A week has passed since you've had your date with Iwa. During practices, you continue to help the team out with managing as well as with your sets.

"That was awesome!" Oikawa calls over to you.

You have been practicing your sets with Oikawa a lot lately and you think they've seriously improved. Although you still feel you're inferior to Oikawa's sets, your confidence is growing.

"Thanks!"

Oikawa gives you a thumbs up and tells you he's proud of you.

"Okay, time to leave Y/N alone," Yutaro says as he walks up to Oikawa and prepares for him to set.

"You can leave her alone too, Kindaichi-chan," Oikawa smiles, "she's got a boyfriend now so she doesn't need you to stand up for her anymore."

Kindaichi growls and as Oikawa sets the ball for him, he smacks it hard across the net.

As you watch your cousin's powerful spike, you feel a hand come around your waist.

You look up at Iwa as you try to hold in your blush.

Iwa smiles down at you. "Thanks, Loserkawa," he replies to his friend.

Sometime later once practice is over, the team gets called over to Irihata-sensei.

You stand outside the group, hoping he's about to give some advice that you could listen to.

"Alright," Irihata begins "I've got some news for you all."

You watch as the group becomes excited. As you see Yutaro, Iwa, and Oikawa's faces light up, you can't help but smile as well.

"We've got a practice game against Fukurodani next week. I know we don't get to play them much, so let's make the most out of it."

"Right," Oikawa agrees.

You watch as Oikawa takes over for the coach and gives the team a pep talk. He's very good at leading the rest of the group. Even Iwa gets excited by his friend's words of encouragement.

As the group breaks, Iwa walks over to you. He asks if you're excited to see them play in a real game again since it's been a while.

It's so cute how excited he gets over playing a volleyball game with his team.

You nod and Iwa kisses you on the forehead.

"I'll be back," he tells you "I've got to grab my things."

You watch as he runs to get his things and smile at how happy he makes you feel.

--

A week later you begin to set up for Seijoh's practice game against Fukurodani. As you set up the net, someone unfamiliar comes up to you.

"Let me help you with that," he says excitedly.

You look up at the tall boy next to you and thank him for helping you. He grabs the net right next to where your hands are. As he gets close to you, you begin to get a little flustered. You stare at his spikey white-grey hair while he finishes doing your job.

"T-thanks," you say to him.

He turns his face to you and gives you a wide smile.

"Of course! I'm Bokuto by the way," he says as he continues his stupidly huge grin.

In that moment you feel someone come up from behind you and begin to kiss you. Your eyes widen for a second as Iwa startles you. Although you feel extremely awkward in that situation, you begin to relax yourself.

You sink into the moment with Iwa as everything else fades away. You feel his hand travel up your arm to your neck.

"Iwa!" you say as you pull away from him.

Your feel your face heat up as you turn back to Bokuto. You watch the extremely confused look on his face.

"I'm really sorry please excuse him," you bow, "my boyfriend is extremely stupid."

You look over at Iwa and smile. You watch his face scrunch up as he gets angry at what you just said about him.

Bokuto smiles back at you.

"That's okay," he tells you "I'm sure my Akaashi would have acted the same way."

You watch as Bokuto walks away, satisfied by the conversation. You look over at Iwa, who doesn't stop scowling as he stares at Bokuto.

"What's wrong," you giggle teasingly.

Iwa looks at you for a second before responding.

"Nothing baby," he says before kissing your forehead, "I've gotta warm up but I'll see you after."

You wave goodbye as Iwa walks away.

Once you are finished setting up, you walk up to the stands and sit down next to Asuka.

"Hey! What was up with Iwa down there? I thought he was about to steal you and skip the game entirely."

"D-don't say it like that!" you stutter.

You look over to Seijoh warming up.

"He was just nervous, I guess," you tell her as you shrug.

--

"Damn, do you think they're actually going to lose to Fukurodani?"

"I don't know," you shrug, "they each won a set so far."

In the third and final set, you watch the two teams climb their way to a deuce.

"Woah," Asuka says astonished, "now what?"

"It's still anyone's game," you shrug.

You look down at your tired team, hoping they can get enough energy to score the last few points. As you continue to watch the game, you see the same crazy-haired boy from before land a spike against your team.

For the last serve, you watch Iwa as he gets ready to hit the ball.

"Ugh," groans Asuka, "do our boyfriends have it bad or what?"

"What?!" you scream out as you look over at your friend and grab her by her shoulders.

You watch her face drop as you hear a loud boom hit the ground and a whistle blow.

You slowly turn your face back to the gym and see Iwa staring back up at you.

"D-did I just cost them the game?"

Your arms drop from Asuka's body without a single sound.

"A-Asuka," you look back over at her.

The two of you stare at each other without saying a single word as you hear the opposing team cheer in excitement.

You turn to face straight ahead of you and pull your knees to your chest. You look down and cover your face with your arms.

"Tell me I'm having a nightmare."

END OF CHAPTER 36

Sorry... I couldn't resist adding Bokuaka. (*^.^*)