chorus of “Teach me too!” and “I wanna trythat!” as a few of them flocked to the ace.

His face practically lights up with their enthusiasm. Eventhough he’d been playing for a long time, it was only recently that he startedliking volleyball. Hearing that these kids are already eager to learn more ata young age, and partly thanks to him too, makes him swell with pride.

You grin as Bokuto leads the kids back on to the courtand proceeds to go over the technique again.

He’s just like them,but it’s so cute, you think. Itreally was a good idea to ask him to come help out today. All of them arehaving so much fun.

The sound inside the gymnasium muffles with your thoughtsand the heavy pounding of your heart in your chest. You don’t hear what one ofthe kids says to him while you’re lost in your thoughts, but he lets out alaugh and the sound finally returns. Bokuto’s golden eyes land on you andsomehow his smile manages to widen. Warmth floods to your face and throughoutyour whole body.

You’ve only been dating for a few months at this point,but the volleyball star manages to surprise you with his magnetism almost everyday. He can be silly at times, but he always finds a way to make you smile.

Bokuto Koutarou managed to charm you quicker than anyoneelse you’ve been attracted to.

“Oh,” you say to yourself, “I guess I’m really in lovewith him.”

While the children separate into smaller groups to giveit try themselves, Bokuto joins your side in observing them play. Yourboyfriend blinks in surprise upon finding your cheeks flushed before smilingslyly at you.

“Hey, you’re blushing like crazy,” he says. He leans in alittle closer to you and lowers his voice, “I didn’t think just watching mewould get you so worked up. I’m that good, huh?”

You let out a quiet laugh and nod. “Well, of course. I’m datingthe cutest of the top five spikers in the whole country after all. It’s prettyhard not to.”

While Bokuto enthusiastically stutters a response to yourcompliment, you giggle. The kids are distracted enough, so you turn to him andgive him a peck on the cheek. The action effectively silences him, and if thiswere a cartoon, he’d have melted into a pile of goo right then and there.

And I’m still tryingto figure how I got so lucky.

Hinata

It’s almost astounding how easily these children seem tounderstand Hinata’s onomatopoeia-filled language, but they have no trouble withhis explanations. You toss a volleyball towards the kids lined up and ready topractice receiving. The first in line takes his stance and stiffens up themoment the ball makes contact with his forearms, and the volleyball goes flyingoff to the side.

“It’s a little more like whoosh,” Hinata explains to him.You lob another ball at you boyfriend for him to demonstrate, and cleanly receivesit.

“Oh! That makes perfect sense. Thanks, Sho-chan!”

He flashes his perpetually bright grin at the youngerboy. You toss another ball and this time, the kid is able to receive the ballwith much better form. Along with the neighborhood kids, Hinata’s eyes sparklein awe as the ball lands just before your feet. It felt like it was such ashort time ago when he could barely manage the volleyball basics himself, butyou know better than anyone how much effort he puts into every practice. Itprobably doesn’t hurt that your gentle tosses aren’t anywhere near as fast asthe serves and spikes he usually plays against.

After a few more drills, everyone breaks for a fewminutes.

“____! Sho-chan is your boyfriend, right?” one of thegirls asks. You give her a nod. “He doesn’t seem like the other big kids at all.”

You turn to look at Hinata, who’s talking energeticallywith some of the other kids. He pushes his hair down, and puts on a scowl: he’simpersonating Kageyama again. His small audience giggles at the impression andyou do too. You’ve been feeling a lot more upbeat since the two of you starteddating. His presence alone always cheered you up even before you starteddeveloping feelings for him, but that positive influence increased tenfoldsince your first date.

You’re not sure exactly what you’ve done to deserve hisaffection, but you’re more than grateful for it. When you pulled that lucky ticketfrom the shrine during New Years’ festivities, you hadn’t expected this would be the fortune you were blessed with.

“No, he’s definitely not,” you laugh. “But that’s why Ilike him so much. He’s a lot of fun to be around.”

The girl’s face lights up at your reaction. She may beyoung, but it would appear that she’s already a sucker for romance. “Do youthink he’d come again if you asked him to?”

“Of course!”

The group then takes to the court again to start theirusual afternoon scrimmage. You turn back to glance Hinata’s way to find that he’sapproaching you. You offer him a grin as he plops down next to you on theground.

“Man, where was this kind of group when I was a kid? Iwould have been so much better at volleyball sooner,” he whines. Despite that,he’s smiling widely. “At least this is a good group of kids.”

“I figured you’d have no trouble with them since you’reso good with Natsu,” you say.

He crosses his arm over his chest, expression suddenlyshifting to a slight pout. “They don’t give me attitude like Natsu does,though.”

“Well, at least she’s cute just like her big brother.”

His pout disappears almost instantly and is replaced witha smirk that’s a little crooked, but cocky nonetheless. Hinata arms remaincrossed while he straightens his posture. You’re sure that’s just a cover-upfor the fact that he’s shuffling a little closer to you. To make the taskeasier, you shift yourself closer to him too, and rest your head on his shoulder.His body tenses at this and you can’t see his face now, but you know for a factthat his smirk is quivering trying to contain the swell of delight in him.

And do you ever love that the kids tease him only momentslater for that silly face.

Yamaguchi

“Bye, bye, ____! Yamaguchi-nii!”

You wave as the last of the kids heads home for the day,clasping his mother’s hand on the way out. It’s the first time in a long timethat you didn’t have to stay much later after practice than usual. Normally,they would be able to walk home on their own, but since it got darker earliernow, you had to wait for your group’s parents or older siblings to come andpick them up.

Thankfully, this time you have your sweet boyfriend Yamaguchi—who’sbehind you gathering up stray volleyballs and placing them in the cart—to keepyou company while you clean up and walk home. “Sweet” feels like anunderstatement at this point, but you know that calling him that to his facecould make him short circuit. It’ll suffice for now.

He could have spent the day somany other ways, but he still decided to spend it coaching elementary schoolstudents with you. With the trip to Tokyo for Nationals right around thecorner, you hadn’t been seeing a whole lot of him as he put in more practicetime. Once he leaves for the tournament, you aren’t sure how long it will bebefore he comes home. Even though you told him that you’d both be relativelybusy instructing the kids rather than being around each other, he still agreed to help out.

You always knew him to be quite gentle—save for the timeswhere he and Tsukishima would pick on their teammates—so it came as no surpriseto you that the children were receptive to him straightaway. You’re starting towonder if it’s because Yamaguchi knew that he’d look so charming helping themout. If you hadn’t already been dating him, you would have started crushinghard on him today.

While his back is turned to you as he picks up a few moreballs, you clasp your hands behind your back and rock back on forth on yourfeet. As he rises, you feel your face heat up slightly. If you could feel youreyes sparkling, this would be one of those times. Yamaguchi turns to you and blinkswhile he dumps the volleyballs into the cart.

“What’s with that face?” he asks. There’s a small smiletugging at his lips. He likes to think that his freckles hide his blush, buteven if they did, they currently aren’t doing a good job muting the pink on hischeeks.

“As if you weren’t adorable enough, you’re really goodwith kids too,” you blurt out. Yamaguchi stands in stunned silence as youcircle round the cart to him. “I really hit the jackpot with you.”

With your hands on his shoulders for leverage, you standon your toes to give him a peck on the lips. Those freckles don’t stand achance against the red on his face now.