.setting aside time `
( ft. @kingvolleydork )
Oikawa Tooru was someone that Shigeru respected above all else. He was on another tier entirely, despite how much of a handful he was back in high school and acting as the youtuber’s upperclassman. He’d learned a lot from Tooru -- albeit, not as easily as one might assume, given Shigeru’s own skills having not been as fine-tuned. However, it was thanks to his senpai that he was able to develop as much as he did, and grow to love a sport that was still very near and dear to his heart, even if he didn’t play as much any more. When Tooru had graduated it was Shigeru’s job to carry on as the team’s setter, and captain, which was pretty cool when you thought about how Tooru could have picked anyone else for the job.
“Ah, Oikawa-senpai!” Shigeru called, spotting his former upperclassman who was just arriving at the cafe they’d decided to meet at. It’d be a long time coming, this reunion, but given their busy lifestyles the lateness was excusable. The old habits, of using honorifics, was a mistake on Shigeru’s part, and one that coated his cheeks in a faint pink dust but he carried on regardless, making note to use the other’s first name from now on. They were in another country, after all, and there was no real need for formalities anymore.
“Long time, no see! ...You look like you’re doing good,” Shigeru noted with a polite smile. It was an act he’d often fallen back on when he attended their high school: always the respectable and polite one with a goody-two-shoes record that made him seem like some kind of nark. Except when Kentarou was involved. But it was the image he’d created for himself -- breaking that deep of a habit around the older male would be a little harder than just using a different name when addressing him.
“I hope you don’t mind that I brought my camera. I won’t film while we’re here if you’re uncomfortable, though!”
