Kuroo's POV
The walk to the board walk was fairly long considering how close it was but with all the foot traffic it took a good 30 minutes. I was kind of worried Kenma would be scared walking around the city at busy hour but he seemed fine with it. I, however, was not doing so fine. I held Kenma's hand the whole walk there and my heart felt like it was going to explode. Every now and then I would look over at him to make sure he couldn't hear my heart beat, he was too engulfed by the city lights to notice. It was kind of cute seeing his eyes light up at the big build boards and and cars driving by. I guess it makes sense, he doesn't really get out much.
"Ring toss! Ring toss!" Bokuto jumped around pulling Akaashi like a child. Sometimes I felt bad for him but surprisingly he never looked too annoyed at Bokuto, he had a bit of a resting annoyed face though so it's hard to tell. Oikawa also pointed out cute stuffed animals to Iwaizumi as we all followed Bokuto and Akaashi.
"I told you to throw softer." Akaashi said as Bokuto whinned, he didn't get the prize he was aiming for. I'm surprised those bottles didn't break with the force Bokuto was putting behind those rings.
"Oh! Iwa-chan!" Oikawa ran over and grabbed Iwaizumi's hand dragging him over the the booth across from the ring toss. "Let's do this one!" We had been going from stand to stand pretty for the past two hours and since it was practically winter the sun had already begun to set. I asked Kenma if he wanted to play anything specific but he said he'd just play whatever everyone else was playing.
'I can't remember the last time I've been to a fair.' He looked around in pure awe, the lights from the booths shined in his eyes. He was honestly beautiful. I wanted to tell him but I couldn't seem to work up the courage, there's a big difference between jokingly flirting over text and actually flirting in person. I really wasn't that flirty of a guy so I was a bit tongue tied. His eyes eventually rested on mine and I gave him a smile which he returned. The others began to run off pulling their soulmates from booth to booth, leaving Kenma and me alone. I wrapped my arm around his shoulder and we began to walk down the boardwalk.
"Then I'll make sure to take you whenever it's open."
'That's a bit much I can only take so much social interaction at once.' I laughed and felt him laugh as well. This felt good, right even, like this was exactly where I was suppose to be right now. After walking around a bit and looking at all the booths, Kenma was more interested in the sights than the games surprisingly, we decided to meet up with the others and get something to eat.
"Yeah there's a fast food place by us." I said into the phone to Akaashi. He was the only one I trusted enough to round up the others.
"Where are you guys?"
"Uhhh," I looked around for some sort of land mark. I felt a tap on my shoulder and looked to see Kenma pointing to the fun house. "Right by the fun house."
"Ok get a table I'll call Iwaizumi and we'll meet you there." After that we hung up and I grabbed Kenma's hand pulling him over to the tables set up outside. I figured it'd be better to wait to order till everyone was here.
"So," I said to Kenma after we sat down next to each other. "What do you think?"
'Of the fair or your friends?' He asked still signing rather slowly for me.
"Both." I smiled and leaned my cheek into the palm of my hand, turning my self to face him.
'I'm having fun I've never done anything like this. I've never had many friends.' He looked down at his lap and played with his hands. I grabbed his hand causing him to look up at me. I know I initiated it but the way he looked up at me made my stomach flutter.
"We'll you've got 'em now and we aren't going anywhere." I laughed and smiled at him causing him to smile back at me. I looked over and saw the other four walking towards to fast food place, letting go of Kenmas hand I waved them over. Bokuto and Akaashi sat across from us while Oikawa and Iwaizumi sat to my left. None of them had any prizes so I'm assuming they had zero luck at the stands. "So what's everyone gonna get?"
Akaashi and Bokuto brought our food over from the counter handing out everyones meal to them. We began to eat while holding light conversation.
"Kenma-san," Akaashi began drawing everyones attention. "Have you thought about going back to school?" I was slightly shocked that he'd brought up the topic but I suppose it wasn't necessarily out of character for Akaashi. Many of the guys didn't ask Kenma in depth questions since they didn't know sign language but that didn't really apply to Akaashi and I.
'I don't think I'd be able to.' Kenma replied and Akaashi repeated his answer to the others.
"I'm sure you could get Kuroo's parents to enroll you. You will be staying with him now, right?" Kenma and I hadn't really talked about how long he'd be here for, personally I was fine with him staying forever but my parents aren't even aware he stayed last night. I knew he couldn't exactly go home but I don't know the extent, all I know was his mom was abusive and I don't really want him going back there regardless.
'I don't know I haven't wanted to think about it.' Again Akaashi repeated Kenma's answer to the group so they could understand.
"Makes sense I suppose. I didn't mean to put you on the spot Kenma-san." Kenma simply shrugged in response and went back to his meal. The conversation continued lightly from there, everyone chiming in to talk about their days.
After we ate we decided to head home since it was getting rather cold, I saw Kenma shivering while walking through the Tokyo streets, which where still as busy as every.
"Here." I took off my red hoodie, luckily I had on a long sleeve shirt on under it, and handed it to Kenma.
'You'll be cold.'
"I'll be fine." I pushed the hoodie at him again and he took it, sliding it over his head. In truth I was kind of cold but seeing Kenma swimming in my hoodie made it worth it. It was longer than the sweater was, going almost past his knees, his arms weren't even visible. This hoodie was slightly big on me so on Kenma it was huge. Soon we arrived at Oikawa's place and dropped off him and Iwaizumi who was apparently planning on staying over. I don't think Oikawa knew of these plans but then again he would never turn down his precious Iwa-chan. Akaashi and Bokuto were also going home together and since Akaashi lived relatively close to me we'd be walking together for a bit. We passed the park, which was pretty empty except for one person and another group of kids a bit away, but I felt Kenma's hand tense up in my own. "Hey what's wrong?" I asked looking down at him, but he looked away and tried to speed up.
"Ken!" Suddenly he stopped, making me stop as well since we were holding hands, Bokuto and Akaashi were in front of us but they stopped as well. We all turned around, except Kenma, to face the voice calling the pudding head's name. It was an older lady, maybe in her 40s, with long black hair who was know running over to us. "I was so worried." She reached us and I watched Kenma turn around slowly, his eyes were filled with fear. He let go of my hand and pulled away. "Ken you can't run off like that you scared me!" She laughed and smiled but it felt so fake. Kenma backed up slowly as the lady grew closer, at one point he tripped over his own foot and began to fall. I quickly grabbed his arm to keep him from hitting the ground.
"Who are you?" Akaashi asked as the two of them walked closer to us, Bokuto helped me pull Kenma back up to his feet. He seemed almost paralyzed.
"Oh right sorry!" The lady laughed and smiled again. "You can call me Kozume-san. I'm Kenma's mom." We all knew that Kenma's home life wasn't great, I knew specifically it was his mom, so that put us all on edge. "Well we should get going it's rather late Ken." Kozume-san grabbed Kenma's arm and his eyes widened in pure panic. I didn't want to think about what would happen if she got him back to his house. He pulled his arm away harshly and tumbled back, keeping his ground though. The three of us moved in front of him slightly.
"Kenma's going to stay with me tonight Kozume-san." I said trying my best to resolve this without fighting. If Kenma's cuts and bruises were anything to go by, she wasn't shy to violence.
"I think it's best if he comes home. I mean he already stayed a night with you, right Kuroo-kun." I'm sure she was trying to scare me my mentioning my name even though I hadn't given it to her. It wasn't going to work, this lady made me mad just looking at her. I really wanted to just punch her but I knew it would only cause more trouble.
"And he'll be staying over again." Bokuto chimed in, all of us doing our best to get Kenma's mom away from him. "Or are we going to have a problem?" Bokuto asked, his mood swings weren't just happy and emo he also apparently had an extremely mad mood. I hadn't seen it before today.
"He is my child you know. I have the right to tell him what he can and can't do." By now she was getting aggravated and it was easy to tell her patience was running thin. None of us budged even slightly at her remark. Eventually she scoffed and turned her back on us. "He will be home tomorrow night or I will be getting the police involved." She walked away from us and we all sighed in relief. The threat of the police was slightly concerning but at least we got more time.
"See Kenma like I said I'll keep you safe." I turned around to face the boy only to realize he wasn't there. "Kenma?" The three of us began to look around frantically.
"Kenma-san!"
"Kenma!" He wasn't anywhere in sight.
"Shit."
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