"I'm telling you, girls like it when a man calls them cute."

Shiori sighs at Tooru's words. She points at Tooru and speaks. "I'm pretty sure Shinomiya Seri likes men who are manly. Didn't you hear her tell me that I made a nice catch with Iwaizumi-san?" Shiori asked.

Yuno munched quietly on a candy. She observed Tobio's phone and the different greetings that was typed in it but not sent. Hello, hi, how are you, and sup was in the text box.

"Let's take Iwa-chan's way of greeting then!" Tooru exclaimed as he motioned for Shiori's phone. Hajime glared at him. "Don't look at her phone." He warned Tooru, who smiled sheepishly.

Tobio groaned and kept his eyes on his phone. Why did he bother asking the four for help again?

"Let's look at it! Shiori and Iwaizumi-san's conversation!" Yuno said excitedly. Her eyes twinkled with eager and Tooru noticed her curiosity so he eyed Shiori and gestured for her phone. Seeing how Yuno seemed eager, Shiori peered at Tobio.

Her cousin was eyeing her interestedly.

Shiori sighs and smiles.

"Fine then. Look at it all you want and be surprised by Iwaizumi-san's gentleman attitude!" Shiori prided making Hajime lower his head in embarrassment. Yuno quickly grabbed her sister's phone and searched for her latest conversation.

"It's here." Yuno smiled as she tapped on the conversation. She swipes up to see a good reference. Yuno stops on a random conversation that happened days ago then frowns when she sees the way Hajime greets her sister. Yuno gives Shiori's phone to Tooru, who laughs at his childhood friend's way of greeting.

"Iwa-chan, why would you greet her with this?" Tooru probed as he held his stomach. Tobio leaned forward and wondered what it is. "What is it?" he asked.

"Iwa-chan greeted Shiori by asking her if she's dumb." Tooru informs. "There's a reason why I called her that!" Hajime tried to explain with a flushed face.

"Are you dumb?" Tooru read out loud. "How can you forget your PE uniform?" he continued. When Hajime attempted to stop him, he accidentally gives the phone to Tobio, who takes it and reads the conversation.

"I washed my PE uniform yesterday so it's still wet when I checked it this morning." Tobio read Shiori's response. "The girl's uniform doesn't fit me so I'll ask a boy to let me borrow theirs." Tobio added as Shiori's response.

"Give it to me." Yuno grabs the phone away and scowls when she sees the conversation.

"Iwaizumi-san told Shiori not to borrow another man's uniform and then asks her to go meet him near the infirmary." Yuno informed with a dark expression as she swiped down to continue reading the conversation. Tooru teased Hajime who held back on hitting his childhood friend because Shiori told him to.

"Wow." Yuno mutters to herself causing Tobio to peer at the phone. Tooru stops teasing Hajime and listens carefully.

"Iwaizumi-san just gave his PE uniform to Shiori... I thought he had something different in mind." Yuno says. "Iwaizumi-san's a gentleman. You're right, Shiori." Yuno adds as she passes the phone to her sister, who was smiling happily.

"I told you so. That's why, Tobio, be like Iwaizumi-san! Don't listen to Oikawa-san!" Shiori reminded earning her a glare from Tooru. Yuno then typed "what do you want" on Tobio's phone.

Tooru groans at this and tried to clear Yuno's sentence. "Don't send that! Just hit her up with hey!" Tooru tried to type but Yuno pulled the phone away. Shiori notices the commotion and tries to steal the phone away from the two.

"Stop it! You might break Kageyama's phone!" Hajime scolded the three but grumbled when they didn't stop. Tobio, having had enough of the four Seijoh students, yanks his phone away and glares at them.

"I don't need your help after all." Tobio says as he looks down on his phone. He drops it upon seeing what happened.

The list of greetings they created was sent to Seri.

"Hey beautiful, hi, hello, how are you, sup, hi cutie, it's me, hello sexy, and even 'what do you want' was sent..." Tobio mumbled. He eyed his phone miserably.

The four Seijoh students watched Tobio lamely. They kept quiet as they felt guilty for what they've done. Tooru coughs and points at the two Hashimoto siblings.

"I didn't hit send." Tooru notifies, earning glares from Yuno and Shiori. "Why are you blaming us?" Shiori replies.

"Shut it. Juts stop talking." Tobio muttered as he thought of what to say. Should he try to explain it? Tobio groaned as he clenched his hand. Suddenly, his phone rings and he looks at the screen.

Seri sent a message.

"Did your friends type this? Why did you let them greet me when it's you I want to talk to?" Yuno read Seri's message. Shiori smiles as she glances at her cousin with happiness. "Seems like we were worried for nothing." The crossdresser says softly as she smiled.

Tobio forgets all of his anger and sighs in relief. "Don't try to help me anymore. I can do this by myself." He mumbles as he types his next response.

The four looked at him and smiled. They let him send what he wanted to send and checked the flow of the conversation without getting in the way.


Recently, Hajime noticed Shiori's change.

Shiori started letting her hair down often when they went out and she also started wearing dresses and skirts occasionally. Hajime didn't have a problem with it and almost accepted it.

Except he couldn't ignore how most men stared at Shiori.

Sure, Shiori was pretty tall for a lady and her auburn brown hair fitted her porcelain skin. Her body was that of a model, Hajime wouldn't deny that but whenever a man would look at her, Hajime hoped for Shiori to cross-dress again.

"Shiori, try dressing up like a man again." Hajime suggested, earning him a suspicious look from his partner. "No?" Shiori responded as she locked her phone and pushed it in her pocket.

It was a week after New Year's Day and the wind was still cold. Shiori guessed that it would stop being cold when February ends. The crossdresser watched as men would pass by her and wave at her while she smiled politely at those men, completely oblivious of her lover's jealous glare.

"How long do you plan on smiling at those men when I'm around?" Hajime questions as he pushed his hands on his pocket. Shiori glanced at him and beamed gleefully. "I'll wave at them next time!" she informs receiving a pointed stare at Hajime.

"Those people will think you're a single person, which you aren't!" He lectured as he stared at Shiori.

"What's with you? You've been acting immature ever since we went out of that restaurant." Shiori mumbled as she eyed Hajime curiously. With how dense Shiori is being, Hajime can't help but scoff and feel even more irritated.

"Should we go home then?" Hajime probed making Shiori frown. He stands up and sighs as he tried to think reasonably. Surely, Shiori isn't doing it because she wanted attention, Hajime assured himself.

"Let's go home." Hajime repeated but when he sees that Shiori is still sitting, he frowns. "Should I leave you here?" He asks and Shiori nods. "Yeah, sure. I'll stay here and not leave until you explain why you're acting like this." The crossdresser informs as she crosses her arms.

Hearing his lover's words, Hajime clicks his tongue. He sits back down and sighs.

"Here's the thing, men looks at you because they like you." Hajime says as if he's talking to a child.

"How can they like me if they don't know me?" Shiori responds.

"That's the thing! They shouldn't like you because they don't know you but they end up liking you because you wave at them. They think they have a chance with you."

"Just because of that? What do they even like about me?"

"It's because you're pretty and you have a good body, that's why they like you!"

Shiori gaped at her senior. She tried to take the information in and tried to decipher what it actually meant. Maybe, her senior didn't mean to say that or maybe it's for another girl but who is she kidding? Shiori knows that it's for her so she blushes and smiles timidly.

"Iwaizumi-san... you think I'm pretty? You think I'm sexy?" Shiori looked at Hajime, who stared at her while cringing at his sudden compliment.

"Ah... well... yeah." Hajime nodded as he eyed Shiori. The crossdresser chuckles bashfully before pushing Hajime, who almost falls off the bench with the sudden shove. "Hearing you compliment me... I know that you're jealous now." Shiori says while she blushingly covers her mouth.

Hajime smiles at Shiori's attitude at the moment, realizing how cute she was being right now.

"I won't smile at another guy again if Iwaizumi-san compliments me every day." Shiori mumbles shyly. She then faces Hajime and grins cheerfully. "I really like you." She confesses unexpectedly.

Hajime stops smiling when he hears that. He feels himself blushing as he observes Shiori's gentle smile. "No. Don't smile. You're supposed to be angry at her." Hajime reminded himself as he prevented himself from smiling.

"Iwaizumi-san? Did you not hear me? Do you want me to repeat it?" Shiori asks as she checks her senior's face. "I like you." Shiori repeats as she winks at Hajime.

"Say it again." Hajime orders. "I like you, Iwaizumi-san!" Shiori complies as she gives two finger hearts towards him while beaming cheerfully.

"Damn it." Hajime mutters under his breath as he lets himself smile at his lover's display of affection, completely accepting his failure to get angry at the crossdresser. He grabs her hand and stands up, making Shiori stand up as well.

"Let's go eat. I'll buy you any food you want, just tell me what it is." Hajime says as he smiled at Shiori. "Woah! Really? You have enough money, right? Don't spend it too much on me." Shiori reminds as she hesitates on telling Hajime what she wants to eat.

"It's fine. Come on, let's eat." Hajime says as he pulls Shiori to a restaurant.

Shiori grinned to herself as she eyed her senior. Hajime was really wrapped around her finger and that made her feel really, really happy. The crossdresser chuckled to herself at her life. The biggest plot twist she had before year ends was to gain a boyfriend.

Completely unpredictable.


A/N:

What's that word? Filter? Flitter? OHHHH, FILLER!

YES PEOPLE, THIS IS A FILLER FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER. WE'RE NEARING THE LAST FIVE CHAPTERS SO HANG ON OKAY?

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