Yachi sat at her bedroom desk, struggling with how to reply to Tsukishima's confession. She wanted it to be special, so she had started to brainstorm ways she could confess to him, but none of her ideas were very good. Tsukishima probably wouldn't really care how she replied to him anyway, so she wasn't even sure if it was worth the effort. She thought that maybe she should simply just tell him that she liked him back.

Mei interrupted her thoughts by calling her on her phone to video chat. She immediately started to talk about what had happened that day with Tsukishima's unexpected confession. Mei still couldn't believe that he just admitted his feelings like that.

"Yeah, I can't believe it either," replied Yachi. She then told Mei that she didn't know how to respond to him.

"You should totally bring him to a romantic location to tell him!" squealed Mei. "You know, like one of those places where you can overlook the city at night."

Yachi sweatdropped at how dramatic Mei was being. "Uhh... I don't think there's a place like that around here..."

"Do you want me to scout for locations for you?" Mei asked.

"Uhhh... No, it's okay," Yachi nervously smiled back. She decided to gently reject her idea since Mei looked so enthusiastic about it. She concluded that Mei had been watching too many dramas recently.

"Wait! You should give him a card too!" she suggested with a laugh. "Like the first time you 'confessed' to him."

Yachi flinched at her suggestion, recalling her past embarrassment. But after her video chat with Mei ended, she found herself writing a card anyway. She initially thought what she wrote was fairly clever until she brought the card to school the next day.

In the hallway, she panicked about how the content of the card was too cheesy. She started to overthink possible scenarios that might happen if he did read the card. She thought Tsukishima would even reconsider being her boyfriend once he read it. "Ha? This was all you could come up with?" she imagined him saying as she freaked out. She regretted ever bringing the card to school.

"Good morning Yachi," said Yamaguchi. Yachi got so startled from her train of thought that she let go of whatever was in her hands. Yamaguchi apologized for scaring her and picked up the card for her. But seeing that it had Tsukishima's name on it, he decided to hand the card to him instead. "I think this is for you," he said with a snicker.

"No! Wait!" cried out Yachi as she tried to grab the card out of Tsukishima's hands. But the tall blond quickly pulled it out of her reach and above her head.

He smirked and said, "So is this one from you this time?"

"It is," she admitted. "But- Wait! No! Don't open it!"

Tsukishima raised an eyebrow. "Why not? It's for me, isn't it?"

"Yes, but I didn't intend on giving it to you now!"

"Why not?"

"It's too cheesy!"

"Oh?" Tsukishima said with a mischievous grin. "I guess I'll open it now then."

"Gah! No!" Yachi attempted to jump to grab the card, but of course Tsukishima wouldn't let her and kept it out of her reach. When she realized that it was impossible to get the card back from him, she decided to hide her face in her hands and braced herself for the imminent embarrassment.

"The volleyball team will always be stars in my eyes, but there is only one Tsuki for me. I like you, Tsukishima. ~Yachi," read the card.

"I can see why you're embarrassed," Tsukishima joked. She turned even redder if that was possible. "Are you trying to learn from Takeda-sensei?"

"Stop teasing me. I'm embarrassed enough already."

As the two of them got settled in class, she wondered if this meant that they were a couple and if she was actually his girlfriend now. She ended up being so giddy about it that she couldn't stop grinning.

With his head on his desk, turned away from her to hide his own face, Tsukishima slipped a piece of paper to her with a little note. It asked her, "Do you want to go out on Saturday?" Of course, her answer was yes.

*****

Tsukishima knew that Yachi had liked him back, but he didn't want to believe it. He didn't want to be disappointed if he was wrong. So he was a little too happy that she told him that she liked him back. It also didn't leave him room to doubt anymore.

"I wonder if today's practice will be just as eventful as yesterday's," mentioned Ennoshita as they setup the gym for practice.

"Huh? What happened yesterday?" asked Kageyama.

"What? How could you forget about that?" said Hinata. "The whole team was talking about how Tsukishima confessed that he liked Yachi yesterday."

"Oh right." Kageyama then turned to Tsukishima to ask, "Did Yachi reject you yet?"

"Oy! Don't put him in a bad mood," Tanaka warned Kageyama as if he was also expecting that Tsukishima was rejected.

"Yeah, Tsukishima can be scary," added Nishinoya.

"Why is that question even more irritating when it's coming from Kageyama's mouth?" Tsukishima commented to Yamaguchi.

"So she did reject you?" Kageyama asked anyway.

"No," Tsukishima simply replied.

"I bet he's lying," Hinata commented with a snicker.

Irritated with their stupidity, Tsukishima was about to approach Hinata and Kageyama, but Yachi grabbed his wrist before he could do anything. Her legs were trembling and her eyes were filled with worry as if asking him not to do anything rash.

"You shouldn't fight while Yachi's here," Tanaka warned him. "She was pale as a ghost the last time she witnessed one."

"Yeah, Tsukishima! You shouldn't fight in front of the girl you like," Hinata added.

Tsukishima was even more annoyed especially since he couldn't do anything about it. So he just smirked and told them, "You'd better watch your backs when Yachi isn't around."

Hinata and Kageyama both flinched at the thought. "Yachi! Save us!" Hinata pleaded.

"You shouldn't have provoked him in the first place, Hinata," Yachi sweat-dropped. "A- And I like him back so of course I'll take his side."

The team froze is shock. Their cute and sweet manager had just admitted to liking the saltiest member of the team. "W- why would you like him, Yachi?" asked Hinata with worry.

"Tsukishima is actually really nice," she replied with a blush. They stared at her as if she just told them that pigs could fly. "No! He really is!" she insisted. But their expressions still hadn't changed. "He is!"

*****

On Saturday, Tsukishima got ready to meet with Yachi in front of the Sakanoshita store. When Akiteru found out that Tsukishima was going to spend time with her, he attempted to tease his little brother about it as he pick out his clothes. "You have to look nice for Yachi on your date," he joked with a grin. Tsukishima just smirked back and didn't bother to tell him it really was a date.

When he got there, he could see that Yachi was nervously waiting for him. She turned to look up at him and froze. He started to wonder if she was still breathing.

"I'm going to die seeing you in casual clothes," she commented as she covered her blushing face with her hands.

Tsukishima smirked at her reaction. "Should I wear my school uniform next time? Or even my gym clothes? I wouldn't want you to die on me."

He didn't think what he wore was very impressive. He just had jeans, a white t-shirt and a hoodie over it. But he figured that the change from what he usually wore around her solidified the fact that they were on a date and not at school.

He noticed that Yachi had put more effort in her appearance than usual. She wore a summer dress and also had some make-up on. He wasn't used to seeing her with make-up and he couldn't say that he actually liked it. But he didn't really care because he thought it was cute that she wanted to look nice for him.

"I got movie tickets," Tsukishima told her. "I still don't really know what we should do on a date."

Yachi smiled back at him and thanked him for the tickets. "We can figure out other things we can do together as we figure out what we like. That's assuming that you want to go on more dates with me," she said with a blush.

She held out a clear cake carrier that revealed a strawberry shortcake inside. She learned that he liked it from Yamaguchi. The carrier was a reusable plastic container, meaning that the cake was likely homemade. Tsukishima blushed a bit, imagining how much effort she must have put into making it.

But suddenly, Yachi had been pushed forward towards him and he caught her as she was about to fall. Tsukishima initially thought that a little kid had bumped into her. But with a closer look, he saw that the kid was Hinata Shoyou, who was crouched down, playing with a dog that was left outside of the convenience store.

"What the heck are you doing here?" Tsukishima asked with irritation in his voice.

But when he heard Yachi freaking out, he turned back his attention to her. "T- The cake!" she cried out as she grabbed her head. The cake carrier had fallen on the ground and now the cake was upside-down with its frosting smudged on the sides of the container.

Tsukishima had been annoyed at Hinata many times, but during this instance, he was furious. Not only was it a strawberry shortcake, but it was homemade and Yachi must have worked hard to make it.

"You idiot! What are you doing?" Kageyama yelled out to Hinata. That was when Tsukishima saw three more heads peaking around the corner.

"So they had been watching us?" Tsukishima said with a groan.

"They're so cute, going on a date together," commented Tanaka.

"I can't believe Tsukishima is growing up," teared up Nishinoya.

"So why are all of you here?!" Tsukishima asked with his eyebrow twitching, trying keeping his cool.

"We just wanted to make sure that our beloved manager was being treated well," Tanaka said with a grin. Tobikomi appeared behind Tanaka and just growled at Tsukishima.

"I think you all just wanted a death wish instead," said Tsukishima with an ominous aura. Hinata, Kageyama, Tanaka and Nishinoya all flinched at his expression.

"Y- Yachi...," Hinata stuttered as he pleaded to her for mercy. "Please save us."

"Y- Yeah, Yachi's here so you can't do anything to us!" cried out Tanaka.

Tsukishima turned to look at Yachi and saw that she had placed her hands over her eyes. "I- I'm not looking Tsukishima," she shyly said. "So you can go ahead."

He couldn't help but feel special because she really did like him more than the rest of the team. When he knew that nothing would stop him now, Tsukishima turned back to them with a darkened face and an evil smile. The four of them quickly fled the area, fearing for their lives while dragging Tobikomi with them.

When they were nowhere in sight, Tsukishima sighed and told Yachi, "This isn't how I wanted our first date to go."

"It's fine," Yachi replied with a timid smile. "I'm a bit sad about the cake though. I really wanted you to enjoy it." She picked up the cake carrier, but Tsukishima took it off her hands. Yachi's eyes grew wide when he ate the cake anyway. "Wait, no! You don't have to eat it! I can make another one!"

"It's really good you know," he commented. "It's not like it's dirty since it was still in the container."

The two of them decided to go inside Coach Ukai's store for now to eat the rest of the cake. But just as they sat down, the two of them saw a camera flash and quickly turned to see where it came from.

"Crap, I forgot to turn it off," they heard someone mutter.

Tsukishima got up to find his brother around the corner. "Of course you're here too."