Saline Smile [A Haikyuu!! Fanfiction]

Sly Cats

Shou realized that, in a sense, what she was doing was sort of kind of being a stalker, but hey, when you were as bored as she was, it was hard to pass up someone as interesting as Kozume Kenma.

He was weird, unsociable, and sort of like her little sister, but shorter. Not that that really matter, since he was still taller than her, but hey.

Staying true to her stalkerish antics, Shou dedicated the forty-five minutes of unused after school time to following around Kozume. Which was mostly sitting outside the gymnasium window and peering in every once and a while to stare at the volleyballs flying around and forget that she was there to stalk Kozume.

You couldn't really blame her. She was an island girl; beach volleyball had literally been her entire life before her mother had moved their family to the concrete jungle that was Tokyo. Therefore, it was a bit (okay, more than a bit) nostalgic to see a volleyball flying around, cheerfully smacking poor, unsuspecting kids in the face without any remorse.

Shou held in a laugh as a rather clumsy platinum blonde giant bumped a rather nasty looking spike with his forehead.

The auburn haired girl hummed on her tippy-toes, smiling to herself at the unfamiliar sounds that where bound to come along with trading sand in with polished gymnasium floors.

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She is soon well aware of the cunning person that was Kuroo Tetsurou.

She realizes as soon as he shows up at her classroom door that the laid-back smile on his face was distinctly different than the one he had on a few days ago, and Shou knows trouble when she sees it.

That grin on his face has nothing but trouble written all over it.

She has this sinking feeling that she always gets when she guesses wrong on a test or such, and Shou's positive that she guessed wrong when she assumed that Kuroo Tetsurou was a polite, pleasant upperclassmen.

Shou feels sort of cheated-and that was the least of her worries, for goodness' sake. Especially when he was wearing the most shit-eating grin she'd ever seen.

She feels sort of uncomfortable, seeing how his smile sort of made her think a was a harbinger of death.

"Tachibana-san~," He drawls lazily. Oh, Shou can feel the blackmail. "Can I borrow you for a second?"

Shou knows she should probably high-tail it to Sapporo, but with her being sort of stupid and all, she so brilliantly decided to scoot out of her chair and approach her upperclassman.

She observes him carefully as the two of them step out into the hall, and the auburnette could've swore that as soon as the two of them stepped out into the hallway, the classroom behind the closed sliding door bursted into furious whispers.

After a few sighs, and pointed eyebrow raises, Shou lifts her hands up in defeat. "Alright, what do you want, Kuroo-san?"

"Oh, nothing," Her upperclassman smiles sardonically at her. "Just wondering if you'd accompany me to the canteen."

The auburnette immediately feels suspision creak into her stomach as she carefully eyes the bed-headed teenager with caution.

"...Why?"

At this, Kuroo throws his left hand to his forehead, tilting his head to the side in mock despair as he reached towards the sky with his right hand.

"The canteen is not somewhere one can just simply enter alone! It's a mindfield!"

Shou gives him a dry stare as she tucked a bit of loose hair behind her ear and out of her face.