Yuno stared at her sister. She observed how quiet Shiori is and feels suspicious.
"Shiori? What's up with you?" Yuno paused her game and dropped her controller before asking her sister. Shiori glanced at Yuno and gave a poker face.
"What would you do if someone asks you out?"
At the sudden question from Shiori, Yuno immediately recalls how Tooru asked her out. Yuno hits her head to try forget the moment. Shiori's eyes lights up as she spots her adopted sister doing that.
"You experienced it, haven't you?" Shiori asks eagerly but Yuno scoffs and just grabs her phone. She swipes through her contacts and sees the name she's searching for. She then gives it to Shiori.
"Talk to him. He told me that girls are confessing to him lately and he doesn't know what he should do with it." Yuno says as Shiori grabs the phone. The crossdresser stares at the name and raises an eyebrow. "If he doesn't know how to handle that, then why should I talk to him?" Shiori questions. "He probably knows the answer now so talk to him and try to see if he knows and if he does, put it in loudspeaker. I need to know how he forgets about it easily." Yuno spoke as she played her game.
Shiori doesn't bother asking her sister and calls the man.
"Iwa-chan, did you hear what Makki told me? He said I wa –" Tooru stopped talking when he saw a certain someone with a certain someone.
"Iwa-chan, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Tooru asks but Hajime doesn't respond but only watched as Shiori approached those two certain people, which is Yuno and shockingly, Kageyama Tobio.
"Yo Tobio!" Hajime heard Shiori exclaim as she tackled the expressionless man. Kageyama groans and tries to push Shiori but Yuno decides to tease him and attach herself to him.
"Wow! You playboy! I heard girls are confessing to you! Who taught you, huh?" Yuno teased as Kageyama tried to push the two away. "Go away." He mumbles as he tries to escape from the two girls who didn't seem like a girl right now.
"Huh? Hey, we're older than you, get that through your head and tell us who taught you? Tell me, Tobio-pyon, who taught you?" Shiori mischievously spoke as Yuno laughed at the nickname her sister said. She slapped Kageyama's shoulder out of laughing.
"What's wrong with you two? Did you just call me here to play with me?" Kageyama glares at them and sees Shiori wearing male clothes. He frowns and shakes his head. Shiori notices this and smirks. She wriggles her eyebrows as she starts to loosen her necktie. Kageyama's eyes widens as he looks away instantly. Yuno notices this and makes Kageyama face her by squeezing his cheeks.
"Wow, so squishy and so adorable and so innocent! Tobio is so cute! He looked away the instant Shiori loosened her necktie! What a gentleman!" Yuno cooed and spoke like she's speaking to a baby as she hears Shiori laugh cheerily.
Kageyama groans but doesn't stop the two girls. He then looks at the school the two females are attending to but he sees two people behind Shiori and Yuno. Kageyama instantly grabs Yuno's hands with his left hand and stops Shiori from touching his cheeks with his right hand. He then stares at the two and points behind them with his eyes.
Shiori and Yuno listens and spots Hajime and Tooru standing in astonishment.
Kageyama lowered the two girls' hands before letting go of them. Shiori then started to deduce Kageyama's past and recalled how the boy admired a captain of his when he was in middle school. Shiori also recalled how Tooru told her that a junior of his admired him before and the fact that he was the captain of the volleyball team when he was in middle school.
Shiori gasped and realized what that meant. She pointed at Oikawa Tooru before speaking. "That's your ex-captain." Shiori mutters and when Yuno hears that, she glares at Tooru. "Him? The one you said almost punched you?" Yuno kept her anger in as she recalled how Kageyama told her and Shiori about how his captain almost punched him.
Shiori laughs as she cracks her fingers and stretches her arms. Yuno flexed her shoulders as she breathed heavily to calm himself. Yuno then stopped to glare at Tooru before tapping Kageyama's shoulder in an assuring way.
"Did you bully my cousin, Kageyama Tobio, and tried to punch him, Oikawa Tooru-san?" Yuno probed sharply. Shiori sighs as she stands beside Yuno. "Bully him in front of us now. Let's see if you can." Shiori says threateningly as she motioned for Tooru to come closer.
Hajime glanced at Kageyama who glanced at him before bowing. Hajime sent a confused look but Kageyama simply shrugged his shoulders.
"Bully our cousin, bully us so, do it! Bully our cousin and face us, you jerk!" Yuno spoke in a gangster way. "Hey! Do it! You think we'll hold back just because you're older than us? Go to heck, you fudging mother-lover!" Shiori told Tooru loudly.
Kageyama held his two cousins in the hand and tried to stop them but Shiori pushed him off. "No! Don't try to stop us! He bullied you, he deserves punishment and I'm serious about this!" Shiori angrily told her cousin. Kageyama sighed and grumbled before speaking.
"I don't need it! I already beat him up, why would I let you beat him again? Isn't that too much?" Kageyama reasoned out.
Tooru massaged his temples as he turned away from the three cousins. Hajime heaved a sigh and wondered why the Hashimoto siblings had to act like that.
Yuno clapped as Shiori gave clapped Kageyama's back. "I'm proud of you son. I raised you right." Shiori joked. Yuno smiled at her cousin and opened her arms to hug him. Kageyama pushed his bag on Yuno's arms and runs away from the two girls. Shiori grinned but when she accidentally glances at Hajime, her smile drops.
Shiori pulls Yuno and Kageyama and walks away. "Let's go home to talk about our problems." She told her two family members while pushing them out of the gate. She then turns to her two senior and smiles at them and waves bye.
"We'll be going then! Bye, Oikawa-san! Bye..." Shiori stops as she sees Hajime looking at her. She lamely smiles and bows before leaving with her two cousins.
Her feeling are making her confused. Her heart is thumping loudly but she doesn't feel like she likes her senior back. It's as if she's worried that the attachment she got as friends with Iwaizumi-san would vanish easily if she did, not to mention, the feeling of seeing Iwaizumi-san as an older brother is there. What would she call this feeling then? Worry? Fear? Dislike?
Shiori clicked her tongue as she gripped her bag tightly.
Morning came and the cold air entered her room. Shiori yawned as she stared at the sun and the orange skies. Today will be a good day and it's because Shiori decided to tell Hajime to stay as friends. Hopefully, Hajime would understand that.
Shiori fixed herself and looked at herself at the mirror. She looks like a pretty boy and for the first time, Shiori frowns and tries to change her hairstyle. She tied it in a braid. It looked ugly on her. She tried a side ponytail but she appeared childish. She then tried letting her hair down.
Shiori pushed her hair behind her ear and smiled softly. She points at herself and winks. "Look who's smiling because she looks unappealing. It's Shiori-san!" Shiori then stands up and grabs her bag before walking out. Yuno went ahead first so she's left behind.
The crossdresser marched to her school as she tied her hair to make herself look like a man. She hummed as she tied her hair and before she knew it, she passed by Hajime's house. Shiori halted and waited for the graduating student to exit his house, if he was still there.
Shiori waited patiently and after five minutes, Hajime finally came out. The older student stare at her with shock as Shiori smiles.
"Iwaizumi-san, hello! Let's stay as friends and walk together every day in a totally platonic way!" Shiori exclaimed as she waved happily at Hajime who was feeling miserable at her sudden unique way of rejection.
Hajime eyed Shiori and approached her. He stopped in front of her and looked down at her making him notice how small Shiori got. He raised an eyebrow ad asked about her height. "Are you this small? What happened to your height? You're now below my eye level when you reached it before." He told her.
Shiori patted Hajime's shoulders and moved away. She stared at him as she playfully smiles. "Wah... Iwaizumi-san! No to making moves, let's stay as friends."Shiori reminded as Hajime smiled at her. "I am staying as friends. But if what you mean by staying friends is me avoiding you then... sure. Let's do that." Hajime spoke.
Shiori's mouth went ajar and she denied what her senior said. "No, no, no! That's not what I mean! What I meant is –" Shiori stopped talking as Hajime walked away and left her standing. She closes her mouth and lowers her hands. "He's the one who should be feeling rejected but I'm the one who feels rejected instead." Shiori mutters.
The crossdresser quietly trails after her senior and feels bad for doing what she has done a while ago. Maybe rejecting him so early in the morning is bad. Shiori slapped herself as she realized how horrible she was being.
When the two arrived at their school, Hajime left Shiori alone and it made the crossdresser feel even bad. She went to her class feeling blue and the whole time she's studying, she couldn't focus. By the time lunch starts, Shiori goes to Hajime's classroom and checks on him. She sees that she isn't there and frowns.
She stands at the doorway and waits for her senior. As Shiori waits, a lot of girls waved at her and politely, Shiori waves back as well. The crossdresser sighs and looks to her left. She sees Hajime approaching. Hajime then spots Shiori standing and waving at him so he waves back and smiles.
The sudden action makes Shiori think for a while before grinning. Once the two were near each other, Shiori lightly shoves her senior. "I thought you'd ignore me! Why did you ignore me? You want me to beat you up?" Shiori joked to lighten the mood.
"You? Beat me up? Let's see about that." Hajime plays along.
He thought a lot about this as he walked to his class. Hajime figured that if Shiori would treat him as friends, then it's better to stay that way instead of forcing her to like him back besides, when he promised to help her gain confidence as a woman, he secretly thought about how he hated to have a partner like Shiori so Hajime guessed that it's better that way.
It's better for both of them to remain in a platonic relationship than to be lovers.
A/N:
Sorry for the delay!
This chapter surprised me because I really didn't realize that this would be so short!
Anyway, next chapter is about Yuno so hold on tightly and let's wait for Shiori to finally accept her senior's confession...if she would!
