Chapter 22, Number

THIRD POV

Shirome approached the hooting owl, but halfway through she got dragged by him. Tetsuro was preparing something and scrolling through his phone and picked a music. He set the phone down and the intro of the music started. Shirome's eyes widened.

Most people groaned.

"Kuro, stop messing around with this music. All you do is make fun of yourself," Kenma frowned.

"Wait, is it different this time?" Konoha wondered, furrowing his brows as the smallest captain was placed at the center, the owl captain stood by her right side, and the scheming cat captain stood by her left.

All eyes were on them now. Shirome's eyes were wide as she wore a scared expression. The team stared at her confused.

The two taller captains smirked as they stood cool, then it was time to dance. Shirome had no choice, but to dance as well.

"Kuro also memorized this dance," Koutaro told Shirome who was slightly shaking.

Kuro just smirked.

And then they danced.

(a/n: just imagine the 3 captains dancing this)

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All of them stared surprised and shocked, eyes wide. They were gaping at the trio who danced with ease. All their body smooth and fluid, sharp at every moment that required force. Their eyes especially popped out of their sockets as the three of them pulled a stunt on the floor, with the exception of Shirome who just did a quick drop to the floor and slowly stood up. Placing both hands on the floor and lifting their body using their arms as support.

All of them gasped, watching as the three captains grind smoothly on the floor slowly. All of them blushed furiously. The moms of the teams were freaking out although they couldn't bring themselves to say something.

Everyone was watching them dance. Some were nosebleeding, some were amused but shocked, and some person's soul left their bodies. They weren't expecting the trio to pull a stunt like this.

Finally, the dance ended. Shirome stood with a hard blush on her milky face, Tetsuro was laughing at the faces of people, and Koutaro was dramatically bowing and thanking the audience.

Shirome cradled her warm cheeks with her hands as she looked at Koutaro who was grinning at her, Tetsuro was smirking.

"I didn't knew you had it in you, Chibi-chan," He smirked.

"W-Well–," Shirome gulped as she looked at Koutaro who was laughing.

"You're so red right now!" Both captains laughed, everyone just watched amused. Some were clapping and whistling, and some just complimented the three.

Embarassed and red, Shirome lightly punched their sides, both of them stumbling to maintain their balance. She crossed her arms, "That feels embarassing," She slightly bit her bottom lip.

Rubbing their arm from where she had bit them, they grinned cheekily.

"Oi, barbecue is here!" One of the coach yelled for everyone to hear. Everyone cheered and went outside, preparing to eat the foods.

The gradient head was still embarassed and sighed, her gaze moved and caught Keiji. He was blushing madly and looked away, jogging outside. Her gaze moved again, catching the two pairs of wide eyes of Nishinoya and Tanaka, they had tissues over their noses as if it bled. They yelped and dashed outside, flustered by her gaze. Shaking her head, she moved her gaze once again. Kuro (Metsuhai) was blushing harder than her, he looked away as he can't maintain her gaze. He rushed to help the managers prepare.

Deciding not to eye contact with anyone, she just sighed and went outside.

A hand yanked her wrist slightly, she turned to see Kenma who was blushing slightly. He looked down embarassed, "Do you...want to eat with me?" He softly asked.

Shirome smiled, "Sure. Let's go," She gently grabbed his hand and walked with him.

Grabbing her psp along the way, they listened to what coach Nekomata had to say before declaring that they can now eat. The place was buzzing with happiness–both from the experience of the camp and food. Shirome and Kenma found a place to sit on, near Tsukishima and Yamaguchi. After shooting Yamaguchi and Tsukishima a greeting, they sat and played their psp, connecting to the same network and playing multiplayer. Occasionally, they would bite on their food and then continue focusing on their game.

Shirome sighed, "Kenma, stop letting me die. The sniper is annoying, can you please assassinate him," She whined.

Kenma huffed and took a bite of his food, "It's not my fault you're not camouflaged," He said as he slightly jumped, he got sniped too.

"Wait, really? I thought I had my camoflauge on," She clicked her tongue and shoved a slightly big meat on her mouth. Her brows were furrowed as she focused on reviving Kenma.

"Tsukishima!" A muffled voice called out.

Tsukishima raised a brow at him.

"You need to eat more!" He grinned at the blonde while showing him a plate full of food.

"Uh, I can't eat that much.," He said, Yamaguchi just stared.

"Come on, eat some veggies too," Tetsuro appeared.

"You, too, Kenma, damn it!" He shouted at Kenma who jolted up and shook his head furiously.

"Eat some fried rice!" The captain of Karasuno said.

"You mean meat! Eat some meat, Tsukki!" Koutaro appeared with two tongs clutching meat in each.

Shirome snickered and continued on playing, finally assassinating the sniper who had been messing with them since earlier. Kenma sighed as he ate what Tetsuro offered, glancing at the psp that poked out of the scheming captain's pocket.

She saw her psp being grabbed away from her too and looked up, seeing Tetsuro frowning at her, "I see you too, eat first then both of you can play. Okay?" He scolded like a dad to both gamers.

Slightly pouting, she nodded and took the vegetables thet Tetsuro offered her. Both the gamers ate in silence, their legs swinging as they ate.

"U-Um," A ravenette appeared infront of Shirome. She hummed and looked up to see Kageyama who had a serious look but a blush dusting his slightly chubby cheeks. Tsukishima glanced at the corner of his eye secretly.

"Ah, Tobio. Hello," She chirped at him as she ate a sliced carrot.

"Could I...have your number?" He shyly asked as he looked away.

"Oh, yeah! I forgot. I was supposed to get the number of one of the first years in each team," She smiled at Tobio, "Thank you for making me remember!" She chirped.

She gently took the boy's phone from his pretty hands and put on her number, he slightly tensed at the soft touch when both their hands grazed each other.

"Here," She grinned and gave his phone back, "Text me any time so I can save your number too."

He nodded rapidly, "Y-Yes. Thank you," He walked away a little fastly with a red face, but came back, "Can I please ask a question?" He shyly looked down.

"Sure, what is it?" She stared at him, he was trying hard not to stutter.

"W-When you served the other day, it looked like a serve that my former senior taught me. Is there any chance the person who taught you that serve is named Oikawa Tooru?"

She hummed, "Ah, Oikawa Tooru. Oh, you mean Oikawa Tooru-senpai?" She asked him, he nodded rapidly. Yamaguchi and Tsukishima choked a little but remained silent. The captains except Shirome were busy conversing with one another. Kenma just ate silently.

"Tooru...senpai? O-Oh yeah, that's him. You both already met?" He nervously asked.

"Yeah, Aoba Johsai went to our school for a training session. He just happened to teach me his serve when we were on water break, he was a good server. Now that I think about it, your serve is similar to his," The gradient head said as she ate the last portion of her meat.

"Oh, I see. And yeah, he taught me how to serve in middle school," He said, almost smiling.

"That's really nice, you two get along well don't you?"

"Not really..."

"Oh, sorry about that," She frowned, mad at herself for bringing his mood down.

"Please don't be sad! It's fine, we're..fine. I'll get going now, thank you again Furumi-san," He said and walked away hastily.

"He's cute," She said as she took the last bite of her vegetable. Looking at Kenma, she noticed him staring at her.

She blinked, "Is something wrong, Kenma?"

He blushed and looked down his food, hesitating. It confused the smaller setter.

"Shiro-chan," Tetsuro approached her.

Kenma just stared, unable to do it.

"Yes?" She blinked at the taller captain.

He leaned down to her eye level and stared at her eyes for a slightly long time. His gaze moved to her lips as his fingers reached to it.

"Tetsurou-senpai...?" She said, her heart slightly beating faster at how strange he was moving.

He chuckled lightly, knowing that there were stares settling on both of them, "You got a little sauce here."

His thumb reached and was about to wipe the sauce, but he stopped. He pulled back his hand and leaned in instead.

"Oh god–" Ameri tried to reach them but it was too late.

Tetsuro cupped her cheek with his hand, covering his face and hers from the people watching. He pressed his lips on the corner of hers, lightly licking the sauce.

He pulled back with a smile as she just stared blankly.

She smiled, her eyes disappearing, "Oh, thank you," She beamed.

Kenma stared at her with disbelief, the people who were watching just looked away, some were awkward but amused. They went back on minding their business.

"You rooster head!" Ameri shrieked, along with Kira and Haide who was freaking out.

Tetsuro took a step back as the girl growled, held back by Kira and Haide. Kira and Haide were checking their captain's face if he had done something on her.

"D-Did he kiss you?!" Kira whispered a little anxiously at her. Haide was slightly hyperventilating.

The small captain shook her head, oblivious to the attempt from the scheming captain, "No, he just helped remove the sauce I didn't know was present here," She pointed to an area very close to her lips.

Haide paced back and forth as she panicked. Kira's soul left her body, Ameri was glaring at the ravenette captain.

Kenma sighed, catching the attention of Shirome, "Come here."

She blinked but followed his instructions. Kenma took the tissue that Yaku handed him and wiped the area where Tetsuro had licked her. He sighed again and gave Yaku the tissue who threw it on a nearby trash bin.

"Thank you," She chirped and took her and Kenma's psp from Tetsuro's pockets when he was distracted from Ameri's lectures.

The two continued playing, but Kenma couldn't erase the memory of his best friend almost kissing the girl he liked for years.

He frowned internally, but remained blank so the smaller gamer wouldn't be suspicious of anything. He focused on playing with her, cherishing the small amount of time before they part ways later.

He scooted closer to her, both their hip touching. Shirome hummed in confusion, but didn't say anything.

She slightly leaned on Kenma as they both played together. She continued playing normally, but the boy stopped breathing for a while. His heart was beating fast, it didn't miss a single beat.

"Kenma, you're getting stabbed right now. Don't worry, I'll shoot him/her from the back," She said as she furiously sprayed her ammo to shoot the player who stabbed and almost killed Kenma continuously.

He slightly smiled as a blush curtained his soft cheeks. Slightly responding to her, he leaned close too. They both played in a comfortable silence.

Shirome, I hope you can hear my heart beating fast right now. It's like that everytime you spared even a single breath.

"Yaku-san look, Kenma-san and Furumi-san looks really cute not gonna lie," Lev whispered to Yaku with a serious face.

Yaku rolled his eyes at him and slightly kicked his leg, "I know."

"Woah, you got her number Kageyama?! Can I please get it too?!" Hinata excitedly asked the blueberry who just recovered from choking on his food.

"No, dumbass. She only needs one 1st year and she chose me. You can't have it," He scoffed as he continued chewing.

Hinata raised a brow, "She didn't choose you, you went to her."

Kageyama's eye twitched as they both started to bicker, making some people who were near them awkward.

"Stop it, both of you," A silver head bonked the pair and they immediately stopped.

"Sorry, Sugawara-san," Kageyama mumbled, Hinata also muttered an apology.

"Why don't you just ask her?" Tsukishima sarcastically stated, drinking his water. Yamaguchi nodded along, not knowing he was kidding. The pair approached them as they went to throw their empty plates.

"Oh, yeah! Sometimes you're really smart, Snarkyshima!" The tangerine cheered and made his way to the gradient head.

The blonde choked on his drink, wiping his mouth as he frowned. He didn't expect him to be this stupid. But then again, it's Hinata.

Yamaguchi panicked, "T-Tsukki! Are you alright?!" He patted the blonde's back, helping him ease the choking.

"Shut up, Yamaguchi," He said as he glanced at the tangerine talking to the gradient head.

"Sorry, Tsukki," Yamaguchi awkwardly laughed.

From what he saw, Hinata successfully got her number. He frowned.

I wanted to get her number too.

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