I was never too, too big into Haikyuu, but I did read some of it and for a short time, I was very into shipping Iwaizumi x Kyoutani, for some reason. I figure if there are still any Iwakyou people out there, you guys are probably starving for some content, so here’s a little drabble from a couple years ago for you:
One day Matsukawa finds Kyoutani sulking, looking pretty upset, and asks him what’s wrong. After a little bit of additional promping, Kyoutani admits that he finally got the guts to go up to his crush and confess, but that he got rejected.
“They said they already have someone else that they like. But I don’t think that person likes them back, either. So we’re both just sort of...miserable.”
Matsukawa does what he can to awkwardly console Kyoutani, and walks away from that encounter sort of amazed that he would have ever confided that to him.
Matsukawa notices Iwaizumi looking kind of down as the two of them clean up after practice one day and, because he apparently didn’t learn his lesson the first time, he asks what’s wrong.
“Someone told me they had feelings for me the other day,” Iwaizumi confesses, “but I turned them down, because I’ve had my eye on somebody else...”
‘Oh shit,’ Matsukawa thinks to himself, working Very Hard to keep a straight face.
“But the more I think about it,” Iwaizumi continues, “the more I realize, I’ve been waiting on this person to give me even the slightest sign that they might like me too. For years, I’ve waited, and I’ve never got the sense that they might be into me. And you know, maybe I would be happy with...you know. The other guy. But I already turned them down. I don’t know what I should do.”
Matsukawa glances over to where Kyoutani is mopping the floor, staring at the ground and looking simultaneously very, very angry and very, very sad.
“I don’t know, man. I think you should talk to them about it. The fact that you’ve put so much thought into this has got to count for something, right? They might still be open to giving it a try.”
So that’s what Iwaizumi does. He approaches Kyoutani and tells him what’s been on his mind, and they agree to...well, not date. They’re not quite ready for that, yet. But they hang out a couple of times, just the two of them.
Kyoutani is sooooooo stiff all the time. So worried that he’s going to mess it up. But he’s also super earnest and sweet, in his own way. Iwaizumi finds the whole thing very endearing, actually.
Eventually he flips it on him and asks, “so, do you wanna be my boyfriend, for real?” and Kyoutani nearly has a heart attack.
Despite their awkward start, they go on to develop a good, strong, happy and very loving relationship.