bestfriend!daichi who’s been in love with you since highschool but was always just so busy with volleyball and taking care of his siblings to realize
bestfriend!daichi who realized at graduation when you were taking pictures with your family and you wave him over. you’re just so excited. and you hug him and your mom coos, telling him he looks so handsome. and he looks at you, and just. melts.
bestfriend!daichi who pauses on it, hesitating for just a second. and then suddenly the both of you are out with kiyoko, asahi, and sugawara, getting drinks before getting your things to leave. and he thinks, no, i’ll leave it until we’re sober.
bestfriend!daichi who sees you leaving your house the next morning, grinning at him widely. he sees you and now he cant find the words, he’s just lost in you. so he leaves it, with just a “hello, y/n! are you busy?” and you two grab coffee together. you talk about everything except for what he came to say.
and then it’s bestfriend!daichi who is helping you pack up your bags and make sure you have everything. even driving you to shops to get everything you don’t have. he keeps trying to tell you how he feels but nothing comes of it.
bestfriend!daichi who sees you going off to college with all your friends, everyone going their separate ways, but swearing to stay in touch. meanwhile he’s staying in town and becoming a firefighter.
bestfriend!daichi who remains your best friend, even when your miles upon miles apart. he still calls all the time and drives out to see you and you do the same. but slowly those calls and those visits become fewer and fewer.
bestfriend!daichi who’s itching to know what’s keeping you so busy so suddenly. there’s nothing wrong with it, he just misses you. i mean, you’re the person he’s been in love with for years his best friend!
and bestfriend!daichi that finally hears about this guy you’ve been seeing for a while. and just how sweet he is on you. and how he dotes on you and treats you to dinner and oh the necklace he bought you! god he hates it is so happy for you
but eventually your calls and coffee dates with bestfriend!daichi turn into you talking about how perfect he is to how… distant he is.
bestfriend!daichi who listens to you complain about how he was late to your date again— or was it that he doesn’t care about your interests at all? it’s always something with him.
bestfriend!daichi who wants nothing more than to just tell you to leave him! that he truly isn’t worth your time, that you could be so much happier without him.
bestfriend!daichi who takes you out for drinks when your boyfriend bails on your 7 month anniversary dinner because his boss gave him tickets to see some baseball game. he was in town at a conference anyways!
bestfriend!daichi who finally (after a few drinks) tells you that your boyfriend is either blind or stupid — or a combination of both — for leaving you all dolled up on such a day. what kind of man would leave such a gorgeous date on such an important day?
bestfriend!daichi who confides in you that part of him is elated that he ditched you so that he could go out with you. and you almost laugh! because what would daichi want with being out with you ‘all dolled up’?
bestfriend!daichi who rambles ON and ON about you - to you - and about how god awful your boyfriend is, and look at that. he’s just confessed that he’s loved you since highschool. after years, he finally has the words. words he didn’t even think about. suddenly he’s completely sober again.
bestfriend!daichi who stops in his tracks and glances at you. mouth agape, eyes wide. he just stares for a second before watching you pull out your phone and type something out quickly before looking back at him.
bestfriend!daichi who tentatively watched you reach out. almost the second you hand touches his face he does the same and pulls you so near him that you can feel his breath across your face. and he hesitates once again. but this time he says something. “can i?”
bestfriend!daichi who sees the almost unnoticeable nod and presses his lips to yours. finally kissing you. he holds your face in his hands and is as near to you as he can be from his spot next to you at the bar. and he pulls back and laughs breathlessly.
bestfriend!daichi that becomes more than your best friend after that night. coming up on every anniversary and as much as he can between them. he always has flowers or chocolates or plushes or something to give you, some sweet, something loving.
bestfriend!daichi who is hopelessly in love with you and you love him just enough, if that's even possible