opposites attract ~ a kageyama tobio fanfic

to meet and to fall pt 1.

a/n: the standard writing is mizuki narrating, and the italics are kageyama's. i hope u all enjoy and love this as much as i loved writing it :)

also there are some japanese phrases that i decided to add in because i want it to be kind of more known (?) that they're in a japanese school?? in japan?? idk it sounds cool to me and i like how it is in the story. if u don't like it... sorry. i made all of them basic japanese phrases so if u watch sub anime u should for sure know it. if u don't, just search them up. 

i didn't care about most things.

at the beginning of the school year, i showed no interest in anyone in our class. my mind was always on piano and music and my studies. when others made a big deal about going to high school, i didn't really know what to think. high school just felt like a bigger version of junior high, and junior high was already so underwhelming.

i thought of high school as a stepping stone. as a passing point, a minor part in the huge story that was my life. it was something i just had to do in order to get better at life. i didn't care for it, nor did i plan on indulging in anything more than what was necessary.

but that didn't mean i didn't care about my studies. i prioritized my studies, i got good grades, i knew the importance of it. so i did what i was best at, i focused. i got things done, i paid attention. i took in what i needed to and did what i was told.

i was the same when it came to volleyball. not my studies though of course. why would i focus on my studies? volleyball was all that mattered. it wasn't like i'd be good at my studies even if i tried, so i didn't. i thought of high school the same way, though. just a stepping stone. full of volleyball opportunities, but other than that, i didn't care about anything else.

i mean, what was the good in caring about other things, anyway?

but of course i noticed him. kageyama, that is. my mind would often wander to him more than other people, especially during my practice sessions. it was annoying, to be honest.

the boy was cute. most of the girls didn't care for him because he looked menacing, but i seemed to notice. he had a frown always on his face, but on the rare occasions he relaxed his features, i could see a hidden niceness. if that made sense. he was, undoubtedly, attractive.

but really, that was all he had going for him. from the test scores i sneaked a glance at, the dude was a dumb mess. which i guiltily (but also not) prided myself in thinking that i was smarter. 

i noticed her too, trying to think of what i thought of her because i thought she was familiar. turned out i saw her with yachi-san because they were childhood friends, and I saw them together a few times. how could i not notice her too? i thought she was kind of... pretty. if you could look pass her bland stare at anything that wasn't her schoolwork. she was strange in that way, incredibly smart from her test rankings, but didn't show interest in anything or anyone else.

but not like i cared at all. i just thought it strange.

we rarely had interactions, just asking to borrow erasers or passing papers down, until one day we had to do a group project together. 

the class was japanese history, too. the class i needed the biggest grade boost in. i had accidentally missed an assignment in this class due to a performance that month that required more practice, which caused me to slip up and lose a few points.