Animefreak112097- thanks for the review! I personally am not for the whole car accident amnesia thing- but the idea about Rui having problems with basketball and making Koshi feel bad is definitely going to be a part of this fic!

Aquafin- thanks for another review! I know, the drama got real last chapter, but this chapter is so fluffy and adorable (and corny, but I couldn't help it…), I'm sure you'll love it!

Deadlywhisper51 I'm glad you've enjoyed the fic so far! Here's the next chapter, I was away for quite a while and I will be again, so sadly I'm not sure when updates will be, but for now, I hope this satisfies you!

Third Person

The smack of a spike reaches the floor as a successful spike from Asahi goes through, but as his feet land on the floor the creaking of the gym doors is heard, and attention is drawn to the silver-haired upper-classman. The practice carries on, but is particularly distracted, as eyes dart towards the second setter.

One person in particular, has his attention drawn away, a raven-haired setter, who mutters an apology before running towards Suga.

"Sugawara-san, where is Rui?" Kageyama asks, but all he receives is an irritated glance.

"Suga!" The captain runs over, approaching his second warily. "What's the matter?"

"It doesn't matter." Suga mutters.

"Where's Rui?" Kageyama repeats.

"It doesn't matter." Suga repeats.

"Did you have an argument?" Daichi asks. "Come on, Suga."

Sugawara meets eyes with his captain warily. "Of course, we had an argument. She's always butting in where she doesn't belong, no one needs her perfection." The frustration is clear in his voice, and even Daichi steps back slightly.

"She came here to get closer to you." Kageyama says neutrally, not wanting to get on the bad side of his senpai, but wanting to back up his friend.

Suga scoffs. "I don't care why she came here, she just shouldn't. She should've gone and played with her own friends."

"That's a bit hard." There's surprise throughout the room as Tsukishima's voice is heard. "Seeing as she doesn't have any."

"Shut up, baka!" Kageyama snaps.

"Don't kid me." Sugawara says seriously to Tsukishima.

Tsukishima leans back cockily, his glasses flashing. "What, didn't you know? It's the truth, she doesn't have any… though I guess you could count this idiot as a friend."

"Rui has friends! She's so friendly!" Hinata interjects, but quickly silences at the intense look from Sugawara.

"She's friendly, but has no friends. I hear some girls in my class talking about it- they don't approach her because she's too good for them. Top grades, national champion, she won the Point Guard award as a first year." Tsukishima lists, before looking directly at Sugawara. "You're blind if you haven't seen that."

Sugawara's jaw tightens, but doesn't say anything.

"Come on guys, let's go back to practice." Daichi says seeing the brewing look on Sugawara's face.

"She spends all her spare time on you. It's not much, with the amount of time she spends studying and on basketball, not to mention reading." Kageyama says icily, looking through the window. "It's quite easy to notice none of her friends are ever at your house."

Sugawara lifts his gaze to the first year who took his place, and can't hide the conflict in his eyes.

"Where's Rui?" Kageyama asks again.

"I don't know." Sugawara replies, and Kageyama's eyes widen.

"You don't know?"

"She ran off."

"She ran off? There's basically a storm out there are you crazy?!" Kageyama yells, before grabbing his volleyball jacket as he runs for the door.

"Kageyama!" There are shouts behind him, but he sprints straight out the door, and towards the exit of the school. There are no signs as to where she had gone, but he's already soaked to the bone, and he needs to find her.

He runs past the school gates, and crosses the road, but realises he has no idea where she would've gone. Somehow his instinct tells him she wouldn't have gone anywhere special, would've wanted to be anywhere. So he just carried on running, the jacket under his t-shirt to be kept dry.

Rui's POV

My legs had stopped running. I'm in a park, though I'm not sure which one, sitting on the floor leaning against the leg of a bench. I'm not really sure if I'm crying anymore, it's all just mixed with rain.

What used to be an overwhelming feeling of sadness has just emptied out to a point where my mind is empty. I can't think. It's just the drips of rain onto my skin that gives some substance to my mind.

"Rui! Rui!" I hear shouting, but can't bring my head to move, but my eyes slowly turn. I recognise that voice.

"Rui?" His image is blurred by the rain, but his tall figure is something my brain can easily process. There's a warmth on my shoulder, and I look up.

"Tobio?"

"Come on Rui." He murmurs softly, before reaching underneath my arms to lift me onto my feet. It's then that the shivers start. "Rui?" I can't move my legs forward, and before I know it my feet are off the ground.

He carries me to a sheltered area of the park, and sits down on a bench with me still in his arms.

"Here, I have a jacket." He tells me, but I can barely move, my arms are numb and wracking with shivers. He takes out his issued Karasuno jacket, which feels warm to touch, but my mumbled brain seems to remember some form of sense.

"Wait." I murmur, before peeling my school shirt from my form, unaware of the violent blush adorning Tobio's cheeks. I have a cropped vest top on underneath that's also wet, but soon Tobio moves my numbed arms into his jacket, and it instantly starts to warm me up.

A sense of presence returns to me and I blink with a blush as I realise I am sitting on Tobio's lap sideways after he carried me bridal style over here. Not to mention I'm curled into him, and his arms are wrapped firmly around me.

"Where are we?" I ask softly.

"It's a park, on the east side of school." Tobio tells me. "Are you okay?"

He doesn't mention Koshi, and I'm glad he doesn't because though I can avoid thinking about him too hard, if he's brought up I'll probably start crying again.

"Mmhm. How did you find me… in fact why are you even out here? You'll freeze!" I say to him, but trail off realising I did exactly the same.

"I had to find you of course, I couldn't have you freezing either." He says, though suddenly turns slightly mechanical. My head is resting against his chest, and my hands are clutching his sweatshirt, the rain still pouring down around us.

"… thanks for finding me Tobio." I murmur, looking him straight in the eye. "You're the only one I really care about right now." I say softly, and the light blush that lights up his face mirrors onto mine, slightly more fiery as I realise how corny that just sounded.

My blush turns stronger as he doesn't reply, and look away, deciding to just snuggle into his warmth and ignore how close that was to saying I liked him.

"I couldn't just leave you out here… I…" Tobio trails off, looking extremely embarrassed. "… I care about you too." He keeps his eyes firmly away from me as a small but joyful smile adorns my face.

"I'm serious, Tobio. Thank you." I repeat, and he finally looks back at me, and I'm taken aback at just how close our faces are, and my eyes flicker to his lips before I can think.

Then all of a sudden there's a startling heat on my lips, and my eyes widen as Tobio's face is that much closer. Butterflies erupt in my stomach as my eyes flutter close and I kiss back before he could think otherwise. His lips start to move tentatively against mine and I turn my body to face his, and my arms move up to rest on his shoulders.

By the time the rain has stopped, one of his hands rest tightly against my waist, his other holding my wet hair back as now my arms are resting on his shoulders and my hands threaded through his hair in attempt to get closer.

"Hm?" As I realise the outside has gotten lighter as the clouds depart, I pull away blushing.

We meet eyes and start blushing as I put a little more distance between our bodies.

"It's still drizzling… but my house is nearby. We can go and get warm." Tobio suggests to me, the dark flush still on his cheeks.

"That's probably a good idea." I nod, and as I move to get off his lap, Tobio takes my hand.

"It's this way." He murmurs, leading me into the light drizzle. We jog lightly and it barely takes a minute to reach a five storey apartment complex, and he pulls me inside. He doesn't let go of my hand as he takes me in the lift, and presses the button to the fourth floor.

"Will your parents be in?" I ask nervously, realising I'm really only in a tiny vest top and Tobio's jacket.

"No. My dad's away a lot on business trips, and my mum is visiting her friend in Tokyo who's in hospital I think." Tobio says, but somehow that doesn't calm my nerves. We just kissed… for the first time, and now we're going to his home alone? There's no point denying it, I've liked him for a bit now, but…

Tobio types in a passcode and the door unlocks, and we go into a spacious kitchen with cool white and pale blue décor. Around the corner I can see a spacious lounge and a set of stairs going up. Much more spacious than I anticipated… Tobio's family must be better off than I realised.

"Do you want to shower to get warm? I have clothes you can wear." Tobio says scratching the back of his neck, and I realise my school skirt and socks are still completely soaked, not to mention my hair and I'm still cold despite the heating.

"Okay." I say, sniffing slightly. I hope I don't get ill from this, though I can't say I regret running out if it resulted in my first kiss with Tobio.

"This way." He says and I follow him up the stairs, and into a room with light grey walls, a dark wood bed, navy sheets and light blue curtains. This must be his room. It's got almost nothing in it, a dark wood desk with some random schoolwork that must have been due last week, some weights lying on the floor, and stacks of manga. But it's all very orderly and tidy.

Tobio moves over to a dark wood wardrobe, and pulls out a t-shirt and some trackies for me, though I can tell straight away they'll be massive on me. He takes my hand again and a small smile gets back on my face as he leads me into his adjoining bathroom.

"Here, you just turn this." After showing me how to use his shower he hurries out of the room, and I smile lightly with a chuckle. As I undress and get into the shower, my mind is laden with thoughts. Does this mean we're in a relationship? I mean we haven't talked about it, but he did move to kiss me, does that mean he likes me? We certainly can't go back to how we were before, I won't be able to look at him without blushing.

I wonder what people will think. The volleyball club, especially Tanaka-san has been hinting at it plenty, but the others… Koshi.

I had almost forgotten our earlier argument. Almost. I don't know what to do. I didn't think helping out at the volleyball club made him so angry, I didn't realise something like that could. He said he didn't want my help, but I wasn't helping… I guess I can understand that but I didn't help out in order to actually help, I helped out because I wanted to spend more time with him. I thought things were getting better, but nothing's changed. It may have even gotten worse.

I step out the shower with a grim look on my face, though a lot warmer. I take one of the dark blue towels from the heating rack and dry my body and hair, then move to put Tobio's clothes on. As I loop the black t-shirt over my head, I almost sweat drop as it drops right above my knees. It's longer than my school skirt. I decide not to bother with the trackies, so just tread out in the very oversized t-shirt.

Tobio is lying on his bed, flicking through the mange book that was on his bedside table, and he puts it down straight away as he looks up. I notice how he had it open before his bookmark though.

"Are you alright?" He asks and I nod, putting his trackies down on the side. I can't help the heavy sigh that leaves me after my thinking in the shower, and before I know it Tobio's hand lies on my shoulder.

"I… er… do you want to talk about it?" Tobio stutters slightly, obviously not used to the situation. I normally make up a good amount of our conversation after all.

"Not really." I murmur, but proceed to anyway. "I just don't know what to do about him anymore. He doesn't want me around."

"I'm sure he doesn't mean that." Tobio consoles, pulling me to sit down on his bed.

"He does Tobio! He kept on saying how he didn't want my help, and how I shouldn't be around the volleyball team." I say looking down at the floor. "He said none of you want a winner around loser, and that I'm on the other side. But I'm not."

"He's just upset because of the interhigh… we all are. It's a natural reaction to hate the winners, he's just letting it out on you instead of Seijoh since they're not around." Tobio reasons with me, and I'm aware of his hand stroking my back as I move to lean into him more.

"But don't you hate me then?"

"I hate Oikawa. He's my enemy. You're not on the winning side in volleyball anyway, you're on my side." He murmurs. "And we just happen to be the losers this time. Not next time though."

I look up to him and realise I hadn't even talked to him about his loss either, since he was avoiding everyone before volleyball practice.

"Not next time. You're stronger than that." I tell him. "Think about all the extra time you'll have to practice with Hinata. Think about all the time you'll have to pick up new strategies. Volleyball is a team sport, more so than basketball by so far, that you winning the interhigh would've been so hard with such little time together. You'll be ready this time."

Tobio meets eyes with me, and a determined smile reaches his face.

"We'll be ready this time. I officially appoint you my training buddy." He tells me.

"Huh?"

"Well… you used to play setter, but you can spike my tosses too, not to mention… well you… you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I don't notice things like you do."

"You mean people things. Like Tshukishima's feint? He can do a lot more than that." I say to him. "Hinata can probably expand his different types of attacks too. His normal fast attacks are quite predictable for the higher teams. A feint for him would be a great idea too."

"See? You're already helping. You can bring your study books to practice, I won't keep you from them." Tobio says with a grin and I smile. How can he have made me smile so quickly?

"I don't know what I'm going to do at home though. If we didn't avoid each other enough… mum and dad keep on pushing for us to get closer, they'll notice when Koshi starts glaring at me throughout dinner." I murmur sadly. "I don't want to go home."

"… You can stay here if you want." Tobio's voice is incredibly quiet and unsure, as I glance up to him slightly surprised. "I mean- only if you're comfortable with it, we have a spare room, and of course no your parents will be expecting you and-"

"I'd love to stay… if it's alright with you. I can text my mum now?" I question as Tobio was slowly winding himself tighter and tighter.

"… yeah." He mutters.

"You should shower too Tobio, you're still wet." I say to him. He nods and stands slightly stiffly as I move to my stuff to get my phone. I quickly text my mum, making the simple excuse of staying over at Chou-chan's for basketball practice. It's a straight lie, though Chou-chan is in the basketball club she's nowhere near as dedicated as I am, we basically only talk about first-year stuff, but she's my closest friend other than Tobio. I go downstairs and take a face-value look around his family's apartment. They have a spare room, so that means three bedrooms, Tobio has his own bathroom and there's another main bathroom. The lounge and kitchen are very spacious, with a space set with a table and what seems to be a study further along.

I find my way into the kitchen, and root around in the draws. I know I'm hungry, which means Tobio must be twice as hungry, so I find a pack of prawn-flavored noodles and start to put three portions into boiling water. Just as I open the fridge and find multiple packs of chicken thighs, I hear Tobio coming down the stairs, and try not to stare too hard as he's just wearing a t-shirt and shorts, but as he ruffles his damp hair with a towel he looks so… adorable, handsome, gorgeous… I could go on.

"I'm cooking noodles, I thought you'd be hungry by now." I say, and start dicing some chicken up.

"Thanks." He says shortly.

"If you're parents are away do you cook? There's a lot of chicken in the fridge." I question him, and he blinks slightly.

"I can cook egg. My mum told me how to cook a chicken omelette, but I burnt it and haven't tried again." He says bluntly, and I can't help but chuckle. It suits him to not be able to cook.

"Can you cook rice, noodles?" I ask.

"I burn them."

"How do you burn rice?" I laugh lightly, and he smiles slightly.

"You'll just have to come over and cook for me." He says, and I smile back, trying to ignore the somersaults my stomach is in.

We stay in silence as he plays on his phone while I finish up chicken noodles with beansprouts, spring onion and radish which I found in the fridge, and we go over to the table to eat.

And all of a sudden it's even quieter.

We both keep on glancing up at each other as we eat, and I'm sure we're both thinking about the same thing. That kiss.

"Tobio-"

"Rui-"

I cut off and motion for him to continue, but he's also shut up.

"You speak first." I tell him, and a deep blush spirals across his face once more for this evening.

"Er… um… Ifskinddofsflidkesdfyou" He mumbles, and I barely catch a word he's saying, but I somehow get the jist.

"Hm?"

Tobio sighs, and looks up at me.

"I like you, Rui." He says softly, and as his blush deepens mine does as my lips part.

"I like you too Tobio." I murmur back.

"Will you be my… uh… girlfriend?" Tobio looks extremely uncomfortable even saying the word, and I smile. The fact he even had the courage to speak about this warms me, the fact that he's actually doing this-

"Yes. Of course, Tobio." I say warmly, picking up both our dishes. I purse my lips for a second, and before I can take it back I lean down and peck him on the cheek. I see his eyes widen in surprise, but turn away and hurry towards the kitchen before I can see the rest of his reaction.

Only seconds later his arms are curled tightly around me and he's pecked me back on the cheek.

"You don't get to surprise me like that." He grumbles and I lean my head back onto his shoulder with a smile.

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Third Person

After they put the dishes away, Rui insisted on looking through his manga selection, filled with sword-fighting action manga, her favorite as well. After picking one she hadn't read before, they sat down on his bed.

"Rui?" Kageyama had looked at the time realising how late it was, and that they should get to sleep soon. But when he looked up, his girlfriend was fast asleep, sitting on his bed leaning against the headboard. Girlfriend. He couldn't believe what had happened today. Sure, he knew since they first had lunch on the roof that he liked her. Easy to talk to, into sports, intelligent, not to mention extraordinarily beautiful. She definitely didn't realise it, but the he'd heard it everywhere, Sugawara Rui, gorgeous long charcoal grey hair, tall for Japanese, yet she had curves most didn't possess. On multiple occasions Kageyama had had to remind himself to stop staring at her body, but his subconscious had been traitorous. Even now, his eyes followed the curve of her waist in between the more voluminous parts of her body, and then her pale toned legs lying out before her.

He shook his head, determined not to let his thoughts wonder. It's not like she was sleeping, in his bed, in his home, with no one else around. Oh shit.

He went to move her so she was lying much more comfortably in the bed, and lifted her under the covers, bookmarking his favourite manga she was reading. But as he tried to move away from her sleeping form, her hand that he had been holding pulled, and he tripped forward.

She sighed in her sleep, and brought his hand closer and proceeded to wrap her arms round his whole arm, not wanting him to leave.

He should really leave. What would it look like? She's only just become his girlfriend, and then sleeping together in the same bed?

His mind was conflicted. But then, she let out… a whimper, and he felt his sensible mind melt. There was no way in hell he was going to leave her after the ordeal she had gone through today.

So, he lifted up the covers, and slipped in closer, pointedly ignoring how she nuzzled into his chest and curled herself closer.

Another chapter up! Sorry I've been away, I've been on holiday, not to mention I probably won't be able to update for at least a fortnight from now as well, but I hope you can bear with me! This chapter… omg there was so much fluff, I know, I didn't intend for it to be so cheesy, with them stopping their first kiss as the rain stopped, and the awkward will you be my girlfriend, but I just had to! Also, if anyone thinks they're going fast for a fifteen year old relationship, I don't know what it's actually like in japan, so I'm just going on my experiences, and though fifteen is quite young for a proper relationship, this is supposed to be canon so oh well. Not to mention this fic will be more on the adult side, definitely in comparison to the manga/anime, hence why this is rated T, and in my mind, Rui and Kageyama have been close friends for a could couple of months, and they're just a fast-moving couple. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed this fluffy adorable chapter! Read and review as always!