living with your best friends sounded like a dream at first. it wasnt until finals season that you realized you needed a place of your own. your peace and quiet didnt last long, at least not with guitarist tetsuro kuroo as your neighbor.
♫ status: ongoing
♫ tags: kuroo tetsuro x f!reader, smau and written story mixed, neighbors to lovers, enemies to lovers, ooc kuroo (hes a dick), ooc everyone probably, college au, band au, reader is an art student, beabadoobee carried this.
♫ warnings: alcohol use, reader is very burnt out, mention of parental pressure, kys jokes, suggestive jokes, swearing, lots of self-deprecating "jokes". lmk if i missed anything!
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♫ a/n: this is my first smau so bear with me. the regularity of chapters is unknown but i definitely want to get this done before summer ends. pls be patient with me and enjoy!
there was no denying the uneasiness that settled when you finally tucked in for the night. you had gotten so used to having roommates to accompany you, always hearing some sort of noise coming from the living room. it was eerie.
you tossed and turned, waiting for the uncomfortable silence to stop. you hoped that the city noises could provide you some comfort.
just as you began to contemplate putting on some rain noise, white noise, — anything, you heard the quiet picking of a guitar. it was muffled by the drywall separating the noise from your bedroom, but it was loud enough to make out the sounds of different chords.
you remembered the guy from the hallway, the one you called performative at first glance, with the large guitar case on his back. you gave him some credit for not being as phony as you thought. who would play guitar for nobody but himself at nearly midnight?
the picking stopped for a moment. presumably, he had finished tuning the instrument.
the silence ended as fast as it started, the picking turning into strumming. slow, meticulous notes playing one by one, occasionally accompanied by a curse under the breath of the eclectic neighbor.
as he mastered more and more of the song you began to recognize the tune. you were quickly reminded of middle school and cringed at the thought. you wondered why he chose such a cliché song to learn.
maybe he was in a band? some cover band that plays at the local bars for recognition. or maybe he was a music major who needed to learn a certain song for his class. maybe you two would get along better than you thought you would.
before you could make another assumption of his personal life, the strumming had sung you right to sleep.
extra
The Scene is the campus' local bar. its the bands short short short term goal to play there.
yn acts very independent but we will learn that is not exactly true.
idk if anyone elses uni does the slipping flyers under the door thing but mine does so.
coughing baby vs nitrogen bombs hate frats so much they agreed to only go out if it was to a bar or club.
station 12 also hates frats but for the cash they must prevail.
i love a little bit of misunderstandings if you couldnt tell.
semi is very insecure about showing people their music. he doesnt think its bad by any means but hes scared of peoples judgement.
hinata has been blasting "music baby" for days now. he has never gotten over that highschool situationship with kags...
whoever catches the beabadoobee ref gets a kiss.
i just realized there’s a continuity error AAUUGGHHHHH
semi: vocalist and lead guitarist. tendou: bassist. bokuto: drums. kuroo: second guitarist.
the band was all semi's idea. he first got tendou to join him (it didnt take much convincing), then he met kuroo and bokuto.
kuroo and bokuto were dorming together freshmen year (as were tendou and semi). kuroo was the "pulls guitar out at the function" guy and semi literally turned into the batman gif.
he begged and begged kuroo to join him. semi had to bribe bokuto for a place in the band if he would help get kuroo in. eventually kuroo came around to the idea.
they had 0 band name ideas at first. they literally came up with it in the most cartoonish way possible. while at the subway they were brainstorming and tendou was looking around and went "station...12!" cuz he saw the train station sign and the train number. it ended up being the train they took often so they settled with it.
bokuto, semi, and tendou live together. kuroo lived with bokuto once and he swore to never make that mistake again so hes been living in the same apartment by himself since sophmore year.
currently station 12 is stuck at playing for fraternities which they hate but they must start somewhere
introductions - coughing baby (yn) vs hydrogen bomb
extras
yachi and yn were in the same design class freshmen year.
yachi introduced her to hinata and yn introduced her to oikawa.
they all got super close and moved in together sophmore year.
matsukawa transferred to their uni that year and oikawa offered him a spot in their apt.
they are all now inseparable.
yachi and yn shared a room and the guys all got their own. (they call it misogyny but yn and yachi couldnt be happier to live together)
however, after second semester finals week yn knew that she needed a place of her own. she is the coughing baby to everyone else's hydrogen bomb. aka they were a rambunctious group and she needed her quiet to focus on her projects.
warnings: gn! reader, uses “pretty” to describe reader, established relationship, not proof read.
wc: 897
kazutora’s favorite thing was spending the night with you. he thinks you make it easier for him to fall asleep and that he feels more relaxed when he’s with you. so, of course, sleepovers happened often.
over the course of your relationship you started to notice that sometimes, when kazutora is extremely tired and on the verge of sleep, he’ll mumble something unconsciously. sometimes it’ll be nonsense about his day or a random thought he had, but sometimes, it’ll be about you.
things he might be too shy to tell you up front. but once sun goes down, he’s a sappy mess.
“is it alright if i spend the night?” you asked kazutora, who was seated next to you on his couch. with his arm draped over you and his head nuzzled into the back of you neck, he replies “hm? of course. you know you don’t have to ask right?”.
and with that, you too started to get ready for bed. he quickly crawled into bed and laid next to you. soon, you two have your legs tangled with one another, enjoying your guys presence as you both fall asleep.
you wake up a couple hours later, it still being dark outside. you reach over the bed side table to grab a cup of water but there was nothing there. *guess he doesn’t keep a cup of water with him before he sleeps*, you thought.
you got up to go get some water from his kitchen for a minute. upon your arrival back to his bedroom, your met with a very sleepy eyed kazutora. his eyes threatened to close but he didn’t let them.
“welcome back” he muttered. his voice was groggy and attractive, it was something that always seemed to make your stomach do cartwheels.
“you didn’t have to force yourself awake to wait for me.” you tell him as you crawl into the space next to him. his arms almost immediately wrap themselves around you, re-tangling your legs.
“cant sleep without you. not even for a second.” he mumbles into your neck. you laugh a little at his sappy little confession, but it’s barely noticeable. he places a kiss on your collar bone before sighing into it. and now the fun begins.
“hm you’re so pretty” he whispered. he traced his fingers along your back, making obscure shapes and signs as he kept talking. he continued to press damp, sleepy kisses along your neck.
“hehe kaz that tickles” you giggled as you attempt to free yourself from his grasp but he insists on keeping you there, keeping you close.
“that shirt you wore today was nice.” he spoke. “ you look amazing in it.” his words were slurring together as he traveled to press yet more kisses on your jaw. “mm so pretty”
you let him continue as you ran your fingers through his hair. he soon reached up to your face and captured your lips into a brief kiss. it was weak due to his tiredness, but it was sweet nonetheless.
“i love you” he mutters after the kiss. he lays his head down on the pillow next to you and quickly falls asleep. you scoot over and kiss the top of his head. “i love you too” you whisper, hoping that he heard that before he passed out.
the next morning you wake up to the smell of pancakes and some noises coming from the kitchen you stretch a bit before getting outta bed and walking out of kazutora’s room. upon walking into the kitchen, you spot your boyfriend, making pancakes. boxed pancakes of course, you know that boy can’t cook on his own.
“good morning” you chimed, walking up behind him. “morning” he says turning to you. “how’d you sleep?”
you wrap your arms around him as you watch him gently flip a pancake onto its other side. “great. you?”
“same here” he replied. you guys stayed like this for a couple more minutes in peaceful silence. after a while you start to remember the events of last night. you began to chuckle a bit as you remember the things kazutora had said to you. “what is it?” he asks, thinking he must’ve messed something up while making breakfast.
“it’s nothing, it’s nothing” you answer. he turns around and place his arms on the counter behind him. you let your arms loosen around him as you both are now facing each other.
“c’mon tell me” he insists with a grin on his face. you figured that it’s best if he finally finds out about his unconscious confession.
"I heard you talking in your sleep.” you respond. his eyes widened and his face turns a light shade of pink, nervous about what embarrassing thing he might’ve said. you proceed to tell him about what he said last night and the many nights before that.
he puts his hand over his eyes and lowers his head in embarrassment. you giggle before removing his hand and kissing his knuckles.
“you’re gonna kill me one day, you know that?” he says, still not looking at you.
“that would be a great way to go out wouldn’t it?” you smirked as you grab his face gently, making him look at you.
“i hate you”
“sleepy you would beg to differ”
“shut up” he says as he seals your lips together, effectively shutting you up.
a/n: you can really tell that i gave up at the end but wtvs. also posting is most def not gonna be a regular thing. i’ll probably only do these for fun or if i feel like it.
