Hinata feels like he just hit by a bomb.
It must be my imagination, Hinata try to convince himself. What he just heard didn't make sense to him.
"I'm sorry Hinata. This Sunday I have a date with someone so I can't teach you and Kageyama".
Yachi has a date. Yachi, the beloved manager of Karasuno High School Volleyball Club has a boyfriend. Hinata can't believe his ears.
"Yachi-san... So you have a boyfriend? Since when you go out with him? Why you never tell me about him before?"
Yachi touch her blondie hair and play with it nervously.
"He doesn't exactly my boyfriend. He just asked me to accompany him". Her cheeks become red from shyness.
"We met in a match and he asked for my phone number. We've been texting each other for sometime now. Just yesterday he asked me to go out together with him."
Hinata has been wondering how Yachi able to be acquainted with other boys, considering she spent 90% of her free time with the boys in Karasuno Volleyball Club. It turns out she know him from a volleyball match.
"Who is he? Do I know him?"
Yachi become even more embarrassed. "I guess you know him too, Hinata".
Hinata staring at Yachi intensely, as if demanding Yachi to swiftly answer his question.
"Ehmm..Uh.. Errr.. He is Yahaba-san".
"Yahaba? You mean the current setter of Aoba Johsai?"
"Yes".
And that's the story how Hinata, Kageyama and Yamaguchi now end up in the front door of Tsukishima's house.
Hinata was incredibly reluctant at first when Yachi suggest him to study together with Tsukishima. Didn't Yachi already know how much a pain in the ass this creature named Tsukishima? Moreover so when he teach me. He's so easily irritated although I'm not even that stupid. How can I survive a day with Tsukishima when all this time I've been taught by an extremely kind people like Yachi? It's like meeting a demon after spending time with a Goddess!
However, the exam is near so of course Hinata can't afford to get red mark again like last year if he want to train in Tokyo with Nekoma and Fukurodani. Hinata didn't have much of the choice when he and Kageyama asked Tsukishima to teach them for a day.
The door is opened by Tsukishima's mom.
"Oh, Tadashi! You come to meet Kei? Are they Kei's friends too?"
"Yes, aunty. They are also from Karasuno Volleyball Club. We come to study together"
"Nice to meet you, Mrs. Tsukishima. I'm Hinata"
"I'm Kageyama. We're sorry if we bother you"
"It's a pleasure to meet you. Come inside! Please don't be shy"
Yamaguchi and the oddball duo come inside Tsukishima's house
"Please sit down. Kei! Your friends are coming!"
Tsukishima doesn't look so happy when he saw them but they study together anyway.
"At this time, Yachi-san must be on a date with that guy. I wonder what will she wear on her first date. Is she laugh and smile together with him now?". Yamaguchi suddenly talk about Yachi's date when they study English.
"Ah.. I'm sorry. I just remember about that because the previous question is about inviting people to go to dinner with you", said Yamaguchi with sullen face.
"Yamaguchi. You have a crush on Yachi, didn't you? You often pay attention to her" Hinata staring straight at Yamaguchi. Tsukishima glance at Yamaguchi, observing his reaction.
Kageyama glare at Hinata, "Hinata dumbass. How could you just straight up asked something about that?"
"It's alright, Kageyama. I always think Yachi is cute but all this time I'm not really sure if I have a feeling for her. I thought I like her as a friend. Now after heard that she goes on a date with someone else, I kind of feeling... disappointed?"
Hinata fold his hands on the table, "To be honest I still can't accept that she goes on a date with that Yahaba dude from Aoba Johsai. I was pretty sure she likes Kageyama".
Kageyama startled, "Eh? It can't be! If there's someone that he like, isn't it Yamaguchi? Both of you often talk together and look close".
"Oh, I see. You guys just don't get it, right? Just because some people often talk together with you, it doesn't mean that she has a feeling on you. How can you don't realize that all this time Yachi has a crush on Hinata?" Tsukishima said it with that distinctive smug look on his face.
Yamaguchi stare at Tsukishima, "But all this time I thought she likes you Tsukki. Your brother told me that she seems to pay a great deal of attention to you".
"Hah? How can that be? She always look at Hinata with sparkling eyes, often blush when she see him. Not to mention that admiration look on her face whenever she see Hinata spike".
"Really? She look at me like that? Not really surprise though because I think I look the coolest when I spike. But I think Yachi's nature is just like that. She's so good at paying attention to other people".
Kageyama nods in agreement, "Since she's so kind to all of us, maybe she just think us as her important friends. After all now she's dating Yahaba-san".
"I'm shocked when I first heard it from Yachi. I don't expect that she's been close with a boy. She doesn't look like she's in love. Not that I understand what is love though" Hinata started remembering Yachi's behaviour lately. There's no difference with how she's usually behave.
Yamaguchi asked, "Hinata, haven't you experience falling in love yet?"
Hinata think for a while, "I feel shy whenever I see someone so gorgeous, but that's just it. How could you know that you likes someone as a friend or more than a friend though?"
"If you happy whenever you close with that people, if your heart flutter when you see them smile, if you always think of them, those are signs that you're in love", Tsukishima start listing the behaviour of someone in love.
Suddenly there's flash of memories come into Hinata's head. Depicting a scene where he fell into Tsukishima's arm. While looking into Tsukishima's golden brown eyes, his heart was racing. That scene might be the most embarrassing scene in his life. To fall into another man's arm in a pose similar to a groom lift up his bride on his embrace is a memories that he want to erase forever. But strangely, that scene always pop out of his memories in the most random times. Like now.
Suddenly Hinata become curious, "You sound like an expert in this Tsukishima. Have you ever falling in love before? Don't tell me you already have many girlfriends"
"Whether I have falling in love before or haven't yet, whether I already have a girlfriend or not, what difference does it make? By the way, this not important topic has took much of our study time. You better answer the next question fast or come back home."
"Alright, Tsukishima sensei!"
And with that they resume their study time.
The probability that Tsukishima might likes someone crossed Hinata's mind and somehow his heart feels heavy.
Seriously though, what difference does it make? It's not like something would change between us if that probability become reality.
