Accidental Confession - Haikyuu: Tsukishima x Yachi

Chapter 2

"Ugh... I want to play more volleyball," complained Hinata as he sat in front of Yachi's desk after classes. "Can I just not do school?"

"Why did you want to tutor us now?" Kageyama asked Yachi. "Finals aren't that soon."

Tsukishima answered for her with arms crossed. "You two are already behind. If you don't study now, the problem will only compound in your second and third years. Then you'll never be able to catch up and will be kicked off the team."

Kageyama and Hinata sat straight up and nodded. Then they promptly shoved their heads in their books.

"Thanks for helping me Tsukishima," said Yachi. "I guess Tsukishima could be nice to them if he wants to," she thought.

"Hold on, Yachi," said Tsukishima. "I'll only help on one condition."

"Or maybe not," Yachi retracted her thought.

"You have to say, 'Tsukishima is the best volleyball player on the team,' first," he told Hinata and Kageyama with a sadistic smirk. Of course the two immediately rejected his help. There was no way those words would come out of their mouths. Tsukishima just shrugged, "Do you want Yachi to shoulder the burden of tutoring the two of you by herself?"

They both struggled to respond. They were already indebted to Yachi and they knew she would still try to help them by herself. The tension between the pair and Tsukishima caused Yachi to be flustered. She didn't know the best way to defuse the situation. "It's okay you two. You don't have to force yourselves," she attempted to ease the tension.

Hinata said it first. "Tsukishima is the best volleyball player on our team," he quickly spit out. He immediately cringed thereafter. Tsukishima's face was about to show a smug grin when Hinata added, "but only in a million years from now."

Tsukishima firmly grabbed the top of Hinata's head as he wailed. Yachi burst out into laughter before quickly stopping herself. "Sorry," she shyly tried to apologize. "I guess the more I'm around you guys, the funnier this is," she giggled. After they finally settled down, Yachi wondered if she should bring Yamaguchi next time to help her manage these boys.

Tsukishima and Yachi split the material they needed to cover. Yachi helped Hinata with English and Tsukishima helped Kageyama with math. "How can you still not even do basic algebra?" commented Tsukishima. This was going to be a lot more challenging than he thought. With memory work being Kageyama's only redeeming academic skill, teaching him math seemed impossible. He would have asked to switch with Yachi but it might be too hard for her too. "Let's do math another day and switch to literature," said Tsukishima, giving up.

During their study break, the four of them watched clips of professional volleyball players around the world. Hinata was completely star-stuck by spikes of the best middle blocker in the world. He was ace material with his powerful hits. But this made them see that both Hinata and Tsukishima's spikes weren't very powerful.

"Tsukishima! Let's be like him!" exclaimed Hinata with an excited grin.

"Yeah, right," said Tsukishima. "We're nowhere near his level. He's the best for a reason."

They wrapped up their study session when Hinata's stomach grumbled. As they packed their bags, Tsukishima told Yachi, "To be honest, I was also surprised that you planned a study session today. Did you finish your social studies paper already?"

Yachi stared back and blinked her eyes a few times. "It's not due until next Friday, right?" replied Yachi.

"Actually, it's due this Friday. Well, I'm assuming that our classes have the same social studies teacher. She'd probably give the same assignments to both of our classes."