Y/n's POV

"You and Kuroll still didn't talk this childish thing out?" Aiko asks with a very bored tone.

I laid back down on my bed after a good hour of studying and writing down ou— my script for the reporting next week.

"It's not childi—

—Yes it is, look." Aiko says pausing and a rustling was heard from the other side before she starts to continue again, "You and him clearly don't look things in each other's point of view, you're smart Y/n. But I must admit t this is the dumbest thing you have done in your life ever since I knew you."

I sighed, brining up my hand up to rub my temples, she was kinda right well she is right. But she doesn't understand that I have these weird feelings towards him, having a best friend was a reason to tell all of your problems to so why not.

"You're right... Aiko?" I called her name.

She hums and the sound of chips crushing down her teeth was heard.

"What do you call these... These feelings? Because I felt this way when I first encountered Sawamura-san but this feelings with Tetsuro feels so much stronger but I don't know how to explain it." I said before looking at my ceiling, waiting for my best friend to answer.

It was a pause of silence before she says anything, "You like him."

My heart beat suddenly fastens at her reply at what I just said, "I guess."

I replied with a shy and unassured tone.

"You so so like him! I mean I kinda knew way back before this f*cked up things happened, I'm happy you finally admitted it!" Aiko says almost excitedly, I was stunned by her words and confused at the same time.

"You're unbelievable."

Next day

Thursday, which means it was PE day, not so happy about that, not very happy at all to be honest, who even likes PE? Maybe the athletics ones could reply so happily with that but I'm not, whenever I jog for e minute I feel like my whole respiratory system is going to combust, that's how much of a not so athletic person I am.

Today we were playing soccer, it was good for me to be in a team with athletic and more energetic people since I could just be standing by on the bench handing out waters but I knew that I should still get in anytime soon since I still have to toughen up my performance for my grades, which sucks.

"L/n-san! You're turn to get in the game." Our teacher says with a kind smile telling me that everything was going to be fine.

The one thing I absolutely didn't like about this was Tetsuro being one of our so called enemies for this game, I only nodded shyly before standing up from my seat and now walked to the field, standing in a position that was thought to us, and me not trying to look awkward.

"Ready?" The teacher says to us and some of our classmates that were seated on the bench to take a break cheered for us.

All of them nodded except for me who was still calculating the positions we were in and the outcomes which why the sound of the whistle catch me completely off guard and before I knew it the ball was already kicked, I flinched and immediately looked towards the soccer ball, seeing that it was rolling down towards me, very fast may I add.

I panicked, getting ready to catch it as I started to jog towards the ball to meet it and planned to pass it to my open teammate, but maybe I was too focused on the ball so when I tried to hit it with my foot I was really happy about that, but my hit wasn't the best, it was off target than expected, my teammate who I planned to pass the ball to didn't get it, the ball instead rolled off to the person who turned out to be Tetsuro himself.

I was mad at my control on the ball, I just shrugged it off. I just looked at Tetsuro who was doing really good at defending the soccer ball as one of my teammates try to steal the ball from him, I felt so awkward just standing here watching him play like this with a very focused look on his face, Aiko was right, I do like him.

If I don't then why is my heart beating so fast?

I love him, but I don't really show him.

Before realizing it Tetsuro has already kicked the ball which I assumed was me, I forgot that we were on the opposing team and I didn't realize that he was meant to pass it to his teammate which coincidentally was beside me, so when I tried to get the ball, his teammate accidentally pushed me, with so much strength may I add.

I groaned in pain when I felt the ground meeting my skin in a very painful way, why do I always find myself hugging the ground? In front of Tetsuro too. I landed face down so I turned myself around immediately.

The teacher immediately walks to me, te sound of my classmates voices were muffled by the pain I was feeling on my knee.

"Oh my gosh! Hime, you should've been more careful!" My teacher scolds my classmate which was the one who accidentally pushed me.

"I'm so sorry L/n-san! I was too focused on retrieving the ball." He says as he and the teacher crouch down in front of me.

I sat myself up and looked at my lower region to find some unlucky wound, I mentally cursed in my head when I saw a wound right on my knee that was still leaking with fresh blood, it ran down my legs, kinda remembered me of the day where I cried my eyes out when I found out about the true Sawamura.

The feeling was very unsettling and some of my classmates offered help but my teacher rejects them.

"Let's get you to the bench.... Hime!" My teacher yells out to the boy.

Hime immediately reacts and looks at the teacher.

"You will clean her wounds since you did t—

—I'll do it." We hear a very sudden voice say behind us, I knew that voice all too well.

I turned around, it seems like the world wanted me to savor that moment, wanted me to slowly feel the feelings I was feeling at the moment which was... Butterflies in my stomach as I made eye contact with Tetsuro.

"No it's okay Kuroo-san, I'll do it." Hime says very kindly, he crouches down next to me and was ready to lift me up when, Tetsuro had done it faster before him, he literally swept me off the ground with his arm under my thighs and one under my back, carrying me bridal style.

I was flustered, very flustered. I just look at Tetsuro with widened eyes, but he seems like he wasn't bothered, heck he wasn't even looking at me.

"I insist." Tetsuro says one last time before turning around, the teacher was too stunned to speak.

Tetsuro slowly sits me down on the bench, I hissed at the feeling of my fresh wound open to the air.

"Okay let's ready up for another round then!" I hear the teacher say, but I couldn't focus on them when I have Tetsuro kneeling down in front of me as if we weren't just saying mean things to each other yesterday, I can feel the very noticeable blush on my face but I didn't bother to hide it as I just looked at him in awe as he now started to clean my wound with a clean water.

I hissed and flinched slightly, but he still remained silent.

This made me remembered about the time when he had to clean my wound back in miyagi, I miss it, I miss Tetsuro.

The silence wasn't awkward to me, it was rather like a silence we needed.

"Why are you doing this?" I finally ask when he starts to wrap my leg with a gauze bandage which was lended to him by a classmate who was ordered by the teacher to get one for me.

Tetsuro remains silent, and I was too shy to even try and speak with him again so I stayed quiet and just let him finish.

I should completely admit that he has done a great job with that gauze bondage.

After he was done he stands up and dusted off his pants, and he stops his movements before looking.

"I'm used to cleaning your wounds, princess." Tetsuro says to me.

He then jogs back to the teacher and starts talking to him, the nickname, the way he stared at me all gave me a reason to feel weak.

The nickname I thought I hated back then somehow made me weak now, what happened to me?

But I knew that he was still mad at me, he wasn't responding to me at all, so maybe this situation of us ignoring each other will last long after all.

How can I ever call him 'Useless'?