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synopsis: many times, you've found yourself torn about your career choice. on one bad afternoon, you find yourself making the choice between honoring your feelings or the expectations of those around you. sachirou is more than ready to help you arrive at the right decision. (long author's note at end of fic!) details: romantic/platonic childhood friends ┊ dialogue-heavy, emotional hurt/comfort ┊ vet student!hirugami and gn medtech student!reader ┊ ~1.3k words ┊ part of @d1strict99's tea party event

When Hirugami Sachirou comes back to your shared apartment one afternoon, the words come bursting out of you.

“Sachi, I can’t do this anymore.”

He stops in his tracks, setting his bag down and rushing over to your spot on the couch.

“What?”

“I feel like this isn’t for me.”

“What isn’t- wait, what happened?”

A tinge of guilt hits you for springing this onto him so suddenly, but you genuinely cannot hold it together any longer.

“Studying to be a medtech.”

His weight causes the couch to dip in his direction, and he immediately embraces you. “You wanna quit?”

“Maybe. But how do I…”

Tears somehow build up again, despite having cried your entire afternoon away. Your eyes hurt. Your head hurts. Your heart hurts. Everything just hurts.

pairing: tetsuroo kuroo x fem!reader

tags: academic rivals + childhood friends | fluff/slight crack? |

w.c. is 2k which just checked my last fic, pretty sure this is the most I've ever wrote. yayyy

For @d1strict99 tea event

leafy’s notes: first time writing kuroo…kinda scared acc

banner art by celmiu (I think...)

You don’t remember what made you and Kuroo drift so far apart, it was pure coincidence in your mind that you both would make it to the same class, let alone always being in the top 2 of your whole class as well. Sometimes it would be you who would make it top of your class, and sometimes it was him. Over time that rivalry grew when your classmates would make bets on who would ace the test this time. You had never taken it that seriously at the time, but you both were highly competitive in your own way. “Looks like I beat you this time Y/n-chan,” Kuroo laughed, his voice almost teasing as you looked at the rankings for your mid-term .

Tetsuroo Kuroo 

Y/n L/n 

Stared you in the face, it bothered you far more than you liked to admit. Mostly because it meant you would have to watch Kuroo’s stupid, hot, smirking face as he bragged to anyone who would listen. Hold on…hot? Since when…well, uh, it didn’t matter! 

“Huh Y/n, do you have a screw loose? Did you just call me hot?” You felt Kuroo’s chest brush against your back, looking up to glare back at his mocking smirk, god how you wanted to wipe that smug expression right off his stupid face. Had you really said that aloud?

“Wow, Tetsu! You really are so self centered y’know? There’s plenty of guys that I could be talking about, why do you think I’m talking about you?” You went on, pausing as you saw the way Kuroo looked back at you, you really had no reason to say all that. And you knew it, but if your words meant covering up how hot your face felt whether it was from just embarrassment or not. He never got much of a chance to decipher as you practically ran back to your shared classroom. Classes were about to start soon anyways, which meant your teacher would likely go over the answers anyways.

 It wasn’t like second place was bad. That was still second overall in your whole class. It just wasn’t what you had wanted. 

Class felt like it dragged on forever, not like that was anything new, but it felt so much worse when you were hyper aware of how close Kuroo was. I mean…he was only a few desks over. You paused, taking another not so sneaky glance in his direction, had he always been that close? You didn’t remember, but you did know that the fact that you had been so focused on Kuroo the whole classtime meant you hadn’t been focused on what you should have been. 

“You were staring at me the whole time, weren’t you?”

There it goes again, you were hearing things, right? Until you actually open your eyes and notice Kuroo standing–no towering over your desk. Fuck. “No, I was staring at the door.”

You stated, sounding as composed as you possibly could. It wasn’t like it was a completely unbelievable lie. His desk was by the door, and it wasn’t like you didn’t rush to leave class as soon as the bell rang. Except class was over, and you were still seated, you had hardly gotten to packing up your stuff. 

“Really? I find that hard to believe when your eyes were piercing a hole into my very skull all of class. You can’t bring yourself to have a single thought without having me in it, right?” He teased, making you drag your hands across your cheeks as you tried to hide how on point his words seemed. You both had been friends long before you both had become rivals or whatever the hell your classmates called it, it made you forget how observant Kuroo was, how well he could read you. 

“You really are so self-absorbed Tetsu…” You sighed, looking at him with a thinly veiled glare, your hands still pressed against your cheeks as you used your elbows to hold your head up. 

“Then why are all the times, how do you put it ‘Speaking your thoughts aloud’? Involve me?”

Kuroo rebutted, he really had you there, huh?

“That is not true…! You’re so nosy, constantly eavesdropping on me!” 

You argued, trying to ignore how you truly felt. 

“I have to meet some friends to study.” You stated, quickly gathering your bag as you put the things from your desk into your bag haphazardly, you could fix it later you reasoned to yourself. Really your main priority was getting away from Kuroo. But as you passed by his hand caught your wrist, his grip firm but not painful.

“I can join you, you know?” He suggested, it wasn’t like it was unusual for either of you, before you both got to high school you had studied together pretty often. It was more that High School made everything busier and your schedules didn’t quite align like they used too. 

“I thought you had volleyball practice today.” You noted quietly, easing your bag further over your shoulder. 

“They’ll be fine without me for one day.” He answered, not seeming to care. Although in your mind the captain should care a bit more, it wasn’t your problem if he got scolded. Well, maybe if some of his teammates got onto you for it, it would be. 

“Okay, well, don’t blame me if you get into trouble.” 

Was all you said, moving to go to your locker, not bothering to see if Kuroo actually followed you. It didn’t bother you that much, if Kuroo came to study with you, it felt like every year meant you both spent less and less time together. And in all honesty it did make you miss him somewhat. 

“Where were you supposed to meet your friends?” 

You paused, you were never meeting with anyone. You had simply planned to go to the library to study on your own. You really had just said that so maybe Kuroo would feel more awkward to tag alone, but who were you kidding? This is Kuroo. 

“It’ll be just the two of us, I was going to go to the library. Which means you need to be quiet.” You added the last part after a pause, not wanting to be kicked out of the spot that had become your favorite place to study because of Kuroo’s recklessness. 

“So it’ll be just the two of us?” Kuroo asked, as if not knowing there would likely be other people at the library.

“...yeah, it will be.” You answered, voice growing quieter at the implication his words held.

“So like a date?” He asked, you not missing the slight teasing tone to his voice. 

“What…NO!” 

You stated, pressing a hand over your mouth as you realized how loud that had come out. I mean…if it wasn’t obvious you had a crush on Kuroo. Maybe some of your classmates would be surprised, since even without the rival status you both didn’t seem to get along. But what many didn’t know was that long before the two of you had gained such a label you had been friends, and long before the both of you had become ‘rivals’ you had started crushing on him. 

“Wow, Y/n-chan! And here I thought you liked me plenty.” Kuroo exclaimed, making a big show of the words, clearly made to embarrass you. 

You knew if you seriously asked him to stop Kuroo would, because despite his teasing remarks he was genuinely still your friend. But maybe you just liked the fact that it meant Kuroo would pay attention to you, you weren’t sure. 

The actual walk to the library was mostly uneventful, outside of the fact that there were times where you felt that he got a bit too close. But you tried to reason with yourself that it was Kuroo trying to avoid bumping into other people. 

Once you actually made it to the library, you tried to find a seat without many people around, and as you sat down you couldn’t help but glance to your side as Kuroo sat right next to you. 

“...seriously dude? There are plenty of seats open and you choose the one that is right next to me?” You sigh, not bothering to hide your slight annoyance. Out of all the places he could’ve taken, he sits right next to you? When he’s been getting in your personal space all the way here? 

“We’re supposed to be studying together, right?” 

Kuroo questioned, which while true, it wasn’t like he had to be that close either. You sighed softly, nudging the legs of his chair with your foot to create a bit more distance between the two of you. Much to Kuroo’s amusement, but, surprisingly, he didn't say anything else on the subject. Every so often, Kuroo would ask you for help on questions that, in the back of your mind you knew he could solve on your own. But you did feel a hint of satisfaction that Kuroo would even bother to ask you. 

“Are you even listening to what I’m saying?” 

You asked all of a sudden, pausing in your demonstration of a math problem as you saw how instead of paying attention to the math problem he was looking straight at you. 

“Mm, I’m just copying what you did in class today.” He teased, leaning his face into his palm as he looked straight at you. You felt yourself grip your pencil tighter resisting the urge to yell at him since well, you both were still in a library.

“...if you’re just going to mock me I’m not going to help you, you know.” 

You sighed, turning away from him for just a moment before you heard him speak again. 

“No, I like it when you help me.”

His words were innocent enough, but in the back of your mind you couldn’t help but wonder if he was doing that on purpose. I mean…put on top of all of the other incidents today.

“You didn’t have to say it like that.” You stated, fixing him with the best ‘what is with you today’ type look before once again trying to go back to your work.

“Like what?” He asked, and when you met his gaze he had that stupid grin on his face.

“You’ve been acting weird all day.” You noted, which was true, or maybe you had been more hyper aware today? No, that couldn’t be it. 

“Well you like to act weird all the time.” You sighed at his words, maybe he was being his usual self. 

“I like you, you know that.” He said it so suddenly, almost if the words didn’t have the same weight you always treated them with. 

“...you what? You’re joking, right?” You huffed a soft sort of laugh, not that you thought any of this is funny. You felt so breathless, why was he being like this today? It wasn’t like you thought Kuroo would ever joke about something so serious, but it felt wrong to think he was saying all the words you so desperately had wanted to hear for so long. 

“You didn’t hear me the first time? I like you.” 

“Just…just shut up for a moment…!” You stated a bit too loud, completely disregarding your own warning you had given from the start.

“Sorry, I’m going to have to ask you two to leave, and please don’t come back.”

You didn’t fully register the librarian’s words until you heard Kuroo gathering his own stuff. How could the best day of your life suddenly become your worst? I mean…your crush had confessed to you, sure. But now you were probably banned from the public library. 

You sat at a bench by the door for a minute, bag pulled close to your chest 

“I like you too.” You said all of a sudden.

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