
Chapter Three [Practice Match Against the Grand King]
"I'm not so sure about this," you fiddled with the hairband attached to your wrist. Hinata pretended to have not heard your weak protest, continuing to prance through the halls.
"Hinata?" Again, he remained silent, his back to you. Not until you both stood in front of the gym's double doors did he speak. "It'll be fine, [Name]-chan!" He turned, grinning. "They'd love to have you come!"
You sighed. Maybe he was right, but that didn't help stop the feeling that you were nothing more than a burden.
The first thing you noticed when you walked into the gym with Hinata was that everyone, even Shimizu, was crowded in a circle on one side.
Sugawara turned around. "Ah, Hinata; [Name]! Come over here!"
With a questioning glance at your orange haired friend, Hinata and you walked over, asking what was going on. The boys (and one girl) moved over to let the two of you in the circle.
Daichi was the one to answer. "You know how the practice match with Aoba Jousai is coming up?" You nodded. "Well,” he drawled out, “we were wondering if, before that, you wanted to become the assistant manager?"
You were silent for a few moments. Your mind had gone completely blank. From behind you, you heard someone mumble to another person, "Oh my god, did we break her?"
"Me?" That was all you could muster out of your shock.
"Yes." Some of the boys were smiling at your 'cute' reaction. Others watched with anxious anticipation.
"Will you do it?" It was Hinata's voice this time.
"I—uh—sure, why not?" You shrugged, smiling shyly. The team shouted in elation.
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The actual practice match was beyond weird. Not only was being an official part of the team as assistant manager a little odd to you but also because of the other team’s captain and setter.
The beginning of the game had gone rather nice and smooth, which was odd. You had the sneaking suspicion that something was off.
By the second half of the game, your suspicions were confirmed; and you also wanted to smack a bitch, preferably Oikawa, whom you only recently figured out the name of due to the massive amount of shrill screams of his name. Fangirls, you grimaced.
The end of the game was when things got really, well, weird.
As you were packing up to leave, Oikawa, in all his glory, came over to your side of the gym. Kageyama furiously glared at him as he went up to you.
Tapping your shoulder, you turned around, only to have the first words to come out of his mouth when you made brief eye contact be, "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"
You stared at him for a few seconds, dumbfounded. "What?"
Tsukishima snickered behind his hand; Yamaguchi looked rather confused as the rest of the team (including Ukai and Takeda) did.
Iwaizumi almost burst out laughing as Oikawa frowned. He was displeased with the reaction he received from you.
Before Oikawa could say anything else, you blurted out, "Were you trying to flirt?"
A short snort came from Yamaguchi, Tsukishima still quietly snickering. This was just too amusing.
"Yes," he said, ignoring the freckled boy and his blonde friend. "I was."
"Oh... sorry, I couldn't tell."
Tanaka came up behind you, laughing at Oikawa as he slung his arm across your shoulders, leading you away. "Nice try, Grand King!"
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Sighing, you leaned back on the wooden bench; having been waiting for Hinata at the park after about twenty-some minutes. You were beginning to grow rather bored.
It was his idea to meet him here.
You closed your eyes, rolling your head from side to side. You stopped and stayed still for several moments, about to fall asleep when you heard a familiar voice.
"Wow, [Last Name]-chan, I never expected to see you here!"
"Oikawa-san?" Looking up, you saw none other than the conceited Grand King of the court.
Geez, you thought, after what happened I thought he'd be too embarrassed to even approach me. This guy's confidence goes to no end.
You took note of Oikawa's friend, Iwaizumi, awkwardly standing to the side as the setter plopped down next to you on the bench (he probably got splinters up his ass now; not the most comfortable seat to sit down on like that).
"Sooo..." Oikawa slid closer to you, his arm thrown back to rest behind you. "What are you doing here by yourself?"
You slightly turned away from him, rolling your eyes as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Waiting for Hinata. He said he wanted to hang out, but he's late..."
Iwaizumi perked up. "Did you try calling or texting him?"
"Yes, multiple times. He hasn't answered at all." Ignoring Oikawa’s needy expression and sighing exasperatedly, you leaned slightly away from him and propped your elbows on your knees, rubbing the bridge of your nose. "Maybe I should just go home." Any reason to get away from him.
"[Name]-chan!"
"Huh?" You looked up to see Hinata running up to you and waving, but you noticed he wasn't alone. A rather grumpy (although, he always looks grumpy) looking Kageyama accompanied him. That must’ve been why he was so late.
"Uwah! Oikawa-san, what are you doing here?"
"Just happened to be passing by." Glancing out the corner of your eye, you noted he has yet to move away from you.
Kageyama's eyebrow twitched. He roughly grabbed your arm and dragged you away (don’t worry, Hinata was quick to follow), angrily huffing something along the lines of, "Stay away from her."
If you weren't so shocked at the moment, you would've laughed.