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Crossing the line

Toru Oikawa x Reader

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A million thoughts reaching through your head. The suspended moment didn’t seem to end. It felt like the ball was moving slower than a snail and taking all the time it can take to ponder if it should go on the hoop or not. This one moment decided your fate. Can you go to nationals or do you have to wait until the next season to play netball? Was there even a chance trying to be the greatest in the league? You should’ve passed the ball to the shooter higher, maybe then this wouldn’t feel like hours.In one quick second it all ended. Cheers chanting Aobo Johsai filled the room and your friends lift you up over their heads. Making eye contact with your family in the seats, you couldn’t help but have sour face when realising who was next to your brother.

The award ceremony flies by. Washing your face in the sink you couldn’t help but notice the flush on your face and the unkept pieces of your hair. Before getting the chance to fix things, you hear your name being called by Toru’s mum. She was practically your second your mother. She and your mother had been friends for decades before you were even born so it made sense why your families were so close, always showing up for volleyball games and your netball games. Spending all the major holidays together. Going on family road trips and vacations with one another every year.

“I’m coming.” You shouted back.

Walking out the door you were met with your family and the Oikawa’s waiting for your return to pepper you with compliments and hugs. Leaving the practice hall, you could hear a conversation between your mother and Toru’s. Something about extra classes but you’re mind paid more attention to the boys behind you arguing over your teams victory and wether or not the win was because of you or the shooter. All of a sudden you heard your mother say. “y/n can do it, don’t bother yourself looking for a tutor.”

As soon as those words slipped her mouth you knew what your mother had just put you up for. Climbing into the car seat, you couldn’t even wait till putting in your seat belt to start the argument.

“I am not tutoring him.” You angrily say to your mother.

“y/n you most definitely can. He just needs to get his grades up to stay on the volleyball team.” She shouts back starting the car and moving out of the parking lot.

You groaned to your mother “Why do I have to be the one to tutor him. Can’t he find someone else!”

“No. You can do a favour for Toru’s mum end of.” She shouted back.

Hajime snickers and gives you a punch on the shoulder. Giving him a deathly stare, you were silent for the rest of the journey home with your headphones in your ears leaning against the window. The condensation droplets on the glass fell to the top of your hair sending a chill down your body. Winter was coming.

Once you got home you headed straight for a long hot shower. The steaming droplets hit your body calming you instantly. Sometimes it felt like the shower was the only you time got. Juggling two different clubs, studying and school was starting to take a toll on you. You barely had time to do other things you loved and now more of your time was going to be taken by stupid tutoring lessons with someone you could barely tolerate. The steam building up in the atmosphere seemed to calm you from the tense emotions in your body and eventually you were able to relax to the music playing before hand.

“And you know he’s such a dickhead, like he really isn’t all that” You said to your friends before taking a sip of your drink.

“y/n you know-” before letting your best friend continue her sentence you interrupted her once again.

“Don’t try and defend him Riko, I mean i’ve known him my whole life and not once he’s treated me like a decent person-”

“You talkin ‘bout me?” Toru interrupts with a sly smirk on his face, standing next to your twin brother. Anytime you saw Toru, it felt like your body was having an allergic reaction. An unconditional seed of hate and anger fills you with rage.

“What are you doing here.” You spit back.

“I go to school here silly.” He snarks back with the same smug look on his face.

“You know what I meant. Really what do you want.”

Before Toru could speak Hajime interrupts, giving him a look that only god would know what it meant. “Mum wants you to skip one of your practices today and clean your room.”

“Is that it?” You replied back.

He nods and drags Toru away with him.

“I’m home.” You called out and put my keys and shoes away.

After getting to your room you changed into some shorts and a band tee. Not paying much attention to what your mum was saying you put on your headphones and started cleaning your room which looked like it had seen better days. Re-organising your picture frames you could hear commotion from the front of the house, the smell of teenage boys filled the air and you already knew what was yet to come.

“y/n?” an insufferable voice calls from outside your room.

��Come in.” You shout back with an annoyed tone in your voice.

As he opened the door a frown came over your face. Realising what you’ve been involuntarily signed up to for the next few months. He drops his bag by your door and picks up what seems like to be a mountain of books from his bag.

“Really? how dumb are you?” You asked him with a genuine concern, not for him, but questioning how someone could be that stupid.

“Don’t act like I’m some idiot, volleyball takes up too much time and i don’t have time to study.” He says trying to justify his stupidity.

“Oh don’t even try and use that excuse. You know i’m doing netball and debate and i’m still at the top of our class, it’s okay to admit you’re stupid.” You hiss back in a condescending tone.

With no reply he walks over to your bed but before sitting down he goes to the windowsill delicately decorated with snow globes and picture frames.“You still kept this? I knew you had a soft spot for me ace.” He blurts out the nick name he knew you hated whilst picking up a snow globe that has you sandwiched in the middle of Hajime and Toru on a cruise from when you were nine.

You never understood or knew why he called you ace. Honestly, he’d been calling you it for as long as you could remember and anytime you questioned him it would be met with a snarky comeback that would just piss you off so he wouldn’t have to explain himself.

“Don’t flatter yourself, it was just a good holiday and I like the picture.” You reply back, watching him sit down on your bed and create a 6’4 indent, creating a mental note on where to clean up after.

“Or you just like looking at pictures of me.” He snarks back with a wink.

“All those fan girls really have gotten to him.” You mumbled underneath your breath.

It was going to be a long three hours.

“Alright, Toru, we need to go over this section again.” You say out of desperation for this to be over.

“Do we have to? I’ve told you, maths and science really aren’t my thing.” He sighs with an outdrawn breath.

“Yeah we need to or we’ll have to keep doing more of these lessons.” You reply with more and more frustration entering your voice. “This stuff really isn’t even that hard if you try.”

“Of course you’re saying that, just because you’re a genius doesn’t mean everyone is.”

“I’m not a genius, I just put in the work, if you stopped complaining you’d understand it.”

“Whatever, just don’t expect me to be the next boy genius.”

“Trust me, no one expects you to be.”

“Ouch.”

“Truth hurts.” You reply back. “I’m just praying you pass the next test and i don’t have to keep babysitting you anymore.”

“Now you’re just being mean.” He scorns. “Its not like I want to keep doing this either.”

“Then pay attention and pass your classes.”

“C’mon don’t you think it’s time for a break?” He pleads to you.

“Fine just five minutes and then we’re going back.”You retaliate.

Both of you turn to pick up your phones. His with a simple black phone case and you’re with a tinted pink phone case with a polaroid of you and your friendgroup. Not even a minute goes by before the boy starts scan your room and pick up one of the stuffed toys nesting on top of your bed frame.

“I remember this little guy.” He blurts out whilst holding the plush giraffe your mothers had gotten you, your brother and Toru on your first day of preschool.

“He’s so worn out.” You say stifling a chuckle. Memories rush towards your brain as you start to remember the three of you as young children with pink cheeks and missing teeth.

Toru smiles faintly. “Those were the days. Everything was so simple back then.”

“We were such babies.” You nod lost in thought.“Before we started arguing and competing about everything.”

Toru scrunches his face and frowns. “Is that what you think? That I’ve been competing with you?”

You feel a pang of annoyance. “Well, isn’t it? You always have to be the best at everything.”

His smile fades. “And that bothers you?

You blink, taken aback. “You’re always trying to make yourself look better than me in any way you can because you need all the attention.” You say in a mocking tone.

Toru sets the giraffe back on the bed, a little too forcefully. “Maybe you’re just jealous because you can’t keep up.”

You feel your cheeks flush with anger. “Jealous? Seriously? You’re the one who’s obsessed with being perfect!”

His eyes narrow. “Maybe because I have to be, try being in my shoes for a day.”

“Oh really, with your million fan girls and all those magazines wanting to interview you.”

“Shut up y/n.” He says whilst approaching the door of your room. You don’t even bother going after him.

A sour feeling was left in your head for the rest of the night. Were you jealous? Those nine words kept replaying in your head and had you questioning so much about yourself before finally sleeping.

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