𝐌𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐒; 𝙺𝙽𝚈 𝚡 𝙷𝚀!!

08; the crow and the Castle

"For your introductory assignment in Literacy 101, I want you to write a letter to your future self. To be passed on our next meeting. This will not be graded, I simply want to see what kind of character you have." Their teacher, who was also Takeda, said, pushing his glasses up with a finger.

It was the last subject of the day, Tsukishima boredly stared at his desk, a blank paper on his desk as his hand spun a pen with ease. He didn't have anything he wanted to say to his future self. What was there to say? Such a boring assignment but at least it wasn't graded, he could easily just write a half-assed paper, it suited his half-assed personality anyway.

He could hear light scribbling from beside him, he momentarily glanced to look at Seikuu, a blank expression on her face as she wrote word after word without stopping. "Pouring your heart out? How cheesy of you." He remarked. But the black haired girl paid no attention to him, as if not hearing it. His brows furrowed, the arrogant girl never held back in sending back a snappy retort at him, it got him wondering what got her so immersed in.

"Neh Tsukki, what are you staring at?" His childhood best friend asked curiously, grabbing the megane's attention. The blond haired boy didn't answer, choosing to remain silent as he turned to the freckled boy. "Oh Karasu-san you have really nice stationary!" The boy noted with sparkles in his eyes. It seemed that Seikuu was rather interested in collecting stationary, just for an assignment she pulled out a deep blue letter paper dotted with specks of golden stars as she wrote using metallic gold ink.

"Urusai, Yamaguchi."

"A-ah sorry." The boy sheepishly apologized finally noticing how focused the girl was at her work.

A deep unsettling feeling started to bother the blond haired boy though, he tried thinking of what it was but even as the class ended and he prepared for the practice match he ended up frustrated at not being able to discern what it was.

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"Neh I thought you begged Karasu-san to attend the practice match?" Tanaka asked Takeda who sat at the front of the bus near the driver.

'You even had to beg a student???'

The players couldn't help but think, the teacher sheepishly blushed as he nodded "Mhmm! Karasu-san will be following us a bit later since she had already agreed to meet with the other clubs and organizations."

"Karasu-san is a really busy person huh.." Daichi said curiously eyeing the man, Takeda chuckled "Yeah! Karasuno is really lucky to have her, she had all the right qualifications to help grow all the sport teams in the school, she's even been handling internal affairs and scheduling for practice matches and transportation for each team!"

"She must be very great at her job then!"

"Yeah, I heard that a lot of schools have been asking her to transfer to them and-" "We can't!" Sugawara cut off as he stood up, gripping the top of the seats in front of him, Daichi who was behind him tried to pull him down to sit again "Oi! Don't just stand when the bus is still moving!"

"Man you must really really like her Suga-san!" Tanaka teased with a mischievous grin that caused the gray haired setter to flush a cute shade of pink. "Senpai maybe you should raise your standards." Tsukishima said as if offering advice. "I slightly agree, she seems off, and has a arrogant and holier-than-thou persona ya' know?" Tanaka thought with a hand to his chin 'Unless it's that time of the month, It's not really bad, there are people worse than her but I don't think she and Suga-san will mix well.' He inwardly winced.

Sugawara sat down, clenching his fists "You guys should stop talking about someone if you're not going to say it to your face." Daichi said loudly causing Tanaka and Tsukishima to falter "And you're one to talk Tsukishima, you are as pleasant as Karasu-san but at least she's able to back it up with her skills."