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Tsukishima Kei (4)

;; requested by @Natastically. reader is chubby and round-faced here. ugh i know. my face is also round haAHAHAHA.

She's not perfect – in fact, she's quite the opposite of the perfect girl. She's chubby; round-faced and she has rolls of fat on her stomach. Her school jacket wouldn't fit so she had to leave it unbutton. The school couldn't provide a larger jacket for her so she had to endure the tight jacket around her every day.

When you're chubby, you stand out most in the crowd. That's what (f/n) hated: being the centre of attention. And when she gets attention, she gets picked on so easily. Especially when boys made fun of her fat legs. Every day she would pass by a group of them and hear them insulting her body figure. She'd look down at the floor and pursed her lips to block out their name-callings.

The only friend she made was with Yamaguchi. She, at first, wanted to approach Yamaguchi's friend Tsukishima but unfortunately he gave off a bad aura one day and she was afraid to speak with him. The two never spoke but he was quite interested in her. He finds her attractive in her own way somehow.

When she joined Yamaguchi and Tsukishima to eat lunch in the classroom, a group of boys who bullied her happened to walk in and finds her. "Guys, look. Her chair is about to break. God, she's too fat." When one of them spotted Tsukishima, they asked him, "Tsukishima, you're friends with her?"

"No." He replied bluntly but his eyes seemed to be the opposite of his answer.

Yamaguchi was mad so he stood up to them for (f/n). "Who are you calling fat? Have you looked at yourself lately?" Since Yamaguchi was reaching Tsukishima's height, he basically towered over the boys and they got scared by it. Without adding anything, they walk away. Yamaguchi sighed and sat down, noticing (f/n) was too quiet. When he was about to ask what's wrong, she stood up and left the classroom. Yamaguchi glanced back and spotted her lunch box; she hasn't touched her food yet.

Day by day, (f/n) was stressed in between handling the bullies and her studies. Just after Yamaguchi stood up to them, the bullying has gotten worse. (f/n)'d find her school being stepped on, her hair being pulled as she walks by and they even put glue on her chair resulting to her skirt to feel sticky. It even smelled glue. It took her 20 minutes to get rid of the stickiness before she gets called by her kind classmates there was P.E after that. She changed her t-shirt easily and noticed how her different her stomach was feeling. Her fingers touched it and she can feel her ribcage! When she looked at the mirror, her face was still round as before but has she grown slimmer? She never recalls doing exercise.

She went to the field and P.E began. (f/n) was quite athletic so she warms up really easily but when they had to run 2 laps, she starts to grow weaker. Her vision was fading out but she shakes her head, telling herself to be strong and finished the laps.

"Oh, look. Fatty (f/n) is running with her fat legs!" One of the bullies ran without effort beside (f/n). "I bet after this she'll get hungry and eats, maybe, 10 hamburgers after school." The group laughed, making (f/n) losing her cool but because she's still running, she can't talk. After she finished 2 laps, she dropped to the ground to catch her breath.

"Good job, (f/n)! You finished 2 laps!" Her friends pats her lightly and helped her up before handing her drinks. "Is it me or do you lose some weight these past few weeks?" They asked.

"Don't tell me those boys' words get to you, (f/n). You shouldn't listen to them. You're cute when you're chubby!"

"I don't think she exercised until now, guys. What if it's stress and-" (f/n)'s vision went out and her body dropped to the ground as her friends worriedly calls for the teacher.

The bullies from before already walked towards their classroom, chatting about (f/n) badly and bad-mouthing her when the 'leader' bumped into a hard chest. Looking up, they faced, "T-Tsukishima!"

But he wasn't the only person there; the rest of the volleyball team stood behind him, probably finishing their practice in the gym. They all had disapproved looks, though, as if they knew these guys did something to upset (f/n).

"Yo." Kageyama stood beside Tsukishima, a usual hard look on his face appeared. "You're blocking our way."

"S-Sorry.." They move aside and thought nothing was going to happen until..

"Yamaguchi!" One of (f/n)'s friends ran to the boys. "(f/n) passed out after running on the tracks just now!"

"Ehhh?!" Yamaguchi's jaw dropped. "W-Where is she now?!"

"At the infirmary. Nurse said she suffered stress and anxiety so she lost a lot of weight," They then turned to the bullies. "Because of you! You did this to her!" They pointed at them.

"We were just joking!"

"Making fun of someone's weight is not a joke, you dimwits!" The girls began to scold the bullies while the others stood back and watch, thinking that girls are scary. Tsukishima and Yamaguchi left a while ago to visit (f/n). They stood outside the infirmary.

"Go ahead, Tsukki." He encouraged the taller male. Tsukishima hesitated a moment.

"What if she doesn't want to see me?" He asked, concerned.

Yamaguchi sweatdropped for a while and smiled, "Do you know how long she said she wanted to talk to you but couldn't because you look scary?"

Tsukishima blushed. After a while, he pushed the slide door open and was greeted by (f/n) who was already awake, looking at her surrounding as he walked in.

"Hey.."

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im stopping there bc i didn't want to spoil the whole story. i cant make it cute bc... its tsukishima we're talking about LOL hope you like this.