Tsukishima Kei
Yamaguchi turned around upon hearing his name “hey Tsukishima”. (CALL HIM TSUKKI) Yamaguchi studied the boy's face, his hair had grown out and was curly as ever. His eyes were still that hazelish brown just like they were when they first met, he’d gotten taller, he looked 6’4 maybe 6’5.
Tsukishima was also studying the boy in front of him, he’d gotten taller and cut his hair, he looked a little taller not by much but taller. He’d also bulked up over the years not looking like the scrawny little kid he was when they graduated. His green hair had gotten darker, probably due to a lack of sun. He looked good.
“So Yamaguchi, how's college going” Yamaguchi's focus was taken off Kei by Asahi asking a question. “Oh it’s fine collage I guess, I mean I’m going online but it’s alright I guess..“. Yamaguchi looked around the room “what about you guys how have you all been” .
“We’ve all been doing good,” Daichi said. God this is awkward I mean what did I expect though I haven’t talked to any of these guys in 7 years. ‘Smash’ everyone in the room turned their gaze to the still short red head who was now holding a broken glass.
“Idiot I told you!”
“Shut up I know!”
“Well you apparently don’t since you still broke it!”
“They're still the same aren’t they.” Yamaguchi said.”They sure are, “ Tsukishima answered, Tadashi looked over at the tall boy and smiled.
-time skip brought to you by my ample free time-
Yamaguchi took a deep breath and stepped outside on the crisp night, the party had finally ended. “You ready?” Tsukishima asked, oh that's right he was walking home with Tsukishima, or well walk to the hotel he was staying at ‘till Tuesday. “Yea I am.” Yamaguchi said stepping over to the boy “you don't have to walk with me you know….We barely know each other anymore” he said, averting his eyes.
“Well then let's just get to know each other again”
With those words Yamaguchi looked at Tsukishima “you don't wanna know who I am”. He said, his voice barely reaching over a whisper. Wow, I sound like some dark prince of hell (you may call me, gundham tanaka!!!). “No matter who you are or who you were, I will always want to know you”. Tsukishima said.
God if he only knew how chessy he just sounded, ”sure, let's just get going then”. Yamaguchi started walking, not even talking, a second to see if Tsukishima was following.
They walked in silence ‘till they reached a bridge, wow it looks so beautiful it was never like this when I lived in Miyagi. “beautiful, isn't it? They put in this bridge and it turned out to be the perfect spot for a midnight walk, “ Tsukishima explained. Yamaguchi leaned his arms against the railing “I could get used to a view like this, we don't have many spots like this in the city”. Yamguchi sighed “it's all buildings, shops, and the worst of all. People.”
“Then why'd you move away?” Tsukishima asked.
“didn't feel like there was anything here for me, wanted to get away somewhere where no one knew me and I didn't know anyone”. Yamaguchi turned his attention to the moon, a waxing crescent, his favorite moon.”What do you mean nothing for you, your friends are here ” Tsukishima remarked. Woah, hold on. “Friends, (clap clap clap clap) not anymore. I mean I barely know any of these people anymore, I don't even really know you anymore.”
“Well that's because you moved away, and ended up pushing us away as well, we’re all still your friends and truly care about you… some more than others” Tsukishima said strongly but barely whispered the last part.
“I didn't push any fucking one away! God (Asahi). you fucking remember what happened before we left Karasuno well I left.” Yamaguchi half yelled. “Yeah, they were pretty brutal towards you” Tsukishima said thinking back to what happened in their third year, after a brutal loss the coaches wanted to talk with Yamaguchi and the rest of the third years at the time.
~flashbackkkkk~
Yamaguchi walked down the corridor lined with fluorescent lights, they had just lost their match against Aobajohsai, and the coaches were pissed about it. Well pissed was an understatement. Missed received, missed blocks due to miss judgement. “What the hell was that out there” Coach Ukai roared “ I’m sorry coach today was not our the best moment but-” Yamaguchi tried to explain but was only cut off by Ukai’s loud yelling
“Oh that was nowhere near your best. I expected way more from you four!”.
“Coach-”
“All of you missed blocks that were easy calls, missed receives that you've been doing since day one!”
“Coach-” Yamaguchi said louder
“Daichi, Sugawara, and Asahi wouldn't let this happen, hell even Tanaka and Nishinoya would have done something!”
Okay now this was getting to him “Coach!” he yelled so Ukai would listen. “who the hell do you think you’re yelling at, you missed tons of chances you’ve had for serving that, you missed shots, you missed blocks , that all of you missed! You should be ashamed to be called third years with that shitty performance!”.
“Well maybe that was our best today!” Yamaguchi stood up “maybe that's all we had in us today! Yeah it was shitty but we gave it our all! You've been running us into the ground this week how'd you expect us to play like pros if we've had barely ANY rest! You can sit here and insult me all you want but I will not stand for you insulting my team! Or insulting my fellow players!” Yamaguchi roared, putting fear into the rest of the third years.
“you both need to calm down!” Takeda yelled.
“It's fine, I won't be a problem anymore” Yamaguchi walked over to the door “I'll turn in my uniform Monday,” he said, holding back the tears from his eyes.”no...”, “Tadashi you can't” “you can't be serious” he heard from the three behind him “So you’re just a quitter” Ukai barked. “If I'm a quitter how does that make it any different than what you did in your third year”. Yamaguchi said before walking out the room, restraining slamming it behind him.
and with that Tadashi had left the Karasuno volley club
~flashback end~
“do you regret quitting?” Tsukishima asked “depends on what you mean by regret, if you mean the game yes I miss playing a lot, but the team with Ukai there after that there was no way I was walking back through those gym doors”.
Tsukishima walked over and hugged Yamaguchi “what's this for Tsukki” Yamaguchi laughed remembering the boy never really liked hugs “well i haven't seen you in 7 years, I missed what it was like to hug you” Tsukishima simply explained.
“Oh don't go getting all soft on me Tsukishima.” Yamaguchi looked into Tsukishima's dark and vigorous eyes and smiled a smile of pure bliss.
Tsukishima missed that smile, the one full of no worries and no sorrow, just the old Tadashi he knew and loved. Tsukishima let go of the latter, “Hey I'm not going soft, I don't know what you're talking about” he said, folding his arms and giving that trademark Tsukishima smirk. “oh no no no Tsukishima Kei’s become soft hasn't he” Yamaguchi teased.
“No haven't, I'm still as cold as ever” Tsukishima refuted. “Nah Tsukishima’si is a softy, Tsukishima’s is a softy” Yamaguchi cheered mockingly.
“Would you stop that?” Tsukishima rolled his eyes. “Okay, Okay, lets just get walking,” Yamaguchi said as he started walking down the moonlit bridge Tsukishima followed behind. “Do you play volleyball?” yamaguchi asked. “ Of course I still play volleyball, what kind of question is that?” Tsukishima snarkily answered, “just wondering….” .
After a few more minutes of walking they finally arrived at the hotell, “looks like we're here” Yamaguchi said upon turning the corner. “Yea, sure looks like it”, “well thanks for walking me Tsukishima, though you really didn't have to”.
“No but I wanted to, oh and it's Tsukki” he said before walking off into the night.
Wait, did Tsukishima just ask to be called Tsukki?. Yamaguchi dismissed the thought and turned around to the hotel, home sweet home for the next two days, great.
Yamaguchi made is way to the hotel desk “ I called ahead for a room under the name Tadashi Yamaguchi” he said to the man at the front desk “ room 602” the man handed him his key “ thanks” Yamaguchi said with a slight smile as he picked up his bag. Yamaguchi left the lobby looking for where 602 would be. Well it's in the six hundreds so it should be on the sixth floor. Yamaguchi made his way up to the six floor and found his room. When he opened the door he was met with a bed a desk and a small tv, what more could a person need.
He sat his bag down on the desk needing to work on some papers in the morning( what i should be doing but i'm writing this instead). He got his clothes out of the bag and put them in the drawers in their dresser that the tv was sitting on, perfect. He took out his pajamas and sat them on top of the dresser, after doing that he sat down on the bed and took out his phone.” oh a message from Kaba”.
‘ Hey dork how was the party? did ya get wasted, doubt that but. Hey still a chance, anyway thanks for leaving me at the shop today asshole, can't wait for my favorite loser to get home
Bye bitch ‘
“Oh my god Kaba” Yamaguchi whispered, with that, he plugged his phone and on the dresser and got up to get into some sleepwear. After he had done that he laid down and tried to mentally prepare himself for another, horrible, day.
(hey guys heres a question for ya who read this if i was to say maybe write another one of these fics who should i do as the main character i would really like to stay away from hinata on this topic i love him as a character but i feel like theres already a lot of fics out there like that for him thanks!!)