Try Your Hardest | Ushijima Wakatoshi

Year 2: Part 1

The boy with bright red, spiky hair walked through the halls of Shiratorizawa with a small skip to his step, singing a strange song that he made up the words to.

He had the intention of spending lunch with his teammate (and friend, or at least he considered) Wakatoshi, but once he arrived to his classroom, he stopped at the entrance to analyze the sight before him.

Bright and beautiful as ever, Iriye Uta was sitting across Ushijima at his desk, chatting away and smiling as she usually did. From the angle he was at he could also see the jealous and angry faces of a few girls which made him laugh.

"Hey what are you just standing there for?" Semi suddenly appeared from behind, using his leg to kick the back of his knees.

"Shh! Semisemi, I'm doing important research!" Tendou stood up straight again and peeked through the door. Semi decided to see what he was so excited about and was also surprised to see the two sitting pleasantly in each other's company.

Semi looked to Tendou with his mouth agape, Tendou nodding as if to say 'right? Who would have thought?'

And then there was a third, Eri Hamura who was in Wakatoshi's class was about to walk in, calling out "Ut-AH!" before getting yanked away from the door.

She noticed the two volleyball blokes standing there before going in, but chose to ignore them, but now she was being held tightly by her arm. Eri was glaring at Semi who let her go and explained, "look at them!"

"What about them?" she narrowed her eyes at the two questioningly.

"I mean, just look! They look happy together!" Tendou pointed.

"Uta always looks happy, Ushiwaka always looks disappointed in life," Eri stated frankly.

"W-well you're not wrong..." Semi sweat dropped, "but I think know Ushijima enough at this point to say that they have something going on, or could become something."

"Alright, operation UtaWaka is a go! I have to tell everyone else, let's start a group chat!" Tendou got out his phone, but was stopped by Hamura.

"Don't meddle with people's relationships! If they're meant to happen just leave them be," she shook her head.

"Oh Eri-kun you're noooo fun! There's nothing wrong with giving these two a little push, she's your friend after all don't ya want her to be happy?" Tendou raised his eyebrows.

Right when she was about to open her mouth to protest they heard a hearty laughter coming from the classroom which had come from Iriye. They had no idea what Ushijima of all people would have said to make her laugh so hard, but they all choked on air when they feasted their eyes on the small, rare smile of Wakatoshi.

"Are you gonna say no to that?!" Tendou pointed to them.

"I still don't think it's right if we try to interfere. They might just-" Eri's disagreement was interrupted.

"Wait!" Semi pointed into the classroom and the three leaned closer to the door to hear what was going on.

"Iriye-chan~" one of the jealous girls Tendou noted earlier waltzed into their conversation all cute like. "I know you're suuuper smart do you think you can help them with something really quick?" she asked Uta as if they had been friends forever or something.

"U-umm sure, I can try my best! I'm sorry Ushijima-san, we'll talk later!" she stood up from the chair and pushed it back into the original desk to walk towards the other girls. The girl who originally asked stayed at Ushijima's desk and began to talk to him.