"Talking" Thinking

The Next Day

Sayuri's POV

Every Saturday morning nii-san gets me up too early to go shopping for food, and if I'm good, I get candy. Nii-son is scared of me running off and getting lost.

"Sayuri, it's time to go," Satori yelled from the kitchen.

I came running out of our room and jumped on his back.

"Carry me Satori-nii!" I screamed, wrapping my arms around his neck.

"Ah... Little monster!" he wailed, making a weird face. "I think you blew my eardrum."

I giggled and hugged him tighter around the neck.

"I'm sorry," I said, trying to sound innocent.

"Sure you are," nii-san retorted, walking out the door and heading to the stoor.

As we were walking I started singing his favorite song.

"Keep on breaking them! What, you say? Their hearts!" I sang."Keep on shattering them! What, you say? Their spirits!"

We finally got to the store after about 10 minutes. Nii-san, looked a little tired so I started to squirm around trying to get down.

"Hey, Little Monster, what you doing?" Satori asked. "You're going to fall if you don't stop."

"Then put me down meanie," I said, pouting.

"I guess someone doesn't want candy," he told me shrugging his shoulders.

I looked up at him about to cry.

"I was just joking," Satori yelled, panicking "Why don't you go look at what candy you want? While I get the rest of the groceries."

"Okay," I replied, smiling up at him.

I walked over to the candy aisle, but before I could get there I bumped into someone and fell to the floor. He didn't even stop to see if I was okay.

Nii-san said I was always supposed to apologize if I do something to someone I didn't mean to. I thought, getting up and running up to the person I ran into.

"Gomen!" I yelled, pulling on his shirt. "I wasn't watching where I was going."

Whow, he has to be as tall as Satori-nii. I wondered just looking at him.

"Mmm," he hummed in response.

"You know you're supposed to say, 'It's okay," I explained.

He just stared at me for a while, with a frown on his face. I was starting to feel a little weirded out, but he finally said something.

"Aren't you a little too young to be here alone?" he asked.

"Ya... wait, nii-san said not to talk to strangers," I said, putting a hand over my mouth.

"Mmm," he hummed again.

I looked at his jacket and it looked like the one Nii-son has.

He must be on the volleyball team. I thought, looking up at him to see he looked annoyed.

"Well where is he right now?" he asked still frowning.

"Shopping for food. He has to take care of me," I replied without thinking. "Mister, can I know your name?"

"My name is Ushijima Wakatoshi," he said.

"You're on the volleyball team!" I yelled, jumping up and down with stars in my eyes.

"Yes," he stated, sounding surprised. "How did you know that little girl?"

"My nii-san talks about you all the time, and I love volleyball," I replied, holding onto his shirt.

Now, I know he's safe to talk to. I thought, looking up at him.

"Toshi-nii, can you help me get the vanilla pokies?" I asked, pulling his shirt towards the candy aisle.

Satori's Pov

After Sayuri left to get her candy, I went to get food for her lunch this week. As I was getting the juice for her lunch someone yelled my name, and I turned to see Semi and Taichi.

"Semisemi, what you doing here?" I asked, surprised to see anyone from school out today.

"We couldn't make it to the store yesterday," Taichi replied, looking annoyed like always.

"Tendou, what are you doing here?" Semi asked, looking at me questionably.

"I uh... I'm just food shopping next week." I nervously answered.

"We can see that," Taichi said, "but, why do you have so much food for just you if you shop weekly?"

"I... like to eat a lot," I replied, rubbing the back of my head.

Man, I really need to think of a way out of there without them seeing Sayuri. I thought, looking for Sayuri.

"Right," Semi said, looking at me with suspicion. "Anyway don't forget you are to stay after practice Friday."

"Okay," I said, spotting Sayuri walking out of the candy aisle talking to someone, and then I realized it was Wakatoshi. "Well, I better get going, I'll see you at school tomorrow."

Shit, she just had to run into him. What am I going to do now? I pondered while I acted like I was walking to another part of the store but really I hide in the candy aisle.

Wakatoshi's POV

I was at the store today because Semi had bragged me here. I was in the middle of studying when he came and got me out of my dorm room.

~Flashback~

It was the afternoon and I am studying for a test I had next week. I was halfway through studying when Semi and Taichi came to my room to get me.

"Semi, what do you want?"I asked still looking at my paper.

"We are going shopping," he replied. "I know you need something for your room."

"Mm, fine," I said, getting up and putting on my jacket. "He drag you here, Taichi?"

"Yes, but I needed a few things also," Taichi answered, looking bored.

We left for the shop at the corner, and when we got there Semi dragged Taichi off.

~End Flashback~

I was just walking around looking for what I needed when I felt someone pull on my jacket.

"Gomen," the little girl said kinda yelling. "I wasn't watching where I was going.

Did she run into me? I didn't even feel it. I thought, looking down at her and humming

She started to tell me about it is nice to tell people it was okay after they apologize. I asked her why she was alone and she told me her brother was shopping for food because he takes care of her.

"Mister, what's your name?" she asked, looking up at me.

"Ushijima Wakatoshi," I told her.

She then started to jump around saying something about volleyball.

How would a little girl know that? I wondered surprised.

"How did you know?" I asked.

"My nii-san told me all about you," she explained, holding on to my jacket. "Toshi-nii, can you help me get the vanilla pokies?"

However, before I could answer she was pulling me to the candy aisle. I just let her pull me, and when we finally got to the spot the pokies are she stopped.

"You never told me your name," I said as I reached for the pokies she wanted.

"Oh, my name is Sayuri," she replied, jumping to grab the pokies when they were within her reach.

Her names sound familiar. She also looks a little like Satori. I thought, looking at her smiling.

Sayuri then took off running out the candy aisle, and I followed behind her.

"Thank you Toshi-nii," Sayuri exclaimed as she ran off to the front of the store.

I then went to get what I needed for my room and to find Semi and Taichi. I found them at the front as I was getting in line to check out.

"Hey, Wakatoshi, you find what you needed?" Taichi asked as I walked up to them.

"That and a little more," I declared as we all started to walk back to the school. "I ran into a little girl and she apologized to me, and then dragged me to the candy aisle to help her get what she wanted."

"We ran into Tendou," Semi said, "and he was acting weirder than usual."

"Really?" I asked not believing he could be any weirder. "She got excited after I told her my name, and she knew I played volleyball."

"Aw, Ushijima-son has a little fan," Semi said, teasing me about it.

"So," was my only reply as we got to the school and went in.

"She at least, tell you her name?" Taichi asked as we got to our room doors.

"Yeah, I think it was Sayuri," I replied, opening my door.

"That sounds a lot like Tendou's name," Sami added. "What does she look like?"

"What does it matter?" I questioned.

"Well, Tendou was acting weirder, maybe she is why," Taichi explained.

"She did have red hair like him, but her eyes were green," I told them. "She also looked like she was three or four."

Semi looked deep in thought, but I wanted to get back to studying, so I told them bye and closed my door.

Third Person's POV

Sayuri and Satori get home just in time for supper, and Sayuri tells her nii-son all about meeting Wakatoshi. She also told him about the nickname she gave him, and Satori was crying from laughing so hard. He also liked that his crush was so nice to his sister.

Semi was still thinking about what Ushijima said about the little girl, Sayuri. He was also thinking about Tendou's weirder than normal behavior.

Wakatoshi couldn't get over the way Sayuri went from not wanting to tell him anything to calling him Toshi-nii.

(Haikyuu - Die Young)