𝙨𝙝𝙚'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 ; TORU OIKAWA

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"Tar-tar-taglia lover of Sheznayan queen. There was a cat that really was gone." A quiet voice sang on the dimly lit streets.

It had been a hard day, and all m/n was looking forward to was to die on his bed. Unfortunately, his new teammates had other plans.

"Hey! M/n!" Hanamaki called out from the other side of the street. Just as the boy in question turned his head up to see Hanamaki, the entirety of Seijoh surrounded him.

"Meat bun?" Watari, the team's libero, eagerly held out a steaming hot meat bun. M/n was careful to take it out of his hands and into his mouth.

"Hm, they're different..." He mumbled, taking another bite, and another. The team laughed lightly and continued their walk down the dimly lit road.

"So, m/n," Iwaizumi spoke up, immediately catching the boy's attention. Oikawa and Hana continued talking idly, each one listening to the conversation Iwaizumi had started. "Where'd you come from, exactly?"

M/n paused for a moment, wondering how he should respond. It wasn't a complicated question, but he grew to learn that different people liked different answers.

"Surfers Paradise, it's on the coast of Australia."

"Ohh." Iwaizumi looked up in thought. "I've always wanted to visit Australia. Playing beach volleyball seems so fun there." As he looked back down from the glittering sky, he could see m/n's eyes in deep nostalgia. 

"Your eyes look very pretty in the moonlight, did ya know that?" Oikawa peeked his head over Iwaizumi's shoulder, almost immediately getting a deathly glare. 

"Thank you, Oikawa." 

"No sarcastic retort?" Maki soon joined the conversation, throwing an arm over his new teammate. "You gotta take any opportunity to insult Oikawa that you can," They smirked. 

"No! You do not!" Oikawa whined childishly, only eliciting more laughs from his teammates.

M/n let out a small hum before letting a sigh follow. "I have to head this way now, but I'll see you guys tomorrow."

Finally, I get to take this thing off.

"Actually, m/n-chan there's something I have to talk to you about. Mind if I come with?" Oikawa's heart-wrenching smile replaced his usually mischievous one.

"You're going to come with me even I say no, won't you?"

"Yup!"

From then on, they said their quick goodbyes to their teammates and headed on their way. Not without a quick warning from their vice-captain.

"Lay a finger on him and you die."

Suprisingly, Iwaizumi was not the one Oikawa was scared shitless of in this moment. Hanamaki was peering over the ace's shoulder, a deathly aura surrounding him.

"Don't. You. Dare." They whispered.

"Yup, okay, bye-bye!" The brunet exclaimed nervously and dragged his kouhai by the arm.

"T-Toru-"

"Toru, huh? Quite the gutsy kid, aren't ya?" And the smirk was back, along with his egotistical attitude.

"Sorry. We use first names in Australia even when you barely know a person." M/n muttered out his excuse, quite honestly embarrassed by what had just happened. Where he was from, that would've never been an issue.

"No worries, you can call me Toru whenever you want~'

"What did you need, Oikawa?"

He sighed, not before pouring slightly at being called by his last name, but answered nonetheless. "You know the InterHigh is coming up right? And our opponents just got announced."

M/n let out a small snort, much to Oikawa's suprise. This was serious stuff he was talking about and the Newbie had the audacity to laugh?

"Sorry, sorry. The word opponent always made me feel like I was in some high school coming-of-age movie where everyone overreacts-" as he was chuckling to himself, he could see Oikawa's features twist uncomfortably.

"This is serious!" Oikawa exclaimed, only making the younger male laugh more. "Ugh, anyway. They start on Friday and knowing that we'll make it past the first two, we'll be facing Karasuno in our third match."

"Hmm, ive heard of them."

Oikawa let the boy think to himself, as he didn't want to say anything that would make him like Kageyama better than him.

"Kageyama Tobio from Kiitigawa Daiichi, Nishinoys Yuu from Chidoriyama and Hinata Shoyo from Yukigoaka. Those three are a menace when put together." M/n continued thinking, the puzzle pieces connecting in his head. Oikawa could almost see the gears turning.

"Oi, dickhead!" A loud voice called from across the street. An old man, maybe in his late 40's, waved in a doorway. A child, barely old enough to be called a teenager stood with him with his arms crossed.

"What do you want, you old wombat?" M/n, the person the man was calling out to, responded nonchalantly.

"M/n... Is everything alright at home...?" Oikawa put a gentle hand onto the the boy, a small, yet genuine, smile making its way onto his face. M/n was amazed by the range of emotions his upperclassman could portray. His second reaction, however, was to burst out laughing in Oikawa's face.

"Y-Yes, Oikawa, everything is fine. That's how you talk to eachother in Australia-"

"Get in here, idiot!" The younger teenager waiting inside the house yelled out. If they kept this up they were sure to be evicted. "Dad made snags!"

"Oh shit, gotta go Oikawa." The male grinned light-heartedly and started running to his house for dinner.

"Wait!" Oikawa's tall build was quite useful to get people's attention. "I wanted to ask you if would be in our starting line-up in the InterHigh."

"Aren't you the captain?" M/n smiled, not in a mocking sense yet in a genuine one. "Plus, why wouldn't I want to? Its the whole reason I joined the club."

"M/n!!!" His father yelled once more.

"I'M COMING, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!"

"Bye, m/n-chann!"

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Bonus:
Later that night when Oikawa reached his home, and went onto urban dictionary to search some of the odd words he'd heard from the Australian household.

"What the hell is a snag..."

Oikawa was pleased to know that it did not actually mean having a one-night stand but instead meant a large sausage.