"Akashicchi eh?" Ryota thought. "Hm, well he used to be our captain during our middle school days,we're not really that close, but I think he was close to you and Kurokocchi"

"Me?" Aya pointed to herself as Ryota responded with a nod. "You three were classmates. I bet  Kurokocchi mentioned that" Ryota replied. "Yeah" Aya nodded.

"He was really intimidating and everyone followed his orders without a question..." Ryota continued. "But you're the only one who didn't since Aominecchi mentioned something about you beating him in Shogi so you wouldn't take orders from him"

"Of course I beat him! I'm an expert in Shogi!" Aya boasted with a smirk. Ryota snickered and looked up the sky.

"So this so called 'Akashi'..." Aya started. "I heard from Kuro-chan that..." she paused and blushed.  "W-We used to like each other?"

"Ayacchi, you're blushing" Ryota pointed out noticing the crimson color that developed on Aya's face. She covered her redden face and just told him to continued. "Well, yeah, I think that's true"

"W-Why?"

"Akashicchi was really grumpy and strict around you" Ryota replied. "He didn't like it when you're too close with a guy he doesn't trust"

"C-Can you explain how?" Ryota thought for a moment with his eyes turning into a line and his finger on his chin. "Well, I don't know how but there's this time during Valentine's Day, he was really irritated when guys were going crazy on you"

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"Happy Valentine's Day Aya-chan" A guy presented Aya a bouquet of flowers in front of her face. She sneezed at it and continued doing so until Seijuro covered her nose with his handkerchief and shoved the bouquet away from her.

"It gives her the allergies" he said and pulled her with him to their classroom.

"Hachoo!" Aya let out another sneeze as Seijuro handed her another tissue. She's been sneezing for the whole morning because of the flowers she's been receiving.

"You've already emptied 3 boxes of tissue, Aya-san" Tetsuya noticed looking at her at the front after she sneezed again. Seijuro sighed giving her another one with his chin on his palm while he looked out the window.

"Why don't you just reject the flowers? It'll make your allergy worse" Seijuro suggested, slightly annoyed.

"But that'll just make the guys sad Aka, don't you know when a girl rejects a guy's present it will immediately break his heart and he'll be miserable or worse..." Aya paused. "He could commit suicide!!" she gaped imagining the circumstances.

"Baka" Seijuro shook his head at her as she sneezed again and did the same routine.

For the whole day, both and Seijuro and Aya have been receiving flowers and chocolates from admirers. Seijuro didn't like chocolates so he made a deal with Aya to trade the flowers with the chocolates. Aya agreed because she thought Akashi would decorate the flowers at his home but he'll literally just burn them at the backyard.

Their classes ended as the three of them proceeded to the gym. While the 2 players changed, Aya set her things by the stage and watched the other players train while her legs swayed hanging on the platform. 

They suddenly heard thousands of footsteps approaching the gym and saw Ryota run in and shut the gym door behind him. He was sweating heavily and was panting with a horrified look on his face as if he watched the scariest movie.

"K-Ki-chan what's wrong?" Aya asked as Ryota went closer to her and cried on her shoulder after he hugged her. "Ayacchi! Those girls almost killed me!" he cried tears rolling down his eyes. Aya smiled sheepishly and just patted his back.

"Ryota" someone spoke from behind to see it was Seijuro who was glaring at Ryota. "You should change now, we're going to practice" his intimidating voice ordered Ryota as he did was he told to do so.

Aya watched Ryota get up and went to the changing rooms while he sweated bullets. She turned to Seijuro as he sat beside her. "You know, you didn't have to do that, he was still scared from the girls that mobbed him" Aya told Akashi who had his emotionless face looking at her.

"Are your allergies gone?" he asked ignoring Aya's questions that left her pouting. "Y-yeah, Momoi-chan offered to put the flowers in the locker room so I wouldn't be sneezing for the entire time" Aya laughed. "Well that's good" Seijuro sighed. "I’ don’t get why you still receive gifts from guys"

Aya felt a nerve pop and forced a smile. "Is that an insult?" Seijuro didn't answer her and just proceeded to practice. "Akashi Seijuro...!!!--" their heads shot at the door where Daiki just entered panting and looks like he just saw a person die. "What's wrong Daicchi?" 

"I thought you called him Ao-chan?" Seijuro wondered. "I call him both" Aya replied and approached Daiki. She waved her hand in front of his face snapping out of his thoughts and surprised a hug. "Aya!!!" he cried still panting and staring at the door. Screaming girls were heard from outside and the door was being slammed by tons of fists making Daiki flinched.

"Don't worry Daicchi, you're safe now" Aya patted his head. "Now, why don't you go and change and we'll start to practice to get into your zone?" she suggested as Daiki nodded slowly and got up and walked like a zombie towards the changing rooms.

"Daicchi and Ki-chan both got mobbed by girls today..." Aya commented. "It's so noisy outside..." Shintaro entered the gym with Atsushi and Tetsuya with him. As they opened the door, tons of guys entered the gym and surrounded Aya with gifts and flowers. And she started sneezing again...

"Not again" Seijuro face palmed. He went through the crowd without being bumped into since the guys let him through."Aya, come with me" he held her arm and faces the guys that surrounded them. "Leave the gym" he glared at them as they all whitened seeing Seijuro 's possessive red eyes making them scramble towards outside.

Tetsuya closed the door after the players were the only ones left in the gym. Aya got a box of tissue from her bag and sneezed there. "Where's my handkerchief that I gave you?" he asked her. "Oh" she remembered and took it out from her pocket then handed it to Akashi. "Keep it" he said and walked away.

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"Oh yeah, and after that you all gave us your homemade chocolate! It was the best thing that I'd ever tasted!" Ryota smiled rubbing his stomach and looked at Aya who got up and started to walk away. "Ayacchi?"

"Thank you for your time Ki-chan, I really enjoyed this day" she faced him and bowed with a smile. "But I guess I better go now... I still have to talk to my brother about something..." her face turned serious.

"It's about Akashi isn't it?" he assumed. She looked at him and shook her head. "No, about everything during middle school"

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AKASHI' S HERE ! ! ! !*le fangirls* NEXT CHAPTER IS WITH YAMATO AND YEAH HE'S GOING TO SPILL IT ALL OUT AND STUFF!!! STILL RECOVErING FROM WrITER'S BLOCK! WOOH!!!!