Day 4, Tier 3 / "I'm not moving. Your lap is comfortable."
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Miya Atsumu is really afraid of two things in life. His first fear involves sudden explosions of all sorts—unannounced fireworks, loud shouts, and any sudden popping.
His second fear involves the squirming bundle of curiosity staring at him from his lap with wide, imploring eyes.
"Atsumu, it's just my niece," Kiyoomi, his boyfriend, huffs in exasperation. "You're acting like you've never seen a child before.
Atsumu cradles Kiyoomi's niece--
by the shoulder as if he's not sure what to do with her. It's a girl—an extremely adorable, cute little girl and Atsumu remembers that his Ma always reminds him and Samu to be extra careful with little girls.
He figures he would be much better at handling a little boy.
He can deal with boys. Atsumu has a hard enough time dealing and understanding girls that are his own age let alone small ones that look incredibly fragile.
And his brain starts to overreact.
"Oh god," he starts to panic. "Omi! What if I break her!"
Because Atsumu believes that children can be broken—take his dumb twin Osamu for example. Atsumu swears Osamu was dropped on the head as a baby, maybe he should've eaten him in the womb before.
Atsumu remembers the child on his lap and starts hyperventilating when he realizes--
that this child is the embodiment of his second fear.
He hardly has a time to protest and process everything before Kiyoomi walks back to the kitchen to wash the dishes from their dinner, telling him to look after his niece for a while while he gets the job done.
Atsumu breathes heavily and reaches the remote to play a cartoon episode to distract little Yuki, but he soon realizes that Yuki is in fact not interested in any cartoon show.
She's too busy staring at Atsumu as if he needs to pass the inspection test.
"Atsumu-nii, you have pretty eyes and very big lips." Yuki reaches over to poke at his mouth with a small giggle. "Very pretty like Yoomi-nii."
She brings her tiny fingers up to her lips, pinching them together and making her look like a little fish.
"Mine isn't big enough though. Is it a boy thing?" Atsumu laughs weakly at Yuki. Nobody prepared him to babysit a little girl that asks too many questions.
Yuki starts fussing around his lap, digging to her dress's cute little pockets to pull out pink hair ties.
Yuki presents it to him and looks at Atsumu with puppy eyes.
He holds the hair ties hesitantly. "I--You want me to tie your hair?"
She nods and starts bouncing happily on his lap. Her eyes crinkling like a cat that must run in Kiyoomi's family. He's so painfully endeared.
Yuki turns around and waits for him to start tying her little curly hair. Atsumu starts combing her hair gently with his shaking fingers. He can do /this/. How hard can hair tying be?!
Atsumu let's out a shaky laugh. "Fu–I can't do this."
He's to worried about accidentally hurting Yuki, he might make her cry and Atsumu can't concentrate.
His fingers can't even fit the loops of the hair ties and by the time he finishes tying, Yuki is now sporting an uneven pigtails with loose hairs on the side of her little face.
Atsumu starts to breathe evenly when he hears Kiyoomi's "almost done" in the kitchen. He figures he can survive a couple minutes more until Yuki faces him once again with a glint in her eyes.
"You really love Uncle Kiyoomi, 'no?" Yuki whispers.
Atsumu proceeds to choke on air.
"What?"
"I can tell." Yuki beams proudly. "You give him these heart eyes."
This little kid bats her eyes at him dramatically. Atsumu turns an uncomfortable shade of red. He's not exactly ready to confess to Kiyoomi's niece since he and Kiyoomi still /need/ to talk about this.
"What are you guys talking about?" Kiyoomi smiles before settling down on the couch. He gives them pair of forehead kisses and Atsumu starts worrying, afraid that Yuki will blurt out the truth.
She just winks at Atsumu like a little menace and jumps down to the carpeted floor.
"Nothing!" She chirps.
Kiyoomi pats her head before moving to the other end of the sofa but Yuki gasps dramatically, interrupting the two of them.
"No, Uncle Yoomi!" she cries as she grabs onto Kiyoomi's hands. "You have to sit /here/."
Yuki almost shoves Kiyoomi onto Atsumu, and he instantly wraps his shaking hands on Kiyoomi's waist before they both topple over.
"I /have/ to, do I?" Kiyoomi arches a knowing eyebrow in Atsumu's direction, but settles in comfortably. "I guess it can't be helped then."
Atsumu protests weakly, "Omi, Yuki is here. I—"
But Kiyoomi only nuzzles his neck and tightens his hug even more. He starts mumbling things. "No. I'm not moving. You're lap is more comfortable. Wanna stay here."
Yuki wrinkles her nose at Atsumu's direction and--
Atsumu feels laughter bubbling up from inside him. His face splits into a wide grin before kissing the side of Kiyoomi's ears.
"I love you, Omi."
Kiyoomi giggles. "I know and I do too, Atsu."
Yuki proceeds to watch the cartoon and remains quiet until Kiyoomi's sister picks her up a little later.
Maybe children aren't so bad after all.
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Atsumu was playing his new Nintendo Switch with some random games while he waited for Kiyoomi to come home from work. Until said boyfriend made his presence known by slamming the door
And dragging the grocery bags too loudly on the floor.
Usually, Kiyoomi was the pretty patient one in the course of their relationship. He was calm and collected despite being so prickly at times. Atsumu learned he was like a balloon, accumulating all the stress that slowly
filling him up until he popped.
After a few moments of glaring at the poor grocery bags, Kiyoomi knitted his eyebrows together before explaining his current dilemma, "I was in the elevator with some teenage girls who live in the same floor with us."