Part 4 : Soft
It was raining hard. Tsukishima stayed after school to make up a test he wasn't present for so Yamaguchi walked home alone. Well, he forgot to bring his umbrella, so now he sat outside of the school, waiting for the rain to let up. His parents didn't answer the phone when he called and he wasn't really friends with his teammates, so he didn't bother with them either.
He sighed. At this rate, he wouldn't even get home today. It was raining pretty harshly and running home in this weather was a sure-fire way to get sick. A cold wind swooped in and took the remainder of his body heat. Great. Now he was cold, too.
"Still here?" Yamaguchi looked up to see Kirigo in running shoes with some sweatpants on and a huge jacket that was way too big for her. It seemed that she just got back from a jog.
'Always working so hard,' he thought. She looked like a bit of a mess, but it was strangely refreshing to see her like this. He literally shook the thoughts away to answer her with a blush.
"Yeah. Tsukki is staying to make up a big exam." She looked at him.
"I'm not asking about Tsukishima. I'm asking about you." He blinked and his face got hot again.
"Right. I forgot my umbrella and I'm not really friends with anyone else..." He looked down, realizing how pathetic that sounded.
"Let me walk you home." She grabbed her umbrella from her bag and opened it, waiting for him.
"What?" He watched her. Yamaguchi never expected her to be so nice with how she usually acted when they had joint practice.
"Do you want to get sick? Or stay here all night?"
"No..."
"Let's go."
"B-but you'll get home really late! My house is far away-and and-"
"Stop thinking about others for once." She grabbed his hand and yanked him up, forcefully, before pulling him close to her and under the umbrella. He blushed at how close he was. The walk home was silent with the exception of the loud rain and shuffling of feet on gravel.