#HIS FIRST NAME IS KENMA NOT KOZUME PLEATHHHH

[shibaraki]

Relationship headcanons

Character: Kozume Kenma Genre: SFW, fluff A/N: Still on my haikyuu bs I promise I’m doing Midoriya. But, it’s Kens’ turn! All gender neutral and no mention of body type etc, everyone needs a kenma bf (ɔ˘ ³(ˆ‿ˆc)

You were someone Kenma had known for a very long time, so he hadn’t realised the extent of his feelings for you until someone else (namely: Kuroo) pointed it out. He never felt he needed to do introspection on your friendship dynamic because it had always felt that way to him - there was no sudden realisation that he was in love with you. He guesses he was just always in love with you. Once it clicks, he notices that he’s always gravitating toward you, looking over at you, wondering what you might be doing, wanting your opinion on everything, missing you.

Doesn’t really use pet names for you, opting to call you by your name fondly. Though he does call you ‘love’ in private sometimes. You however, have plenty for him, puddin’, pudding cup, kitty, baby, and sweetie are just a handful of them. Some definitely make his nose scrunch up a bit, but he lets you get away with them and doesn’t care if you use them in public. 

It’s a running joke between all the Nekoma alumni that Kenma is like a cat but there is some truth to it. If he wants your attention he will often just stand in the doorway of a room and wait until you notice, or stare at you until you feel his gaze. This is typically because he doesn’t want to interrupt whatever you’re doing but he also enjoys quietly watching you do little mundane tasks especially if you’re in his home, he finds it really domestic. 

The cat-like behaviour extends to asking for affection. It’s not that he thinks it’s embarrassing but still he would prefer not to ask you verbally especially in public. So he has a habit of rubbing his face into your shoulder or tapping your thigh lightly when he wants you to give him some loving. He loves when you play with his hands, though admittedly it can’t happen as much as he would like because his hands are hardly ever empty given his job. But when they are, you’re always holding them, smoothing your thumb over his knuckles, feeling out the dips in his fingers and kissing his palms. He can be surprisingly clingy with you.

Kenma is not a fan of outrageous PDA. He trusts you implicitly and knows you love him, he has never felt the need to ‘show what’s his’ or stake his claim on you. So he doesn’t really understand why his friends all groan, telling him to ‘stop being gross with you’ or ‘go somewhere private!’ when you’re on the opposite side of the room - it’s not like he’s all over you. No, it’s all over his face instead. He’s oblivious to the lovesick expression he’s constantly sending your way. 

As a streamer, youtuber and CEO, Kenma is busy and carries a lot of responsibility, both to his employees and the audience watching him. You’d both had a discussion about keeping your relationship private and decided that while you wouldn’t be involved with his content it doesn’t mean you would be his little secret. His regular audience, especially his stream viewers, know of you and have seen you on a few occasions in passing as you had greeted him or brought him food during long playthroughs. He’s pleased to note that the majority of his fan base is respectful of you, using the heart emote in chat when they realise you’re talking to him off to the side during streams. They also drown out any negative comments about you, not wanting Kenma to become even more private than he already is - they love seeing glimpses of his personal life.

He loves playing games with you. He was dead set on finding out what kind of games you like - puzzle? action? adventure? rhythm? otome? - and after knowing, he makes a point to play those games with only you in his down time. If you ever mention wanting to play an online RPG with him, two days later he will be presenting you with an account that he’d levelled up from scratch for you. You both enjoyed animal crossing when it was released, however after Kenma put in hundreds of hours now he only goes on to read the postcards you send him and clean up his town. One thing he DOES play with you consistently is stardew valley, especially when the multiplayer was released. The amount of farms this guy has had is ridiculous.

Kenma is a quiet guy and he’s the best listener. He’s aware of his surroundings, sometimes even too aware, and he’s always listening to what is being said even if it appears that he isn’t interested. Bystanders might walk by you both on a date and feel bad for you because you’re animatedly telling your boyfriend about something that happened and he’s playing some game on his phone, but you know he’s heard everything. On one occasion you had gone quiet, feeling insecure that you were talking too much and he’d looked up immediately asking why you stopped talking.

Kenma can read your body language pretty well, the same way you can read his. He notices when your eyes are dull or bright, if your shoulders lift a little toward your ears defensively, if your jaw tenses, if your mouth lifts or flattens, if you’re picking at your nails anxiously, if you’re pressing your thighs together, you’re like a textbook he has revised over and over. That being said - he won’t say anything about it unless you bring it up first. Instead, if you’re sad he’ll suggest doing something that he knows you enjoy, if you’re anxious he’ll offer a distraction, and if you’re needy he’ll, well, often times pretend he hasn’t noticed because he enjoys teasing you.

He will support all of your endeavours and interests wholeheartedly. However he doesn’t really get involved himself, he sees hobbies as something you do for yourself and doesn’t want to encroach on your personal time. What he does do is fund those hobbies. Need new tools, brushes, paints, thread, material, prints, etc - he’ll buy it. Kenma is not an extravagant gift giver, he doesn’t give you expensive jewellery or tech or clothing as he finds it distasteful. But he will always put money toward your successes. If it’s for that, the bank is limitless

When he does buy you things for the sake of spoiling you, it’s usually a ‘one of two’ because he loves matching with you. Matching switch covers, matching phone cases, matching hoodies, matching slippers, the works. He loves when someone points it out and you proudly show off his gift with a grin on your face. 

Planned dates are usually stay at home dates which you both preferred. You don’t mind because they’re never boring and never the same. One day you might be cooking the meal to eat together, or even baking something. Some days Kenma will have your favourite food delivered and others he will order a bunch of different foods you’ve never tried for a home buffet. You have movie nights, or nights that you binge watch random shows together. It’s during those nights that Kenma will pull all his guest futons and pillows out to the main room to make a little nest for you. 

Impulsive dates will usually happen after he has streamed or when he has finished work late. Those ones are exciting because what you do is all up to Kenma and you won’t know where he’s taking you. One of your favourite impulse dates had been when he found out the aquarium was having a late night event. Walking through the glass tunnels in darkness hand in hand surrounded by glowing jellyfish, Kenma had told you he loved you for the first time. 

Kenma doesn’t like phone calls - so don’t call him unless it’s an emergency. He’s a pro when it comes to texting, though. Has his messages and discord chat on his desktop so if you pop up in the corner he replies almost right away at any time of day since his work is mostly on his computer. He seems short or blunt in text as he doesn’t use emojis or emoticons and usually abbreviates his words but you’ve never minded unless you couldn’t understand it. Your boyfriend is well versed in the internet after all, he’s usually a day or two ahead of you in terms of memes and trends. He loves to send you articles he thinks you’ll like, pictures of baby animals, videos that made him laugh and ugly selfies of Kuroo that he has in a folder. 

When you were just friends he had been pleasantly surprised to find that you were an exception to his ‘social interaction drains me’ problem. He never tires of being with you or talking to you, he actually dreads having to leave you. Then there had been a night early on in the relationship which you’d both stayed up all night texting, never running out of things to say, which had never happened to him before. Now you’re the one he goes to when he needs to recharge, pushing his head into your chest and feeling the knots in his stomach loosen when you rub your cheek on the top of his head.

Overall, your relationship with Kenma is described by the words secure, nurturing and sentimental.