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Fukurodani was having their normal after-school practice. The weather, while still pretty hot, was becoming more manageable. All that meant for the players was that time was slowly thinning in terms of nationals.

“Chance ball!”

“It’s a bit low, cover!”

“Got it!”

The team was in the middle of a practice match when coach Yajimi clapped his hands to stop them. Everyone had stopped what they were doing and looked at him.

“I have an announcement to make!” he said and the team walked up to him to gather around.

“What is it?” Bokuto asked eagerly.

“This Saturday, we have a scheduled practice match against Nekoma,” Coach Yamiji informed the team, “It will be held here at our gym,”

Rather than being excited for the match itself, everyone on the team thought about one thing. Well, more like two people.

(F/n) and Takumi.

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“Akaashi, call Kuroo for me!” Bokuto begged. They were the last two in the locker room since practice ended.

“Bokuto-san, you have his phone number,” Akaashi reminded him.

“But he’ll just hang up on me,” Bokuto pouted, “Please Akaashi?”

Akaashi sighed, knowing if he would say no, Bokuto would go into emo mode. He nodded and grabbed his phone from his bag. He found Kuroo’s contact and dialed it. A couple of seconds later, Kuroo answered.

“Hello?”

“Bokuto-san needs to talk to you,” Akaashi told him.

Kuroo, on the other line, sighed, “What now?”

Akaashi handed his phone to Bokuto. Bokuto took it and cleared his throat, “Kuroo,”

“Hurry up and explain,” Kuroo said.

Bokuto huffed, “Your coach told your team about the practice match this Saturday right?”

Kuroo nodded, “Yeah?”

“Can you bring Takumi?” Bokuto asked.

“Because it’s been a while since he and (F/n) have seen each other,” Bokuto explained.

“And?” Kuroo decided to be a smartass, but that earned another jab from Kenma’s elbow.

“Don’t act as if Takumi cries whenever he wakes up from a dream about (F/n), realizing she’s not there,” Bokuto heard Kenma’s voice.

Kuroo sighed, “Alright, I’ll bring the squirt,”

Bokuto cheered, “Thank you!” he handed the phone back to Akaashi.

“Thank you, Kuroo-san,” Akaashi thanked the bedhead captain before hanging up.

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Once Bokuto got home, he went straight to (F/n)’s room.

“Baby-owl!” Koutarou opened her door and saw that she was having a tea party with all her stuffies.

“Brother owl!” (F/n) placed her tea cup down and ran over to him, “I missed you,”

“I missed you too baby owl!” he hugged her, “What’s going on?” he pointed to her stuffed animals that were sitting in a circle of her tiny play table.

“Tea party!” (F/n) happily answered, “Want to join?”

Koutarou gave her a lopsided grin, “I’d love to baby owl but I actually have something to tell you,”

(F/n) tilted her head, “What is it?”

“Do you want to come to practice this Saturday? We can teach you more volleyball!” Bokuto explained, using Akaashi’s cover-up to prevent spoiling the real surprise.

“Really?” (F/n)’s eyes sparkled, “I can go?”

“Of course baby owl!” Koutarou ruffled her hair, “You’re always welcome to come to our practices,”

(F/n) nodded eagerly, “I want to go! I want to go!”

Koutarou smiled at her cheerfulness, “Awesome!”

(F/n) then dragged his arm to the tiny play table, “Tea party!”

Koutarou chuckled, “Okay, I’ll join the tea party,”

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Ronin, coming home from a 12-hour shift at the hospital, walked past (F/n)’s room. He noticed her door was still ajar, which confused him since it was way past (F/n)’s bedtime. He carefully creaked the door open and saw that (F/n) was sleeping on Koutarou’s lap while Koutarou was sleeping sitting upright, his back against (F/n)’s crib/bed. He shook his head with a laugh before carefully entering. He grabbed a bigger blanket from the closet and carefully draped it over his son and daughter. Once the blanket was over the two of them, carefully exited the room and made his way to the bedroom, ready to tell his wife the sight he saw.

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It was now Saturday and Akaashi was carrying (F/n) in his arms while he and Bokuto walked to the school. (F/n) was still somewhat half-asleep, so she rested her face against Akaashi’s face. Bokuto looked at the two of them and smirked a little.

The three of them got to the gym and to their surprise, the Nekoma team was already there. The corner of Akaashi’s lips twitched upward and he moved her face from (F/n)’s face to look at her.

“Guess who’s here, (F/n),” Akaashi said before letting her down onto the ground. (F/n) wobbled but stood up. Her eyes scanned the gym and made eye contact with Takumi, who was holding onto Kenma’s pants.

“Takumi!”

“(F/n)!”

The two of them ran to each other, abandoning each setter of their brothers’ team. They met in a hug and fell to the ground like a cliche scene in a soap opera. Everyone in the gym cooed. Everyone except Bokuto, who, despite being happy for his sisters’ happiness, was still upset at the entire situation. Kuroo, who was semi-upset at the attention switch, was smirking at Bokuto’s apparent distress.

“I missed you!” Takumi cried.

“Me too!” (F/n) also cried. The two of them sat up from the hug and were facing each other. It was then that (F/n) noticed the owl plushy that Takumi brought.

“You brought Mrs. Owl!” (F/n) pointed out.

Takumi nodded, “I never leave the house without her,”

(F/n) smiled and removed her tiny backpack, opening it and pulling out Mr. Owl, “I never leave the house without Mr. Owl,”

The two of them continued their conversation on the floor while Fukurodani and Nekoma warmed up and got ready for their practice match.

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The two children walked around the gym, hand in hand. They refused to let the other one go no matter what. It had to take a lot of convincing from Yaku to get Takumi to let (F/n) go when she needed to use the bathroom, all because he was afraid she was going to leave if they parted hands. Kuroo teased Bokuto non-stop, making jokes about having to prepare the wedding and the eventual name change from Bokuto (F/n) to Kuroo (F/n). Akaashi did his best to get Bokuto to ignore him but his gameplay said otherwise.

And as the saying goes, all good things come to an end, it was the end of the day, meaning Nekoma had to go back to their school.

“I don’t want to leave!” Takumi said, crying while holding onto (F/n).

“Come on Takumi, you’ll see her next time,” Kuroo tried convincing him to leave.

“No!” Takumi shook his head and cried harder.

(F/n) wasn’t doing any better, being that she was violently sniffling.

“(F/n),” Akaashi said gently.

“No,” (F/n) shook her head, not wanting to face the reality of the situation.

Akaashi sighed, looking at Kuroo. Bokuto was a couple of steps back, not wanting to interfere (mainly because he was crying due to (F/n) crying).

“(F/n),” Akaashi said again, which got the girl to turn her head to face him, still hugging Takumi, “You know, if you want to visit Takumi, all you have to do is ask,”

(F/n) sniffled and blinked, “Really?”

“I didn’t agr-” Kuroo was interrupted by Yaku and Kenma elbowing him in the ribs, not wanting to ruin the attempt of consolidation.

Akaashi nodded, “Just ask, and your brother and Kuroo-san can figure something out for you and Takumi,”

Takumi, who was also listening, loosened his grip and faced Akaashi as well, “Nii-chan will allow that?”

Akaashi looked at Kuroo, and despite Kuroo not really agreeing with it, sighed and scratched the back of his head, “Sure squirt, I’ll allow it,”

Takumi smiled and looked at (F/n). Their eyes stared at each other before they slowly pulled away. An idea popped in (F/n)’s head and she grabbed her owl plushie that was on the floor next to her feet.

She handed it to Takumi, “Let’s switch owls,”

Takumi tilted his head in confusion, “Switch?”

(F/n) nodded, “So that the other owl can spend time with us, then we’ll switch again the next time we see each other!”

Takumi liked that sound of that and went to Yaku, who had his owl plushie. Yaku handed it to him and he walked back to (F/n). The two of them exchanged the owls.

Kuroo, being Kuroo, walked over to Bokuto and draped an arm around his shoulders.

“Seems like they’ve figured out shared custody of their children,” Kuroo joked.

Bokuto popped a vein, “I am going to end you,”

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(F/n) was sleeping in Bokuto’s arms while he and Akaashi were walking home.

“Akaashi,” Bokuto said aloud.

“Yes, Bokuto-san?” Akaashi turned his head.

“This may be too early to say this,” Bokuto started, “But, I don’t think I could ever imagine someone else better for baby owl than Takumi,”

Akaashi processed Bokuto’s words before nodding, “I agree,”

Bokuto smiled, “Do you really think the two of them would get married?”

Akaashi thought about it, “I think so,” he thought carefully, “It’s cliche, but it was truly love at first sight with Takumi,”

Bokuto hummed, “And for baby owl?”

“She might not show it, but she loves him just as much as he loves her,” Akaashi said.

Bokuto sighs, “You need to stop growing up,” he whispers to (F/n), earning a small chuckle from Akaashi.

“Are you still going to call her baby owl when she’s grown?” Akaashi asked.

“Of course,” Bokuto nodded, “She’ll always be my baby owl… no matter how old she is,”

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