Haikyu!! Fic
Iwaizumi/Oikawa One Shot
Side By Side
As he stood there in front of him, he watched Oikawa lean against the wall, he knew what was wrong, he was blaming himself for their loss. He couldn’t take his team to nationals. Iwaizumi wanted to say so much, yet he couldn’t.
What would he tell him?
That he did his best?
He knows for a fact that saying that would make it worse, that Oikawa would tell himself that his best wasn’t good enough, that he wasn’t enough, so would was Iwaizumi supposed to say?
“hey dumbass!” probably not that but he’s going with it Oikawa looked up, looking just as dejected, Iwaizumi had nothing, so he did what he could and pulled Oikawa into a hug, Oikawa stood awkwardly in the embrace for a moment until Iwaizumi spoke,
“Thank you, for everything, I know it isn’t enough for you, but I wouldn’t change a single minute of it, so if everything we ever did brought us here, here is where I want to be, so thank you.” Iwaizumi felt arms tighten around his back, Oikawa started to shake, no noise, a silent sob into Iwaizumi’s shoulder, he didn’t say anything, he didn’t have to. There were millions of silent words spoken between them; that’s how it had always been, they had always been close, despite the façade they had both worn daily, Oikawa being the dramatic, flamboyant Captain and Iwaizumi the cold, distant Ace, but they always had each other, knew how the other felt, the meaning behind every action.
They stayed like that for awhile until they began to walk, side by side, home, they didn’t say anything, but Iwaizumi needed to break the silence.
“you’re staying over!”, he half yelled.
“no its okay I’m-”
“that wasn’t a question, Oikawa”
“Iwa I don’t-”
“Toruu, you can argue all you want, but I’m stronger than you and can drag you if I have to”
Oikawa let out a contented sigh as a small smile graced his lips, not the fake grin he does, a real genuine smile. “Yeah right…” he half mumbled
“Yeah that’s what I thought” Iwaizumi said grinning
Oikawa leaned his head against his head against Iwaizumi’s shoulder, he does this often after long practices, and every time blood rushed to Iwaizumi’s face, Oikawa couldn’t see it, so he let him lean there, supporting him as he walked. He was leaning on him more than usual, Iwaizumi was practically carrying him.
They got to Iwaizumi’s house, taking their shoes of, Iwaizumi’s mother appeared for just a moment smiling at both boys, knowing that Oikawa would be staying. They made their way upstairs, Iwaizumi giving Oikawa some clothes to wear before he excused himself to the bathroom, needing to shower. He showered quick, changing into some grey sweatpants and a green sweatshirt. Upon making his way back to his room, he found that Oikawa had put the blue t-shirt on, loose around his neck, slightly covering his boxers. Oh. He hadn’t put the pants on, shit. He’d had about 15 minutes to get dressed, and he only got halfway there.
Iwaizumi was about to excuse himself and blurt out some sort of apology, but before could he took a second to look at the boy in front of him, sitting uncharacteristically still, his right leg bent up on the bed with his hands clamped over it, so that’s what was happening.
“it hurts?” Iwaizumi asked, as he walked over to crouch in front of Oikawa, so that he could look him in the eye, he smiled soft.
Oikawa’s face was pained as he nodded, “ I think I hurt it during the game”
Iwaizumi’s eyes widened “Toru…” it came out as a slight whisper, “you should have said something, you walked all the way here, and didn’t tell me”.
Oikawa was about to speak, Iwaizumi didn’t let him “please tell me you hurt it at the end of the game, that you didn’t play on it”
“ at the start of the last set” he mumbled, refusing to look at Iwaizumi.
Iwaizumi sighed, he hated it when Oikawa did this.
“Please don’t be angry, i just-”
“I’m not angry, look at me; I’m not angry”.
Oikawa lifted his head reluctantly.
“i just hate it when you hurt yourself” He stood, “ I’ll go get you something for it”
He tired to walk away though Oikawa grabbed his wrist, pulling him back to the spot he had been in. Oikawa pulled him into a tight embrace, moving his knee to avoid further discomfort.
“ Thank you for being here”
“Always, I’m always here”, he smiled,
He was released from the hold hearing a mumble that sounded suspiciously like ‘idiot’ come from behind him, and left to get a hot water bottle, he need to boil water. It didn’t take long at all, and yet, when he got upstairs Oikawa had fallen asleep, on top of the quilt, in Iwaizumi’s twin bed. Iwaizumi smiled down at him, placing the hot water bottle between his knee’s, he still hadn’t put the damn pants on.
Iwaizumi moved to his closet to get a blanket or two, he placed one over Oikawa, and wrapped himself in the other , doing everything as quietly as he could. He moved back over to the closet to get a futon out for himself.
a small “no” came softly from behind him; he turned to see what Oikawa wanted, he shook his head at Iwaizumi. oh that’s what he wants, Its not like Iwaizumi minded. He refolded the futon and made his way over to the bed, climbing in and pulling Oikawa up to his chest, they did this sometimes, especially when Oikawa felt like this, or if Iwaizumi felt the same way. Sometimes it felt far too intimate, so close to being what he knew it could never be. He was probably right too. Though making Oikawa feel better, even if just a little bit; was far more important than his own, selfish, thoughts Oikawa’s breathing evened out quickly, sleep pulling him in quicker than it ought with the pain in his knee, though in Iwaizumi’s arms there wasn’t a lot his knee could do to keep him awake.
Iwaizumi looked at the man in his arms, and couldn’t help but smile, yes it did make him sound like a stalker but Iwaizumi couldn’t help but love watching him sleep, completely natural, hiding nothing and completely vulnerable.
With company like that it didn’t take long for sleep to claim Iwaizumi too.
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