Thread by @IDtsuKei

Day three - firefly, gifts.

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Really short blurb before I go to work.

When Kei is young, he spends a lot of nights at his grandparents house while his mother works. He befriends the neighbors tooru and hajime and they spend

Many nights running around their backyards together. Hajime loves to catch beetles and scare tooru with them, and when he finds out Kei’s favorite bugs are fireflies, he starts catching them too. Unfortunately, life is unexpected and his mother gets a new shift at work, and he

Stops spending as much time as before at his grandparents. Hajime and tooru were a few years older than him, and they never made him feel like a burden, but it is hard to keep in touch. Their friendship fades to memories of bugs, warm nights, and laughter.

Cut to the first

Match against seijoh. He’s already flustered enough when he recognizes hajime as iwaizumi, but when oikawa aka tooru joins and starts singling him out, he is torn between crushed they don’t remember him, and annoyed they’re taking this so seriously. After the match, he’s outside

By the drinking fountain when haji-no iwaizumi approaches him.

‘Sorry about shittykawa, he can be a bit of a jerk. Are you okay?’

‘I’m fine,’ Tsukishima forces himself to sound as uninterested as possible.

‘You know, you look kinda familiar. Have we met?’ Iwaizumi furrows

His eyebrows as if he’s trying to place Kei’s face in his memory.

‘No, I don’t believe so. Excuse me iwaizumi-san, my team is waiting.’ He walks away quickly, not seeing oikawa standing in the doors of the gym eyes wide as he realizes who iwaizumi was talking to.

A few weeks

Later, Kei is at his grandparents house for an anniversary celebration dinner. The night has stretched on and on, and his social battery is drained. He excuses himself to the back porch and curls up in the porch swing. He looks over when he hears shouting to see a flustered

Oikawa running around the backyard with a jar as a bewildered iwaizumi stands by.

‘What are you doing??’ He hears iwaizumi question.

‘I told you, I’m apologizing to Kei! We know what school he goes to know and I’m bringing him fireflies as a gift so he can remember us dummy.’

Oikawa continues to run around, yelling as he fails to catch a single bug.

‘I don’t think screaming is going to encourage them to get into the jar.’ Kei breaks, deciding to put oikawa out of his misery. Oikawa shrieks again, dropping the jar.

‘How long have you been sitting

There?’

‘Long enough to put you out of your misery. I don’t want a jar of bugs from you, I’m not a kid anymore.’

‘Too bad,’ iwaizumi says, brandishing a jar that actually had a few of the bugs in them. ‘They were so scared of tooru, they were practically begging to be in my

Jar.’

Kei looks up at the two seniors and blames his beating heart on swinging too vigorously(he does like lying to himself.)

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That’s all I have time for but just know Kei accepts their apology and the three of them start hanging out again and then start dating soon after thanks !!!!!!