#but Fushimi prefers to be behind the scenes and complains if Yata makes him be on screen

[ridiasfangirlings]

1) Yata has two YouTube channels - one about skateboarding, the other is dedicated to everything else (challenges, live videos, and so on). He is the face of the channel, and Fushimi is engaged in editing, and very rarely appears in the video. Yata meets Homra and becomes part of their YouTube family, without learning Fushimi's opinion. Yata enthusiastically starts shooting twice as many videos (for Homra)

“There goes your follower count, Misaki.” (doesn't have quite the same ring to it does it XD) So say Fushimi and Yata are childhood friends and Fushimi of course has his quiet crush on Yata that he refuses to admit actually exists. Yata develops a thing for social media and quickly becomes popular for his dynamic skateboarding videos and his outgoing personality, like originally he just made cool skating videos that Fushimi filmed but soon he started branching out to lifestyle stuff too. Fushimi does all the video editing and production work, he normally avoids being on camera but he probably does make rare appearances and Yata will talk to him while filming too so anyone who follows him for any length of time probably has at least a decent idea of who 'Saruhiko' is.

Eventually Yata gets scouted by this team known as Homra, they produce similar videos to what Yata does and maybe they do a lot of challenge videos and things like that, like doing dangerous stunts and all that. They think Yata would be a good fit for their channel and Yata can't help but be a little starry eyed, Homra's leader Mikoto is a majorly popular influencer and one of Yata's heroes and being asked to do videos with him is like a dream come true. Yata agrees to join them without even consulting Fushimi at all and Fushimi's annoyed by that (maybe they even have a small fight about it and Yata ends up impulsively stating that it's his decision because he's the actual star of their channel and Fushimi just does the video work. Yata feels bad about it almost as soon as he says it and he quickly apologizes, saying that they're a team right, and even though Fushimi shrugs and says it's fine really this just fuels his fears that Yata's moving away from him).

Once Yata becomes part of Homra's channel he's constantly busy doing videos, like before this was a side gig and he had an actual job but Homra is popular enough that Yata can do this for a living and it's like every day there's something new and cool going on. Yata invites Fushimi to come with him to Homra's parties and stuff but Fushimi always refuses, saying he has editing to do or going over filming issues, things that Yata doesn't need to worry about. Fushimi's been given a ton of responsibility by Homra's 'manager' Kusanagi, who trusts Fushimi to handle their camerawork and is always praising him for his skills, but even so Fushimi feels like he's not really part of Homra – it just makes him think again about Yata's outburst over being 'the real star' and it's like now Fushimi really is just the behind the scenes help. One day Homra does some question and answer thing as part of a game for a video, where they need to see how well they know each other. Fushimi isn't even supposed to be part of it but Homra's other cameraman, Totsuka, pulls him in. Yata ends up scoring unexpectedly low on Fushimi but does better with the other Homra guys, while Fushimi pretty much sucks at everyone except Yata where he's almost a perfect score. This just hammers home to Fushimi that Yata only cares about Homra now and just sees Fushimi as like an outside worker rather than a partner.

Around this time Fushimi gets an offer by Munakata Reisi, who runs a very popular channel around science and technology. Munakata has noticed that Fushimi's skills are being wasted in just setting up Homra's cameras and editing their crude videos and he feels Fushimi would do much better as an active part of Munakata's channel Scepter 4. Fushimi initially is wary but eventually feels like there's no point in staying with Misaki if all Yata cares about is Homra's vision rather than his own. He tells Yata that he's leaving Homra and moving out of their apartment, breaking a flash drive that contains like all their early rough videos and precious memories before storming off and stating he doesn't want anything to do with Yata ever again.

Of course this being Fushimi and Yata that doesn't happen and they have a whole rivalry going on for a few years before their respective teams step in and help them reconcile. By now Fushimi is in front of the camera as often as he is behind it and he's like an unexpected star for Scepter 4. Yata's realized at this point that he has feelings for Fushimi and wants to date him but he doesn't know how to say it. Maybe what happens is Yata asks if Fushimi will edit a video for him just like old times, like this video is Yata's and not Homra's and that's why only Saruhiko can edit it. Fushimi agrees and Yata hands him a flash drive, telling him to watch the video all the way through. Later back at his own apartment Fushimi starts to play the video and it's Yata confessing his feelings and coming out to the world as bi, stating that he's in love with Fushimi and has been for a while, and that he just wants Fushimi to be by his side again from now on if Fushimi will be his boyfriend. Fushimi in reply ends up making his own video and uploading it, sending Yata the link where Fushimi also comes out and calls Yata a stupid idiot and a hotheaded moron and also the guy Fushimi's loved since middle school, and the answer is 'yes.'