Exactly my feelings, and I truly can't stand that attitude : being a dick to their secret crush to protect themselves without ever thinking how much they hurt the other who has no clue what they did wrong. (I noticed that most of the time the mangakas make the ukes do that, made me avoid all "tsundere uke" tags)
Ikr? It's becoming a manga cliche tbh.
What? Don't get me wrong, Kyuu was brave AT THE END, but he was definitely as much a coward as Toshi was until he confessed at the end. He has a monologue about this... Do you remember the scene where he lights the black snake firework and Taira runs away before coming back and having fun when he knows it's safe? He comments saying he's the same and wonders what would've happened if he hadn't been angsting over Toshi so much that he lost weight. He says "next time i'll confess" talking about the next time Toshi hits on him. Toshi kissed him TWICE and he didn't confess. He didn't confess when Toshi pushed him down either... It was always Toshi making the moves, albeit on accident after he lost control, and it was Toshi who asked Kyuu to date him just now. Toshi said "if it's dating we can spend march together", THEN Kyuu confesses. It's as Kyuu HIMSELF said in his monologue when he compared himself to Taira(the new baby brother) and the firework, he only had courage when he was sure it was safe. Toshi had to ask him out, THEN he confessed. I'm going to make a separate comment about this too since i see a lot of these types of comments.
I just wish that Toshi could have been as brave as Kyuu was in facing his feelings. Kyuu never hesitated when he realised he loved Toshi, he was surprised, he pondered and then he got determined to win Toshi over, I loved him for that. Toshi, on the other hand, was a chicken-shit-of-a-coward. He treated Kyuu badly by trying to distance himself. If Kyuu hadn't put any effort to salvage their relationship, they probably would have become estranged. All the misunderstandings were just so frustrating, and even though Toshi didn't realize it, he hurt Kyuu quite a bit.