#River is just showing appriciation

[izayoichan]

Musical Christmas Magic (part 2). 🎶 (poses by @simmireen)

[tsuumu]

hii!! if it's ok then could i request headcanons of sugawara and oikawa who have a classical pianist s/o?? have lovely day! 💖

hi anon!! i really hope you enjoy this little drabble hc type thing. i tend to ramble a bit but this was really interesting! i love the piano and used to play myself.

• sugawara himself has never been musically adept to any significant degree, but he’s always been extremely fascinated in others that are. there’s something mesmerising to him about it. it’s something he likes to appriciate rather than persue himself.

• you sort of just... sprung it onto him that you’d been playing piano for a large majority of your life. it’d been when you visited your parent’s house for the first time in ages with the boy and your childhood grand-piano sat pretty, just where you’d left it.

• fingers running over the top of it, he asks if your mother or father plays. you nod, explaining that music is a sort of therapy in your household, joking that your mother practically lives and dies over these keys each passing day. you’ll probably never catch up to her.

“wait, you play?” his eyes widen.

“oh— yes. i never mentioned it?”

• where you live doesn’t have a proper piano within a mile of the place. it’s painful for you, you miss playing. sitting down, fingers brushing over the ridges of the keys. not even dust. this thing is precious to all of you under that roof.

“uh-uh. please, do it for me.”

• so you do. you play and you’re happy to play. the ghostly melody of Claude Debussy’s Clair De Lune thrumming from the heart of the piano. it’s heartachingly wonderful. you have the boy absolutely enamoured, fixated on the movement of your fingertips as the atmosphere changes completely. and you, you’re— you’re smiling, it’s not hard for you at all. he’s shocked at how easy you make it look.

• he feels like he’s fallen in love with something so very special, additionally to what he knew before. you’re absolutely golden. sugawara can’t help but tilt your chin up to him after you’ve played that final chord, kissing you gently.

“that was beautiful. you are so beautiful.”

• koushi will beg you to take him back to your parent’s more often just to hear you play. your mother play. it solidifies their relationship and leaves you knowing he’s going to be long-term. but he’ll never ask you to teach him. he’s perfectly happy playing the observer and admiring you in full bloom as you play.

• sugawara is a very homely boyfriend and there’s something so warmingly domestic about the piano.

• tooru is the stark opposite, practically grovelling at your feet to show him how you work your magic.

• he knew pretty early on that you were a pianist, simply because it’s your pride and joy. it’s what brings you the most peace and resolve. as volleyball is to him. you two had no problems exchanging exciteable passion over your excellent talents.

• but the thing about tooru, is that he gets very jealous of skills he doesn’t have — he wants them. and he’ll try at least once to get them.

“(y/n), please!”

“it’s not as simple as just showing you!”

“i know, but— but you’ll never know if we don’t try!”

• you sigh LOUDLY, before dragging him by the nape of his collar to the piano stool, sitting him down, you rest your chin on the top of his head and slap down the music sheets. he stares blankly.

“what’s this?”

“you’re joking.”

• tooru is a smart little boy, he knows piano isn’t easy and it takes time and endurance, alongside professional lessons, to even begin understanding and manoeuvring the instrument. but this— what’s this?

“this looks difficult...”

“that’s what i said!” you half yell at him, before plscing your hands over his, you list off the notes, pressing down lightly on each one. “got it?” he tilts his head.

“one more time.”

• it goes on like that, you giving tooru little lessons when he isn’t too exhausted from his work. he’s appriciative really, that you’re even giving him the time of day. other times he’ll just ask you to play because he claims it’s relaxing enough to help him recover from matches. his personal favorite is Yiruma’s River Flows In You, with its melancholic tinge, he feels like he’s somewhere else entirely when you’re in full flow, somewhere tranquil and safe, but a little lonely. just how he likes it.

• you oblige, because you love him dearly and eventually, he’s able to play a song or two for you. and oh, it’s adorable! he messes up from time to time but he really does want to make you proud.

• in exchange, you learn the rules of volleyball and he teaches you recieving. it’s fun. you’re able to form a bond over such different interests. he’a grateful you’re willing to put up with his nuances and actually spend time with him, he’s always been a little bad at that himself, but you motivate him greatly to actively communicate through something he finds happiness in.