#also happy birthday iwa!!! 🥳

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ft.: iwaizumi x reader

trope: friends to lovers

lyrics: i don’t wanna be your friend, i wanna kiss your neck from "fallingforyou" by the 1975 (this reminded me to go back and listen to the 1975 more lol)

word count: ~850 words

Iwaizumi is in a predicament.

When a bored Oikawa called him to ask if he wanted to go see a movie this afternoon, he agreed. When Oikawa had asked if it was alright if he invited some other people, Iwaizumi agreed to this as well and assumed that it would just be Hanamaki and Matsukawa.

What Oikawa had failed to mention is that, in addition to inviting his teammates, he had also invited you. 

And this is how Iwaizumi ended up sitting beside you in the dark theater.

See, over the course of your three years at Aoba Johsai, you managed to become friends with the third-years on the school’s volleyball team. But, lately, the way Iwaizumi looked at you started to change. 

A few weeks ago, on a random Monday, the ace thought you looked particularly cute. Immediately, Iwaizumi commenced panicking over the fact that he thought you, his friend, were cute. This led to a downward spiral and Iwaizumi eventually came to the conclusion that he had developed a crush on you. And this realization resulted in him acting bashfully whenever you are in the vicinity, which Oikawa has unfortunately picked up on. 

As he sits shoulder-to-shoulder with you, he cannot help, but glance over at you every few minutes and each time he sees how entranced you are by the film. Your eyebrows are scrunched together, and your soft-looking lips are slightly parted. Iwaizumi begins to wonder how your lips would feel against his. How it would feel like to leave a trail of kisses across your jaw down to your neck…

As soon as this thought enters his head, Iwaizumi can sense his face growing red and he is grateful that the room’s dim lighting would prevent you from noticing this if you happened to look over at him. 

After the movie finishes, you all head outside and the sun is shining brightly, a stark contrast to where you have all been sitting for the past two hours.

“Hey, a new cafe opened up a few streets over,” you remark as your group loiters at the entrance of the cinema. “Do you guys want to check it out?”

“Sorry, I can’t. I have plans,” Oikawa responds without hesitation as his eyes briefly flicker between you and Iwaizumi.

“I thought you didn’t have any plans for today?” you point out with a narrowed look.

“Well…” Oikawa trails off, seemingly at a loss for words. Then he suddenly snaps his fingers and proclaims, “It turns out that my sister needs someone to babysit Takeru in like an hour, so I volunteered.”

You shrug at the captain’s excuse before turning to face the others. “Are the rest of you free?”

“Actually, Matsu and Makki are helping me babysit,” Oikawa blurts out, throwing his arms over the shoulders of his fellow third-years.

“All three of you are babysitting one kid?” Iwaizumi inquires, his knowing glare directed at his childhood friend. 

“Yes?” Makki says, but his response sounds more like a question than a definitive answer. 

“Kids…”  Matsukawa chimes in, though he looks somewhat confused. “Just one can be a handful.”

“I know that Iwaizumi doesn’t have any plans, Y/N. Why don’t you go together?!

You cast your gaze over at the wing spiker and quirk an eyebrow at him, as if silently asking if he is fine with this.

“Y-yeah, I’m free to go with you, Y/N,” Iwaizumi affirms, trying to come off as calm and collected as possible. It seems like forever since he last hung out with you one-on-one, and the prospect of spending some alone time with you excites him. 

“Alright! You two have fun on your date!” Oikawa loudly exclaims with a roguish smirk. Before Iwaizumi can chastise the setter for his comment, he quickly scurries away, while simultaneously dragging Hanamaki and Matsukawa with him.

Iwaizumi watches the receding figures of his so-called friends, and he cannot believe they would do this to him. Well, that’s not true. A plot like this is obviously something Oikawa would scheme. And Makki and Matsu occasionally enjoy witnessing Iwa lose his cool. But this doesn’t prevent Iwaizumi from feeling betrayed right now.

How can they call this a date in front of you and then ditch him? Don’t they understand how awkward they’ve made this moment for him?

Fortunately, your light laughter pulls Iwaizumi back to reality and he gawks at your reaction.

“So, are you ready for our date?” you say with a playful gleam in your eye, which causes his heart rate to rapidly increase. 

Your friend doesn’t know how to reply to this, so he ends up shyly answering your question with a question, “Is it a date?”

“Do you want it to be a date?”

Iwaizumi can assert with certainty that he wasn’t expecting the words coming out of your mouth to be accompanied by a scarlet blush and it gives him a glimmer of hope. He has been so scared to confess to you these past few weeks, but it seems that perhaps his feelings for you are reciprocated. 

Therefore, despite still being a little nervous about doing so, he finds the courage to firmly state: “Yes.”

[euphoricimagination]

International Love-Haikyuu x foreign reader Pt 44

- Birthday's -

Months have pass since the training camp, now entering October, near the preliminars once again. In these past months the guys have practice a lot, with a lot of practice matches as well. Kenma and I have been doing amazing together, most of the time we stay in any of our houses, but sometimes we go out on little dates to arcades, cafes, or going to buy games or mangas.

Today’s Thursday, I was sitting on Kenma’s bed editing one of my videos on my computer while he is streaming a game, a few minutes away from my birthday. I was done with the editing so I stay on the bed watching some videos. Out of nowhere I feel Kenma move in front of me and taking my hand, asking silently for my attention, so I put my phone down and look at him.

- Happy Birthday kitten – says putting a bag besides me, while looking at me with a smile before moving to give me a short kiss.

- Thank you pudding – I say chuckling by how excited he looked. I take the bag and open it, finding three items on it. The first one was a customized PSP case, that had many Disney characters on it. The second one was another customized thing, a controller for his ps3 with Levi on it, and the third one was a little cat plushie – Oh my god this are so pretty! I love them! Thank you! – I say hugging him

- I wasn’t sure what to get you, I thought to buy you an ipad or something like that, but I know you don’t particularly like expensive gifts. I also thought of cooking for you, since you always do it for me, but I don’t really know how to cook and I didn’t want to ruin it. Then I remember you like plushies, cats, Disney and Levi is your favorite manga character, so I customized things that you normally use with them.  – explains with a little blush creeping in

- How much time did you thought about it? You’re so cute – I say giving him a kiss – Thank you, I love them.

- Good – he says, shoulders relaxing

- Next time don’t think to much about, I’m happy with some food.

- No, you deserve more than that – says nuzzling his face on my neck – your phone is going off so much

- Probably the twins – I say laying down, Kenma moving himself to lay on my chest. The messages aren’t only from the twins and Rin, but also from all the other guys and girls; all of Inarizaki, Nekoma and Fukurodani; Oikawa and Iwa-san; Tendou; Shoyo and Tobio. I say thanks to all before sending a message to the twins wishing them a happy birthday too

[Me] “Miya’s, happy birthday! 🥳” “hope you like my presents” “love you”

[Samu❤️] “Thank you chibi-chan” “happy birthday too”

[Tsumu💙] “You send us presents🥺” “we are going to like anything you send us” “we love you too”

[Rin🖤] “Happy birthday chibi” “I’ll call you tomorrow”

After a few more texts here and there, I put my phone down, noticing Kenma looking at me.

- What?

- Nothing – says taking my hand and putting it in his head – are you sleeping here today?

- I have a sleepy kitty laying on top me, it’s not like I have much options – I say brushing his hair, making him nuzzle even more in my chest. We stay like that for a few minutes before we fell asleep in each other arms.

Next morning we get up and since it was early and I was feeling lazy I just got ready in his house. His mom already left when we're ready, however she still left a package of brownies with a happy birthday note on it. When we go out, I see Kuroo with a little package, waiting.

- Chibi-chaan! Happy birthday! – says hugging me tightly – here you go

- Thank you Tetsu – I say opening the package. Inside I see a bunch of my favorite snacks and a new manga, making me pull him into a hug once again. When we arrived to school the rest of the team gives me a group hug, initiated by Lev, before giving me a big cat plushie and a helium ballon.

- You guys really had to be this obnoxious, huh? – I say chuckling - Thank you, it’s so pretty.

- Anything for our amazing manager – says Yaku ruffling my hair

- Plus, you look adorable hugging plushies – says Yamamoto

- We still have to practice, so get ready to run guys – I hear Kuroo say while I put the balloon away and sit down next to Kenma.

- Can I put your hair on a low ponytail? – I say looking at him, fully intending to use my birthday as an excuse

- Huh? Why?

- I just want to see how you look, pleease? You can take it off afterwards

-…Fine. Just because it’s your birthday – says. I go to my backpack to take my hair brush and scrunchie before starting to brush his hair. Despite saying that he didn’t want to, I still feel his shoulders relax, specially when I pass my hand to take all of his hair in the ponytail.

- Goddamn you look so good like this too, it’s not fair – I say looking at him, most of his hair was in the ponytail, with a few of the front pieces out – I have such a pretty boyfriend.

- S-shut up, you’re the pretty one here – says rolling his eyes, little blush creeping in - I’ll go to practice – says giving me a kiss before going, surprising me since he doesn’t kiss me unless we’re alone.

The day passes like normal, some of my classmates congratulating me throughout the day, some even giving me a small snack. Once at my home, after the normal practice with the guys, I’m in my bed with Kenma by my side, him playing while I lay my head on his shoulder reading the manga that Kuroo got me.

- Hope you had a great birthday kitten – says out of nowhere, turning off his PSP.

- I did, it was awesome. Thank you

- …kitten – he says hesitantly, taking my manga away. Before I could ask him anything he takes my cheek softly and kiss me, a much deeper and more passionate kiss than ever before, yet still careful and gentle. We only stop when both of us need to breath, pressing out foreheads together – I love you, so much

- I love you too

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Around 2 weeks passed since then, now being Monday afternoon, 15th to be exact, a few minutes away from Kenma’s birthday. We were hanging on my room this time, Kenma being extremely concentrated on a level of his game while I was cleaning my island. The clock ticks 12 am, so just like he did on my birthday, I move to grab his present, without him noticing.

- Oi pudding – I say poking his cheek

- Wait me a second kitten – says furrowing his eyebrows in concentration. I shake my head while chuckling, of course this would happen. Once the screen shows a Victory on the screen, he looks at me – ok done, did something happen?

- Yeah, something happened – I say chuckling even more – Happy Birthday pudding

- Birthday? Oh – says looking at the clock, 12:16 on it – I kinda lost track of time.

- I notice that, c’mon open it – I say. He opens the package, eyes widening at the presents, a gaming headset and a game – How…how did you…

- I saw you reading some reviews of the headphones last week, so I bought them back then. For the game I just took a photo of all the ones you have and went to the store so the dude could help me pick one. The hardest part was to make sure you didn’t go and buy them yourself first, Tetsu help me with that.

- Thank you, kitten – eyes full of love – how did someone like you fell in love with me?

- We’re not having this conversation again, let alone in your birthday – I say moving to settle on his lap, his arms unconsciously passing through my waist and pulling me closer – You.are.amazing - I say in between kisses – I couldn’t possibly find a perfect boyfriend for me.

- I love you – he says hugging me tightly – can we go and play the game?

- If we go to play now you’re not going to sleep, and we have classes and practice tomorrow – I say caressing his cheek – don’t look at me like that, you know it’s true

-…fine, we’ll play tomorrow – says with a little pout – Can we cuddle then?

- Of course we can, come here my pretty boy – We go to my bed and he lays on top of me, head on my chest while I play with his hair. Soon enough he starts getting sleepy having a little smile while he nuzzles even more in my chest – you have no idea how much I love you, it doesn’t make sense

- Nothing really makes sense ever since I met you – says with a sleepy voice – but I love it.

We wake up a little earlier than normal, or at least try to wake him up a earlier receiving little whines from him. While he washes his face in my bathroom I go to the kitchen and get ready the last gift that I had from him, a homemade apple pie. When he goes out of my room his tired eyes meet with mine

- Happy birthday Ken – I say while he gets closer, eyes shifting between me and the dessert that was on the plate

- You…made me an apple pie? When? How?

- I have my ways, come here and try it – I say chuckling at his shocked face. He sits and immediately takes a bite, eyes widening a bit.

- Soo good – says before kissing my cheek – thank you, this is the best apple pie I’ve ever had

- You don’t need to exaggerate, I’m just good at following recipes

- No, no, seriously. I love it. Thanks

We finish eating breakfast, with my mom giving him a little present too, before going out and head to school. Kuroo obviously wish happy birthday to Ken in the most extra way possible, making him give an annoyed look. The day goes by pretty much normal, only the afternoon practice was a little affected by the team congratulating Kenma.

After practice ended, he was noticeably more excited, moving as fast as he could to get ready. He doesn’t even wait for Kuroo before he takes my hand and start walking.

- Ken, I need to close the gym!

- Kuro will do it, I’ve been wanting to play the game you got me with the headset since yesterday

- Do you really want me to be there? Is a single player, I can always go to my house if you want to concentrate in the game

- No, I want you there…I… play better when you’re around – says getting a little shy – can you bring the apple pie though? I want more

- We live in front of each other, of course I can  

We spend the rest of the night like that, him playing the game while leaning in my chest and eating his apple pie. A simple way to spend the rest of his birthday

- Thank you, kitten – says while the game was on a loading screen – this was the best birthday that I’ve ever had

- Glad that you like it – I say laying my head on his shoulder – you deserve it too

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Cursive words/sentences are in Japanese

Bold words/sentences are in English