drifted :: inuokko

3, toge + new pepper partner!

so i lied ..we sticking with third person. also yutas mad awkward this chapter anddd we get some fushiguro n okkotsu being besties

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he was broken out of his trance and physically jumped, it was very dramatic.

"yes sir!"

he looked over at who yelled at him.  it was nanami, still over there by gojo.  his eyes wandered around the gym, everyone seemed to be in pairs already- oh there's.. megumi!

it took him maybe 5 long strides to get over to where the other raven head was. yuta noticed he looked a little upset but he had a feeling that's how he always looked.

"ah, meg-fushiguro.. do you want to..partner up?".  he cringed, he's not that close to him so he shouldn't have tried calling him by his first name.

the shorter looked up at him, uncrossing his arms. "alright, i'll get a ball." it seems like he wasn't really bothered with the 'mistake' and yuta doesn't quite understand why him saying that seemed so.. cool?

he watched megumi jog over to the ball carts and he followed close behind, watching him pick up the balls and squeezing it before putting it back down.  eventually he picked one up and gave it some firm slaps before spinning it in his hands.  "okay, this one's good. you know the basics right okkotsu-san?"

yuta laughed nervously, he nodded.  a little surprised by how formal he was.  "yes, and you don't.. have to be so.. yknow? you can just call me okkotsu.. even yuta is fine!"

megumi waved his hand dismissively "it'd be rude."

they both moved to a better spot where they weren't as close to the others.  they warmed up their arms, throwing to each other, throwing to the floor, just repeating that until they started to pepper.

it was really bad.

yuta miscalculated how rusty he actually was, it was embarrassing for him to watch megumi work twice as hard more than yuta to keep the ball in the air.  he was making a bunch of beginner mistakes like standing up with his platform. i mean- for gods sake, megumi was doing way better at passing AND setting than him while being a middle!

the only thing he really excelled at was hitting, looks like that just came naturally, after about 10 minutes the coaches called everyone together.  yuta mumbled some 'sorry's' to megumi and he just brushed it off.  he was too cool.

gojo explained what they were going to be focusing on today, mainly defense because 'that was the main reason why our teams kept losing in the past' he claims. something about how our offense and defense is very unbalanced.

"and i'm thinking .. instead of just putting you guys in lines, what about touch 10!  everyone's favoriteee~"

yuta heard other groan, some even complaining and asking to do something else, but gojo just had that stupid grin plastered onto his face

"but for this drill i want 10 perfect passes back to me, not that 'just get a touch on it' stuff" gojo made quotation marks with his hands while rolling his eyes, his cousin was very expressive.

and with that announcement they had maybe 2 minutes? he watched some adjust their kneepads and re-tie their hair. he looked at megumi who was trying to talk to itadori before he was stolen away by todo, and right after that his eyes shifted to somebody behind them. inumaki.

he was kneeling down, tying his shoes maybe?  while talking to maki.  something yuta noticed was that he was very pretty, even from afar. it seemed like every small motion from the other with a purpose- or was calculated perfectly, as silly as it sounds.

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they were scattered around the court, gojo standing in the setters position while inumaki was on, it made sense for him to be up first, after all he was their libero.

"make sure everyone shags alright!"

gojo warned before grabbing a ball from the cart, he threw it to the far corner of the other side inumaki was on and almost immediately the other moved. yuta noticed how he took a bunch of quick tiny steps before dashing to that side, he managed to get there before the ball and he sent it back over to gojo with that flawless high arc he saw before.

next ball wasn't as easy since it was short. it took maybe 5 minutes? maybe even less for inumaki to send 10 perfect balls and yuta was shocked, he was amazing!

"i bet anyone who sees toge for the first time would look just like you!" he heard someone say before laughing, it was panda. he quickly fixed his face before smiling nervously, he must have looked really stupid.

"i mean he's ranked 4th for the best libero in the prefecture."

"fourth? are you kidding..? th-thats amazing!" yuta said, he bent down to get some loose balls, panda doing the same. "yeah, it's a wonder we have someone like him on this team. but yknow him being fourth just makes me wonder what the number 1 is like."

"probably crazy good."

panda hummed, jogging over to the cart to place the balls in. gosh there was a lot of jogging, even though it wasn't much yuta was struggling to keep up. was he this out of shape?

as practice went on, nobody was able to really to best inumakis performance, the one he enjoyed the most- well it was his second favorite was megumi. he was incredibly good despite the reputation that middles have for not being the best in passing- he was sure he could play back row just fine.

of course he wasn't nearly as good as diving like inuami. inumaki it's like everything he thinks about keeps shifting back to the libero.  he was confused.  he fixated his gaze on toge again, he was fanning his face whole he pulled his mask forward slightly, his face still covered.

it would be easier if you just took it off

yuta thought. out of the two times he was staring he hasn't gotten caught, but this third time he saw purple eyes focus onto his. he saw his eyes crinkle up in a way which made yuta certain he was smiling at him.

he smiled back before he jumped, hearing the loud yell.

"yuta! let's get you up here!"

oh god.

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i feel like this chapter in general is a little off, i dunno if u can tell but i'm tryna make evb really expressive? in a way but i absolutely suck at describing things so i hope yall get what im tryna do ..

sorry for any grammar mistakes! i wrote this at 3 am