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“Yo Kuroo! I'm still waiting
for the party invitation!”

A wild and very loud Bokuto
appeared, followed by a less
enthusiastic Akaashi who just
waved slightly when Kuroo stared
at them with surprised eyes.

“Party?”

“It's your birthday next week, dude.
You're turning 18?”

Right, how could he forget about that.

Thanks to all the baby chaos,
he had completely forgotten
that his own birthday was
right around the corner.

“Ah, right. No party though,
I'm spending the day with Kenma.”

“Right, right.
The special birthday present.”

Bokuto wriggled his eyebrows
with a stupid grin on his face.

“You know, when I turned 18,
Akaashi surprised me with-
Ow! Akaashi! That hurt!”

“Serves you right, stupid.
He doesn't need to know everything.”

But Bokuto only pouted at his
boyfriend like a scolded child.

“So you're not celebrating
with friends at all?”

“At least not on my birthday.
Maybe the next day.
My birthday's on a Saturday, so..”

“Are you going to invite Tsukki?”

“As if he'd come.
Even if he'd live next to me,
he wouldn't come.”

Kuroo chuckled at the absurd
question and the even more
absurd imagination of Tsukishima
rocking the dance floor.

“Hm..
But your team will be there, right?”

“I really don't know yet,
I haven't made any proper plans
at all and I don't even know if I
want to throw a party.”

“Say no more, my friend!
I'll take you out for your first
drink then! Your bestie's got you.”

Bokuto grinned as he wrapped
his arm over Kuroo's shoulder.

And Akaashi only shrugged when
the ravenette helplessly looked
at the youngest boy.

“Kuroo?”

“Hm?”

It was already dark outside as the
two boys made their way back
home from school, their hands
intertwined and swinging softly
between them.

Kenma had waited for his
boyfriend to finish practice but
had purposely waited upstairs on
the grandstand to avoid getting
weird baby questions
from Lev again.

It was slowly getting out of hand.

“I wondered for quite a while now..
Do you know anyone who also has
or had a baby at our age?”

The blonde looked up at his much
taller boyfriend when Kuroo
sighed softly as if he wanted to say
something but didn't know how.

“Technically yes and no.”

“Huh?”

“If I'm going to tell you this,
you need to promise me to
keep it to yourself. Like..
Really, don't tell anyone
about this, okay?”

Kenma nodded as he continued
to stare at Kuroo with curious eyes.

“Tsukishima's boyfriend..

I think Yamaguchi was his name.
But they..

They lost the baby.”

Just hearing that someone he
knew lost their child made
Kenma's heart sting as he
subconsciously placed his free
hand on his tummy as if he
needed to make sure his little
baby bump was still there.

“I wouldn't have found out if I hadn't
trained a little with Tsukishima.
He got a call during practice and
disappeared. I wanted to check
on him because even after a while
he hadn't returned..
I swear, I didn't want to eavesdrop,
I just went outside at the wrong
moment and heard it.
He doesn't know that I know it and
I'd like for it to stay that way.”

“I didn't even know he had
a boyfriend.. He's pretty cold
as far as I can tell.”

“He's reserved in his own way, yes.
But it's kinda obvious that his
boyfriend loves him if you know it.
And I don't even know if they wanted
to keep their baby or not but still..”

“It's a great loss.
I don't even want to imagine
how his boyfriend is feeling.”

The frown on the younger's face
only deepened as he dropped his
gaze to his hand resting on his belly.

But he immediately looked up
when Kuroo stopped and grabbed
the blonde by his waist to pull
him a step closer.

“Our baby will be fine.
And I promise you that I'll do
anything to make sure about that.
Okay?”

Tetsuro gently lifted his boyfriend's
chin with a soft smile and caressed
his cheek gently before he pressed

a sweet kiss on the younger's lips.

“So not even Shouyou knows?”

“If Yamaguchi didn't tell him,
I don't think so.”

“Hm..”

He couldn't imagine getting the
future he had just started to draw
out for himself ripped away from
him just like this so easily.

Even if Yamaguchi and Tsukishima
hadn't decided what to do yet,
it wasn't fair that faith had
decided for them just like that.

“Stop thinking about it.
Maybe I shouldn't have told
you that, now you'll be constantly
worrying and stressing yourself.
It's not good for you and our
mini human bean.”

Kuroo pouted as he placed his
big hand over Kenma's small one
on his tummy and nudged the
younger's nose with his, making
the blonde giggle cutely.

There was no purer, sweeter
and rarer sound than hearing
Kenma's giggles and Tetsuro
lived for them.

“It's okay, I'm not worried.
I promise.” 

“You are, don't lie. But as I said..
It's gonna be just fine.
We're going to do all the things
Dr Sato asked us or specifically
you to do and we won't do all
these things he asked us to avoid.”

“Like tuna mayo onigiri.."

Kenma pouted as he looked up
at Kuroo with big amber eyes just
to get another kiss in return.

“Yeah, sadly.”

The raw egg in the mayonnaise
was a big health risk and the
blonde wasn't allowed to eat
anything raw in general.

“But how about we make some
ourselves this weekend?
You can put any filling you want.”

And Kenma couldn't hide how
excited he got just thinking about
fulfilling his cravings in every way.

Putting applesauce and grilled
mackerel inside an onigiri sounded
like heaven in his head.

“I see, you're agreeing with the idea.”

Kuroo chuckled at his boyfriend's
sparkling eyes and pressed another
soft peck on Kenma's lips.

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