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Yuu takes a good hold around the object, hoisting it up to his back.
"You alright?" he turns back to ask the girl, still fumbling with her jacket. They didn't have anything better so Karasuno's uniform was handed to her. Chicchan still has her right arm up, holding her shoulder stable enough for it to heal. Good grief this girl.
"I'm just having a bit of a problem with the zip. It's fine," she answers, "You don't have to wait for me."
"Dumbass," the libero smiles at her, almost forgetting fully the fact that she can't see him. He walks to the troubled girl, pulling the zip of the jacket up for her and re-adjusting it to fit her posture as he says, "It's your discharge celebration. How the hell do you expect me to leave you and go on ahead?"
He pulls her arm, the good one, "Come on," Yuu orders, "My mom isn't one to be kept waiting."
The boy turns his head slightly towards Chicchan, a grin spreads across his face when he sees that the girl was smiling too. It wasn't a big reassuring grin like the ones she used to give them before a match. This time, it's something gentle and shy. A Chicchan that he doesn't know. A Chicchan he has never seen before.
And his smile becomes wider as Yuu pulls on her hand to follow him, his heart skips with excitement.
He watches as she and his mother prepare dinner, smiling as they go about whatever conversation they are having. Even when he is simply sitting in the living room, with the TV on, just watching (or pretending to watch) the news, he can still see into the kitchen thanks to his house's weird structure. The boy blames his mother, because when they reform the house the structure turned out like this. She must have built it so that he can't sneak up behind her back when she's watching drama and get extra snacks. Gosh.
A laughter catches his attention. It was Chicchan's.
She seems so much better now. Absolutely much better than a few days ago. It's a foreign sight too. Sure the libero has seen her smiling before, laughing even, but there was always something in that happiness of hers that made him uncomfortable, made him feel unsafe, made him worried.
Now, the Chicchan that he is seeing, there is not a trace of doubt in her laughs. For the first time in the longest of times that he has been acquainted with her, Yuu actually sees her happy. He actually sees her enjoying the atmosphere in her most genuine nature. The surprised look on the girl's face as his mother comment on how she can just eat her up. The chuckle as response coming from her. The shining and relaxing aura around Chicchan... It's like everything bad surrounding her from the day he saw her slammed her whole face into the wall on the roof has disappeared.
The boy finds himself glad, in his chest warm and fuzzy. They say men don't do warm and fuzzy, well, they can go and fuck themselves. He is seeing Chicchan happily spending her time around his mother and appreciating it. That's as far as manliness can get. Be happy when someone you care about are happy.
"What's wrong, Yuu-chan?" his mother's words startle the boy, "Your face is weird."
"Well," he snorts, "YOU gave me this face didn't you. Sure you wanna comment something like that?"
"I see you still have time to smart talk with me, huh?" she smiles, the kind of smile when she's about to murder his pops when he comes home drunk. And Yuu just knows that unfortunate fate is about to fall on him as well, "Go get the dishes out ASAP, or you ain't getting any meat today!"
"Wha-?" the boy gasps, "you can't forbid a man from eating meat! It's like a must!"
"Wow, you know the word 'forbid', how smart of you, Yuu-chan. How about you get a decent score on the test for once, son?" she carries on the mockings, "So, are you gonna take the dishes or am i going to have to make you?"
"Right away, ma'am." the libero says, bolting from the chair he's sitting in. Ain't no way he's letting her take away the meat!
Chicchan is still struggling with the spices he sees. Struggling... Hm... Considering would be a more accurate word. She looks a bit troubled but doesn't seem like she's entirely lost at what she's doing.
"Need any help?" Yuu offers.
"Oh," the girls looks towards him, "Nah. I'm fine. I was just wondering which spice is what. You know, in case the soup tastes bland."
"I'm sure it tastes fine," he sighs at her, laughing as he does, "And even if it doesn't, I'll just go and get the spice anyway. 'side I trust your cooking more than I trust my mom's-"
"I heard that!" his mother's voice echoes from the living room. "I love you!" he instantly yells back in return, trying to save his ass.
Before he can react, Chicchan opens the cupboard doors next to him and reaches up. A bit startled by the close proximity created by her, the boy stumbles back a few steps, quickly regains his composure, however and steals the dishes from her first.
"I got this," he claims, "You already helped with the cooking. Go enjoy yourself. I'll catch up with the dishes and bows later-"
"It's alright really," she smiles, again that shy and gentle one, "But if you insist," she takes half of the stuff from him, "We can divide the work. That way we can walk together and enjoy the food together. It's always better when everyone is gathered, right?"
Yuu scratches on his nose, his face a bit hot. Guiltily he steals a glance at the girl, her amber eyes staring into the air, almost like she was looking for something, but her smile is undeniable. Chicchan means what she said.
"Damn Chicchan," he chuckles, "You're so cool."
"Huh? What's that about?"
"Nothing." Yuu shakes his head, signaling her with his voice, "Let's go. I'm starving!"
"I hear you were the manager of the team?" his father speaks, eyes locked-on at the hotpot about to be well-done.
Chicchan doesn't seem to be impatient like the man sitting in front of her. She munches on her chopsticks, humming for a few second before answers, ''Well, I help around with manager's work but mostly I'm more on the coaching side I suppose?"
"Yep!" Yuu nods at her words, "Chicchan is real bad-ass when it come to receives."
"Language!" his mother warns before cracking a smile, "For my son to say something like that, you must be a really good player." she comment, making him blushes, "I mean he might be an idiot but he still won best libero award after all!"
"'Idiot' is unnecessary mom." the boy scolds, chowing down the content of his bow as soon as Chicchan hands him back the bow now full of meat. The soup was hotter than he initially thought, and frankly speaking, he wants to cry out from the pain in his tongue but doing that would just make him look more like an idiot and prove that his mother is right.
While the libero is still busy wondering about how he's going to alleviate the pain in his mouth, and speaks normally, his father proceeds to question their guest.
"So, how's your family?" he asks
And Chicchan's answer froze the atmosphere, shooting bullets through the boy's heart. Hell, through all of their hearts to be honest.
"I don't have any," she says, "My parents are divorced and my mother just passed away a few days ago. At least that's what I heard from the people working in the asylum."
"Oh." Yuu's father drops an awkward response. Truth to be told, he wouldn't know what else is better to say either except for 'oh'.
Like he has never heard her talking about her family members before, so he just assumes that they were away and Chicchan was just the brave girl coming to Miyagi to live alone. He has always meant to ask but now that his father did and this girl just drops the bomb on them like a big "Fuck you. Mind your own business." on them, Yuu is at loss of what to say in reply. He feels extremely bad too, knowing that her mother just died and according to what she said about "a few days ago", the libero concludes that her mother's death was exactly the reason why she left them before the match with Seijoh.
You fucked up, man. A little voice inside his head reminds.
"I see." the boy's mother clears her throat, smiling. Repeat: smiling. "I'm sorry to hear that," she continues, "But how about you become one of our family, hm?"
His mother leans closer, grabbing him by the shoulders and shines on Chicchan the brightest freaking smile he had ever seen from her. "I mean," she says, "this one might not looks like much, but he's still a man."
THE F-
"Mom!" Yuu shouts, embarrassed, "It's during dinner!"
"Doesn't make it any less true!" his mother defends, "And I can't let you get on like this without a girlfriend! You're almost 20 for goodness sake!"
"Wha-"
"Plus, I think it's weird too." she leans in closer, almost like she wants to study his face or something, "Is it possible that you swing the other way? you know, you're awfully close with-"
"Mom!" he chokes on the soup, "Would you please stop?! You're embarrassing me!"
"You're embarrassing yourself!" she counters.
But before he libero can comment anything, he hears a laugh. No, not a light chuckles or giggles. A full out laugh. Her laugh.
He stops and look at the girl. She seems awfully and thoroughly amused just by the amount of laughter she's producing.
"Y- Your family i-is funny!" Chicchan coughs between fits.
Yuu lets out a sigh, settling back on his chair, a bit irritated that his dad has taken all the meat when they wasn't paying attention. Vegetables it is then, the boy sighs yet again.
"Really though," the meat thief though decides to speak at last, covering his mouth a bit so his food wouldn't accidentally spill out, "How 'bout becoming our boy's wife?"
"DAD!" desperately the libero flops down on the table, hearing the girl sitting across him burst out into another laughing fit along with his parents, "My god, not again..."
"What do you think?" this time they both asks.
And in all of his time living in this house, Yuu has never feel so hopeless.
"Please stop." he hides himself under the table, not forgetting to take a whole bowl of meat before doing so.
Her steps seem to be slower than normal. Yuu actually wonders if something is wrong with the girl.
"You alright?" he asks, stopping her mid-way.
"Yeah," Chicchan's answers, smiling as she takes in the night air, "I was just thinking about how much your family just loves each other."
"Yeah," he chuckles, "We do get on each other's throat a lot though. But by the end of the day, we have each other's back. That's what it all means I guess."
"Kind of like the team, yeah?" the girl comments and he nods.
"Yeah, I guess," the libero agrees, instantly shouting out of the sudden discover, "That's one BIG ASS star!"
He hears her laugh, almost like a choke out of surprise on his statement. Well, he wasn't lying. It was a huge star, bigger and much more brighter than the one he had ever seen. Speaking of stars... "Hey didn't you said you wanted to go see the stars sometime?" he turns to the girl, feeling a little bit sad to see her eyes searching fervently for something up high.
"Yeah," Chicchan says, a sad laugh escapes her mouth, "Well, I can't see anything right now so I guess 'sometime' will take some time."
The smile she gives is just simply so painful that it's beautiful. And Yuu realizes in that moment, he doesn't want to see her sad for any reason. He wants to see her smiling face, the genuinely smiling face like the one she had when the girl and his mother were preparing dinner before.
She deserves something like that. She deserves a family that can always be with her, eat dinner with her and just capable of making her day better.
"Close your eyes," he tells her.
"Hm?" the girl seems a bit confused but follows what he instructed.
"Oookay!" Yuu huffs, "Imagine some kind of light just shimmering in the darkness. Like not normal lights, the kind that flashes and stuff"
"Alright..."
"Now!" the boy proudly exclaims, "We'll call those stars. Imagine millions of them. Big ass ones, small ass ones, all sizes."
Chicchan snickers. Yuu sees the girl, feeling a little relief in his heart. One her cheeks pinkish color starts to appear. She's cute, he thinks putting his arms behind the back of his head, following her footsteps. It's been awhile since they actually stoped on the way to talk about things. It's relaxing somehow, a bit foreign when the content of the talk isn't about the team, or tactics, or their next opponent (usually Chicchan would be the one to start the conversations, and these are all she talked about. It used to make him wonder if she only cared about the team, or about the match), but small talks with her like this actually is quite pleasant.
"Nishinoya," the girl calls, "Have you ever seen a scorcher?"
"Scorcher?" he asks.
"My mom said that it's the real deal. Brightest star at night. So much that it outshines even the sun and the moon." he listens to her words.
"Hehhhh" and makes the sound of impressed.
What she says next though, he did not expect at all.
"I think you're like the scorcher, Nishinoya." Chicchan turns he face to him, her eyes bores into his soul, "It fits you perfectly in my opinion."
The libero's face heats up intensely, enough to make him cover it even though he knows she can't see.
"I-I'm not like that! What are you talking about, stop kissing up to me!-"
"I'm not," Chicchan snickers. "I really think so. Hinata, Tsukishima and the others are excellent players but none of them would be able to fight without you guarding their backs. In my eyes, despite the fact that I'm blind, you always shine the brightest, Nishinoya."
He stops in his tracks, surprised to hear the seriousness in her tone. The girl means what she said, he realizes. Her eyes stare straight at him, making the boy avert his. He has never looked down on himself, but to hear people complimenting him, it's something that Nishinoya isn't used to. Every prize he received, that was all of his hard work. He takes it for a fact that because he worked, he has skill, people see that, and they accept it by proof of awards and so. It was a no-brainer. But to hear her appreciating his presence in the team, he has never thought it would make him so happy like that.
His heart beats fast at her gentle smile.
She is a kind girl, and he failed to see that. He saw her as good, but not kind. Just good. Just not bad. And he blames his mistake on her.
"Well, I'm going in then," her words got his attention. Before he knew, they already had reached Chicchan's house.
"It's not your fault!" Yuu let the words slip out of his mouth, speaking loudly. He grab her wrist, trying to pull her back towards him. He wants to see that smile again. The genuine, deeply and emotionally involved ones during dinner. The libero fears that once she steps into that house again, she'll be gone. The happy Chicchan in front of his eyes would disappear, it makes him terrified.
"Thanks." her arms quietly wrap themselves around his shoulders, "I know it's not. Thanks for saving my life, Nishinoya."
"It's-It's nothing. You are just a really important-"
"Can you wait here for a moment, though?" the girl asks, pulling away from him. Yuu just nods, doesn't know what else to say after her hug. They seem like goodbye hugs to him. The boy suppose that he himself has never actually gotten over what happened to Chicchan. He still has nightmares about it. Ones that makes him feel obligated to jump out of the house in the middle of the night to check on her. And he did, once, before her nurse kicked him out.
Chicchan hurriedly scurries into the house, only to come back a minute after, in her hand a little already-made present box. It's the kind they can find anywhere in a 100 yen shop. A bit too colorful for him, but Yuu has got to admit, the design is pretty cool.
"What's this?" he asks, receiving the object.
"Open it with everyone." Chicchan answers, giving him a strange smile before she goes inside again.
Yuu stands still, a tad dumbfounded.
Oh well, he thinks at last, returning back to his house, Goodnight to you, Chicchan.
"Yeah?" the other line answers, a bit sleepy she can hear.
"Keishin," Daichi speaks, "Hey."
"Oh hey!" he greets back, "Back from the dinner I see. Was it nice?"
Daichi hugs her leg, an unconscious smile creeps up on her face. "It was lovely." she tells him, "The Nishinoyas are really nice people."
"I see," Keishin chuckles, "I'm glad you had fun."
The girl chuckles as well, and waits for a few moment for the excitement to die down before once again speaks. "Hey, Keishin?"
"Hm?" he answers.
"I'm going," she says.
"I see," The man sounds relieved, "You've made up your mind then." he states.
"Yeah," Daichi sighs, throwing her body down on the bed. She feels exhausted. Traveling doesn't seem like an appealing idea right now but she has to do what she has to do. And the faster she does it, the better.
She's made up her mind. All the time staying in hospital bed allowed her to think things through. She wants to be in control of her life. That's why she's starting with this.
"I'm gonna miss you, kiddo." Keishin whispers, probably only loudly enough for both of them to hear.
Daichi snickers at his words. "Me too," she says, "But don't say goodbye yet. I'll see you again soon."
"Wouldn't doubt that for the world."
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