égoïste [Akaashi Keiji]

raison #35

"When do I go back to Tokyo?" Shiori repeated their question. She thought for a moment, having to backtrack to when she was. "Probably before school starts."

"Fair enough. Don't you have volleyball under 18s?" Iwaizumi questioned, remembering the last time she contacted him.

"Yeah, I'll be training with them for a little bit." She thought for a moment, "I still have to do the careers sheet. Have you guys done them yet?"

Oikawa thought for a moment, expression blank. Then, he raised a brow, "Pretty sure I just put down: volleyballer."

Iwa-chan took a little longer to answer, "Maybe a trainer."

"I think you'll make a good one." Shiori grinned. She looked to Oikawa, purposely not having an expression until he got uncomfortable. "Pretty sure Iwa-chan's in it to make sure you don't keep hurting yourself."

"Enough about us, what about you?" Iwaizumi changed the topic almost immediately, seeing Oikawa's slight narrow of the brow.

Shiori, taking notice, kicked the side of Oikawa's leg lightly as an apology. "I don't know. I put down a designer or something, but now I'm having second thoughts."

"What do you mean?"

"It hasn't been long since I've been thinking of it, only recently, but when I was at Shiratorizawa, I got super pissed off knowing that the head coach only favoured those who were taller. Like, ok, for an olympic level there's definitely those who are better when taller, but that doesn't mean you should cut out those who are much smaller but can do what someone taller than them can do." She clicked her tongue towards the end, feeling frustration bubble in her chest.

The boys glanced at each other almost knowingly, then grinned.

"What are you guys smiling about?"

"Nothing!" The captain sang.

She rolled her eyes, not following it further. When they want to tell her, they'll tell her.

"So anyway, I might want to be a coach or something, I don't know yet. I'm back at the drawing board." She crossed her arms, pressing her lips together.

"Well, it's not the end of the world if you can't get that." Oikawa mimicked her positioning and nodded once. He heard from his older sister that careers could change.

"We'll see what happens."

She sighed once, then continued to another topic of conversation, finding the old one stifling. "I do have something to ask, actually, and I wanted your opinions on it."

"Shoot."

"I have a couple of friends, but these couple of friends really like each other, probably romantically, but they're both really oblivious to the fact. They're also really good friends, so it's not uncommon that they're close to each other." Shiori thought up a question that was hanging around on her mind since before her trip, when she summarised that Akaashi had feelings for Bokuto and vice versa. She couldn't say anything to Yukie yet since she herself didn't really understand the situation fully, so she decided with her 2 childhood friends who could have an external opinion.

"Isn't it obvious? Set them up." Oikawa rolled his eyes at such an easy solution.

"Wait hold on I literally cannot - what if one of them rejects the other? They play sports and are on the team together."

"That makes it tougher..." Iwa-chan thought for a moment. He hadn't had any girlfriends so he couldn't really say much, however from things he's heard from others as well as from Oikawa (and to an extent, magazines he happened to pick up), he knows that relationships are complex and incredibly sensitive around these ages and the current time.