Tsundere - Tsukishima Kei X Reader

forty-four

Kei was a levelheaded guy. Mostly. Sometimes there's a clear sign that he was bothered. He only showed a dark side because of two people in his entire life and in completely different situations.

First: when his older brother lied to him about volleyball. Kei was the kind of younger brother who had always put his full support in his brother. That day, seeing him in the stands instead of on the court, the youngest Tsukishima brother lost faith in putting 100% effort in anything because he grew up believing that it would only come back to hurt more.

That being said, he forgot about all of the deep exposition and he forgot the hard shell of salt he kept up at all times only when he was with Y/N. She was like a breath of fresh air after being trapped inside a solitary confinement of second guessing and self judgement.

Kuroo Tetsuro, one of Y/N's best friends since way before Kei, picked up on that. Y/N was Kei's greatest strength and greatest weakness. So to turn pretty lil blond into insecure and prideful lil blond, Tetsuro just had to target him with even a mention of Y/N's name.

At that moment, after Kei walked in the gym, Bokuto looked over to the bench and saw his phone lit up, someone calling. He picked up the shaking device and clicked accept. "Moshi mosh- OH HEY HEY TSUMU! You made it to Inarizaki, huh?"

Bokuto chatted away with this strange "Tsumu" and Tsukishima just kinda stared, but since he was with Akaashi he asked to warm up with some tosses and the Fukurodani setter tossed to Karasuno's middle blocker. Bokuto continued his chat and then he exclaimed, "WAIT HOL' UP! YOU'RE HERE IN TOKYO?! Osamu, Kita, and Suna too? Why don't we meet up! We have free time now so let's meet here at Shinzen High first 'kay? See ya!"

The ace hung up the phone excitedly like a 7th grade girl calling her crush and Kuroo, who had been overhearing their conversation, smirked at Akaashi, who gestured to Tsukishima, and the two owls and cat nodded all at once.

"Oi, Megane-kun." Kuroo strode up beside him. "Nice practice but we're going somewhere tonight. We will get you to jump some blocks so either you stay here and wait for Yaku to find Lev's corpse and you both receive until your arms fall off, or you could come with us."

Oh, how Kei hated this mess. How he hated that he'd somehow changed into some spare clothes Kuroo had which fit well since they were so close in height. Just... The choice wasn't something he'd usually prefer. He had dark blue denim jeans with chains from one of the belt loops to a pocket, and the belt itself was a small black leather thing. See that wasn't the problem. The shirt, on the other hand, since Kuroo was extremely experimental with his tastes in fashion, Kei had ended up wearing a black cropped t-shirt which Kei had never worn before and he felt self conscious of how the shirt rode up another inch after he moved even a bit.

Meanwhile, Y/N who had been serving with Yamaguchi and Asahi felt butterflies in her stomach, and she knew her femboy senses were tingling. She ignored it though because she'd accidentally jump served Nishinoya in the face in her distraction and Y/N could've sworn she saw blood.

Anyways, Kuroo and Bokuto, sharing a braincell as always, were whistling at how the outfit suited Kei, only making him more embarrassed. Before he could say a retort back, a tall (in relation to Hinata) blond-ish boy with an undercut came Naruto running right into Bokuto's subconscious hug, and the excited two chatted away, both forgetting the other six people who were standing there.

The person who stood opposite Kei looked just like Atsumu but less friendly and with dyed grey hair instead of blond. The two locked eyes with each other and while Kei felt an embarrassed blush, the other dude looked to a taller boy with straight black hair on the longer side. Both looked at him and smirked, which Kuroo caught from the corner of his eye.