Chapter Text
“Hey, hey, hey!” Bokuto strode up to them from around the edge of the building where they had been standing by the door of the ice cream shop. “You guys waiting for long?”
“Nah, man, we just got here.”
“Let’s go; it’s so hot out here!”
Tanaka held the door open for them and Bokuto thanked him as he headed in behind Noya. They stood in front of the display, looking over the flavors as Noya told the girl behind the counter exactly what he wanted.
They all got their ice cream-- Noya with a waffle cone, and Tanaka and Bokuto with large cups. There were enough sprinkles between the three to effectively put one large man into a sugar coma.
As they sat down at a little table outside the shop, Bokuto asked around a big spoon of ice cream, “So, what brings you guys here? Not that I don’t mind ice cream, but…” He shrugged, honestly seeming at a lost.
It was true. The trip to Tokyo wasn’t a quick skip down the block, but looking at Bokuto across the table from them with ice cream on his nose and a pink sprinkle on his cheek by his mouth made the trip plenty worth it, Tanaka thought. He was just so cute; his big arms made the spoon look so tiny that Tanaka felt fuzzy at the adorable scene. He looked over at his best friend(boyfriend? Nothing was set in stone), who was confidently licking at his ice cream cone without a trace of nervousness, which made Tanaka’s heart clench as well.
“Unfinished business!” Noya exclaimed, licking at his ice cream as it began to melt in the heat.
“Oh? You mean the kissing competition?”
“Mhmm! We found out who Suga really crowned the best kisser.”
Tanaka watched as Bokuto’s bright eyes dimmed as he realized what that meant.
“Oh… so it wasn’t me?”
He dejectedly poked at his ice cream with the spoon.
“No, it wasn’t. But we thought that was stupid, so we’re ignoring that and decided that you are, in fact, the best kisser.”
“Huh?” Squinting his eyes, Tanaka could see the confused question marks oozing out of Bokuto’s head.
“You!” Noya stood up from his chair and leaned across the table to give Bokuto a sugary sweet kiss. “Ryuu and I have determined that you’re our favorite! You won our competition.”
“R-Really? So, I’m not a bad kisser?”
“Hell no,” Tanaka blurted out. “You’re amazing.”
“Seconded!”
“!!!” Bokuto’s hair seemed to stand up straighter as the beefy boy stood up suddenly from across the table and ran around it to scoop the two up in a huge hug. “You guys are the best!”
“Aah! Bokuto-san, I’m gonna spill my ice cream!”
Bokuto shook his head, obviously pleased with himself as Noya lapped at his ice cream from around Bokuto’s huge arm, trying to catch the drips before they fell. Tanaka couldn’t help but grin at the two idiots.
He wanted them to be his two idiots.
“Bokuto-san…”
“Yeah?” Bokuto smacked two big kisses to their cheeks before gently putting them down, practically glowing.
“Ah… nothing.”
Tanaka sweated.
Bokuto returned to his seat and they continued to eat their ice cream, awkwardly trying to chit chat through the suddenly tense mood that Tanaka had put them in.
“You know what? ... gimme a sec.”
Tanaka sifted through the mountain of napkins that Noya grabbed to find a clean one before pulling a sharpie out of his pocket. He uncapped it, ignoring his melting ice cream as he wrote in his messy scrawl.
Do u like us???
CIRCLE ONE
[ yes ] [ no ]
He shoved the note at Noya, hiding it so that Bokuto couldn’t see it, regardless of the captain’s efforts. Noya nodded encouragingly, grinning.
Tanaka swallowed and recapped the sharpie, shoving the note and the marker across the table as he looked the other way, trying(failing) to suppress the blush creeping up his face.
Noya maintained intense eye contact with Bokuto, ignoring the ice cream dripping down the fingers holding his cone.
Bokuto furrowed his eyebrow as he received the note before his eyes went wide.
“Eh? Are you guys trying to ask m--”
“JUST CIRCLE ONE,” Tanaka wailed.
Bokuto yelped and uncapped the marker, writing something back before pushing the note to Tanaka.
Tanaka squeezed his eyes shut before pushing the note over to Noya.
Noya swiped it up and excitedly held it up to his face before slamming it down on the table.
“BE OUR BOYFRIEND!”
Ehh?? Tanaka took the note and scanned it. ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ were X’d out and Bokuto had written his own answer underneath. ‘hell fuckin yeah’ with a kissy owl face doodle beside it.
He accidentally knocked his ice cream over in excitement.
“O-OKAY!” Bokuto shouted back, looking nervous but also very happy.
“FUCK YEAH!” Noya dropped his ice cream cone and actually physically crawled over the table to kiss his new boyfriend, who eagerly returned it.
It was a nice view, Tanaka thought through wanting to kiss either of them himself, but he instead just reached over and pulled Bokuto’s neglected ice cream over to start eating as he watched his boyfriends shamelessly make out in public before Bokuto blindly started reaching towards Tanaka, patting dumbly at the table.
“Ice cream?” Tanaka asked, wondering how Bokuto sensed he stole his ice cream.
Bokuto made a ‘no’ noise.
“Me?”
Bokuto made a ‘yes’ noise.
Fuck the ice cream-- Tanaka abandoned it to be pulled into Bokuto’s lap between his two boyfriends and kissed silly.
~~~
“You two look happier than normal,” Tsukishima commented a day later at practice.
“What an odd thing for you of all people to notice, Tsukishima,” Tanaka tried sarcasm, but his thoughts were still on cloud nine, so it didn’t come out as harshly as it could’ve.
“Just an observation.” Tsukishima shrugged.
“I can’t help but agree.” Suga glanced over to the second years. “You two seem happier than I have ever seen you before.”
“Well…” Noya started, but was shut up as Tanaka slapped a hand over the libero’s mouth.
“It’s nothing,” Tanaka blurted.
“Okay, now we know you are lying,” Ennoshita said. “What’s gotten into you two?”
Tanaka glanced to Noya and the pair of them seemed to share a quick mental conversation before Takana dropped his hand from over Noya’s mouth. “We have something to share with you all.”
“What is it?” Hinata jumped up excitedly.
“We are kind of…” Noya began, wringing out his hands, “dating…”
There was silence for only a second before congratulations went around the room, all positive except for Tsukishima’s snide remark of course, “Like we couldn't tell this was going to happen.”
“But that’s not all,” Tanaka announced, smiling weakly like he was braced for a bad reaction.
“Are you expecting?” Tsukishima smirked.
“Tsukishima, shush,” Suga slapped the first year on the back. Tsukishima nearly fell to the floor.
“We are also dating someone else,” Noya started.
“It’s Bokuto,” Tanaka finished.
This time, silence hung in the air longer and Hinata was the one to break it, innocently asking, “You can date more than one person?”
“Obviously dumbass,” Kageyama snarled.
“Oh, cool!” Hinata grinned.
“Do you have plans to date more than one person?” Yamaguchi asked Hinata.
“Not that I can think of at the moment...” Hinata set his chin in one of his hands.
“Are you thinking of dating, uh, anyone?” Kageyama tried to ask as casually as he could.
“Smooth,” Tsukishima added.
“Shut the hell up,” Kageyama snarled.
“Come on, now.” Suga glared at the boys before looking to Tanaka and Noya, beaming to the pair of them. “I am happy for you two.”
“Well, it’s all thanks to you, Suga-san!” Noya grinned.
“Yeah, if you hadn’t of come here and shared your culture with us, this probably never woulda happened,” Tanaka said.
Pink dusted Suga’s cheeks, pleased. “Well, I'm glad you guys accepted me so readily.”
“Where the hell’re you even from anyways?” Ukai asked, overhearing from the sidelines.
“I actually grew up in the next town over, why?”
Daichi spiked a volleyball too hard and it hit Hinata in the face as they blundered in shock.
“The kissin’ thing? You said it was normal culture where you were from.”
Suga gave a delighted giggle. “I made that up; I honestly just wanted to kiss people. No one ever asked! I can’t believe you guys hadn’t figured that out.”
Coaching a high school volleyball team was honestly the worst decision he had ever made, Ukai decided as Suga sweetly kissed his cheek.