After the sports festival, the students were given a couple of days off of school to recover. Besides yet another low-level villain attacking Hinata, nothing much of note happened. Life went on. Although….there was something weird between a certain couple of friends.
"What is up with you two?" Inuoka interrogated, setting his lunch tray down with a small clunk.
Tsukishima gave his classic side-eye. "I'm not sure I understand what you mean."
"Inuoka's right," Koganegawa inputted, setting his tray down next to Inuoka's. "You two are acting off."
"Off?" Yamaguchi asked, glancing at Tsukishima. "Off how?"
Koganegawa shrugged, and Inuoka grinned. "Did something happen to you two?" the latter prodded, taking a bite out of Sugarman's famous rice bowl. "Was it scary?"
"Leave them alone," Goshiki scolded, shoving Koganegawa's face into his curry.
"Why only me?" the tall boy whined.
Hinata and Kageyama glanced at each other, then at the couple in question. As intruding as they were being, the other first years had a point. Ever since they had gotten back to school, the two were acting quite different. The blond had volunteered to assist the class rep with duties while Yachi was (unfortunately) out with a cold. Sure, that seemed to be a normal thing, but they traded looks and smiles. They had never done that before.
Even at lunch, they were acting peculiarly. Yamaguchi had accidentally dropped his lunch, so Tsukishima offered him half of his. It didn't seem so odd at first, until Yamaguchi inexplicably started giggling for seemingly no reason.
"Was it a quirk?" Inuoka speculated.
"Could be," Hinata responded.
"Or maybe a traumatic experience," Kageyama added.
Goshiki's eyebrow twitched. "What if they're just friends?" He elbowed Hinata and Kageyama in the head. "Jeez, we don't need to butt into people's personal businesses."
Hinata gingerly rubbed the top of his head. "You don't need to be so mean about it. We're just worried about them."
Goshiki sighed. "Yes, but your 'worrying' seems more like meddling."
Kageyama growled. "Whatever."
Goshiki nodded, content. He sat in his seat behind his tray and looked over at Tsukishima and Yamaguchi. When they looked back, he winked at them and went along with lunch.
A/N: Another bridging chapter, oops :P sowwyyyy, i promise the next chapter is soooo much better tho