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| KENMA X READER | FANMAIL

TW: minor haikyuu manga/timeskip spoilers for kenma (and kuroo if you squint)! 

KEY TAGS: gender-neutral reader, aged-up characters, timeskip!haikyuu, kenma pov, fluff, strangers to lovers  

WORD COUNT: 3371 

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SUMMARY: "He stops reading to retrieve the aforementioned set of papers and holds it in his free hand while holding the letter in the other. Briefly scanning the title, his cheeks flush a faint pink at what he's reading. In Times New Roman font, the words 'Dating Application' are printed in black ink, a size bigger than the rest that was printed below."

Or where streamer Kozume Kenma receives some unusual fanmail.

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It isn't uncommon for Kozume Kenma to receive fan mail.

In fact, ever since he opened a P.O. box for his fans to send him letters and packages, it is almost guaranteed that he'll have something waiting inside for him every few days or so. His fans send him a variety of things, ranging from simple letters to Amazon packages. Kenma never encourages his fans to send him anything—actually, he strongly encourages them to not send him anything—, but he still appreciates whatever he finds in the mailbox. He even uses most of his gifts in his everyday life, such as his cat-ear headphones and cat apron (his fans often associated him with cats, and he would be lying if he said they were wrong to do so).

Now, when Kenma makes his routine trip to the post office to see if there was anything in his P.O. box, he expects the usual: a handful of lovingly-written letters and maybe a package or two. Well, when he opens the mailbox, he does see those things but also notices a manila envelope lying underneath everything that stands out from the rest of the mail. Confused, the pudding-headed streamer slowly and carefully slides the mustard yellow envelope out of the moderately-sized cubicle.

Manila envelopes are usually used for one of two things: official documents or bigger-than-average pictures. So, Kenma thinks of three possibilities as to what this envelope's contents are. The first possibility, albeit unreasonable, is that the government sent him taxes to his P.O box that is dedicated solely to fan mail. The second possibility is that someone sent him fan art, using a manila envelope to ensure that the drawing wouldn't be ruined in the mail. The third, more chilling possibility is that Kenma now has a stalker who was sending pictures of him in his bedroom, sleeping or changing out of his pajamas into new ones. Knowing that he uses his personal address for official documents, like government-sent mail, the second and third possibilities are more likely to be true than the first.

Not wanting to waste time, Kenma quickly takes all of the mail in his arms and hightails it out of the post office. He isn't too worried that he has a stalker, especially because he can't even think of any of his fans doing something as detestable as stalking. However, he doesn't want to risk it and decides it would be best to leave as soon as possible. Besides, he's a little eager to open the letter as this wasn't his standard fan letter. He drives out of the parking lot and straight to his apartment.

Now, inside his apartment, he struggles to put down the packages and letters, not wanting to just dump them on the ground. After managing to stack them haphazardly yet gently next to the living room table, he sits down on the couch, picks up the manila envelope from the pile, and begins to open it. Once the flap is no longer sealed tightly to the envelope, Kenma removes its papers from the inside, taking it out in the neat bundle it was arranged in. He spreads them on the coffee table and is left with a thin set of papers stapled together and a normal envelope, rubricated with the words in all-caps, "READ FIRST!" While Kenma feels relieved that this letter doesn't appear to be from a stalker that took pictures of him in his sleep, seeing the sheets splayed on his table didn't relieve his confusion.