While the two of you sit together, you continue to lean your head on Tsukishima's shoulder. Awhile later, you hear two sets of footsteps approaching you. As you look up, you find Tanaka and Nishinoya staring back at you.

"Are you okay, Y/N," Tanaka asks you.

"Yeah because I doubt Tsukki'll help you out," Nishinoya adds before sticking his tongue out at Tsukishima.

"Mhm," you tell them "I'm alright."

After you nod, Tsukishima gets up. You watch as he stands and walks into the gym without saying another word. Once he's inside, Tanaka and Nishinoya bend down next to you.

"You know Y/N, I'm much better at comforting you than Tsukki is," Nishinoya smiles.

"Thanks, I'll remember that for next time," you giggle.

The boys stand up and each hold out a hand for you to use to help yourself stand.

"Come on, let's go in!"

Once practice is over, Keishin calls the team over for another chat.

"Alright guys, so next week we will be heading back to Tokyo to see Nekoma again."

I bet that dumbass Kuroo will be there, too.

You smile to yourself while most of the team shouts in excitement.

As you show your enthusiasm for the trip, you feel eyes watching you. You look around the group until you meet eyes with Tsukishima. Immediately, you think back to how he told you on the bus to stay away from Kuroo, but you brush it off thinking nothing of it.

"The only thing is that you guys need to pass your next test to be allowed to go. That's not my rule. Do you think you can manage that?" Keishin asks the group.

"Let's hope so!" Suga and Daichi respond.

You giggle to yourself, knowing that Shoyo and Tobio are going to ask you for help again. As you look over at Shoyo, he's excitedly smiling back at you, practically jumping up and down. You move your eyes to Tobio who's watching you as well, and observe the blush creep across his face.

"I'm sure they'll be fine," you proudly tell Keishin as you give a smile to the boys.

Once Keishin breaks the group up, you help Kiyoko clean the gym.

"Can you help me with the chairs again?" she calls over to you.

"Of course!" you say as you run over.

While the pair of you fold the chairs, your eyes land on Tsukishima.

I can't lose to him again. I want to be the top of my class this time.

"Y/N why are you staring at Tsukishima and Yamaguchi?"

You snap yourself out of your thoughts and direct your attention to Kiyoko's puzzled face.

"O-Oh I was just thinking that maybe I should ask Tsukishima to help me prepare for the next test. He always has the best grade and I want to beat him so..."

"I think that would be a really good idea, Y/N," Kiyoko tells you "and it would be nice to have you two get along for once as well."

You roll your eyes.

Whatever. I'll do whatever it takes to beat him.

Once you finish cleaning up the chairs, Kiyoko begins pushing you towards Tsukishima's direction.

"Hey, what are you doing Kiyoko?" you protest.

"You had a good idea before so go see it through. I'm done hearing you complain all of the time."

Do I really complain that much?

"Ok fine!" you say to Kiyoko as you move your body away from her hands, "I'll ask him."

As you walk up to Tsukishima, you do your best to gather the courage to be nice to him.

"H-Hey, Tsukishima," you say awkwardly as you approach.

"Hi," he replies coldly.

"U-Um I was wondering if you could maybe help me study a bit before our next exam."

You watch as Tsukishima looks intensly into your eyes as if he's staring into your soul.

"No."

What the hell? Who does this kid think he is?

You stand frozen in shock as Tsukishima pushes past you to leave the gym. You continue to stare straight ahead of you as Tadashi runs up to his friend.

"Hey Tsukki, that wasn't very nice of you," you hear Tadashi lecture, "you should go apologize."

You turn around, hoping to give Tsukishima a piece of your mind, but find that they've already left the gym.

"I'll kill that stupid skyscraper," you mutter to yourself.

"Hey now, that's not what a good manager would say," your brother laughs as he puts his arm on your shoulder.

"Keishin, I've tried to be nice," you say as you move your body away from his "but he just sucks."

"You'll figure it out Y/N. You ready to go see Nekoma again?"

Your face turns excited again as you forget about Stupidshima.

"Totally! It's so awesome getting to go to Tokyo!" you respond.

"Good," he laughs, "because there's going to be an extra surprise waiting there for the team."

The next day at lunch you begin to eat your lunch, wondering if Tadashi and Tsukishima would join you again. However, as you're lost in thought, you hear a groan as a figure sits in front of you. As the person turns around, you look up to see who it is.

"U-Uh, Tsukishima?!" you say confused.

You watch as Tsukishima ignores you and sets his lunch down on your desk. You begin to eat as well as you contemplate talking to him.

"What are you doing, Sasquatch?" you ask.

"You're such a nerd, Y/N," Tsukishima bluntly replies.

"Oh, um..."

You stop stuttering as Tsukishima lets out a sigh.

"Tadashi's mad at me."

"O-Oh, why?" you ask curiously.

"He said he's not talking to me until I apologize to you."

"It's okay. You don't have to apologize. I understand that you're busy with everything," you say looking down at your food.

"Look, I'll help you."

You freeze once his words process in your brain. As you look up, you analyze his face to figure out if he's being serious.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm being serious, alright. We don't have practice tomorrow so I'll help you out during that time."

"W-Woah Tsukishima thanks so much! H-How come there's no practice tomorrow though?" you ask.

"Y/N, you're focusing on the wrong things. That doesn't matter. Please make sure you bring your-"

"Keishin must be visiting grandpa. I hope he's alright," you mutter as you interrupt Tsukishima's sentence.

"Hey Tsukishima," you say as you turn your attention back to him "Seriously, thank you a lot for agreeing to help me out. I definitely owe you big time," you tell him as you give a big smile.

For a moment you think you see a small blush run across Tsukishima's face, but he nods and stands up too fast before you can really analyze it.

During practice later that day, you run over to your brother to question him about tomorrow's practice.

"Hey Keishin!" you call as you run over.

"What's up Y/N-chan?"

"How come you aren't holding practice tomorrow?" you ask.

"I'm going to check on grandpa at the hospital," he tells you.

"K-Keishin is everything okay with him?"

You stare intensely into your brother's eyes hoping to have your confidence restored. You watch as your brother nods his head and smiles back at you.

"Yes I'm sure everything is fine," he replies.

"Well, what's wrong?"

Your brother's expression suddenly turns serious.

"Nothing Y/N, now please go help out Kiyoko."

You nod as you walk away from him.

I can't tell if he's being sincere or just putting on a brave face for me...