Title: touch the sky Ship/Character: Hinata Shouyou/Kozume Kenma Additional Characters: Kuroo Tetsurou Fandom: Haikyuu Major Tags: None Other Tags: very liberal interpretation of circus, meet cute, acrobat hinata, Word Count: 478 Remix Permission:See Permissions Sheet
i've never written kenhina before! i just love their canon first meeting and wanted to give them another cute first meeting :)
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Kenma drags his feet as Kuroo tugs him through the carnival, weaving them both between rows of tents and food stands before depositing Kenma in a corner. Kenma has yet to look up from his DS.
“Stay here, I’m going to find Bokuto and then we’re gonna get food.”
Kenma shrugs before turning back to his game. Where was he going to go anyway? He doesn’t even want to be here.
“Step right up, to see the amazing Little Crow. He can fly!”
Despite himself, Kenma is intrigued, and looks up to see a slackline set up between two tents with a crowd forming around it. He doesn’t move closer. Instead he watches with rapt attention as a small redhead easily balances on the line, addressing the crowd.
“I am Hinata Shouyou! And I can touch the sky!”
And then he jumps into the air and flips twice, landing neatly onto the slackline.
Kenma’s heart soared into the air with him, and it settles in his stomach with a plop when the boy—Shouyou—lands. He watches like that, video game forgotten next to him for the next fifteen minutes before Shoyou does an elaborate flip and takes a deep bow. He high fives the two boys that come to pack up the slackline and set up a stage for fire breathing or something, but Kenma’s already lost interest. He picks up his game and goes back to it, but his mind stays on the boy’s sunny smile.
A few minutes or hours later, he feels the air around him move to allow for another person to sit on the grass next to him. He ignores them.
“Whatcha playing?”
Kenma’s eyes snap up to see the sun himself, chewing on a granola bar and wearing a simple t-shirt instead of his flashy performing gear. Without thinking Kenma glances between the boy next to him and the spot where he was performing and then back to the boy. His grin is blinding.
“Did you see me perform!? I was like whah! And then blam! I almost fell off, did you see that one? Did you like it?”
Kenma blinks slowly at the boy.
“Yes, Shouyou, I liked it.”
The grin never fades. Kenma’s pretty sure he’s never smiled that much in his entire life, let alone one conversation.
“Agh! You remembered my name. You must have really liked it then,” the boy pauses but continues when he sees that Kenma isn’t going to respond, “what’s your name?”
Kenma pauses his game, turning to give Shouyou his full attention. “Kenma.”
Shouyou jumps up, holding his hand out.
“Come on, Kenma! I can show you around.”
Kenma looks between his game and Shouyou, before giving in and letting Shouyou pull him up and into a maze of tents. Except instead of reluctantly like when Kuroo drags him around, Kenma grips Shouyou’s hand tightly.
FILL: Seijoh Third Years, T
Ship/Character: Hinata Shouyou/Kozume Kenma
Additional Characters: Kuroo Tetsurou
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: very liberal interpretation of circus, meet cute, acrobat hinata,
Word Count: 478
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet
i've never written kenhina before! i just love their canon first meeting and wanted to give them another cute first meeting :)
***
Kenma drags his feet as Kuroo tugs him through the carnival, weaving them both between rows of tents and food stands before depositing Kenma in a corner. Kenma has yet to look up from his DS.
“Stay here, I’m going to find Bokuto and then we’re gonna get food.”
Kenma shrugs before turning back to his game. Where was he going to go anyway? He doesn’t even want to be here.
“Step right up, to see the amazing Little Crow. He can fly!”
Despite himself, Kenma is intrigued, and looks up to see a slackline set up between two tents with a crowd forming around it. He doesn’t move closer. Instead he watches with rapt attention as a small redhead easily balances on the line, addressing the crowd.
“I am Hinata Shouyou! And I can touch the sky!”
And then he jumps into the air and flips twice, landing neatly onto the slackline.
Kenma’s heart soared into the air with him, and it settles in his stomach with a plop when the boy—Shouyou—lands. He watches like that, video game forgotten next to him for the next fifteen minutes before Shoyou does an elaborate flip and takes a deep bow. He high fives the two boys that come to pack up the slackline and set up a stage for fire breathing or something, but Kenma’s already lost interest. He picks up his game and goes back to it, but his mind stays on the boy’s sunny smile.
A few minutes or hours later, he feels the air around him move to allow for another person to sit on the grass next to him. He ignores them.
“Whatcha playing?”
Kenma’s eyes snap up to see the sun himself, chewing on a granola bar and wearing a simple t-shirt instead of his flashy performing gear. Without thinking Kenma glances between the boy next to him and the spot where he was performing and then back to the boy. His grin is blinding.
“Did you see me perform!? I was like whah! And then blam! I almost fell off, did you see that one? Did you like it?”
Kenma blinks slowly at the boy.
“Yes, Shouyou, I liked it.”
The grin never fades. Kenma’s pretty sure he’s never smiled that much in his entire life, let alone one conversation.
“Agh! You remembered my name. You must have really liked it then,” the boy pauses but continues when he sees that Kenma isn’t going to respond, “what’s your name?”
Kenma pauses his game, turning to give Shouyou his full attention.
“Kenma.”
Shouyou jumps up, holding his hand out.
“Come on, Kenma! I can show you around.”
Kenma looks between his game and Shouyou, before giving in and letting Shouyou pull him up and into a maze of tents. Except instead of reluctantly like when Kuroo drags him around, Kenma grips Shouyou’s hand tightly.