The following week was off to a calm start.
There wasn't a lot of work to do at the student council which meant that Seito had some time to study and spend with Natsumi, who just teased him and forced him to go visit Karasuno's volleyball team ( though it couldn't be considered forcing anymore, because he found himself enjoying their liveliness)
Though as always, Seito couldn't just enjoy the whole week. There seemed to always be something to bother him or just disrupt the peace he allowed himself to enjoy from time to time.
The first thing that was more than just a bother to him, was his parents telling him that he shouldn't plan anything for the weekend, because the whole family would go on a two day vacation to have a family gathering. Just thinking of it made Seito want to throw himself out of a window.
The second thin couldn't really be called a bother, more something that just made his heart race with anxiety, was that Tendou, whom he had given his phone number the last time they met, was constantly texting him.
Seito wasn't great at making new friends, especially when he only texted with them, because his responses always seemed dry or somewhat cold, giving others the impression that he didn't want to continue the conversation. Though the boy wanted to be liked by Kenjiro's teammates, which led him to always take his time with responding in order to give Tendou a good answer to all of his questions that also wouldn't cut the conversation short.
Kenjiro had told him several times to just block Tendou and to stop entertaining him but Seito didn't want to do that, he found Tendou to be someone he enjoyed talking to. He also knew that Kenjiro was secretly happy about him getting along with his somewhat-friends – okay, maybe happy was a bit of a strong word but he was sure that Kenjiro took at least a bit of joy out of the fact that he was becoming friends with the people he cared about, just like Seito appreciated Kenjiro trying to get along with Natsumi (and being successful at that).
"Who's texting you all the time?"Natsumi asked once when the two of them were sitting together on the bench, waiting for the volleyball practice to end so that she could flirt with Sugawara and he could join the team on their trip to the grocery store. Lowering her voice she added, "Is it your lover boy?"
Seito looked at his phone and shook his head in amusement. "No. You remember when I told you that I met some of Kenjiro's teammates over the weekend? Well one of them is constantly texting me." Showing him their chat he laughed again, "And Kenjiro's still pretending that he hates it."
Natsumi looked at the chat and couldn't help but laugh, "I can imagine why he doesn't like it. Look at all of those random pictures of him. He looks horrible in most of them."
Seito put his phone back into his pocket, "I think he always looks good, but you're right, some of them aren't very . . . flattering." Taking his phone out of his pocket again he showed her one of the pictures, "But this one's my favorite, it's one of the few pretty ones. Doesn't he look cute while he's glaring at the camera?"
"Who looks cute?", Tanaka asked as he grabbed his water bottle, trying to get a glimpse at the screen. "Wait, I think I know that person from somewhere . . ."
Seito looked at the boy and quickly shut off his phone, "Uh, no you wouldn't know him. That was just a picture of my cousin from Tokyo, my aunt likes sending me pictures of him." The red tint of his cheeks gave him away but he tried to sound as convincing as possible.
"Sure," Tanaka said, dragging out the u and looking at him suspiciously.
Luckily he let it drop and went off to talk to Noya, about what, neither Seito nor Natsumi could guess.
"Do you plan on telling them about your relationship?", she asked him out of nowhere.
"I'm actually not quite sure.", he responded honestly. "I mean I like them, they're like the only friends I have beside you, Kenjiro and Suzuki. But I'm still afraid of people not accepting me and my sexuality."
Natsumi frowned a bit, thinking of the right response. She wanted to make him feel better and help Seito accept himself and see that the people around him were supporting, and even if they weren't that he shouldn't hide a part of himself because of those people.
"You know, I think it doesn't really matter if people accept your sexuality and everything", by now Natsumi was talking just as lowly as Seito was, not wanting anyone to overhear their conversation, "The only thing that really matters is that you're happy in your relationship and I really think that that should be enough. Everyone who thinks that it's okay to judge you or be mean to you because of that can just go fuck themselves and have a fun little conversation with my fist."
"I love you, you know that, right?" Seito said in between laughs. What did he do to deserve such an amazing best friend? "I really mean it. Your words also mean a lot to me."
"I know, I'm the best best friend someone can hope for," she responded confidently while flipping her short hair.
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"I can't believe that your family is always going on those fancy family vacations. I mean, I get it, you're rich and everything but is it really necessary to fly to Kyoto for just two days?" Kenjiro complained as he was on the phone with Seito, who was packing his luggage. "I would much rather see you."
"Believe me I would rather go swimming in the Arctic than having to see my family for two whole days." Seito sighed as he thought which of his clothes looked the most appropriate for the setting, he wanted to blend in so that no one would pay him much attention.
He held up a blouse and asked, "Does this in combination with the trousers I showed you earlier give "hi, I'm your straight, conservative relative that only wants to talk about his accomplishments in school" vibes?"
Kenjiro laughed at that. He knew that he would never catch Seito wearing something as boring as that outside of his family setting. "I'd say it does. But you know I would prefer to see you in your usual outfits."
Seito laughed humorlessly, "Just imagine me meeting my grandmother while I'm wearing baggy jeans and several rings. She would literally collapse, but of course only after insulting me."
Kenjiro frowned at that. He disliked his boyfriend's family, how could people be so behind in the development towards a more accepting world?
"If you survive this weekend, I'll buy you some ice cream next weekend and we'll spend the whole night in the park and talk shit about whoever you'd like."
There it was again, Seito's smile returned on his face that had turned solemn during their conversation. Kenjiro would do anything to see this honest and beautiful smile, even if it meant that he would have to make a complete fool out of himself in front of everyone from whom he wants to be respected.
"Hi Seito! How are you?" Someone suddenly shouted, interrupting their moment and just a moment later Seito could see Goshiki waving his hands wildly in the background while Kenjiro rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Hi, I'm doing great, what about you?"
Just like that Seito had a distraction and could procrastinate on packing for his dreaded vacation. Kenjiro, who was annoyed by the interruption, didn't disrupt the conversation between Goshiki and Seito because he knew that it gave Seito the distraction he needed.
The only thing Kenjiro could do now was hope that this family vacation would go by quickly and that it wouldn't upset Seito too much.
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sooo here's a new chapter, i'll try to hurry up with the next chapter because i'm excited to write the one after that so yeah
hope y'all enjoy this fanfic and aren't too mad that i never update
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