"Ugh... I want to play more volleyball," complained Hinata as he sat in front of Yachi's desk after classes. "Can I just not do school?"

"Why did you want to tutor us now?" Kageyama asked Yachi. "Finals aren't that soon."

Tsukishima answered for her with arms crossed. "You two are already behind. If you don't study now, the problem will only compound in your second and third years. Then you'll never be able to catch up and will be kicked off the team."

Kageyama and Hinata sat straight up and nodded. Then they promptly shoved their heads in their books.

"Thanks for helping me Tsukishima," said Yachi. "I guess Tsukishima could be nice to them if he wants to," she thought.

"Hold on, Yachi," said Tsukishima. "I'll only help on one condition."

"Or maybe not," Yachi retracted her thought.

"You have to say, 'Tsukishima is the best volleyball player on the team,' first," he told Hinata and Kageyama with a sadistic smirk. Of course the two immediately rejected his help. There was no way those words would come out of their mouths. Tsukishima just shrugged, "Do you want Yachi to shoulder the burden of tutoring the two of you by herself?"

They both struggled to respond. They were already indebted to Yachi and they knew she would still try to help them by herself. The tension between the pair and Tsukishima caused Yachi to be flustered. She didn't know the best way to defuse the situation. "It's okay you two. You don't have to force yourselves," she attempted to ease the tension.

Hinata said it first. "Tsukishima is the best volleyball player on our team," he quickly spit out. He immediately cringed thereafter. Tsukishima's face was about to show a smug grin when Hinata added, "but only in a million years from now."

Tsukishima firmly grabbed the top of Hinata's head as he wailed. Yachi burst out into laughter before quickly stopping herself. "Sorry," she shyly tried to apologize. "I guess the more I'm around you guys, the funnier this is," she giggled. After they finally settled down, Yachi wondered if she should bring Yamaguchi next time to help her manage these boys.

Tsukishima and Yachi split the material they needed to cover. Yachi helped Hinata with English and Tsukishima helped Kageyama with math. "How can you still not even do basic algebra?" commented Tsukishima. This was going to be a lot more challenging than he thought. With memory work being Kageyama's only redeeming academic skill, teaching him math seemed impossible. He would have asked to switch with Yachi but it might be too hard for her too. "Let's do math another day and switch to literature," said Tsukishima, giving up.

During their study break, the four of them watched clips of professional volleyball players around the world. Hinata was completely star-stuck by spikes of the best middle blocker in the world. He was ace material with his powerful hits. But this made them see that both Hinata and Tsukishima's spikes weren't very powerful.

"Tsukishima! Let's be like him!" exclaimed Hinata with an excited grin.

"Yeah, right," said Tsukishima. "We're nowhere near his level. He's the best for a reason."

They wrapped up their study session when Hinata's stomach grumbled. As they packed their bags, Tsukishima told Yachi, "To be honest, I was also surprised that you planned a study session today. Did you finish your social studies paper already?"

Yachi stared back and blinked her eyes a few times. "It's not due until next Friday, right?" replied Yachi.

"Actually, it's due this Friday. Well, I'm assuming that our classes have the same social studies teacher. She'd probably give the same assignments to both of our classes."

Yachi's eyes shot wide open when she realized his assumption was correct and she started to panic. "What do I do~~?" she said as she wilted in her chair.

Tsukishima sighed and placed his backpack on Yachi's desk. He removed three library books from his bag. "Here, those are some of the resources that I found were helpful. Everything else in the library only had small snippets of useful information."

Yachi looked at the books in awe and said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you! I don't know what I'd do without you Tsukishima!"

"Just return them to the library when you're done. I've already made notes for the information that I needed."

As Tsukishima was about to leave, Yachi thanked him again. "Thanks for helping me tutor Hinata and Kageyama today. It helped a lot."

"Why did you even offer to help them in the first place?" wondered Tsukishima.

Yachi fidgeted in her spot before she shyly answered, "Well, there isn't much that I'm good at. So if there's anything I can help with, I try my best."

"There are plenty of things that you're good at," he said. He thought back to the fund-raising poster, the previous tutoring, the regular duties of a manager, and even helping him with the recent practice game.

After a beat or two of waiting, Yachi replied, "Wait, you're being serious? I thought that you were being sarcastic. Or that you'd even snicker at me and say something like, 'You're good at over-thinking things.'" When she saw that Tsukishima was slightly annoyed, she added, "Sorry! I just assumed because you're like that with the rest of the team."

"I'm only like that with annoying and noisy people," he replied.

"Oh right," she said with a nervous laugh, "That's true." As he left, he heard Yachi say shyly, "Have a good night, Tsukishima." He nodded in reply and left

************

After her meeting with Kiyoko, Yachi went to the school library to return Tsukishima's books. She sighed, "I don't know if I can handle being a manager by myself."

Over at the other side of the library, she saw a familiar pair of Sony headphones. Tsukishima was sitting at one of the desks. She went up to him and awkwardly said hi. "What are you doing?"

Tsukishima pulled his earphones off. "Just working on an assignment." He tilted his head to peer over at the clipboard that Yachi was holding. "Is that a score sheet?"

"Yeah, Kiyoko-senpai taught me how to fill it out and I was going to practice by watching one of our past matches," she replied as she sat down beside him.

Tsukishima returned to his assignment while Yachi set up her laptop. It wasn't long before Yachi tapped his shoulder to ask a question. "Sorry, could you help me for a bit?" she asked. "I don't know what the serving order is supposed to be."

Tsukishima looked at the score sheet. He had never seen one before. "I have no idea how to read this," he said.

"I'm supposed to put the player numbers here," Yachi pointed to a column of the table. "For this match, Kageyama served first so I write #9 in this box. But who is supposed to serve after him?"

Tsukishima shuffled over to take a better look at her screen. He reached over to her side of the table to rewind to the part where the team showed their jersey numbers to the referee. "I served next," he replied. "Do you see this?" He pointed to the laptop screen. "That's our initial starting rotation. Then, we rotate clockwise. So if you imagine us rotating, I'd be next and then you go around in a circle from there."

"So whoever is in the front of the current server will serve after?" asked Yachi. Tsukishima nodded in reply. "Thanks Tsukishima!" she smiled. "I still have a lot to learn, don't I?" she sighed.

Tsukishima shrugged his shoulders. "I have no idea. I've never had to keep score or referee a game so I've never thought about how they've kept track of everything." He studied the score sheet again. "Why do you have to learn how to do this?"

"Kiyoko-senpai was actually doing this the whole time," replied Yachi. "She did it because former coach Ukai didn't trust the referees to keep track of everything correctly. She kept score during practice games too." Yachi sighed, "She had also wanted to learn how to record statistics for each game, like the number of blocks and spikes each player did. But when they had no coach, those didn't seem to matter anymore."

Tsukishima seemed to follow what she was getting at. "And you want to do it?" asked Tsukishima.

"Yeah," Yachi nodded with a smile. "I want to do what I can as a manager and support our team well."

Yachi continued to watch the game while Tsukishima returned to his assignment. The footage of the entire match was about an hour long, but because Yachi had to pause every now and then to ask Tsukishima a question, they were there for two.

Tsukishima got up to pack up his belongings and he held out a few sheets of paper to Yachi. "Here," he said and Yachi took the papers. One had a list of all the Karasuno's players with their jersey numbers. A couple of other sheets showed where each player stood for a service receive for each of the six possible rotations.

"If you want to be able to record our statistics, you'll need to be able to understand everything that's happening. Sometimes other teams do their positioning differently so I drew these out for you to show what our team does. There's more to that but that was all I could do just now."

Suddenly, Tsukishima felt Yachi hug his waist. "Thank you so much Tsukishima! You're the best!" Yachi said excitedly. It meant a lot to her that Tsukishima took the time to support her with her newly-found duties. She looked at the papers with stars in her eyes. But when she looked back at Tsukishima, she saw how embarrassed he was. "Sorry!" she promptly apologized. "I just got so excited! And ummm... sorry if I made you uncomfortable."

"It's fine," sighed Tsukishima. But it was only after he left that his cheeks stopped being pink.