pluuuvi if possible could I order ur bf kuroo with 16 and 25 🥹🤲🏻
16: The low, steady purr of a big orange tabby curled up, slumbering
25: The first dark morning, pitch black when there once was sunlight
MONTY MY BELOVED tysm for sending this in i hope u enjoy 🥺 i went a lil out of the box but i think its so sweet,,,,,, friends to lovers morning after plot bunny
The sky outside is only just beginning to brighten, nothing that could be called sunrise yet to appear. The apartment is dark and chill as you pad through it carefully, praying you won’t wake its occupant before you manage to make it out the front door. You hadn’t entirely anticipated doing this before dawn, but it isn’t as if you have much of a choice. You need to be gone before he wakes up, or he’ll convince you to stay.
In your haste your socked foot slams into a table, sending pain shooting up from your toe. You wince, biting down the impulse to yelp, squeezing your eyes shut where you stand and listening for the sound of your friend (the one you should not have spent the night with, the one you should not be crushing on, the one whose bed you should not sleep in because he's your friend and you won't be able to take it when he tells you to leave in the end) shifting and waking within his bed. There’s nothing, so you straighten.
And pause. A large orange cat sits on the back of the couch, staring at you with big green eyes. She’s statuesque as she regards you, entirely still, and you’re about to turn to leave when she blinks once, slow and purposeful.
“Fine,” you whisper. “I’ll pet you, you spoiled brat.”
When you approach she finally leaps down on silent feet, a blur of pumpkin fur that brushes up against your shin and leads you past the couch to the tall cat tree she frequents.
You wait for her to hop up, watch her circle in place for a good few turns and kneed the plush cushion with delicate paws before she finally settles down and looks up at you expectantly.
It only takes a few strokes for her to fully sink down, eyes shutting as her chest rises and falls more and more rhythmically until the low, smooth sound of purring begins to fill the quiet room. You smile; it’s a sweet scene.
“You’re her favorite, you know.”
The voice that speaks is low and rich, still husky with sleep, and in the quiet of the morning it fills the empty apartment comfortably. It still makes you jump, straightening from how you’ve stooped to pet the cat. Kuroo’s hands fly to your waist to steady you, the warmth of them seeping through the hastily thrown on shirt you’d retrieved from the floor of his bedroom, and for a moment you raise your own to remove them. But then he’s pressing himself up against your back, tucking his face into the back of your neck and letting out a content sigh, and you’re resisting the urge to melt back into his hold.
“Of all my friends you’re the only one she’s really warmed up to. She doesn’t even fall asleep with Kenma around.”
You snort despite yourself. “Oh, I bet he loves that.”
Ordinarily he would respond in turn, give a full chuckle and take the excuse to shittalk his best friend, but he busies himself with something different. You fall quiet as he presses a kiss to your nape, and when he pulls away your breath hitches. He gives you another further towards the crook of your neck, and then another down your shoulder, which is laid bare by how wide the collar of your shirt is. You shiver, and it’s assuredly not from the chill; not with how warm you feel, not with the heat of him draped around you.
“She wants you to stay,” he murmurs against your shoulder.
The attempt earns him a breathy puff of laughter. “Yeah, she wants me to stay.”
“It’s cold. She wants you to come back to bed.”
“I think she wants us to leave her alone so she can sleep in peace.”
“Coming back to bed is leaving her alone, except I get to hold you and the bed won’t be so cold.”
You bite the inside of your cheek. Your hand raises without you willing it, finding his face to cradle his jaw, and he turns into it with another of those deep, rumbling noises of content that makes your heart flutter.
“Tetsu, I—” You sigh, taking a moment to collect yourself. He presses his face further into your palm and meets your gaze with those pretty grey eyes, but you break the contact immediately, casting your own back down to the cat as your face heats up. “If I don’t leave now, I’ll never want to go.”
“Mmm.” He hums, still all low and rumbly, and reaches up to take the hand that cradles his face. Lacing your fingers with his, he keeps ahold of it and leans in to press his forehead to your temple. “Well, I already never want you to go, so we’ll be even.”
And what are you supposed to do with that except let him lead you back to bed?