Thread by @mmm_msby4

#kuroken #krkn (college au) | Small Gesture

Kenma’s frustrated.

Frustrated at Kuroo, if we’re going to be honest.

Why? Because recently, over the past 3 months or so, he’s started to notice something. Well, some things.

Kuroo apparently always has a bottle of water to give Kenma when he’s thirsty. A candy to give Kenma when he asks for it, a band-aid when Kenma has a small gash or a hair tie for when Kenma’s hair is in the way.

Kuroo puts his hand on the corner of the table when Kenma is bowing down to get something. Kuroo always moves Kenma away from the road when they’re walking. Kuroo even bought a game that Kenma mentioned he wanted to try as a joke (not really).

Now, even when Kuroo teases him and puts his face directly from his, Kenma gets so flustered he keeps flicking Kuroo’s forehead away.

Kuroo this, Kuroo that. Kuroo’s always doing something for Kenma no matter how small and it’s frustrating him because he likes it so much

and it makes his heart beat and his cheeks redden whenever.

He wasn’t really like this some couple years back when they were 12 or when they finished highschool. Everything was fine. They were neighbors, then schoolmates, and have been bestfriends all their lives.

Which makes Kenma more pissed when he realizes that he’s finally lost his shit and developed feelings for Kuroo.

When? Who knows? Maybe it was when Kuroo played for the first time with his band in one college event.

He was the bass player, and a damn good one at that. Is that it? Kuroo, playing bass? But he’s been playing in front of Kenma all his life, so why is it different now?

Was it because Kuroo was performing in front of a live audience?

Was it because he’s wearing a tank top that is showing off those damn arms? Or the fact that girls fawning over his best friend irritated him to no end?

Or maybe, it wasn’t irritation but jealousy when he saw those girls giving their number to Kuroo,

as if he’s going to text them.

Maybe he’s loved him all his life and now that there’s actually a gap between them in this big university, the chances of Kuroo finding somebody else triggered Kenma’s heart.

Thus, the start of Kenma noticing everything Kuroo’s been doing with him and for him. No matter how small, Kenma’s somehow found a way to think of it as Kuroo feeling the same way. Maybe Kuroo loves him too? What a joke. What a dream.

Except that it wasn’t.

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Kuroo’s patient.

Patient with Kenma, if we’re going to be honest.

Because for the past 8 years of his life, he’s been in love with Kenma.

Even if Kenma’s stupid and refuses to acknowledge Kuroo’s gestures as an act of love,

he’s patient that one day, Kenma’s going to figure it all out.

So Kuroo does what he does best. Taking care of Kenma.

Having a bottle of water at the ready, a piece of candy to give, a hair tie for Kenma’s growing hair,

a band-aid for injuries that he’ll never know where it came from, or a game that even though Kenma said he wanted as a joke, Kuroo knows he really did want it.

Kuroo’s patient, and willing to take his time with Kenma. But recently, over the past 3 months or so,

he started to notice something. Well, some things.

Recently, whenever he’s with Kenma, the blonde’s always avoiding his gaze. When Kenma found Kuroo’s hands covering the table corner when Kenma reached down for something, Kenma’s cheeks reddened.

When he moves Kenma away from facing the highway, Kenma looks down and mumbles a thank you, clearly seeing his ears turn red.

Before, when Kuroo teases Kenma by shoving his face in Kenma’s bubble, Kenma usually just ignores him but now,

it’s been a week of his forehead being red from all the flicking Kenma’s doing. Clearly flustered and panicked at the proximity.

Kuroo thinks it started after his first gig. When the set was done, he went over to Kenma but he found his friend with a frown on his face,

obviously irritated and looking over at something. When Kuroo followed Kenma’s stare, he found a group of girls chatting.

He thought it was because they were loud, but he realized it was the same group of girls that circled him earlier and gave their number to him.

Is that what Kuroo thinks it is? Was Kenma… jealous?

Maybe Kuroo doesn’t need to be patient anymore.

Maybe Kenma won’t lose Kuroo, after all.

-fin.