Clingy :: Hinata Shouyo

Improbable (adj.)

-Not likely to be true or to happen

"Hey Hinata, I heard you're on the girls' volleyball team!"

"Are you serious?"

"N-No I'm not!"

"Who are you after? There's a foxy third-year senpai."

"There is a foxy senpai but-"

"I knew it!"

Irritated and embarrassed. Those were the two things Sawamura Daichi felt when he was captured in a tight embrace by Allegri Akira, a member of the girls' volleyball team and his long-time friend. She had been a friend of his since elementary school but he never got the chance to get used to her being too clingy and too attached. Akira deems it normal due to her being raised with the term 'socially adept' etched on her mind.

She feigned a sob, "Dai-kun! Please tell Michi to accept me back!"

"Ah. . . Well, I don't know Aki." Daichi replied in hesitation. Akira reported to him that Michimiya kicked her out the team because she had been skipping a lot of practices. She said it was unintentional, their booming family business was keeping her from attending after-school practices. The boys' volleyball team captain sighed, not knowing how to help his friend. "You, of all people, should know that Michimiya isn't easily persuaded."

"I know!" She let go of him, much to Daichi's delight. "But the only person who can persuade her is you. Help out a friend here, Dai-kun. Please?" With the last word, she embraced him again, earning a loud grunt from the boy.

Daichi was about to reject Akira's plead for help when Hinata Shouyo walked in the gym. "Good afternoon, Daichi-san!" The orange-haired boy greeted in enthusiasm.

"SHOU-TAN?!" Akira gaped at the young boy who was presented infront of him.

"Eh?" Hinata stared at the girl infront of him. He racked his brain and tried to remember who she is. With her olive skin, layered light brown hair, green eyes and her hourglass-figure, Hinata could only gawk at the possibility of who she is.

"Shou-tan?" Daichi questioned Akira's sudden honorific at the boy.

Akira blinked one, twice. She tugged at Daichi's sleeve repeatedly and asked, "Daichi, is that Hinata Shouyo I'm seeing?!"

"Uh. . . Yeah." He nodded, "Hinata, meet Allegri Akira-"

"Kyaaaaa~!" She squealed in delight and made a run towards the aspiring ace. "I missed you soooo much, my dearest little Kouhai!" Akira gave Hinata a tight hug, kissing both his cheeks as a greeting.

Shouyo blushed red and found it hard to create a simple and coherent sentence because of the affection shown by the girl. "I-I—Senpai—You-"

"How have you been, Shou-tan?" She said with an affectionate tone in her voice, as if she doesn't sense the nervousness of Hinata. The girl kept her arms latched around Shouyo's neck. Akira looked at the orange-haired boy with a gleeful smile on her face, "You didn't tell me you're attending Karasuno in high school!"

"I'm f-fine, Akira-senpai!" He stammered in reply. Hinata found it impossible to keep eye contact so he looked everywhere except her face. "Y-You didn't tell me you're going to K-Karasuno either."

"I transferred here last year." She answered nonchalantly. By now, Daichi left the two to their own world and helped Ennoshita and the other team members set up.

Hinata was uncomfortable at the hug at first but he remembered the clinginess of Akira. It made him ease up a bit and it made him focus more to be able to create coherent sentences with less stuttering, "Why d-didn't you go to Niyima? I thought th-that was your dream school, senpai?"

"I thought so, too." She grinned and raised her voice loud enough for Daichi to hear, "Dai-kun told me that if I attended Niyama High, I wouldn't have the chance to be a regular."

"It was a mere opinion, Aki!" He replied indignantly, "Don't blame it on me!"

"I'm not blaming you, Dai-kun~" She giggled at the expected response, "So, how are your jumps?"

"Uaah! I've been improving so much, Akira-senpai!" Hinata's eyes lit-up and a wide smile formed on his lips, "Thanks to Kageyama, I get to rack up loads of points for the team and I'm gonna become like the little giant!"

The girl let go of Hinata and shook his shoulders excitedly. "I'd love to see you on action! When's your next practice match?"

"Uh. . . We have a practice match with Fukurodani this Saturday."

Akira smiled and exclaimed, "Though Michimiya would kill me more, I'd rather see my protégé's improvements!"

"If she hears you, you're so dead." Daichi countered jokingly at Akira's statement.

"I know right!" She laughed at the thought as if it doesn't intimidate her. "Anyway, see you on Saturday, Shou-tan~"

"Hai, Akira-senpai!" He nodded eagerly, a chance that Hinata found to impress his former instructor.

Akira hugged Shouyo for the last time and gave him a peck on the lips. It shocked the orange-haired boy to the point where he could only hear his heart beating so hard. He had hidden infatuation to the girl ever since she started teaching him about the basics of spiking. Little did he expect that she'd be the one to steal his first kiss from him.

"It's a date, m'kay?" Hinata wanted to faint right then and there.