THIRD PERSON

"great work out there, guys!" yachi exclaims as she helps the team cleaning up, handing them their water bottles.

"thanks. has anyone seen reo?" kageyama asks, looking around.

"even tsukishima and yamaguchi are missing." nishinoya informs.

"i saw reo pulling tsukishima out of the gym the moment we finished our practice, followed by yamaguchi. i heard that they were gonna talk about something i don't know of." narita says, gathering all the balls up.

kageyama stayed silent. besides, he has no right to interfere to what they are talking about.

"kageyama! let's walk home together!" hinata says excitedly.

"yeah, sure. reo will be tagging along. is it cool?" kageyama asks, wiping his sweat away with a towel.

"mhm! thr more, the merrier!" he exclaims once again and started cleaning up extra quick.

that idiot. i still can't forget the fact that he pushed me onto a damn river yesterday. Kageyama says inside his head.

"tomorrow after training?" all of them heard as they heard footsteps coming back inside the gymnasium.

"yep! and we'll be at tsukki's house 'til morning! right, tsukki?" yamaguchi asks with his usual tone.

"urusai, yamaguchi." tsukishima replies, being less cold towards the latter.

"gomen, tsukki."

"eat a lot and have a nice rest. i'll see you all tomorrow." their coach, ukai keishin, reminds, so they bid their goodbyes to him before leaving the gymnasium.

"are you really the grand king's sister!? i still can't believe it! that's cool!" hinata asks reo again and again with stars on his eyes while they were walking their way back home.

"yes, i really am! i always get asked like that, to be honest." she replies.

the two kept on talking freely, like as if they have known each other for a long, long time, while the setter is walking ahead of them, trying hard not to overhear their conversation.

"i can understand why. the grand king is like this and then you're like that, which makes you two different." hinata explains unclearly, which caused kageyama to scoff silently.

"yeah! that's what they exactly say! but nii-san isn't really like this because he could also be like that like how you address me as someone like that!"

tobio stops dead on his tracks. he never knew that the two are able to communicate in this kind of way. unbelievable.

"oi, kageyama, this is my stop, so you better wall her home! you two take care! it was nice meeting you, reo!" hinata says, hopping onto his bike and makes his way home.

- moment of silence came as soon as the orange-haired male is nowhere to be seen. though they did like this kind of scenario, the two didn't catch up with each other recently. some things might've changed, they thought.

kageyama heaved out a heavy sigh before diverting his eyes towards the female.

"do you want me to drop you off?" he asks.

"miss me much? look, even hinata said that you should." reo giggles, which made kageyama look at her eyes, widening his own to express terror.

"i'm so sorry i won't do it again." she apologizes, and thus, making the two resume walking.

no words at all. both of them could never find the right term to start a conversation.

"funny thing that we're both from kitagawa daiichi when we were still on junior high but we never met each other there." reo starts off, smiling while looking onto the sky.

"yeah." kageyama answers shortly, making reo sigh as she captures a sight of her house.

"well, here's my stop, tobio-kun." reo smiles at her childhood friend, pressing onto the doorbell for her brother to pick.

"oi." kageyama calls out as oikawa was already on his way to unlock the main gate, making Reo look at him.

"i didn't had a chance to tell you a while back, but, it's been a while. i missed you." tobio smiles, making reo smile too.

"hey, no flirting with my sister!" oikawa demands.

"i'm not flirting with her!"

reo let a little chuckle out before oikawa opened the gate, saying,

"i missed you too. take care."

with that, tobio bowed for oikawa and started to walk away, which made him sigh in relief.

"strange. my heart started racing while saying that."