and now i'm covered in the colors

[tolerator]

❝ Akaashi Keiji. Please leave a message, and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. ❞

class 2-B x locker #188 x room #311
text x audio x action

▋ KUROO

▋ TSUKISHIMA

▋ HINATA

▋ KAGEYAMA

▋ OIKAWA

▋ MAX

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10th; breaks this in u//u

[catenate]

[He doesn't rush actually messaging him, but considering he's kept busy it's been harder to track two people with only names down in this kind of place. With the names being passed on, they've appear in his phone and rather making Akaashi suffer with his terrible typing now--

so he calls.]

uah iwasan.......

[tolerator]

[ After speaking with Tsukishima, Akaashi certainly wouldn't judge Iwaizumi's texting as it is. But he also doesn't mind a call, and at least the Karasuno first year and Oikawa both have told him that he's here. ]

Iwaizumi-san? [ As if making sure that he's not assuming wrong, or seeing the wrong name on the phone. ]

hue hue

[catenate]

[It's easier for a first time, he thinks, plus he doesn't want to waste energy trying to text when this is quicker.]

Hey. [Well, that at least gets rid of the introductions.] Akaashi, right? Tsukishima said you guys know each other. [He pauses.] I guess we'll all be staying together so I figured I'd check in.

[tolerator]

[ So efficient. He's got no complaints about doing it this way. ]

That's right. Fukurodani and Nekoma trained with Karasuno for a little while. [ Something that Kuroo and Tsukishima might have told them before, but he figures it won't hurt to clarify. ] I appreciate it - I'd only known of you and Oikawa-san before arriving here, so it's good to actually know who you are now.

[catenate]

[He makes a small noise to acknowledge he heard that tadbit of information. It's useful, and while he knew of how Kuroo knew the others Akaashi and Bokuto hadn't been explained yet.] They get around, huh?

Oikawa's the famous one anyway, even if he's a pain to monitor when he has interviews.

[You'd know, Akaashi... you'd know...surely.]

[tolerator]

They do. Rather like actual crows. [ But all of the teams here are certainly known in the high school circuit. Akaashi could comment and say that Iwaizumi is the ace, so while Oikawa might be the face of the team, he's still one of the pillars of it. But he remembers what Tsukishima told him and instead focuses on something that might be less frustrating in the grand scheme of things. ]

Bokuto-san can be very difficult during interviews, as well. [ Though theirs have usually just been for magazines, he gets it. ] I imagine it'll be very interesting to have them both in the same place.

pre-event - sometime in the afternoon - texting while in class

[havent]

Are you busy right now?

I was about to say PAY ATTENTION IN SCHOOL TSUKCHAN but honestly also Akaashi

[tolerator]

Not especially.

[havent]

Oh, good.

I was wondering if you were planning on joining other clubs than volleyball.

Because if you're free in the evenings, there's a baking club.

[ HERE'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. ] Sometimes they make sweets.

[tolerator]

[ He's raising an eyebrow at his phone in the middle of a gibberish lecture tbh. ]

I haven't given it too much thought yet. I probably will, but I wanted to get a feel of the school first, then decide.

Are you in the baking club?

[havent]

[ owlsan we need to have junk food solidarity. ]

I know Yachi is in it. Sometimes she brings us cookies.

I'm not in the baking club, it's a bit right after my training with Slaine and it means going home late in the evening .... but it wouldn't be so bad if we go back to the gym together.

And anyway, it's a lot better to make your own desserts than to rely on the cafeteria not serving bean curry for a month.

[tolerator]

[ That is fair...... ]

I was only ever in the volleyball club back home, but that was because I had to focus on my studies and had violin practice every night after club. So it's a little strange to think I have the free time for more clubs, even if this school is what it is.

Though, the baking club doesn't sound too bad. Especially when you put it like that - the fact the cafeteria would serve bean curry for a month doesn't shock me

sometime after a hoot disappears

[havent]

Will you be alright? Do you need anything?

a good kouhai...

[tolerator]

I will be, thank you Tsukishima. It is, after all, better than Bokuto-san not be here.

[ Doesn't change the fact he's upset, but he's prioritizing and isn't sure what he'd need. ]

[havent]

[ well fuck your prioritizing birdmom kouhai has some questions ]

In many ways, yes.

Is that cruel? Wishing that someone isn't here?

[tolerator]

[ He'll answer them. Not happily, but since it's Tsukishima... ]

I'd think it'd be crueler to wish they were here, don't you?

[havent]

I guess so. But ...

I was also relieved when Bokuto was here. And after a while, I'd grown used to Yachi being with us as well; the same with Iwaizumi. I'm not sure how it is with Kuroo, but he seems very stressed nowadays.

Losing them, after everything else that happened to us - doesn't seem fair.

[ as an afterthought, he adds - ]

But this isn't about what's fair anymore.

[ lord knows what they're doing in this school.

kei feels that horrible remorse when he gets a bit too wordy or honest for his tastes, so he adds, ]

I'm sorry for texting you so much.

[tolerator]

[ For a long moment, all he does is sit with his phone in both hands, forehead resting against the top of it.

But, then he replies. ]

You don't have to apologize, Tsukishima.

You're not wrong - about any of it. This place doesn't operate with a concept of what's fair or not, and never seemed to. People die or disappear, and we're left wondering what's happened to them, worrying that they might still be in this school where we can't reach them.

At least when they were alongside us we knew where they are, and we could watch one anothers' backs.

I never

[ Akaashi stops a second, then resumes as he regains composure. ]

I didn't want Bokuto-san here, but having him here meant that I slept easier, if that makes sense. [ Given who he is, and all the stressors of having friends here. ] Now, we don't know what happened to him or Iwaizumi-san or Yachi.

sometime after said hoot and iwaizumi and yachi and WHOEVER THE FUCK ELSE disappeared

[uttertrash]

we're gonna have to start thinking really hard about some kinda buddy system here

[ AKA the above is a lighthearted way of saying he's so done with friends mysteriously vanishing left and right and you are the only actually responsible adult he knows (sorry Oikawa).

Good luck. ]

at least we still have each other kuroo

[tolerator]

Are you asking to hold my hand, Kuroo-san?

[ Akaashi keeps it lighthearted in response, because while he's generally straightforward it's... much easier, right now, to pretend that things are fine.

It'll be fine. ]

we must raise these unruly children together akaashi...!

[uttertrash]

sure if it makes you feel better

[ This is fine. ]

does that mean *you're* going to stop being unruly..?

[tolerator]

I'm not sure how effective that would be in the longrun. Maybe we can fashion child leashes out of something?

[ Fake it 'til you make it, right? ]

...um...

[uttertrash]

[ This joking around is totally making him feel better. ]

don't think that'll hold some of them for long

[ Could it even keep Bokuto in line?? Honest question. ]

lead by example, dad

[tolerator]

[ Better than thinking about the people they've lost so far. ]

No, maybe not. I guess some of them are too big for it, too. We'd be dragged around.

[ The honest answer is absolutely not. ]

Dec 25th

[yotsume]

_{[On Christmas morning Akaashi'll find a small, handmade card that was slipped inside his locker the night before. On the inside it reads as follows:]}

Merry Christmas Keiji-oniichan!

I hope santa will visit you and bring you something nice!

- Hinami