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“What are you playing there?
Isn't it a bit too.. cute for you?”

Yaku asked as he looked over
Kenma's shoulder to get a
good view of his Switch.

“I decided that it was time to start
playing something child friendly.
My doctor said the baby can hear
even things from the outside now.
Not only my stupid talking
and heartbeat.”

“Oh. That's interesting.”

But the blonde only hummed
as he continued his game,
not wanting to admit that
fishing in animal crossing had
kinda turned into his
new obsession.

“Doesn't that mean the baby
doesn't sleep as much anymore
because it's too loud?”

“Hm. I don't think so.
They're normally only awake
in the evening and sometimes
after lunch.”

“Do you think they recognize voices?
I mean, they probably know
your voice by now but..”

“They know Kuroo's voice.”

“Really?”

“Mhm. Baby gets more active
when Kuroo talks to them.”

“So they know their dad.
Kinda cute.”

Kenma didn't really want to
reveal it, he didn't want to talk
about how cute he found it when his
boyfriend would talk to their baby.

It had become the older's most
favorite thing to do while cuddling
with the pudding head.

While Kenma would play something
on his Switch before going to sleep,
Kuroo would always take his sweet
time to play with their baby and
to talk to them when he
was staying over.

Lately it felt like their mini

human bean was just waiting for
their dad to give them attention so
they could go in full play mode.

At least that's what Kenma had
observed when his child would
kick him in the ribs out of pure
excitement when they heard
their dad talk to them.

“You don't know the
gender yet, right?”

“Nope, we don't want to know.
It'll be a surprise.”

“Ah, that makes sense.”

And since the blonde honestly
didn't know what to reply to that,
he turned his focus back on his
Switch in hope that the time
would pass faster like this.

They were only halfway through
practice but Kenma was not only
getting uncomfortable on the
hard wooden bench, he was
kinda starving too.

“Kitten.”

“Hm?”

He looked back up at the voice
of his boyfriend and tilted his
head with a pout.

“You okay?
You look a bit unhappy.”

“I am. I'm so hungry.”

Kenma admitted quietly as his
gaze dropped, his one hand coming
to rest on top of his baby bump.

“Hm, we can't have that, right?
Go to my bag upstairs,
I have some snacks left.”

“Really?”

It was pretty cute how just the
mention of snacks made the
younger's feline eyes sparkle lately.

“Yep.”

But Kuroo would never admit that
he was always carrying some
spare snacks around with him
exactly for such cases.

It was only normal that Kenma
got hungry more often, his stomach
size had decreased since their baby
was pushing against it so he couldn't
eat portions as big as he used to.

Therefore he got hungry more

often too and a hungry Kenma
was a grumpy Kenma.

But the blonde totally didn't
like how much he ate lately.

It wasn't that he actually ate more,
he just ate more often and it
made him feel fat.

So Kuroo would never tell his
boyfriend that he expected him
to get hungry every two hours.

Kenma huffed softly as he made his
way upstairs, taking his sweet time
with the stairs so he wouldn't trip.

Despite the fact that he had used
to get annoyed at practice because
it was just so exhausting, he now
sometimes envied the others.

Even if it had been exhausting,
it had been fun too.

Much more fun than dying out
of boredom on the bench and
getting just as exhausted by just
walking a couple of stairs.

One hour and a few snacks later,
the practice session finally ended.

Meaning that they could finally
go home where dinner was
waiting for them.

Or at least Kuroo had thought so.

When the ravenette walked
down to the court again, being
one of the last ones after cleaning
up the changing room for a bit,
he couldn't help but tilt his head

in wonder when his gaze fell
on his boyfriend.

Kenma was standing on the court,
lightly tossing a volleyball against
the wall to catch it again.

“Kitten.”

It had never really happened
that the blonde had willingly
played volleyball like this alone.

“Can you toss me the ball for a bit?”

The pudding head looked up at
his boyfriend with big eyes after
catching the ball, waiting
for an answer.

“You sure? What if..”

“It's just gentle tossing,
you're not attacking or anything.
So I'm pretty sure I can catch the ball,
it won't hurt baby.”

Kenma tried to give his boyfriend
a convincing smile and tossed
the ball to him.

He had missed this.

It was just like when the two
had been younger and playing
outside together.

Who would have thought back
then that a few years later they'd
find themselves in this situation?

“I miss playing volleyball with you.
You know you're my favorite setter,
regardless of our relationship.
You're just the best.”

“I'm definitely not, don't ever say
that while Kageyama is around.”

“Well, he isn't and I'm allowed to
have my own opinion, kitten.”

Kuroo grinned as he caught the
ball and winked at his boyfriend.

“But it's my duty to tell you if
your opinions are nonsense
before someone else does it.”

“Okay, that's it.”

Kenma frowned when the
ravenette didn't toss the ball back
and instead came closer to grab
his boyfriend by the waist.

“No lying, our baby can
hear you very well.”

He chuckled at the surprised
look on the younger's face before he
pressed a soft kiss on Kenma's lips.

If that was the only way to stop
the blonde, he'd gladly do it
again and again.

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