"Why are our trainings combined again, urgh." Aiyu groaned as she dragged herself to the first gymnasium in Nekoma High. The other girls just snickered at how Aiyu was reacting as she had been studying her ass off for the final examinations that were coming up. She was seen dozing off in the canteen when the girls had gone to get her as her classes ended extra early today.
"It shouldn't be that bad, maybe we'll be able to trash them again!" Kyoko giggled.
"You know Kyoko. Sometimes I'm wondering if you're purposely picking a fight with Taketora just to get a match and trash them, or you like Taketora." [name] spoke as she continued to walk towards the first gymnasium.
"W-W-What?! No way will I like him!" and Kyoko's face turned beet red. [name] then turned and bent down slightly as she was the tallest in the volleyball team at the height of 167.3cm. She then placed her face extremely close to Kyoko, and Kyoko stammered.
"W-W-What?!"
"Ne, you do like him." [name] commented and straightened her back. She then turned to continue walking towards the first gymnasium, leaving Kyoko speechless and her face getting extremely red.
"You're exposed big time, Kyoko-senpai~" Yuki called out and skipped to catch up with the captain.
"I-I-I DO NOT LIKE THAT MOHAWK DELINQUINT!" Kyoko yelled.
"I-I-I DO NOT LIKE THAT MOHAWK DELINQUINT!" Kyoko yelled.
And Taketora sneezed and paled at what Kyoko had yelled. He then cleaned his nose with the tissue that Yaku had provided, and he stood in line with the other boys of the volleyball team and he noticed the boys were snickering at him.
"Quiet!" the coached yelled, and the boys stood at attention.
"Yo, coach." [name] called out as she entered the gym and placed the bag at the side. She then quickly removed her indoor shoes and put on her sports shoes, soon joining the boys in line.
"[name], stand behind us. You and the girls don't have to be at attention." Her coach said, and then [name] stared in confusion before moving behind the coaches. She then signalled her teammates to come stand with her when they had entered the gym.
Once the girls had settled down, then did their coach continued where he had stopped.
"Summer Training Camp is coming up. So as your final examinations." The coach continued, and Aiyu sighed at the word 'examinations', which [name] just patted her on the head.
"But with grades like these, I highly doubt your school is going to allow you to take part in the Summer Training Camp! The Camp is after your examinations." The coach continued and held out the report cards.
"I have no problem with the girls." And he showed the report cards of the girls, and randomly handed it out to the boys.
"Kyoko got 4 A+ and 2 As and 2 Bs." Taketora read out as he stared in awe.
"Aria has got 3 A+ and 2 As and 3 Bs." Kai commented as his hands shook.
"Yuki has got 2 A+ and 2 As and 4 Bs." Yuki spoke and he looked at his girlfriend with a proud smile, causing her to blush and look away.
"W-Woah, I think Naomi scored way better than me. She has 1 A+, 4 As and 3 Bs." Yaku stuttered and looked at Naomi with a blush on his face when he saw her smiling at him.
"Aiyu has 2 A+, 3 As and 3 Bs." Kenma read out and stared at Aiyu. He gave the look like how he always gave whenever he was about to go home and play a new video game that he had bought.
"What about [name]-senpai? Kuroo-senpai?" Lev asked, and he leaned over and gasped at the report card.
"N-N-No way…" Shohei and Inuoka muttered out, and the boys soon crowded around Kuroo.
Japanese – A+
English – A+
Mathematics – A+
Science – A+
Social Studies – A+
Health – A+
Physical Education – A+
Art – A+
"Straight A+?!" the boys yelled out, and Kuroo stared at [name] in shock.
"Way to go, captain!" Kyoko smacked her hard on the back causing her to choke on her saliva.
"Please tutor me when I need help!" Naomi and the other girls started to ask her for help then.
The coach then cleared his throat as the manager gathered back the report cards, he then handed out the boys' report cards to the girls, in an order.
"Girls, the report cards that you're going to get, you're going to help me tutor these idiots." He spoke as he handed out the report cards.
"Yuki-kun, you're kidding me aren't you? 6 Cs and 2 Fs?" Yuki read out and glared at her boyfriend.
"And Haiba Lev too! 5 Cs and 3 Fs?! I'm going to have a hard time…" Yuki shook her head as she held two report cards in her hands.
"Inuoka Sho, 2 A+, 4 Cs and 2 Fs." Aria read out and just stared at him, until, "I thought you were always taking notes since I see you scribbling the entire time in class." And Inuoka had on a deep blush on his face.
"Shouhei and Taketora, all have 2 A+, 4 Cs and 2 Fs… Except for Kenma… 6 Cs and 2 Fs…" Aiyu mumbled out and groaned. She then turned to face the trio and pointed at them, "And you guys told me that you all have been studying extremely hard, my ass!" and the girls just snickered at her outburst.
"Kai and Yaku, both have 2 A+, 3 Cs and 3 Fs…" Kyoko mumbled out. She then turned to look at them. That's when she noticed [name] was looking at the report card as well, and then she turned to look at the one in her hand.
"The A+ are definitely Physical Education and Health… Be thankful that the ones you get at least has Cs in them." [name] muttered and glared at Kuroo, who just paled.
"Bed head, it just clearly shows you're sleeping in class the entire time, and only focusing on volleyball. What's up with the 2 A+ for Physical Education and Health, whereas the bloody 6 Fs for the rest?!"
That's when everybody noticed the coaches and manager had already left the gym, leaving them alone. [name] then huffed and grabbed Kuroo by the ear and pulled him down to her level.
"You, are in deep trouble young man." She whispered into his ears and then let go of him. She didn't even notice that he was blushing badly, whereas the others were giggling at the scene that had just happened.
"We have a week until the final examinations, so which means practices are cancelled. So… Girls, we need to help out beloved volleyball boys team to get to the passing mark ya." [name] called out as she walked to grab her bag.
"This is going to be difficult…" the girls whined as they started to discuss how they should tutor the boys.
"Bed head, grab your stuff. We're going to study at my place." [name] called out as she slipped off her sports shoes and grabbed onto her indoor shoes. Kuroo rubbed the back of his neck and quickly grabbed his bag and ran after [name] after waving goodbye to his teammates and the girls.
"Bed head! Do you want to go to summer training camp or not?!" [name] yelled as she snatched Kuroo's phone out of his hands. Kuroo then pout and turned back to the literature book before him.
"It's so difficult~" he whined, and [name] rolled her eyes.
"If you can remember all the volleyball hand signals, I don't see a reason why you can't memorise all these!" she snapped and kept his phone under her pillow.
"That's different!" he whined again, and [name] sighed and stood up and started to walk away when Kuroo grabbed her by the hand and asked her.
"W-W-Where are you going? I'm sorry, I'll study!"
"I'm going to cook dinner, idiot. Do you want to die from hunger?" she snapped and got out of his grip and proceeded to walk down to the kitchen to cook. Kuroo then pout and sat back down, trying his best to memorise the quotes from the literature book.
Kuroo had studied a good 30 minutes or so, and he decided to head down to the kitchen as he was getting rather restless. He stood up and stretched, and left [name]'s room after marking the page that he had stopped at.
He walked down the stairs, and was immediately greeted by the aroma of food that was laid out on the dining table. He then walked into the kitchen, and saw [name] placing a bowl of soup right in the middle of all the dishes she had prepared.
"Ah, just in time. Sit down, dinner is ready." She said and quickly went to get two bowls of rice and the cutlery. Kuroo stared in awe as he saw what [name] had cooked.
Tamagoyaki, tonkatsu, sanma shio yaki and kabocha no nimono, along with Kenchinjiru.
"Woah, this is surprising." Kuroo commented as [name] settled down in front of him.
"Hey! I do know how to cook alright." She snapped back.
"Oh? Who do you cook for?" he asked out of curiosity.
"I cook for my family, the volleyball girls back at Seijō and also…" she suddenly trailed off as she remembers that she used to cook for Oikawa as well whenever it was near the examinations as he tends to skip meals to study.
"[name]?" Kuroo called out as he saw [name] suddenly going all quiet. She then shook her head and smile at him.
"Come on, eat!" and she picked out a piece of sanmaa shio yaki for Kuroo and placed it onto his rice bowl.
Kuroo stared at her with worried eyes, but soon started to eat. The moment he ate the food that [name] had placed in his bowl, his eyes light up.
"This is my favourite!" he exclaimed and continued to take more. [name] just laughed as he saw how happy Kuroo was when he realised that she had cooked his favourite dish.
And the duo chatted and laughed about while eating and taking a break from studying.
It was the final day before the start of the Final Examinations. The volleyball boys and girls decided to study together in the gym, and help one another if they had any problems.
"Ne, Aiyu, do you know how to solve this?" Kyoko asked as she knelt down beside Aiyu and showed her a maths question.
"I can't seem to get the correct answer."
"Eh… I'm not sure though. I haven't learned this part yet." Aiyu replied, and Kyoko pout as she went to ask the others.
"Oi Kenma! Stop playing with your PSP and focus!" Aiyu snapped as she grabbed hold of Kenma's PSP and hid it behind her. Kenma then pout slightly as he turned his attention towards the question before him.
"Ne, where's [name]-senpai?" Yuki asked her boyfriend, Yuki. He shrugged his shoulders and continued with his questions that he was having difficulties with.
"Ne, Yuki! Is this right?" Lev asked as he showed Yuki his English question. Yuki then nodded, indicating that his answers is right, and he cheered and continued on with his other questions.
"Aria, how do you translate this?" Inuoka asked as he showed Aria one of the Japanese idioms.
"Ah this, 見ぬが花. I'll give you a hint, 花 is flower." Aria spoke and all of a sudden Inuoka knows how to do the translation, and he did it right.
"Ne, Naomi. How do you do this?" Yaku asked as he showed Naomi a science question.
"The average volume of hydrochloric acid in the stomach is 60 cm3 and its concentration is 0.222mol/dm3. Calculate the number of moles in acid present in the stomach. Hmm… You need to find the mol of CO first." Naomi spoke and wondered about it for a little while and handed the paper back to Yaku to give him try once more.
"Kuroo, where's [name]?" Kyoko asked, as she was getting a little frustrated because she can't seem to get the right answer for the maths question she had been asking.
"I'm not sure. She didn't answer my calls." Kuroo spoke with a hint of worry in his voice.
"Sorry I'm late!" a voice called out from the entrance of the gym.
"Speak of the devil, why are you so late?" Kyoko yelled with a grin on her face. Then she noticed [name] was carrying an extremely big bag and placed it on the floor.
"What's in the bag?" Yaku called out.
"Well, I figured that you guys might not have taken your lunch, so I made some bentos for you all."
"You're the best!"
"Yay, we get to eat!"
"Come on, help me pass it out." And [name] started to pass out the food.
"Woah! It's karagae bento with tamagoyaki, broccoli, tomato, spinach and Onigiri!" Taketora exclaimed as soon as he opened his.
"Oh my god, this is delicious! You're a great cook, [name]-senpai!"
Kuroo then sat next to [name] on the floor and started to eat his. He hummed in pleasure when he took the first bite of the onigiri. He then looked at [name], who wasn't eating and he realised [name] didn't have a bento box with her.
"[name], aren't you eating? Where's yours?" Kyoko asked as she sat beside Taketora and ate her share.
"I'm not hungry, you guys go ahead!" [name] chirped out and she then held her stomach to ease the growling. She was hungry, but she realised that she ran out of ingredients for the bento, so she decided to sacrifice her share.
"Open your mouth." [name]'s attention soon focused on Kuroo who held her chin gently and titled her head towards him. He had picked up a karagae with his chopstick and tried to pry open [name]'s mouth with the hand that he was holding her chin with.
"What are you doing?"
"Feeding you, duh. You're the kind who always sacrifices yourself. You definitely have not eaten anything, since you're holding your stomach. So open your mouth." Kuroo insisted, and [name] hesitantly opened her mouth and Kuroo placed the piece of karagae into her mouth.
*SNAP*
And both [name] and Kuroo immediately turned when they heard a phone taking a photo. Yaku then smirked as he lowered his phone and continued to eat his share. Kuroo's face turned beet red whereas [name] was unfazed.
"Ne, [name]. I've been asking around, but none of them can seem to get the answer to this." Kyoko whined as she showed [name] the same maths question that she has been asking everybody.
"Oh? Let me see." [name] then took the paper from Kyoko and scanned through the question. Kyoko then sat beside her and pout while looking at Taketora who was frowning at a certain question for some time already.
"Kyoko?"
"Kyoko!"
"Yoohoo, Kyoko?" [name] called out again and shook her shoulder. Then Kyoko quickly turned and look at [name] who had on a smirk as she had caught Kyoko staring at Taketora.
"Y-Y-Yes?"
"You totally-." And [name] was cut off by a…
*WHAM* Kyoko had smacked [name] in the first with a stack of questions she had on hands.
"Alright, alright. Don't get all shy on me. Sheesh." [name] mumbled as she rubbed her nose and glared at Kuroo as he had snickered at her.
"You're supposed to be substituting this value into z, and then taking x – z to get y. And after you've found y, you're supposed to be substituting it into the equations: 10-2x-3y = 9z + 4y" [name] explained and Kyoko finally understood where she had gone wrong.
"Come on guys, it's time to wrap up." [name] called out as she stood up and stretched. She then turned to grab her bag when all of a sudden she felt someone pull her into a hug. She then took a look to the back and noticed it was Kuroo. He had on a slight stressful look on his face, and [name] then patted his arm that was wrapped around her waist.
"You'll do fine, bed head. I have faith in you." And then she turned and tiptoed slightly and planted a kiss on his cheek, which he widened his eyes in surprise.
"That's me, giving you the encouragement."
"Yaku! You need to stop taking photos!" [name] snapped as she saw Yaku lowering his phone down.
"Come on, let's go home already. Get a goodnight rest and ace those damn final examinations ya! And bed head, do you mind letting me go?" [name] then snapped at Kuroo, who immediately let go of her.
"Hey guys, how was the literature examinations?" Kyoko asked as she set down her bag on the chair in the canteen. It was the third day of final examinations, and everybody was looking rather down as they're getting extremely restless.
"Tiring…"
"I nearly fell asleep…"
"Urgh, I just want this week to end already."
"Zzzz…"
"Woah, Kuroo-san must have stayed up late last night!"
"Zzzz…"
"[name]-senpai too?!"
"They're the sleep couple now." Aiyu giggled as Yaku took a photo of them again, as both their heads were on the table, facing each other, and the gap in between them was little. All of a sudden Kuroo lifted his head and raised his finger and mumbled, "We're just best friends…" and then he crashed onto the table again, falling asleep, with his face still facing [name].
"Bed head! You need to rest already. Gosh!" [name] rubbed her temples and groaned out in desperation as it was close to 2am in the morning.
"But later on is also the science examinations! And it's first!" Kuroo snapped, and [name] was taken aback as this was the first time Kuroo had snapped at her. He saw how she reacted, and immediately he felt guilty.
"I-I didn't mean to." He mumbled, and then he felt [name] hug him. She rubbed his back and whispered into his ears.
"You need to stop stressing up, Kuroo. This isn't like you. Take it easy." And that was the first time [name] had called Kuroo by his name.
"Alright, since you're going to study till the examinations, then I will too!" [name] exclaimed as she let go of Kuroo. And then she left her room and headed to the kitchen to make some coffee for them as well as snacks.
"[name], I'm having problems with this!" Kuroo whined as he scratched the back of his head hard. [name] giggled as she got up from her bed with her mathematics notes in her hands and looked over Kuroo's shoulder to take a look at the question.
Kuroo then noticed how close [name]'s face was to his, and he stared at her lips. He then felt [name] placing a hand on his head and turning it so that his head was facing the questions instead.
"Pay attention, bed head." [name] spoke as she continued to read the question.
"Solve the following equation. Bed head, you need to cross multiply first." And Kuroo nodded and tried to do the question on his own once again as [name] sat beside him on the floor, watching how he was doing it.
"Is this correct?" Kuroo then showed [name] his answer sheet.
"Yeap, you got it right!" and [name] ruffled Kuroo's hair.
"[name], I'm having problems again." Kuroo whined after two hours, and he waited for [name] speak. All of a sudden he felt a weight on his shoulder, and he turned to look. [name] was fast asleep with her head on his shoulder. He smiled a soft smile and picked her up bridal style. He then placed her onto her bed and covered her. He stared at her sleeping face, and wondered how can someone as angelic as her, be hurt so badly. He hesitated for a little while, but eventually planted a kiss on her forehead.
"I'm sorry for tiring you out…" he whispered.
"Bed… Head… Fighting…" [name] mumbled out in her sleep, and Kuroo stared at her in shock.
"Even in your sleep, you're still worried for me. Silly you…" Kuroo whispered and patted her head.
"Hey guys! How was the mathematics papers?" Aiyu asked as she saw everybody enter the gym and placed their bags down.
"It was fine…" Kenma answered as he sat down beside Aiyu.
"Thank you for tutoring me, Aiyu. I really appreciate it." He continued, and Aiyu soon blushed.
"We aced it!" the year ones yelled out.
"It was alright, right Yaku, Kai." Kyoko spoke and looked at her "students" who nodded in agreement.
"Ne, what about Kuroo-senpai and oh." Yuki stopped in her sentence as she saw that Kuroo and [name] were both on the floor, leaning against each other's back and sleeping.
"Zzz…"
"This is the second time~"
"Zzzzz…"
"Kuroo must have overnight at [name]'s house again, and made her stay up late."
"This is a sight that I'll never get bored of." Aiyu giggled as she took a photo and sent it to her sister.
The final examinations were finally over as the students handed in their Physical Education examination papers to the invigilators in-charge (In case you didn't know, Physical Education in Japan, they have paper tests for it!)
[name] stretched in her seat and soon stood up, grabbing her bag. She then walked over to where Kuroo was seated, and she kicked his table hard, making him wake up.
"Kuroo, hurry up!" Yaku yelled as he was famished.
Kuroo then sat up and yawned, rubbing the sleep away from his eyes and stood up, grabbing his bag. The trio in year 3 class 5 then left the classroom and headed towards the entrance of Nekoma High to meet up with the rest of the volleyballers.
"Freedom!" Taketora yelled out as he ran towards the entrance.
"Taketora! Don't run! You might fall!" Aiyu shouted, and sure enough Taketora did fall down and slide towards the entrance on his tummy. He then quickly stood up and dusted his shirt.
"So noisy…" [name] mumbled out as she walked together with Kuroo and Yaku towards where Taketora was standing.
"All here?" Kyoko called out, and everybody nodded.
"So, what should we do? We have the weekends free before the Summer Camp Training." Yaku asked.
"SLEEP!" both Kuroo and [name] yelled at the same time.
"Oh right, I nearly forgot!" Yaku exclaimed, and he took out his phone. He then went to the group chat that had both the girls and boys in it, and he sent some photos.
Kuroo and [name] then took out their phones while the others smirked. Kuroo then blushed at the photos that Yaku had sent, whereas [name] was unfazed and then she kept her phone.
"Yaku!" Kuroo yelled and started to chase after him.