A Rose By Any Other Name

A Rose By Any Other Name || Chapter 2 ||

-3rd Person POV-

"Your out of the house"

Yamaguchi watched as he saw his father throw his mother's things out and demanded for the ring back.

"You signed the papers while drunk. You don't belong in this household if your going to be drunk half of the time." The male hissed as he snatched the ring out of the sobbing women's hand.

"P-Please! Arlen, give me one more chance! I can do an intervention! Please just don't kick me out!" She begged as she grabbed onto his arm. "I've given you enough chances. I'm not going to let you abuse my damn son. Don't even try to take him away from me." He said as he shoved her away harshly.

"I-I'm taking this to court! And I will get custody of him bastard!" She yelled out as she grabbed her things and stomped away angrily.

"Dad?... wasn't that harsh?" Yamaguchi asked as he went to stand beside him. "No. The way she treated us, was way worse than that." He said as he grabbed his bag to leave to work. He turned to face Yamaguchi and gave him a small kiss on his forehead, "Don't get into trouble, I'll be back by 10 PM" He said and then left to go off to work. Yamaguchi was shocked but then continued on and grabbed a protein bar and his bag and left the house.

On his way there he saw Tsukishima ahead of him. He automatically noticed that he was in a bad mood and ran up ahead to try and cheer him up.

"Tsukki!" Yamaguchi said as he caught up to him. Tsukishima rolled his eyes, "What Tadashi?" He hissed out. Yamaguchi frowned but replaced it with a smile, "How are you? "

No response.

"Tsukki?"

Nothing.

"Are you ready for class?"

Na-da.

"Tsuk-"

"My god, just shut up!" Tsukishima yelled out as he sped up his pace. "Oh...ok..." he said as he felt a bit hurt but didn't want that to affect his mood.

'Maybe he's fed up with me...I should give him some space! Maybe I can make more friends other than just him!' He thought with a smile and continued to walk.

Once he reached the school, he went to class, not really wanting to face Tsukishima still even though he'll face him soon enough.

He let out a small sigh as he sat down in his seat and put down his bag. He took out his phone and saw a text from Kenma. 'Oh yea, I forgot I got his number from our last match against Nekoma'

He opened the text.

KenKen-

'Hey, How are you?'

Tadashi-

'I'm alright, you?'

Kenma felt his phone vibrate and looked at the notification and opened it.

"Wow, Kenma actually texting someone?" He heard someone mutter. He stuck up the middle finger and heard an offended gasp but ignored it and texted back.

KenKen-

'I'm good. But I am tired.'

Tadashi-

'Get more sleep >:('

Kenma chuckled at the used emoticon.

"Ooo, Kenma, who ya texting?"

He quickly put his phone down. "Shut up Kuroo. It's just Yamaguchi. Go back to practice. I'll be right there." Kenma responded. Kuroo laughed and went back to practicing. Kenma picked his phone back up and quickly typed.

KenKen-

'I can't when my electronics are just so tempting. But I've got to go, Kuroo is bothering me, bye.'

Tadashi-

'I will tell Kuroo to take away your phone, computer and switch. And goodbyee:))'

Kenma smiled at the message and turned off his phone. He went back to the court and got in position to start setting.

-Back at Karasuno-

"Where is Tadashi?" Hinata asked as he looked around.

"Tsukishima. Did you do something? Or see him? Yamaguchi is always with you." Asahi asked as he stepped forward. "Um..." Tsukishima felt awkward as he saw everyone stare at him intensely.

"Tell us. He hasn't shown up for two practices now." Suga said as he crossed his arms.

"Fine. I may have yelled at him to shut up but I didn't think it would upset that much." Tsukishima said. "I- Are you stupid? Of course that would upset him. You always tell him to be quiet or shut up but you never yelled at him. So that may have shocked  him and get him upset." Suga said as he hit him on the back of his head.

"Ow..." Tsukishima mumbled as he rubbed the back of his head. "Whatever, But tell Yamaguchi to show up. We have to secure the positions for the next game. Which is tomorrow." Daichi said as he let out a heavy sigh.

"Alright everyone. Back to practicing." He said as he shooed everyone away.

"Hey Daichi" Suga said as he walked to Daichi. Daichi hummed to acknowledge that he has his attention. "Do you believe the rumors? That Yamaguchi is like a Rose?" He asked.

"Yes actually. I do. Although Roses may be fragile and beautiful. They have thorns and it can hurt you if your not careful." Daichi said. Suga smiled and nodded, "Your right. He's nice and all but, when someone pushes him too far, he will snap back." He said. Daichi smiled, "Alright, let's get to practice before we head to class" Daichi said as he went back to everyone, Sugawara following him.

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I'm so sorry for the long wait but here is chapter 2!

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