His Kitten || Kuroo Tetsurou

Chapter 9

"One more!" Hinata yelled while everyone was dying for exhaustion. 

Kurumi stared at him in disbelief and her coach must have thought the same thing as he was pointing at him with a look of disbelief as well. Karasuno's coach managed to stop Hinata and they all began to clean up the gym. Kurumi was helping out when she accidentally bumped into someone. The impact was quite hard that she fell onto her bottom. She quickly looked up to apologize. "I'm so-"

However, when she saw the face of the person she bumped into, she trembled in fear as she began to hiccup. She could feel tears threatening to fall down from her eyes. The guy with the beard began to panic as he crouched down to her level. "Wait! I'm not a scary guy!"

Whatever he was saying was not entering her ears as she was busy shivering in fear. She wanted to run away from the spot, but her legs were stuck to the ground. She couldn't move her feet at all. Before her tears could actually start falling, she heard Kuroo's panicked voice. "Kitten? What's going on?! Why are you crying?!"

She heard his rapid footsteps and soon he wrapped his arms around her waist, helping her stand. She quickly hid behind Kuroo and clenched onto his jacket tightly. She then peeked her head out slightly and saw the guy she bumped into looking dejected. Kurumi stared at him in confusion when a grey-haired guy from Karasuno came over quickly. "I'm sorry about him! It's just his face! I swear he is a gentle guy although he may be negative!"

The guy with the beard looked at his friend with a pout. "Suga?!"

"Don't worry about it. Our manager seemed to have gotten the wrong idea by his appearance," Kuroo said.

Kurumi slowly got out from his back and bowed to the guy she bumped into. "I'm sorry about bumping into you and misunderstanding you!"

"U-Uh sorry as well!" He bowed back at her as he apologized.

The both of them continued to bow to each other in a frantic manner that Suga and Kuroo had to stop them. 

"Kitten, I think that's enough," Kuroo said as he wrapped his arms around her waist, trying to prevent her from bowing again.

"Asahi, that's enough!" Suga said as he slapped his back.

• • •

After that occurrence, everyone went back to cleaning. Once they were done, they headed outside and everyone was talking with each other. Kurumi glanced at Kuroo and saw him shaking hands with Karasuno's captain.

"We won't lose again next time," their captain said.

"We won't lose next time either," Kuroo said.

Both of them were giving off a scary aura, making Suga and Yaku stare at them in shock. They glanced at their coaches and saw that they were practically doing the same thing, making them shocked even further.

Meanwhile, Kenma was talking with Hinata about something while Kuroo returned beside Kurumi. Kenma soon came over to them and they heard loud cryings, grabbing their attentions. They all looked at the source and saw Yamamoto and the bald guy crying heavily as they shook their hands. 

"What is that?" Kenma asked.

"You're not supposed to look at things like that," Kuroo said as he turned his head away. 

Soon the coach motioned them to get on the bus. Everyone waved at each other before going on their own way. As soon as they all sat down on their seat, almost everyone was knocked out as they began to snore. Kurumi smiled at the sight. 'They must be really tired.' 

She glanced at Kuroo who was seated beside her. He was yawning as he stretched his upper body. "Why don' you sleep as well, Kuroo-san?"

He nodded as he wrapped his arm around her, putting her back to their previous position a while ago on the way to Miyagi.

"K-Kuroo-san?!" She shuttered.

"This position was comfy..." Kuroo mumbled before being knocked out.

Kurumi bit her lips before relaxing inside his embrace, letting sleep consume her as well as she listened to his steady heartbeat.

• • •

When Kurumi opened her eyes, they were already in Tokyo, so she tried to wake Kuroo up by shaking him. "Kuroo-san, we're here."

He tightened his arms around her as he leaned his face to her neck. 

"Just a bit longer," he had a deeper voice than usual.

Kurumi fanned herself, trying to cool down her face. Once she thought it was calmed down, she attempted to wake him up again. "Kuroo-san! Wake up!"

Kuroo forced himself to sit up and yawned as he stretched his upper body. "That was a good nap. You were really warm and comfy."

"You were warm and comfy as well..." She mumbled.

"What was that?" He asked, not hearing her words clearly.

"N-Nothing!" She quickly shook her head before facing away from him.