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Hinata hopped off his bike as he approached the school gate, saying his good mornings to all those who greeted him. He had just finished placing his bike in the bike rack when he saw Tsukkishima and Yamaguchi walk through the gate.
"Ah, Yamaguchi! Tsukishima! Good morning!" Hinata smile while bouncing his way towards them.
Yamaguchi perked up, waved at him with a small smile and waited for him to reach them. Tsukishima, however, didn't even look at his way and continued to walk.
"Hey Yamaguchi," he leaned in close to him and attempted to whisper. "what's his deal?" Hinata glared at the back of Tsukishima's head.
"To be honest, I don't even know, Lately, he has been acting weird." Yamaguchi lowered his voice until Tsukishima was out of sight.
"Not that he's already weird as he is." Hinata laughed, Yamaguchi smiled and both of them walked together to the main building. They held a peaceful silence as they took off their shoes and put on their indoor shoes. While walking through the hallway, Hinata remembered what he had to ask Yamaguchi.
"Hey, I was wondering if you would want to practice with me today."
"Oh? Again?" The freckled boy questioned.
"Yeah, practicing with you is really fun and I feel like I can concentrate more with you there." Hinata smiled but then realized that he hadn't asked if it was okay. "I mean if it's okay with you and all." Hinata waved his hands and became flustered all of a sudden. Yamaguchi looked surprised but was happy to hear that people actually liked practicing with him. Especially someone as talented as Hinata.
"Sure. I like practicing with you too, Hinata." He confessed, which caused the other to look up and beam sunshine at his companion.
"Awesome! Then see you after school!" Hinata turned as they reached the end of the hall and waved once more as they went their separate ways. Yamaguchi wasn't even through the door when Tsukki asked him, "What did the shrimp want with you?"
Being surprised by the sudden way that Tsukki appeared and sounded, Yamaguchi did a double take and blinked at his childhood best friend.
"Um, he asked me if we could practice today and I told him yeah. Uh, are you..feeling okay?" Yamaguchi looked him in the eyes.
"Yeah, I'm feeling perfectly fine." Tsukki snapped while avoiding his gaze. Realizing what he had just done, Tsukki turned his face and walked back to his desk.
'Something is definitely up.' Yamaguchi thought. Tsukki starts spacing out and acting weird all this week and of a sudden, goes back to acting normal. But now, he just gave him a threatening look that he only uses when he is serious or pissed off and even spoke to him in a interrogative way. If Yamaguchi didn't know Tsukki so well, he would have brushed it off but something was alerting him. Deciding to be more observant of him, he shrugged it off. Just as he gets to his seat, the bell rings.
After school came faster then Tsukishima would have liked. He wasn't in the mood for dealing with anything or anyone today, especially a certain ridiculous, shorty with an amount of energy that defied all the laws of physics.
Tsukishima hated the way he would get irritated with him or how his energy would drain when he would talk about stupid or meaningless subjects. The week before, he seeked him out and questioned if defeating Aoba Jousai was possible then told him that he would defend alone if he had to if Tsukkishima didn't bother to try.
Tsukkishima did admit that it was impossible to defeat them but he didn't expect Shrimpy to be so optimistic about still standing a chance. He also didn't expect something to snap in him, his doubt of achieving the impossible and something else that he still didn't couldn't figure out.
Throughout the whole weekend, he though about what that something was but couldn't pin it to anything. He asked Yamaguchi what the feeling could be but he too, didn't understand what we was trying to explain. In the end, Tsukshima had planned about playing it off but, just this morning when he saw the stupid shrimp and that indescribable emotion came back at full force. Not wanting to deal with it, he ran away continued walking and ignored the greeting that was said to him.
"What's his deal?"
What was his deal? He left Yamaguchi behind and even went as far as snapping at him for no good reason. This bothered him. He felt so out of control of things, that it even started making him feel really unsure about the things he did. Having to second guess and doubt this actions or responses for everything, drained him incredibly. He hadn't felt like this since.....since a very, long time ago.
He sighed and decided to push all this nonsense about his emotions, all the way to the back of his minds.
"Hey Tsukki, I'll be going on ahead, if that's alright with you." Yamaguchi popped up beside him.
"Oh," Tsukki blinked. "Yeah, go ahead, I need to some things so, I'll be late."
"Alright, Tsukki, see you later." Yamaguchi gave a small smile before walking out the door.
Tsukishima was just about to relax when all of a sudden yell from the hall.
"Hey hey Yamaguchi!~"
He heard Hinata's voice down the hallway.
'Why is this happening to me, damn it.' Tsukki thought and continues to hear Hinata's voice singing his best friends name and then Yamaguchi's laugh to add to the sounds that were now irritating him.
Tsukki sighed, taking off his glasses and rubbing his eyes. This ways going to be a long day.