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Sugawara heard the wooden flooring of the gymnasium cricking under the weight of his teammate's feet. Their snickers squawking as the ran after the volleyball readying their hands to hit properly. The air in the room was heavy and sticky. The room was full of the heat of his team practicing for their upcoming tournament made everyone's skin stick with suet. This was their chance to get the team back in shape enough to score a place in the finals. After countless losses they had collectively decided that they were finally more than ever sick of loosing on anyone even on the seemingly pointless practice matches, where it did not matter who won and who lost at the end of the game. As a result, the whole team had worked their asses off attending as many practice tournaments as they possibly could with their neighboring team Nekoma.
Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Daichi. Their captain standing next to him his white shirt folded messily up on the sleeves, as to make his movements freer than before. His dark brown eyes following the ball as it bounced from player to player. When he was focused like this he got an all so intense look on his eyes that made Suga heart skip a bit from time to time. Another thing that Suga could practically sense was the wheels turning in his friend's mind. Analyzing his teammate's movements he let his mind slip into the effort of that and only that not paying any attention to anything else. Unconsciously Daichi lifted his hand to his chick, touching his face lightly tracing his fingertips near his jawline.
His slight touch was a reminiscence of their recent match... That match was to best describe it intense... It was a match where they were going to do anything within their power to finally go to nationals! But at one point perhaps all this became a little too much. When Daichi had dacked to save the ball he collided with Tanaka, injuring heavily in the process. After that, it had been a rough patch for the rest of the team as their captain was gone and their basic support system shattered to pieces.
Their nervousness for the impact that could have on the game and their teammates' health was weighing hard on all of them, impacting their performance on the game. Later on, Ennoshita would be the perfect fit in taking up the role of the captain making for s promise for the next year when their highschool career would eventually come to an end. Nishinaya had been ecstatic afterward as he laughed up his senseis attempt to dack making jokes with Tanaka and praising him for the nice kill. Of course, this was only in good fun and nothing more but he could see in Tanka's eyes despite his light mannerisms that some bits of the guilt he had felt back at the game still run hot within him... In Suga's case though he had been become increasingly more worried ever since though. From what he had seen of the accident, the cut was pretty deep and a lot of blood gushed from the wound. He could not help but recall still - vividly as when the scene played out right in front of his very eyes - After the first half of the game, Daichi had come back to them smiling lightly. He had sighed, passing it off as nothing worth his attention had accrued. Like he had not bled out right in front of them and the whole stadium that day. When he saw his chick though red from the cut he had practically tackled him to the ground along with the rest of their team in excitement, in hopes that in the very least he was okay now...
Making his way from across the court. Suga stood by him the boy he could not help but love. They had known each other long enough now, sever since their first year when they had both joined the volleyball team. Back then even though the older couch Ukai was couching them the team was doing nothing more than fall off the ranks more and more each passing match... They had not lost their hope thought! The three of them had stayed together. Him, Asahi, and Daichi. During those years he had developed some rather special feeling for the other boy... One that to his vast delight those fellings were reciprocated from his handsome captain.
Suga remembered the day Daichi confessed to him vividly as today. It was summer at the beginning of their third and final year and they were ecstatic, to begin with it. It was the last year they got to play together as a team, as a united. That was the last day before school opened back up. On that day only the two of them had gotten out to talk before practice officially started. Daichi was sitting on swing tight next to his the sawing inn harmony one after the other as they tried to make sense of what had happened with Asahi. The third of their pact. His encounter with Noya ha left him in stumbles hoping to collect himself. He had made his decision to leave the team, after a match that scared him deeply. Noya was heartbroken getting expelled in the prosses. The two were joined at the hip after all. Despite the constant nagging from their friends, they made up their minds to let the case resolve itself. In time the both of them had to face each other right? Noya could not keep himself away from the court, he was one of the best liberos in the prefecture. Asahi - for maybe the first time in his life - was the wild card.
Coming to a stop Suga looked up at the sky. He remembered thinking of what a nice night that was. A light breeze swept his hair back as he closed his eyes, calm as ever. He heard Daichi shift right next to him like something was bothering him... Opening his eyes and turning to look at him, he found Daichi staring back at him. His face crimson and his eyes glossed over like he had thought of something for long?
" Suga? " he asked his voice a little wobbly. God did he look so pretty like this - the moonlight lighting down his dark eyes... He had to answer soon enough thought!
" Y - yes? " he questioned smiling a half-smile and looking up at him. Right then and there he saw the worry in his beautiful eyes - the uncertainty
" I have something very important to tell you..." he started taking a deep breath to calm himself " I think I like you...Well I don't ' think ' I am sure I do... I just - wanted you to know..." he confessed laying his heart bare in front of his favorite setter. Suga for a moment could not quite believe his ears. Daichi. His captain. Like him like that! Liked-liked him! And then he laughed his heart out. He could not help it! The sear joy the bloomed in his heart
" Why - why are you laughing?! I just said I liked you! " he blurred out jumping to his feet. That made Suga stop laughing immediately. Clearing his throat he stood up as well. Maybe he slightly overdid it? It did not acquire to him that his answer could be anything else but a yes!
" I am - s - sorry! I did not mean to laugh at you but... The answer is YES! " he yelled for the whole world to hear even though they were the only two in the park this late at night. Stoping for a second though he knew that this had become real. It was like for the first time in the whole night the fellings he had harbored for all this time we're coming true...
" I know you might think this is weird - WAIT, wait. What? Did you just say, you-YOU have feelings for ME!? " he asked as he had misheard?
" Of course! I like you. A lot actually" he could not but giggle a little at how happy he was now that he finally said it out loud! This time though he was not alone Daichi had joined him as they hugged each other under the moon...
And they had been together ever since then. They knew that their team was going to overreact as they did with everything. So they made up their mind to keep under raps. For some time at least... But he could not help but worry for the other boy that had stolen his heart
" Daichi ? " he spoke moving next to the boy, he called his own leaning ever so slightly to face him. Rising his hand Suga tapped lightly on his chick to ask without speaking how he was. It was more or less a silent question, trying to convey his worry through actions Rathore than words. Daichi as what seamed to Suga had taken the hint leaned into him as well to answer perhaps? Before any words came out of his mouth though, Suga felt the other soft lips on his chick. Placing a caring hand on his shoulder he pulled him in ever further - Suga thought could feel the smile that played on his lips when he did so -
This is an ulternative ending to this story if Sugawara got embarashed and tripped over a ball lol This was basicaly based on a fanart I saw on Pinterst based after Daichi's achidental crash with Tanaka. Suga is consrned but instead he ends up with a soft kiss on the chick and wrapped arounf the arms of his captain!
On the other hand, Suga could feel the embarrassment run hot through his veins making his chicks scarlet. Pushing the taller boy away from he tried to cover his face and trying to master his voice to stop from breaking " That's not what I meant !" he exclaimed taking a step back his hands-on Daichi's chicks. That idiot could not keep himself, could he?! They had made the decision to keep that from the team together. As he took a haste step to move away from Daichi smiling brightly up at him, he felt his foot accidentally getting caught on a volleyball. He felt his feet slip from under him, as he fell backward. Before he could have a harsh meeting with the floor though, he felt a strong steady arm getting a hold of his waist he hastily gripped on the shoulder of none other than Daichi. He clangs to him for dear life placing a hand on his chest trying to further steady himself. Looking up at him he saw the spark in his eyes blazing hot. And with that, he knew that being embarrassed for this, for his love for him was not something to hide about from the people he considered a second family. By that point, they had gotten their teammates. Turning his head he found them all now cheering them on?
Noya was for once more the most ecstatic! Right next to him Tanaka " Daichi-san nice receive !" right next to them Kageyama and Hinata were in aww like they had known? But he did not have time to think about that because there was just one thing on his mind. That this beautiful boy right in front of him was all is and he did not give a care if anyone knew. But if it was someone for them to do as much, he was happy that it was his team and more than that, relieved.