Jun 17, 2021
Number One by dgalerab
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Kuroo gets rated as the number one most attractive high school volleyball player. Oikawa doesn't handle it well.
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Number One by dgalerab
Completed | G | 1.5k
Kuroo gets rated as the number one most attractive high school volleyball player. Oikawa doesn't handle it well.
–how the days may turn
Saturday mornings are reserved for visits to the grocery store. Like everything else in Tooru’s life, this is the comforting routine that defines the now. Adventure will come later, he’s sure, but he’ll be content with a warm shower and comfortable clothes. He grabs the shopping list on the counter and leaves a sticky-note reminder on the counter to his mom on the way out.
Tooru’s always been something of a morning person, but he still enjoys watching the sun rise like it’s the first time. Likes the crispness of the air against his skin before mugginess sets in, and the delicate birdsong before it’s broken. How it can seem like he is the only person in the world in the quietness of it all, left alone with only his thoughts and without the pretenses of the day.
The walk is familiar so Tooru can let his thoughts wander to other things: an upcoming project he needs to plan for, calling his sister about having lunch during the week, when he might have the time to continue watching Isabel. Preferably without subtitles. Maybe he’ll be able to wrangle Iwaizumi into watching some with him...
In Tooru’s very learned opinion, the building to Ito Yokado is entirely too big for what amounts to the suburbs outside of Sendai. No one in the area needs that much space for food when there are so many smaller grocers in the area. At least it’s not garish fuschia like on AEON. The doors open up automatically and Tooru grabs a basket from a stack just to the side of the entrance.
He’s been doing this long enough that he knows the exact layout and location of all the items he needs. And Tooru’s not one to dawdle over cool-looking snacks, so he immediately heads to the fresh produce. There aren’t many items on the list this week, so he grabs the usual suspects: negi, daikon, nappa cabbage, bean sprouts, shiso. He makes sure to get a couple of sweet potatoes, too, for snacking when he studies. Tooru moves to the meats to get pork and chicken, and then gets some furikake because they’re running out. Biting his lip, he grabs a bottle of Mitsuya Cider for Takeru. He plays with the hem of his shirt as the cashier counts his coins, and grabs his bags in one hand.
He hums on the way home.
--
His name is Toshiro and he is two years older than Tooru.
He is only a little taller at 17 compared to Tooru’s 15, but he is handsome and muscular with unruly black hair and hazel eyes. He doesn’t smile much but gives praise like currency, and he has this glint in his eyes when he high-fives Tooru after a good toss. Like most of the first years, though, Tooru has little time to spend with regulars. So even Tooru, for all his prodigious skill, rarely gets to play with Toshiro. Tooru lives for practice matches where he is the first pick. Everyone wants him then.
Tooru dreams about him at night. Wonders what it would be like to always toss for Toshiro. To be at the receiving end of scant smiles. Be able to walk up to his classroom and spend time with Toshiro and his friends during lunch. For Toshiro to walk Tooru to his house after every afternoon practice. Cuddling on Mondays when they would normally be practicing. Kissing.
(Thoughts about kissing always make Tooru flustered, and he banishes the thoughts as quickly as they come).
Maybe Tooru should be more panicked that his first crush is a boy. He knows that it isn’t normal to like someone who is the same sex. All anyone ever talks about is girls at his age. And he gets it, he thinks--girls are pretty and small and mysterious. But Tooru thinks he likes boys more because whenever he looks at Toshiro, his stomach roils and his cheeks get hot and all he can imagine is being held in strong arms.
It’s fleeting--his crush. But then all Tooru notices, sometimes, is how handsome some of the boys in school are. It exists as a throbbing constant in the periphery in his life--to pine after boys who he can never have.
It takes a while for Tooru to finally start seeing what has been next to him for all of eternity.
--
"Oi. Where’re your gloves?”
“Hmm?”
“Gloves, Tooru. It’s cold out, and you’re always complaining that your hands get dry.”
“I guess I forgot them at home.”
“You always say that.”
“... sorry.”
“It’s fine. Just come here.”
“Why? If we walk faster, it’ll be less time outside. You’re totally freezing, too.”
“...”
“I’m coming, Iwa-chan.”
“Here. Wear this on your opposite hand.”
“Oh?”
“What’s with that face?”
“It’s nothing, Iwa-chan. You could have just said you wanted to hold my hand instead of making up some excuse to give me one of your gloves.”
“We would be late if we went back to get your mittens, and I don’t want to hear you complain about it the whole way there.”
“Don’t lie like that, Iwa-chan, you can’t deny it!”
“Tooru.”
“You’re such a spoilsport sometimes.”
“... obviously I want to hold your hand, Tooru.”
“Ha!”
“Don’t be obnoxious about it.”
oikawa tooru headcanons: body
no this ain’t about the nasty, get your mind out of the gutter
he runs cold. it sucks.
oikawa keeps his fingernails super short to have a better handle of the volleyball. he started cutting them in the middle of junior high after his upperclassman told him to do it.
the first time he tried cutting them, he did it on the futon like a rookie. ended up bleeding all over the covers because he accidentally cut the skin underneath the nail, and went to bed amidst a bunch of clippings in the sheets. he was still finding bits of nails in his futon a whole week after that first time. he does it in the bathroom now, like a respectable person.
his hands are very pretty, by the way. they’re large in general, which is great in ball control/handling, but his fingers are super long and thin with no bulky knuckles to interrupt the long line of them.
this doesn’t really have canon basis, but i’ve always imagined oikawa to have struggled with weight issues--specifically with being underweight. beyond eating to maintain weight and getting enough nutrients for volleyball, i think he’s always followed a pretty strict diet to prevent things like malnutrition, anemia, and a weak immune system.
it gets easier for him to gain weight when he’s older--hormones and increased appetite and all that. it’s not so much an issue of health anymore as it is to just stay fit at this point. he’s very proud, you guys. he’s put in a lot of work to have an adequate amount of muscle mass.
manages to keep a very trim figure, however. even as an adult, playing professionally in argentina, he’s still rather svelte despite all the added muscle. his waist-to-shoulder ratio is only a little insane.
tiddies.
much to the envy of his friends, oikawa never really has to worry about acne. he’ll occasionally get a little along his jawline, which he does freak out about, but it’s never noticeable and goes away within two or three days. as a result, he never develops a skin routine besides using face wash and moisturizer. he invests in really nice shampoo and conditioner, though, because he is very proud of his hair.
oikawa’s got an image to maintain his image, you guys!!
no, he does not use makeup to look nice. at all. he’s naturally that pretty. you can’t convince me otherwise.
oikawa is this strange mix between being pretty and handsome. it really depends on things like angles, his expression, and the mood he’s affecting, so he can look super different in his photos. and yes, he’s very photogenic. to an annoying to degree.
there was probably some sort of bet between his friends to catch him in unflattering poses in the first year or two of high school. it ended because the number of photos that matsukawa and hanamaki have between them is depressingly low after two years of doing this. like, yes, oikawa makes a lot of stupid faces, but they’re not that unflattering—they tend to come out more endearing or cute than ugly.
when he smiles genuinely, his eye corners crinkle up a lot and he shows a lot of gum. iwaizumi is always blown away by it because oikawa just looks so so happy. he has a special smile, though, where he shows no teeth at all, his smile lines get super prominent, and his eyelashes touch his cheeks. that one is so rare.
speaking of iwaizumi, i see him being a leg man. oikawa has really nice ones. they’re very long.
after his knee injury, he takes to proper stretching routines religiously to prevent pulling muscles or worsening it. i feel like at some point when he’s older, either late in high school or in argentina, he starts going to a physical therapist once a week. when he’s with iwaizumi, though, oikawa just has him help out instead of going to his appointments.
maybe he takes up yoga?
oikawa tooru headcanons: christmas edition
i don’t think that oikawa grew up in a particularly religious family–christian, shinto, or otherwise–so like many japanese households, christmas is more just a nice time for him than anything else.
probably his favorite thing about this time of the year, besides snow that’s freshly fallen, is the christmas illuminations. when he was little, his parents would always take him into the city to walk through them, and it’s a tradition that he loves. sendai, in particular, is known for its pageant of starlight. now, he takes iwaizumi with him.
considering that christmas is more like valentine’s day than how it’s celebrated in christian-influenced countries, oikawa is definitely someone who likes to go out on dates with iwaizumi.
he doesn’t make too big a deal out of it since he knows that iwaizumi isn’t super fond of crowded places for dates, so they might stay in and watch movies and have their favorite foods, rather than go to some nice restaurant.
he always takes a bunch of pictures, especially of the illuminations. in fact, he has so many from this year and the previous ones that he is infamous for running out of phone storage. oikawa will then proceed to spend many hours in his bedroom, slaving over and deciding which photos to delete.
“no, tooru, you can’t send me your photos just so you don’t have to pay for more storage,” is something that iwaizumi has definitely told him.
all of his fingers hurt after scrolling through that many pictures.
oikawa’s not really that much of a shopaholic, all things considered, but he’s a sucker for christmas markets. when he travels, he likes going to a market at each city just to browse the wares.
doesn’t buy much, but always gets a bottle or two of mulled wine to give to his sister on christmas eve. probably gets any ornaments he thinks are unique, too, so that his sister can hang them on her christmas tree with takeru.
although most everyone in his life–the totality of the oikawas and the iwaizumis–are fond of traditional japanese wagashi, and their cute christmas varieties, oikawa has always preferred christmas cake (sponge cake topped with whipped cream, strawberries, and christmas-themed figurines).
if he’s hard-pressed about it though, he’ll be fine with dorayaki and oshiruki. or anything with azuki beans in them, really. milk bread is his preferred source of sugar, but he always associates azuki bean desserts with winter and christmas time.
he also likes yuzu flavored things, and thinks that cakes decorated to look like them are particularly cute.
oikawa’s tried the whole kfc fried chicken thing before, probably for the shits and giggles, and he can definitely say that he hates it. if he were to have fried chicken for dinner on christmas eve, he’d much prefer karaage than whatever comes out of american fast food. he likes the spicy version of karaage from hokkaido, but also likes how it’s prepared in the miyazaki prefecture, too.
Prince Oikawa is not a genius, but he knew that with love, sometimes you had to be patient and wait. And wait he did, until he forgot that some people won't wait forever.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
In Defense of our Overgrown Garden by karafin
Iwaoi, Oikawa & Ushijima friendship,minor Kyouhaba | 2k | Rated T
Tags: Humour, Epistolary, Domesticity, Future Fic
Summary: In which Ushijima tries very hard to be a good neighbour to the new tenants next door. (alternatively titled: love thy crooked neighbour)
Comments: This fic focuses on the relationship of Ushijima and Oikawa and in a friendship way mind you. There are neighbors in this fic and Ushijima is a farmer!! (sooo cuuteee). I love that in this fic it maximizes Ushikawa's obliviousness and honestly in comedy. We get to hear Oikawa's and Iwaizumi's troubles along the way which is a plus for my shippy heart. This fic is a short read and really is adorable. This is a good fic to read when you are seeking wholesome interactions.
-Snail🐌
Into the Dark: Chapter 11 update!
I’M STILL ALIVE YES HELLO ALSO I FINALLY FINALLY FINISHED THE LATEST CHAPTER FOR MY KUROKEN INTO THE DARK FIC AND I’D BE REALLY HAPPY IF YOU TOOK A LOOK AT IT <3
I’m sorry it took so long to update, life got me on a deathly chokehold plus I fell deep into Voltron hell and slightly got more involved in voltron then HQ TuT
either way, I will soon be finishing Into The Dark-only a few more chapters to go! Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy <3
In which Oikawa gets ready to write Iwaizumi a letter because he thinks it’d be cheesy but ends up getting too emotional about them not seeing each other a lot or not talking as they used to, so he calls him and goes “I miss you so much” but iwa-chan hangs up on him and he wents on despair mode because HAS IWA-CHAN GIVEN UP ON ME????? but no, iwaizumi was driving to his place because dAMN BOi he also missed oiks so muchhh aaaaa
When he gets in there Oikawa is still confused and kinda mad so
“is there anything wrong with wanting some attention?”