#seto01

“ ......you alive? “

Scavenging isn’t exactly refined thing to do but you should still follow simple rules like  checking if the person in question is alive before doing anything. Might as well save them on the process. 

Time passed slowly in the constructed facility Kuroo could only know as prison, excruciatingly slow. In the early days he would sleep for hours, almost full days, as if refusing to acknowledge these new whereabouts he was forced into. It was a cowardly escape, he knew, but he was scared. Kuroo was just short of a man--he could remember playing volleyball with teammates and friends, eating food with his family--memories like those they seemed so distant now.  

He couldn't sleep for eternity, however. By a weeks time, Kuroo--despite himself--had somehow gotten accustomed to the bizarre reality that was the facility. It wasn't a comfortable process, he'd assure you. Though the walls became more familiar, once warm memories began to seem colder. Allowing himself to forget would be the ultimate failure.

With a foggy mind, Nekoma's captain quickly makes his way to the gymnasium. If he can't practice amongst his friends, might as well keep his skills fresh. 

It's not as satisfying without a partner, but the wall had to do.He tosses the ball, spiking it just enough for it to fly back to him. 

The final spike back is a bit too powerful--he realizes this once it touches his hand. The ball bounces off the wall in an instant, whirling past an innocent head just entering the gym. Lucky miss.

Erk. "Oh, shit. You alright, there? My bad."

 …It might just be him, but this is a sight he hasn’t seen in ages! What do you call a sleeping …beast? when it’s down. Seto looks kind of terrified, kinda flattered he’s even a part of this whole ordeal! Camping out by the drooling monster. At least he’s snoring,

otherwise Seto might think he’d never come back from wherever he’s headed! He’d have to take some “extreme” measures before he goes to collect the whole gang - which should come first, to confirm what the heck is wrong with their newest sleepless addition!… He wasn’t dead, right?

Oh no, it’s when he starts stirring that Seto books it from the room and sets the selective props around Shintaro to look like they’ve never been touched. He was never here. 

Hopes are he’s gone far enough away from the room that the notification to his phone doesn’t 'brrring ✧’ from the next hall over. 

Then he would be in heaping amounts of trouble. He thinks? Nah.

 "AH, YOU’RE AWAKE! SHINTARO-SAN!✧” Seto SLAMS in and chops the headboard right next to his head, “You almost slept right through dinner! We can’t have that, danchou isn’t going to be happy with you! We scraped the house top to bottom, I hate to disappoint!” JUST what he needs, right?

A fog horn blaring in his ear. Well, a very confidential, proud to have found you Seto extracting him from the bed. ‘We thought that you bailed from dinner prep! As far as I’m clued in, nobody was all THAT worked up to do your chores. You’re one of us now, you can’t get out of the work loop “that” easily!

We’re having curry tonight! Sorry we picked without you!" No he’s not.

When Shintaro naps, he might as well be dead to the world. He can tune out nearly any disturbance. He can weather nearly any onslaught. Ene knows the suffering of trying to stir him from his catatonia; it's an insurmountable task, it's--

Not as hard as it sounds. Just follow Seto's Three Step Plan to wake the beast.

Well first it's the banging of the headboard--just enough to bring him to wakefulness--but then It's a foghorn blaring in his ears that makes Shintaro jump up and screech in a panic.

"Seto what the hell--are you out of your mind?!" His voice raises both from being near-deaf at the moment and from what he believes to be very righteous fury. "My ears are going to be ringing for weeks--"

Then it's being dragged out of bed, and the poor introverted fellow can barely form a coherent sentence as he tries to process what he's being told. 

"Oh no, Danchou's going to have my head! Sorry, I--"