Oikawa sprints. He's fighting himself to believe that maybe he hasn't missed the train. That perhaps he won't be looking forward to a shallow grave on the side of the road when he eventually makes his way home to Miyagi. But he doesn't believe it, and he wails as he arrives on the platform with a thumping heart to a trainless view.
Someone on the other side calls out something he's fairly certain he should take offense to, and he sticks his tongue out to make a face. He was so close. A fact that his company on the other platform confirms.
"Seriously though, you missed it by thirty seconds or something."
Oikawa sets his bag down and sags to the ground beside it. He can hear the funeral march coming for him. Hajime was very explicit about what would happen if Oikawa didn't make the train.
"Iwa-chan is going to grind my bones for his bread," he says, to explain the level of his despair.
His companion seems interested, and must not have a train for a while, because he sinks down to match Oikawa, laughing and verbally prodding him to explain further.
Once they get around to his companion handing over his name. Oikawa files it away: Miyuki Kazuya.
"Oikawa Tooru," Oikawa says. "Call me Oikawa."
"Tooru it is," says Miyuki with a slick kind of a grin. It's the kind of grin Oikawa likes and doesn't see often.
- "Where are you heading?"
- "Does Miyucchi have a boyfriend?"
- "Shouldn't you show new friends more respect?"
He barely finishes getting out the question before Kazuya vanishes from sight, a train passing between them.
For a second, Oikawa wonders whether that will be the end to their meet cute, but then Kazuya is back in view and grinning at Oikawa again.
"Come again?" Kazuya asks.
Oikawa knows his expression must flash to something unsightly for a moment but he can't help himself. He knows he's going to come off as clingy, or a creep, but it's a risk he can take.
"If Miyucchi doesn't want to give me his number he could just tell me," Oikawa singsongs, eyes dancing.
Miyuki doesn't hesitate as he tells Oikawa his number over the railway tracks.
Kazuya hears the guy before he sees him. His loud wail reaches Kazuya's ears as the train on the platform across the tracks vanishes into the distance.
- "Nice legs! Keep going and you'll be home in no time."
- Clap for the show
- Laugh. Just laugh.
The guy pulls a face that make his handsome features look decidedly un-handsome at Kazuya's taunt.
"Seriously though, you missed it by thirty seconds or something," he says, wandering up to the edge of his platform and peering into the distance. The train is out of sight, and he can't remember which line runs that way from this station.
The guy deflates and drops his rather large bag to the ground beside him, then follows along side it.
"Iwa-chan is going to grind my bones for his bread," the guy declares, mournfully.
Kazuya crouches down to match the guy. His train will be here soon, but he doesn't think he'll bother catching it.
"You're friends with a giant?" Kazuya asks.
The guy nods. "The growth-stunted giant of Miyagi. He's a fearsome brute."
"Short?"
"Tiny," the guy declares, stretching out his legs, Kazuya suspects to purposefully draw attention to the fact that he isn't short, even if this Iwa-chan is.
- "Do you have a name?"
- "What's the name, Stranger-san?"
- "I'm Miyuki, who are you?"
"I think it's only proper to introduce yourself first! For all I know your name could be Murder Killington and we all know what people with that name do."
Kazuya laughs. "Miyuki," he says, "Kazuya. Call me whatever."
"Hmm," the stranger muses. "I don't know whether I should give my name to a Miyucchi. I've heard they're suspicious types."
Kazuya winces at Miyucchi, the last thing he needs is that catching on, and spreads his hands wide.
"How about Kazuya then? Pretty sure there's never been a suspicious Kazuya." He's sure there has been, but the guy doesn't need to know that.
The guy smiles, and Kazuya could swear he's seen that same look in the mirror. It sends an excited shiver down his spine, and he leans forward to keep talking to the stranger across the railway tracks.
The guy confesses his name, Tooru, Kazuya thinks to himself and turns the name over in his mind. It's a cute name and doesn't entirely suit the guy, so Kazuya begins using it immediately.
Tooru pouts and says something, but Kazuya can't hear a word as his train puts its brakes on and comes to a halt in front of him.
He doesn't consider getting up for a second.
The train leaves him on the station.
"Hey, want to trade numbers?" he asks.
Tooru's face flashes into an expression that might be honesty.
"Miyucchi is so forward~" he says, but Kazuya isn't surprised when he recites his number over the railway tracks.