Chapter 7
Jammie: Merry Christmas everybody! *blows a party blower*
Yamaguchi: Wahoo! *swings around a noise maker*
Jammie: Okay we are all gonna do secret Santa!
Hinata: What's that?
Tsukishima: It's where a group of people place their names into a hat or box and mix them up. Each person then chooses one name from the hat/box, but doesn't tell anyone which name was picked. He/she is now responsible for buying a gift for the person selected.
Kageyama: How the hell does he know all this?
Yamaguchi: Tsukki is full of random facts
Jammie: So lets start the draw! *makes a top hat appear*
Hinata: How does she do that?
Kageyama: Because she's the author dumbass
Hinata: Fight me
Yamaguchi: Come on you to behave yourself, lets all pick a name out of the hat *Picks out a piece a paper*
Tsukishima: That's my Yamaguchi *picks a name out*
Jammie: Hinata, Kageyama, pick one
Hinata/Kageyama: Okay *both pick out names*
Jammie: Okay you all have until the end of the chapter to find the perfect gift for your person, so time to do the disclaimer.
Hinata: I'll do it, JAMMIE DOES NOT OWN HAIKYUU OR ANY OF IT'S CHARACTERS!
Kageyama: *scowls* I wanna swap my person
Yamaguchi: Well we all know who he has now
Jammie: You have to get something that the person would like, if you get anything bad or pointless then you have to do a dare.
Tsukishima: Sounds interesting
Yamaguchi: Enjoy the Chapter!
Yamaguchi started to climb up the mast, being extra mindful to be quite as to not disturb the blonde. Halfway up, Yamaguchi stopped to take a breath. He realised that it was not as easy to climb the mast as Tsukishima made it look. The tall boy must be pretty strong to manage to climb up so swiftly. Just the thought of Tsukki's strong arms holding him made Yamaguchi blush bright red.
"Wait... Tsukki?" Yamaguchi eyes widened as he realised he had unconsciously given Tsukishima a nickname. "Whatever you do Tadashi, do not any under circumstances called him that to his face." Yamaguchi ordered himself as he carried up the mast. When he got to the top he placed a hand onto the crows nest's floor and pulled himself up; just enough so his eyes were peaking up to see whether Tsukishima was still asleep. Tsukki's eyes were indeed closed; his very long eyelashes would make the prettiest girl alive jealous. His chest was slowly rising as he gently breathed in and out. Everytime he breathed out his breath would create small puffs of air caused by the cold night. If Yamaguchi was unsure that he was attracted to the blonde earlier, he was defiantly sure he was now. Yamaguchi shook his head to get that though out of his head. There's no way someone so perfect could like a guy who was so, well, imperfect. He was just a freckle faced, scrawny 18 year old. His hair is a dark, murky green colour with a flyaway piece of hair sticking up at the top that no amount of hair gel would keep it down. His mum always told him he was handsome, but he never took her seriously. He slowly pulled the rest of himself up until he was firmly onto the crows nest. There was a wooden chest at the west side of the nest; probably where Tsukishima stores all his navigation gear. The thing that got his attention the most was an antique telescope that was fixed to the floor an the outside rail, most likely to stop it from moving or falling off the nest. Yamaguchi tiptoed over to the telescope as to not wake up the blonde navigator. He was in awe at how beautiful it was.
The telescope was made of silver and black metal fixed to a matching tripod. It looked like it could be taken off the tripod to be used as a handheld one. Covering the spyglass end is a silver cap attached to the telescope by a silver linked chain. The tripod's hight could be adjusted to suit the users height. Yamaguchi looked behind him; Tsukishima was still out cold, so Yamagchi decided that he would take a sneaky peak through the telescope. He unscrewed the cap off the spyglass and placed it into the cap holder. Yamaguchi then adjusted the angle of the spyglass and looked through it. Suddenly, the stars in the sky that were billions of miles away now looked like they were so close that if you were to reach out you would touch them. He searched for the Sagittarious constellation, finding it with ease. Using the Archers arrow as a guide, Yamaguchi folowed the path to the heart of Scorpio; his zodiac constellation. He could have spent hours looking through the spyglass trying to spot every constellation in the sky, however, his plan was cut short as in one moment instead of seeing stars all he could see was pitch black.
"Are you purposely trying to get me to shoot you?" An all too familiar voice rang out just near Yamaguchi's ear, making him jump back from the telescope in suprise. He accidentally bumped into Tsukishima's chest, thank god he didn't knock him over. Yamaguchi turned around to face him. He didn't look too impressed; his right hand resting on his hip and his face in a stern scowl as to say 'what the hell were you thinking'.
"Why would I want you to shoot me?" Yamaguchi finally said, moving away from the telescope.
"Well, because since you set foot on this ship it seems like you are going out of your way to piss me off." Tsukishima scowled as he took a step towards Yamaguchi; which made the latter boy take a step back.
''It's not like I am meaning to though.''
''Could have fooled me, since not only are you hiding something from me but you are also up in the crows nest; which I know fully well that Nishinoya told you that the only person that is allowed up here is me.'' Tsukishima continued to move towards Yamaguchi until the freckled boy was right against the back rail. There was only a few inches of space in between them. '' So here is what is gonna happen, you have one minute to tell me what on earth possessed you to come up here, if I don't like your answer then I'll leave you up here. You can figure out how to get down yourself.''
Yamaguchi gulped nervously. He was hoping Tsukishima would understand why he was up here; since he was also interested in the stars, otherwise he wouldn't have become a Navigator. So he slowly nodded and began to speak.
''I just wanted to get as close to the stars as possible.'' Yamaguchi confessed quietly a she twiddled his thumbs. He looked up at Tsukishima to see that the tall boy's expression has softened a bit.
''Elaborate please.''
" I have always loved the stars, even when I was little. I would spend hours after nightfall looking out my window."
"Do you love them because there; as Hinata put it the first time, 'shiny'?" Tsukishima asked mockingly while air quoting the word shiny.
"Well they are beautiful, but thats not the main reason why I love them."
"Really, then what is?"
"The constellations; especially the Zodiac ones and the stories that they tell." Yamaguchi confessed, a small smile appearing on his face. He looked up at Tsukishima, who now looked very surprised at his answer.
"You know about constellations?"
"Yes, when I was little my mum bought me a telescope for my birthday. We spent every night having competitions to see who could find the constellation first." Yamaguchi explained excitedly.
"I see, it seems I have misjudged you." Tsukishima apologised as he finally stepped out of Yamaguchi's personal bubble. "I thought you just liked them because they are pretty, everyone one else on this ship does. Its quite rare that I encounter someone besides me who actually studies constellations."
"So your not going to leave me up here?"
"No, in fact, your welcome to come up here anytime I am; it would be nice to finally talk to someone who actually knows what I'm talking about."
"You serious, your not pulling my leg are you?"
"No, your welcome to come up anytime."
" Yay, thank you Tsukki!" Yamaguchi said without thinking.
"Tsukki?" Tsukishima repeated as he tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. Yamaguchi's hands shot up to cover his mouth.
"Oh my god im so sorry I didn't mean to say that outload. I won't say it again i promise."
"I like it."
"Wait, you do?" Yamaguchi relaxed as he watched Tsukki crossed his arms.
"Yeah, afterall, Tsukki does mean moon in japanese so I think its a pretty good nickname considering I love space. Did you want to call me that from now on?"
"I would like to, but only if you are sure that your fine with it."
"No it's a good idea, I'm suprised know one else gas thought about it before now."
"Okay Tsukki it is then." Yamaguchi smiled brightly. He could have sworn the blonde boy blushed for a second, but the smell off food that was wafting in the air made him think he was just imagining it.
"We should get down, Suga is probably just about done with supper." Tsukki said while he rubbed the back of head.
"Yeah, probably."
Tsukki walked over to a wooden pole with a hook attached to it. On the hook was what looked like some sort of harness; most likely used to do repairs on the masts. Tsukki grabbed the gear and walked back over to Yamaguchi.
"May I?" Tsukki asked for permission to strap Yamaguchi into the gear.
"Sure, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get down." Yamaguchi chuckled as he lifted up his arms for dramatic effect. Which made Tsukki chuckle too.
Tsukki held the harness by the back D-ring. He shook the harness to allow all straps to fall in place. He then slipped the shoulder straps over Yamaguchi's shoulders so the D-ring was located in middle of Yamaguchi's back between his shoulder blades. Tsukki then placed the leg straps on the floor and motioned for the freckled boy to step into it. Yamaguchi complied and stepped into the leg straps. He then pulled up the straps between legs and let Tsukki connect it to the waist strap. He then grabbed a thick ripe with a metal clasp on the end. He then fixed the clasp to the D-ring on the back of the chest strap.
"Okay your all set to go. Just make your way down the ladders, if you slip then the harness will stop you from falling."
"What about you?"
"Don't worry, I will come down when your down safely."
"How exactly?"
"You'll see." Tsukishima smirked as he grabbed Yamaguchi by the shoulders and pivoted him towards the ladders to get back onto deck. "Just take it slow okay?"
" Obviously, I don't fancy falling." Yamaguchi breathed in and out and started the climb down; reachin the bottom with ease. Once he got down, Yamaguchi unfastened himself and stepped out of the harness. "So how are you getting down?"
"Like this." Tsukki replied, before grabbing the rope and backing up. Then without warning lept of the crows nest; swinging elgantly down until his feet planted onto the deck. Yamaguchi was gobsmacked as to what he had just witnessed.
" You will catch flies if you keep your mouth open like that." Tsukki smirked as he took the harness from Yamaguchi.
" That was so cool!" Yamaguchi said excitedly as he clapped.
"Thanks, it is really fun to do, maybe I'll teach you how to do it while your travelling with us."
" That would be awesome, but right now all I care about is food."
"Me too, lets head to the kitchen." Tsukki advised as he started to walk towards the kitchen. Yamaguchi smiled to himself and he followed Tsukki.
God he was falling so hard.
Jammie: Chapter 7 done!
Hinata: Time to swap xmas gifts!
Kageyama: Here Tsukishima *gives Tsukishima a present*
Tsukki: I knew you had me; it was written all over your face
Yamaguchi: I got you Kageyama! *gives gift*
Hinata: I got Yamaguchi, its to go with your french fry plushie I got you for your birthday *gives gift*
Tsukki: which means I got Hinata, so easy to buy for *gives gift*
Yamaguchi: Same with Kageyama
Hinata: How come?
Jammie: Because the only thing you like is volleyball
Kageyama: True
Jammie: So Tsukki what did you get?
Tsukishima: A dinosaur jigsaw puzzle
Yamaguchi: Nice
Jammie: What about you Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi: Hinata got me a matching hamburger plushie for my fries plushie
Jammie: And Kageyama?
Kageyama: I got a n official Japan Volley ball jersey with a number nine on it
Hinata: Omg me too, just with a 10 instead of a nine.
Jammie: Good gift giving guys, no dares for today
Tsukishima: Boring
Yamaguchi: I was sure Kageyama would have to do a dare
Kageyama: You underestimate me
Jammie: Anyway, I hope you all have a good xmas and a happy new year!
Yamaguchi: see you all in the new year!