The last person Sal thought he'd end up falling for was Travis Phelps, but as he'd learned time and time again, the unexpected was to be expected. WORD COUNT: 160,833 STARTED: NOVEMBER 12, 2021 FINISHED: DECEMBER 27, 2022

Yamaguchi never met Tsukishima as kids. He never went to Karasuno either. Out on a work trip, anxious Yamaguchi runs into local celebrity, Tsukishima Kei, the darling middle blocker for the Sendai Frogs. Their chance encounter is full of misunderstandings, but they go their separate ways, never expecting to cross paths again. That is until the internet goes crazy about Tsukishima's new boyfriend, caught fighting and making up at the bus station with a photo taken wildly out of context for the whole world to see. They really can't escape each other now, and Yamaguchi is starting to think he doesn't want to.