AN: Sorry for being gone so long everybody! I've been very busy with classes and work. I feel bad because my internet quite working but I've had these next few chapters typed up for months! I hope they still live up to your expectations and thanks again for reading and reviewing ahead of time!
Marui's tongue poked out of the corner of his mouth as he finished pinning his hair back. A yellow scrunchy held most of it back against his head. A few stray hairs, too short to be tamed, were free against the nape of his neck. As he bounced out to the courts, he heard Akaya's loud mouth.
"What's a girl doing here?!" Marui looked round, searching for this girl, when Niou's face invaded his personal space.
"Ain't a girl Bakaya! 'S just Marui." Marui scowled and shoved Niou as the silverette laughed, walking past him. He turned to give Niou another glare and when he turned back, he jumped, coming face to face with Akaya who stared at him with his big, green eyes. How someone could be such a devil yet look so innocent was beyond him.
"Marui-senpai! Why do you look like a girl?" Marui felt his scowl deepen.
"It's hot out Bakaya! I just put my hair up to stay cool, so what?" He shoved past the second year ace and stalked towards the small group of people he believed to be sane anymore which were Yukimura, Sanada, and Yanagi. However, Akaya shot past him and reached them first, bouncing around the trio in excitement.
"Buchou! Fuku-Buchou! Yanagi-senpai! Look how pretty Marui-senpai is!" Marui flinched, slowing his pace and running a hand over his pink face. The trio stopped watching Akaya dance around them and turned their attention to him as he approached. Yukimura smiled that perfect smile of his, Sanada raised an eyebrow, and Yanagi looked him over with that calculating, closed-eye look of his. Yukimura nodded, patting Akaya's hair and throwing the red head an apologetic smile.
"Yes, he's very pretty isn't he Akaya?" The baby of Rikkai nodded his head quickly, grinning as he turned and skipped off with his racket. Marui sighed, fingering the pins in his hair and staring at his shoes. Yukimura squeezed his shoulder as he whisked past, smiling that smile again, with Sanada following close behind, tilting his cap and muttering;
"Ignore Akaya. You look fine." Marui gave him a small smile and nodded at the vice-captain before it was just him and Yanagi. The data master was scribbling in his ever present notebook, probably about this embarrassing incident, and it made the volley specialist nervous. After a moment though, his brows knitted together and he tilted his head. Yanagi's bangs were bothering him. How did he not notice them in his eyes like that?
"Oi, Yanagi." The data master continued to scribble in his notebook and it made the red head huff. Finally, he grabbed the taller boy's collar, yanking him down to his level and scowling at the brunette. Yanagi stared back coolly before raising a brow.
"May I help you Marui?"
"How can you stand your hair being that long? It's in your eyes Yanagi!" The red head reached into his pocket and pulled out more bobby pins. He was surprised when he let go and Yanagi stayed in place. Using one hand, he swiped Yanagi's bangs and pulled them up to one side before pinning them there. He grinned up at Yanagi then, propping his fists on his hips.
"There! You may not have noticed them but you may be able to see better now! All thanks to my genius skills of course!" Marui grinned and lifted his left hand with his signature sign of his thumb, pointer, and middle fingers extended over his left eye as he winked at him. Yanagi raised a brow with a subdued smile on his lips.
"Hey! Just 'cause you look like a girl doesn't mean you get to make Yanagi look like one too!" Niou's voice reached them from across the courts and Marui's cheeks puffed out before he stomped towards the silverette. The trickster grinned, slapping Marui's hands away from him as he came at him. Yanagi watched the pair as he stooped to pick up the mass of bobby pins Marui had dropped.
"He's right you know. You should get them cut soon." Yanagi tapped one of the pins against his chin as Yukimura and Sanada appeared behind him. Raising an eyebrow again, he turned to the blunette and finally let a smile truly touch his lips as he waved the pins in the air and went after the captain. Yukimura squealed and ran off with a big grin on his face, Yanagi following closely with a smile of his own. It was only after he caught the smaller male and fought bobby pins into the blue locks with the giggling captain writhing beneath him and Sanada smiling from the bench beside them, that he realized he actually could see much better.