"Nara? Nara?" Yuki tries to call Nara's name from earlier still silent.

"Oh. Yeah. Yuki, how?" Nara finally woke up from her daydream.

Yuki smiled at Nara. He patted Nara's head slowly. "What are you thinking?"

"Nothing. Sorry. What did you say?"

Nara asked slowly. She's afraid if Yuki gets angry because she doesn't listen to what Yuki has to say. Yuki don't know why Nara's mind hasn't been focused since 2 days ago. When she came home with Masa.

"It's okay. I'm just asking what you want to eat?"

"Emm, I'm going to eat at home. After all it's already 2 p.m., aren't you training at 4 p.m?" Nara looks at her watch and reminds Yuki.

"I still have time, I can accompany you first." Yuki replied with a smile. He also helped tidy up Nara's drawing papers lying on the café table.

That's what Yuki is like. He always had time for Nara. Nara is his priority after volleyball. Do you know how busy athletes are for training? Very busy. They have a very busy schedule. It's different with Yuki. He always uses his time off to accompany Nara, if there is a little time in the middle of training to open his phone, he always contacts Nara first. Either Nara should feel guilty or grateful to have Yuki by her side.

"Yuki, I don't want your training to be interrupted just because of me. You don't have to spend your time off to see me."

"You must be tired. I'm sorry," Nara said.

Yuki smiles at what Nara said. He patted Nara's head slowly again. "I never get tired or mind if it's for you, Nara. So never feel guilty. I'm also happy to be with you. Sorry, I've been too busy lately." Yuki explained.

You don't have to apologize, Yuki. Don't make me feel more guilty about you.

*

After driving Nara home, Yuki went straight to the training place. It turned out that everything had gathered. Yuki approaches Masa and Yuji who have warmed up. Yuki put down his bag and got ready.

"Wow, my mother said right. The aura of people after going on a date is very different. Look, he kept smiling. Watch out, your teeth can come off because you smile too much." Yuji teases Yuki. Masa just smiles at them.

"Did you meet Nara today?" asked Masa.

"Yes. I accompanied her to a design check that she had to present tomorrow. But..." Yuki did not continue his words. It makes Masa curious.

"But why?"

"I don't know, these two days she's like a lot of thoughts. She was often dreamy, unfocused, not even responding when I spoke. I'm feel sorry to see her like that." Yuki tells Masa while wearing his shoes.

"Emm. Did she tell you why?" Masa is a little worried. He was afraid that his words 2 days ago made Nara confused.

"Nara is not the type of person to always tell other people about her problems. She prefers to keep it to herself."

"You're right, she's like that." Masahiro said softly.

"Huh?" Yuki looked towards Masa.

"Aaa. I mean when I met Nara, she did look like that. The type of person you said before." Masahiro panicked.

"Oh. But Masa, aren't you her schoolmate? What's Nara like?" Yuki suddenly asks Masahiro a random question. Masahiro is confused as to how to answer it. If he said in detail, Yuki would be suspicious.

"Emm, I'm not that close to her. So I don't know exactly what she looks like," Masa said.

"But you know she has allergies, I think you're close friends."

"I'm sure all her friends know, because she was allergic at school. All right, let's stop this conversation. Let's practice. The coach has arrived." Masa tries to divert Yuki's question. Otherwise, he would keep asking him about Nara.

As Masahiro moved his bag, something fell out of his bag. Yuji who saw him immediately picked it up. It turned out to be a keychain.

"Masa, this is yours falling out of the bag." Yuji gave the keychain to Masa.

A surprised Masahiro then picked up the keychain. He grabbed it and immediately put it back in the bag. Yuji narrowed his eyes.

"Hey, Mr. Masahiro. Is it from your girlfriend? You hid it like I was going to take it." Yuji said.

"No. It's from my friend."

"Aaa...friend? But I think I've seen that before. But where is it?" Yuji was still busy thinking about it. He was sure he had previously seen such a keychain.

"Maybe you're wrong. It's a special keychain. My friend bought and designed it when his brother went to Paris. So there's only one and it's mine." Masa patted Yuji's shoulder slowly and laughed as he explained it to Yuji.

"Yuki, I'm sure I've seen it. I'm not lying." He complained to Yuki. He hopes Yuki will defend him.

Yuki just laughed. "Forget it. Let's practice." Yuki ran to the middle of the field. Yuji was still thinking on the sidelines. He was thinking that Yuki was Masa's best friend. So, he must have known and hid it. In fact, Yuki doesn't know anything.

*

The training is over. After stretching their muscles back, Yuki said goodbye to go home first. After saying goodbye to his friends, he immediately left the training place.

"Masahiro, you want to come have dinner with us?" Taishi said.

"I have to go home." Masahiro tries to reject him.

"Come on. Everyone also went to dinner. I'll treat you." Yamauchi also begins to force Masa to join.

"It won't be long, after dinner you can go straight home." Fujii also forces Masa. Everyone knows that Masa often misses dinner, this is what makes them busy forcing Masa to come along. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had dinner.

"Alright." finally Masa's defense broke down. He lost against his friends.

After finishing packing some items, they finally walked together to go to the nearest restaurant from the training ground. Masahiro picks up his drinking bottle and drinks it while walking. But suddenly Yuji pats him on the shoulder and succeeds in making Masa choke.

"Masa, I remember!" Yuji's face was very happy.

"Yuji, can you not surprise me?" Masahiro said slowly.

"Masa, I know who has the exact same keychain as you." Hearing this, Masa just smiled. He didn't expect that Yuji was still discussing it. He didn't think much of what Yuji said. Because Yuji's answer must be wrong.

"Nara. Yuki's girlfriend."

Masahiro is surprised to hear Yuji's reply. He stopped his steps and looked at Yuji. How did he know?

"What?"

"Heem, I've seen Yuki's girlfriend use the exact same keychain as yours in her bag. When I accompanied Yuki to deliver the ticket. The one I told you before. Gosh.. It turns out..."

"What? What did it turn out?" Masa's face began to panic.

"It turns out... My memory is still good. My brain is still functioning." Yuji laughed proudly at himself. Then he walked over after his friends who had already walked far in front of him and left Masa who was still silent in his position.

"Nara using it? She's still using it?" Masahiro said in his heart.

Masahiro sits in the school library to complete some tasks he hasn't completed yet. Then suddenly Nara comes and gives strawberry milk to Masa.

"Thank you."

"You missed lunch today. Are you not hungry?" said Nara, who was sitting next to Masa.

"I'm still quite full. After all, this task is quite a lot because of the last match." Masahiro explained while drinking.

"What if after school, we go eat Soba noodles?" Nara said.

"All right." Masahiro replied with a smile.

"Emm, Masa. I have something for you." Nara took something out of her pocket.

"Taraaaaa......." Nara shows the keychain to Masa. Masahiro was still silent to see it.

"This is for you."

Masahiro accepts it. He still saw the keychain given by Nara. A very beautiful keychain with the initials of Masa's name in it.

'It's beautiful. Thank you, Nara."

"I asked my brother to buy this to his friend while he was on vacation in Paris."

"So, is this custom?"

"Heem. There's only one in the world. So, you have to take care of it. Don't lose it! Emm, I also have one." Nara shows him her keychain to Masa.

Masahiro smiles at Nara. He patted Nara's head slowly. "Thank you, I'll keep it well."

Since then, Masa has always carried the keychain everywhere. He felt a gift from Nara as his lucky talisman. By carrying this keychain, Masa feels that Nara is always with him.

*