Nishinoya Yuu, Karasuno's 'Guardian Deity' was a fantastic volleyball player, an excellent libero, and a terrible student. After his suspension let up, he was behind on school work and was (forced to be) in the library to study every day that he didn't have club activities; one of those days just so happened to be today.
As he was sifting through the books looking for history textbooks, he found one that he wanted, but it was on the top shelf. Nishinoya jumped feverously to try and reach the book. At the height of his sixth attempt, someone snatched the book away.
Nishinoya whipped around to face the book-thief, but swallowed his tongue when he saw an extremely pretty and tall girl holding his book. She had to be at least as tall as Tsukishima, if not taller, with long auburn hair that was pulled back, Band-Aids on her face, and large baby blue glasses. The girl looked down and shifted awkwardly.
"Your book, senpai!" She nearly shouts, earning her an earnest shush from nearby.
The girl quickly slaps a hand over her mouth. "I'm sorry." She bows slightly. "AH! I need that later though…" She sighs, eyeing the book that was now in Nishinoya's hands. "I'm Akiyama Naru from class one-four, please bring it to tomorr— me tomorrow when you're bun, Ah! Done, I meant done!" She squeaks, quickly running out of the isle.
Nishinoya watches her scurry off, long pony-tail swinging behind her. He looks down at the book in his hands and a warm feeling bubbles up in his chest.
She called me senpai! He exclaims to himself. And she was cute too! He jumps, pumping his fist in the air. He knew he was going to tell Tanaka about this later.
The next day at morning practice, Nishinoya was practically jumping out of himself to tell Tanaka about yesterday.
"Oi, Ryuu, Ryuu~" Nishinoya beckoned his friend.
Tanaka's attention perks up and he bounds over to Nishinoya, earning them the subtle attention of Tsukishima.
"What's up Noya-san?" Tanaka asks.
"I met this really cute girl in the library yesterday and she called me senpai! She was really tall and wants me to bring the book she got down for me to her later!" He enthuses wildly, flailing his arms in excitement.
"OOOOOH!" Tanaka exclaims in excitement. "What did she look like? What class is she in? Did she really call you senpai? Are you gonna introduce me?"
"She had this super long hair that was a redy-brown colour and these massive baby blue glasses and some Band-Aids on her face, and she's in class one-four! Yeah, she really called me senpai and why would I not introduce you?!" Nishinoya speeds though Tanaka's questions.
It's then when Tsukishima, after listening to their conversation while he practiced returns, started laughing at them. Nishinoya and Tanaka swung their head around, looking at Tsukishima with angered expressions.
Tsukishima holds his hands up and slows his laughter to a snicker before stopping. "That's Akiyama, she's in my class."
Nishinoya's eyes gleam in admiration. "Uuwa, really, what's she like? Is she taller than you?" Tanaka nods in tandem with his friend, equally hopeful to hear his answer.
"She's clumsy and freakishly tall, once she stood up to bow and her legs toppled the desk over." He snickers.
"Waa, clumsy girls are so cute!" Tanaka enthuses.
"Yeah sure, if you like idiots who don't understand the proportions of their body." Tsukishima shrugs, walking back to continue his practice.
Nishinoya and Tanaka look at each other and shrug, both of the boys running off to resume practice after being called out by Daichi.
Later that day during break, Nishinoya was waiting outside class one-four preparing himself to knock. Just when he was about to, Tsukishima came up from behind him and slid the door open.
"Akiyama, you have a visitor." He states, giving Nishinoya a devilish grin.
The short boy glares back at him as Tsukishima walks gallantly into his classroom. Looking past Tsukishima, he saw Akiyama pass him, noting that she was indeed taller than Tsukishima. Just as she was about to reach the door, she tripped and fell flat on her face. A few people looked her way, but paid her no mind, as if it were a common occurrence.
Nishinoya instantly bends down and offers his hand to her. Akiyama looks up at him, nose and forehead reddened from her face-to-ground meeting a few moments ago.
"Eya! Thank you, senpai." She says genuinely, taking his hand.
Her hand was warm and surprisingly not much bigger than his own hand. Nishinoya helped her up to her feet, once again being taken off guard by her height.
After a moment of staring at her, he remembers that he brought the book for her. "Oh, I brought you the history book you wanted." He says, offering it to her with both hands out.
Akiyama giggles and takes it. "Thank you, uhm, what's your name, senpai?"
"Nishinoya Yuu." He declares proudly.
"Ah, Nishitanoya-senpai." She says to herself. "Ah no, Nishinoya not Nishitanoya." Akiyama pulls a restrained face, as if she's punishing herself for saying his name wrong.
"It's fine Naru-san." He assures her.
Akiyama clasps her hands against her chest. "N-naru, you, ah…" She stutters nervously, blushing furiously. "Well, thank you for the brook— I mean book."
Akiyama bows quickly and Nishinoya blushes lightly, scratching the back of his head. "Heh, it's no big deal." He mutters.
Akiyama smiles brightly down at him.
"Naru!" Someone calls, its Yamaguchi.
"Coming, Tadashi!" She yells back. "Bye-bye, Nishinoya-senpai."
Nishinoya smiles as he watches her turn back into the room, nearly tripping over a desk as she heads over to Yamaguchi. Nishinoya wonders briefly how they know each other, and how they became so close. He would have to ask his kouhai about it later during practice.
When Nishinoya turns away to head back to class, he comes face to face with Tanaka, who's giving him a sly grin. Tanaka wraps an arm around Nishinoya's neck and gives him a quick noogie.
"Was that her?! You little brat, you said you'd introduce me." He laughs before releasing his friend and releasing a sigh. "Man… and she's cute too, though I didn't get a very good look."
"You know it! Did you hear her calling me senpai?" He says, prideful as ever.
"Hell yeah! You think she would call me senpai too?"
Nishinoya nods enthusiastically. "Apparently she and Tadashi are close," He puts his hand to the side of his mouth and whispers to Tanaka. "They use each other's given names and no honorifics."
Tanaka grins evilly and pumps his fists at his sides. "Wanna tease him for information later?"
"Do I?!" He exclaims in response, mocking Tanaka's knees-bent-legs-apart stance.
"Do you?!"
"Hell yeah!" Nishinoya jumps. This action earns him a few wayward glances from other students, but he ignores it.
Authors Comments:
This is my first Haikyuu! Fan-fiction and my first ever fan-fiction based from an anime/manga. I really wanted to write something using an OC and I hope this turns out well. Obviously this won't be a one-shot but I hope that I can continue it for a long time because I have some plans for the story. As for the whole OC thing, I'm not a super big fan of OC's in fan-fiction because every time I've read it, it seems like the OC is kinda shoe-horned into the story awkwardly. I'm going to try my best to, Y'know, not do that, by doing lots of research on character backgrounds and relationships.
********** AN EXPLANATION BELOW **********
I do have an explanation for when Akiyama Naru (OC) calls Nishinoya, Nishitanoya. Shita is the second half of antei shita (安定した) which means steady in Japanese. She calls him this on purpose but doesn't mean for him to hear it (even though he does). She's basically saying he's a steady/reliable person (because he helped her up when she fell), which is why he says it's fine (that and because she's a cute girl).