Thread by @aceuei

#tsukikage shampooing each other's hair

kageyama likes to massage his own hair roughly. in a way that the almost destructive contact between fingertip and scalp makes him sorely certain that /it's there/ and that the now /is/ happening.

his sister has reprimanded him about it

once. said such rash manner would cause hair damage. at the time he has tried his best to swallow back an unnecessary remark. that every pinch of gentleness in him vanished when /she/ did; died when their grandfather did.

the concept and very /feeling/ of tender affection was

only ever reintroduced to him when he entered karasuno. there was hinata, whose desire to fly was unwavering, strong, /sincere/. sugawara, the senpai he wished he met sooner. showed him the significance of camaraderie, and above all, trust. in a way, kageyama may as well have

been his first pupil.

and then, tsukishima. the want, the need, the /ache/ for gentleness — to be treated in its name and to treat another just the same — resurfaced all the more when he began seeing the stupid beanpole in a light besides his petty, antagonistic nature.

and pretty much when the first years he has grown to call friends made him remember what it's like to have a family.

yamaguchi has gifted him a moisturising shampoo for a christmas exchange present once. there he heard the familiar massaging-too-hard-can-break-your-roots drill

from yachi.

but as much as he loved yachi with all of his heart, kageyama doesn't really think of girls whilst he's in the showers.

and so, tsukishima.

it's an entirely different story when he massages tsukishima's scalp. gentle. bordeline reverent it's preposterous. he

means well, always. doesn't want to cause tsukishima /any/ sort of damage. and more importantly, tsukishima likes it that way. if the way he closes his eyes in what can only be content is any indication.

kageyama isn't going to lie. he figures he liked this much better, too.

even more so when it's tsukishima's slender fingers about his hair. making sure to massage every section thoroughly, then rinsing each in the same exact same manner and order. tsukishima has an inexplicably endearing knack for accuracy like that.

a triviality, really. one of the

many mundane idiosyncrasies about him that kageyama would prefer to not go without. for there is beauty in simplicity, in softness, in taking one's time. a kind that kageyama learns to appreciate in the slow but sure process of getting together with tsukishima.

this is horrid ._. but oh well i wanted to leave something karasuno before really disappearing for a while so yea pls pardon the lack of coherence and jic the point didnt get across: nonsexually intimate tkkg >>>