Skid Knees | Y.M

twenty one ➶

Nekomata clapped his hands signaling the end of practice. As the team gathered around the two coaches Naoi patted the older coaches shoulder with a proud smile. "These past few weeks I've seen many improvements in everyone of you." His words made the team beam. "We decided to cut practice short today and treat the team to dinner as a thank you for working so hard." The boys all erupted in loud cheers and started to rough house out of excitement. Nekomata then nodded at the team's manager who was standing near him, she returned the bright smile and stepped forward. "I've already sent out a blast text with the directions to the restaurant, please be there on time if you want your meal to be paid for in full." She giggled seeing the boys practically drooling over the food they were going to eat.

"Alright, now back to business." Nekomata cleared his throat gaining all the attention. "Take the weekend to rest up and practice individually. Work on what you need to perfect because Monday we leave for the representative playoffs." It was deathly quiet as the head coach spoke, everyone's ears tuned in. "We'll be playing against Nohebi, Itachiyama, and Fukurodani. They'll be on there a games, so we need to top that. Understood?" He eyed everyone slowly before the gym echoed with a single word, "Understood!" With that they were excused to pack their things and head home to get changed. Lue stayed beside Nekomata and Naoi to go over the starting positions and what each player needed to work on still. "Oh I noticed Lev's still jumping a little too soon when they do a triple block." She spoke aloud while scribbling notes in her notebook. "Ah! Yamamoto's receives could also be a little lower so the ball is sent in the right direction." She added to her notes.

She opened her mouth to mention Shibayama's stance is still a little shaky but a hand on her page stopped her. She lifted her gaze to see Nekomata smiling at her softly. "Dear you've been working just as hard as the boys, worry about these things in the morning, you deserve this break just as much as they do." He said gingerly. Lue nodded sweetly and closed the notebook. She bowed goodbye to both coaches and gathered her things into her school bag. Scanning the gym until her eyes landed on the honey eyed boy near the exit who was chugging down water. She walked over to him and kissed his cheek gently. "I'll see you tonight," Lue's voice directed at Yaku only. He saw her trying to leave already and quickly pulled her into a hug, "Are you sure you don't want me to wait for you?" He said in a pouty tone. Lue shook her head and squeezed him back, "Mhm. I'll only be about thirty minutes late, you should enjoy every minute with the team!" She reassured him, but he couldn't help but think that he'd prefer to spend every minute with her.

"You're not coming kitten?" Kuroo slung his arm above Kenma's head who only responded by grunting. Lue removed her self from Yaku's grasp and moved outside the doors. "I have something to take care of first so I'll be late." She said brightly. Yamamoto then shoved past the three players closest to Lue and held her hands in his, "But you won't have your meal paid for in full Loo!" He sounded like a wounded puppy. Yaku fought the urge to smack his hands off Lue but settled for whacking him in the head and pulling him away. "That's alright! I'll be leaving first then," Lue said softly locking eyes with Yaku once more, the two sharing a longing look for the brief moment that filled their hearts. And in that split moment they locked eyes, the wind blew just right and sent flower petals to whisp past her. Yaku could only melt seeing how heavenly she looked, feeling like the luckiest person in the world that she was his.