#it could’ve worked better with oikawa and a tsundere reader tbh

[illuminiscentboba]

“Are you an onion? because you have so many layers.”

Sugawara glanced up from the stack of puns and pickup lines tanaka and nishinoya had got him months ago, an evil smile playing at his lips as he waited for your response.

You had come over to study with him for your test in a few days but he couldn’t resist asking you pickup lines when you had such funny reactions.

He didn’t know why he kept them or while he still had them, though seeing you giggle at the especially terrible ones, brought a smile to his face.

And what better time to bring back the pickup lines when Valentine’s Day was right around the corner?

There you were shifted left to right as you cringed at the line.  When he laughed, you couldn't help but join him, find it a relief after the heavy workload.

You watched as he rifled through his stack and the way he perked up, glancing at you and back at the stack, casting a dramatic glance over his shoulder as if it wasn't just the two of you in his room. 

You braced yourself for a worse joke “hey y/n.”

“yes?”

“are you a banana? because I find you a-pealing”

You groaned, covering your ears in hopes that it would make the pain stop as Sugawara cackled, enjoy his little game a little too much as he eagerly filed through a few more.

“Are you a mug? Because your just my cup of tea.”

"Are you a library book? Because I'd like to check you out."

"Are you a baker? Because I loaf you.

When he did a lipbite, sending you finger guns you picked made your way over to his bed, picking up his pillow and smacking him with it as he laughed, trying to block the hits. 

"Alright, alright. One more and I swear I'll stop." He laughed, picking up his scattered stack as a deep rumble made him caught his attention, coming from your stomach. “Oh. Are you hungry?”

“No that was just my stomach challenging me to a sing off, koushi.”

You stared at him and he held your stare, the corner of his lips twitching upwards. “Alright, suit yourself then. But don’t ask for a bite of the amazing, frosted cookies I saw downstairs when I bring some.”

He backtracked to the door in slow motion finally stopping when you gave in. “Fine, fine. Yeah I’m hungry.”

A smug grin tugged at the corners of his lip as he made his way over, straightening the stack, “alright I’ll go get some cookies my mom made, could you hold this while I’m gone?”

He held out his hand and you craned your neck in an attempt to see what was in his hand. There was nothing there- oh.

It was another pick up line. You took his outstretched hand, lacing your fingers through his. “I’ll take good care of it.”

He blushed and your stomach grumbles once more sending him scurrying for the cookies. You sighed, a fond smile on your face.

You've actually heard a few of these pickup lines before but after the last time you told him that and how he was pouting about it the whole day, you decided to humor him instead.

You return to going through a few more workbook questions when a plate of cookies is slid towards you and a familiar voice whispers, “hey y/n. Are you a beaver?” Because Dam.”

Sometimes your favorite part wasn't the pickup line. It was Sugawara acting it out, emphasizing on some parts, pretending to look you up and down and doing lip bites and wiggling his eyebrows at bad moments that had you laughing your head off.

“stop,” you stretched out the last syllable, biting into one of the frosted patterned cookies he brought you.

You didn’t catch the way his fingers glided across the the table in nervousness and the way he bit his lip, hoping that this batch would be better than the last few.

It was delicious.

“Mhm, I love your moms cookies so much. Do you think that she’ll adopt me if I ask her?”

Koushi lit up, scarlet dusting his adorable face as he grinned, almost hesitantly adding, “actually, I made these cookies.”

Now it was your turn to blink at him. Koushi, the boy who brought two batches of muffins because the first batch burnt.

The koushi who asked you for help to beg his mom to make the team snacks because baking hated him was same koushi who made this batch of cookies?

You marveled at the patterning, noticing the frosting continue to the other side. You flipped the cookie, finally noticing the pickup lines written in them in his neat but wavy handwriting. ‘Let’s avo-cuddle’ the green oval shaped cookie read.

“Yeah you definitely made these.” You snorted as he picked a random cookie from the batch, handing it to you to try. It was a cute whale designed cookie, you turned it over reading, ‘whale you go out with me?’

Somehow this cookie felt more detailed than the others and you wondered what he was thinking as he prepared these cookies for you.

“Actually, sure. Why not.” He blinked at you, hand circling around your wrist to read the cookie. The sight only stirred his laughter as he burst into a fit of giggles, giggles subsiding when you turned pink.

“Wait...really?” When you nodded, his jaw dropped open.

“Nooooo you weren’t supposed to say yes!” He cried, running a hand through his hair. This wasn’t how he how wanted to— how he planned to confess to you.

He wanted for you to taste test the cookies…he wasn’t even finished all the preparations for asking you out on valentines day, in fact, he didn’t even pick up the flowers from the florist a few blocks away.

“I was going to have flowers and chocolate…and,” his shoulder slumped like a wilted flower for ruining the surprise.

You reached over, lacing your fingers through his once more, “it’s okay, koushi. how about we go on a date on Valentine’s Day to make up for it? You can surprise me with everything then, I'll pretend I saw nothing.”

The cute smile that lit up his face made its return as red coated his cheeks, glad that even though it didn't go according to plan, he finally put his feelings into words. Even in the form of a pun.

“I’ll bring my worst pick up lines, just for you.”  

That Valentine’s Day, Sugawara showed up for your date earlier, pickup lines scrawled across his palm, as Daichi and Asahi gave him an almost comical peptalk over the phone.

"It's okay Suga, I'm sure they'll love your cookies, and the chocolate, and the flowers, and—" Sugawara paused for a moment, stepping aside for a pair of little kids to pass, shuffling by hand in hand, giggles as they clutched candies and cookies of their own they way he remembered growing up.

Though the nervousness and jumbled thoughts washed away at the sight of you beaming at him as he held out a large bouquet and cute bag of cookies and chocolate he made, “y/n will you go out with me? And be my valentine?”

“We’re already dating, remember?” You tease him, pressing a kiss to his cheek before he can bring up the promise you made to let him surprise you.

“Of course I'll go out with you. And be your valentine. I can't wait for your surprises.” You whispered, and he practically was glowing because you were going on a date, with him. 

Together you made your way down the path, linking arms with a beaming Sugawara, who had the whole day set up with fun things to try out with you.

Because there was no one more joyful than Sugawara that the silly pickup lines ended with so much more on this valentines day afternoon.