Sooooo...
Yeah, yeah, I've fallen into the Haikyuu fandom. I've actually had some OCs and a plot line for a fic for a while.
But I didn't want to be the first one to post an OC fic, so I waited.
But now there are two out, so I can post this now! :D
Her hair was unruly and wavy, frizzy from the outside humidity - it looked as though she had attempted to tame the locks of red with a straightener before she'd left her house to come to this gymnasium, though, after being attacked by the mugginess of the air, her tresses had sprung back up.
Though inside now, she still wore big, bulky sunglasses, and carried an even bigger, bulkier purse on her exposed freckled shoulder. The purse was heavy and packed to the full, as if she'd taken the whole contents of her room and shoved them into the bag; when she walked, it rattled from inside, a sound of keys and chargers and make-up.
Finding the three boys she was looking for, she plopped down in a seat behind them, the sound of her purse announcing her arrival.
"I thought you weren't coming." remarked one of them, a dark-haired boy, without turning from the match taking place below.
"Well, I didn't have anything to do today, and mom wanted to take a nap, so here I am." she said, sitting her jeweled purse in her lap, beginning to dig through it, apparently searching for something, "Ugh, where is my chapstick-"
The youngest of the three boys turned and faced her with a loud scoff. "How could you possibly find anything in that?! What do you carry around with you, your couch?!"
She plucked a tube from the bottom of her purse, purple and just a little melted. "Tanaka, shut it! You won't be saying that later when you're hungry and want some snacks! Hey, Daichi, want some gum?"
The dark-haired boy shook his head. "I'm fine, Mayumi." he said, and she nodded, applying her chapstick, throwing it back into her bag before beginning to search for something else.
"Hey, hey, what about you, Suga?" she questioned, looking up to the third and last boy.
"Ah, no thank you, Mayumi." responded him, glancing back to her briefly, and she shrugged her shoulders, pulling out a green packet, working to pull the gum from its wrapper.
"Fine, fine. Don't say I never offered you any." she said, tossing the wrapper into her purse, standing with the smell of spearmint.
Tanaka paused for a moment before speaking, pointing a finger to Mayumi. "Are you not going to offer me any?!" he snapped, and she gave an offended noise from the back of her throat.
"Offer you what? A spot on the couch I have in my bag?!" she asked, laughing at her own joke, going to stand beside Sugawara, turning to watch the tournament.
Sugawara tapped the side of his own head to remind her of her bad habit, and she hesitated, reaching up to push back up sunglasses to hold up in bangs, revealing brown eyes lined in black.
As Tanaka dug through her purse to find the packet of gum, she pointed down to the gym floor. "Hey, what teams are they?" she asked, fixing a strap of the peach colored tank-top she was wearing.
"Yukigaoka and Kitagawa." Sugawara said, looking to her, and she nodded.
"Yukigaoka - ah, they seem really tiny, don't they? Aren't volleyball players supposed to be tall, Suga?" she asked, though seemed to become uninterested in the question, barely giving the boy a chance to answer before beginning to speak once again. "Awe - Kitagawa just scored a point! Well, that's hardly fair, Suga. Look at how big they are, compared to that boy on Yukigoaka."
Tanaka appeared behind her, chomping loudly on the gum he'd managed to find, working to open a bag of Cheez-Its that had also been in her purse. "You just like Yukigoaka because their Captain looks like you." he said, popping his gum as he ripped open the bag, a few crackers falling to the floor.
Mayumi frowned at that, looking back to Tanaka. "Suga, Suga, which one is the Captain?" she asked, shaking Sugawara's arm by the elbow, though it was Daichi to reply.
"That one right there. The wing spiker." he said, and Mayumi looked to Sugawara for emphasis, saying, "Daichi, I have no idea what that is. Suga, Suga, which one?".
"See the one right there? Wearing the number one jersey, Mayumi." said Sugawara, pointing, and she nodded her head, her hand raising to her hair, attempting to smooth a strand out.
"I look nothing like that!" she objected with an indignant pop of her gum, and her and Tanaka continued to fight this out for most of the remainder of the match, Cheez-Its getting thrown and caught in her frizzy waves.
With the match called, Mayumi gave a pitiful look to the scoreboard, adjusting her sunglasses on her head. "Ah, that's too bad. They cared a whole lot, too, you could tell." she said with a shrug, Tanaka picking a cracker that blended in with her hair, popping it in his mouth. "I don't normally feel bad for the losers, but, did you see that small one? Rolling around in the court to try to stop the ball."
"Stop acting like that, it's weird, you little demon." said Tanaka, and she rolled her eyes, shaking her hair out for any left over Cheez-Its.
"Shut up, Tanaka."
"'King of the Court,' huh..." said Sugawara, and Mayumi stopped to look up to him, adjusting her sunglasses once more.
"He's going to be a difficult opponent when he starts high school." Daichi remarked, looking down to the teams lined up on the court below.
Tanaka shifted, shoving the now empty bag of Cheez-Its to the bottom of Mayumi's unattended purse. "My money's on that little guy." he said, getting shoved away from the bag by Mayumi, who picked it up and slung it over her shoulder.
Giving another glance to the court, her gum snapped out from between her lips in a bubble, and Mayumi paused for a moment before turning to catch up with the three boys who'd already walked away.
Her face was a chubby pale, as if only her body had progressed through puberty; cheeks were dusted with little brown stars known as freckles, spreading across her tiny, round nose. Her brown eyes were narrow and small, lined in black and decorated with a gray color of eye shadow, her eyelashes thick and black with mascara. Wild red hair reached just below the area of mid-back, though is was not as Rapunzel-ish as the long hair of girls' was always heard of being: her ends were split, in dire need of a trimming, her wavy locks frizzy and out of control.
She carried a bucket in one hand, dragging a mop in the other, muttering underneath her breath as she walked down the hallway - she was obviously attempting to make it appear as if she needed help carrying the bucket, for she leaned to one side as she walked, her arms heavy.
"I hate this..." she grumbled, loud enough for those she passed by to hear, "Kagome harasses a first-year and I get blamed...!"
She heard the fast steps of someone running through the halls behind her, and hoped it was someone coming to swoop the heavy bucket of water from her arms, though she knew it was not.
"She just wanted to be friends with him... and he goes and reports us! Why wouldn't he want to become friends with an upperclassman? First-years are weird..."
Those rushed footsteps dashed past her, and she swayed on her feet, water sloshing from the bucket she was carrying - she opened her mouth to snap at them, to tell them to come back here and clean up this puddle of water that she was also going to get blamed for, though paused just as the air had filled her lungs, staring after the blur of red and orange.
"She turns me on when she ignores me!"
"Oh, look - Mayumi, have you already gotten in trouble?" questioned Daich, the first one to spot her, smiling at her with a joking air, and she turned towards him.
"Good - we already have someone to clean the gym!" snickered Tanaka, and she was broken from her thoughts, swaying the bucket in her hands.
"Shut up, Tanaka - this will be the only time this year, I'll make sure of that!" she snapped, and the boy laughed.
"Yeah, okay - that's what you said last year!" he taunted, and her grip tightened on the mop, Sugawara working the bucket out of her hands before more water managed to spill from it.
"What did you do this time?" chuckled Daichi, and she swung the mop around in objection.
"Ah-ah-ah, I didn't do anything! Kagome was trying to talk to a first-year and recruit him for our Art club, and he went and reported us!" she said, her shoulders squaring, and Tanaka rolled his eyes.
"Was recruiting all that was going on?" asked Sugawara, holding onto the bucket for her, and Mayumi's face grew red, her freckles getting lost.
"Or were you 'taking his pictures for the yearbook'?" asked Daichi, and Tanaka added on, "Or trying to get him to carry all you paintbrushes and crap?"
"No, no, no!" she said, hitting the mop onto the floor, "We just wanted to become his friend, but apparently making friends isn't allowed at Karasuno-"
"I though Kagome was trying to recruit him, not become his friend." said Daichi, and Mayumi stumbled over her words, all three boys laughing at her.
"You know - I could go switch punishments with Kagome, and I could be cleaning up the choir room instead of the gym, but I thought you guys would want me-"
"Why would we want you?" interrupted Tanaka, and Daichi and Sugawara both had to cover their mouths to muffle their laughter.
"Well - whatever, then! Suga, Suga, give me that bucket, I'm going to the choir room!" she ordered, and Sugawara recovered, shaking his head.
"Ah - no, no, Mayumi, there's no need for that." he objected, not letting her take the bucket from him though she tried.
"Suga!" she protested, and, with one final tug, the bucket was yanked from his arms and fell to the floor, spilling over, splashing onto their shoes.
From down the hall, there was the echoing of a laugh that they recognized as Kagome's and the clack of heels as a teacher walked down the hall towards them, though, when Mayumi looked up to blame the three boys, they were all gone.
It seems like all the first chapters I post are crap and are always really, really short.
But, yeah! This was just sort of an introduction chapter to work on Mayumi, you could say. There will be four(?) main characters that this will center on, Mayumi and Kagome included, the other two still needing to be introduced~
So, I hope everybody stays around for that! I didn't even mean to post this today, or ever, really, but here it is, so I hope you don't hate it!
(It'll get better, I promise, with a much better storyline than this chapter~)
I could use some feedback, if anybody wants to give it - thank you!