𝙄 𝙃𝘼𝙏𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝘼𝙔 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙔- 𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙍𝙊 𝙎𝙐𝙉𝘼

seven

"And for the end of practice, we will all go to the hill and run back here."

You never understood this "exercise". We had already finished volleyball practice and were all tired but now we have to do a long jog at the start of the hill and back to the school.

You sighed as your team and the boy's team walked out of the gym to the hill. The walk wasn't too bad. You figured it would be fine to just run back. It wasn't too far until the coach said you'd be running the other direction to get back.

"Too much work for today.... kind of tired," you said to yourself not even in the right mindset to form a proper sentence.

"You and me both...." Someone whispered softly. You side-eyed the person next to you as you presumed they said it. It was Suna who looked like he was going to faint. He was breathing heavily. He probably wasn't even in the right mindset to know that he just agreed with you.

"Alright... and go!" The coach yelled as everyone picked off and ran.

You kept a steady pace as you ran not running too fast. You weren't paying attention to the people passing you. "Chuupets...Pastry rolls...Bentos...." You thought to yourself. You were trying to motivate yourself to keep running by thinking about all the food that was at home and how you'd eat it once you got back. It was the only thing stopping you from collapsing.

You ran the same pace watching as people ran by you trying to get through with this agonizing run. You couldn't even blame them. You just wished you had paid more attention to your surroundings because before you knew it you started to fall. A rock? My own shoe? You thought to yourself as your face hit the ground.

You weren't badly hurt but just enough to groan a bit.

Maybe if I wait a bit then they'll lose sight of me and I'll just walk back. You said to yourself. You were usually energetic and gave your all but today you just weren't feeling it.

You were too deep in thought to hear that pair of shoes running to you.

The person stood there in front of you trying to see if you would move or show any signs of life but you didn't.

You felt a pair of hands wrap around your waist and you started to feel yourself being pulled up. You felt weightless, just for a second. They pulled you up gently which you were grateful for. As you made it to stand on your legs you looked to see Suna. I guess he was the one who pulled me up. You thought to yourself.

"Ah, thanks." You said scratching your neck.

Suna didn't say anything as he looked at you then pointed to a narrow alley.

"That way is a shortcut. Let's go." Suna said.

Before he said this, he still had his hands around your waist so he moved it so that one hand was behind your back gently pushing you as he walked to the shortcut.

"That's cheating." You said.

"They never said it was a race," Suna said back to you removing his hand from your back as he kept walking.

He was going with or without you. It didn't matter to him but he hoped you would go with him. He doesn't know if it's more of a hassle with our without you but seeing he just saw you on the ground like that makes him think you're just going to end up in that position again. He wouldn't just leave you there on the ground.

"It's narrow..." You said calling out to Suna.

"We can make it work." He said, not looking back at you.

You contemplated it for a short time. You told yourself that you'd just blame him if you guys ended up getting in trouble.

You jogged over to Suna matching his pace as you did.

"You go on the right and I'll stay on the left." You said walking in the narrow alley pressing your back against the wall walking sideways.

Suna joined you as you both made it through the alley. As you walked you felt dirt? fall onto your head. Truth is you didn't know what it was but you were too scared to check plus it was really dark.

"I guess this is just my karma..." You said to yourself, still making your way through the alleyway.

Suna snickered at your comment. He was going to maybe shake it off of your head for you but that idea was shut down fast by him. He knew his boundaries when it came to you.

More and more dirt? kept falling on you. Suna was surprised you didn't yell in anger. In all honesty, it was a pitiful sight to see. You didn't even say anything as it fell from your head to the ground.

There was just more and more going down on you. It stopped for a second until a big bunch of it fell on your head. This time it made you stop. You were going to scream.

Suna saw your lip quiver. He knew you were gonna scream. If you scream people will think there's some sort of kidnapping going on over here. He looked up above you and saw there was more about to fall.

Quickly, Suna moved to you which wasn't hard since it was narrow. He put one hand behind your back pulling you against his chest and his other hand on top of your head and bent over so that he was covering you.

He closed his eyes expecting the worst and the worst came. It all fell on him and it was heavy. He didn't know you had to endure it this badly.

He tiredly rested his head on your shoulder. He didn't do it purposefully, he just needed to catch his breath after all that.

You stood there as Suna did this. It's not like you didn't understand why he did this. You couldn't even blame him so you just stood there for a while as he tried catching his breath. It was just a bit embarrassing. You stood there awkwardly as your cheek was pressed against his chest as he had pulled you against him. You wanted to move but you decided to wait a bit.

Him catching his breath got old really fast as you felt like you guys were there for a good three minutes and he was still huffing. He was practically breathing in your ear. Out of impatience, you pushed him off of you only to hear him laugh as you did.

"You wasted so much time! I was letting you catch your breath." You hissed at him.

"Huh?" Suna said back innocently trying to hold back a laugh. He really was tired and actually was trying to catch his breath but he had to admit he stood there for more time than needed to get on your nerves.

"Thank you but let's continue moving." You said as you continued walking, as did Suna. You both eventually made it out of the alleyway to see your school gym just a few jogs away. Only the coaches were there which made you grin mischievously and Suna caught that.

"Look presentable." You said shaking off the dirt. Suna did the same just more slowly.

Once you were done you and Suna jogged to the gym. Suna decided to jog just a bit slower than you.

You eventually made it to the gym and walked to the coaches.

"Congratulations l/n! You made it first and Suna made it right after you." Your coach said applauding you.

You heard the other players running towards you just as she finished her sentence so you decided to walk off.

"You did well." You said walking past Suna.

It was the only thing you could form into words. You didn't know how to compliment him if you were being honest.

Suna looked to you a bit surprised but regained himself.

He never knew that potty mouth of yours could form such "sweet" words, he thought to himself sarcastically but apart of him was actually a bit surprised. He might've actually been a bit happy but you could never tell when it came to him.