Count Down || (A Daisuga soulmate AU)

《02》

(Sugawara's POV)

Currently, I am in my third year now. Vice-Captain of Karasuno High's male Volleyball club. Along side the boy who is my soulmate and also the Captain of the team. Over the years we had spent together in school, we'd grown closer.

I had ended up finding out that we both were in the same classroom during our first year. But I hadn't been paying attention the first day, I was too excited to even listen.

Even though we had grown closer and all, there was something that still hadn't been resolved. The day that I found out Daichi was my soulmate. I remember that he hadn't been paying attention to his timer at all. And I ended up being completely right. I had barely managed to notice my own timer though, so I was lucky.

It turns out, Daichi didn't even noticed until about three days later. Somehow, he had ignored it and when he finally saw it. It seemed to be too late to know who his soulmate was, at least on his end.

~ Flashback ~

"Hey Suga! You know how we have those timers on our wrists right? Apparently mine stopped and I didn't even notice. I have no clue when it stopped so I don't even know where to start looking for my soulmate. I remember it was still counting down the day before the start of school so it must have been in the past four days at some point? Wow, I can't believe I didn't notice something so important." Daichi went on about the his timer to me. He seemed slightly embarrassed, most likely because he had missed something that was given to him at birth and was supposed to be huge.

"Really? That would suck, hahaha..." I had laughed awkwardly, a part of me didn't want to say anything to him at all. What if he had a bad reaction? I mean he must have thought something of me considering we are "meant to be together", at least according to the timers. And I didn't say anything. I just continued to discuss the matter with him like I had no part in it, just as a friend.

~ End Of Flashback ~

Currently, I wish I had told Daichi. Over the years, I had tried to repress my feelings for him. Sure he was my soulmate and I was his, but he didn't know that. This only made things more difficult. It had seemed like Daichi had given up on trying to find out who his soulmate was. He tried for a while, back tracking to possible moments.

But I don't think he ever considered me. The boy who had stuck by him through his years in high school, and who was currently his best friend.

Even if I had wanted to say something now, I doubt he would believe me. Considering the fact that I hadn't said something in the first place and I actually helped him look for his soulmate, who was actually me.

I never used to care about the stupid timer because I thought it was kind of superstitious. People would always meet their soulmates and end up talking about how they were the happiest they've ever been. But now I get it.

Except mine didn't bring me very much happiness.

Currently, we were at practice. Just a normal, everyday practice. We had been practicing our receiving for a while now. Not my best point considering I was a setter, but I wasn't as bad as Hinata. Even I was helping him practice during lunch breaks so he could improve.

Whenever we had practice, I tried my hardest to focus on volleyball solely. I always had an urge to look at Daichi, just to be able to look at him. Even if he didn't know I was the reason his timer stopped, I still enjoyed being around him a lot.

I had come to know that he was an amazing guy that was mature but still a dork at the same time. He had a good head on his shoulders. He was manly. And the list went on and on. Who wouldn't love to date a guy like him?

I'm glad that I had ended up in the same class as him. We got to study with each other, talk with one another all the time in and out of class, and we even started to walk home together. But not alone all of the time, sometimes our conversations would include Asahi in the classroom when he'd come eat with us. Or when we would walk home, we'd all walk home together after club had concluded for the day. Which meant we'd walk with our underclassmen.

Not that I'm complaining because I actually enjoyed all of my teammates.

In general, my life was actually pretty fun at school. But there was one other thing that had happened. A girl named Michimiya Yui, which was a classmate from Daichi's Middle school, had confessed to him. It turns out, her timer had stopped when she had met him. But Daichi's didn't.

I didn't even know that was possible. This had led Daichi to believe that his timer was merely broken. Because maybe she had been his soulmate all along. Yui hadn't said anything at first because she didn't know what to do with that fact that Daichi's timer hadn't stopped. But now, since Daichi didn't know who his soulmate was, this was her chance to confess.

It was actually pretty smart. To bad I was the one that would be falling out of the loop. Now I didn't exactly hate Yui because she was friends with Daichi. But she was trying to take my soulmate from me. Then again, he was her soulmate also. The only difference was that Daichi's soulmate was me. Not that he knew that though. And maybe he never would.

I knew what was happening between the two because I would always see it, due to being in the same class with Daichi. But also because he'd report everything to me. I'd try acting supportingly towards him, even though I was going against myself.

Ah, so here's a good situation where that old saying would come into place.

"All is fair in love and war."

(A/N and so the drama starts.)