égoïste [Akaashi Keiji]

raison #12

"Oooh! What was that?! Would I be able to do that too when I'm in uni?!" Bokuto hooted loudly, letting out a miniature scream of awe when he saw Arata's spike.

"Yup! Your body will be a lot stronger and you'll probably grow taller, too." Arata laughed, then added, "Maybe."

"Hey!" The ace sweated, "I'm still growing!"

"Do you mean your brain or your brawn?" Shiori remarked.

Konoha snickered, slapping a hand over his mouth to cover his laugh.

"HEY! KONOHA! DON'T LAUGH!" Bokuto snapped.

"Bokuto-san, calm down." Akaashi took a step forward to the ace.

They were currently at the sports centre, playing on one of the courts. Yukie wasn't being manager for the day so she was helping out the side with the Maebara siblings. The other side was with the Fukurodani volleyball team members, Bokuto, Akaashi and Konoha.

"So the score's at 7-5 right now, our lead." Yukie pulled over the cloth on the scoreboard and came back onto the court. She wasn't actually playing on the court, but just threw the ball over as a serve, since it wouldn't be fair that Arata, a full grown man, was on their team. They needed a handicap (which Shiori was incredibly apologetic to Yukie for when she told her – thankfully, Yukie said it was fine).

The game continued, and in the end the Fukurodani side won.

"Eh, that was quick." Arata commented with a smile, wiping his brow. He had fun. He glanced at his sister after getting his bottle, "Hey, you okay there?"

Shiori was thinking, he could tell. But, he didn't really know what. He assumed it had something to do with volleyball, but it could be anything. Sometimes he'd think she was thinking about one thing when she was thinking about another. It was misleading. Last time when they were playing volleyball and he asked her what was wrong because she was spacing out, she said that she was worried that the kitty she saw the other day was unsafe because it was going to rain that day.

"Should we switch it up a bit?" She questioned, tilting her head towards her schoolmates.

"Hm? You don't want to play with me?" He feigned hurt.

"No, I want to try out something with Akaashi as the setter. Plus, Konoha's good at everything so he can set for you." Shiori was reminded of Konoha's various skills that were invaluable to the Fukurodani team.

"Oh? He can set?" Arata's brows rose as he looked over to him.

"Yeah, he can."

"So, if you want this, then that means you want to practice your spiking." Arata grinned. He shrugged, "Well, it's better to have an actual setter set to you than my crappy skills."

"Yeah, I want to practice spiking." She made a face at him when she went to hit him lightly on the head, "Your setting skills aren't bad! They're pretty good!" She gently kicked him on the butt (he was sitting down), "Stop trying to make it sound like you suck when you don't! It's offensive to someone who knows that you're definitely not an amateur!"

"Hey! Don't hit your brother!"

"I didn't even hit you that hard!"

The 3rd years and 2nd year stared at them bickering. They were on break between rounds, so it was fine, but they hoped that they didn't keep it up for a long while.

"Keiji!" Shiori made a beeline for the setter, who was wiping the sweat off his face with a towel. "Set for me please!"

Her straight forwardness made him blink once, then twice, before he said, "Okay."