ok dudes i went on a rampage and wrote like 3 chapters tonight. they will be posted probably consecutively

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L/N LOOKED UP AT THE LARGE BUILDING.

"It's bigger than I imagined," she gripped the strap of her bag and cringed. Auyumi turned to her, smiling kindly.

"Well, there was a game yesterday, but you didn't end up coming, right?" L/N's face fell in shock as she turned to her friends.

"Huh?! There was?!"

"Yeah! We tried to text you, but you never responded." Osi sighed. "You know, F/N-chan... a certain number 4 looked pretty distressed whenever he would look over to the bleachers..."

Yusa smacked Osi on the back of her head, letting out a dreary sigh. "Shut up. Don't make L/N feel worse than she does. Just look at her."

The two looked at her, L/N's face was pale with shock and she was wilting like a dead flower. Auyumi came and placed a hand on her shoulder comfortingly.

"I think Aoba Johsai are here already," Gigi pointed, and her eyes immediately followed. They were getting out of a bus, and the coaches seemed to carrying most of the stuff. It looked like a lot of effort.

L/N stared a little, biting down on the inside of her cheek. I could help... She quickly shook the thought away, but it still lingered. She looked for Iwaizumi. He was talking with Oikawa about one thing or another, then smacked him on the head and glared.

While his friend was still bent down from the pain, he locked eyes with L/N. A soft smile spread across his lips, and he gave her a nod of acknowledgement.

Her cheeks flushed red and she gave him a small wave and a cute smile back. She looked away, side to side, before rushing up to him. "Hey!"

"Hey." He grinned.

She suddenly forgot why she went up to him, catching the snickers and smiles of her friends behind her in the corner of her eye, she shook her head and scrunched up her nose. "I..."

L/N took in a deep breath, before placing her hand on top of his, nails digging into the sleeve of his jacket. "Good luck, Iwaizumi-san! I know you don't need it, but still!"

She had said a bit too loudly, catching the attention of others around them. He didn't even react to the coos of his teammates, only focusing directly on her. The tips of his ears went red, and he chuckled. "Thanks. I guess I can't lose now. See you," he gave her a pat on the top of her head, before walking off.

L/N stood there in shock for a second, watching as his teammates teased him, and he smacked each one of them for it.

Her friends rushed up to her, all having their own form of a devious grin.

"You two are soooo freaking cute!!" Osi squealed.

"He looked at you so kindly," Auyumi flushed pink.

"You two make me sick," Yusa deadpanned.

"He has a crush on you," Gigi shrugged, walking away. "I don't know what the big deal is. Anyways, we should go now, if we want to get a good seat. There's a bunch of people here."

"Uhm- y...yeah!" L/N shook her hair and covered the lower half of her face. "We should go! Now! Bye!"

She rushed off, gripping the handles of her bag hard. Osi cackled, her shoulders shaking as laughter poured out of her, "Is she still gasp- in denial?!"

Yusa took ahold of her bag straps and pulled her as she kept snorting and laughing, rolling her black eyes and letting out a loud huff.

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It wasn't too long before everything had been set up, and both teams were preparing for the game. Osi was ogling the boys from the other team, Karasuno, nitpicking each one of them.

"Hmm... That one is cute!" She pointed to number 1. "He looks like he'd be a boyfriend."

"I don't know... I think the one next to him is kind of sweet-looking," Gigi said, referring to number 2.

"You guys suck," Yusa groaned, propping her legs up. As Gigi had predicted, it was packed in the bleachers on their side, and L/N could barely hear what was going on down below because of all the cheering.

She could occasionally hear the odd Oikawa fan, and chatter about how Aoba Johsai would win this easily, and the odd pity talk for Karasuno. Not much going on. Slumping down in her seat, she sighed. Iwaizumi was busy practising, and he had his jersey on. Number 4...

"Hey, F/N-chan!" Giggling, Osi nudged L/N, the girl jumping up in her seat in surprise. "There's somebody down there looking for you~"

Almost embarrassingly quickly, she looked right at Iwaizumi, who was already staring at her. She felt a smile form in place of her previous frown and wave, and he waved right back. She laughed quietly to herself, placing her cheek in her hand and staring dreamily.

"Careful; you're drooling." Yusa leaned forward and whispered in her ear. L/N flushed red and covered her mouth, which made Yusa start breaking out in laughter. L/N gave a weak glare to the purple-head, covering her face with her hands.

"Hey, don't bully L/N-chan," Auyumi warned, placing a hand on her back comfortingly again.

"Yeah, Yusa, pick on Osi. She is actually drooling." Gigi snickered, pointing at the pigtailed girl. Who, was in fact, drooling.

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"And you're telling me you two aren't dating?" Makki let out a chuckle, rolling his eyes. Iwaizumi gave him a confused look, which made Makki explain, "Do you see the way she was looking at you, dude?"

"We're friends."

"And me and Mattsun are gay." The pinkhead sneered at the lack of response from the ace. "Whatever, man. Don't try and show off too much, then lose your head."

"Why... why would I even show off," Iwaizumi's face grew pink, and Makki laughed.

"You're not slick, buddy. We've all seen you flex in training." He pats his friend's shoulder. "Just get out there, and do your best. I mean... you told her you'd win."

Iwaizumi nodded, smiling.

[... ACROSS THE COURT...]

A certain bald guy and short spiky-headed duo stared at the bleachers from Aoba Johsai in disbelief. "No freaking way!"

Nishinoya shook his friend, "Not only does Oikawa have girls all over him, so does their ace?! How is that fair?! That girl is so cute!"

"I wish Kiyoko would talk about us like that!"

"Yeah!"

"We can't lose to these assholes!"

The manager in question scrunched her face up and turned away, getting as far away from the duo as possible.

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"May the best team win today," Oikawa and Karasuno's captain shook hands. Oikawa smiled warningly, eyes closed.

"Oh, we plan to."

They practised their spikes, Oikawa setting perfectly each time. Gigi hummed, "His passes are so accurate. It must be hard to do that."

With how many sets he does, It's not surprising. L/N pursed her lips, looking closer.

"Excellent work, Makki! You are as sharp as ever!"

"Hey, I'm sorry Kindaichi, that was a bit high for my tastes."

"Um- okay, right!" The nervous first-year bowed.

"Our little Iwa seems kind of tense today." Oikawa smiled a charming smile. L/N swore she heard Osi sigh dreamily. "Hey, you shouldn't worry yourself too much about looking good. After all, the girls are too busy watching me to notice you! You just need to worry about one girl, okay!"

Yusa scoffed loudly, "I hate guys like that."

Iwaizumi had to be physically restrained by Kindaichi from lunging at the pretty boy. L/N laughed, covering her mouth with her hand and turning her head away.

A whistle blew, and both teams lined up at the edge of the court, bowing, "Thank you for the game!"

"Alright, let's do this thing, shall we? Just like we did yesterday." Oikawa looked back at his team, smiling, "Don't let me down, fellas. Alrighty?"

He walked off.

Osi shivered, leaning against the railing of the bleachers. "Is it just me, or did their mood just totally change?"

"Maybe whatever Oikawa said was inspirational."

L/N looked down to where they stretched in their respective positions, a frown forming on her face. "I don't know... he always says that whenever they have a practice match. I think it makes them more serious."

The blonde boy with glasses on Karasuno's team served when the whistle blew. Kunimi received it, the ball flying to Oikawa. The other team had no time to react as Oikawa slammed it down without so much as a glance.

Osi looked over at Gigi, distressed, "I thought he was a setter!"

"Me too..." She murmured, eyes narrowing.

Oikawa, with a cocky smirk, stared down the setter of the other side, "I'll give you a little hint. I'm about to do that again, so pay attention this time, and maybe you'll be able to stop me."

Some of the boys on the other side started gritting their teeth, glaring flames at the pretty boy, who didn't care in the slightest.

Mattsun served, and they caught it, their setter throwing up the ball with the orange boy and the bald boy running, the orange one inevitably slamming it down.

"That's Karasuno's freak quick," Auyumi said in surprise, eyes widening. "I heard it was legendary... but we received it?"

Oikawa jumped up, ready to spike it down again, but at the last second, changed his posture and set it to Iwaizumi, who spiked it down and then glared at his friend, "Hey! That was too low."

"Oh yeah? Well, my bad. But you know, Iwa, you seem to always hit them either way," Oikawa grinned.

Osi gasped, "He's so tricky! Maybe he isn't the best boyfriend material... what if he tricked me as easily as he did those two guys?!"

"Like you had a chance with him, anyway," Yusa snorted.

The setter from the other side had multiple guys to set it to, Oikawa noticing each one of them, but failed to pay attention to the setter in particular, who twisted his hand and pushed it over the net, the ball hitting the floor next to Oikawa's foot.

The crowd erupted into applause, and Osi gasped even louder in shock. "No way! That setter is so petty! But look... Oikawa looks so pissed!"

All L/N could hear from the cheers of the crowd, was Oikawa insulting him and walking off, the setter from the other side scoffing and glaring.

"I think... they have a rivalry or something," she swallowed, propping her face up on her hands. "I mean... look how pissed off they both look."

Aoba Johsai was in the lead, and she hoped they would stay there.

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