Try Your Hardest | Ushijima Wakatoshi

Year 2: Part 2

"Ushijima-san?" Iriye got on her toes to tap the giant's shoulder.

He swiftly turned around to see Uta smiling and waving cheerfully. She was wearing a brown checkered skirt with a loose, white v-necked shirt and a light pink cardigan and white shoes to match. She had her hair down and looked quite nice.

"Oh, good afternoon. Tendou could not make it. He is very sick, he's been throwing up," Ushijima explained why his red headed friend wasn't there.

(Or at least, that was the story. Tendou managed to imitate fake vomit and only pretended to be sick, he told Ushijima to go without him).

"Ara ara, that's unfortunate. Should we really be going without him? He seemed excited to go.." she pouted.

"He said we should take a lot of pictures and show them to him and we would go some other time," Ushijima replied.

"Aaah, okay I suppose," she sat down on a bench as the two were waiting for their train to come. It was about 5Pm and the sunset wasn't until about 6:30PM so they had a good amount of time to wait. The sun had started to go down slowly, and the colors of the sunset had slowly began to explode in the sky.

Iriye looked at Ushijima who she realized was wearing casual clothing for the first time she had seen. It was simple, he just had dark khaki pants, a black sweater and dark brown shoes that looked like they were for hiking or something of the sort and was carrying a black backpack on him.

"I've never seen you dressed like this. I have only seen you in your uniform or in gym clothing," she chuckled. "You look nice."

"Thank you. You also look nice," he said with no emotion, but Iriye was slightly little flustered by the comment.

"So have you been to Matsushima?" she tried to make conversation as usual.

"I haven't. I've heard of it though, but never seen it myself," he replied, watching the trains in the station go back and forth, his head following a few as they accelerated. She knew he was easily distracted.

"Me neither. I've always wanted to see it though," she smiled in a way that suggested there was a reason for it.

"Why is that?" he decided to ask.

"Hmmm," she kicked her feet back and forth, she was too short for her feet to touch the ground, "maybe I'll tell you when we get there."

"Alright, I will wait then," was what he said as the train arrived.

Just as Ushijima liked, there were only a few passengers with plenty of space to sit and watch the sky slowly changing colors as the sun met the end of the day. It was usually hard to tell if Ushijima was having a good time, but for some reason, Iriye had an astounding talent of reading the mood even if it were through small hints, so she knew.

"It's a really nice day for a train ride, there aren't that many people here today," Uta glanced around as she took her seat. They sat close to each other, but with a space that could fit one person in between them.

"Yeah, the sky is starting to look nice," he agreed.

It was unusually quieter between the two. There was always chatting when Uta was around, but the two were mesmerized by how beautiful the day was, they had chosen the perfect day to come.