The Newbie ~ Tsukishima Kei

Chapter 18 ~ Confession

Signature Sentence: "Will you be mine?"

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"Koisumi Kun."

"Hm?" I turned to Sugawara with a smile. "Here." He handed me a paper and as I was reading it, he said, "They're hand signals."

"I know I'm not as efficient as Kageyama, but whenever we switch, these are the signals I'll use." I nodded slowly. "We have to use them during practice or they'll be useless during tournaments."

"I want to practice them right now!" I said, with sparkles in my eyes.

"But don't you need to memorize them first? It's no rush." Sugawara looked worried.

"No prob." I looked up from the paper. I did the hand signals and listed what they meant without looking at the paper.

"I can memorize short things pretty easily."

Sugawara nodded, surprised.

We made our way to the net. He did the hand signal for back Attack. "Two other spikers will be decoys over here at the front and you will be at the back. Like in Nekoma's match." So we're basically copycatting the cats.

I stood at the back, waiting to jump. "Spikers would jump, blockers would jump. And, toss."

I jumped up as the ball made its way to me, I jumped too early though. I spiked with the tips of my fingers, the ball barely making it above the net.

"Sorry. My bad." Sugawara said.

I shook my head. "No, Suga. My fault, I jumped to early."

"I'm not used to back attacks. But I'm sure that after practice I'm going to be able to be good at it." I continued.

I didn't know Sugawara blushed as I gave him a close-eyed smile.

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"Tsukki!" I ran over to Tsukishima with a smile. He blushed and looked away. What was that?

"Can you show me how to block better?"

"Why? You know how to block." Tsundere much?

I was a Libero in the other matches so I didn't get to block, and against Nekoma, I was too slow. "Yeah, but I want to become a regular."

I'm pretty sure there are sparkles in my eyes right now.. like a typical anime.

"In turn, I can teach you how to receive better 'cuz Nishinoya's teaching Hinata already."

"No. Good luck on the training. Bye." Tsukishima walked over to the benches and started listening to music on his headphones.

Can I practice blocking alone? I guess I could ask Kageyama and the others that are spiking if I can practice blocking while they spike. OR I can just bug Tsukishima.

Hmm... Is it really that difficult of a choice?

Of course! Reader chan knows that I would choose to bug Tsukki by now. "Tsukki!" I whined.

Tsukishima tapped on his headphones. "Can't hear you~"

"You don't want me to punish you, now do you?" An immense blush struck Tsukki's face.

"Ah~ So you were listening." I giggled. "Little liar~"

"You know, Kei.. it's bad to lie" The blush seemed to grow bigger when I called him by his first name.

"Tsukki!" I heard Yamaguchi call. "Saved by your friend." I winkedbefore heading towards Kageyama and the other spikers. I left a flustered Tsukishima behind.