Accidental Confession - Haikyuu: Tsukishima x Yachi

Chapter 8

Akiteru drove Tsukishima to the school with his luggage along with some groceries for their Golden Week training camp. His younger brother had told him that Yachi had forgotten a few ingredients and that he offered to pick some up for her since Akiteru could drive him to school.

Yachi waited at the school for their bus along with some of the other members of the club. After they arrived, Yachi came up to Tsukishima and started chatting with him.

"I guess Yachi really was Kei's friend," Akiteru thought to himself. He had only guessed that they might be during the Shiratorizawa game, but he was still surprised that his younger brother did have friends other than Yamaguchi.

Akiteru then saw something strange; Tsukishima smiled after teasing Yachi about something. It wasn't a smirk, snicker or snarky grin, but a smile - a real smile. He pulled Tsukishima aside and told him, "Oy, you know you're smiling right now, right?"

"So?" he replied as if smiling was normal for him.

"..." That wasn't the response he had expected. "Never mind," Akiteru said as he sweat-dropped. As he watched Tsukishima continue to chat with Yachi, he smiled and thought to himself, "Yachi is pretty amazing."

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The team got onto their bus with their belongings and made themselves comfortable. Hinata and Kageyama were excited to be able to play volleyball and forget about school. The first years were also eager to go because they had never gone to a sports camp before.

"I can't believe I get to go on a trip with Yachi-senpai," Tobikomi said with hearts in his eyes.

"You're pretty lucky," said Nishinoya. "We were so sad when we found out that Kiyoko-senpai wasn't sleeping over with us last year."

But the one girl on the bus didn't notice anything around her because she was not only stressed, but also a little nervous too.

"I hope I remembered everything. There was so much to keep track of," said Yachi. She reviewed the lists in her notebook to see if there was anything left to do. "Uwaaa~~ I'm totally going to mess up!" panicked Yachi.

"Wow," Hinata said while looking over her shoulder from the seat behind her. He took a peak at Yachi's notes. "You planned all the meals for our training camp?"

"Yeah," replied Yachi. "I have no idea how Kiyoko-senpai did this last year. She planned the meals, bought the ingredients, cooked the food, and cleaned up after each meal. And that was for about four days with three meals each! She had Takeda-sensei's help but it's still a lot." Hinata nodded in agreement as his respect for Kiyoko increased even more. There was a lot that a manager did to support a volleyball team.

"You'll be fine," reassured Tsukishima. "If anything goes wrong, you can get these guys to help," he said while pointing at Hinata and Kageyama.

"They're probably not the best candidate though," Yamaguchi stated with a laugh. "Their help wasn't so great last year. I'm sure Tsukishima wouldn't mind helping you out instead," Yamaguchi said, more to tease Tsukishima than to reassure Yachi. Tsukishima responded by glaring at him, which made Yamaguchi flinch and second guess how often he should tease him.

"Thanks guys," Yachi smiled shyly. "I want to try to do as much as I can though and to do my job well. Then you can concentrate on improving your volleyball skills."

When they got there and settled in, the coach took them to the gym for their first practice. After doing some drills and a practice game, Coach Ukai, Takeda-sensei and Yachi watched them as the team wrap up their first practice with serving.