A Lawyers Seven Sins | Haikyuu!!

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER 3 - The Bodyguard

"Really, this is exhausting. It could be ANY company, really, but not OIKAWA Studios."

Sugawara entered and set down two cups for them, one filled with tea and the other coffee. Iwaizumi nodded at the secretary and smiled a small smile, raising the cup to his lips and taking a small sip before the white-haired man left.

"So what's the deal with you and Oikawa Studios?"

"Well, I know Oikawa Tooru personally. We've been friends in kindergarten, until high school actually. After we graduated, we went different paths, and never talked to each other again."

He stared into the cup of coffee in his hand, watching the dark liquid move around, absentminded.

"I think he recognized me, but I doubt that he wants to actually talk to me. It's only business. I'm doing my job, he's busy with his company."

"Iwaizumi-san. He's in shock. He found the corpse of someone that was important to him, in his own company. He's scared. I doubt that he wouldn't want to catch up with you."

They looked at each other for a few seconds, before Iwaizumi sighed, defeated.

"You're probably right. Thank you."

[ - ]

"Oh, I have a lecture in 10 minutes! Ah, I'm never going to make it.."

Iwaizumi looked at the clock and then back at Akaashi, getting up from his seat.

"I'll drive you there. Sorry for keeping you here for so long."

Together, they went downstairs and left the building, to walk towards a metal shed.

"Have you ever sat on a motorcycle?"

"No, frankly I haven't."

"Then you're going to now."

They went into the metal shed, and Iwaizumi put a helmet onto the students head before sitting down on the big motorbike. Akaashi carefully sat down behind him, wrapping his arms around his stomach awkwardly.

The police officer snorted before pushing the two of them out of the shed, where he started the engine and drove over the property of the police department, turning on the red lights at the front and raced through the streets.

"You're going to get a speeding ticket!"

"Don't worry about that, worry about your lecture!"

[ - ]

"Iwaizumi! We just received a request about your executive protection services. You're going to be Oikawa Tooru's bodyguard."

"I am going to what, exactly?"

Sugawara smiled, holding out a pile of papers to Iwaizumi that just entered back into the station.

"Oikawa Tooru's safety is in danger. We got orders from the main quarters in Tokyo. They said, I quote, 'There's no man as suitable for this particular job than Iwaizumi Hajime'."

He groaned, taking the pile of paperwork and skimming over it.
"Alright, thank you."

"So you'll take the job?"

"Of course I will."

He sighed and made his way upstairs, to his office, and sat down at his desk. Putting the paperwork next to his keyboard, he rubbed his face, tired from all the new information he had to take in in one day.

He took off his tie and started up his computer. Just as he was reaching for his cup of cold coffee, the phone on his desk rang, and he raised an eyebrow before picking up and holding it to his ear.

"This is Iwaizumi Hajime, chief of the police station in Edogawa, how may I help you?"

"Iwa-Chan."

He fell silent, looking at the screen in front of him while clutching onto the phone tighter.
"Oikawa Tooru?"

"Stop saying my full name like I'm someone highly important all the time. Just call me Oikawa. You haven't forgotten about our time in school together, have you?"

Iwaizumi sighed and leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes.

"No, of course I haven't. I was just under the impression that you didn't want to talk to me, like, at all."

"Well, I wouldn't want you as my bodyguard if I didn't want to talk to you. I haven't been able to spend time with you at all, and now would be a good opportunity to catch up."

"So you're behind that?"
A small smile crept onto his lips as he looked at the papers on his desk, grabbing a pen.
"Are you that scared?"

Silence.

"I actually am, yes."

"Oh. Sorry. I should've known."
Another awkward silence fell, and Iwaizumi read over the papers in front of him.

"Well, it says that I should do everything I think is needed to protect you. I've been a bodyguard for quite some important people and protected their homes, but what about you? Should I sleep in one bed with you?" Iwaizumi joked as he continued to read the papers, reaching for his cup of coffee.

"I wouldn't mind. I'd actually feel better if you did."

The officer choked on the cold drink, coughing into his arm after what his childhood friend said.
"Are you for real?"

"Yes, Iwa-Chan, I am really fucking real."

"Well, I guess it can't be helped then. Expect me to be by your office at 4 PM. If anything happens, text or call me." He sighed, clearing his throat and signing the contract.

"I will. Thank you."