spencer reid buries his face in the crook of your neck everytime you hug because the feeling of your soft skin on his face reminds him of cuddling naked with you, absolutely in bliss
spencer reid goes to stores youāve been together in and picks up every item you spent elevated time looking at, using his eidetic memory to his fullest advantage
spencer reidās favorite place to be kissed (besides his lips) is right below his jawline underneath his ear. he likes how close you have to get to reach it, and he giggles every time you do.
spencer reid composes the music for your first dance at your wedding, an absolutely astonishing piece that he shyly insists is ājust math and sound vibrationsā. no one knows that he read every book he could find on composition and spend 5 months before he even proposed learning how to create your perfect melody
spencer reid thinks that the best thing in the world is how you look in the sunshine. he never considered himself the āgoing for a walkā type, but now everyday during golden hour he insists you go around the block ājust to see the sunset!ā and spends the whole time with his eyes glued to you
spencer reid gets ever so slightly turned on the first time you explicitly ask him for money. it was a small thingā youād left your house without your wallet since spencer wanted to drive and had gone to the mall to spend some time out of the house. you fell absolutely in love with a bracelet you saw in the store and shyly walked up to him, asking for him to get it for you. he was reaching for his card before you finished your sentence, filled with pride that you were finally letting him take care of your unnecessary wants, alongside your needs. he began to let his mind wander to taking care of you in other ways, turned beet red, and quietly asked if you could go home.
Synopsis. Five times Gojo Satoru - the hottest k-pop idol right now - gets exposed for wanting you, his pretty, totally-not-girlfriend best friend. And the one time he gives them headlines to talk about.
A/N. Guess whoās back from the beach-each and watched Kpop Demon Hunters-
āAnd here we have the goddess, the myth, the-āĀ
It would take quite the feat to leave Gojo Satoru - self-proclaimed king of idols (debatable), world-class chatterbox (not debatable) - of all people gaping soundlessly at his screen.
For a second. Two. Three- before heās sputtering at the blur of incoming comments, āO-oi! Donāt you lilā perverts think you can get away with flirting with my best friend.ā Arms crossed, he nods seriously at his fanbase, āEven I donāt get away with flirting with my be-ā
āSatoru, theyāre about to cut the cameras.ā
āA joke. Obviously.ā Smooth. Ever-so-smooth, Gojoās flashing a winning smile at his stern-faced manager behind the tripod.
It was hard enough to convince Yaga into letting you join his livestream, but as a near-veteran in the entertainment industry, Gojo knew how to handle a little slip-up like this. Heās got this- āBecause I am definitely not in love with my best friend, and am definitely not held hostage to say this.ā
ā...ā
āAā¦a joke?ā
In mild concern, the two of you can only watch as stoic, composed Yaga lets out what sounded like a strangled sob. Before whispering to another PR manager on-site, āWrite a company statement.āĀ
āOi-ā Gojo pipes up, āWhy would you need a company statement when Iām perfectly- user Fushidaddy type another pick-up line and Iām blocking you.ā
The dark-haired man chokes through almost tears, āJust start writing already.ā
You try to smooth things over from your seat right beside your best friend, this was not what youād anticipated after Gojo had practically begged on his knees asking for you to join him in one of his Bubble lives. Then again, what else could you expect from anything to do with him? āAh, itās alright. I donāt mind-ā
āI do.āĀ
Snowy brows furrowed, heās leaning in closer to the camera to take in every traitorous word-Ā
satorusxkitten: okay but guys think ab it!! heās rlly talented but no actor so itās okay if heās ass at pretending to not be a simp!! can u blame him??
āBlocked.ā
P1BANG: took a shot every time he stares at her thinking heās slick now Iām at the hospital (this live started 3 minutes ago)
āBlocked.ā
Fushidaddy: Pretty girl, blink twice if youāre being held hostage x.
āBlocked and reported what the-ā Gojo frowns glancing over at you from the corner of his eyes, (thinking heās slick, thank you very much). Before catching the way you lean in dramatically to flutter your eyes- āDonāt you dare blink.ā
As youāre bursting into ribbing laughter, so are the sheer amount of comments asking about you- and he canāt help but entertain the sneaking suspicion that his own viewers were here simply because of you.
At least, thatās why he wouldāve kept watching.
Fushidaddy2: Put us out of this pining misery or end the live, kid.
āI thought I blocked you.ā
āOkay then.ā You clap your hands once to gain the roomās attention, slightly worried about the blood vessel about to burst near Yagaās temple. āSatoru, I think you brought me here to do a Q nā A, right?ā
āWell yesā¦ā Gojoās grumbling underneath his breath - that was the initial plan, to finally introduce one of the most precious parts of him to the fandom.Ā
He just didnāt account for the possibility that everyone on the livestream would fall in love with you - when that was clearly supposed to be his job! āAlright- ask away, and no funny business. Iām looking at you, user Fushidaddy.ā
sugu-rizzed: Are you single?
āHow dare you-ā
āYes. Yes, I am.ā Youāre nudging the towering man right next to you, subtly moving his hand off of that treacherous block button. āLighten up, Satoruāā
āYes, maāam. Correct, maāam.ā
What a sight it was.Ā
Honestly, youāre sure you hear at least several management staff gasp at just how easily youād shut up their arguable star. Being the center of one of the fastest bands to sky-rocket into the k-pop world hadnāt made it any easier for an agent to pose authority over Gojo Satoru - Yaga was barely hanging on by a thread and he submitted at least a few resignation letters every week.
Once the on-set whispers break out, youāre squirming in your seat. Rattling off yet another question-
ge.akuge: what do you think about the allegations of him wearing wigs?
āWell-ā
āBlocked.ā
KunaLuvrr: does he wear wigs?
stanjutsu: will he wear wigs?
Fushidaddy3: Yāknow I donāt wear wigs, baby, x.Ā
āI-ā
āYou- blocked.ā
haibarabias: Did u know he was yapping about you non-stop on the last live?
Youāre blinking in slight surprise, turning to Gojo - whoād now stuffed himself into his oversized designer hoodie until you could only make out the tips of his ears. His bright, burning red ears. āReally?ā Turning to the feverishly nodding staff at his silence, āReally?ā
One of the fresh-faced interns in charge of lighting tries to hold back a squeal, āY-yeah! We tried to keep a tally of your name to edit on-screen but it went intoā¦the tripleā¦digits- eep!ā
āE-hem.ā Gojo cuts the newbie off with a slight glare, snitches. The whole lot. āI was just talking to them about what a boor you are and to be prepared-ā
realistic.one: liar, you were giggling and kicking your feet the whole time-
ā-which you would have known if you actually watched me.ā Finishing off with relish, heās mockingly glowering down at you. The perfect vision of a neglected best friend - if it wasnāt for the way that he was flushed all the way from his cheeks to the back of his neck, that is.Ā
And then your fingerpads reach out to pat the silky crown of his bangs, soothingly. āI do watch you, Toru. I must have missed that stream, sorry about that.ā
He melts. And thereās tens of thousands to watch him.
āY-yeah?ā Gojoās briefly snapping a scowl at the screen, already knowing that this particular clip of his voice breaking would be making rounds on the internet tomorrow. Crossing his arms with a huff, he acts like he isnāt nuzzling his head even closer for you to caress, āTch, you make a shitty best friend, my star.ā
Somewhere across the room, Yaga puts his head in his hands and sighs.Ā
sugu-rizzed: My star?? Guys is heā¦
CandyKento: that moment when you highkey ship them but realize bro has no game
sunflowerboy: Gojo-san fighting!!
Fushidaddy7: I could treat you better, girl x.Ā
torutoaster: wonder what her type is from our boys^^
Itās as if the room itself had hiked a few degrees in temperature, and youāre darting your eyes away from Gojoās burning ones. From the staff that was snickering behind their hands, giving you knowing looks.Ā
Instead, choosing to distract yourself by answering that last questionā āHmm, my ideal type from Six Eyes, huh?ā
āHah- what a silly little question.ā Your best friend cocks his head with a smirk, āWhy- tell āem, my star. Who else has the visuals? The dance moves? The charisma? Of course, itās-ā
āSuguru.ā You smile innocently, whilst the flashy idol next to you crumbles. āHeās such a sweetheart.ā
returnofP1BANG: five more shots for that wet cat look he gave her
Fushidaddy9: Ouch (lol).
sugu-rizzed: F in the chat
CandyKento: f
sunflowerboy: F
Fushidaddy10: F
ge.akuge: F
āTch- childish.ā Gojo scoffs at the wave of that same letter flooding his comment section, heās counting about twentyā¦before typing his own āFā in there.Ā
Immediately reinvigorated, heās stabbing a determined finger in the air. āBut- but I have something that none of yāall and that stinky Suguru doesnāt have-ā And it takes every ounce of will, every shred of shamelessness in his body to wrap two strong arms around you and crash you to his broad chest. Emulating all those hours heās spent watching k-dramas with you, Gojoās barking out. ā-sheās mine!ā
Fushidaddy14: Yeah. Your best friend. LMAO.
āBlocked-ā
Masamichi Yaga handed in yet another resignation letter that very same night.
Which was likely why the livestream didnāt last too long after that little catastrophe- and itās about a few hours later once youād safely made it home with excuses of work the next day, and Gojo was lying wide awake on his phone, that it happens.
It is sent to him, by none other than Geto - the most unthinkable, unspeakable link to a fan-made YouTube video aptly titled ā100 Gojo Satorus vs. trying not to make a fool of himself in front of his baddie best friend challenge (failed)ā
Edited and clipping every single moment heād completely nā utterly destroyed his cool idol faƧade during the brief live. Every (fine, not-so-slick) glance your way, every blush, every voice crack.
Fuck.
In two seconds heās sending Geto a paragraph of middle finger emojis, and in one heās slowly downloading the videoā¦for research purposes.Ā
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As a celebrity hair stylist, Miwa Kasumi had never felt that she wasnāt paid enough - after all, nearly unlimited contact with her favorite idols and she gets to see her work come to life on stage? What could go wrong?
Wellā¦sheās feeling her weary eyelid twitch just about the twelfth time she hears the same repeated meme audio blaring from Gojo Satoruās phone.Ā
Headphone-less. On full volume.Ā
All on the set of one of the most important comeback shoots of this year, the much-anticipated music video for their single āBlue.ā Penned by none other than the giggling idiot that was her client.Ā
And it was only considering all her years of professionalism that she didnāt whack the phone out of his hands the way sheās been dying to for the past hour. āGojo-san, you are quite the fan of that video, hm?ā
Subtle cues- subtle cues!
But Gojo was never one for subtle cues, as she has the misfortune of learning. And he only blinks up from his padded seat in front of her, āHuh? Oh yes-ā In fact, increasing the volume of the dramatically edited fan video - one of those crack compilations she had the guilty pleasure of watching before bed sometimes.Ā
But Gojo didnāt seem to be watching for the laughs, his twinkling sapphire eyes were only locked on one thing on-screen - you.Ā
Sighing at a short clip of you from the livestream a few days ago, grimacing at one of his bragging monologues. Giggling, he zooms in on you- āIsnāt she gorgeousā?ā
āO-oh!ā Now, introductions and love for artistry might be two of the main perks of working in such close proximity to idols - but who could forget the gossip. Immediately perking up, sheās setting down one of the curlers and working on fluffing up Gojoās ethereal white hair for the camera. āGirlfriend, Gojo-san?ā
āNot at all.ā Dreamily, heās taking a blatant screenshot of the zoomed-in visual of your face. A man in heaven. āNot. At. All.ā
Huh? Maybe all celebrities were just eccentric. What was that one saying about never meeting your heroes?Ā
Well, it seems that the universe decided that Miwa hadnāt learned enough of her lesson just yet- which is why sheās startled by the swooshā! of curtains being drawn back in the dressing room, and the heavy footsteps of none other than Gojoās bandmates.Ā
Who could mistake them?
Geto Suguru, long inky hair tied back, slow strides almost predatory, is the first to reach the two - one of them shivering in rapt excitement, the other glued to his phone. āOi- Satoru, they want you for your solo shot.ā
Gojo grunts noncommittally, hands gripping his phone. āHm-ā
Irritation gripping the otherās tone, his best friend taps his feet. āSatoru.ā
āMm.ā
āSatoru.āĀ
āā¦ā
āYou little-āĀ
Itās a damn miracle that the thin glass of Gojoās phone screen doesnāt crack with how swiftly Getoās snatching it from the otherās hands. Only to get a glimpse of the screen and have his mouth drop.
āSatoruā¦āĀ
āā¦Suguru.ā
Pierced brows furrowing, Adamās apple bobbing with a guffaw at the blatant screenshot of you displayed. Clearly taken from that one compilation video that he had sent the link to a few days ago. Their center gulps. āSatoru, whatā¦theā¦f-ā
āGojo-san! Gojo-sanā!ā
The youngest - Haibaraās - sweet, sing-song voice dips through the tense dressing room as he stumbles in - all sunny smiles and the cutest bowl cut. Followed excruciatingly closely by a cameraman recording behind-the-scenes content, āKento and I are done, so Director Shoko wants you on set now or she said sheāll do some violent things that canāt be said on camera~ā
āOf course, of courseā you should go, you strange little lecher- I mean, Satoru.ā Geto waves the other over, āCāmere Yu, let your elder show you a little something.ā
Gojo blanches, āNo-ā
āOh? What is itā?ā
Gripping onto Getoās jacket, āNo.ā
Careful of the rolling camera, heās mercilessly sidling up to the other and flashing the latest addition to Gojoās photo album - that soft, slightly blurry screenshot of you. Simply smiling. āOh.ā
āāOhā is right.ā Getoās smizing out such a cat-like grin at the camera- this was sure to have the internet talking. Maybe even screaming. And as the staff with the lens steps closer in curiosity, heās swiftly covering the screen, āLetās just say our Satoru is ah- quite the fan of our cute little fansā creations.ā
Haibara titters, āEnough that itās filling up his phone storage-ā Catching Gojoās groan, ready to jump out of his seat- āAh, my apologies, Gojo-san~ā
Geto nods, āNo no, heās right.ā
āHeās not.ā
āI am?ā
āAnd remember, kidsāā The pierced man calls out, finger hovering over the glaring screen of the phone.Ā
Gojo gasps- āNo-ā Realizing. Shooting to his feet. āNo no no-ā
Registering the way his other best friend was giving particular attention to that bright, burning DELETE button. ā-always help your friends in need.ā
The scream that Gojo Satoru, most polished idol of the 21st century, lets off is devastated.Ā
Enough that the cameraman - watching each interaction like a hawk - jumps, enough that even ruthless Geto Suguru himself feels a semblance of slight regret. Almost turning his thumb over to click on the recycle bin before Gojo can cry himself hoarse- until heās scrolling just an inch - an inch - along the full camera roll and findingā¦moreā¦screenshots?
About 75,328 in his album, to be exact. Of you.Ā
He looks at Gojo Satoru - knees cradled in such a pitiful fetal position on the floor, whimpering at the loss of his prized screenshot. And he looks at the 75,328 screenshots. He looks back at Gojo. Then at the screenshots, all 75,328.
Then back at Gojo.
And Geto doesnāt even feel bad about the good kick heās planting on the otherās back, āGet out.ā
If the dressing room was a hellhole made to ruin Gojoās life - Geto being the devil incarnate, of course - then being on set wasnāt any better.Ā
The long lens of Shokoās famed camera stares him down like it knew exactly how he was acting minutes prior, and any false faƧade of coolness would easily break through.Ā
āUghā¦ā Shokoās crinkling her nose in slight distaste at the footage playing on her screen, motioning for the rest of the crew to start putting each prop back in place for a reshoot.Ā
Make-up airy, white bandages haphazardly falling from his eyes, surrounded by sparkling ivory decorations of stars; it was supposed to be something on theme with the song, something romantic, something that didnāt make her want to hack up her coffee in a bad way.
But she could feel her stomach churning already. Leveling a glare at Gojo thatās enough to make the much-taller man flinch- āYou- if you canāt do the sparkly idol thing, just try looking at the camera and smiling. Itās all we need for the solo shot today.ā Tapping her camera, āLook at the lens like youād look at a lover.ā
Voice octaves higher, āA-a lover?āĀ
His dignity was scarred!Ā
āYou got this, Gojo-san! Twentieth tryās the charmā!ā Haibaraās voice echoes. āAh- or was this the thirtiethā¦somewhere along the line I lost count.ā
āThirty-seventh.ā Nanami helpfully supplies.
His reputation as a reliable elder ruined!
āSatoru, good luck! Geto called me- I donāt know why but um, good luck!ā
He didnāt call himself the king of idols for nothing!
In a split-second, Gojo perks at the slightly-metallic sound of your voice through the other end of the line. Breath hitched, flashing irises widened- it doesnāt take him even a nanosecond to snap his head towards where Geto was holding his phone up for the sound to project.
Your name flashing on the caller ID, Getoās smile priggish at the reaction wrenched out of his best friend.Ā
And Gojo canāt help but let the mere sound of your voice make him smileā
āThere we go- thatās the shot! Thatās the shot.ā
The music video is edited and uploaded only a few weeks later, that behind-the-scenes following hastily afterwards.Ā
It was a hit, of course, as every management and billboard had already predicted it would be. But what was unpredictable were the eagle-eyed comments-
SIX EYES - āBLUEā MV
torutoaster: KYAAA THEY REALLY FED US LOOK AT HOW OUR TORU AND SUGU LOOOKKK
ryomichael: not even a satoru bias butā¦wowā¦his visualsā¦the way he looked at the camera made my heart just goā¦wow
zbstan: stream this song (and esp Gojoās bridge) for clear skin guys!!
SIX EYES - āBLUEā MV Behind [All]
getosuggs: Geto and Haibara giggling at Gojoās phone screenā¦wonder what they were looking atā¦
torutoaster: wonder why the filming of toruās solo shot was muted?? strange but as long as we get more content of my bias oh well^^
sugu-rizzed: @torutoaster I think because they were on a call? Oooo imagine if it was Gojoās best friend from the livestreamā¦
mahitoe: @sugu-rizzed smh delulu shippers
zbstan: @mahitoe STFU look at that caller ID ik they tried to blur it but like there was an anonymous hair stylist on set who said it was so GUYS IT COULD BE-
Fushidaddy17: I wouldāve had no problem looking cool for her aha x.
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āTakada-chan! Takada-ch-AAAAAANā!ā
Honestly, what a woman to be able to smile politely in the face of a big, beefy high schooler ripping his shirt off from the stands of the stadium. The Idol Star Athletics Championships were always quite rambunctious considering the star-studded players, especially this year.Ā
All lined up in their groups, donning flashy colored tracksuits.Ā
And as the boy starts crying, Geto wincesālooking back at their own section of fans invited to attend the annual celebrity sports tournament. Some squealing at the feeling of Getoās stare, some waving banners hysterically - but thank goodness that none were as bad as-
āMY STAAAARā!ā
Geto takes that back very quickly.
Deadpan, exhausted- the leader of Six Eyes is turning to stare down their infamous center, the exact one whoād been hogging every headline for the past few weeks for his exact antics with you. āSatoruā¦what are you doing?ā
Ignoring him for your figure seated at the very front rowāāMY STAR, YOU BETTER CHEER FOR ME.ā You pretend not to hear him as he waves frantically, and Geto reaches over to tug Gojo back in line. āOi- OIII, DONāT LOOK AT NANAMI LOOK AT ME!ā
On second thought, he backs away into another groupās line.Ā
You werenāt the only one looking at him now- so were the announcers. Seasoned entertainers whoāve probably never seen a scene in all their years, āAaaand over in this row we have Six Eyes. Their center - that Gojo boy - seems to be a little preoccupied, no?ā
āWith the girl? Oh, when is he not? Have you seen the clips from that livestream?ā
āAhhāyou know my wife showed me and-ā Seemingly catching the eye of whatever higher-up, or maybe the way that Yaga was swooning in his bench as if he was about to faint right then and there. āEhem- anyways, welcome all to this yearās The Idol Star Athletics Championshipsā!ā
It goes off without a hitch.Ā
Well, as much as it could with Gojo Satoru being in attendance.Ā
Which meant having to wrangle him back by the scruff of his neck every time he meandered off to the shrieking stands to ask you to pet his tired head - āfor good luck.ā
Which meant having him blow kisses to the stands suspiciously near you as he dribbled expertly during the basketball event, their team tied with yet another idol group.
With only a few seconds on the clock, every eye glued to his sprinting figure - breath stilling just as soon as he does near the netted hoop. Gojo had jumped, and pointed straight at your figureāāThis oneās for my star.ā
Before he swung.Ā
Andā¦
ā¦missed.
But that was all water under the bridge.
It didnāt matter that it was a failure recorded in 4K on hundreds of cameras, it didnāt matter that youād been the one laughing the most while watching his precious shot completely miss the hoop and bounce sadly on the floor.Ā
It didnāt matter that his ears were still burning red from embarrassment by the last leg of the tournament - the track-and-field events.Ā
Geto had already won the gold medal in archery, Haibara with silver in football, and even woe-is-me Nanami had snagged a silver in fencing.Ā
And this time, this yearās new addition - one of those borrowed item races youād play in middle school, those ones where heād have to run to a box and pick out something silly to bring over the finish line - was about to be his turn.Ā
āReadyā¦ā
Gojoās steadying into position, making sure his back flexed just right so that youād be able to see from the stands. And if the way that Nanami sighed was anything to go by then it was working, right?Ā
āSetā¦ā
Azure eyes locked on the small wooden box that loomed a few yards in front of him.
āGo!ā
Itās a blur- one moment his expensive designer sneakers touch the ground, and the next heās one of the first idols to run over to the box. Fighting to stick his hand inside, Gojoās sure he elbows someoneās dolled-up face to grab the first slip of paper he can.Ā
Tugging it out with a grin, the neat typing stares back at him mockinglyāāSomeone you love.ā
Fuck.
Why did it have to be this one?
The announcerās booming baritone breaks through- āWhatās this? Six Eyesā Gojo seems to have stalled? What could that paper say?ā
āRun!ā Getoās voice calls over the chaos of countless other artists bee-lining towards their own missions, their own āitem.ā Heās waving at Gojo impatiently, āRun, you fool-āĀ
āGojo-san, you got thisā!ā
In a confused hurry, heās darting a look down at the staff manning the box - some older, dryly deadpan man who merely takes a peek at his slip of paper and gives a thumbs up. And Gojo could have sworn he smirks.
Well.
āOh- oh, heās running.ā Both hosts gripping onto the edges of their tables, āThe legs on that boy- Gojo Satoru is overtaking his peers easily- ah, we promise weāre not biased.ā
Yaga and the rest of his overworked PR team would have to forgive Gojo for this later- but his legs are turning towards your direction in an instant, just as they always have. Running. Sprinting.Ā
āGojo- Gojo! Is it true you two eloped?ā
āAn insider source is saying that your best friend was present on-set of Blue- any comment?ā
āAre you two dating?ā
Itās like heās running through a tunnel where the only thing he can see is you at the end. Announcersā voices cotton in his mind- āOh, we think we know where this is going, ladies and gentlemen.ā The only voice his popped ears can hear are yours-
āS-Satoruā!ā Youāre shrieking, nearly as loud as the throng of fans and cameras surrounding you. Clawing down his beefy upper bicep as your best friend leans his long torso over the barrier of the stands and throws you into an easy princess carry, āAre you crazy-ā
āNah, weāre gonna win, my star.ā He has his arms steady, jaw clicking - and you canāt help but feel his strength thrum gently in his arms. Those lucky to be near enough for the entire ordeal would later claim to tabloids that theyād never seen Gojo Satoru this serious.
Thisā¦responsible when heās carefully striding with you in his hold - an easy first place running past the finish line.Ā
Stars in his eyes, mouth turned up into a smile that twitched when he gazed down at your own. Wantingly.Ā
But he only hugged you in thanks, and took your half-joking swats with a smile.Ā
They couldnāt quite blatantly show the cameras what Gojoās little paper had required him to bring, but you got to keep Gojoās gold medal after the tournament - it was always meant for you, anyway.
And he gets an earful from Yaga, Geto, Haibara (though that was more grumbling about why those last two werenāt the ones carried like a pretty princess instead), and a few articles speculating your relationship, and a Twitter timeline having a complete meltdown over clips of his race.Ā
A video of those particular few seconds with you in his arms racked up a solid few million views in only a few hours since it was posted- but honestly, one million of those views might just be from him alone.
@torutoaster: THE WAYYYY HE CARRIED HER OMG- GOD I SEE WHAT YOUāVE DONE FOR OTHERS-
@CandyKento: did anyone watch the isacs? no but i am soooo curious what gojoās item was-
@chorusito replying to @CandyKento: no but to bring his ehem ehem- ābest friendā it has to be something scandalous right~
@CandyKento replying to @chorusito: right??
@mahitoe replying to @chorusito: lmfao idols canāt date. you guys cant handle anything it was obvs just a friend or something. delulu.Ā
@sugurusshampoobottle replying to @mahitoe: FIGHT ME.
@satorusxkitten: gojo and getoās arms are so big!! fuck!!Ā
@sugu-rizzed: That staff-member manning the box saw what the paper said oh what I would pay to knowā¦
@fiendingforsixeyes: AHHHH I BET IT WAS SOMETHING OR SMTH HE LOVED IK U GOJO U LOVERBOY
@Fushidaddy33: She wouldāve looked better in my arms tbhā¦
Gojo reports that last account.
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āSo, who do you think is the cutest from Six Eyes?ā
āMe.ā
āAnd who do you think is the best dancer?ā
āMe.ā
āThe most romantic?ā
āAhā¦ā Regular interviews could be tedious - but an interview with a lie detector strapped to you somehow surpassed even the ninth chamber of hell. And Gojo thinks that anyone would shrink under the beady, unwavering gaze of the hostess interrogating- ah, interviewing him right now.
Not a hair out of place, not a lie she wouldnāt be able to catch.
Damn that management for signing him up for one of those lie detection interviews - part of him already felt that this was punishment for rejecting Yagaās seventh resignation letter since the chaos of the Idol Star Athletics Championships.
And damn Geto for goading him into going first.
The rest of the group watch leisurely from their comfort of a sofa away from the spotlight - thankfully lie detector-less for now - tittering as their bandmate cowers. Gulping through a slightly-wobbly grin, āMe. Iām the most romantic.ā
Nodding as the polygraph examiner gives the thumbs up for truth.
āNot quite humble, but quite honest arenāt you, Mister Gojo?ā
Gojoās cracking his neck in his uncomfortable seat, the sooner he can get this over with, the better. Still strapped with leather buckles, āI think youāll find that Iām very honest about things I truly feel.ā
Geto sputters through faux coughs- āPfftā Liar.ā
Nanami looks away- murmuring just loud enough for the microphone to pick up, āEhemā¦fibber.ā
And Haibara? Haibara merely snaps his fingers in realization- āAaaahā! I see, theyāre calling you a āliarā, Gojo-san, because you arenāt honest about your feelings towards-ā
āAh ah!ā He tries to make a motion to shut up, but only ends up rocking the chair from side-to-side. And Gojo already knew he was done for the very second heās catching the hostessās eyes gleam at this juicy morsel of information.
āWell, I actually did haveā¦ā Trailing off, sheās shuffling through her pack of pre-written questions. Painted nails fingering one at the very back that she seemed to have stowed away for when the interviews took a particular turn, she clears her throat. Saying your name-
āImpressively high heart rate.ā The examiner drones out, bushy brows raising at what his screen flashed. Just from hearing your name.
As his self-proclaimed friends cackle - those traitors - the hostess shows off her pearly smile, āMister Gojo, is it true that sheās your best friend?ā
Gojo shifts slightly, āVery true.ā Truth.
āAnd she is very beautiful- correct?ā
āVery true.ā Truth.
āAnd smart?ā
āVery true-ā Truth.
āAnd youāre in love with her?ā
āVery tr-ā He gasps, āWait no-ā
To which the older lady cocks her head in genuine confusion, āDespite all the shipping- well, itās all everyoneās been talking about online these days- youāve never done anything? You donāt have feelings for her, young man?ā
āNā¦no.āĀ
Geto raises his hand in a split-second, almost as if he was some model student in a classroom. āYouāre mistaken, my lady, he doesnāt have feelings for her. He has a lot of feelings for her-ā
āSuguru!ā
The final nail on Gojoās coffin might just have been the way the polygraph examiner tries - and fails - to keep a largely neutral face. Instead raising his fist in the air, into a blatant thumbs down, next word tinged in amusement. āLie.ā
Gojo fights against the belts tied to his wrist, monitoring his heartbeat, his deception. āItās faulty, I tell you- faulty. Did you know that polygraphs are actually only 80% accurate andāā
āSo you honestly wouldnāt mind if your best friend showed up with a fresh new boyfriend to introduce to you?ā
ā-I would rather die.ā
Itās silence.
Gojo basking in the shock of what heād just blurted out, everyone else squinting at the overtly clear thumbs up that the examiner was gesturing. A truth. Trying to see whether it would change shape whether they stared hard enough.
Clearing her throat, their seasoned hostess is the first to speak- āAh- well, that was certainly, um.ā Shuffling her cards, she stares at the rest of Six Eyes in bewilderment and they stare in bewilderment right back.Ā
Muttering, āI wish my husband was more like that- anyways.ā She leans in close to Gojo, āSo if I showed youā¦ā Waving her hand at a few of the tech specialists in charge of the projector behind him, ā-this picture with a particular known tattoo artist?ā
It wasnāt even a question.
And a damn good thing it wasnāt, because as soon as the screen behind Gojo lights up with a paparazzi shot - one of you, from years and years ago when you were dating that damn tch- asshole Ryomen Sukuna. All bathed in the light of the city at night, pretty hands in his, smile blinding - oh-so-gorgeous that he feels his heart stop.
Literally.
Thereās a slight, sharp beeeeepā! that emanates from the lie detectorā
Geto stands, āSatoru, what-ā
āGojo-san, are you okay-ā
āI know CPR.ā Hell, even Nanami was looking on with some degree of concern, āBut I wouldnāt do it on you, no offense.ā
As the examiner fiddles with his contraption, the hostess is the one to wonder whether she should call over the medical personnel in the studio. Reaching over her lilā interrogation table to tap Gojoās pale hand lightly- āU-uh, Mister Gojo-ā
Gojo gasps- āHuh? Oh yeah-āĀ
The steady rhythm of his pulse beeps once more on the monitor, albeit it slightly faster than before after heās setting his eyes on you. After his poor, pathetic heart had skipped a beat just at the mere sight of you.Ā
āHeās ruining the picture.ā Gojoās nose bridge wrinkles, gaze straying back to your smile the way an anchor follows a ship to see. No matter how far and deep they may go. The examiner signs out ātruthā as the other man continues, āCan you crop the buffoon out and give me five printed copies of that photo, please?ā
āEh?ā
āEh?ā
āGojo-san, eh?ā
Nanami rubs his aching temples, āThis is why Iād never give him CPR.ā
That particular episode easily became one of the most watched of the season.Ā
Six Eyesā Gojo Satoru Takes a Lie Detector Test | Heart-stopping Revelations!
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Gojo didnāt read these comments, unfortunately, or see any of the edits they were making of him on tiktok. He was too busy spamming comments of his own on Sukunaās official instagram.Ā
Very colorfully-worded ones.Ā
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āWhatās your name?ā
āGojo da strongest.ā
āWhat are you drawing?ā
āA star.ā
For an eight-year-old, Gojo thinks you had the most pensive expression on your face after that particular answer. Brows scrunched cutely, and your tongue sticking slightly between missing teeth- and it was alright, Gojo wasnāt a stranger to the staring.
He knew how to handle all the cooing from aunties at the marketplace, he was used to all the praises for being the fastest kid in all of primary school.Ā
So surely the great, wise, nine-year-old Gojo Satoru could give a fellow classmate as much time as you needed to muster up the very best compliment-
āItās kinda ugly.ā
āWha- huh?ā How dare you- Gojoās pouting, snowy brows scrunching until youāre giggling. āMy star is not ugly.ā Sticking a thumb proudly between his puffed-up chest, āAnd I should know because Iām going to be a star.ā
And that makes him falter- just a bit, because true superstars never falter. āY-you think so?ā Okay, maybe they falter a bit. But in Gojoās defense, no one had ever taken his little daydream so seriously, āYou donāt think itās stupid? That I canāt go up on stage?ā
āNo, why would it be?ā Oh. Youāre tapping his smudged crayon drawing, āBut thatās still an ugly star.ā
Stomping, āIs not.ā
āIs too.ā
āIsā¦ā He looks at you - in all you sparkly humor - then back at his fifteen-pointed star. He looks at you, then back at his brown-colored star for āartistic purposes.ā He looks at you, then back at his star with a spotty face on it because it reminded him of Patrick Star.Ā He looks at you and-
āFineā¦ā
āLet me teach you how to draw an actual star.ā Youāre stumbling over your words a little, and it offends the great Gojo Satoru that he should be taught by such a child like you, a year younger.Ā
But he does have to admit that you drew pretty nice stars.Ā
Crossing his arms with a pout, āFine then- teach me how to draw stars-ā And the grin breaking your tiny face was too bright, too pretty. Suddenly the classroom is too humid, and heās scrambling for something - anything - to throw back in your face. ā-star.ā
āāStarā, huh?ā But you only smile, āI like that.ā
Only to have it thrown back in his.Ā
In a way heās remembering nearly two decades later, your hand in his, your mouth near his earpiece. Quieter than the producers screaming in his ears, but louder than his very own racing heartbeat.
āTake it easy, Satoru.ā Youāre humming, over the velvety-smooth voice of the MAMA award announcer. The one that was ecstatically saying the name of the very band that Gojo might just have forgotten he was a part of the moment your hands wound āround him.Ā
You lift up his dark blindfold, part of his outfit for the day. āGo up, you fool.ā
It wasnāt every day that Six Eyes won a MAMA grand prize, and it also wasnāt every day that the best friend heād begged to be let in as the groupās honorary plus one (also the very same best friend heād been in love with since he knew what love was) was in his arms like this.
But youād been in them when after heād drawn the first star all those years back that youād deemed āacceptable.ā Youād been in them when he decided to take up dancing lessons in middle school, waiting all those hours after dark to walk back home with him. Youād been in them when he entered high school and told you heād be a trainee slaving the days away in some dingy company basement. Youād been in them even tighter when they debuted.Ā
And youād been in them the very second their name had been announced as artist of the year.
In front of all those cameras. All those gasping audiences.
And Geto who thumps him heartily on the back, āGet a room later, lovebirds- if Yaga doesnāt kill you that is.ā
āCome on, Gojo-san, we have to go up for our awardā!ā
Nanami flashes you what you swear was a slight smile, āI am happy for you.ā Before frowning at a shining-eyed Gojo, āNot quite for you, though.ā
āAww Nanamin, you love me~ā
āO-kaaay-ā Once the 6ā4 mess of limbs had finally set you free, Geto was pushing them all to climb up the stage. In time with the blasting background music of their very own Blue, āLetās have the aneurysms when weāre on stage.ā
But what Gojo had on-stage wasnāt anything to make Yaga wish to retire, or to have Nanamiās pounding migraine throb harder. It was a single, sliding tear - and if the lights glaring down on them were bright enough that no one could tell for sure, then all was well with him.
āTo our fans, our family-ā Gojoās starting off into the mic in the middle, deep tone dry and hoarse, metal award cool in his hands. Heās looking at you. ā-and my star, this oneās for you.ā
Itās all.Ā
And later theyād write articles about the hug, the speech, and what it means that youāre his āstarā - but for now, that was for Gojo to know. And for him to step away from the booming mic, letting Geto take his place with much more eloquent words; knowing that in future interviews theyād joke about all the speeches that they had planned.
That Gojo had planned in particular, but nothing came out just right.Ā
Later, he would also wonder why he waited so long - when you were always there in the audience, clapping louder as if it was just for him.Ā
And your best friend mouthsāall bedazzled in his dangling earrings, white suit starkly handsome. āMeet me after the show.ā
That very same clip is made into a gif that gets replayed about twelve million times before the award show actually ends.Ā
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āO-oh fuck-ā Your tongue lolls out until itās hitting midway down your chin, mouth watering with every curly swipe nā prod of Gojoās tastebuds.Ā
His nose hits the edge of your treacly cunt and he whines, watchinā the cute way your pupils roll allll the way to the back. The front of your chest polishing with a few wads of saliva that he canāt lick up right now- no.
Not when his mouth was already so occupied.
All it took was a single step - a single step - inside Gojoās personal dressing room after the MAMAs, before heād crashed your lips against his in a way heād just been dying to do.
Folding you easily over the armrest of the fluffy pink sofa, door locked, sparkly dress hiked up. Gojo hadnāt even bothered to take off your flimsy panties before heād started making out with your sweet, sweet pussy from behind.
Lavishing his tongue between the crevices of your cunt like he was a man parched- āFuck, my star.ā With your underwear just pushed to the side and his throat vibrating with a guttural groan once heās feeling your tight, cozy hole clench āround his tastebuds.āFuck- sāall I want-ā
āA-are you seriously- nghā!ā And you couldnāt believe anything your hazed mind was telling you right now - not of those familiar lyrics, and not of the smooth, frigid brush of something metallic studding just the end of Gojoās tongue. ā-quoting your song right now?ā
āMmmā canāt help it. Wrote it just for you yāknowā¦ā Voice just a bit hitched, just a bit raspy.Ā
There was something in it that made you oh-so-much wetter, and Gojoās summer blue eyes flash as heās taking in the sappy slick gluing your shivering thighs together.Ā
āSh-shit.ā Gurgling out the candied taste of you, you were dripping all down his tongue. Heās pulling you close with a hand stuck on your hip, letting your slick splash at the bottom of his throat- and it still wasnāt enough.Ā
āShit, my star.ā His usual lip gloss smeared all over your pussy, Gojo takes the time to lean in and lick it all clean off. Before pursing his lips to once more spitāāShit-ā
He didnāt know what to say.
Your pretty pussy had him speechless, and itās a damn miracle that heās not tearing that suit off of his body. Stained all down the front with a snail-trail of your sappy juices-
āNeed- this-ā Once his heavy fabric strikes the floor, Gojoās inching even closer in his kneeling position. Thick fingers slide-slide-sliiiiding teasingly between your swollen folds, before tugging on your poor panties. ā-off.ā
Ripping.
And his little prize is now finding a home somewhere inside his pocket for later, but right now Gojo has to stop himself from fucking salivating as youāre exposed for him.
It takes one kiss before he pants- āOh my god.āĀ
And another- āO-oh fuck- oh my god.ā
Fully shoving his face between your legs and letting you shiver at the feeling of his bejewelled earrings. That sunken in.Ā
Flattened tongue slapping down between your driveling slit, Gojo takes his agonizing time lapping up every inch nā cranny you have. āMy starāā Humming almost drunkenly, his pointed muscle swerves between the insides of your pussylips.Ā
āF-fuuuckā!ā Just where you were most sensitive, Gojo lets the stubbed piercing on his tongue slip inside your hole and streeeeetch you out. Slipping out to draw a wet, sickly sweet starā āSince when did you have a- nghh- a tongue piercing, Toru?ā
The first answer youāre getting is a sharp swat on your pussy, āMmm- ever since you dated that fucking bastard with a tongue piercing.ā Sukuna. Gojo croons out, more honest than he wouldāve usually been. āNever put it in butā¦I got it because I thought it was your hah- type.ā
Another smack!
Another squeezing inch of his pierced tongue trying to fuck into your entrance, heās impatient. Heās throbbing in his pants with every tiny clench of your gooey insides, āGot buffer, too- cooler.ā
āOh myā¦god- your tongue, itās- hck! going in-ā Crying out through whines.
āWrote so many songs for you, my starāā Heās drawling out, and you can feel the scorching breeze of his hot breath. The way that Gojoās parting his lips even wider to let his tongue glue against your cunt, grinding all the way inside- āWell- heh- not for her, butā¦ā
Youāre still hypnotized by the sensual massage of his ridged taste buds rubbinā across the front of your dripping pussy.Ā
So much so that the lecherous sluuuurpā! drawn out into the claggy air almost shocks you. Your cuntās letting off the most sexual noises once Gojoās dragging up a hand to tease your wet clit. ā-but Iāll write a song for her as well.ā
His metal rings are just sparkling with coats of slick, and your best friend doesnāt waste even a second latching onto your sensitive nub. Dexterous fingers drawing cute circles over and over that have your hips lurching off of the sofa-Ā
āPlease- ngh- pleeease-ā Your head throws backwards, legs already starting to quake at the utter pressure of having his fingers on your clit. Tongue inside your pussy.Ā
So lengthy that the slimy tip of it mazes between your walls, and Gojoās purposefully stirrinā around your insides with the icy edge of his piercing. Chin rubbing all red with friction as heās leaning in even closer to dig the muscle of his tongue into your sweetest spots, āYeah- yeah nā Iāll have her sing-ā Another hand this time, another finger - pushinā deeply inside you. And the syrupy sound is enough to make him close in on the side of the couch and rut- ā-leadā¦h-heh.ā
And if you thought being fucked into the cushy surface by Gojoās tongue was making your head spin, then youāre being driven positively mad by the wild lashes of his fingertips.Ā
Two ringed fingers fighting for space right along with his sticky tongue, Gojo glues the thick crowns of his digits to the top of your g-spot and watches as you shrill. āAll the reading paid off, hmmā?ā
āY-you read about this?ā Youāre blinking through your tears, mouth dangling open once heās pulling back. All the way to the rotund tips of his fingers- and slamming right down to press on your favorite nerves like a button. āFuck- fuck fuck fuck- just for- for me?ā
āYou donāt know what Iād do for you, my star.ā And it would sound sweet coming from your usual best friend.Ā
But Gojo right now looked feral - pale eyes half-lidded, hair unruly, light make-up replaced by slimy oodles of your slick. Worn like a badge of honor, heās gnawing down on your outer pussy, voice turning into something breathy. Octaves higher. āNoooo fucking idea what Iād do.ā
Gripping onto the dampening covers of the sofa, youāre bucking animalistically like you donāt know whether you want to pull away or grind back down for more, more, more. Yelping, āT-Toru-!ā
āNo- no no no- come back.ā Gojo panics, beefy arms wrapped enough around your body to haaaul you backwards.Ā
And when that wasnāt far enough, Gojoās lust-fogged mind tugs off the blindfold still looped āround his neck. Tightly restraining one over your thigh and manhandling you deeper onto his face-
āSh-shiiit, Satoruāā
āFuck- havenāt had anything so sweet- so addictive, my star.ā Heās murmuring into your pussy, knuckles getting sloppier with all the spanks against the front of your cunt. Tongue lurching in nā out until his jaw was sore and raw with all the movement- but heās still rummaging his muscle along your insides.Ā
Gojoās eating you out like a man lacking a proper meal for eons, and you swear you could feel the way his Adamās apple bob with each heavy gulp of your saccharine slick. āNā now I donāt think I can- haaaah- live without your sweet pussy on my face, sweetheart.ā
The furniture creaks with every bump of his ravenous hips against the sofa, because Gojo didnāt even want to spare a single handle to jerk himself off.
Not when he could target the throbbing nub of your clit, rolling over it until the harsh pleasure makes you squeeeal. āDonāt have to- donāt- ngh-ā
āDāyou think so?ā That overeager thumb latched to your clit does a quick circular motion that renders your mouth drier than the Sahara. Swooping. Pressing down. āReally really th-think I can?ā
āYes- fuck- yes-ā Whining, back arching into such a perfect curve. āJust make me cum, Satoru-ā
āYes, maāam.ā Gojo huffs out a cloud of breath, long lashes fluttering. The rapid thump-thump-thumps of his two fingers burrowing into your g-spot hasten, āBut only if you mmmmā say my name.ā
āSatoru.ā
āLouder?ā
āSatoru.ā
With your wailing tone knocking off each corner of the wall, itās like heās rattling off all the unspeakable dreams heās had of you. āThennnā spit in my mouth?ā
Almost like heās testing it out- and youāre snapping your head over your shoulder. Not knowing whether to give him a piece of whateverās left of your mind, or whether you would spit in his mouth.Ā
But you didnāt need to wrack your pretty brain over it any time soon.
Because Gojoās shaking his bleary head, āHmm- guess you already have, though- heh.ā Partially-closed eyes locked onto your agape cunt every time youāre suckinā his tongue in- and itās only then that you realize heās talking to your pussy.Ā
Letting your pussy spit out wads of juices that slip nā slide down his throat, that get fucked back in by his relentless mouth.
Your hands grip the couch, āS-stop teasingā please, māso close.ā
āAnd then finallyāā The tender edges of his fingers scrape your sweet spots in that strangely swooping motion that makes your toes curl restlessly. Dragging it oooon with his lilted bass, ā-spell this out, my star?ā
Your thighs twitch, the semicircles heās drawinā on your g-spot taking the formation of an āSā. Then an āAā-
āSa-sa-ā
āYou got it. You got it, sweetheart.ā
With the probinā deepness of his fingers, heās flicking his fingertips until your vision flashes white. āTā, your favorite dragged-out āOā that makes his pierced tongue swoop in tiny circles, too. āSato-āĀ
You knew where this was going. Faster. Harder.
You knew, and yet, youāre still letting him finish off a soppy āRā and āUā - branded in big capital letters from the gooey, heated insides of your pussy until youāre finishing off, too. āSatoru- Satoru. Mācumming, oh fuck, mācummingā¦ngh.ā
With a slight, stiled sob, youāre being run over by your high - just in time for Gojo to twist the orbed piercing on his tongue over in a S-A-T-O-R-U as well. Sloppily salivating down the sides of your slit, your thighs trickle with every ounce of sap youāre spraying out.Ā
Whimpering, deep into the cavern of his mouth- āSh-shit-ā Gojoās hissing in that airy tone of his, feeling hot wetness seeping into his pants the very second youāre cumming - he is, too.Ā
And yet, the only thing he can think about is dragging out your high.Ā
To strike the bruised nā battered areas of your walls until your thighs are shaking with every peak of your orgasm, mouth slobbering everywhere and anywhere.
From the pearly spatters of slick sheening your legs, to the pulsing top of your clit. Fucking and fucking your quivering entrance until your body feels all raw and sizzling. Every thrust of his fat, velvety tongue makes your pupils whirl stupidly in the whites of your eyes. āSh-shit- nghhh- shit.ā
And it takes him such a long time to let go of you - especially when heās this drunk on your pussy.Ā
Pulling back with a final push of his piercing on top of your clit, and the loudest squeeelchā!
āH-heheh.ā Gojo whispers against your pussy and you mewl, falling onto your elbows over the cushions of the sofa.Ā
Wearily, you look over your shoulder to take a good, solid look at him - only to feel your heart stutter at the utter grin on his face. Dopey. Glittered with slick. It beads down your best friendās sharp jawline as he speaks, āReplaced my lipgloss- heh.ā He cocks his head to the side, sapphire eyes fluttering priggishly. āDid I ever tell you that was my first time? Been savinā myself for you, my starā¦ā
Your mouth drops open at his words.
Oh.
Oh.
You werenāt making it out of this alive.Ā
Within a few bats of your teary lashes, Gojo has you pushed onto your back on top of the springy cushions. His towering form hovering over you-
Pinkish tongue snagging at the end of one glistening lip, āYou should knowā¦Iāve never done this before either.ā He shivers, top layers shrugged off into a pile, golden clasps of his pants unbuttonedāpop! pop! pop!
With your stringy panties pulled out of his trousers, nā the rest pushed down until heād sexily bare in front of you. You canāt tear your widened eyes away as Gojo wraps your underwear āround his thick, bulging cock and jerks.
And fuck- did it make your mouth water.
Oh, fuck.
Because Gojo was just so big - in every sense.
From the width of his towering shoulders, all chiseled with bouncy pecs. To the way he was so ripped with lean muscle that you couldnāt stop imagining how itād feel to have them pressed down against you.Ā
A feverish blush drifts down the back of his neck, alllll the way down between his pale happy trail. And right up to the fat, pinkened globe of his cock - all heavy and long. So, so long that it had your thighs squeezing in both fear and anticipation.Ā
You breathe, āY-youāre soā¦ā
Gojo gnaws down on his bottom lip with a moan, āMm- yeah, tell me, sweetheart.ā Vein-covered fist flying up and down his shaft, the rub of your panties was just so delicious that heās splurging out a thick wad of precum straight down your slit. āTell me- tell me.ā
āSo big.ā Youāre wondering where he even hid something like that.
Making such a mess.Ā
And heās made a mess before too - cumming in his pants just from eating you out. So your cunt was being soaked with a few wires of his ivory sap.Ā
Being pushed in the very second Gojo slouches over your body and slaps his thick mushroom tip between your pussylips. Rutting his sloppy hips without even realizing-
āYou donāt think itās weird, my star?ā Head hunched, white bangs covering his eyesight. The tone in his voice is thick with something primal, āHow I was- haaaah-ā And so was his cadence, sandwiching between your soppy folds back nā forth back nā forth. ā-fisting my cock to the thought of my ngh- pretty lilā best friend for yeeeears?ā
Dragging it out.Ā
Just aaaaaching with a particularly sensual slide of his vein-covered shaft down your cunt, āJust aaaaching.ā The knobbled top of his length slips against your oversaturated pussy and plugs up your hole. Hitting it with a damp plop! āFor one taste- for anything.ā
Your hands claw up to the tufts of his soft hair, pulling and it makes his cock twitch. āWant it in. Please, Satoru?āĀ
āA-are you sure I- hah-ā And fuck- his eyes gape as he looks down between your cute, shivering legs. Marvelling at the sheer size difference between the plump girth of his cockhead, and your tight hole. āIf itās too much, I can just put the tip- oh, fuck.ā
But you were impatient, and youāre wrapping your legs āround his toned waist to tug him closer. Deeper. Inside.Ā
To feel the tender underside of his length scrape your walls, each nā every zig-zagged vein snaking inside your cunt. Gojo was just so big that your vision flashes black and white with just a few inches stuffed-
āI take it back.ā He gasps. He heaves - pants so labored that it was like heād given up on catching his breath. Trying to hold his head up - failing.Ā
āTake- oh, youāre so big- take what back?ā
And the only thing Gojo can do is grab both sides of your waist and use the lecherous leverage to pull and pull you further down his rock-hard shaft. Straining out, his thumb cranes over to push inside a gluey wad of cum. āI t-taaake it back. Just the tip- n-never-ā Just one singular taste of your sopping wet pussy on his cock and his voice cracks. ā-never gonna be just the tip, my star.ā
Heās so untouched, biting down furiously on his lower lip.Ā
Biting down furiously on your sodden panties just as soon as he remembers theyāre still in his hands, muffling every whimpering wail that threatens to leave his maw.Ā
āNgh- ngh- what the f-fuck.ā Gojoās ripping from the back of his throat, head falling backwards to bare his attractive throat as he slips deeper in. Fighting against that snug resistance with a few good half-thrusts, not even able to pull out properly. To even move. āIt can feel this good?āĀ
And through your half-closed eyes youāre making out the fact that heās pinching himself with a free hand. āOr māI just in heaven?ā
You feel his big, bulbous tip swab near your g-spot and start to mewl- āMmmā and what if you are?ā
āDonāt even wanna know if sāreal.ā Strings of saliva stick to Gojoās lips as he babbles, still lathered in a layer of your pussy juices from before. And his mouth only waters even more when heās feeling your hot insides clench around him, āDonāt need to know anything else- ngh.ā
Every syllable is punctuated by an almost vulgar rut.Ā
Youāre screaming as heās bullying his slimy, pre-glazed tip inside. Letting the rotund crown of his cock pry apart your cute walls, harder. Deeper.Ā
Gojo smears your pussylips further open with one of his thumbs, letting just the top part of his digit fit into your entrance. Just so that he can fit his cock in fully.Ā
āP-please fit.ā Muttering underneath his breath, teeth clenching tight on your panties. Looking up at you ferally through his lashes, āPlease- please, didnāt wait s-so fucking long for you not to take it, my star. For this pretty pussy to be left unsatisfied.ā
Your nails dig into his back, āFuck- please- oh my god.ā
āIt has to fit-āĀ
āWill it?ā
āYes- yes, youāre gonna take it alll, my girl.āFucking you furiously, sloppily. No rhythm or rhyme - or even sanity in each of his jagged strikes aiming for the very bottom of your pussy, āHas to it has to it- fuck! It has to-ā
And when it does - when it finally, finally does - Gojo Satoru is left gaping, your underwear now dropping from his mouth and cleanly onto the floor. Speechless.Ā
Shit, if he hadnāt cum just minutes prior then heād be creaming himself all over again.
Blinking once, twice down wordlessly at the sultry vision of your bloated pussylips kissinā his pelvis. Bottomed-out until his cock was swallowed all the way up until those tufts of white at his base-
And then it all happens at once.
In a singular split-second, Gojo has your legs thrown over his shoulder, your knees pushed all the way down to your tits. Striking your spongy cervix with a dull thud of his weepy cocktip, before heās reeling out halfway and doing it all over again.
And again.
And again and again and again-
Youāre just shrillingā āToru- hck!ā Feeling your weary throat clog up with so many sobs nā whines every time his globular head was piercing your cunt, pushinā all the way into your womb. āToru Toru Toru-ā
āMāon vocal rest after this, yāknow?ā He blurts, seemingly out-of-the-blue.Ā
That is, until Gojo stares down at you with such a heady grin, leaned down just close enough that his hot respiration wafts the shell of your ear. And his tongue lurches out to lick up the drooling spittle leaking from each side of your mouth, āSo you hafta scream twice as loud fāme, my star.ā
Slamming the lines of his chiseled hips against yours, Gojoās shaft was oh-so-veiny enough that youāre feeling your mind melt at the constant massage of your g-spot. āLike that- nghhh please-ā
āLike- like this?ā And itās so difficult to remember that this was still Gojoās first timeā especially when he roams a palm over your tummy to feel for a particular bulging outline and press.
Carnally caressing the cylindrical bump that he was pounding into you, branding the fatness of his length right against your girth. āShit- you really took it all.ā Heās in awe at the feeling of his rotund cockhead pokinā your very womb, āYou wanna be fucked like hngh- this, donāt you? Want it hard? Fast?ā
He was speaking utter filth, but his cadence was even filthier.Ā
Shivering hand pushing down on your stomach, the other slithering between your sheeny legs to toy with your neglected clit.Ā
āYour legs are shivering, my star- māin trouble.ā He arches his sculpted back to pick up the ruthless pace, throbbing cock stirrinā within you to bash constantly straight into your g-spot. āS-sooooo much trouble.ā
āMore- ngh! Satoru, more-ā Youāre crying out through wobbly lips, āWant it even harder.ā
āFuck-ā Hissing underneath his breath, Gojoās doughy fingertips speedily smack your slope. Making your legs grow all numb, āFuck fuck fuck fuck- then ngh- yeah, open those pretty legs and take this fat fucking cock-ā
With a few more strokes heās holding onto your throat, pinning you down so that Gojo can scratch the rough texture of his happy trail down your clit until you cry. āThis fat- haaah- fuckinā- cock-ā
Youāre so dumbified by the size and sheer pleasure that you can only repeat after him, stupidly. āFat- ngh- fuckinā...ā
A velvety tongue drags over your salty beads of tears, āAtta girlāā Grindinā the circumference of his thick cock against your g-spot, Gojoās biting down on your earlobe just to hear the way you sing. āLouder.ā The dangly metal of his earrings are frosty against your own clammy face, sensual. āLouder- let them hear, let them know.ā
Uncertainly, your eyes drift over to where the door of the dressing room was innocently positioned. Notably closed. Notably locked.
But your moans were reaching a fever point at the rough bludgeons of Gojoās cock, the way he was swervinā his hips juuuust right to snag your sweetest spots.Ā
All those years of dancing helped him expertly target long glides down your g-spot. Leaving a trail of wet mucus from that particular bundle of nerves, nā straight down-down-dooown to your cute cervix. āLet them all see-ā
āS-see?ā Youāre gasping out in disbelief.Ā
With what almost sounds to you like a growl, āMhm- yeah, fuck!ā Gojo spanks his hips hard enough against yours that the impact leaves his v-line reddening, the papping sound echoing within the dressing room. āYou think I wouldnāt fuck you in front of every nosy lilā camera out there?ā
You donāt even know what to say - what to do.
The only thing your pathetic body is capable of doing is gyratinā back down to meet his tempo. Letting your limp legs tighten over his shoulders, āY-you would?ā
āOh, my sweetheartāā Gojoās crooning, snowy brows scrunching together. Giving your treacly cunt yet another hard jackhammer, āIf this pussy wasnāt mine and mine alone, then that door wouldnāt even be- hah- locked right now.ā
And he was drilling into you like he meant it - like he was furious with himself for holding out this long on the heaven of your sweet, sweet pussy.
Wailing, your eyes crossing at the sheer pleasure.
Now that heād slurped up one sip, he was eager for the next- and before you know it, the blindfold thatād been dangling on your thigh was suddenly coiling āround your ankles. āYouāre not getting out of this- oh.ā Gojoās beefy biceps flex as heās tying your legs behind his neck, all for him to pull back onāāGonna- gonna fill you up so we hafta be- ngh- prepared.ā
Your salivatinā chin hits the front of your chest and you whine, āPlease- please make me cum, mm-ā
āYeah? Gonna make you cum- hah-ā Gojoās mouth hangs ajar, blush so rosy. He feels your goopy walls tighten on reflex and that makes his hardened cock twitch, āThen- then māgonna fuck you through that.ā
Strike after strike.Ā
His swollen lips lean down to suckle on one of your fingers - your left handās ring finger, to be precise. āThen māgonna put a ngh- ring on it. Gonna- gonna I swear-ā
Push after push.
āToruāā Your tits jut up as youāre bowing your back off of the drenched sofa, ā-not gonna- gonna- fuck!ā
You donāt even have the privilege of letting that sentence finish before your orgasm takes you over, thrumming white-hot zaps of pleasure through your veins. Your teeth set on edge at how utterly good it feels to have Gojoās fattened cock swabbing your tight hole through every peak, āOh my god- oh my- fuuuuuck, thereās jusā so much, Toru.ā
Toes curled, mouth unfastened.
Pinching your clit until youāre squeeealing- āSo- so much.ā Heās echoing in a whisper, crushing you tight to him once Gojoās finishing off, too.Ā
Abs plastered against your front until you memorize each ridge, his pecs smooth nā plump against your tits. Your best friend just looked so pretty with his pearly whites grit in a snarl, brows knitted as heās pumping you with cum until you overspilled.Ā
With thick, seedy knots of cum that blanketed your pussy - his pointed cockhead nudges every droplet inside until you can feel your walls stretch with the utter size.Ā
Thighs shaking with your release, his mess sploshing around inside of you. Your vision was still completely hazy- āFuck- fuck, Satoru.ā
And itās like the sound of his name plummeting from your mouth sends shockwaves down his spine.
Because Gojoās staring at you - mushroomy tip still leaky, still slidinā through the sappy puddle heās formulating at your cervix. For a good few seconds, maybe even minutes until heās chucklingāāGod, they could see right through me. Everyone could.ā
More to himself.
Although those next words were entirely for you.Ā
āI love you.ā Gojoās pale lashes flutter, almost shyly, and youāre speechless at the fact that he was still fucking you. In slow, aching grinds that have him fucking his cum deeper nā deeper inside you. āIāve always loved you, my star.ā
Your heart quivers, and you canāt help but reach a hand out to run through the sweaty valleys of his locks. Smile dazzling - something he could write songs, ballads, sonnets about some day. But for now it only makes his azure eyes wet, āAnd I love you, my Toru.ā
Something weeps out of Gojo that sounds like a husky, drawn-out groanā and you can feel his thick tip twitch inside of you with a few more beaded dollops of seed.
Cumming for the nth time tonight until all his heavy balls could let out was misty white, just from hearing that you loved him back.
And for once itās silence.
Calm, warm silenceā that is, until Gojoās pulling his ravaged, red cock just far enough that your cunt lets off the soppiest wet sluuuurp!Ā
Youāre gasping, still feeling the rush of your high make your head whirl. Thighs clenching around his broad deltoids automatically, āSatoru- wh-what are you-ā
āOh, wellā¦ā Long, pale hands reach for the pile of fabric on the floor - your boyfriendās pants. And Gojo has the sleaziest grin on his face as heās digging his fingers into the depths of his pockets, promptly pulling out a lengthy line of condom foils. One heād packed just in case, just for you.
Youāre mentally counting about twenty before heās letting his proud stack drop right down to your front. āYou didnāt think we were done, right, my sweetheart?ā
Oh, fuck.
Neither of you are making it out of this alive.
.
.
.
āThereās the wall of perfume, my books- especially songwriting books. And these clothes and, yeah, thatās really it for my roomā¦ā Gojo kicks away the pile of his Digimon socks on the ground with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.Ā
Something he was sure the cameraman intruding his dorm room would capture, and yet still edit to make something cute out of it anyway.Ā
Ah- such was the life of an ever-popular idol.
And here he was, up bright and early in the morning to let some variety show stomp all through the Six Eyesā penthouse as a sort of āhouse tour.ā Well, sure he knew that this was bound to be a hit with the fans that probed into his life, but was it really necessary to not even give the man a heads-up?
Plastering on his most polished smile, he nods politely as the camera records a few more details. The hosts cooing over each little thing - all those fan letters he kept, a pretty crayon drawing of a blue star from years ago, and the-
āEh?ā
āEh?ā
āEh?ā Getoās poking his head in, grin already plastered just in case there was to be some sort of chaos upheaved in Gojoās room. And why wouldnāt there be?
Gojoās following both hostsā lines of vision, all the way down to his bed, āEh?ā Was it not made properly? Was it an offense to have sheets of his own boyband at this day and his age? Or was- āOh.ā
And then Gojo sees it - that.Ā
The familiar, gauzy fabric of your panties that heād stolen all those nights ago. Hidden neatly underneath the puff of his pillows - well, almost hidden.
Because obviously it was exceptionally still in the bedroom right now- fuck, even Geto had gone quiet from his station near the door, realizing what it was. Attracting the attention of two very curious other members that were currently fighting to get a glimpse-
One of the hosts clears her throat, āUm- Mister Gojo, is thatā¦ā Eyes dazzling at the possibility of a scoop this big - all in their almost-family-friendly home-touring show. āIs it possible thereās a lady in your life the fans and world may want to know about? Is this that very same best friend everyone says you pine over?ā
And the other host cackles, āWell, they certainly donāt seem to be your size, boy. And ones so skimpy- oho, kids these days.āĀ
Unabashedly pushing a mic into his face, āAnything to say for yourself?ā
āAh-ā Gojo coughs out, jumping once the cameraman immediately swivels his lens towards him for his response. āAha, well- you see-ā
Gojo looks at Geto.
āā¦ā
At Haibara.
āā¦ā
At Nanami.
āā¦Fucking idiot.ā
And finally at the camera itself- āCut the cameras. Deadass.ā
Yaga might have bribed the network to never air that particular episode, and Dispatch might have done their best to leak it, anyway.
Right along with a few grainy paparazzi shots of figures that looked undeniably like you two. Hand-in-hand, suspicious blemishes on both your necks, wandering down the sidewalks of Han River.Ā
And if Yaga was having a tough PR day with just that then it wouldāve been too merciful of the universe. Because how could you discount the fact that Gojo Satoru, notorious dodger of paparazzi questions, had proudly held up your joined hands and exclaimed at a few buzzing reportersāāFuck yeah- my girlfriend now, suckers!ā
No resignation letter would ever be enough.
@sunflowerboy: let it be known that I always believed in Gojo-san!!
@eathaibara replying to @sunflowerboy: we bow before you great sunflowerboy (the only one to believe in toruās loser rizz)
@torutoaster: i luv how #go(jo)outthefriendzone is trending worldwide- LOSER RIZZ ALWAYS WINSĀ
@fiendingforsixeyes: HE DID IT?? MY BOY ACTUALLY DID IT??
@mahitoe: tch whatever
@zbstan replying to @mahitoe: womp womp
@sunflowerboy replying to @mahitoe: LMFAOOOO SUCK IT YOU LOSER HATER FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK-
@eathaibara replying to @sunflowerboy: omg sunflowerboy??
@sunflowerboy replying to @eathaibara: sorry got a little excited^^
@sugu-rizzed: I just know pr is SCRAMBLING rn but not as much as my boy scrambled to get that cookie.
@satorusxkitten: bi panic is wanting both of them!!
@ge.akuge: idk what she sees in him it must be the wigs
@CandyKento: the āmy starā, isacs, the awards speech, the PANTIES?? gojo satoru it was always meant to be idk what to tell ya. now get married
@Fushidaddy107: I still think sheād be better with me smh.
@officialgojosatoru replying to @Fushidaddy107: Blocked.
A/N. This was SOOO self-indulgent omg- ALSO DADDY TONYāS BAAAACK!!
Thinking about ghost and gaz who, due to trauma and personal reasons, are both strictly tops, right?
Usually they make it work. Toys, mutual masturbation, jerking eachother off. Sure, with the random libido spikes it's a challenge, but nothing two SAS soldiers can't handle.
Sometimes, though, that craving for a nice warm hole to fuck just gets to be too much. Which leads to a pair of the hottest men you've seen hanging around the back of your local bar.
This is a practiced song and dance for them. Ghost far more particular about partner but lacking the social finesse, he points to people he wants and let's gaz do the rest.
Really, kyle has you the moment he leaned one shoulder against the wall, semi-caging you in with that warm smile. The heated kiss was just a bonus on top.
You'll only make the connection that they're married when kyle pulls ghost in for a kiss over your body. The fat underside of his cock rubbing over your tongue, ghost's cock buried deep in your hole.
You twist, desperate to see them, to soak in that genuine love you only receive fractions of. It's wet and messy, the scars on ghosts face dripping more spit onto your back than anything. But kyle only presses further, moaning against his husbands skin.
Afterwards, when you feel like your joints may give out and at least ten percent of your weight is cum, they'll pull you in between them with a content sigh. You'll drift off to bed between two lovers without feeling like a brick wall.
In the kitchen, far before you wake, you'll miss the conversation ghost and gaz have about a more permanent third.
something about a man falling asleep with his body between your thighs, his arms looped around your waist, his head resting on your stomach as he snores softlyā¦. your hands playing with his hair as he rests t___t
Summary: While helping search your boyfriendās room, you come across his collection of adult content that he promised to throw away. What Eddie didnāt realize was that the materials that once caused him pleasure would end up becoming his punishment.
**COMING SOON**
āāāāāāāā
āBabe, whereās the last place youād seen it?ā
You had been searching for twenty minutes, tearing apart Eddieās bedroom to assist him in his frantic hunt for his missing guitar pick- his lucky guitar pick. The one that he couldnāt go on stage without. It was a bad omen, a tragedy, and a complete disaster if he played without it that night. So now, here you are, taking part in your boyfriendās two-person search party.
āJesus, I donāt knowā¦ā Eddie groans āI canāt fucking remember.ā
āYou know, babe, if you maybe cleaned up every once in a while like Wayne tells you to-ā
āSweetheart, I know, okay?ā Eddie sighs āCan you please just spare me the lecture? Pretty please? Iām already stressed.ā
āOkay, Eds.ā You reply āJust calm down. Weāll find it. Have you looked under your bed?ā
āNo.ā He shook his head āCould you? Iām gonna go check the laundry basket in the bathroom. Maybe I left it in one of my pants pockets.ā
As Eddie walks out of his bedroom, you sink to the floor- getting on your hands and knees to search underneath his bed. You tilt your head to the side, trying to catch a glimpse of what was underneath his mattress- feeling around for anything that could be his guitar pick.
Your hands felt around several miscellaneous items. A few comic books that had surely ended up abandoned after Eddie had fallen asleep reading them, sending them to a graveyard housed between his wall and the mattress. The further you dug underneath the labyrinth of junk under his bed, the more disturbed you became.
Old condom wrappers from your past hookups, a beat up spiral notebook, a Dungeons and Dragons manual, dirty socks, a yo-yo, and- to your horror- a pizza box that housed hard, stale pieces of crust. You wrinkle up your nose in disgust, dragging it out from underneath the bed as you slid it across the floor. You would definitely be giving him a lecture later about how disgusting he was.
As you kept digging, you used your arm to reach further- your fingertips brushing up against something hard and rectangular. Your interest was piqued. You pressed the side of your head down onto the floor, trying to get low enough to get a peek. Down further, almost out of reach was a beaten-up black shoebox. You knew that it probably wasnāt where his guitar pick was hiding but you were curious.
You stretch the tips of your fingers, using them to inch the box closer to you so that you could grab onto it- sliding it out from underneath the bed. The lid was well-worn. You wondered what was inside, knowing that it was neither his white Reebok sneakers or his black boots. Really, it was probably where he stored his old acrylic paint sets that he used to paint his DnD miniatures.
You stared down at the box in front of you, knowing that you shouldnāt snoop through your boyfriendās stuff. You and Eddie were completely open with each other and shared a lot in your relationship but you still couldnāt help but feel guilty about potentially violating his privacy. You should put it back where you found it. You should leave the lid closed. You should forget that you had even found it in the first place. But that damn shoebox was like a sirenās call to you.
Open me.
Open me.
Open me.
Your curiosity got the best of you. Before you could stop yourself, you pluck off the lid- setting it on the floor beside you as you peer into the box. You werenāt sure what you had been expecting but you werenāt expecting what you saw. Several copies for something called Heavy Metal.
They looked just like every other comic that Eddie owned, adorned with colorful illustrations in various art styles, genres, and characters. Just like his favorites; Uncanny X-Men, Saga Of The Swamp Thing, The Warlord, and Dragonlance for example. However, you found it odd that these ones were stuffed away in a box and not on his bookshelf where he usually kept them.
Maybe these ones were rare? You thought. But that couldnāt be it because all of his rare comics were carefully stored in protective sleeves and categorized by series- it was the only thing in his life that was organized. Why would these ones be here and not with the others?
Your eyes sweep over the cover of the issue that was on top of the stack. Pictured was an illustration of a woman. She was dressed (if you could even call it that) in a thin, barely there black fabric that only covered her breasts and her crotch- the rest of the material flowing behind her like a cape. Otherwise, everything else was exposed. Youāve never seen any of the female heroines in Eddieās comics drawn this scantily clad. It took you aback.
Your eyes continue to sweep over the cover, ignoring the way that the heroine was wrapped up in a fierce green dragon. This was definitely on par for Eddie. However, when your eyes traveled further up, you caught sight of the text at the top near the magazine title. In yellow text it read, āthe adult illustrated fantasy magazine.ā
Adult.
If you werenāt intrigued before, you definitely were now.
You open the strange magazine, beginning to thumb through the pages as your eyes skimmed over the contents. You didnāt know what you expected but it certainly wasnāt what you ended up finding on the pages.
Your eyes widen in shock as you are met with comic strip pages filled with naked women. Their nude bodies drawn in crude situations and perverse sexual scenarios. The pictures were so graphic, hypersexualized, and over-exaggerated to the point that your face began to heat up. Not only did your boyfriend own one of these dirty magazines but he owned several.
Your head was reeling as you continued sifting through the box. Issue after issue after issue. Six in total. Way more than what he needed. As you lifted them out of the shoebox, you were greeted with something worse; a VHS porno tape. It lacked its cardboard cover sleeve but you could read the title on the front of the tape; Wet and Messy Vol. 2.
Was this really the shit that your boyfriend was into?
āHey, baby, I found it! It was in the pocket of my-ā
Eddie walks into the room, holding up his lucky guitar pick in triumph. When his eyes landed on you, he went speechless. The last thing he expected to see when he walked back into his room was his girlfriend kneeling on the floor with his āsecret stashā box open in front of you. But as soon as he noticed the VHS tape clutched in your hand and his collection of dirty mags in a pile on the floor, his mouth went completely dry.
Doing the ācomparing hand sizes thingā with a werewolf trying to flirt, giggling about how big and long their fingers are, meanwhile theyāre internally panicking. How can you hunt and protect yourself with such small paws??? :( you dont even have claws.
The only thing thatād be more potentially embarrassing than my internet history would be my calculator history, a chronicle of all the painfully simple math I couldnāt manage to do in my head.
Took Ollie to the vet today. And I'm not gonna say who. But ONE of us had a panic attack immediately after the checkup and wouldn't get out of the sink
sukuna tries to throw away the pot you beat him with <3
[ cw: crazy!reader, the title is self explanatory, not proofread, another love letter to @indiewritesxoxo if u guys like torturing sukuna pls check out her drabble series š ]
he hates that god damn thing.
and despite the fact that itās been an entire year since youāve hit him over the head with it, leaving a giant dent the shape of his skull, you still havenāt thrown that fucking pot away.
you use it for everythingātea, coffee, ramen, scrambled eggs, his fucking birthday dinnerānever failing to remind him of the day he ACCIDENTALLY called you a bitch.
heās apologized for it, heās changed, and is now an entirely different man than he was a year ago. why the hell do you still have it?
well, heās getting rid of it tonight, so thereās really no use in asking any further questions. it took him an entire week to come up with a plan, which was more than fair given your unhealthy attachment to the item.
so far, everythingās worked beautifully in his favor. he came home with take-out from your favorite restaurant, along with a bottle of your favorite wine. he got you tipsy, then later on made you cum so hard you literally passed out.
there was no way you were waking up after that, not for another eight hours at least. and if you were, you werenāt getting up. youād be too sore, too physically exhausted.
it was perfect.
after staying back for a few minutes, holding you and making sure you were dead asleep, he snuck out of bed and made his way into the kitchen to grab the literal bane of his existence. no noise was made while doing so, you hung the thing up like it was some medal you won at a competition.
the side door gently creaks as he opens it, then makes his way down the wooden steps. the trash cans are only a few feet away, and the excitement builds the closer he gets to them.
but just as he lifts the lid open, the giddiness he feels gets ripped away by something that made him startle.
āwhat are you doing?ā
he freezes and slowly turns his head to the side until heās met the sight of you wide awake, waiting at the top of the stairs, just standing there like a sleep paralysis demon. there are many questions that go through his mind, like, āhow is she awake right now?ā and āhow did i not fucking hear her?ā all of which die on his tongue because he is admittedly afraid at the moment.
ābring that pot back inside, now,ā you demand.
āiāll get you a new one,ā he says in a pathetic attempt to bargain with you.
āI donāt want a new one.ā
and with that, he doesnāt try to argue any further and walks back in defeat.
you yank the pot of his grip once he reaches the top of the steps. for a moment, he braces himself, thinking youāre about to add another dent to it. luckily, you just scold him. āi canāt believe the lengths youād go through to get rid of something that i love.ā
he scoffs, you say that as if he were trying to sabotage you or something. āi was getting rid of something that was barely functional.ā
you let out a little laugh. āright, right. barely functional yet iāve been able to do more than just cook with it.ā you nudge him forward with the pot. ānow get back in bed.ā
pairing ā garrett graham x nursing student!reader
summary ā a national championship, a very badly timed love confession, and garrett graham choosing a kiss before the trophy.
warnings ā hockey violence, championship game stress, accidental love confession, anxiety/spiralling, injuries/hits, blood/cut mention, emotional overwhelm.
notes from me ā WE DID IT!!! based on this ask, thank you so so much lovely!! if i got anything about hockey wrong, no i didnāt and stfu š¤
word count ā 9.1k
The last time Garrett tried to go down on her, he fell asleep. Not fully, he remains extremely defensive about that distinction.Ā
According to Garrett, thereās a significant difference between falling asleep and briefly resting your eyes while your mouth is still attached to your girlfriend, even if the girlfriend in question has to tug gently at your curls and ask, āBaby?ā three separate times before you lift your head with a little crease pressed into your cheek from her thigh.
āI wasnāt asleep,ā heād mumbled.
āYou stopped moving.ā
āWas thinking.ā
āWith your eyes closed?ā
He nodded against her thigh. āHelps me focus.ā
Then heād yawned so widely his jaw cracked, lowered his face onto her stomach and gone completely limp across the bed.
She had stared down at the back of his head for several seconds, one hand still tangled in his hair, her underwear stranded somewhere around one ankle and the entire evening rearranged around the fact that Briarās hockey captain had reached physical collapse halfway through eating her out.
āOkay,ā sheād said, because there were moments where compassion had to take priority over personal fulfilment. āWeāre going to sleep.ā
Garrett had made a muffled sound of protest into her skin.
āYou just lost consciousness between my legs.ā
āDidnāt.ā
āYour mouth was open.ā
He adjusted his face more firmly into her stomach. āIt was already open.ā
āThat is not the defence you think it is.ā
He had tried to lift himself onto one elbow, managed perhaps four inches and then dropped his face back against her with the exhausted dignity of a man being asked to complete one final push-up after the end of civilisation. āGive me five minutes.ā
Sheād taken one look at the grey shadows beneath his eyes, the tired drag at the corners of his mouth and the fading yellow bruise along one shoulder from the regional final, then pulled the blanket over both of them instead. Garrett had been asleep before she finished getting her underwear back on.
That was nearly two weeks ago. She hasnāt been fucked properly in three, which would be a more compelling personal tragedy if Garrett hadnāt spent those same three weeks skating like Briar Universityās continued existence depended on him alone
The tournament has eaten all of them alive. Two regional wins to secure the Frozen Four. The semifinal two nights ago, won in overtime after Briar spent most of the third period trapped in its own zone and Garrett blocked a shot with his ankle badly enough that he limped until the next morning but still refused to acknowledge anything had happened.Ā
Film sessions. Practice. Recovery. Media. Team meetings. More film because Garrett had decided there might be a hidden tactic buried in the exact angle of an opposing wingerās shoulder if he watched the footage enough times.
Heās been sleeping in pieces. Forty minutes on her dorm bed before practice. Twenty in the passenger seat while Tucker drove. Once at her desk with his forehead resting on a chapter about community health, and one hand still wrapped loosely around her wrist like he had fallen asleep halfway through confirming she was there.
She has watched the tournament take him apart in small, ordinary ways nobody else would necessarily notice.
The protein bar wrappers multiplying in his gear bag because he keeps forgetting meals until she puts food directly into his hand. The way his jaw goes hard whenever somebody asks what it means to play the national championship at TD Garden, when everyone knows perfectly well what it means.Ā
The Bruins. His future. His fatherās history hanging somewhere above all of it, invisible and still somehow taking up space. Garrett has answered every question correctly. He says itās about Briar. About the boys. About finishing what they started. He means it too.
Garrettās spent weeks carrying everyone elseās nerves so convincingly that half the team appears to have forgotten he possesses any of his own.
By the time she reaches the Garden, she feels like she has swallowed something carbonated. It moves beneath her ribs in bright, rising bubbles as she follows Lucy and Monique through the concourse, one hand wrapped around theirs to keep from losing either of them in the river of navy, silver and white pouring toward the arena.Ā
Everywhere she looks, somebody from Briar is there. Students she recognises from tutorials. Professors wearing team scarves over collared shirts. Alumni with old jerseys stretched across bodies that have changed significantly since graduation. Half the hockey houseās regular party population appears to have made the trip, suddenly united by school pride and the urgent need to buy beer before warm-ups begin.
The Garden itself feels too large to hold all of them. Light spills down from the high ceiling onto the ice in hard, clean sheets, making the rink look almost blue at the edges. Music pounds through the arena speakers while the scoreboard turns slowly above centre ice, cycling through team logos, player footage and the words NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP in letters large enough to make her stomach tighten every time they appear.
The air smells like cold metal, popcorn, spilled beer and the sharp synthetic chill that rises from a sheet of freshly cut ice. Even through her jeans and the long-sleeved top beneath Garrettās jersey, she can feel the cold working its way in through her knees. She doesnāt care.
Their seats are down against the glass, close enough that she can see the scraped white line where the boards meet the ice and the little ridges the resurfacer left behind. Kendall, Paige and Sienna are already there when they arrive, occupying several seats in a loose cluster with enough bags, drinks and handmade signs to suggest theyāre establishing a permanent settlement.
Kendall has silver stars beneath both eyes. Paige has somehow worked Garrettās number into her eyeliner despite Garrett not being her boyfriend, which she claims is general captain support and not an act of targeted provocation. Sienna is holding a sign that reads DEAN, PLEASE TRY DEFENCE TODAY in thick navy letters.
āThatās so mean,ā she says, accepting the silver face glitter Paige immediately begins pressing toward her cheek without permission.
āHeāll love it,ā Sienna replies. āHe responds well to criticism.ā
āHe responds loudly to criticism.ā
Lucy has made a sign too, although hers simply says GO HAWKS because Lucy believes in encouragement without inviting retaliation from large men on skates.
Monique has brought no sign and is carrying emergency supplies instead: tissues, water, painkillers, two granola bars and a portable charger because, in her words, somebody in this group has to remain connected to civilisation.
āYou look like youāre going to throw up,ā Monique observes as Paige draws a small forty-four near the corner of her eye.
āIām not.ā She glances at the scoreboard. Five minutes, forty-eight seconds until warm-ups. āThatās basically now.ā
Lucy loops an arm through hers and squeezes. āYou excited?ā
The question is absurdly insufficient. Excited is standing in line for concert tickets. Excited is finding out the difficult lecturer has cancelled class. This feels more like every part of her body has been tuned slightly too high, her skin warm beneath the cold arena air and her pulse sitting visibly in the base of her throat.
She looks down at the jersey instead. Garrettās name stretches across her shoulders. Forty-four covers most of her back. It still smells faintly like his detergent even after being folded inside her overnight bag, and something stupid happens beneath her breastbone when she smooths one palm over the number on the sleeve.
āNormal amount,ā she says.
Lucy looks at Monique. Monique nods gravely. āSheās going to throw up.ā
She doesnāt throw up. She does, however, nearly crush Kendallās hand when the lights shift and the first few players spill onto the ice.
The Briar section detonates. Noise surges up around them so quickly it seems to change the pressure inside her ears. People are already standing, banging hands against the glass, screaming names into the cold while the boys come through the tunnel in a loose stream of navy jerseys and silver helmets.
Tucker is one of the first out, skating directly toward centre with his head down and his stick loose in one hand, settling immediately into the quiet, economical movements he carries everywhere. Logan comes behind him faster, taking his first lap like he has something personal against the far boards.
Deanās last only because Dean has decided entering the national championship requires choreography. He pushes onto the ice backward, both arms spread toward the Briar section like heās rented the building for the evening. The response gets louder. Dean cups one glove to his ear, shakes his head as though disappointed and gestures for more.
Sienna slams her sign against the glass. Dean spots it. His mouth drops open beneath his cage. He points his stick at her, then at himself, then makes an offended gesture toward his chest as if heās just been accused of a serious crime.
āTRY DEFENCE,ā Sienna screams.
Dean skates past them shaking his head, one glove held over his heart.
āHeās going to bring that up for six months,ā Paige says.
āHe needed motivation.ā
The rest of the boys circle out into warm-ups. Pucks scatter across the ice. Skates begin cutting sharp white lines through the untouched surface, the hard clack of sticks and pucks occasionally breaking through the music and crowd noise. She finds Garrett almost immediately.
Her body knows where he is before she properly registers the forty-four on his back. Heās near the blue line, taking two long strides before dropping into the familiar stretch he always does first, one knee bent deeply while the other leg extends behind him.Ā
His helmet is tipped forward. His gloves are tucked beneath one arm. For several seconds he stays there with his head lowered, shoulders rising and falling beneath the jersey. He looks tired. She sees it in the slowness when he stands, the careful roll of his shoulders and the way he flexes one ankle before starting toward the far end.
Then a puck comes to him. Everything changes. His stick catches it cleanly, and his body settles into the ice as though it has finally entered its natural environment. One stride, two, a quick shift onto his outside edge.Ā
He sends the puck hard into the top corner during the first shooting drill, circles behind the net and shouts something at Logan that makes Logan raise one glove without turning around.
The pressure beneath her ribs goes soft and hot. There are feelings that arrive with sensible names and manageable symptoms. Affection. Attraction. Pride. Things that can be discussed over coffee without anyone needing medical supervision.
Whatever she feels for Garrett has never behaved properly enough to qualify. It spreads through her bloodstream like she has been drinking on an empty stomach. Warm behind her face. Loose in her knees. Her brain a little slower and much happier whenever he looks at her.Ā
Sometimes she catches him standing barefoot in the kitchen eating cereal and has the deeply unreasonable thought that this may be the best thing that has ever happened to anyone. Not her. Anyone.
It feels rare in a way she doesnāt know how to say without sounding insane. Like something a person might stumble into once every several lifetimes if the timing is right and the universe briefly stops being an asshole.
Garrett takes another shot. The puck hits the post with a sharp metallic crack. She cheers anyway. He turns at the sound of the Briar section, lifting his head toward the glass. His eyes begin moving over the crowd.
She knows what heās doing. The knowledge lands in her stomach with enough force that her fingers tighten around Lucyās wrist.
āHeās looking for you,ā Lucy says.
āI know.ā
āWave.ā
āIām trying to look normal,ā she mutters.
āYouāre wearing his jersey and gripping my arm,ā Lucy replies.
āWave,ā Monique orders.
She lifts both hands. Garrett sees her. His face changes so completely that the whole arena seems briefly less important.
The hard focus around his mouth breaks first. Then his eyes soften and his grin comes in bright beneath the helmet, familiar enough to reach through the glass and settle directly beneath her ribs. He points his stick toward her, says something to Tucker as he passes and turns sharply toward the boards.
āOh my God,ā Kendall says. āIncoming.ā
Garrett stops in front of them with a small spray of ice, one glove braced against the top of his stick. Up close, she can see the faint tiredness beneath his eyes and the flushed line across his cheeks where the cold has already caught him. Damp curls push out beneath the back of his helmet. His gaze drops immediately to the jersey, then returns to her face.
She leans toward the glass, grin stretching before she can even try to control it. āHey, forty-four.ā
āHi, baby.ā
She barely hears him over the music and the crowd, but she knows the shape of his mouth well enough to fill in whatever sound the glass steals. Garrett shifts closer, face tipped toward her through a narrow break between the panels, and for one second everyone around them appears to become extremely interested in watching something else while also listening with every available part of their bodies.
āHowāre you feeling?ā she asks.
Garrett nods once. āGood.ā
It comes automatically. Captain answer. Media answer. The exact response he has been giving anyone who asks for the past three weeks. She narrows her eyes.
Garrettās mouth twitches, but the expression doesnāt hold. He looks back toward centre ice, where the other team has begun its own warm-up, then returns his gaze to her. āI justāā He exhales, the breath fogging faintly against the glass. āTheyāve been killing it this tournament, baby.ā
She looks at him for half a second. āAnd you guys havenāt?ā
His eyes drop briefly.
āGarrett.ā
He nods. āI know.ā
She presses closer to the glass, lowering her voice even though she has to speak louder to be heard. āYou donāt have to drag them through this by yourself. Tuckās been seeing everything before it happens. Logan looks like somebody put rocket fuel in his water. Deanās so excited he might actually attempt defence just to surprise us.ā
Garrett smiles properly at that.
āYouāve won every shitty game theyāve put in front of you,ā she continues. āYou won the one where half your bench could barely stand. You came back Thursday when everyone had already decided you were done. Youāve been killing it too.ā
His gaze stays on hers.
āOkay?ā
Garrett nods.
She shakes her head once. āWords, baby.ā
That gets the full grin. Bright, sudden and so deeply him that her stomach tips. āYeah. Okay.ā
āYouāve got this, Garrett.ā
His throat moves when he swallows. āYeah.ā
āYou feeling good?ā
He looks at her for another second, shoulders sitting lower now, his grip easier around the stick. āYeah, Coach.ā
She grins. āGood.ā
A whistle cuts across the ice. Garrettās head turns toward the bench. Coach is gesturing sharply, calling the first unit back toward centre for the final drill. Logan skates past behind Garrett and hits the back of his helmet with one glove.
āStop flirting,ā he yells. āNational championship.ā
Garrett twists around. āIāll bench you.ā
āYou canāt.ā
āWatch me.ā Garrett looks back at her. The whistle goes again, longer and significantly less patient. āGotta go, baby.ā
She nods, still smiling so hard her cheeks ache. āGo.ā
He pushes away from the boards, then turns while skating backward. One glove lifts to his mouth. Garrett blows her a kiss.
She catches it automatically, closing her hand against her chest with the same stupid little movement sheās done from stands and car parks and the end of hallways a hundred times before. āLove you, baby.ā
The words leave her mouth without consulting anybody. Garrettās already turning.
Tucker catches the shoulder of his jersey and pulls him toward the drill as Coach shouts something from the bench. Garrettās head shifts slightly, perhaps toward her, perhaps only because Logan has said something at his other side. Then all four of them are moving, sticks dropping toward the ice while a puck slides into the face-off circle.
Her smile stays where it is for one full second, then her brain receives the sentence. Her hand opens against her chest.
āOh,ā she says.
Lucy slowly turns toward her. Moniqueās eyes widen. Kendallās mouth drops open, silver stars stretching at the corner of one eye. Paige stops halfway through lifting her drink. Sienna lowers the sign in front of her with the solemn care of somebody putting down a weapon.
āDid you justāā Lucy begins.
She slaps both hands over her mouth. āOh my God.ā
The words come out muffled into her palms. Heat climbs from her chest to her face so quickly she can feel it beneath Paigeās little silver forty-four.
Monique catches both her elbows. āYouāre okay.ā
She shakes her head. āNo, Iām not.ā
āYou are.ā
āI just told him I love him.ā
āYou did,ā Kendall says, then winces when Monique looks at her. āSupportively.ā
āI told Garrett Graham I love him through plexiglass before the national championship,ā she squeaks.
Lucy reaches for one of her wrists, gently pulling her hand away from her mouth before she can smother herself. āItās okay. It was cute.ā
āIt was not meant to happen.ā
Lucy shrugs. āMost things arenāt.ā
āIt just came out.ā She stares at the ice, where Garrett has dropped into position for the drill like her entire internal structure hasnāt just collapsed twenty feet away. āI didnāt decide anything. My mouth went⦠it went freelance.ā
Paige presses her lips together.
Sienna points one warning finger at her. āDo not laugh.ā
Paige shakes her head. āIām not.ā
She turns desperately toward Monique. āDo you think he heard?ā
The girls all look toward the ice. The Garden is still roaring. Music pounds through the speakers. Hundreds of Briar students are chanting something about Burlingtonās goalie that will almost certainly lead to an email from university administration. Pucks slam against the boards, whistles splitting the cold air while the players call to one another through helmets and crowd noise.
Kendall tilts her head. āHonestly? Maybe not.ā
āOh, good.ā Relief hits for less than a second before immediately becoming something else. āWait. Is that good?ā
āYes,ā Lucy says.
āNo,ā Paige says at the exact same time.
Lucy glares at her.
Paige lifts both hands. āIām only saying she might eventually want him to hear it.ā
āNot like that,ā she says. āNot while Coach is threatening him and half of Massachusetts is watching.ā
āHe probably thought you said good luck,ā Sienna offers.
āThat doesnāt have the same number of syllables!ā
āHeās often concussed,ā Kendall suggests.
āNot currently!ā
Monique squeezes her elbows. āBreathe.ā
She takes one breath. It catches somewhere high in her chest and comes out thin.
āAgain.ā
She breathes again, staring helplessly through the glass. Garrett takes the next pass near centre ice, cuts around Logan and shoots. The puck goes in cleanly. He circles the net, taps Tuckerās shin pads with his stick and joins the line again without looking toward her.
That should help. It doesnāt.
āWhat do I do?ā she whispers.
Lucy rubs one hand down her arm. āRight now? Watch the game.ā
āFor three periods?ā
āHopefully only three,ā Monique says. āOvertime might kill you.ā
She makes a noise of genuine distress.
āNot helpful,ā Lucy tells her.
The warm-up clock keeps counting down above the ice. Two minutes, nineteen seconds. The boys gather near the bench for water, shoulders bumping, helmets tipping together as Garrett says something that makes Dean slap one glove against his chest.
He looks like the captain again. Focused. Certain. Every inch of him turned toward the game waiting on the other side of the clock.
She cannot tell whether he heard. Thereās no visible sign that her first I love you reached him at all. No stunned look. No missed stride. No Garrett abandoning the national championship to climb over the glass and demand clarification, which is ridiculous but currently feels like the only response that would give her useful information.
Instead, he takes his place beside Tucker while Coach speaks, one glove wrapped around the top of his stick and forty-four broad across his back. The buzzer sounds to end warm-ups.
The crowd rises again as the players begin filing toward the tunnel. Garrett disappears between Logan and Dean without looking back, swallowed by navy jerseys and the dark opening beneath the stands.
She stays at the glass with both hands over her mouth, his name stretched across her shoulders and his number pressed warm against her back.
Behind her, Lucy says, āYouāre fine,ā with the determined confidence of somebody trying to influence an outcome medically beyond her control.
Monique pushes a water bottle into her hand. Kendall begins listing reasons the arena acoustics are unreliable. Sienna insists declarations made during warm-ups may not be legally binding, and Paige is still being prevented from mentioning that Garrettās head had moved slightly after she said it.
Above centre ice, the scoreboard resets for puck drop. Eighteen minutes.
At least three periods before she could get him alone. Sixty minutes of hockey, plus intermissions, during which she would have to watch her boyfriend play for a national championship while wondering whether she had accidentally changed the entire shape of their relationship at full volume.Ā
The Garden roared around her, and she stood there with Garrettās forty-four stretched across her back, and absolutely no way to take the words back through the glass.Ā
The first face-off happens before her body has remembered how to process oxygen normally. One second the teams are circling beneath the hard white light, officials gliding into position while the noise inside the Garden rises and breaks and rises again.
The next, the puck hits the ice, Garrettās stick snaps forward and the national championship becomes too fast and too violent to leave much room for privately destroying her own life.
For roughly fourteen seconds, anyway. Garrett wins the draw cleanly and knocks the puck backward toward Tucker. Briar surges forward around him, all navy shoulders and cutting blades, the opening shift moving with the sharp, practiced rhythm sheās watched enough times to recognise before she could ever explain it properly.Ā
Logan flies up the left side. Dean cuts across behind him, already throwing his weight into a defender with the subtlety of a car entering a building. Tucker sends the puck deep, Garrett follows it into the corner and the opposing defenceman drives him shoulder-first into the glass hard enough that the boards shake beneath her hands.
Her whole body contracts. She doesnāt scream or grab Lucy or begin climbing over the glass. Itās smaller and worse than that, a hard internal flinch that starts somewhere behind her sternum and pulls all the muscles down her back tight at once.
Garrett comes away from the hit still moving, knees bent, stick down, one glove briefly flexing near his shoulder before he takes the puck from beneath the other playerās skates and sends it back toward the point.
The game establishes its personality quickly. Itās mean. Every hit arrives half a second before it could become something officials might feel obligated to stop, all sharp hips and shoulders and bodies driven into boards with the deeply technical violence of men who have spent their lives learning precisely how hard another person can be struck while everyone calls it clean.
Tucker gets crushed behind Briarās net three minutes in, his helmet snapping backward against the glass before he drops to one knee. Sheās halfway out of her seat before he plants one glove on the ice, stands and immediately hooks his stick beneath the other playerās to strip the puck away.
āJesus Christ,ā Paige mutters.
Tucker sends the puck up the boards like nothing happened. Garrett catches it, turns through the neutral zone and gets met by two bodies at once.
He disappears. She sees one navy sleeve, the silver of his helmet, then his skates leave the ice and he lands flat on his back hard enough to slide several feet before friction finally catches him.
The Briar section loses its mind. Her hands slap against the glass. āOh my God.ā
Garrett lies there for perhaps one second. Long enough for her stomach to turn over completely. Then he rolls onto one knee, gets his stick beneath him and pushes upright while Logan barrels into the guy who hit him with enough force to send both of them into the boards.
The whistle goes. Players gather immediately, shoulders colliding, gloves pressing into chests while officials wedge themselves between bodies that clearly have no intention of politely separating. Dean arrives late and shoves someone whoās not even involved.
āOf course,ā Sienna says.
Garrett skates into the edge of the gathering and catches Dean around the chest before he can convert an ordinary post-whistle disagreement into an actual incident. He says something beneath his cage. Dean replies with both gloves raised as if innocence is a position he has ever occupied. The official sends Dean toward the box.
āWhat did he even do?ā Lucy asks.
Sienna presses both hands to the glass as Dean passes. āWORTH IT!ā
Dean turns his head and blows her a kiss. The penalty kill lasts less than a minute before Tucker takes a puck off the ankle, limps through one stride and sends it down the ice anyway. She watches him reach the bench with his face drawn tight, one trainer bending immediately toward the skate while Tucker waves him off and points toward the play as though the trainer has accidentally started discussing something irrelevant.
The boys have been exhausted for weeks. She knew that. She has watched Garrett fall asleep with food in his mouth, watched Logan lie facedown on the living-room rug because walking upstairs felt unreasonable, watched Tucker stretch one hamstring against the kitchen counter while stirring pasta and watched Dean voluntarily turn down a party because his entire skeleton had a headache.
Knowing it in kitchens and bedrooms is different from seeing it here. Every hit looks like it should empty them. Every collision seems large enough to knock the last little reserve of energy loose and scatter it across the ice. Instead, they keep getting up, and they give it back.
Dean comes out of the penalty box like heās been insulted by the concept of confinement. His first shift ends with an opposing winger folded into the boards and Dean skating away while the manās teammates shout after him.
Tucker catches another player cleanly near centre and sends him onto his ass with such quiet efficiency that the crowd makes one collective, delighted sound.
Logan scores first. The play starts with Garrett trapped along the boards beneath two bodies, one stick pressed across his hips while another player tries to dig the puck out from between four pairs of skates. Garrett somehow gets it loose. She doesnāt see how. One second itās beneath him, the next it slides backward to Tucker, who sends it across the width of the ice to Dean.
Dean takes one stride, pulls the defence toward him and passes to Logan at the back door. Logan buries it.
The red light comes on. The Briar section erupts so hard the sound seems to push against her skin from every direction. She screams with everyone else, both arms thrown upward as Logan crashes into the glass near the corner and gets swallowed by navy jerseys.
Garrettās first to grab him. Tucker follows, then Dean launches himself into the group with enough enthusiasm that Logan nearly goes down beneath all three of them. The scoreboard changes.
BRIAR 1.
The number glows above the ice for forty-one seconds before the other team answers. A turnover near the blue line. A breakaway. Briarās goalie makes the first save, but the rebound kicks loose and an opposing forward gets there before Tucker can tie up his stick.
1-1.
Then 2-1 to them after Dean gets caught too high in the zone and Briar gives up an odd-man rush.
Sienna lowers her sign. āHeās actively refusing to take constructive feedback.ā
Briar ties it again before the end of the period. Garrett scores this one.
Tucker wins the puck behind their own net and sends it to Logan, who carries it through centre with two defenders closing. Garrettās moving beside him, a little behind, his stride long and controlled even though she can see the heaviness beginning in his legs.
Logan waits until the last possible second and slides the puck across. Garrett receives it without looking down. One touch. Then another. He shoots through the defencemanās legs. The puck hits the back of the net before the goalie has fully dropped.
For half a second, Garrett stays where he is, chest rising beneath the jersey, eyes fixed on the goal like he needs visual confirmation that it really happened. Then he turns. He points directly at her.
There are thousands of people in the building. Hundreds wearing Briar colours. His entire team is skating toward him, Logan already reaching for the top of his helmet while Dean screams something close enough to distort Garrettās grin.
Still, Garrett finds her. His glove lifts. Two fingers extend toward the glass. Her heart punches once against her ribs.
She points back before she can think better of it, forty-four stretched across her back while the girls around her scream. Garrettās grin widens, and then Tucker catches him around the shoulders and drags him into the celebration.
āOh my God,ā Lucy says, gripping her upper arm. āThat was for you!ā
āNo way,ā she says automatically, voice already ruined from yelling.Ā
āHe pointed at your face.ā
āHe couldāve been pointing at, like, the general student population.ā
Kendall looks around them. āAnyone else wearing his jersey and blushing?ā
She puts both hands over her cheeks. They are burning.
The goal helps. It should make the earlier problem worse. Garrett pointing at her after scoring in the national championship shouldnāt reduce the pressure of having accidentally told him she loves him. It should drive the sentence deeper, sharpen it, make every thought inside her skull louder.
Instead, something settles. The question is still there, pacing badly inside her. Did he hear? Did he understand? Is he waiting until after the game to say something? Has she just handed him an emotional grenade and then sat down behind plexiglass while he tries to win a championship?
But the game keeps demanding her attention, and Garrett keeps finding her. Every time he comes near their side of the rink, her body locks onto him. The bend of his knees. The tilt of his shoulders. The little shake of one glove after a slash the officials pretend not to see. When he scores, he points. When he assists on Deanās second-period goal, he glances toward her before the boys have finished celebrating.
Itās not an answer. It feels enough like one to stop her throwing up.
The second period becomes uglier. Nobody has enough energy left for finesse without violence beneath it. The hits get heavier, tempers shorter, every whistle followed by little scrums where gloves climb higher and sticks become objects with plausible deniability.
Dean gets driven face-first into the boards behind the net. His cage strikes the glass with a sound that makes half their row gasp. He pushes backward at once, turns and swings both hands into the chest of the guy behind him.
Tucker gets between them first. This is, perhaps, the least sensible possible person to use as a calming influence, because Tuckerās version of de-escalation involves shoving the other player away hard enough that his skates leave the ice.
The officials grab both Briar players. Dean is yelling. Tucker is quieter, which looks significantly more dangerous.
āOh, Tuckās mad,ā Paige says.
āHow can you tell?ā Lucy asks.
āHeās not blinking.ā
Across the ice, Garrett circles in, one hand gripping Deanās shoulder while he talks into the side of his helmet. Whatever he says works. Deanās posture drops by an inch. Tucker releases the front of the other playerās jersey with the slow reluctance of a man being asked to return stolen property.
The officials send one from each team to the box. Dean skates away mouthing, āBullshit,ā so clearly that the Briar students nearest the glass begin chanting it for him.
The game stays tied until six minutes remain in the second. Then Briar goes ahead. Then gives up the equaliser less than ninety seconds later.
3-3.
The scoreboard becomes a threat hanging over centre ice. The other team scores again after a scramble in front of the net.
4-3.
For the first time all night, the Briar section goes briefly quiet. The sound changes, falling inward around thousands of held breaths while the opposing players celebrate near their bench and Garrett stands several feet away with both hands braced on the top of his stick.
She can see the pressure arrive in him. Itās in the angle of his neck. The way his chin drops. The stillness that overtakes his body while everyone else moves around him.
The old instinct. Mine. My fault. Fix it.
Garrett lifts his head toward the bench. He skates over and leans toward Coach, listening. Tucker joins him. Logan. Dean leaves the penalty box and takes his place at the edge of the group, chest still heaving.
Whatever is said lasts only seconds. Garrett nods once. Then the boys go back out. The next shift is brutal.
Logan takes a hit near centre that spins him completely around. Tucker loses his stick and still manages to kick the puck forward with one skate. Dean blocks a shot off his thigh and nearly folds, gets up anyway and drives into the corner.
Garrett gets the puck beneath the goal line and tries to cut toward the net. The defenceman catches him directly in front of her.
The impact drives Garrett into the boards with enough force that the glass shudders beneath both her hands. His shoulder hits first. Then the side of his helmet. The other player keeps him pinned there, forearm across Garrettās back, stick trapped between their skates.
She sees Garrettās face turn against the glass. Sees the flash of his teeth beneath the cage. The fury moving into his eyes. The defenceman gives him one additional shove after the puck is gone.
Garrett explodes backward. He twists free, throws both gloves into the manās chest and shoves him hard enough that the other player stumbles two strides. The crowd roars immediately, half excitement and half invitation.
The defenceman comes forward again.
āGarrett!ā she shouts, slamming one hand against the glass. āFocus!ā
He doesnāt look at her. For one horrible second, she thinks he hasnāt heard. Then Garrettās head tilts slowly to one side. His neck cracks. Even through the glass and the crowd and the scrape of skates, she can practically hear it. He turns away from the defenceman and skates back into the play.
Beside her, Lucy says, very quietly, āOh, thatās so hot.ā
She smacks Lucyās arm without looking away from the ice. āHey. My boyfriend.ā
āOw.ā Lucy rubs the spot, entirely unrepentant. āSorry, but I have eyes.ā
āClose them.ā
āNo,ā Lucy smirks.Ā
Kendall leans toward them. āIn her defence, that was objectively hot.ā
āNone of you are being supportive.ā
āWe are incredibly supportive,ā Paige says. āWe support you having that.ā
She looks at all of them with genuine betrayal. āHeās exhausted and being assaulted.ā
āAnd listening when you yell at him through reinforced glass,ā Sienna replies. āVery sexy.ā
Monique places one steady hand on her shoulder. āYou can be concerned and recognise that the neck thing was unfortunately effective.ā
āThank you,ā Lucy says.
She stares at Monique. āYou too?ā
Moniqueās mouth tightens. āIām not dead.ā
The period ends 4-3.
The teams disappear into their tunnels, the Garden filling immediately with music and conversation and thousands of people attempting to breathe through the same collective stress. She drops into her seat for the first time in several minutes and realises her legs are shaking.
Lucy gives her water. Monique opens a granola bar and places half of it in her hand without asking. Kendall starts analysing the opposing goalieās rebound control as if she has been retained by Briarās coaching staff. She eats because Garrett would somehow sense if she didnāt.
The I love you returns during intermission. Without hockey moving in front of her, the sentence comes back and sits directly on her chest. She stares at the tunnel where Garrett disappeared and replays his face when he scored. The point. The grin. The way he looked toward her after Deanās goal.
āHe heard,ā Paige says.
She turns. āWhat?ā
Paige has the good grace to look slightly guilty. āIām not saying definitely.ā
Lucy points at Paige. āWe agreed not to bring this up until after.ā
āYou agreed. I was drinking.ā
Monique rubs a hand between her shoulder blades. āIt doesnāt matter right now.ā
āIt matters a lot,ā she mumbles.
āNot in a way you can do anything about during intermission.ā
Thatās so painfully sensible she briefly considers ending the friendship. The lights shift before she can. The teams return, and Briar comes onto the ice differently. She sees it before the puck drops. All the boys look like someone has reached into the locker room and replaced whatever exhaustion was left in them with something sharper.
Deanās practically bouncing on his skates, jaw moving as he talks continuously at Logan. Tucker rolls one shoulder, then the other, gaze fixed down the ice. Logan taps his stick three times against Garrettās shin pads. Garrett stands over the face-off dot with his body low and still.
She doesnāt know what Coach said in that room. Maybe he reminded them they had twenty minutes left together. Maybe Garrett spoke. Dean. One of the seniors. Maybe they sat in silence and listened to their own breathing, every one of them understanding there was no sensible reason they should have anything left.
Whatever happened, Briar comes out violent in a completely new direction.
Garrett wins the opening draw. Tucker gets the puck and sends it forward before the opposing centre has finished turning. Logan carries it over the line. Dean drives the net and pulls both defencemen with him.
Garrett trails the play. Logan drops the puck backward. Garrett shoots. Goal. Nine seconds.
The Garden detonates. Sheās on her feet, screaming before the red light comes on fully. Garrett circles away from the net and drops onto one knee, fist punching once toward the ice while Logan crashes into him from behind.
4-4.
Garrett stands beneath the weight of all three boys and looks directly toward her, and points. Her throat closes around the noise. She puts both hands to her mouth and blows him a kiss this time. Garrett catches it against his chest with one glove before Dean nearly tackles him into the boards.
āThat man so heard you,ā Paige says.
āShut up.ā
Briar scores again two minutes later. Tucker this time, a shot from the point that changes direction through traffic and slips beneath the goalieās arm. Tucker doesnāt even appear certain it went in until Dean grabs both sides of his helmet and screams into his face.
5-4.
Then Logan scores.
6-4.
The opposing coach calls timeout. His players gather around the bench while Briar circles near centre, shoulders bumping and gloves tapping helmets. The entire arena feels tilted now. Briarās section is on its feet and stays there. Nobody sits again. Every touch of the puck earns a scream. Every clear is celebrated like a goal. Every blocked shot feels personal.
The other team starts taking chances because they have to. That makes them dangerous, it also leaves space.
Dean scores on a breakaway with eight minutes remaining. He comes over the blue line alone, one defenceman chasing. She can feel the entire Briar section inhale. Dean shoots high. The puck hits the crossbar, drops behind the goalie and bounces into the net.
7-4.
Dean skates directly toward their corner with both arms spread, mouth open in a yell. Sienna slams her sign against the glass so hard one corner bends.
āDEFENCE,ā she screams.
Dean points at the scoreboard and mouths something that looks very much like, āDonāt need it.ā
Garrett reaches him first and shoves him affectionately in the head.Ā
The other team pulls the goalie with three minutes left. The extra attacker floods Briarās zone. Pucks hit skates, shin pads, sticks. Their goalie makes one save, then another. Tucker dives to knock the rebound away and gets landed on by two bodies.
Garrett clears it down the ice. The puck misses the empty net by inches. The crowd groans.Ā
One minute, twelve seconds.
Her hands are numb from gripping the rail.
Forty-eight seconds.
The puck comes out toward centre. Logan reaches it first, pokes it past one defender and sends it sideways. Garrett has open ice, he takes the puck, crosses the red line and shoots from distance. The puck slides over the ice toward the empty net, turning slightly on its edge. It crosses the line.
8-4.
Garrett doesnāt celebrate immediately, he looks toward her. Even from the other end of the rink, even through the bodies and glass and thousands of people between them, she knows heās smiling.
He points one final time. Her chest feels too small to contain anything currently inside it. The final seconds come off the clock beneath a wall of sound.
Ten.
Nine.
The boys stop pretending to play normally.
Eight.
Deanās already grinning.
Seven.
Tucker turns toward the bench.
Six.
Logan lifts one glove.
Five.
The entire Briar section begins counting.
āFOUR!ā
Garrett looks toward the scoreboard.
āTHREE!ā
She grabs Lucy with one hand and Monique with the other.
āTWO!ā
The Briar bench empties before the clock reaches one. The buzzer sounds. For a second, she hears nothing.
The noise is too big. It strikes her all at once and wipes itself out, becoming pressure rather than sound, something physical moving through the arena floor and up her legs while the boys throw themselves over the boards.
Briarās fucking won.
The girls collapse into one another. Lucy screams directly into her ear. Monique, usually the least likely person in any room to lose control of her limbs, grabs her around the neck and jumps hard enough that all three of them stumble into Kendall.
Everyone is crying or laughing or doing both without making a meaningful distinction. Paige spills half her drink over the floor and doesnāt notice. Siennaās sign bends completely in the middle when she hugs it to her chest.
On the ice, the team becomes one enormous pile of navy jerseys and raised sticks. Garrett disappears beneath it. Dean launches himself on top of Logan. Tucker is somewhere near the bottom, one glove reaching upward as if requesting rescue. Their goalie skates the length of the ice and dives into the mass, sending three players sliding.
Helmets and gloves scatter across the surface. The Briar bench is empty. Coaches stand near the boards with their arms around one another, several of them looking as though theyāre trying very hard not to cry on television.
She finds Garrett when the pile begins to break apart. Heās on his knees, helmet gone, curls damp and flattened strangely on one side. Logan has both hands on Garrettās face. Dean grabs him from behind. Tucker reaches them and folds all three into another hug.
Garrett throws his head back and yells. The sight of it breaks something open inside her. Itās too large and warm and sharp at once, rising behind her ribs until she cannot breathe around it.
Three weeks of watching him drag himself through every practice. Every night he fell asleep before she finished speaking. Every meal she had pushed toward him. Every time he said the team was killing it and left himself out of the sentence.
On the ice, officials and event staff begin organising the presentation. A carpet is carried toward centre. Someone wheels the championship trophy through the open gate, silver catching beneath the arena lights.
The boys see it and lose their minds again. Dean points with both hands like nobody else has noticed the enormous trophy entering the rink. Logan shoves Garrett toward it. Tucker is laughing so hard he bends forward, hands braced on his knees.
Garrett takes two steps with them, then he stops. He turns away from the trophy, his head comes up, eyes moving over the crowd. She knows immediately.
āOh,ā Monique says behind her.
Garrett scans the front rows once, fast and frantic, until he finds her, and the expression on his face changes. Sheās already moving.
Thereās an opening near the bench where staff have begun letting family and selected guests closer to the ice. She doesnāt ask whether sheās selected. She slips past the end of the row, nearly trips over a folded sign and pushes through the bodies clustered near the gate.
Someone says her name. Maybe Lucy. Maybe a security worker attempting to protect the national championship from overly emotional nursing students.
Garrettās skating toward her. He reaches the open bench gate just as she does, one hand catching the boards while the other reaches for her.
She throws herself at him. Her sneakers leave the rubber flooring. One knee knocks lightly against the boards and Garrett catches her beneath the thighs with a startled laugh, skates shifting backward on the ice before he steadies.
His arms tighten. He spins her once, the Garden lights sweep through her vision and her stomach lifts while she grabs both sides of his face.
Garrett kisses her before she can speak. It lands crooked at first, half her mouth and half the corner, both of them laughing too hard for accuracy. Then he adjusts his hold and kisses her again. Properly. Hard and warm and breathless, tasting like sweat, cold air and the mint gum he must have been chewing before warm-ups.
She pulls back because there are things she needs to say. āYouāā Garrett kisses her. āBaby, youāā Another kiss. Shorter, but still enough to knock the sentence loose. āYou won,ā she manages when his mouth moves briefly to her cheek. āGarrett, you fucking won.ā
āI know.ā
His voice cracks on the words. She barely gets to hear it before he kisses her again, one hand leaving beneath her thigh to catch the back of her neck.
Garrett raises one hand over her shoulder without looking and gives the entire team the finger. She laughs into his mouth. āBaby, the trophy.ā
He shakes his head once and kisses her again. Itās ridiculous. The championship trophy is thirty feet away. His entire team is shouting his name. Cameras are absolutely capturing the captain of Briar University ignoring the formal presentation to make out with his girlfriend through an open bench gate.
She cannot make herself care. Garrettās forehead presses against hers. His breathing is rough, chest rising hard beneath her arms, damp curls brushing her fingers where they hold the sides of his face.
His eyes are bright. Something wet catches along his lower lashes before he blinks and laughs like his body has become too full to choose one reaction. āI fucking love you,ā he says.
The words strike her in the centre of the chest. For half a second, she can only look at him. Then the laugh comes out of her, thin and startled and so relieved it nearly turns into a sob. Her forehead presses harder against his. āYou heard me?ā
Garrett lets out one disbelieving breath. āBaby, I heard you.ā
āOh my God.ā
āI nearly threw up.ā
She laughs harder, both hands sliding into his hair now, holding him close enough that their noses bump. āYou nearly threw up?ā
āI was about to play for a national championship and my girlfriend just yelled that she loved me through the glass.ā
āI didnāt mean to.ā
His brows lift.
āNo, I meanā I meant it.ā Her mouth cannot keep up with her brain. Everything comes out tangled, warm and too fast. āObviously I meant it. I just didnāt mean to say it then. It slipped out and then you skated away, and I didnāt know if you heard, and Paige said your head moved, but heads move all the timeāā
Garrett kisses her once, laughing against her mouth. āYouāre spiralling.ā
āIāve been spiralling for three periods,ā she groans.
āI know.ā
āI was watching you get hit by men the size of refrigerators.ā
āAnd thinking about whether I heard you.ā
āYes.ā
His smile goes soft. Tired and overwhelmed and so openly happy that the sight of it makes her throat tighten. āI heard you,ā he says again, quieter now. āEvery word.ā
She touches the little cut near his cheekbone, thumb brushing beneath it without pressing. āI love you so much.ā
Garrett closes his eyes for one second. When they open again, thereās no joke waiting there, no grin to make the sentence easier. Only him, holding her against his chest while the Garden roars around them and his team shouts increasingly creative threats from centre ice.
āI love you,ā he says. āFuck, I love you.ā
She kisses him because thereās no possible response her mouth could make that would improve on that. Garrett kisses her back immediately, deep enough that another wave of yelling rises from the boys.
āCAPTAIN!ā
āWE HAVE A FUCKING TROPHY!ā
āGRAHAM, WEāRE ON TV!ā
āThat one was Tucker,ā she whispers against Garrettās mouth.
Garrett laughs, forehead returning to hers. She looks past him at the boys clustered near centre. Dean has both hands on his hips. Logan is pointing urgently at the trophy. Tucker is shaking his head, but heās smiling so hard it ruins any attempt at disappointment.
āOkay,ā she murmurs. āOkay, go get your trophy.ā
Garrett tightens his arms around her. āIn a second.ā
āBaby.ā
āOne second.ā
āYouāre the captain,ā she argues.
āI know.ā
āThey need you.ā
He grins. āTheyāve needed me all month. They can wait ten more seconds.ā
Warmth pushes hard behind her eyes. She swallows it, kisses the corner of his mouth and presses both palms to his cheeks. āIām so proud of you.ā
Garrettās face shifts. His lips part slightly and his eyes drop for half a second like those words have reached somewhere the championship couldnāt.
She strokes one thumb over his skin. āYou did it.ā
His throat moves, then he kisses her again, one firm press of his mouth to hers that feels less like interruption now and more like an answer.
āLove you,ā he murmurs.
āI love you too.ā She gives his shoulders a small push. āNow put me down before Dean starts crying.ā
āHeās already crying.ā
She looks past Garrett again. Deanās wiping both eyes with the collar of his jersey while aggressively denying something Logan has said. āOh.ā
āTold you.ā
Garrett lowers her carefully. Her sneakers land on the rubber mat beyond the ice, knees wobbling after being held above skates and adrenaline for longer than sensible workplace guidelines would recommend. His hands stay at her waist until heās sure she is balanced.
āIāll see you soon,ā he says.
āYou better.ā
His grin returns. Bright, golden and exhausted, split at one corner by the small cut on his lip. āBossy.ā
āNational champion or not, you still need to listen.ā
āYes, Coach.ā
She leans through the gate and kisses him one last time, quick enough not to trigger another team revolt. āGo.ā
Garrett pushes backward onto the ice. She catches his wrist before he gets too far. He turns. Her chest is still heaving. Her face hurts from smiling. His jersey hangs heavy and warm over her body, number stretching across her back while the Briar crowd shakes the building around them.
āLove you, Captain.ā
Garrettās whole face lights. He brings one glove to his mouth and blows her a kiss. She catches it.
āLove you,ā he calls.
Then he turns and skates toward the boys. Dean meets him halfway and jumps onto his back, nearly taking both of them down. Logan slams into Garrettās side. Tucker catches his other shoulder and drags the group toward centre, where the trophy waits beneath the arena lights.
She stands at the open gate watching them go, one hand still closed around Garrettās imaginary kiss. Then Lucy crashes into her from behind.
āYou said it twice,ā she screams directly into her hair.
Monique wraps both arms around them. Kendall and Paige arrive next, Sienna pushing in with the damaged sign still trapped beneath one elbow until all six of them are pressed together in a laughing, crying mess beside the bench.
āHe heard me,ā she says, although no one asked.
Lucy squeezes harder. āWe noticed.ā
āHe loves me.ā
āNo shit,ā Paige replies, voice thick with tears. āHe abandoned the national championship trophy to kiss you for five minutes.ā
Out on the ice, Garrett reaches centre. The boys crowd around him as officials begin saying things nobody in the building has any intention of hearing. Coach hands him the trophy.
Garrett takes it with both hands. For one brief second, he looks down at the silver beneath his gloves. His mouth presses together. Tuckerās hand lands on the back of his neck. Logan grips one shoulder. Dean has both arms raised already, visibly incapable of waiting.
Then Garrett lifts the trophy over his head. The Garden erupts all over again. She screams with everyone else, hands thrown upward, tears warm on her face and Garrettās forty-four stretched across her back while the boys jump around him.
The trophy shines above them. Deanās yelling. Loganās trying to touch it before Garrett has finished lifting it. Tuckerās head is tipped back in laughter.
And Garrett, standing in the middle of everything he has spent his whole life being pushed toward, looks past the cameras and the confetti beginning to fall and the men crowding around him, and he finds her again.Ā
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Synopsis : Whatās that??? The captainās have a crush on you???
Notes : Gender neutral reader, not proofread, I was bored so I wrote this , lemme know if I portrayed them correctly!
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š£²āDaichi Sawamura
Daichi is absolutely hopeless once he develops a crushābut the important part is that he doesnāt fall in love easily.
Heās the type of person who slowly grows to love someone over-time, and once those feelings settle in, he keeps them buried for as long as he possibly can.
The problem is that he is absolutely terrible at hiding them.
In his own mind, he thinks that heās acting completely normal.
To everyone else? Itās the most obvious thing in the world.
At first, he convinces himself that heās only looking out for you because youāre Karasunoās manager.
As captain, itās his responsibility to make sure everyone gets home safely, that nobody is carrying more than they should, that everyone remembers to eat after practice, and that the team is doing well. Because Daichi is a very caring person and someone who cares for the people around himāit shouldnāt be any different with the way he treats you.
Thatās all this is⦠right? At least, thatās what he keeps telling himself.
Sugawara seeās right through him though, heāll ask questions about how all of the suddenly he has been extra too caring about their manager.
āHey Daichi, you keep walking with them everytime after school.ā
āOh yeah! What about it?ā
āYou live in the opposite direction.ā
Daichi will laugh it off and bring up the fact that, he wanted to make sure you were going home safely.
From that moment on, the entire volleyball club watches the slowest, most painfully obvious crush unfold right in front of them.
Instead of simply asking you about yourself, Daichi will try to ask Kiyoko and Yachi instead.
Heāll casually wander over after practice and ask how youāve been doing, whether youāve seemed stressed lately, any upcoming plans, if youāve been eating enough, what your favorite snacks are, or if anything interesting has happened recently.
Kiyoko only smiles and sigh before telling him, āYou know⦠you could just ask them yourself.ā
Meanwhile, Yachi is bursting with excitement, insisting that itās incredibly sweet how much he cares about you, which only makes Daichi deny everything even harder. And Yachi, will tryāwill failāto help Daichi talk to you or ask you out.
I will die on the hill that Daichiās way of showing affection is about taking care of people.
If he notices youāre carrying something heavy, heās already reaching for it before youāve even realized he moved.
āOh, youāre carrying all of that? Here, let me.ā
āNo, Iāve got it.ā
āOh okayā¦ā then a brief pause while Daichi stares at the multiple stacks youāll have to carry. āIāll carry the other stack, then.ā
If you mention being hungry even once, heāll mysteriously have āaccidentallyā bought an extra rice ball or sandwich from the convenience store.
āI bought too much.ā Daichi awkwardly chuckles while handing the rice ball towards you āAgain?ā You replied while taking the rice ball way from his hand.
āā¦Yeah.ā
āYou say that every week.ā
Heāll only scratch the back of his neck and look away.
Practice runs late? Heās already waiting by the gym doors with his bag over one shoulder.
āIāll walk you home.ā
āYou donāt have to.ā
āI knowā¦I want too and itās getting dark.ā
If someone outside the team is bothering you, heāll step simply in, and drag you away from them.
if someone on the team was being a nuisance to you. They are receiving a polite (intimidating) conversation.
(I guess, he is protective without being overbearing.)
Outside of volleyball, heād be the type to text you just to check in.
Nothing excessive, just messages throughout the day asking if youāve eaten, how your classes went, or whether you made it home safely.
Though, those short conversations always turn into hours of talking.
He genuinely wants to know everything about youāyour favorite food, your hobbies, your childhood stories, what makes you laugh, what your dreams are after graduation.
He wants to know because he is interested because itās you.
But of course, heāll deny every accusation that comes his way.
āYou like the manager.ā
āNo..I donāt.ā But the bright pink creeping up his ears gives him away every single time.
Eventually, the entire Karasuno staff becomes invested in getting the two of you together.
Sugawara shamelessly tries to create opportunities for you to be alone.
Nishinoya and Tanaka cheer whenever you stand next to each other for more than five seconds and place bets on how long itāll take Daichi to confess, everyone in the team just watches and waitsāthereās a whole separate group chat titled: āoperation get our captain be with our managerā.
Even Coach Ukai took note on whatās happening, telling Daichi that heād probably have better luck talking to you instead of asking Yachi and Kiyoki every other day.
Takeda Sensei, simply smiles and motivates him, āyou got this.ā
By the end of it all, everyone knows Daichi is hopelessly in love with the teamās manager. Everyone⦠except Daichi himself.
š£²āTetsurÅ Kuroo
Most people assumed Kuroo was a flirt, but the truth was a bit complicated than that.
He was naturally charismatic. He talked to everyone, teased everyone, and had a habit of making people laugh within minutes of meeting them.
He loved getting reactions out of people, so when he started joking around with you, nobody thought much of it. It was just Kuroo being Kuroo⦠or so everyone believed.
(The guys is pretty much emotionally intelligent, like that one scene when they were kids.)
(Kenma and Kuroo interactions were so endearingly sweet.)
The difference became obvious surprisingly fast when he started talking to you.
With everyone else, his teasing was effortless. He always had a comeback ready, a smug grin on his face.
Around you, though?
Heād stumble over his own pick up lines, laugh a little harder than necessary whenever you said something funny, or completely lose his train of thought because you smiled at him youāll listen to him talk about his interests or when you complimented him.
Sometimes heād also catch himself staring at you for too long before awkwardly clearing his throat and pretending heād been looking at something behind you.
He always, tried way too hard to impress youāhe doesnāt realize it thoā¦
One afternoon he attempted to make a chemistry joke while you were organizing practice schedules.
āYou knowā¦ā he smirked, āI think weāve got pretty good chemistry.ā
You blinked. āā¦Chemistry?ā
āYeah.ā He replied then you tilted your head. ā like The subject?ā
Kuroo just stared āYou know just forget that I said anything.ā
And immediately left muttering and mumbling to himself while he buried his face in his hands while Kenma quietly snorted from the corner of the gym.
A full minute later your eyes widened. āā¦Ohā¦he..meant that chemistry.ā
Whenever Nekoma had team dinners, Kuroo somehow always ended up sitting next to you. It didnāt matter where you chose to sitāheād find an excuse. If someone else had already taken the seat beside you, heād casually convince them to switch.
Nobody knew how he kept pulling it off, but somehow the captain always ended up within armās reach of their manager.
During practice, heād invent the flimsiest reasons imaginable to come over and talk to you and ask for any updates about your life.
āNeed help carrying those volleyballs?ā
āIāve got them.ā
āAre you sure?ā
āYes.ā
āPositive?ā
āYes, Kuroo.ā
āOkay, okay.ā
Heād walk away⦠Only to wander back five minutes later because he āforgot to ask Coach something.ā
Coach hadnāt even called him over and when he did he just spent his time in idle talking to you. While the coach just sighs knowing that the boy got a crush on you.
If you were helping the other managers refill water bottles or organize equipment, heād finish his own drills suspiciously quickly just to strike up another conversation or have an excuse to hold hands with you.
Another big giveaway was that he actually listened.
Kuroo remembered everything.
If you casually said you liked a certain dessert once, heād somehow āaccidentallyā buy one for himself the next time the team stopped somewhereāthen offer you half because he ācouldnāt finish it.ā
He was also constantly looking for reasons to text you. It would start with something completely normal.
āCoach said practice starts thirty minutes earlier tomorrow.ā
Thenā¦
āDid you finish that assignment?ā
āHave you eaten yet?ā
āKenma says this movie is good. Have you seen it?ā
āDo you know about this new video game? Wanna come over?ā
āSleep well, goodnight!ā
Before either of you realized it, youād spent two hours talking about absolutely nothing.
His very personal close friend Kenma noticed almost immediately. Because he had to listen to Kuroo talk and gush about you while he played his game on the console.
Every practice morning, Kuroo would stop in front of the locker room mirror, fixing his hair for the third time before flashing himself a smile.
ā Is it too much?ā Heād try a wink.
āā¦Definitely too much.ā Kenma will reply not looking up from his position.
āKenma.ā
āHm.ā
āDo I look okay?ā
Kenma didnāt even glance up from his handheld console.āTheyāre coming today, arenāt they?ā It got even worse after heād invited you over to his house to study. Suddenly he was panicking over things heād never cared about before.
Were there enough snacks?
Should he clean his room again?
Did his bookshelf make him look like a nerd?
Should he wear his Nekoma hoodie or was that trying too hard?
Kenma walked into his room, took one look at Kuroo rearranging the same stack of manga for the fourth time, and sighed.
āYouāve cleaned your room more today than you have all year.ā
āIām just⦠making it look presentable.ā
āTheyāre just coming over to study.ā
Kenma simply walked away. āThey like you too much to care.ā
Kuroo froze. āWaitāwhat did you just say?ā
āā¦Nothing.ā Kenma replied while quickly turning away.
āKenma.ā
š£²āTÅru Oikawa
The agenda that Oikawa has had dozens of girlfriends just because heās popular is completely false.
The guy had one girlfriend, got dumped, and somehow that became enough for everyone to assume he was a legendary heartbreaker. Yeah noā¦
Sure, girls confessed to him all the time, but actually pursuing someone he genuinely liked?
That was a completely different story. Oikawa could charm an entire gymnasium filled with girlsāmaybe? Probably without breaking a sweat, but in reality with a person he likedāheād struggle.
The first time he saw you, he genuinely forgot how to speak. His mouth literally fell open, earning a chorus of laughter from the rest of Aoba Johsai before he could even recover.
From that day on, he became embarrassingly determined to make a good impression. And poor Iwaizumi ended up being forced to listen to Oikawa rehearse greetings before practice.
āShould I say āGood morningā? No⦠too plain...maybe, āHey! Fancy seeing you here!ā Wait, no, thatās stupid. What if I compliment them? Too much? What if I wink?ā
Iwaizumi would just deadass stare at him with the most exhausted expression imaginable. āYouāre talking to the manager, not confessing.ā
After twenty minutes of practicing, Oikawa would finally convince himself he was ready.
He walked into the gym full of confidence and motivation, looking like the coolest person alive, hair perfectly styled, smile perfectly practiced, absolutely radiant.
Then when youād look up and casually say, āOh, Oikawa, Coach wanted you,ā suddenly every single prepared sentence vanished from his brain. āā¦H-Huh? Me? Right. Yeah. Coach. Of course.ā
Heād stumble over his own words so badly that youād give him a confused look before walking away, leaving him frozen in place.
The second you disappeared around the corner, heād dramatically collapse against the nearest wall while Iwaizumi watched without a shred of sympathy.
āThat was pathetic.ā
āI KNOW IWA-CHAN!ā
It continued on he became painfully obvious to everyone except you. Heād start fixing his hair whenever he caught his reflection in a window. Heād suddenly care about whether his practice jacket looked wrinkled. Heād ask Kunimi or iwazumi, āDo I look okay?ā so often that theyād stop answering and just give him a thumbs-up without looking.
If you complimented literally anythingāhis serve, his haircut, even his water bottleāheād spend the next week thinking about it. And heāll replay every conversation in his head that night, wondering if he sounded cool or if he embarrassed himself again.
Heād constantly invent excuses to be around you, too. Need help carrying volleyballs? Heās already there. Coach asked someone to move equipment?
Oikawa volunteered before anyone else could. If you were talking to another manager or one of the first years, heād casually wander over with a grin and somehow try to insert himself into the conversation.
Heād never admit it was because he wanted to spend more time with you, but everyone else could connect the dots.
Naturally, the entire team notice and try to tease their captain, Hanamaki and Matsukawa would make it their lifeās mission to sabotage him at every opportunity. Actually the whole team, just so Oikawa will owe them up to a free treat to a soba meal.
Theyād loudly call your name whenever Oikawa was staring so heād whip his head away. If he was about to walk over and talk to you, theyād suddenly throw an arm around his shoulders and start asking him nonsense just to watch him suffer.
Iwaizumi was somehow both his biggest supporter and biggest bully. Heād tell Oikawa to just confess already⦠then immediately smack him over the head whenever he started overthinking another three-word conversation.
š£²āWakatoshi Ushijima
Ushijima was ratherā¦uhmā¦wellā¦he didnāt recognize his feelings as a crush.
To him, it was simply the fact that: your presence was pleasant and he felt pleased to be around you and listen to you talk and compliment him, you were someone he trusted completely and whose company he preferred over being alone, someone that he naturally looked for after practice without realizing he was doing it.
In his mind, you were simply a close friendāsomeone he liked very, very much. There was no reason to question it.
It wasnāt until TendÅ bluntly announced, āUshijima, you have a crush on the manager,ā that made him actually stop and think.
He stood there silently for several long seconds before asking, completely serious, āā¦Is that what this feeling is?ā Making TendÅ nearly fell over laughing that his friend hadnāt realized that his actions werenāt normal.
Ushijima didnāt understand what was so funny. If there was a name for what he was feeling, then yeah, he had a crush.
During his early morning runs, heād quietly reflect on it. Heād replay conversations the two of you had shared, the way you smiled when you greeted him every morning, how you always remembered to ask if heād eaten after long practices.
He found himself remembering details that most people wouldnāt know or bother to remember if they arenāt close with one another.
Eventually, another realization settled in. Whenever the two of you walked somewhere together, he always wanted to reach over and hold your hand.
Not because there was any particular reasonāhe simply thought it feltā¦rightā¦and whenever he sees someone making you uncomfortable by talking to you or asking your number, he feels somewhatājealous āthen spikes a ball that hits them to leave you alone.
Ushijima expressed his affection through his actions.
If you were carrying equipment, heād wordlessly take the heavier box.
If practice ran late, heād wait without being asked so you wouldnāt have to walk home alone.
If someone was bothering you, they somehow found themselves on the receiving end of Ushijimaās spike or intimidating stare until they decided they had somewhere else to be.
Whenever you thanked him, heād simply nod and reply, āYouāre important to the team.ā
To everyone else, it sounded like something a captain would naturally say.
The truth was, heād do those things even if you werenāt the manager anymore.
Ironically, the two of you were probably the only people who didnāt realize what was happening.
You simply thought Ushijima was an incredibly dependable friend. Quiet? Yes. Awkward? Occasionally.
But heād always been kind to you, so none of it seemed unusual.
Meanwhile, Ushijima believed he was treating youāwellāalmost the same but it was still differentā¦completely unaware that the team had started keeping score of how many times he looked for you first after practice.
Whenever you passed by and smiled or waved at him, heād calmly lift a hand and wave back before returning to whatever he was doing, thinking absolutely nothing of it.
Tendou meanwhile, would simply sigh in the background.
When you walked into the gym every afternoon, Ushijima would instinctively glance toward the entrance to make sure youād arrived safely.
If you looked tired, heād ask if you were feeling alright.
If you forgot to eat lunch, heād quietly buy you something from the vending machine.
None of those things felt extraordinary to himāthey were simply the logical things to do for someone important.
The problem was⦠he didnāt do those things for everyone.
If you were running late, Ushijima would casually ask, āHave they arrived yet?ā
If you missed practice because you were sick, heād quietly ask Coach WashijÅ if you were recovering well.
If you mentioned an upcoming exam, heād remember the exact date weeks later and ask how it went.
To him, those were simply the things friends did.
If you ever asked him why he always seemed to be there whenever you needed help, heād answer with complete sincerity
āBecause youāre important to me.ā
Then heād continue walking as though heād said something ordinary, leaving everyone elseāincluding youāto process what heād just admitted.
š£²āKÅtarÅ Bokuto
Bokuto was completely incapable of hiding his feelings. The moment he realized he liked you, the entire volleyball club somehow knew within a week.
Honestly, it probably took less than that. Bokuto wasnāt the type to quietly yearn you from afarāhe made it everyoneās business.
The gym echoed with your name at least five times every practice because heād shout, āHEY, āā¦.ā !! LOOK AT THIS!ā from the opposite side of the court before attempting his best spike.
The second he landed it, heād immediately turn to see if you were watching.
He lived for your praise. One simple āThat was amazing, Bokuto!ā and suddenly he was playing like heād been possessed, hitting every spike with even more confidence than before, even if he missed heāll still be motivated because he sees you on the side lines watching him.
If you clapped for him, heād spend the next thirty minutes grinning so hard his cheeks hurt.
If you complimented a single play, heād perform even better for the rest of practice, convinced he had to live up to your expectations and not to let you down.
The opposite was also true.
If you left before practice ended because you had errands to run, Bokuto would dramatically flop onto the gym floor as though all life had left his body.
āThey leftā¦ā
āBokuto, they just went to the store.ā
āā¦Without saying goodbyeā¦ā
āYou watched them wave at you.ā
āā¦Itās not the same.ā
If you happened to miss practice altogether, heād spend the entire day asking where you were. The moment practice ended, your phone would explode with notifications.
Bokuto: hey
Bokuto: hey hey
Bokuto: HEYYYYYY???
Bokuto: where were youuu??
Bokuto: are you alive??
Bokuto: you okay
Bokuto: HELLOOOOO???
If you still didnāt answer, heād call you, and the second you picked up, youād hear the most exaggerated fake sobbing imaginable.
ā āā¦.ā You werenāt here todayā¦ā
āBokutoāā
āYou abandoned meā¦ā
āI had to go to the dentist.ā
Then his mood shifts āOh okayāyey!! How was it??ā
You genuinely made his entire day brighter just by existing. If you walked into the gym and smiled at him before practice, heād somehow have enough energy to power the entire team.
If you laughed at one of his jokesāeven the terrible onesāheād be riding that high for hours. And flexing that to everyone thatāHEāyesāHEāmade you smile!
Akaashi noticed this and used it to his advantage and also help Bokuto get to youādoesnāt seem like you really mind, anywaysā¦
Whenever Bokuto started spiraling into one of his moods, Akaashi would calmly glance around the gym before saying, āManager, could you hand Bokuto the extra volleyballs?ā
Almost instantly, Bokuto perked back up.
āOh! Hi! āā¦ā!!ā
āHi, Bokuto!!ā
āDid you see my last spike?ā
āI did.ā
āā¦Really?ā
āIt was impressive.ā
āā¦AKAASHI, DID YOU HEAR THAT?!ā
Akaashi had, in fact, he planned the entire interaction.
During official matches, the team practically relied on you as part of their strategy. Whenever Bokutoās confidence started wavering after a blocked spike, everyone instinctively looked toward you. One thumbs-up, a clap, or a simple, āYouāve got this, Bokuto!ā was usually all it took.
His shoulders straightened and his grin returned.
āRIGHT! IāVE GOT THIS!ā
Kenji Futakuchi
Futakuchi definitely teased the hell out of you. It got to the point where half your conversations ended with you threatening to throw a volleyball at him.
The only way he knew how to get closer to someone was by being an absolute menace.
Heād make sarcastic comments whenever you walked by, roast you for the smallest mistakes, steal your clipboard for no reason other than to watch you chase after him, and smirk every time you rolled your eyes.
The thing was, he didnāt tease you because he wanted to annoy you.
He teased you because it gave him an excuse to talk to you.
(Realā¦mature move over hereā¦)
If you ignored him, heād somehow find another reason to bother you five minutes later.
If you snapped back with an insult of your own, his grin will reach from both ends of his ears, smiling widely.
In his mind, if you were arguing with him, at least you were paying attention to him.
The rest of Date Tech thought it was painfully obvious, but you simply assumed Futakuchi was like that with everyone.
Though, he was surprisingly observant. He noticed when you looked stressed before anyone else did.
If you had dark circles under your eyes after exam week, heād notice. And reassure you to take breaks and you can pass the test.
If you skipped lunch because you were too busy helping Coach, heād notice that too. And quietly place the sweet bread hr bought from the cafeteria.
Too much things to dowhen you are about to turn around to grab a box of volleyballs only to find theyād already disappeared because Futakuchi had carried them away.
If you asked why, heād shrug and say, āI didnāt trust you not to drop them.ā there was always an excuse. Heād never admit.
He also had a habit of unconsciously looking for you. The moment he walked into the gym, his eyes would flick toward the managerās desk just to make sure youād made it to practice.
If you were absent that day, heād casually ask, āManagerās not here today?ā trying to sound like he was only curious because it affected practice.
Nobody believed him. Not Moniwa, not Kamasaki, not even Aone.
They all knew exactly why heād asked.
Whenever the team went out to eat after a match, Futakuchi will make sure you are eating first and getting the food you wanted.
If you needed to carry drinks back to the table, heād take half of them before you even had the chance, saying it was simply the practical thing to do.
If someone else started bothering you, heād immediately jump into the conversationānot because he was jealous, heād insist, but because ātheyāre being annoying.ā
The irony of that statement was completely lost on him.
The biggest weakness in this entire act was kindness.
He could handle you yelling at him. He could handle you roasting him back. He could even handle you threatening to hit him with a volleyball. He could handle you hitting him and calling him āannoying.ā
But if you smiled warmly and said, āThanks, Futakuchi. I appreciate you helping me,ā his brain would completely short-circuit.
His ears would turn pink, heād suddenly become shying away , and heād mutter something like, āyeah, whatever,ā before quickly walking away.
The smug grin heād worn all day would disappear in an instant.
His teammates lived to see those moments. Theyād spend entire practices trying to orchestrate situations where youād thank him just to watch him go soft and quite.
š£²āShinsuke Kita
Shinsuke Kita didnāt realize the exact moment he fell for you. There wasnāt some dramatic confession to himself or a day he could point back to.
One morning, he simply noticed that he had started looking toward the gym entrance without thinking, wondering if youād arrived yet.
If you were already there setting up equipment, heād feel oddly relieved and go up to you asking if you wanted him to help you.
If you were running late, heād quietly glance at the clock once or twice before returning to practice.
It wasnāt something he questioned at first.
To him, it was simply another part of his daily routine, like arriving early, sweeping the gym, or checking the volleyballs before practice.
He admired the little things about you more than anything else.
The way you stayed behind to organize supplies even after everyone else had left.
How you always remembered which players forgot their water bottles.
The āgood morningā youād give him every day, even if the two of you exchanged only a handful of words afterward.
He appreciated the consistency of the interactions that you had.
The Miya twins noticed long before he did, theyāll ask him questions and bring out how he always stares at you.
āHeās a gonerā Osamu sighed.
āOur captainās in love.ā Atsuma replied back
Kita wasnāt the type to become flustered or act differently around someone he liked. If anything, he became even more dependable.
Heād quietly set aside your favorite drink whenever the team stopped at the convenience store.
If he noticed you looked tired, heād ask, āDid you sleep well?ā
If it started unexpectedly rain, there would already be an umbrella waiting because heād checked the forecast that morning and packed an extra one without mentioning it.
The affection he had was almost impossible to recognize unless you paid close attention.
If everyone was helping clean up, heād naturally drift toward whatever task you were doing so the work would finish faster.
āYou donāt have to carry that.ā
āIt isnāt heavy.ā
āIt is.ā
And heāll reach out and carry it.
āThank you, Kita.ā
āYouāre welcome.ā
That was the entire conversation.
To everyone else, though, it said plenty.
The second-years began making bets on how long it would take before Kita realized he wasnāt treating you the same as everyone else. Aran merely chuckled whenever the twins complained.
āLeave him alone.ā
āBut Aran-san!ā
āHe literally asked if he was comfortable when we all went out to eat and gave them a piece of his foodā Atsumu pointed out.
āThat ās just being considerate.ā
Atsumu just stared at Aran in absolute disbelief.
And Kita himself remained blissfully unaware.
To him, caring for someone was simply the right thing to do. If someone mattered to you, you remembered the little things. You paid attention. You made their day a little easier if you could.
Only much later, after hearing Atsumu loudly complain for what felt like the hundredth time, did Kita quietly ask,
āā¦Is this really considered having a crush?ā
The gym fell completely silent. Even Suna looked up from his phone, while Atsumu slowly pointed at him shouting out loud,
āYOU ARE SERIOUSLY ASKING ABOUT THAT NOW?ā
Osamu pinched the bridge of his nose.
āKita-sanā¦ā
āā¦Youāve had one for months.ā
Kita was quiet for a long moment.
āI see.ā He nodded once, accepting the information as calmly as if someone had told him practice started thirty minutes earlier. āThat explains a few things.ā
And the very next morning, he greeted you exactly as he always did.
āGood morning.ā
āMorning, Kita.ā
A small smile crossed his face.
āā¦Iām glad youāre here.ā
Across the gym, Atsumu buried his face in his hands.
āTheyāre both hopeless.ā
š£²āYÅ«ji Terushima
Terushima was absolutely convinced he had game. According to him, there wasnāt a person alive who could resist his ānatural charm.ā
The boys on Johzenji had heard that speech so many times they could recite it word for word.
So when the manager caught his eye, everyone knew that heāll either fail or have you wrapped around his finger within a week.
Instead, you humbled him almost immediately.
He was leaning against the gym wall with what he thought was the coolest smile imaginable.
āHey, manager. You know, if I wasnāt on the volleyball team, Iād probably be a model.ā
You ignore him and his comment and said
āā¦Coach said if you keep standing there, youāre running suicides and youāll be a dead weight..so I suggest you start getting yourself together and practice.ā
āā¦Right.ā
The team howled with laughter as he slowly walked back onto the court. It became a weekly occurrence that heāll try to find a way to make you fall for him.
Terushima would confidently stroll over with a brand-new pickup line heād thought of on the train ride to school, only for you to accidentallyāintentionallyāshut it down without even trying.
āYou know, you smiled at me today.ā
āI smile at everyone.ā
āI smiled at a guy today too.ā
āOuch that hurtsā¦ā he would dramatically say.
The funniest part was that he never stayed embarrassed for long. Give him thirty seconds, and heād bounce right back with another grin and another terrible attempt.
He took absolutely nothing seriously. If you rolled your eyes, heād dramatically clutch his chest and claim youād āwoundedā him before immediately asking if you wanted something from the vending machine.
If you called him annoying, heād proudly respond, āThat means you think about me!ā
If you threatened to throw a volleyball at him, heād hand you one with a smile.
The problem was that, despite all the jokes, he also paid attention to you and your feelings. Heāll also stop bothering you when you looked exhausted and will go up to you and tell you to sit this one out.
He noticed when you looked exhausted after carrying equipment all afternoon and would suddenly snatch the boxes out of your hands.
He also had an annoying habit of appearing exactly when your mood dipped. If practice had been stressful or you looked overwhelmed, Terushima would somehow materialize beside you.
āWanna hear something funny?ā
āSure.ā
Five minutes later, he was now reenacting one of his teammates tripping over a volleyball or giving an exaggerated impression of the referee from your last match until you laughed despite yourself.
The second he heard that laugh, heād grināThere it is.
every time you smiled at one of his ridiculous jokes or laughed at another one of his failed attempts to flirt, heād forget whatever cheesy line heād planned next. He liked seeing you smile.
His teammates commented about how he somehow got significantly dumber around you.
Even when he embarrasses himself, heād recover almost instantly and walk confidently towards you.
If a volleyball smacked him in the face while he was trying to flirt, heād come back still with a smile.
Terushima wasnāt actually trying to impress you at all anymore. He was trying to make you laugh, because he wanted you to be happy.
Written by Jammy. Please do not copy and paste or feed my work into an AI. This was completely written by hand, thank you for stopping by and reading!
Social prestige and financial security for your family, a life of luxuries and protection, legitimate children with a claim to the throne, etc.. It was all good in theory but what about what you wanted?
You hadn't a choice in the matter. Your grandmother had grabbed your hands when the letter came, telling you that Firelord Zuko was in need of a new concubine and had been looking at your clan.
When you told her no, that you were only twenty two and didn't wish to lie with an older man when you already had a boyfriend, she simply pinched your arm and told you to be grateful for this opportunity that was being given to your people.
Your clan was a small one, located on the outskirts, north of the capital and basically separated from the rest of the kingdom. You weren't the richest bunch, nor were you the poorest but the other elders had been pressuring your grandmother to reintroduce your clan back into society, and with her being "nothing more than a widow of a clanhead" she felt pressured to cave to their demands.
So you swallowed your pride, packed a few trunks and were sent on your way with the hopes and dreams of bringing a better future to your people.
You had been in the palace for three months now and were still unsure of how to feel.
Zuko had turned out to be kind, soft with you and very easy on the eyes. He didn't look like he was almost thirty seven and he surely didn't act like the scary dictator you thought he might be.
Most surprisingly? He never expected anything of you, never forced you to do what you didn't wish to.
On your first night, you had been bathed and prepped all pretty for Zuko. Your ladies dressed you in the finest of red silk that left little to imagination, brushed and combed your hair until your scalp burned and rubbed jasmine oil all over your body.
They claimed it was his favorite scent.
After they left, you sat stiff on the bed, your nipples hardening from the wind blowing through your opened balcony door, the thin fabric not doing much to warm you. Your hands were awkwardly placed on your lap, and you waited.
When he walked in, he hadn't been what you expected for a man pushing forty. He was far from ugly, if anything he was unfairly handsome.
Tall with muscular arms, sharp jaw, soft but weighted golden eyes and long hair. The scar only made him more striking instead of less. He carried himself with the confidence of a king but the eyes never lie, and his were impossibly kind.
You stood, your heart pounding so hard you thought it might burst through your ribs, and waited for the Fire Lord to claim what was his by right. But Zuko had taken one look at you, at the way your hands shook and his expression crumbled, a frown pulling at his lips.
"You're so young." He whispered more to himself than you, staring at you with wide eyes and genuine surprise on his face.
"Nothing has to happen tonight. Nothing has to happen ever, if you donāt want it to. Iām not- I wonāt do anything you donāt want me to do.ā
You had been grateful that he turned out to be a man of his word. And while it's been a few months of living here and Zuko had never expected sex from you, he always took the opportunity to leave you little gifts or notes.
One time you awoke to a bouquet of fire lilies on your bed after expressing how beautiful you thought they were. Another time, Zuko had visited you just before your first public appearance and gifted you a necklace that was clearly expensive and rare.
He stood behind you after moving you to the standing mirror, pushing your hair aside and telling you that:
"It belonged to my mother. I thought it might compliment you most."
You had looked at his reflection and he had already been watching you, the intensity of his gaze making your chest tighten.
When the other concubines seen it, most gasped while a few seethed. You hadn't thought much about the meaning behind it, thought Zuko was just being nice until one of them explained that the Firelord never allowed anyone to touch his later mother's possessions.
Now that same necklace was smacking against your chest and you were crouched beneath his desk with your lips wrapped around his cock.
The chamberlainās voice came from the other side of the polished wood, something about grain shipments from the Earth Kingdom and a dispute over tariffs in the colonies. Blah, blah, blah.
You paid no attention to the words. Your focus was entirely on the way Zukoās thigh muscles tensed beneath your palm, the way his breath hitched every time you swirled your tongue around the sensitive head. You had become an expert at reading his body in the last ten minutes, at knowing exactly how much pressure to apply and when to pull back and tease him.
It was your way of thanking him, a gesture of gratitude. You had no other way to repay him for his kindness, no skills that seemed valuable to a man who already had everything.
So you used what you had.
āMy Lord, the Avatar requests an audience to discuss the matter personally,ā the chamberlain said, his voice muffled through the thick wood of the desk.
Zukoās hand found its way into your hair, his fingers tangling in the elaborate updo you had sat for an hour getting. You felt the slight tremor in his touch and smiled around his cock, drool spilling from your mouth.
He was close. You could tell by the way his hips kept twitching as he fought the instinct to thrust deeper into your mouth. You hollowed your cheeks and increased your pace, one hand working the base of his eight inches while the other cupped his balls
"Then send for him." Zuko says, his voice surprisingly steady for a man whose cock was buried in his concubineās throat.
You pulled off, licking and sucking at the tip and Zuko jerked so hard that his knee hit the desk and he covered his moan with a fake groan of pain.
"My Lord! Are you well? You're sweating and you look pale. Should I call for the healer?"
Zuko shifted, hand slamming on the desk when you squeezed and stroked his cock from base to tip.
"No, p-please just continue."
You bit back a laugh and took him back in your mouth. Zukoās grip on your hair tightened and you felt his cock twitch against your tongue. So you doubled your efforts, taking him as deep as you could and fighting your gag reflex.
Your jaw ached, but it was a satisfying ache, one you gladly welcomed if it meant unraveling him like this.
The chamberlain shuffled some papers. āVery well. There is also the matter of the spring festival. The council would like to know if you will be in attendance so we might arrange proper security.ā
"I'll attend." Zuko responded too quickly, pushing your face further down on his cock and holding you there. "As will concubine (name), so double the security."
Your eyes were wide and burning with tears, fingers digging into his thighs as you silently choked on his cock. Zuko let up after a few seconds but never loosened his grip on your hair, pushing your head up and down faster, hips slightly lifting as he fucked your mouth as discreetly as possible.
Then his thighs tensed, and you felt the hot, sudden flood of his release spilling across your tongue. You swallowed, throat working around him as he pulsed, your eyes fluttering shut as bits spilled out the corners of your mouth.
Above you, Zuko's breath caught, just once, a sharp hitch he masked with a cough and then his hand in your hair gentled, trembling fingers stroking your head.
You released his still hard cock with a wet pop! and only climbed from under the desk when you heard the soft click of the door shutting, a shit eating grin on your face.
āYou,ā Zuko growled, but there was no real anger in his voice, only exasperated affection. āYou impossible, insatiable, reckless little girl.ā
"You were very composed, my lord. I'm impressed." Your voice was smug, lips tugging into a smile as he pushed you back against his desk.
Zuko's face was growing redder by the second, beads of sweat glistening on his forehead and he looked stuck between captivated and shocked. He shook his head with a small smile, gathering your dress and lifting it above your hips. His hands wrapped around your waist and without much effort as he lifted you onto his desk.
"Shall we see how composed you are when I'm inside of you?" He grabs his cock and drags you toward the edge of the desk, settling himself between your legs.
Your breath catches. Zuko had yet to bed you and while you weren't a virgin, you weren't entirely sure he could even fit inside of you.
"May I?" Zuko asks, pushing your panties aside and lining his cock up with your leaking hole.
You swallow and nod, your raging desire overriding any fear of his size.
He pushed forward slowly, letting your body learn the shape of him, and when you whimpered against his neck he stilled at once and murmured, āI have you, itās all right, breathe.ā
He waited until the tension in your shoulders softened, then pressed deeper with a care that made your eyes sting. One hand was splayed warm and steady across your back, the one pressed against your tummy once he bottomed out.
"Please move." You huff against his skin after a minute, breathing in his sweat and fragrance.
Zuko gently pulls you back by your hair, titling your head so he can look you in the eye. He smiles down at you like the sun, the skin of his scar crinkling just a little as he leans down to kiss the corner of your mouth.
"Say please, little concubine." He whispers in your ear.
You roll your eyes and then roll your hips, grinning when he instinctively bucks and his cock rubs against your walls so beautifully that you can't help how hard you clench around him.
"Please, Zuko?"
Glossy doe eyes meet his slightly aged ones and Zuko breaks, like truly breaks because you're the most beautiful woman in the nation and yet you were here, panting under him despite his insecurities about his age.
So he gave you what you wanted because he was weak when it came to you. Embarrassingly so. How someone nearly half his age had been able to infiltrate his heart, he'd never know.
Each thrust he gave was deep and rough enough to rattle the heavy desk against the ground, scrolls tumbling to the floor in a messy cascade. His breath came in ragged bursts against your hair, praises spilling from his lips as he fought the urge to cum.
The older Zuko got, the harder he found it to last as long as he was once able to. It didn't help that you were tighter than the others, wetter too.
Zuko whines when he feels his balls tightening and your nails digging into his tunic and scratching his back. It makes you clench harder and Zuko pushes so deep he can see the print of his cock against your belly and it makes his eyes roll back until mostly only white was showing.
"Z-zuko, huuuuh, oh gods yes!" You meet him thrust for thrust, holding onto his shoulders as he fucked you faster and your mind spun from how drunk you were on him.
"So perfect, ngggh fuck, you're taking me so well, sweetheart." His face twists, eyes squeezed shut, brows pulled together as he plunges his cock in and out of you.
The way Zuko was fucking you made you forget all about the boy you left back home. He had never been able to pull these sounds from you. But Zuko was a different kind of beast, experienced, moving a hand between your bodies to rub your clit, his hips moving in circles before he fucked you even harder.
Your head fell back, arms tightening around his shoulders as you fell into pure bliss, orgasming so hard that you squirted all over his abdomen.
"Fuuuccckkkk!" Zuko cried out, pushing deep and spilling buckets of hot cum deep inside of you, painting your walls white with his seed. HIs hips stuttered as he pulled your body close to his, burying his face in your neck as he stuffed you full.
Zuko kept grinding into you, pushing out the last of his high before pulling out and immediately moving two fingers to your hole, pushing the cum that escaped back inside.
This was going to take. Zuko was going to finally get his heir.
He lifts your head and places his forehead against yours, heart pumping fast as he looks you in the eyes. He wasn't getting any younger, he needed to build a legacy, leave something behind, continue his family name.
Why not do that with you? He could already see it, children with his eyes and hair but all of your facial features.
Let's just say that neither of you were surprised when you had a bump a few months later.
⦠lisa's note: I'm thinking.. how we feeling about more middle aged zuko? i need that tbh š«¦