Fly (Keishin Ukai) - COMPLETED

11 - New perspective

It had been two weeks since the match against Aoba Johsai, and Yuki was still at her grandfather's house. He had told her family she was helping him redecorate, so they had not bothered her. It was not a full lie, Yuki was helping him though she had asked him to do it. She was filled with embarrassment and guilt, and the last person she wanted to see was her little brother, she could not face that she was the reason his big smile had faltered. She had not been to training or had any contact with Karasuno since that day, though Ukai had tried multiple times to contact her.

Ukai was the one thing that kept her falling into a pit of depression. His small messages and attempts to contact her gave her a little bit of hope, though after a moment it would all come crashing down again when she remembered how she let him down. The only reason he would want to contact her was to tell her not to go back to training anyway. Why would he want her there? She was useless.

Yuki spent most of her time in the spare bedroom, sat on the bed with her back against the wall staring at nothing as memories resurfaced. She often wished she never decided to be the assistant coach, maybe being stuck inside was better than feeling the sadness she was feeling now. She was trying to bring back the person she used to be even though it was impossible.

Knock Knock

Her grandad tried his best to keep Yuki occupied so she would not fall into bad habits. It hurt him seeing his granddaughter moping around, and there was not much for him to say or do. He had only seen her smile once in the past two weeks, all he knew it was something she saw on her phone.

Yuki was ready to tell him he could enter, but her mind was distracted by her phone.

vzzzzzt

It laid flat on her bed face down. She had a suspicious feeling to who it could be calling, only a few people ever did, but there was only one name she wanted to see.

vzzzzzt

She sighed softly as she grabbed the phone and looked at the screen.

Caller: Ukai

Yuki could not help the tug at the side of her lips. There was something about him that made her feel something, even in the state of sadness she was in. He seemed to care about her, and that made her feel funny inside. Her finger hovered over the green phone icon, maybe talking to him could help, but in a blink of an eye, her finger swiped onto the red icon. He didn't care. He just wanted to tell her she was fired from the volleyball team, and she knew that already, she did not need him to confirm it.

"Come i-in," she mumbled as she placed her phone back onto the bed. Her eyes glanced to the door as it opened. Her breath hitched in her throat. Her skin paled and her mouth slightly opened, as though it froze in the middle of an unspellable word.

Ukai stood at the entrance of her room, phone in hand and eyebrow raised.

"Thought I would try one more time," he said, referencing the failed phone call. Yuki was speechless, she did not know what to do. Had he come all the way to her grandfather's house just to tell her she was fired? "May I come in?"

Yuki looked to the ground, her ears going pink as she nodded. He walked in and took a seat in the chair opposite her. The air was tense as the two sat in silence. Yuki could not tell if the thumps she was hearing were from her heart or the ticking clock on her wall. She refused to meet his eyes, but she could not sit in silence forever.

"W-why a-are you h-here?"

"Well, I haven't heard anything from you in two weeks. No text back, you keeping rejecting my phones calls, not turning up to practise-"