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Sakusa didn’t really understand the need for an expansion, but that was not his job. Tendou had decided it, so it should be ok. The last week had been a non-stop flurry of construction workers, painters, decorators, furniture being shoved in and loud yelling. Oh, how he hated that.
It was quiet now as he and Tendou walked down the stairs shortly before dawn, but he lifted one eyebrow as he heard some noises at the back of the new space adjoining the bakery. Sakusa straightened his back and slowly moved towards the source of that noise, Tendou right behind him, but came to a stop as a bleached-blonde man appeared from behind a fridge and almost collided with him.
Sakusa’s eyebrow twitched as he stepped back instantly to put some space between them.
The unexpected man regained his balance and began mumbling an apology while lifting his gaze to look at him and he froze. It was just a couple of seconds, but he could see the string of emotions that flickered over his irises in those two seconds: fear, realization, more fear, panic, and more realization, topped with a cherry of gratitude. A cheeky grin spread over the right side of the man's face.
“I told you to run”, Sakusa said.
“And run I did, as far away as I could”, the man replied.
A moment passed and he watched as the man tilted his head in... was that glint in his eyes amusement?
“I never expected you to follow”, the man chuckled.
Sakusa’s eyebrow twitched.
Sakusa only noticed that Tendou had been silent when he heard his soft steps and suddenly there he was, standing closer to him than to the other man, but almost in the middle. He could feel the lopsided smile on his face.
“I thought I would be doing the presentations, but this looks more like a... reunion?” his eyes moved inquiringly from the blonde man to Sakusa, and back, that smile never leaving.
“Remember the Kaito job?”, Sakusa asked Tendou, his own eyes never leaving the man in front of him.
The blonde lifted an eyebrow.
Sakusa could hear the myriad of file cabinets that were Tendou’s brain cells open and close, his mind trying to reach the Kaito file. He knew it would be fast but, once again, Tendou exceeded his expectations.
“Oh!” Tendou exclaimed. His eyes widened and his lips pursed against his teeth in one of his rare and strange weird little smiles. “The boy”, he purred.
The blonde lifted his other eyebrow and mimicked Tendou’s smile.
“This is Sakusa”, Tendou informed. “He works for me”. Sakusa saw the small inviting tilt of Tendou’s head.
“My name is Miya Atsumu”, the other man took the hint and presented himself, now focused solely on Sakusa. “This is me and my brother’s shop, so we will be seeing each other frequently”, he looked at Sakusa with interest. “I guess, since you work at the-“
“You do know his work”, Tendou cut that sentence softly but coolly, lopsided smile showing teeth, leer eyes open and calculating, left eyelid drooping, hands in pockets, back hunched a bit so he could look at the other man at eye level.
“I do”, Miya acknowledged. His back straightened, a warm but still amused smile on his face.
Sakusa’s eyebrow twitched again. Not many people could hear Tendou say that, in that tone, looking like that, and still stand nonchalantly and smiling.
“And I’m standing here today and opening this shop with my brother because yes, I do”, Miya continued. “I can proudly say I do know how good he is at his job, and for that I’m thankful”.
With that, he turned to grab some boxes and started walking towards the back of the shop.
“Well, that was...” Tendou said, shifting his weight to the heels and slowly spinning around to look enquiringly and amused at Sakusa, “Interesting”.
“That was irritating”, Sakusa replied, the nail of his right pinky scratching absently at the rubber band of his face mask.