This was fun!! I finished that massive project I was working on, so now I’m actually working on requests. Shocker! Note: Himiko and Shinji are my OCs and they are Bokuto and Kuroo’s girlfriends respectively.
~Admin Emma
You and Kenma prided yourself on your Trash Master Suite, the name you’d lovingly given to your shared apartment when the two of you moved in together after college. It wasn’t dirty, per se. Just messy. But you knew where everything was. And you took out the trash and did dishes before the smell set in. It wasn’t like you were infested or anything. You just had better things to be doing with your time than keeping up a meticulous apartment that no one saw anyway. It was your little garbage dump haven. And you loved it.
It was finally the weekend. Kenma’s crunch time at the studio where he worked was finally over, and he was spending his first full night at home in a long time. You were also pretty wiped from work, and all you wanted was a quiet night in with your sweet, sweet boyfriend who was never home as much as you wanted him to be.
That night, you were lounging on the sofa in one of Kenma’s oversized t-shirts; he was sitting in front of the sofa on the floor, burrowed into his customary blanket burrito and concentrating intensely on one of his games. He’d already marathoned through Final Fantasy XV when it’d come out, but now he was playing the New Game Plus to try and 100% it, so it was mildly more relaxing. You assumed. Your unwind game was like, Pokemon Sun and Animal Crossing, but hey. To each their own. Besides, you were pretty absorbed in your manga and the Chocobo theme wasn’t bad background noise.
Then, everything changed when Kenma’s friends attacked.
Bokuto and Kuroo had a spare key to your apartment and, in hindsight, that was probably not a great idea, seeing as they didn’t much respect your boundaries in the first place. You and Kenma shot them matching glares when they burst through your front door.
“Wow, that’s spooky,” Bokuto said. “Some couples dress the same. You two just emote the same.”
“Did you need something, Bokuto-kun?” you grumbled. You didn’t mind all that much, really. You liked Bokuto and Kuroo a lot. But they were both in your apartment unannounced and they were both dressed to the nines, which could only mean they had something nefarious planned.
“Yikes, ____,” Kuroo said, but his smirk told you he wasn’t the least bit cowed by your cold demeanor. “We’re here to invite you out! And by ‘invite’ I mean ‘drag’ because we haven’t seen you and the girls miss you and we want to spend some time with you.”
“Really, Kuro?” Kenma asked, quirking his eyebrow. “My first night home with ____ in, like, six months and you want to drag us out? Really, Kuro?”
“Look, I get it,” Kuroo said. “You want to burrow into your blanket burrito and not emerge until your next assignment. I also know that the second you get really caught up in it, you won’t emerge for anything, and I’d like to spend a night with my best friend. It’s not like ____ isn’t invited, or anything.”
Kenma narrowed his eyes suspiciously, a move that made him look like that meme cat with the knife. You snickered under your breath.
“Where are we going?” Kenma asked.
“Just dinner and drinks,” Kuroo said, holding his hands out defensively. “If we feel up for it, maybe dancing, but I promise, just drinks and dinner for now.”
You nudged Kenma with your knee; “Drinks and dinner doesn’t sound bad. Especially if Kuroo-kun is paying.”
“Who said I’m paying?” Kuroo asked.
“You sort of did,” Bokuto said with a shrug. “But it’s not that big of a deal. Come on, Himiko-chan and Shinji-chan want to see you! We promise, it’ll be super low key!”
“Nothing is ever low key with you, Bokuto-kun,” you laughed. “But if Kenma’s in, I’m in.”
Kenma narrowed his eyes at you, trying to gauge how much you really wanted to go. You weren’t thrilled with the idea, but Bokuto and Kuroo’s earnestness was sort of infectious, and you knew that if you refused them, they would be genuinely crushed. You couldn’t handle Bokuto’s giant puppy eyes or that note of genuine hurt in Kuroo’s voice at the moment, so you decided to go along for the ride.
Worst case scenario, you came home a little drunk and a lot tired. There was still time to spend with Kenma.
Having found a satisfactory amount of enthusiasm in your expression, Kenma shrugged; “Alright. Let me get my shoes on and we’ll go.”
“Oh, no,” Kuroo said, steering Kenma away from the genkan towards the bathroom. “Change out of those ratty sweats. And wash your hair!”
“You said nothing about showering,” Kenma grumbled, and you had to laugh. Kenma avoided washing his hair like the damn plague–the bleach made it a little crusty if he didn’t deep condition every time.
“Kozume Kenma, so help me, if you don’t wash your nasty ass hair, I will do it for you!” Kuroo had his Dad Voice on. He broke it out so rarely, and it was usually only with Kenma and hygiene.
“Come on, babe,” you said, slipping your hand into his. “I’ll join you.”
“No hank or pank, kids!” Kuroo shouted. “The girls are waiting!”
You led Kenma down the hall to the bathroom, sweeping his baggy t-shirt off over his head. You smoothed your hands over his chest, delighting in the pleased little shiver that ran down his spine at your touch. He gently cradled your jaw, smoothing his thumb over the swell of your cheek,
“I wanted to spend tonight with you,” he grumped.
“You had to know that as soon as your crunch time was done, those two would be all over you,” you said, starting up the shower. “This way, we get it out of the way, they buy us dinner, and we have the rest of the week just the two of us. It’s a win-win.”
“Yeah, yeah,” he sighed, getting the claw clip to hold his hair in place during the conditioning step. “I want to stop at that bakery on our way home.”
“The late night one? With the mini tarte tatins?” He nodded and you had to laugh. Leave it to Kenma’s sweet tooth to motivate him. “Anything you want, babe. I love you.”
He grinned softly, nuzzling your temple with his nose, which was Kenma-speak for ‘love you too.’