omg i don’t even know where to start

let’s do some not-dating-yet headcanons…?

• one of their first “meetings” outside of club practice was on a rainy morning. asahi had ducked under an awning or bus stop to avoid the rain (he had a final paper in his backpack and was scared it’d get soaked through his bag). noya found him there and offered to share his small umbrella so neither of them would be late to classes. but the umbrella, being small, remained in noya’s hand and asahi had to hunch-shuffle the whole way to school.
• it didn’t take too long for noya to kind of figure out asahi’s mannerisms, habits and mindset. almost immediately, he started trying to be supportive and encouraging but, at the same time, is unwilling to enable asahi’s depressive moments. asahi, however, is still trying to figure noya out, due to how spontaneous and sometimes unpredictable he can be. this sometimes leads to asahi being anxious around him because he’s unsure how to respond to something or what to say.
• they’re a slow burn. for asahi it started with earnest admiration, which evolved into a solid friendship and trust, which evolved into… oh no… he’s really awesome and near perfect and he’s nice to me but also calls out my b.s. which means he cares and. …oh no, what do i do. for noya, it was more like hitting a light switch but it took a good, long while to get said light switch working (the admiration, friendship and trust was all gradual, too, of course, it just took him a while to realize what he was feeling). 
• asahi starts paying attention to all the things noya likes and tries to work up the will and courage to give him one of said things, but at the last second he overthinks and chickens out. poor guy’s sat alone at a bus stop or on the sidewalk and ate so many soda popsicle all on his own because he doesn’t know what else to do with them.
• he did notice that noya struggles with contemporary literature, however, and blurted out one afternoon that he could help with it. this turns out to be more difficult than expected, if not just because noya can’t sit still for too long to save his life. this leads to many library hi-jinks… and also lots of “secretly-looking-at-each-other-instead-of-actually-studying”… mostly on noya’s end because ugh. studying. he’s also better at sneaking glances; asahi almost always gets caught. 
• asahi’s a little on the superstitious side. noya quickly finds out it’s not a good idea to make certain jokes or bring certain things to his attention or else he’ll be even more of a wreck than he usually is. also: most horror movies are a bad idea. especially ones involving women who crawl through your tv set. …not that noya can sit all the way through them. not enough action.
• casual texting that might not be so casual. especially when it turns into late night texting because neither of them can sleep; asahi can’t turn his worrisome brain off and noya’s got too much energy and insomnia to go to bed just yet. asahi feels kind of intrusive and guilty for continuing their conversations so late into the night but noya’s like “it’s whatever, i’m enjoying it” and long after noya passes out, asahi’s still awake, staring at the ceiling, mentally dissecting their last couple messages before noya stopped replying. it also takes a few nights for asahi to realize noya just fell asleep and that he didn’t say something that “offended” him or whatever and that’s why he stopped replying.
• noya doesn’t always think to bring a jacket in the winter months–since he moves around so much and is such an active person, he tends to keep himself warm on his own. there have been several instances, however, where he does start to shiver (and tries to hide it) while outdoors. asahi finally started offering him his jacket, which turned into noya being more hyper because his inner monologue is suddenly omgomgomgomgomg this thing is HUGE and AWESOME and WARM. meanwhile, asahi just quietly stands off to the side like c///: 
• the first time noya leaps onto asahi’s back in a fit of excitement and coils his arms and legs around him like a koala bear, it surprises them both and they both get kind of flustered over the matter. noya apologizes profusely, as does asahi (even though he has … no… reason to), and they’re a little awkward around each other for the next day or so. noya finally approaches asahi and apologizes, again, but asahi assures him it was a-okay and he didn’t mind it (and immediately after saying that, he spends the next half hour worrying he’d been too obvious). the next time something exciting happens, noya just stands there and practically vibrates in place until asahi nods at him. then he proceeds to spring onto his back and hug him once again. both of them silently relish in this contact for as long as they can without anything becoming obvious, either to each other or their teammates (lmao, too late on the latter u idiots). 
• …i’m gonna stop there because this is getting long and i’m getting emotional.