And The Owl Swooped In
"Cover! Cover!" "Nice serve!" "Over here!" Players yelling filled the gym, Bokuto looking around with sparkling eyes as he watched everyone practicing. This was his first year at preliminaries, and seeing the new competition was a little intimidating, but also exciting. He looked around at the other teams practicing with great enthusiasm, tucking some of his dyed white hair behind his ear.
"Bokuto-san! Look confident!" His captain laughed, smacking his back as Bokuto grunted before looking up at him and laughing, giving him a thumbs up.
"Yeah, yeah, Hayashi-senpai!" Bokuto laughed, running his hair through his long bangs as they fell back into his face. "Ah, anyone got a bobby pin or anything?" Bokuto asked as he tried to shove his hair out of his face, huffing loudly in frustration as he thought about what he should do about the long hair. He looked around the giant gym, seeking out one of the female managers for something to hold his hair back. But his eyes stopped on someone else.
His brown hair was fluffy, sweeping to both sides and his eyes were sharp as a knife, but enticing. Sweat fell down his face as he ran a hand through his hair, and a smirk crept onto his lips, giving off his arrogant personality that just drew Bokuto's eyes to him more and more.
Bokuto fidgeted a little, his eyes wide and locked onto this mystery player. The captain quickly noticed this, putting a hand on Bokuto's shoulder. It caused the excitable boy to jump a little, turning to his captain with sparkling eyes. "Captain! Captain!" Bokuto yelled, bouncing on his toes a little before yanking his captain to his height by the collar of his shirt and pointing to the intriguing player. "Hoooooo is that!"
Bokuto was never very subtle when he did such, catching the player's attention. Bokuto blushed heavily, gasping a little as the brown haired boy gave him a curious look, furrowing his eyebrows together. He turned and talked to the spiky haired boy next to him, being much more subtle as he just kind of nodded over at him without even looking. His partner looked over at the white haired boy, furrowing his eyebrows as well.
"Hey! What the hell are you looking at, Fukurodani!" The spiky haired boy yelled, the other player shushing him before looking back and giving a smile to Bokuto.
"Hoo!" Bokuto shouted, his captain laughing.
"I'm not really sure who that player is. They're a new first year. I heard that Aoba Johsai got a new setter," the captain explained, smirking a little at the boy once he saw him giggle from hearing he was a setter. "Does little Bokuto-san want to spike a certain setter's tosses?"
Bokuto completely ignored him, starting to run off toward the court of Aoba Johsai's practice. Fukurodani's captain laughed as Bokuto ran off, the mystery player looking over and seeing him approaching with a bit of a weird look.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Bokuto yelled, the brown haired player turning and looking at the excited boy.
"Oh, hello," he smiled, his words very smooth and enticing, causing Bokuto to just fall deeper into the dark pits in his eyes.
"Hey, I wanted to ask you for your name! Your email? Maybe you can toss to me!" Bokuto was upfront with him, the boy never seeming to lose his cool, though. He just smiled at Bokuto and nodded, starting to walk to the benches and signal the white haired boy to follow.
"My name is Oikawa Tooru. And just tell me yours," he smiled, pulling his phone out from his bag. "And are you a spiker?" He asked, as Bokuto nodded quickly and laughed a little.
"Yeah yeah!" He smiled as he ran a hand through his hair. "Oh, right! I'm Bokuto Koutarou! I'm a wing spiker!" He smiled as Oikawa giggled a little at his behavior.
"Well, Kou-san," he started, Bokuto blushing a little more as Oikawa entered his email into the phone, then looked up at him with the same captivating, sharp eyes. "I'll see you around. I'll text you after today's rounds," Oikawa assured as Bokuto smiled brightly.
"Alright!" He smiled and gave him a thumbs up, Oikawa giving him a little peace sign in return as Bokuto then sprinted back to his team.
"Senpai!" He shouted, the captain turning and seeing him for only a moment before Bokuto jumped up and wrapped his arms around him in excitement.
Oikawa stared at him, smirking a little as his partner, Iwazumi, gave him a suspicious look. "Oikawa, don't do anything mean to him, his feelings for you seem genuine."
Oikawa scoffed at the comment, sighing softly. "Iwa-chan, no one's feelings are actually genuine if they've never met me," Oikawa explained, running a hand through his sweaty hair. "He has no idea what he's in for."
"Well maybe if you weren't so fake to strangers, you might actually know if someone genuinely loves you," Iwazumi told him before his name was called, the boy running to the court to go practice some spikes.
"Dumb ass… That's the only way anyone would like me in the first place…"
