Tsundere - Tsukishima Kei X Reader

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Tanaka-san's punk-like face turned up into a grin at Tsukishima's mention of the other two first years and said, "Well, it's an interesting story..."

He turned to Daichi, and the captain rolled his eyes and nodded, giving verification to tell the two what happened. 

"It started with the other two first years, apparently they were rivals in middle school. One of them, a short boy named Hinata, had only played one game in his middle school volleyball career because his club never had enough people, though he still aspired to be the best ace from Karasuno High School like his idol, the Tiny Giant. The other boy, a genius setter by the name of Kageyama, was his opponent. They swore to beat each other in high school but they both ended up going to Karasuno. 

"Kageyama said that he would toss to whoever he had to win, and Hinata said he'd return any one of the other boy's serves that gave him a hard time in middle school. Then, Kageyama had gave him some really nasty jump serves that Hinata was struggling to pick up.

"At last, Hinata had touched one of the serves, but it had bounced off his arms without control and hit the vice principal who had stopped by to check on the club, knocking off his toupee. The pair of boys were stubborn and Daichi-san kicked them out of the gym. The two then proposed a three-on-three game where the two would work together to beat the opponents chosen.

"Daichi decided that to initiate the first years, you two will oppose them with me on the delinquent first years' side, and Daichi will play with you."

Tanaka finished his story and Tsukishima's eyes widened at the mention of the setter Kageyama, as he had seen the performance of the elite player during the middle school finals, he went to Kitagawa Daiichi which just barely lost.

Yamaguchi started laughing at the story once it finished, which earned a collective stare from the team, but eventually most of the team chuckled as well, and a small smile was returned from Tsukishima at his friend's laugh. 

Y/N, who had finished helping the team set up in the meantime, listening to the story in parallel, joined in on Yamaguchi's hearty laugh, because it was the first time hearing the full story of why Hinata-kun and Kageyama-kun were moping outside of the gym on the first day.

Daichi's commanding voice then called out for practice to commence, and Yamaguchi and Tsukishima quickly joined after doing warm-up and stretches.

The sun seemed to drop sooner than it was meant to and the players left, Y/N heading over to Chikara to ask a small favor.

"Oi, Chikara?" Y/N asked. "I think Kageyama-kun and Hinata-kun are on the field practicing, I'll bring them a snack to eat so they know they can head home if they want. Do you want to go ahead? I'll meet you at home."

Chikara nodded and said, "Make sure you walk home with one of them at least, it's dark and it's not safe to go alone." 

Y/N agreed to the terms Chikara laid and grabbed her bag while heading out to the field. From behind her, Yamaguchi jogged up with her and Tsukishima walked to join them as well.

"We also want to meet the other first years! I want to see what the two who caused so much trouble on the first day look like." Yamaguchi beamed at Y/N and Tsukishima just shrugged indifferently. 

"We walk home together so I'm just tagging along." The taller male spoke.

Y/N gave both of them a bright smile and said it was alright to join. The three set out to the field, the darkness of the evening giving a peacefulness around them.

They soon heard the faint thumping of a volleyball being received and Y/N spotted the grumpy setter and energetic flame-headed boy going back and forth with Kageyama-kun slamming the ball down and Hinata-kun scrambling to keep the ball up and just barely managing to do so.

Y/N, Yamaguchi, and Tsukishima neared the two still going with the receives, not noticing the three that watched by them. Then, Kageyama hit a really hard spike down, and the ball flew up from Hinata's arms.... into Tsukishima's hand.

"Hinata-kun, Kageyama-kun!" Y/N waved. "I brought snacks for you to eat before you head home!" 

Both of the mentioned looked up and Hinata smiled really wide while Kageyama nodded in gratitude. Y/N handed them the protein bars she had picked up from the Sakanoshita Store and they devoured the bars immediately. After a collected "Thanks!" from the two, Hinata and Kageyama noticed the tall boys behind Y/N, Tsukishima still holding the volleyball.

"Are you the first years that caused trouble on the first day?" The blond boy spoke with a slightly icy tone.

Kageyama strode to the taller male and said, "Oh, you must be the other first years." Then asking about Tsukishima's height to which Yamaguchi replied almost 190cm. 

Tsukishima waved it off, saying, "What good does bragging about my height do?" A "Gomen Tsukki" followed his statement.

Y/N looked at Tsukishima with a confused disgust. How could he be such a jerk to his best friend....?

She decided to speak up.

"Oi, Tsukishima-kun." Her icy voice cut through the tension between Kageyama and Tsukishima's glares, Yamaguchi backing Tsukishima, and cute Hinata upset he wasn't getting any attention.

"This is Kageyama Tobio. He will be your opponent now, but your teammate later, and if you continue acting like such a salty jerk, then he'll definitely end up your setter.

"And this one." Y/N pointed to Hinata in the corner. "He's going to beat you so hard into the ground that your height can't save you then." She nodded to him and he looked at the ball held high over the blond telephone pole's head, and he leaped high, so high that it widened even Tsukishima's golden eyes.

Waving goodbye to Yamaguchi and turning away from the bipolar pole in irritation, Y/N walked to Kageyama and Hinata and asked,

"Now, could one of you walk me home, Chikara won't let me go alone."

A/N:

See. I told you. Tanaka gets mentioned some more and Tsukishima is starting to be exposed as the Tsundere he is. If you don't know what Tsundere is, hang tight!

Love,

Saishimi 💜