The Newbie ~ Tsukishima Kei

Chapter 5 ~ Practice and Practice

Signature Sentence: "Blondie, wait up!"

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I got into class and saw Tsukishima already at his desk. I quickly walked over to my desk and placed my bag down. "Blondie." He looked at me. I propped my elbow up on my desk and leaned against my palm. "You weren't at practice yesterday."

He looked at me, a small hint of surprise in his face. "You play?"

"Mmhmm." I hummed. "I'm kind of a newbie because I played Basketball, Soccer, and Baseball on all my former years of middle school. I haven't played volleyball yet. Though Daichi senpai says I'm pretty above average."

After explaining, he said, "Mandatory practice is in a week."

I nodded my head. "By the way, who's Yamaguchi?" Tsukishima nodded his head over the boy with the green hair a seat in front of me. "He's my... friend."

I reached over to tap Yamaguchi's shoulder. He turned to face me. I stuck my hand out for a hand shake. "Koisumi Akiko." He shook my hand. "Yam--" I put my finger on his lips. "I heard. Anyway, you're in the volleyball team, ne?"

He nodded with a slight blush on his face. "You look adorable with that face." 

He blushed a deeper red. This guy is pretty easy to make blush.

"Anyway—"

"Class!" We turned our attention to the math teacher. "It's time to start the lesson."

As soon as the teacher dismissed class and the bell rang, Blondie and Yamaguchi walked out class.

I quickly packed up my things and ran after them. "Blondie, wait up!"

He turned to me as I put my hand on his shoulder. "What do you want?" He asked coldly. "Did you hear from Daichi?"

"Hear what?"

"That you're going to have a match against Hinata and Kageyama." He nodded. "Well, do you know who your other teammate is?"

"No." He replied. "Well, it's me." He looked at me in disbelief. "And you're going to need to train me."

"Fuck." He muttered.

"I thought I was going to get away with not practicing." That bastard. "Anyway, Yamaguchi, you train him." He told his friend. 

Before his friend could talk, I put my hand on his shoulder once again. "You're going to practice with us." He looked at me with a face that says he's ready to kill me.

"Come on, we're in the same team. At least teach me something!"

"What are you going to need to learn, then?" He asked. "First of all, who's going to do the tossing? Setter, I mean." We have to establish our roles, right?

"I can do it." He said. We reached the next class, art. I winked at the girls who stared at me then looked back at Blondie. "Can I do the spiking? I can receive well, too!"

"Well then, be the makeshift Libero and Winged Spiker." He said. I nodded. "What about Yamaguchi?"

"He can do everything else left."

I nodded, then walked to my seat. We have the basic players for the team. Winged spiker, blocker, setter, and libero.

Hmm, I'm the libero.

I guess I can be that. Though, none of the past sports I've played could help me with receiving with a dive.

I guess that's the thing I have to practice.