Pining Kuroo = Whining Kuroo
Kuroo has a crush on Tsukishima, and it’s becoming a problem. Not for the reasons people think; Kenma likes Tsukishima just fine, and Kenma also couldn’t be less interested in having Kuroo for a boyfriend. But the pining! My god. As it turns out, pining Kuroo is whining Kuroo, and Kenma has had enough. He’s taking matters into his own hands.
It’s simple enough. He waits until he sees the two of them talking, away from the group. Then he walks up to Tsukishima and says, “Kuroo likes you.”
Kuroo freezes. He literally stops moving with his mouth half-open and his head at an odd angle.
Tsukishima just says, “I know.”
“Uh?” That’s Kuroo, who seems to have recovered the power of sound, but not of speech.
“I know you know. But he,” Kenma jerks his head towards Kuroo, “thinks it’s a big secret.”
“Uh?!” Kuroo again, still without consonants.
“Why?” Tsukishima’s conversation is still directed towards Kenma. “I’ve been dropping hints all week!”
“I know. But he’s not getting them. He’s not very subtle.”
“Auh!” Kuroo looks at Kenma in outrage.
Kenma ignores Kuroo; he stares at Tsukishima. “You have to tell him.”
“Wuh?” Kuroo almost manages a word.
“If you knew, why didn’t you tell him?”
“I did tell him. He didn’t believe me.”
“Think he’ll believe me, then?”
“I think he’d believe anything you said.”
“Oh!” For some reason this seems to embarrass Tsukishima. “Well….I….okay.”
“Auerguh?” Wow, this time Kuroo’s almost-speech had consonants!
“Just tell him,” Kenma urges. “Please. End my suffering.”
“Fine.”
“Wha?” Kuroo’s gaze is pinned on Tsukishima now.
Tsukishima glares at Kenma. “Are you going to watch?”
Kenma cracks a smile. “Not if you aren’t into it. See you later.”
But he does watch, from a distance, as Tsukishima speaks, and Kuroo speaks (at least, Kuroo’s lips are moving, and Kenma hopes that actual words are coming out). And then Kuroo smiles, wide and delighted; and Tsukishima smiles, small and soft. And then — oh, okay, he really doesn’t need to watch this part.
As Kenma turns his back on the kissing couple, a terrible thought occurs to him; probably Kuroo will never shut up about this either. Kenma has traded one problem for another.
Although, at least Kuroo will be happier in this arrangement. That’s got to make it somewhat better…….right?
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Here's the drawing I made for the KuroTsuki Winter Solstice Exchange, and a little bit of context below, 🌙
It's a sci-fi AU, in which Kuroo, a space scavenger (exploring inhabited planets looking for scraps or any kind of resources), has to make an emergency stop in a small moon. While exploring the moon looking for materials for the repairs, he encounters Tsukishima.
At first, Tsukki is curious but wary, but as Kuroo stay progresses he starts to open up (becoming also more snarky because we are talking about Tsukki here).
Later on, Kuroo discovers that what he conceives as Tsukki is really just a human avatar of sorts, in reality Tsukki is the moon itself (which is actually a sentient alien being). The long-gone inhabitants of the planet he gravitates had worshiped him as a deity and even build altars in his name. Tsukki kept insisting he wasn't that he didn't have much more power than a normal moon had, but they didn't listen. When the invading forces arrived, Tsukki couldn't do much, but look helplessly as the entire population was killed or fled to never return.
When the repairs are done, Kuroo leaves, but establishes a scavenging route through that area and every time he passes by, he stops to have a chat and spend time with Kei. And conversation by conversation, moment by moment, they fall in love.
You can also check it on AO3 here.
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