Winner [Haikyu!! x OC] (Completed)

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I set my lunch on the table next to Sawauchi. Yuda, of all people, invited me to eat with the third-years today. And given that picking a fight with Arisu is no longer a hazard, I accepted. Maybe my turning down the offer to be the boys basketball team manager last week made an impact on him. Or maybe he's testing me or something.

I still haven't taken the time to talk to him about our strained relationship, mostly because I don't know what to say. Like, 'Hey, Yuda, why do you hate me?' As if I wouldn't be a hypocrite for saying that. Though my relationship with Oikawa has undoubtedly improved. I had more control over that situation than I wanted to accept. It's probably time that I take the same responsibility with Yuda.

"Hey, Yuda-san, are you coming to my clinic today?"

"Hm?" His eyes go wide.

Shoot. His mouth is full of rice. I need to work on my timing.

"It's going to be a fun one," I say and wiggle my eyebrows, mostly to fill the space of time while he swallows.

"Uh, yeah, I suppose so..." Yuda states.

"Sweet!" I hold out my fist for him to bump and he reluctantly complies. I throw a tiny party in my head. This is good progress.

"Oh, Lil-chan!" Oikawa plops himself down across from me. "I forgot to tell you that my nephew doesn't have volleyball practice today, so I can come to your clinic!"

An overview of my plan for today's clinic speeds through my brain and my mouth goes dry. I'm typically nervous about how my clinics will go, but thinking Oikawa wouldn't be there is what cured my hesitancy about this one. It wasn't to be rude or exclusive, it's just that the thought of doing one of the activities I planned with Oikawa makes my stomach all nervous, and then my heart will start back at work at the hole it has been trying to chisel into my chest, and then my brain will get angry at everything else misbehaving, and basically I'm trying to keep my insides from freaking out as much as possible because I can't deal with that right now. But it looks like I'll have to figure out a way to deal with it anyway.

"Oh! Awesome!" I force myself to give the team captain a thumbs up. And then mentally facepalm. Could that response have been any more lame?

"What do you have planned for the clinic today?" Oikawa asks me.

"Oh, um..." I wish he hadn't asked me that.

"Will you need the gym, or is it something we can do at my house? Because I'm thinking the guys would appreciate a change of scenery."

My heart thumps against my will, apparently already eager to throw my body into complete turmoil. He's such a good captain. "We can do it at your house. I'll send the team a text."

"Perfect!" Somehow his glasses make his eyes look even more expressive.

My heart thumps again and I force myself to look away. Everything will be fine.

"Okaa-chan!" Oikawa calls when we walk into his house.

Thankfully, I have remained reasonably calm up to this point, and I'm repeating to myself that my nerves are going to keep behaving so well, or else.

"Tōru, thank goodness you're here," Oikawa's mom walks in, eyes fixed on a tablet in her hands. "I had a last minute cancellation and I need you to— oh! Lily-kun, you're here too!" She finally looks up to notice me in her living room.