Kuroo - My 1 and Only

Part 1 - Changing Room Embarrassment

"Hey! Hey Emiyo? Oi!" a hand waves in front of my face and I hear my best friend, Yui, shouting my name. 

"Oh, sorry." I say looking at her after realising I had zoned out and was staring at a couple of pencils on the desk while she was ranting about some boy. Shes sitting on a backwards chair in front of my work desk so shes facing me, one arm resting on the back of her chair the other resting on top of my small pile of workbooks. Her hair whips you slightly in the face as she quickly spins to grab her bento box from her bag and places it on yours so you can eat together. "What were you talking about?" you ask softly after realising you weren't paying attention to her story. 

"Ugh where you so out of it you didn't hear a single thing I said? Well I'm not explaining what he did again, you're just going to have to miss out on my juicy gossip for today." she says with a bright smile. "I'm starving. Let's eat!". She pins back her overgrown dark brown fringe like she always does when she eats so it's out of the way and picks up her chopsticks. 

"How come we never eat outside anymore?" you ask while opening up your own lunch. 

"I told you this already. If we want to find you a boyfriend at this school we have to eat indoors at lunch. All the alright-ish looking boys stay indoors or play sports in one of the gyms but I don't want to be surrounded by sweaty men while I'm eating so indoors is the best option." she says while stuffing a bit of katsu into her mouth. Since I'm new at Nekoma High School I don't have many friends yet so I'm super thankful that I've known Yui ever since we were little, however I'm not as bothered about finding a boyfriend as she thinks I am. I stick with her though as her hunt for a boyfriend might lead to me making new friends here.

I look out the window briefly as I take a bite of my rice ball and notice some of those 'sweaty boys' Yui was talking about head into one of the school gym halls. There's a super tall grey haired one, a shorter one with dyed blonde hair with what looks like a game boy in his hand, and a black haired one holding a ball in his hands. I watch them walk through the doors of the gym in the schools red sports gear and until finally the black haired boy with the number one on the back of his top disappears into the gym. "Can we go to the vending machines real quick? I need a drink"

"Sure" I reply standing up and placing some of my work books into my bag.

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Its the last lesson of the school day and I'm in my sports gear running around the track next to Yui laughing about how a boy fell off his chair in maths class. 

The sound of our trainers on the path make a soft rhythm even when we start to slow down as we grow more tried and breathless. As I jog alongside Yui I start to feel my head spin a little so I come to a stop and rest my hands on my knees, breathing heavily. Yui stops with me and I look up at her. Her eyes widen slightly with shock.

"Emiyo are you okay? You've gone really pale!" she says quickly stepping over to me and helping me sit down on the ground. A sharp pain quickly surges through my head which causes me to flinch a little and hold my head in my hands. "Teacher! Emiyo's not feeling well." she shouts over to the teacher whole steadily walks over to us. 

"I'll be fine. It's just another one of my headaches" I explain to Yui and the teacher who is now squatting down next to me. 

"Hmm, you've still gone very pale I don't think its good to carry on with your exercises. It might get worse or you could faint if you do." he says with a slight worried look on his face. I give a quick nod of agreement to the teacher as Yui takes my arm and helps me stand up. She takes most of my weight until I steady myself on my feet. "Since it's the last lesson of the day you can get changed and I'll let you go home a little early or you can head to the medical office and stay in there until the end of the school day." 

"I think I'll go home and rest if that's okay" I say quietly as I look at the teacher. To be honest since I'm new here I don't think I can even remember the way to the medical office and who doesn't want to go home early.

"Of course" he says with a light pat on my shoulder before walking away to some other students. I wave to Yui as I pick up my things and head towards the changing rooms. My vision goes a little blurry but its nothing I'm not used to after getting the headaches for a few years now. I push open the white door to the changing rooms and hear it swing shut behind me. I wait a few moments for my eyes to go somewhat back to normal before I start to change out of my sweaty running clothes into my usual school uniform.

 With my skirt back on I start to pull off my t-shirt I hear the door to the changing room swing open and my eyes dart up to see who's there. Lesson is still on so I expect it to be Yui after she snuck out to keep me company as she would normally do. Well, shes says its to keep me company but I know it's more to make sure she doesn't have to talk to anyone else. Instead I see red sports gear with a familiar number one printed on it in white. Confused, my eyes slowly make their way up a tall buff body that's wrapped in the red fabric to see the black haired boy I saw from the window earlier stood looking at me. His mouth has dropped slightly open and his eyes wide as he sees me.

"Ahh!" a small screech of embarrassment come out of my mouth as I pull my shirt down to cover my body. I see him visibly tense up slightly before he quickly spins back round to the door and push some people, who I assumed where also trying get into the changing room, away from the entrance and the door shuts with a slight bang behind him. I must of mistaken the boys changing rooms with the girls while my vision was still blurry. I feel my face grow hot as I quickly finish getting changed and roughly gather up my stuff in my arms and practically run out of the changing room. As I exit through the door I find a group of boys waiting outside. I quickly bow my head apologetically towards the group of boys before squeeze past them. I hear their confused whispers as they enter the changing room. I feel so embarrassed my eyes start to well up with tears but I try my best to hold them in. I look back briefly and see the black haired boy still looking at me. His eyes shift away when they meet mine and he follows the rest of the boys into the changing room. 

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When I get home my mind is overwhelmed with thoughts. Who is he? Did he see anything? Did anyone else see anything? I lay down on my bed, my face buried into my pillow. I hope non of the other boys saw how red my face was after I came out of the changing room. Great. I'm the new girl at school and now I'm going to be known as the one who accidentally got changed in the boys changing room. Not just got changed in there but someone walked in while I was shirtless. "Shit..."

As I try to get some sleep the boy that walked in is all I can seem to think about. I start to remember little things about him that I hadn't really taken interest in at the moment he swung open that door. His hair partly covered one of his catlike hazel eyes and the rest was up in lazy looking soft spikes that had seemed to of drooped a little. He was holding a black t-shirt and bag in one of his hands. With my mind full of the embarrassing memory and thoughts I don't think I'll be able to sleep much tonight.

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