#udai tenma au

[hellobunny044]

Panels. | Series

An Original Haikyū AU Pairing “Udai Tenma” The Original Little Giant Of Karasuno High School

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Summary

< panel. in manga art, panel refers to the frame that wraps around one moment in time on a manga page. >

Udai Tenma, a manga artist, currently doing well with his high-selling Zombie Knight Zomb’ish, is dealing with the stress of his looming deadlines and the demand from his task-focus, super perfectionist editor, Akaashi Keiji. During a meet and greet for his manga’s special edition, Udai bumped into his first love from high school, Sasaki Tsubasa. Memories of their past meet-ups start flooding back, and Udai begins to wonder if he has really moved on.

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Chapter List

Panel - 1 “Crunching Pages, Unlocking Hearts”

Panel - 2 “Memory of An Encounter”

Panel - 3 “Scratches, Lines, Panels”

Panel - 4 “Ink Stained”

Panel - 5 “Reflection of The Unfinished Panel”

Panel - 6 “Smiles and Longing”

Panel - 7 “Contact”

Panel - 8 “Unreliable Man”

Panel - 9 “A Broken Wings and Awkward Glances”

Panel - 10 “Resurfaces”

Panel - 11 “First Love”

Panel - 12 “Wings”

Panel - 13 “Summer’s Spring: Volleyball, Manga, and Love”

Panel - 14 “Summer’s Spring: Volleyball, Manga, and Love part II”

Panel - 15 “Echoes of The Lost Love”

Panel - 16 “Reset”

Panel - 17 “Revisiting Old Flames and Rekindling Regrets”

Panel - 18 “A New Panel”

Panel - 19 “Unforgotten Regret”

Panel - 20 “Brand New Ending”

[vladimpale]

fanfic where saeko is house sitting for a friend and finds out the neighbor is her former classmate tenma but she only sees him at night and he's so so pale and sickly and he looks like he hasn't slept in 50 years and what are those red stains on his shirt so of course the logical train of thought after some encounters is that tenma is a vampire

so she starts inviting him in ("hey neighbor i made some extra cake do you want some?" "oh. yeah. sure" "..." "..." "do you need an invite in?") and offering him treats and (holy) water ("want some garlic bread?" "oh sorry i dont like garlic" "...interesting") lets not forget about the attempted sleep overs ("so here is where you'll sleep!" "...is that a coffin? where did you get that?")("what movie should we watch?" "oh idk you choose" "how do you feel about twilight") or the fact that she starts wearing turtlenecks around him ("saeko... its 26° outside..." "i have bad circulation")

after learning his roommate is akiteru, this really bright and charismatic guy, she starts worrying that he is keeping him around and feeding on him by hypnotizing him (it escapes her the erratic visits aki's brother pays them, usually carrying what looks like a mini fridge)

tenma ends up telling akiteru about her weird behavior and they tell her that actually no tenma isnt a vampire he's just a manga artist. oh also akiteru is the actual vampire and has been sucking on tenma for about two years now and thats why he looks like shit. also he has deadlines so there's that ("she thinks im the vampire" "wow that sucks. should i drain her and dispose of the body?" "AKITERU-" (they dont tell her about that part))

(upon finding out the secret was busted tsukki also considered getting rid of her)

[findyourrp]

「🎐 ; 🕊️ & possible 🍪」 23, she/him, AFAB.

About me: I mirror the length & detail of my partners!

Looking for: MxM discord rp for the following fandoms! Romance, smut, and happy ending is a must! (However toxic that may look like to our OCs) 🤭 AMAB anatomy (I'm uncomf rping PiV Sex).

Listed = characters I'd like to rp against

Bolded = who I'm hoping to play

I'm esp interested in writing a sub/bottom chara against a sadistic dom top!

— Haikyuu!! / Haikyu / HQ ; Hinata Shouyo —

Nishinoya Yuu

Tenma Udai

Akaashi Keiji

— Tokyo Revengers / TokRev ; Hanagaki Takemichi —

Matsuno Chifuyu

Tachibana Naoto

Hanma Shuuji

Sano Manjirou (Mikey)

Mitsuya Takashi

Sano Shinichirou

— Blue Lock / BLLK ; Isagi Youichi —

Bachira Meguru

Nagi Seishirou

Itoshi Rin

Chigiri Hyouma

— SK8 ; Reki Kyan —

Chinen Miya

Kikuchi Tadashi

Sakurayashiki Kaoru (Cherry Blossom)

Shindo Ainosuke (Adam)

— Idolish7 / i7 / Ainana ; Nanase Riku —

Kujo Tenn

Sunohara Momose (Momo)

Orikasa Yukito (Yuki)

Kujo Takamasa

Oogami Banri

Ousaka Sougo

Open to: AU, canon-compliant, dead dove. We can more than likely include your deepest darkest wants!

Kinks of focus: Sadomasochism, 🍪, lots of dirty talk, dubcon, and forced orgasm.

I'd prefer to play a more inexperienced chara at this time. However! I can deeply assure you that my muses will always talk and react extensively so that you have plenty to work with during smut. This goes for both enthusiastic AND unenthusiastic reactions. Heads up for obscene dialogue when they get into it! I'm expecting lots of dirty talk from both sides!

Please: be a long term 20+ high-energy partner who I can joke and be friends with, unashamedly enthusiastic about our rp ship (via spamming hcs & memes & other media), not afraid of being too much, decisively contribute ideas to plotting, comfortable & confident enough to strongly communicate your rp needs and wants, listen attentively to what I have to say/ask during plotting, available for back-n-forth rping (NOT rapid fire) some days!

⚠️ If you lose interest while plotting, tell me so I know to look elsewhere. Respect my time and I'll respect yours! Thank you!

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[karasunology]

⸙ ˚₊ ➷ UDAI TENMA DATING HEADCANONS ! ❞

╰─ ─ ﾟheadcanons of our original little giant because he needs ! more ! love !

-ˏˋ ➶ character(s) ━ udai tenma <3

[ trigger warnings ━ manga spoilers !! ]

-ˏˋ ✉️ REQUESTS ARE ALWAYS OPEN.

⇣ please read the RULES before requesting & shoot me an ask !

➜ dating udai tenma would include wholesome handwritten notes in stickey notes

➜ since he's an artist, i could see him having doodles of you and him in the corners of the stickey notes 🥺

➜ and the cutest hearts on the side

➜ like the way he draws doodled hearts are literally made of love since he always thinks of you while doing it

➜ and he doesn't only do doodles of you

➜ he probably draws masterpieces of you

➜ makes you think “ wow, is that really me? ”

➜ his sketch books are half of the time scattered with both rough & clean sketches of you

➜ ugh we love an artist😤😍

➜ he probably has a character inspired by you

➜ and he probably has a character inspired by him, and 10/10 would make them date

➜ since he's an artist, he would stay up all night trying to meet deadlines

➜ i headcanon that he prefers coffee over tea, so he lives off of it 24/7

➜ but NOT JUST ANY TYPE OF COFFEE

➜ I STRONGLY HEADCANON that he loves his coffee with lots of cream & is just very sweet

➜ and he sometimes even feel sleepy because of coffee yet drink it anyway

➜ so imagine smelling him with all his sweet coffee glory, holyshit in love

➜ ugh, and when you cuddle you'll just engulf his teeth rotting scent and it drives you mad

➜ makes you want to devour him ngl

➜ and when he finds out that he had this effect on you

➜ haha let's say he'll have a little fun with it ;)

➜ dates with him ranges from studio dates, where you visit his studio where he has all his art in it and where he works & probably teaches you to draw

➜ and if you already do love and have a knack for art, you bet that THERE WILL BE art dates

➜ with just two of you creating whatever the hell masterpieces you could do w/o even knowing it

➜ and most of time ends with having the two of you covered in paint calloused fingers

➜ but it's always so fun doing those with him

➜ if you ever need to reach something too high for you, you'll unconciously ask him if he could help you

 ➜ and then you realize what you just said and turned back to look at him with a sheepish smile, and he'll be pouting but then he'll smile at you before saying

“ don't worry, i know how to jump ”

➜ short king

➜ also since he's an artist, you way not see him ALL the time because i know hard it is being a manga artist with all the work to do and deadlines

➜ ESPECIALLY if it's not digital art

➜ phew

➜ but he'll always have time to give for you & he appreciates that you understand him and enjoy his art

➜ in conclusion, even if it gets rocky because you guys may not always be on dates or be their with each other because of work or clashing of deadlines and schedules, but you both know well it would take more than that to even think of taking a break with each other. & if you need any reassurance, he's already peppering you with goofy and wet kisses in your face before trailing down to you neck and i ─

[ 🔞 BONUS NSFW CONTENT UNDER ! ]

➜ since he loves sweet things, he'll probably be into food play

➜ especially whipped cream

➜ phew chile

➜ also he love his hair to be tugged on

➜ could see him as a switch honestly

➜ and while doing foreplay & teasing, he'll be drawing all kinds of doodles in your skin leaving you with chills up your spine before you chase your high

-ˏˋ playing soleil's tape ˊˎ-

[ 📼 ] . . . after logging out for awhile i return with an udai tenma headcanons that nobody asked for, BUT I DID SO HA prepare to fall in love with him because while writing this in the middle of a blackout yesterday, a b itch fell in love😳😡 but that's on ME he caught ME slipping. if y'all ever read this use this as a REMINDER to write more for our bb boy here, & if you want more content of him shoot me an ask, ANYDAY, ANYNIGHT, ANYTIME , thanks for reading this bubs <3

[inmyimperfectmind]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Haikyuu!! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akaashi Keiji/Miya Osamu Characters: Akaashi Keiji, Miya Osamu, Kageyama Miwa, Iwaizumi Hajime, Hanamaki Takahiro, Matsukawa Issei, Udai Tenma, Miya Atsumu, Kageyama Tobio Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Time Skip, Mutual Pining, Crush at First Sight, Miwa & Hajime & Keiji & Tobio are siblings, Self-Indulgent, Siblings embarrassing and supporting each other Summary:

“Osamu-chan, a word of advice, I’d make the first move,” said Miwa in a serious tone but her gaze reflected absolute mischievousness.  “Keiji is a very shy boy and it’ll take him forever to convince himself to call you.”

Keiji and Osamu have crushed on each other since high school but it takes their siblings humiliating them to finally admit their feelings.

[jonisboringg]

I never posted this on instagram because it was meant to be part of a set. Might as well throw it here :>

-click for better quality-

[littlegiantslight]

Little Giants

After the success from the boys of the volleyball team, it’s time for the girls’ soccer team to take the spotlight and march their way to victory.

Under the command of Aiya Takahashi, this team will go through challenges, adventures, struggles and joy together. After all, the union leads to strength.

Part1 & Part2

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The next morning, outside Takahashi’s door, was a motorbike ridden by a girl about her age. Taking of the helmet, a bob of bright blonde hair balanced a bit and shone under the multiple rays of sun. She pulled the rest from her bike and walked to Takahashi’s door, knocking multiple times, calling her name as well.

“Aiya Takahashi, you better come outside before I break in!” The girl threatened as a joke. “Come on! Come on!” She repeated and knocked on the door again.

Takahashi was left without an option. It was obvious that by the voice it was her old classmate and great friend Saeko Tanaka. That girl would make everyone’s spirits lift whether they wanted or not. There was something about her that made that happen, but Takahashi never really found out what it was.

The coach opened the door and allowed her to come in, but Saeko’s arm went around her neck right in that moment, pulling the old friend back in the house. With a kick from the blonde girl, the door was closed shut and the two headed to the small kitchen.

“I heard you had a break today! And I also heard Tenma is in town and Akiteru is free as well. That being said you’re joining us! I don’t wanna hear excuses…” She spoke with her normal assertive tone. Saeko held the coach’s hands, waiting for an answer.

“Can I get ready at least?” Aiya asked, her voice still tired from being barely awake. Saeko nodded after feeling the scent of Aiya’s morning breath, giving her the disgusted look. “Don’t make that face, you’re the one who made me leave the bed this early in my day-off…” Aiya complained to her, making the blonde girl chuckle softly.

Takahashi returned to her room and looked at the old yukata from Ukai’s grandmother. She had to return it, before she would forget it. Putting the old cargo pants and brown turtleneck shirt, Takahashi left the room to the bathroom where she found Saeko checking her looks. “I swear, I don’t understand why you care about the way you look so much. Get out, let me brush my teeth!”

Saeko simply sat on the toilet watching Aiya brush the teeth and finishing her hygiene routine by tying her hair in a ponytail. The blonde girl softly pushed the dark-haired girl out of her house, only allowing her to close the door. Outside was waiting a figure that was about as tall as Aiya and slightly taller than Saeko.

“I hope you missed your old kouhai!” Saeko said motioning towards Tenma that an annoyed expression on his face. “Oi! Lighten up!” Tanaka nudged his side pointing towards the old manager.

“Honestly, I’m still half asleep, I can’t believe you forced me to leave the bed so early…” he sighed completely tired and half asleep. Aiya chuckled how he was still the absolute same, just a little more grownup. “However, it’s nice to see you again Hashi-San!” He spoke in a slightly happier mood, his hands awkwardly going to his pockets.

“Same goes for you! Wait! I know what you’re doing here…” Aiya spoke looking at Saeko with a soft glare, filled with happiness way deep inside. “Now we only need Aki-kun!” She said and got a sigh from Tenma again.

Not far from their location was arriving a car, driven by a tall blonde man, well dressed and looking quite happy. It was like he heard them calling. The older Tsukishima brother was there as well. The old group was back together.

It was visible in Aiya’s face the happiness that reunion brought her. She would often hang out with Saeko, but the other two boys were pretty rare. Only in situations like the one she was in that moment. She missed Tsukishima’s warm hugs and conversations and Udai’s wise jokes and memories from their old days. Somehow everything was coming back to her and it never felt so warm.

After pulling over, Tsukishima left the car and walked to the group and greeted everyone with his warm smile. One could say he was the perfect gentleman. He greeted both girls with a polite bow that was followed by the warmest of hugs and Tenma was greeted with an old signature handshake from their old days. Tenma was still hurt about Akiteru abandoning the team, but it was something they didn’t bother him as much as it used to. Akiteru could always count on his support as long as he was happy.

After talking for a bit, the group decided to go to the old park where they used to study and help each other in times of need. But, before heading there, Aiya asked Saeko to stop at Ukai’s store to return something. It was obvious that Tanaka would make the joke of returning his heart since she stole it from him and Aiya almost was the cause of an accident for shoving her so harshly. The girl was used to teasing her friend since they were young, so that was nothing different. However, they did stop at his store and warned the boys to keep going to the park and get the stuff ready.

Aiya asked for Tanaka to wait for her so she could give back the old yukata to Ukai, but Saeko just forgot her manner and followed her in, mostly to see what she was handing to the blonde man. Takahashi walked to Ukai who almost immediately stood up to greet her, hoping he would have some work to do that early in the morning, but was kind of disappointed when he saw the yukata in her hands. She thanked him and his grandfather for allowing her to keep the yukata for the night and asked to get her some meat buns for the way. But right when she was about to pay the food, he stopped her. Takahashi just looked up confused.

“It’s on the house and take the yukata. My grandma doesn’t use it anyway…” He said with his calm expression, putting the meat buns in the box and inside a bag so she could take them. “Thank you for the care though…”

She simply nodded with a warm smile, but Saeko quickly jumped on her and tried to make her change into the yukata, giving her the excuse that it was warm and sunny, so it would be perfect. Yet, Aiya said that she couldn’t, not only because she had no place to change, but also because it was an old piece of clothing. She didn’t want to ruin it.

“Come on, don’t be a party pooper! You are going to be mistaken with Tenma someday because you always wear those clothes. Just this once, also,” she stopped as she walked to the other side of the store, bringing back a pair of traditional sandals and hair decorations. “look at what Coach has in the store!” She handed to Aiya with a teasing smile, seeing how flustered Ukai was getting. “I bet Ukai wouldn’t mind letting you borrow these for a day…”

“Saeko, please stop. I’ll pay for the buns and the sandals and whatever that is.” Aiya said in annoyance. “Just please stop acting like that…”

“If you want, there’s a changing room in the back for the employees, if you’d like…” Ukai started before being rudely interrupted by Saeko.

“She would love that!”

Aiya wanted to curse her existence as she headed to the old employee room to change. The pearl-colored yukata covered her body perfectly, just like the night before. The reddish piece of fabric that tightened around her waist and completed the look made her look fancier than the usual tom boy clothes. Her soft hair covered in dark blue highlights seemed to shine brighter than before, tied in a perfect ponytail and careful decorated with some hairpins with flowers. The whole looked was completed with a pair of traditional wooden sandals that were just perfect for her feet. She sighed once all was ready.

In the store, Saeko was trying her best to make Ukai crack admitting his old crush over Aiya. Still, Ukai was smarter than that. He was used to those tricks coming from the young blonde girl. She could ask him if he were looking for someone or if he liked someone with every single word in the dictionary, he would know the perfect way to not answer every time. He was a high school coach after all, he knew how to deal with that. Suddenly, Saeko stopped the questionnaire and looked at Aiya’s figure leaving the changing room. Ukai found weird that the blonde stopped questioning him and looked the same way to see what was so fascinating that made her be quiet, but he couldn’t blame her.

Both blondes were starstruck by how radiant the traditional wear made Aiya look. She looked like true nobility or even like an actual princess in their eyes. It wasn’t usual to see her dressed like that. Her old bangs, already overgrown, covered her left eye partially, her hair shinning like she was under the bright daylight. Truly fascinating.

“Tanaka can you please hold my clothes or put them in the bike, please? I’ll be right there.” She asked innocently, handing her clothes to Saeko. The girl simply nodded and headed to the bike, still not believing her eyes. Aiya was actually wearing something girly and she looked beautiful. “Ukai, please, I can’t let you offer so much, so here. This is all I have with me. Please, accept it.” The young coach put on the counter, looking down in gratitude to his previous offer.

“Next meal is on me. You can’t say no…” He suggested, accepting her money to pay the stuff. “And thank you for keeping the yukata. I can’t wait for my grandma to see you like this one day.” He smiled proudly. His grandma worked in a farm and would often bring food to sell in the store really early in the morning, so it was almost impossible to catch her on time. Just like Ukai Sr, his wife was a hard-working woman and a great commander. Ukai was really proud of his old farts.

Aiya smiled and waved, thanking him again before leaving, just to see Saeko waiting by the bike for the young coach to get back. Takahashi clumsily climbed onto the bike adjusting the yukata so she could be comfortable. As soon as Saeko sat as well, Aiya held her closely, feeling her body jump with the sudden embrace, making her laugh softly. The bike was on and ready to roll.

Holding Saeko slightly closer so the wind wouldn’t ruin her looks that she took so long to put together, Aiya started to drift off to dreamland. The soft side from the young coach made Saeko blush slightly and smile like a little kid. As soon as they arrived at the park, the blonde girl smacked Aiya’s leg softly to warn her of their arrival.

The two walked side by side, getting weird looks from older ladies and drool from some boys that skated nearby. Saeko looked like she was about to bark at every person in the area around them, while Aiya just didn’t mind and held her own hands in front of her stomach, like she had her hoodie on. Not far from them, their dear boys waved so they could see where they set everything, which made Takahashi pull Saeko by her wrist to speed themselves to the little camping spot the boys created.

“What happened to your clothes, Takahashi?” Akiteru asked noticing the complete change in the coach’s outfit. “Not complaining or anything, it’s just been a while since I saw you in something girly or well…” he stopped to think a good word to describe that look, “traditional?” He wondered, chuckling softly.

“Saeko forced me to keep it and make a scene with it, now she’ll be our guard dog to keep weirdos away. Isn’t that right, Tanaka?” Aiya asked looking down at Saeko with a fake smile like she didn’t just say something that would be considered insulting. The fact that Tanaka actually said that it was exactly her job to grant Aiya some peace, even if it meant barking at people, didn’t surprise anyone present.

Both boys laughed with the whole situation, which made Aiya’s annoying grew bigger deep inside her. But she was there to have some fun and relaxation.

The day was either spent talking or buying stuff to eat. The talks would go from old memories to stories about their works and things that would happen in their lives at home. While Saeko and Akiteru had the chance of talking about their brothers, Aiya would talk about her girls and how they were getting better every time and Tenma would spend his time talking about the stuff he would write to publish at his work.

Later that day, back in Karasuno High, Yoko and Hana were about to leave and go to home when both Noya and Ennoshita stopped them. They almost felt when the two boys pulled their backpacks. The girls looked at them dead in the eyes, with clear annoyance.

“Come with us!” Nishinoya ordered, looking all high and mighty. Typical, thought the girls, but trusted them and followed them to the gym.

The gym was completely empty besides the figure of three people that sat in the center of the court. You could hear a strong male voice explaining the old note he held. By his side, the girls’ captain completed what he said, and gave examples to the other boy, this one with a pretty recognizable buzz cut. The four students sat by their side and joined the study section.

“You girls remember Tanaka-san? Tanaka, in case you forgot, these are Yoko and Hana.” Kiko introduced them again. “Also, Azumane-san, these are my girls.” The captain said putting a hand on his shoulder to call his attention to them.

Both Tanaka and Asahi greeted the girls and welcomed both Ennoshita and Nishinoya back to the circle. Yoko noticed that Narita and Kinnoshita weren’t there, but Enno simply said they preferred to study alone.

The whole group of second years heard their senpais explanations and examples for their tests and eventually made a questionnaire, specially prepared for each one of them. Kiko made for her girls and Asahi for the boys, but they would both correct it together once they were done. If one of the questions was wrong, that question would be asked to the whole group, so the third years would try to gather common doubts for another study session.

Despite being on different classes, Kiko and Asahi would get together quite often to study or to spend some time relaxing before a game or exam. Asahi, being the anxious boy he is, really appreciated her company. Her talks sometimes reminded him of Daichi’s, but ten times calmer and without so much teasing behind her voice. On the other hand, Asahi wasn’t exactly the best and he was well aware of that. So, his support would be little art dates, where Kiko could learn how to paint or sketch and Asahi would keep trying to make some new designs for his ideas. Kiko really liked that time they spent together.

Back in the Satoshi household, everything was really calm. Jin and Kenta would help each other during homework and studied quietly next to each other. Kenta would often show a picture of a weird looking animal from his science textbook to Jin and joke around to make her smile, always with success. Jin would do the same, but instead of making jokes about the animal, she would say it looked like her brother, leading to a very joyful pillow fight.

After the fight, the two of them were clearly tired and their jet-black hairs were a complete mess. But that didn’t stop them from having a good laugh. Like every night before, Kenta hugged his sister and thanked her for the help she has been giving her. Jin would thank back, knowing that the reason he was thanking her was completely different. Keeping a secret like that was hard, but she wouldn’t let a single bit of it slip out of her mouth.

Aiya returned home with Akiteru and thanked the older Tsukishima for the ride home. She carried a bag with her clothes and some food that was left and walked calmly to her door. Once she was actually indoors, she set down the bag and walked to the bathroom to see how tired she looked. Her hair was still untouched, and the outfit was practically immaculate. It was almost like magic.

The coach freed her hair and got out of the yukata, putting it aside to wash it as soon as she could. She didn’t even dare to have a shower so late at night, so she simply went under the warm sheets in underwear. A choice she would truly regret in the next morning. Just before falling asleep, she checked her texts and saw this picture of Ukai Sr.’s wife when she was younger, wearing the yukata.

“You two are identical. Thought you should know…”

Aiya simply smiled and settled the phone down, before falling peacefully asleep after that day.

[consumeart-blog]

TENGU X MIKO 👺⛩️

one of the very first akiteru/little giant AUs I ever came up with, way back in 2014 (yes, I’ve been on board this ship for a very long time 😂): a tengu takes an interest in the heir to the tsukishima shrine.

bonus: tsukki has Had It Up To Here with his brother's incredibly embarrassing flirting

[myrandomheadcanon]

On Characters Phone: Haikyuu!!

Udai Tenma

On Characters Phone: Haikyuu!!

[hellobunny044]

Panels. | Series

panel. in manga art, panels refers to the frame that wraps around one moment in time.

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an original Haikyu AU pairing Udai Tenma (the og little giant)

warning!!: containing some manga content.

word count: 6635

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Sasaki Tsubasa….

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Nine years ago, Miyagi Prefecture

Udai was never good at interacting due to his shy and introverted personality. A few other weaknesses that he had also come to accept.

Udai Tenma was a name that would be called in the classroom and some students would turn their heads to look for who the heck is Udai Tenma with quiet whispers under their breath. When the one sitting in the corner of the classroom raised his head from the desk with his hand raised in answer to the call, they would remember him as the quiet volleyball player or the number 10 of the volleyball club.

In class, when there was no practice, he would spend his time sleeping or drawing. Drawing volleyball doodles on the edges of his textbooks was a hidden hobby when the class became boring, or somehow he also usually ended up escaping to the gymnasium to sleep there.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that other than the people in his class whom he also didn’t know very well, and also the people from the volleyball team, Udai didn’t have any friends to talk to.

One day, on a peaceful day when he was asleep at his desk, someone woke him up and said that there was a beautiful girl waiting for him in front of the class. Then the whispers had become about that the quiet volleyball player had a girlfriend that was one of the members of the girls’ volleyball club.

That wasn’t his girlfriend, but Udai had neither the desire nor the time to explain anything to anyone.

He carried himself through the crowd with ease without regard to the whispers that his ears clearly picked up.

The days at the school passed by just like any other day that started with morning practice, classes, then ended with afternoon practice and individual practice.

Today ended, and tomorrow would come to an end and be replaced by a new day the next day.

Udai’s day consistently continued with a jog early in the morning, school, morning practice, class, and then ended with the club’s afternoon practice session.

Today, as always, Udai’s day would spin out like any other day. Just like that, everything went according to plan except for one thing.

The supposedly quiet time when he returned from the club’s morning practice and walked out of his locker after retrieving his shoes and uniform, became quite noisy with the hurried footsteps of someone, literally running.

Not only that, there were also a few words that accompanied each of those rapid strides, as if counting how much regret in every second missed because of the person’s own carelessness.

Udai wouldn’t care.

He walked out of the lockers’ corridor while casually opening his bag and taking something out when his world was suddenly about how his bag, phone, uniform, and shoes fell down along with some things he didn’t recognize—and someone he didn’t recognize—who was strong enough not to fall down after bumping into him.

His eyes caught how the person who bumped into him apologized in almost an exclaiming manner as she bent herself before him. Uncomfortable, Udai bowed back before he ducked down to grab his belongings scattered on the floor.

The apology flowed smoothly from the person’s mouth like running water, making it lose its meaning. Udai felt it was convenient, a waste of time.

In his head he said I already understand that, so please stop saying that. However, his mouth didn’t move to say anything.

Near his uniform, there was a small pink notebook that was clearly not his. Udai grabbed it and gave it to the person who was also still busy organizing her belongings. It was the last one.

“Oh? There it is.”

The person looked up after confirming that the pink book he handed was hers. Her brown eyes relieved. There was a shadow of a smile in her gaze.

There wasn’t anything about that person, not yet.

“Tha—”

As if remembering the most crucial thing in her life, that person decided to cut herself off from the politeness Udai expected rather than all her meaningless, expired apologies.

“Crap!”

She forcibly pulled the pink book from Udai’s hand and immediately excused herself. For a moment, Udai believed that that person—that girl—would bump into someone else in another corridor.

He spared some time looking over his shoulder.

Udai didn’t care anymore after that. Not until something brought the two of them back together again after that.

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Here, in the present day, Sasaki Tsubasa whom Udai first met on that day, nine years ago, was standing before him.

This looked like the last panel of a manga volume, where two people from an unfinished story were reunited at the most unexpected time. For a moment, just a fleeting thought, Udai wanted this to really be the last panel of a manga and stop everything. But alas, her words connected everything, making this a panel that started a new volume.

“You’re... Udai-san, right? Udai Tenma-san. Right?”

Udai swallowed, swallowing all the feelings that came together in this unexpected encounter, trying to stem them with a little courage to open his voice.

“Sasaki?”

Sasaki Tsubasa, the one who is staring at him with a glimmer of newly flushed pleasure in her eyes. Her smile amused. Her eyes warm. Steadily, not awkward like him, she helped herself to face him properly.

“Oh. It’s really you, Udai-san.”

The time her smile bloomed, his world that once was a black and white panel, turned colorful. Just like when cherry blossoms bloomed during the first day of spring, she was there to color everything again.

“Thankfully, I didn’t get the wrong person.”

“Hmmm.”

Of all the people from the past who could appear before him at this very moment, Sasaki Tsubasa was the first person he didn’t want to meet.

No, it’s not like that. It’s not about any facts that Sasaki Tsubasa is the bad person in his terms. She was the presence that was the very last touch of the warmth of spring in his youth, a presence that he still couldn’t forget, and because of that, she was the first person he didn’t want to meet.

Even though he felt that way, Udai didn’t refuse Sasaki Tsubasa’s invitation when she suggested that they should have a talk. He couldn’t.

Udai felt like time was frozen and everything was happening in slow motion.

Before him, nine years after their first encounter, Sasaki Tsubasa was sitting, sipping the hot coffee she had ordered. That was the first.

The second was, that when they ended up like this, the conversation started. The chance to interact with each other after nine years came. But this time, Udai hesitated about whether or not he should grasp the chance. But as it turned out, settling for indecision wasn’t very helpful either:

“It’s been a while... right?”

Her voice gently swept across her ears. Ringing like the waves on the shore. Her gaze warm like the atmosphere of spring. The smile she curved at him was thin yet warm, like a friendly welcome after all.

“Hmm.”

“I guess… it has been seven or eight years ago, right?”

Their gazes met.

“The last time.”

“Hmmm.”

Udai struggled to find something to reply to her. It felt like he had nothing appropriate to say after not being able to see her since the last time.

“Are you doing well?”

“Hmmm.”

“Glad to hear that.”

“Hmmm.”

Before her, Sasaki Tsubasa smiled.

“Udai-san, are you mute?”

“Hm?”

Tsubasa’s words were preceded by a light chuckle, “You’ve been only saying some hms.”

It was only then that it dawned on him that he hadn’t even said a word and made her look like she was the only one working hard to keep the conversation alive.

“Don’t worry. I was just kidding.”

Her eyes didn’t leave him until the last second before she sipped her coffee.

Udai followed everything. Under her breath, she praised the deliciousness of her chosen coffee while staring at her cup then back up for another sip.

“It’s been... a while, Sasaki.”

Udai finally had the courage to say something after she put her cup back. He felt that if in this encounter, this awkwardness enveloped the atmosphere excessively, then the biggest share would be on him, and later he would not be able to forgive himself if he had to make Sasaki Tsubasa driven away by that awkwardness.

Sasaki Tsubasa’s gaze shifted on him. This time she smiled a little wider.

“Yeah. Time has flown by really fast in the eight years since we last met.”

Udai wanted to ignore that. “Yeah. You’re right.”

“As you said, you’re doing well. I know well enough. You were quite successful with the Zombie Knight Zomb'ish.”

“Well, there you have it. I worked hard.”

“Yeah, right?”

Sasaki Tsubasa smiled and something in Udai’s chest tightened.

Udai’s first attempt to break the ice between them failed. The awkwardness returned. However, unlike him, dead set on this encounter, Sasaki Tsubasa was good at leading them to a way out.

“Got some business around here, Udai-san?”

Udai nodded almost immediately.

“Yes. Um....”

His head worked three times slower, trailing over several things that could befitting as a proper answer.

Fansign. The launch of the 22nd volume special edition of Zombie Knight Zomb'ish. A lunch with his editor and the rest of the team.

“Just like that.”

Udai didn’t have anything good to say about anything, hanging on with a makeshift answer that was not even worthy of a reasonable response. Uncharacteristic. Embarrassing.

He watched Sasaki Tsubasa cautiously, afraid that she might caught him red-handed for being this helpless.

This time, his brain worked faster in findinh something to say, though, he quickly regretted it later.

“What about you?”

“Ah… Just a walk. Spending some time with lunch and a little shopping.”

Udai’s gaze shifted to the paper bag resting on the other side of the sofa where Sasaki Tsubasa sat.

He nodded. When he accidentally returned directly to her eyes, Udai immediately switched to staring at something safer while clearing his throat.

“Well... Are you... alone?”

Huh?

Impoliteness in the first encounter after quite a while was definitely not something he should display.

Udai returned to Sasaki Tsubasa’s eyes that were studying him from earlier when he looked away. He was very bad at this and deeply regretted that what came was worse than what he had expected.

“It’s not— what I meant was— I didn’t mean to—”

“Yes. I was alone.”

Udai stopped. Her voice was able to bring calm into his world that had been momentarily quite chaotic since his second attempt failed. His eyes went down to the pair of eyes staring at him kindly on the other side of the table.

“It’s not that you’ve seen me with anyone since I bumped into you.”

“Oh, right.”

He felt pain when what greeted him was her smile that felt so warm, reawakening his greed to grasp it.

“And you?”

Udai nodded. Clearing his throat before answering. “As you can see.”

Sasaki Tsubasa hummed in response while slowly nodding. Her gaze shifted to something else, stopping on the juice that sat untouched before Udai and smiling.

“A juice, huh?”

Sasaki Tsubasa met his eyes, “Why? Isn’t this a cafe?”

Udai stared at his juice before he returned for a response. “I don’t drink coffee.”

“Oh? Really?”

Udai nodded.

“But why?”

The concerned tone of her question made Udai almost laugh, tickled by the fact that perhaps she felt that a grown man, twenty-six years above what he was worth, seemed to be afraid of the bitter taste that coffee offered.

“I do suppress my coffee dose as much as possible other than when working.”

Sasaki Tsubasa nodded at his explanation.

“Oh. My bad.”

Udai shook his head. “No problem.”

Sasaki Tsubasa nodded. “Is making manga difficult?”

To his question, Udai had many answers.

First: yes. It’s hard. Especially when you have problems making up for your own deadlines.

Second: yes. Very difficult. Especially when you’re a manga artist who has to deal with Akaashi always-demanding-the-best-things-you-can-do-as-a-manga-artist-on-every-volume Keiji-san.

Third: yes. Very very difficult. Especially on those nights where he has consumed enough doses of coffee to stay awake but his brain still won’t cooperate to come up with the one best plot that will preserve his dignity in front of his strict editor and the publication house.

Fourth: yes. Unbelievably difficult. Especially at those times where his brain was being showered with brilliant ideas, but he was running out of chips and his frozen brain was forcing him to stay put and do nothing until Akaashi sent a message to remind him of his deadline. And there was actually a lot more he wanted to say to that question. It was just that he didn’t dare to say anything out of line.

“Just like that.”

Sasaki Tsubasa looked at Udai with a warm smile. “You really hung in there for quite a while.”

Udai did not realize that he was rolling a faint smile at her statement. “Yes. I sure am.”

The conversation in this encounter then lost its direction. The atmosphere was again filled with silence. Udai felt that he really sucked at conversations, realizing that his weakness had grown bigger than he could control.

Udai didn’t miss that after the silence returned to embrace them, Sasaki Tsubasa decided to accept it as a pause to take a sip of her coffee.

Only then did their awkward conversation resume.

“Do you live around here, Udai-san?”

Udai immediately replied, “Hmm.”

He regretted to death that he ended up going back to that annoying answer instead of choosing something more proper like yes or yes, it’s close enough from here.

After that, there was silence that joined them. Udai quickly looked down and drank his juice. Suddenly, the taste of the orange juice was no longer so sweet as in the first sip, mixed with guilt.

“Just now I saw something so crowded on the ground floor, near the bookstore—”

Sasaki Tsubasa was talking; something Udai was looking forward to out of all the things he might be comfortable enough to talk about with her. However, the ringing of her phone cut her off.

Her eyes swept over him for a moment before she answered the call, excusing herself politely.

“A moment.”

While waiting for Sasaki Tsubasa taking call—from anyone who made her smile after seeing the name on the screen—Udai decided to take another sip of his juice.

“Hai, moshi moshi?”

Udai briefly glanced at Sasaki Tsubasa and caught that she was smiling at something the person on the other end of the line said. “Oh? Already?”

Then she turned, searched, and greeted someone on the entrance while holding a cell phone to his ear. It was a man. A tall man with blonde hair, and looking ten times more neat and cool than what was sitting before her.

Just as he expected, Sasaki Tsubasa raised her hand to the man. A smile spread across her face as she welcomed him. Friendly. Friendlier and warmer than what he had gotten some time before.

“You’re really fast.”

“Hm. I just didn’t want to be nagged.”

Sasaki Tsubasa chuckled warmly at the man’s response. For a moment, Udai felt excluded from her world. In a world where he could only be a spectator to the warm and familiar interactions between Sasaki Tsubasa and the man who made her more comfortable.

“Did you fly?”

Udai did not miss that she chuckled, or almost laughing amusedly, before her hand kindly patted the back of the man who was still comfortably standing next to the chair where she was sitting.

“For you, I can fly or teleport.”

“What the heck is wrong with you these days?”

Her brow furrowed. The soft laughter that came afterwards was amused, returned with a friendly smile by the man. His eyes traveled to something that was with Sasaki Tsubasa beside her.

“Is that all?”

“Hmm.”

The man’s hand reached for the paper bag and peered inside. A sigh slipped past his lips, his eyes shifted to Sasaki Tsubasa who was staring at him innocently.

“Why?”

“Did you really come all the way here on the weekend for all this stuff?”

“Hmm.”

“I really just can’t with you.”

Sasaki Tsubasa’s brow furrowed at that statement, but she let him take the paper bag.

“Why?”

“Please grow up, Sasaki.”

With half a heart, Sasaki Tsubasa threw a soft fist at the man’s arm. Her expression was half-fierce as she said, “You just won’t budge and listen to me. I told you to read this. This is really good, you know.”

“There, there. We have to—”

The man stopped himself, realizing that besides them, there was another (almost) forgotten presence.

His gaze was now fixed on another man—clearly unfamiliar—who was occupying the seat on the other side of the table, busy looking down while diligently sipping on his orange juice as if it was a task he had to complete like a game quest to level up. Udai.

Sasaki Tsubasa also realized that she had momentarily forgotten and excluded Udai since the man came.

When her gaze met the man’s, in a low whisper, the man asked about Udai.

“Ah—”

Sasaki Tsubasa smiled, forgetting that the first thing she should have done was to bridge the estrangement between the two people she was with by introducing them to each other.

After that, the first one she called out to was Udai.

“Udai-san?”

Udai, who was diligently sipping his juice, raised his head, finished it in one last straw and then straightened up. His gaze traced the two faces across the table in turn and returned to Sasaki Tsubasa, comfortable looking at her rather than someone he was unfamiliar with beside her.

Sasaki Tsubasa’s hand gestured politely to the man standing next to her chair, still having no intention of sitting down in the vacant spot next to her after the familiarity that had become common knowledge. “This is Hatakeyama Jiro.”

Sasaki Tsubasa’s gaze shifted to the blonde man named Hatakeyama Jiroz

“Hatakeyama, this is Udai-san.”

Hatakeyama Jiro waited for Sasaki Tsubasa’s next words, and so did Udai.

In his head, Udai anticipated how she would introduce him to this man. Would this introduction be titled like he was someone from my past, or something else that might be more specific...

“He was my senpai back in high school.”

“Oh? I see.”

“Hmm.”

“One moment. High school... I forgot the name of the high school you went to…”

“It’s Karasuno.”

“Ah! That’s right. Karasuno High School of Miyagi Prefecture, right?”

Hatakeyama Jiro immediately nodded. His gaze turned to Udai. A smile on his face, he approached and extended his hand to Udai who stared at his hand for a long time.

“I’m Hatakeyama Jiro, Itachiyama graduate.”

Udai was almost shocked at the fact that he almost froze when the man Hatakeyama Jiro extended his hand. Realizing that he looked stupid, pathetic, and impolite, Udai quickly accepted the extended hand. He shook the man’s hand and rolled up a smile, immediately hiding the oddness that churning inside his chest.

“Nice to meet you.” Hatakeyama Jiro’s voice was friendly to him, coupled with a genuine smile.

“It’s very nice to meet you, too.”

After their handshake ended, Hatakeyama Jiro asked Udai another question.

“What year did you graduate from Karasuno, Udai-san?”

Udai had opened his mouth, about to answer the question. However, Sasaki Tsubasa had preceded him to answer.

“2010.”

“Oh?” Hatakeyama Jiro’s gaze returned to Sasaki Tsubasa. “Exactly a year above you.”

Sasaki Tsubasa chuckled, “Of course. I told you he was a Senpai.”

“Really? Then I’ve missed it. Sorry.”

Sasaki Tsubasa sighed, “You grow up, Hatakeyama.”

Having said that, Sasaki Tsubasa chose to exclude herself from what Udai and Hatakeyama Jiro were talking about right after.

“Are you alone, Udai-san?" The question came from Hatakeyama Jiro to Udai.

“Yes.”

“Oh.” The blonde pointed at Sasaki Tsubasa, “I came to pick her up.”

“Oh.” Udai swept his gaze to Sasaki Tsubasa who was busy organizing her belongings, preparing to leave with the man who came to pick her up.

“You seem to know Sasaki quite well,”

Udai did not expect that question to come to him.

“Back in school, were you guys pretty close?”

“Huh?”

“Ah right, what I mean is, for an upperclassman and an underclassman to comfortably have a coffee with each other like this, were you close enough? Are you two used to be in the same club?”

“Huh? Not really.”

“Then... Does Sasaki used to be some kind of evil underclassman who always picked on his upperclassman?”

“Not at all.”

“Oh? Then, you guys are pretty close as an upperclassman and an underclassman.”

“I’m done.”

Hatakeyama Jiro returned to Sasaki Tsubasa. “Oh? Okay.” His hand reached for the paper bag before Sasaki Tsubasa was able to.

Sasaki Tsubasa smiled and said, “As always, thank you, Hatakeyama-san.”

“If you’re really that grateful of me, please grow up.”

Sasaki Tsubasa chuckled. Her hand drifted to pat Hatakeyama Jiro’s shoulder gently, more warm than friendly. After that, only then did her gaze turn to Udai.

“Udai-san?”

Udai replied, “Hm?”

Sasaki Tsubasa smiled, “Thank you for accepting my offer to have coffee.”

“It’s no problem.” Udai hoped that he didn’t actually say that and sound like the jerk that he is.

“Then, I’ll get going.”

“Hmm.”

“Once again, thank you very much, Udai-san.”

“Anytime.”

Sasaki Tsubasa smiled at him, warmly. The warmth in her smile made his chest feel as if it was crushed with a large amount of hot soil that someone had stuffed into his chest. The warmth of her smile seemed to welcome his hand that selfishly reached out for her. Her eyes also warm, whispering that their unfinished past could be reopened.

“Take a good care of yourself and your health, Udai-san. I hope we can meet again next time.”

Udai had never felt failure or despair when he met his deadline when there was nothing in his head that he could pour out to form the panels that would fill the blank sheets of a new volume he had to hand in in no time. Right now, however, that despair came to hold him tightly, leaving him bereft of any better response than a meaningless hum. Remaining the heartless man that he is.

The world protected Sasaki Tsubasa from Udai by not letting their story end. Time opened a branch where Sasaki Tsubasa would flow into a new story that was better than all the disappointments Udai had scratched into her heart, for her escape from the unpleasant ending of their past. Fate had arranged that they would not be finished, so Sasaki Tsubasa would be anchored to someone else. Someone a thousand times better than Udai.

To suggest that they would meet again one day after this, was a lie she should never have told.

Udai, however, felt guilty that ever since that day, he had been leaning on the hope of another encounter other than something as unplanned.

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“Are?”

Sasaki Tsubasa, just realized that her phone was missing this morning after she was busy checking the entire space in her bag to the point of spilling everything on the table.

“Where did I put it…”

Sasaki searched in all possible places. Her bag drawer, her desk drawer, between the sheets of her books, in her pencil case, her shirt and jacket pockets, only to come to the conclusion that her phone was indeed missing.

She broke into the desk, startling the few girls sitting at the tables around.

“What’s wrong, Sasaki?” A girl with glasses asked.

Sasaki turned with a panicked look, “What am I supposed to do now?”

The girl frowned, “What is it?”

“I couldn’t find my phone.”

“Hm?”

Sasaki shook her head, “It’s nowhere here. Not anywhere in my bag or in the drawers.”

“Where did you put it last time?”

“I held it and put it in my bag—”

Sasaki paused.

The accident happened this morning in the corridor when she bumped into someone replaying in her head. She replayed what happened in a slower simulation in her head and began to notice what she had missed. After remembering that she had never put her cell phone in her bag after that, Sasaki immediately ran out of her classroom, ignoring a voice that followed her steps to the front of the classroom, reacting with confusion and worry to what had happened.

Sasaki led herself down the stairs, returning back to the corridor where she had collided with someone she never met before.

When she got there, there was a large crowd of students who were mostly people she didn’t recognize at all, big in stature, body, and overall. In short, the senpai.

Sasaki didn’t retreat immediately, she made her way through the bustling crowd with the various things they were talking about without a care in the world, focusing only on something she might find scattering in a corner of the floor nearby.

“Who is that Udai Tenma?”

“That one. He’s from class 2-3. That little volleyball player. The so-called ace of our school’s volleyball club.”

“Ah! So he’s Udai Tenma?”

“Who else?”

“I never knew that his name was Udai Tenma.”

Sasaki had gone down almost every possible avenue where her cell phone would be stranded, and had even resigned herself to the fact that with the crowded corridor as those senpai passed by it might be trampled, only to return to class empty-handed.

Limply, she returned to her seat while dropping her head on her bag in resignation. Mumbling and declaring her negligence and carelessness today.

“What’s wrong, Sasaki?”

A girl approached, immediately sitting on the empty bench in front of her chair.

Sasaki turned and said resignedly, “I really lost my cell phone.”

“Heee? Really? How come?”

“I dropped it this morning. Maybe.”

“Maybe?”

“Then maybe someone stepped on it and threw it in the trash can! Ah! What am I gonna do about this, Matsuda?”

Sasaki straightened her body and whined to the girl sitting before her.

“Oh... Sasaki, stop whining! You’re overreacting!”

The girl, Matsuda, took something out of her pocket. A phone, pink colored, was given to Sasaki. “Use this and call your phone.”

Sasaki was brightened up, her eyes literally sparkling with hope. Then her negative thoughts again embraced her tightly when she said, “But, how will someone pick it up if it’s really in the trash can?”

Matsuda sighed, “Sasaki, you haven’t even tried to do anything with it. Just try calling your cell phone first. It could be that someone is taking good care of it.”

Sasaki looked at Matsuda doubtfully, “You think so?”

“I’m just saying, if you don’t try then you won’t know.”

“Then, if it really is in the trash can?”

“You just need to dissect all the trash cans in the whole school.”

“Matsuda!”

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Meanwhile, the club room of the boys’ volleyball club of Karasuno High School was already crowded with underclassmen coming first to get ready and prepare the gym before the upperclassmen arrived.

The awaited upperclassmen arrived one by one, starting from several second year players, then the captain and the senior players in the third year who were casually but politely greeted by the underclassmen who rushed out to prepare the gym before the afternoon practice began.

“Udai-kun!”

Before Udai reached the boys volleyball team’s club room on the second floor, someone stopped him, half-running up to him. Udai paused and waited for him, greeting when he caught up with him.

The blonde haired man who was much taller than Udai was Tsukishima Akiteru, one of the third year team members.

They walked hand in hand to the locker room, greeting and returning the greetings that came to them as they entered.

Udai went to his locker and took off his uniform and changed into more appropriate training clothes. Instead of a short white t-shirt, Udai chose to wear a black long-sleeved shirt that gave shape to his small body that had healthy muscles.

“Oh! Udai looks so cool in a different shirt from the whole team!” One of the third year teased Udai.

“His arm muscles aren’t bad. It’s kind of cool there, Udai!”

“I think he’s taking extra training outside of the team’s exercising schedule. Right, Udai?”

“Right.”

Udai replied without second thought, not really interested in joining in the chatter of his seniors.

“Oi, cheer up a bit! You’re the ace, right?”

“Well, then. I’ll keep my good spirits up on the court during practice.”

“Oooh!”

“As expected from the ace himself!”

“Way to go, Udai-san!”

The upperclassmen began to riot and Udai sighed.

“Hurry up and move all of your asses, the team’s practice is about to begin.”

The captain’s voice rang out, commanding the members to prepare immediately.

“Udai, Tsukishima, be sure to catch up soon!”

Udai turned his head and nodded, “Alright.”

After the captain left the club room, the remaining third years and a few second years followed immediately with chatter such as:

“Kawada-san is always in good spirits as usual.”

“Acts of a true captain.”

“Always like that.”

The club room door closed leaving Udai and Tsukishima Akiteru who were also still preparing some things.

Udai folded his uniform and quickly stuffed it into a bag, exchanging it for a pair of knee pads.

There Udai was, staring at his bag when he noticed two similar cell phones in the place where he had pulled out his knee pads.

His brow furrowed, scrutinizing them closely. One of them was no doubt his cell phone.

Putting down his uniform and knee pads, he grabbed the two similarly looking phones and stared at them in turn. Simultaneously, he opened them both. Everything was exactly the same. The color, the type, and size, even the default wallpaper used was also coincidentally the same. The only difference was the amount of battery on both devices.

Udai checked the phone he remembered should be his by looking at the call log. Once he was sure it was his cell phone, he moved on to the other one. With a rather curious and puzzled look, Udai examined the cell phone more diligently.

“Udai-kun?”

Tsukishima Akiteru had just called out.

Udai turned to the blonde haired boy who was watching him.

“What are you doing? You’re going to be late for afternoon practice.”

“Ah, right.”

Deciding that afternoon practice was first of all important for now, Udai quickly tidied up the remaining of his belongings, including the unfamiliar phone that had somehow ended up in his bag. For a moment, Udai wondered if it was an unfunny prank from his classmates or something perhaps even stranger or unfunnier.

Closing his locker, Udai was ready to leave the club room when from his locker came a very audible ring that almost made him fall over in surprise.

He turned and carefully checked his locker again. The sound was coming from his bag, but it was clear that his cell phone would not ring.

When he opened his bag, it was true that the one ringing was the other phone. Matsuda Aihara’s name was on the screen, a very unfamiliar name.

Udai answered the call after almost thinking of all the possibilities that might happen.

The first thing he heard was a cry of relief that almost deafened his ears after he greeted the person on the other end. The girl, who was the owner of the phone, stated that she had lost it somewhere and promised to meet Udai at the school gate after the last class ended.

Udai soon followed to the gymnasium to join the afternoon training session, soon joining the others who were stretching with their captain as the leader.

During the break, Udai turned to look at the broken clock on the wall. He turned to someone beside him.

“Kikuta,”

“What?”

“What time is it?”

“Five.”

Udai shifted his gaze toward the gymnasium entrance where two people from the first year had just run out.

“What’s wrong, Udai?”

“Nothing.”

The previous call with the phone’s owner ended with Udai deciding that he would catch up as much as he could as he had afternoon club’s activity, and then the owner of the phone agreed to wait for him after he’s done with everything.

Although he wanted to train more than anything, he would still feel guilty if he made someone wait too long for him. Moreover, he was currently talking about a girl who would wait until he finished at seven or eight in the evening.

Udai put his bottle on the bench and went to the captain and coach to ask permission to use the restroom for a while.

“Why? Is your stomach hurt?” The captain asked in an amused tone.

“Yes. Just like that.”

“What did you eat last night?”

“I ate too much curry.” Udai replied simply, lying.

“Oh, it’s going to be so stinky! Hurry up and leave.”

“Thank you.”

Immediately excluding himself from the training ground, Udai half-ran towards the locker room, took out a phone from his bag and brought it with him to the gate.

There were no longer as many people there as he had expected, except for a girl who would be the owner of the phone he had brought with him.

“Phone?”

The brown haired girl who waited patiently at the gate, immediately turned to greet Udai’s voice. She was confronted by Udai who showed her a red cell phone, with a frown that gradually wrinkled at the memory that was brought back to him after they met.

Sasaki Tsubasa, the brunette girl, had the same reaction to the memories that came back to her.

They had met.

This morning. In the corridor.

That collision.

It was then that Udai started to think of all the possibilities to solve how the cell phone in his hand could ever end up in his bag from the morning until a few hours before through the collision that occurred between them in front of the corridor hallway.

“Ah! It turns out that my phone is with you! Thank you and sorry for the trouble!”

Sasaki caught up with Udai at a half run, welcoming her cell phone with a beaming face.

“Thank you so much for keeping this phone so well.”

“No. I didn’t intend to keep it.”

“Eh?”

Udai’s gaze shifted to the red phone as he said, “It was suddenly in my bag before I knew it.”

Sasaki stared confusedly, not understanding what he was talking about.

“It’s weird. I’m also trying to digest all the possibilities of how your cell phone could have ended up in my bag before I knew it. That doesn’t really matter either.”

“A-ah… Yes. Right.”

Sasaki blinked innocently after seeing how Udai immediately excluded himself after that. Awkwardly, Sasaki bowed her head and once again thanked Udai who half ran out of the gate.

When Udai returned to the gymnasium, a few second years immediately greeted him with teases such as, “Heya! How’s the ace and his stomach doing?”

“Are they both doing well?”

“That’s a warning not to love curry too much, Udai-kun!”

“Did you take it all the way out?”

“Hm.”

“You obviously don’t want to fart while we’re practicing!” One of his teammates giggled after making his point.

Udai was not bothered as he said, “I won’t.”

“Next, Spike practice!”

Kawada’s voice, their captain, echoed out to command the proceedings of their afternoon practice.

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It was over nine o’clock when Udai checked his phone as he towel dried his hair. His brow furrowed when he saw some unfamiliar names on his cell phone that he had just taken out of his bag after a while.

Stupid Face Kanoka. (2)

Mom. (5)

Stupid Face Kanoka. (15)

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Matsuda: How is it Sasaki? Did you finally get your phone back?

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Mori: Did you get a group for Japanese literature? Aizawa asked me if you wanted to join our group

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Udai blinked. Realizing that it was his stupidity that now, his cell phone was switched with whoever the girl who was friends with these girl Matsuda and Mori was.

He sighed. Cursing himself for his ingrained stupidity. About to type in his own number on the dial buttons, Udai stopped when a familiar number called the unfamiliar phone with him.

Knowing that it must be the owner of this very phone who used his phone number calling him, Udai immediately picked up the call.

“Moshi moshi, this is Udai Tenma. Sorry, I may have returned the wrong phone.”

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“Ah, yes. I called several times beforehand to confirm that I might have received the wrong phone."

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“Yes. Coincidentally our phones are the same, so I might be confused for a moment on how to tell the difference. I’ll return your phone tomorrow morning at the gate.”

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“Oh. That’s all right. Thank you very much.”

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“…. Also, I apologize if I’m being rude, first of all.”

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“Eh?”

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“It seems that you should contact someone called Mori and Matsuda. They sent a message that seems important. Also, someone by the name of Stupid Face Kanoka called fifteen times last time.” Udai wrapped it up with, “In that case, I’ll see you tomorrow morning at the gate.”

And so it was that tomorrow morning Udai ended up meeting Sasaki, the owner of the phone at the gate.

“Good morning, Udai Tenma-kun. Sorry for the trouble.” Sasaki bowed in greeting to Udai who stopped and held out his cell phone to him.

“It’s nothing. I’m the one at fault for bringing the wrong cell phone to you.” Udai responded.

After they exchanged phones, this time, both of them made sure that they received the right phone.

“This is my cell phone.” Sasaki confirmed it first.

“Here too.” Udai followed shortly after.

Sasaki smiled at Udai while nodding. She paused for a moment before saying something else, “I never saw you before. You’re a first year, right?”

Udai answered without missing a beat, “Second year.”

“Eeeehhh? Crap! You’re a senpai—“ Sasaki immediately bowed, almost slamming herself into a ninety-degree bow before the confused Udai. “Please forgive me!”

“H-hey, what are you doing?”

“Please forgive me for troubling you, senpai!”

Udai frowned, “T-there’s nothing to be troubled about. After all, from the beginning, it was on me for not checking my cell phone more thoroughly.” Udai sighed, “Get up.”

Sasaki got up and looked at Udai who was almost startled. Udai cleared his throat after his gaze met Sasaki’s

“Thank you very much.” Sasaki said.

“Oh.” Udai replied. “... First year?”

“Hai.” Sasaki replied formally.

Udai nodded and excused himself under his breath, barely audible.

“Thank you so much!”

Udai was almost irritated that Sasaki said something loud enough to make both his shoulders heave stiffly in surprise, not to mention, he had an itch that the girl must have bowed to him again. Yet he didn’t stop or say anything to her and instead quickened his pace towards the gymnasium.

“Thank you very much, Udai Senpai!”

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That’s all for chapter 2 of Panels. That I specially dedicated for The Original Little Giant, Udai Tenma because i think we need to give him more credit for being Hinata Shoyo’s inspiration. Heh heh.

Next chapter coming soon!

[vladimpale]

*akiteru and tenma fist fighting the bad guys and having a weird bonding moment*

saeko *pissed akiteru stole her target*: did you guys forget we have GUNS??

(this was inspired by audreyand___'s mafia au tiktoks)

also some more info on this au!

[petriquors]

an open collab for haikyuu about making wishes and dreams coming true.

to celebrate my birthday at the beginning of february, i’m hosting my first collab! cheesy bit incoming: my wish this year is to celebrate together with all of you, the volleyboys, and whatever your wishes are!

— prompt !! birthday wishes, wishes on a star, wishes on 1,000 paper cranes, wishes on a dandelion, or any kind of wish you can imagine. as long as there’s a wish involved, your work has a place here.

— guidelines !!

everyone is welcome; you don’t need to be following me. both writers and artists can join!

to limit duplicates, each character can be claimed up to three times (i.e. three art, three fics, or any combination thereof). you can switch if the character you want has an open slot.

there is no word count minimum or maximum for writers. you can write headcanons, drabbles, or fic, but please use a “read more” if your fic is over 500 words.

character x reader, character x character, and single-character works are all allowed.

this collab is sfw (because i’ll be reblogging your work).

please reblog this post once you join!

— deadlines !!

to join | march 3rd, 2022

to submit your work | may 3rd, 2022 (take your time! this is not a hard deadline!)

— how to join !!

send me an ask with your character(s) or pairing and if you’re submitting art or fic! if you’d like to include more, like a trope or a little summary, you can, but that’s not required.

— how to submit !!

tag me in your finished work and i’ll add the link to the masterlist + reblog!

— wishes received !! 

azumane asahi

 x reader fic - @screamin-abt-haikyuu

ennoshita chikara

 x reader fic (modern magic!au) - @wishterya

hanamaki takahiro

 2:02 am (x reader fic) - @datingdonovan

hinata shoyo

 x reader fic - @cosmictobios

iwaizumi hajime

 x oikawa fic - @kteabug

kai nobuyuki

 x reader fic - @ukiyotsu

kita shinsuke

 when you wish upon a jaroforigamistars (x reader fic) - @akaashis-notebook

kozume kenma

 x reader fic - @mrskenmakozume

kuroo tetsuro

 come true (x reader fic) - @therescrackinmytea

kunimi akira

 x reader fic - @mimi-cee-hq

miya atsumu

 x sakusa fic (a dream is a wish your heart makes) - @momochimo

 x reader fic (dandelions) - @ufo-ikawa

oikawa toru

 x iwaizumi fic - @kteabug

sakusa kiyoomi (closed!)

 x reader fic - @simpingforoikawa

 x reader fic - @omi-boshi

 x atsumu fic (a dream is a wish your heart makes) - @momochimo

semi eita

 x kiyoko fic (11:11) - @charlie-jay

shimizu kiyoko

 x semi fic (11:11) - @charlie-jay

shugo meian

 x reader fic - @haikyutiehoe

sugawara koushi

 x reader fic - @cup-of-fluff

suna rintaro

 x reader fic (wishing well/fountain) - @augustinewrites

udai tenma

 x reader fic - @hinatawa

yaku morisuke

 x reader fic - @duckymcdoorknob

[luminyxoxo]

I should really be asleep because i have morning classes tomorrow but i cannot resist an au idea that needs to be shared.

Okay, just imagine; five times Akaashi Keiji blows up the internet as Mystery man.

1. Udai Tenma

Akaashi just being spotted with the famous mangaka and goes famous on anitwt because Akaashi is just really pretty and he’s closed to Udai so people was like who is he? But then the whole thing died down after Akaashi is confirmed to be Udai’s editor.

2. Komi

Like we all know Komi is an actor right? So what if some fans spotted them together on a lunch out and freaked out about Akaashi possibly being Komi’s lover or smth because let’s face it, the dude’s really pretty but Komi denied the allegations and just went like oh we played volleyball together in high school and Akaashi’s five minute of fame from anitwt comes up again. So the internet is like he’s THE Udai’s editor and friends with an actor? Who is this guy?!

3. Kenma

Worldfamous youtuber Kodzuken having like a livestream but just like chatting with his fans and Akaashi, who had slept over his place, kinda intruded in Kenma’s background and people lose their shit about it. Ofc, Kodzuken’s fans doesn’t know Akaashi yet but those who do really just went mangaka Udai’s editor, Actor Komi’s friend and now Kodzuken? What kind of life did he lived to be friends with all these celebrities?!

Bonus that Lev tweeted a greeting to Akaashi after the livestream and people be like A MODEL TOO?!

4. Washio

Granted, people aren’t that surprised that washio and Akaashi are friends considering that Komi had confirmed they played together in high school but Akaashi did go viral once again when he was seen going to the gym with Washio by fans.

5. Bokuto

Surprise, surprise, the internet breaks again when the Bokuto Koutarou of the MSBY Black Jackals uploaded an instagram photo of a wedding with him and Akaashi Bokuto Keiji standing on the altar with happy smiles on their faces, captioned; “i married the love of my life. Best day ever!!”

Bonus: more famous people (from the V-League mostly) comes onto social media to congratulate the newly married couple and Akaashi trended on every platform for a week straight with hashtags such as “howtobeBokutoKeiji”, “BLESSUSBOKUTOKEIJI” and more.

More bonus: Akaashi breaks his silence with a video uploaded on his social media of him staring down into a camera as if he’s unimpressed by the attention he’s receiving on the internet for being so well connected to famous people. Once again, he breaks the internet and trends for another week.

[youvereachedpluto]

BokuAka Fic Recs

in honour of BokuAka day, here are some fic recs:

1. steam (orphan_account) **explicit content** where bokuto fangirls over akaashi to kuroo and kuroo is the best wingman ever

also, i love messy undone akaashi

2. the strange music of your heart (caniculeo) where everyone knows akaashi likes bokuto, bokuto knows akaashi likes bokuto except bokuto doesn't know he likes akaashi yet.

3. i'd love you to love me (risquetendencies) over-protective bokuto !!! akaashi gets propositioned by a jerk, and Koutarou comes up with a plan to help him.

4. rise from the ashes (inkandwords) bokuto koutarou is used to playing with fire, but an unexpected encounter with an unforgettable pair of steel green eyes ignites a fire inside him that takes on a life of its own.

5. karma (dgalerab) akaashi pulls a muscle and Bokuto offers to help him with yoga. Akaashi knows a bad idea when he sees it, and he really only agrees because he's suddenly acquired a deeply rooted desire to see Bokuto do yoga.

for multiple reasons.

another flustered akaashi fic

6. tea-stained polaroids (dalyeau) photographer akaashi, barista bokuto. bokuto modelling for akaashi. bokuto crushing on akaashi. just bokuto and akaashi.

one of my favourites

7. the click/ someday (kazzydolyn) at the MSBY Black Jackals vs Schweiden Adlers game, udai tenma notices that akaashi keiji is behaving… strangely. he’s determined to figure out what’s going on with the editor, and he’s starting to think it has something to do with a certain outside hitter…

such a cute fic

8. steeped in you (yozra) tea shop au. slight iwaoi, everyone teasing akaashi over his crush on bokuto. bokuto is absolutely adorable in this.

9. model (sakusadaddy, semi sakusadaddy) **slightly angsty** model akaashi losing focus of his relationship because of his career and realizing what really matters to him.

10. enough (terushiima orphan_account) *broken up* sad akaashi wondering why bokuto hurt him :(

11. they see things in a different light like us (chaosandspace) assassin akaashi. veterinarian bokuto. french get-aways and coffee dates and akaashi cooking dinner for bokuto and taking down capitalist labs.

[intomymindspace]

Through the Summer and the Fall ✰ Haikyuu Seasonal Series Masterlist

A Haikyuu!! Seasonal Songfic Masterlist/Playlist

Through the summer and the fall, you loved them all. Pick a song and a season and fall.

a/n: While I have been procrastinating on writing for AOT, I have created a seasonal masterlist of songfics for this year to cope with how awful it is. You can find my entire blog masterlist here - but not all my (future) Haikyuu!! writings will be on this masterlist. I have spent this summer and this fall falling in love with all these precious boys, and this is what it has culminated to. Just a fair warning, these might not be posted in the order present ~ ahaha because I’m like that. The characters also might change for some of the many fics that are still unwritten, but I highly doubt it. I’ll try to post them once a week, oof. It depends on how much I write and how busy I am with classes. But,,, enjoy! 

fics that do not have a link have not been posted but are planned/wip

Update: I set unrealistic standards for myself so I have now added a Winter/Spring section, and have moved/added some fics around

S P R I N G 🌸

✰ Hey Lover! // Kageyama Tobio [ timeskip ]

Kageyama has never had to pretend around you.

✰ My Girl // Sakusa Kiyoomi [ timeskip ]

The MSBY Black Jackals are surprised to find out that their stoic and nit-picky wing spiker is in love.

✰ IDK You Yet  // Kozume Kenma [ soulmate!au / timeskip ]

All Kenma wants to do is be able to hold you in his arms.

✰ Campus // Tsukishima Kei [ college!au / timeskip ]

After embarrassing himself in front of you, Tsuki never wants to see you again. Too bad, you're in the same anthropology class.

S U M M E R ☀️

✰ Like or Like Like // Azumane Asahi

Asahi is dying to know if you like him or if you like like him. 

✰ Are You Bored Yet? // Sawamura Daichi

Daichi is bored of being just your friend. 

✰ Cloud 9 // Bokuto Koutarou [ college!au ]

As you struggle with your confidence, Bokuto reminds you what you truly are.

✰ Sofia // Kuroo Tetsurou [ soulmate/reincarnation!au ]

For eight short lives, you have loved each other. On your ninth, you are finally able to see it out to the end.

F A L L 🍂

✰ Just One Day // Ushijima Wakatoshi

Ushijima has always loved you from afar. One day, he will ask you to be his. 

✰ Silly Girl // Iwaizumi Hajime

Of course you would like Mr. Perfect - and Iwa knew he couldn't stand a chance against perfection.

✰ Video Games // Tendou Satori

The infamous Guess Monster can’t seem to guess what type of men you like.

✰ We Fell in Love in October // Ukai Keishin

From the moment you walked into the gym, he knew he was screwed. 

W I N T E R ❄️

✰ Pretty Girl // Miya Atsumu & Osamu [ fake dating!au ]

Falling in love with someone is hard - especially when you’re supposed to be dating his twin brother. 

✰ Blueberry Eyes // Akaashi Keiji [ college!au ]

Akaashi never expected himself to be the type of person to fall in love at first sight. 

✰ Sports // Oikawa Tooru [ christmas special ]

The Great King was always good at sports. He was never good at admitting his feelings. 

✰ Can I Call You Tonight? // Udai Tenma

At a high school reunion, Tenma realizes he never stopped loving you. 

[nemament]

So, what are some of your fave hq fics? A couple of your more recent posts have me wanting to know 👀

anon i am so glad you asked! i limited myself to five because otherwise i would go on and on and on but i think these are my tops right now:

fledgling by sparksandsalt (G-12k)

udai tenma character study with a dash of akiten (which is so so cute by the way i did not know i needed that ship in my life). it fleshes out his character so nicely and is so well written

san’yō expressway, 6:17 pm by yamabato (T-8k)

sakuatsu road trip fic. their dynamic is sososo perfect and also all of the imagery is beautiful. super well written and also very wholesome and sweet and adorable

when there’s nothing left to burn, you have to set your brother on fire by pepperfield (T-14k)

a miya twins fic of course, in which atsumu falls in love with everyone and osamu is aroace. please don’t let the pov turn you off (you’ll see what i mean), i promise it’s amazing

the river runs by tothemoon (T-12k)

post-break up iwaoi where oikawa tries to forget about iwa-chan. it has a happy ending though okay? please read it, the emotions are worth it, they do end up happy again promisepromisepromise

silica sand by lilienpasse (G-32k)

asanoya office worker x window washer au. this is probably the most popular fic on here and i’m absolutely not the first person to have recced this but it is one of my absolute faves so :3

if anyone wants more i would be happy to provide :D also if you wanna send me recs in my asks go right ahead! hope someone enjoys these at least haha <3