...Friendship or dating? It's up to the reader to decide, so everybody happy. Written because we need more Yachi, and I needed a drabble to make myself feel better. Picking a second character was tough though.

Someone critic me? I'm not all that confident in my ability to write in-character here. Uploading this against my better judgment, and because I sincerely want to get better at writing for Haikyuu!.

Yachi left the cinema with a look of determination similar to the one she'd been wearing when the movie had started. Something in the way she was walking though, all stiff and jerky because she was nearly frozen with terror, how wide her eyes were, how she looked several shades paler now than she had before–

That movie had been too scary for her. Even Tanaka wasn't dense enough to miss that. He sighed loudly, as if that would help get his point across. "If you're gonna react that badly, then maybe we could just watch something different next time?"

He didn't know what Yachi was into, but it definitely wasn't horror. They weren't even watching the adult movies, just sticking to the R-15 stuff, 'cause the cinema wasn't going to be letting them in to see anything rated higher than that any time soon, and she still managed to get scared. Not that Tanaka really minded, he thought it was kind of cute, but actually he did mind because it didn't seem fair to Yachi if they only watched movies that she couldn't enjoy.

'I might not be the smartest kid on the block, but...'

"Ah? B-but... but I didn't scream this time!"

She probably liked romantic comedies. Maybe those cute little animated family movies or something? Not really on Tanaka's priority list of things to watch, but he thought he could deal with it if she wanted him to. But Yachi was the one who kept telling him to pick the movies!

"Doesn't matter!"

Too rash.

Yachi froze completely, mid-stride, and that was how Tanaka knew he'd been too rash. You think he'd have learned by now, but, no, of course not.

"I-I mean..." Quick, how to fix this? Putting on his best smile and just going for it was the best that he managed to come up with. "You wanna pick next time? I wouldn't want you to- ah, just quit wastin' your money for my sake, okay?"

"I'm not... wasting money..."

Because to Yachi, Tanaka was...

"I want to be cool like Tanaka-senpai! I want to like the same things too!"

...Cool.