Chapter 17

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Huh he's kinda cute but kinda creepy.

A cough interrupts our conversation and I turn my head to see Oikawa walking up with Iwaizumi behind him a scowl on both their faces.

"Terushima," Oikawa grits out eyeing the blond haired boy and his friends.

"Oh it's milk bread boy and his ace friend, long time no see."

"What are you doing here?" Iwaizumi bluntly asks.

Terushima was only smirking at the two enjoying their anger towards him.

"Oh well this is a local beach and all, and we saw you guys playing with that pretty girl of yours and wouldn't mind beating you in a match or two."

Instinctively both boys on either side of me push me a bit back so that they were shielding me.

"Don't talk about Naka-Chan like that. But it's on playboy," Oikawa gives him a mischievous grin before walking back to the others.

We decided to play all of us against them since they insisted on it saying that they were going to beat us anyways even if they lacked people.

"Nice serve Naka-Chann!" Oikawa shouts a grin on his face.

I smile at him in response already aiming for Terushima who was waiting for the ball.

Tossing it up I hit it with all my strength and watch it hit his arms then go out of bounds.

"Nice ace Ren!" Hina cheers.

"Woww very strong and beautiful," the piercing boy smirks a look of amazement on his face.

"Don't doubt my skills playboy."

"Hina!" I call as I was preparing for a spike.

"Got it!"

She tosses it perfectly in my direction giving a clear shot as I slam the ball down as hard as I can.

Assuming that it was going to hit the sand, suddenly Bobata receives it with his foot.

Hehh!

"Futamata!"

The black haired boy sends it in Terushima's direction who was preparing to spike the ball down.

But instead he lightly hits it over causing me to dive in the sand for the ball, barely missing it.

"Damn it," I mutter looking up to see the blond haired boy grinning at me.

"Too late sweetheart."

"Hey that's my name for her!" Oikawa shouts from the sidelines ready to pummel the guy.

A hand comes to my view and I take it abruptly as they fully lift me up from the sand not looking in my direction.

I wipe the excess sand off my body looking at Iwaizumi who was glaring back at Terushima.

"Hey you alright?"

He averts his gaze back to me, softening in the process.

"Uh yeah, he just pisses me off," He grumbles.

I only slowly nod in response walking to my water bottle on the side as we called for a break.

"He's hot," I hear Sakura mumble staring at him to which I laugh in response.

"I won't disagree with that," Akari adds.

"Did you know he has a tongue piercing?"

"Really? How'd you figure that out?" I turn to Sakura.

"Just some observing that's all," She looks back at me her face flustered.

"I think he has the hot's for you though Ren," Hina walks up to us grabbing her water bottle.

"How do you know?" I tilt my head at her.

She casually points in a direction and I turn my head to see him looking at me winking my way before taking off his shirt and wiping his sweat off.

"Luckyy! Why does Naka-Chan always get all the hot guys!" The libero whines, a visible pout on her lips.

"Pfft! I doubt that's true," I retort looking at her. "Besides, Watari-Kun seems to be interested in you."

Sakura widens her eyes at my statement her face getting red. "R-really?"

"Uhuh!"

"Alright no more boy talk, let's continue!" Hina exclaims pulling us towards the court.

"They play so... fun," I mutter as they just won the match by a crazy save from Tsuchiyu.

"Yea it's like they're not taking the game seriously one bit and are just hitting the ball everywhere," Watari continues.

I nod to his statement and decide to walk towards Iwaizumi and Oikawa who were arguing about the Johzenji boys.

"Come swim with me sweetheart," A voice whispers into my ear and I turn to see the same blond haired boy.

"First off, don't call me sweetheart we barely know each other and secondly, why would I go in the water with someone I don't know," I tap my finger on my chin.

"Aww you're so cute sweetheart."

My face flusters at the compliment and I slap his shoulders.

"I-I told you not to call me that!"

"Aww wow even the stuttering, adorable," He comes closer to me causing myself to take a step back.

I glance up from his brown eyes to see the setter and the ace glaring at our interaction. They were both ready to walk towards us.

"Well you can get to know me now, and I wouldn't recommend not going in the water when your already wet."

"Huh? Wet? What do yoβ€”ahh!" I screech as he poured the cold water over my head.

Terushima quickly runs towards the water before I could catch him.

"Oh you're dead you playboy!" I sprint towards the water tackling him in the process.

"See that wasn't so bad, was it?"  He says coming back up from the water.

He once again comes closer to me, trying to wrap his arms around my waist.

Abruptly I put my hands on his head and dunk him back inside the water.

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Third POV

"Wow those two seem to hit it off," Akari tells Hina as she was watching Ren trying to push Terushima under water again while he was just trying to get close to her.

"Yeah, I blame his flirtatious personality," Hina laughs watching the scene in front of them.

Iwaizumi frowns overhearing the two girls conversation as he watched the girl he liked with another boy.

He already had to deal with Oikawa as competition, but now him?

"Oi get that scowl off your face," A voice interrupts Iwaizumi's thoughts and he turns to see Matsukawa glancing at the water.

"Don't worry, I doubt she likes him like that."

The ace looks at his teammate flabbergasted as to how he knew what he was thinking.

"Pretty sure she already likes someone else anyways," He tell him before walking off towards Hanamaki.

"He's not wrong," Another voice speaks up and Iwaizumi turns to see Hina looking at him.

"Just make sure, she knows how you feel sooner or later," She puts a hand on his shoulder giving a reassuring smile before jogging towards Naka in the water.

"Are my feelings really that obvious," He mutters to himself glancing in Oikawa's direction who was also looking at the pair a scowl on his face.

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"Damn Naka-San you got so much water in my ear," Terushima grumbles tilting his head to the side.

"Well that's what you get for pouring water on me in the first place," I retort looking at his attempts to get the water out.

Feeling somewhat bad but also as revenge I hit the side of his head a few times to help get the water out.

"Ow that's way too agressive!" He whines swatting my hand away as he tilts his head back up.

"Well it's getting late, so we have to go but it was nice meeting you sweetheart," He grins at me. "Maybe I could get your number?"

Did he mean it in a friendly way?

"I know you like someone else, so it's in a friendly way of you we're wondering," He adds.

"Hehh? I-I don't like anyone."

"Uhuh sure you don't. I saw the way you kept looking at the ace, what's his name... Iwaizumi, especially when he took his shirt off."

At his words my face turns as red as a tomato.

"I-but heβ€”ughh never mind!"

I hand my phone to him as he puts his number in taking a quick photo for the contact as well.

"Just remember that when he messes up, I'll be there to sweep you in," Terushima ruffles my hair with a small smirk before walking towards his friends.

I don't even like the boy like that and he's still leaving me flustered. It's the piercings I swear!

Looking for the familiar ace he was already staring back at me an unfamiliar emotion on his face.

"Ohh lets go see the fireworks!" Sakura exclaims pulling Watari in the direction of them.

Sakura didn't realize what she was doing but Watari on the other hand was blushing like crazy.

Ahh so cute.

"Hey Naka-Chan, do you want to go see the fireworks toβ€”"

"Oikawa-San lets go see the fireworks together!"

"No come with me!" Another girl pushes her.

"No with me!"

"Girls girls calm down. I'll come with all of you," The setter fakes a smile to which all of them yelp in excitement.

Walking towards the fireworks by myself I suddenly feel a presence on my side and glance to see Iwaizumi right beside me.

There was a nice silence as we both observed the night sky changing different colors.

Even though today kept me away from my family stuff, I couldn't help but think about what Haru had said last night.

"My father's mom is coming to watch me at Interhigh's," I let out my eyes fixated on the fireworks. "I haven't seen her since he left and I don't know why she's coming to be honest. It's not like she ever payed attention to my volleyball life."

"Maybe she wants to do it now," Iwaizumi speaks up.

I glance in his direction and instantly meet up with those familiar green eyes.

"I doubt it. I only ever since her once a year which is on Christmas. But after my father left she never seemed to want to keep in contact with us."

"Well don't worry about her, just focus on the matches. Also if it makes you feel any better I'll be dragging Oikawa who would gladly want to come and some of the others to support you girls at your games," He tells me a small smile on his lips.

I couldn't help but smile back even wider at the boy. "Thanks Iwaizumi, I'll be coming to your games too for sure."

We both glance back at the sky as the fireworks continued to spark in the air.

"Fun day huh," He laughs slightly.

"Yup. Fun to meet the Johzenji boys too," I smile thinking of the layed back second years.

I feel the body beside me stiffen slightly at my words.

"Yeah they were alright. Terushima-Kun seemed to have interest in you," He mutters.

"Yeah, he is a nice yet flirty guy. But not my type."

My answer catches Iwaizumi by surprise as his eyes widen and turns his gaze to me.

"Too much of a playboy for me," I laugh looking from the fireworks to those dark green eyes once again who were already staring at me. "Besides I like someone else," I mutter.

I feel his familiar hand grasp a few of my fingers causing me to look down at his hand then back at him.

Those butterflies again...

"Naka."

"Yeah?"

"I liβ€”"

"Oh Naka-Chan! Iwa-Chan! Why are you both so far from the rest of us? Come here!" Oikawa shouts at us.

Iwaizumi's face flusters up as he grumbles something under his breath releasing his hand from my fingers.

"Oww Akari what was that for!" Oikawa whines as he got hit in the head by the angry vice captain.

"Oh no reason," She mutters still glaring at the captain.

I laugh at the interaction of the two before looking back to Iwaizumi who was staring at his friend.

"So what did you want to tell me?" I ask to which he glances back at me.

"Oh-uh nothing I'll tell you later. Let's get back to the rest," He begins to walk back to the group.

What was he going to say?

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Hope you enjoyed the chapter! I don't know if I consider this a long-ish chapter or not but this was initially supposed to be combined with the last chapter. I decided against it though because I wanted to leave the last one on a small cliffhanger. hehe :)

Next chapter will be posted by latest Friday since I have to study for my summer school exam 😣.

Also guys I'm on anime tik tok and all I see is anime boys art. If anyone is on the same side as I am then they'll understand why I wrote this here. 😌

Stay tuned!

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