After school, you go to the gym to help the team pack everything onto the bus again. As you walk over, you can't keep yourself from wondering how you beat Tsukishima. As you open the door, your eyes frantically search for the tall, blonde boy you were so upset with, until they land on him. Seeing Tsukishima in the gym acting like nothing was any different than usual made you become frustrated yet again.

"Y/N," your brother calls you over "can you help me out real quick?"

Ignoring your brother, you walk over to Tsukishima. The moment he catches the anger in your eyes, he freezes still.

"Um, what's wrong with you?" he asks with a bit of nervousness in his tone.

"Did you do your best?" you ask angrily.

"U-Uh of course I did."

Shocked by his answer, you do your best to reply.

"Oh, g-good because I want you to try when I beat you for the top spot in the grade," you tell him.

Tsukishima shakes his head. "You're acting like Hinata. Calm down, Y/N."

You stand looking at Tsukishima as he grabs his bag and puts it to your chest.

"You're collecting these, right?"

"Oh, uh, yeah. Thanks," you say as you take the bag.

Once you get on the bus, you sit next to Shoyo who's sitting behind Tsukishima.

"Hey, Y/N," he greets.

"Hi, Sho-chan!"

Shoyo's face turns confused for a moment.

"You okay?" you ask.

Shoyo nods. "Yeah, I was just wondering why you're sitting with me and not Tsukishima."

Caught off guard, you can't hide your blush very well.

"I hate Stupidshima," you mumble grumpily to your friend.

"No, you don't," Shoyo replies innocently, "you-"

To prevent yourself from further embarrassment, you put your hand over Shoyo's mouth.

"Yes, I do," you tell him as if you were threatening him with his life.

As he calms down, you move your hand away from him.

Great, Stupidshima definitely heard Shoyo.

A while later you wake up to someone poking at your cheek.

"Y/N-chan, wake up," you hear Shoyo whisper.

You pick your head up from his shoulder and look at him.

"O-Oh Sho-chan. I'm sorry I fell asleep on you," you tell him.

"It's okay," he smiles "I just wanted to talk to you about something."

"What is it?"

"W-Well Tsukki's asleep."

"So?" you say curiously.

"Why were you lying about hating him? I know you don't really hate him."

"O-Oh, I..." you trail off, unsure of what to say.

"I could never hate anyone on the team, even Kageyama," he tells you.

You sigh and realize Shoyo is being as sincere as possible.

"Fine Shoyo," you groan "you're right I don't hate him. It just pisses me off that he's so good at everything without even trying."

You lean your head back on Shoyo and try to fall back asleep.

He's right. I couldn't hate Tsukishima even though his existence enrages me.

Once you arrive at Nekoma High, the team starts to get off the bus. You stay on to make sure none of the boys forgot anything important. As you step off, Tsukishima grabs your arm.

"Y/N," he says seriously "please don't forget what I told you when we left Tokyo last time."

He wants me to stay away from Kuroo. Why does it matter that much?

"It's none of your concern, Tsukishima," you tell him as you shrug him off.

When you finally get off the bus, you see Kuroo waving to you. You walk over to him and give him a hug.

"Hey Y/N-chan! How have you been?"

"Good," you reply happily.

"Any mood improvements with Four-eyes?"

You laugh, remembering Kuroo's nickname for Tsukishima.

"No," you sigh.

Except he was nicer when he tutored me...

"Damn that sucks, Y/N, but hey come with me I want to introduce you to some of my friends."

You nod and follow him inside the gym. You walk up to two boys sitting together in the corner of the gym.

"Y/N this is my friend Yaku! He's our libero!"

"Hi Yaku," you say politely.

"Hey nice to meet you Y/N," he replies.

Your gaze shifts to the shorter boy next to Yaku who's pretending he's not about to be called out by Kuroo.

It's the two-tone-haired kid that I saw Kuroo teasing last time I was here.

"Oh and that's Kenma," Kuroo calls as he tries to get his friend's attention.

"Hi, Kenma!"

Kenma looks up at you briefly.

"Hi," he says quietly.

"Kenmaaa!" Kuroo calls to his friend "that's not how you introduce yourself to a girl!"

Kenma looks up at you again.

"Sorry Y/N, I'm just done with hearing Kuroo talk about you all of the time."

Yaku laughs. "Yeah me too," he agrees.

"Oh, uh sorry Kenma," you saw awkwardly.

"Shut up Kenma I don't talk about her that much!"

Luckily someone walks up behind you and catches the attention of the group.

"Y/N," you hear Tsukishima's voice call "I need you to set so the team can warm up."

"What happened to Karasuno's setters?" Kuroo laughs.

Trying to make sure the conversation doesn't get tense, you agree to go along with Tsukishima.

"Oh it's no problem, I'll see you later Kuroo!"

You wave goodbye and follow Tsukishima back to the area where Karasuno is practicing.

"How come you want me to set for you guys?" you ask Tsukishima as you continue to follow him.

As you approach the area where Karasuno is practicing, you slow down your walking. However, Tsukishima does not do the same.

"Hey where are you going?" you ask as you run up to him.

"I need to talk to you, Y/N," he says to you as he walks outside the gym.

"Uh, okay," you reply as you follow him outside of the room.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" you ask as you get outside.

"You said that you owed me for tutoring you, right?"

You stare into Tsukishima's golden-brown eyes, contemplating if he's serious.

What the hell does he want now?

"Is that the only reason why you tutored me?" you ask before rolling your eyes.

"No," he denies.

"Okay fine. What's the favor you want?"

Tsukishima looks intensely into your eyes.

"Stay away from Kuroo... please," he tells you.

Please? He's being weirdly sincere about this...

"Whatever, Tsukishima. But you know he usually comes up to me so what do I do then?"

"I don't know just walk over to me and the three of us can talk together."

Before you can retaliate, your brother interrupts the conversation.

"Come back in you two, the surprise is here!"