wrong timing | kunimi a.

a semester had already passed since our protag duo had joined kitagawa daiichi middle school.

shiho had become close friends with all of the members, thanks to her outgoing personality, having become particularly fond of kageyama.

she was happy with how things were going. she had high hopes the rest of her middle school journey would be smooth-sailing.

but that was never how it went, was it?

that morning, a new girl was introduced to their class. mia watanabe. she was—undeniably—gorgeous. half-french and half-japanese, she had striking blue eyes and blonde hair.

at first, shiho didn't pay her much mind. she went on with her day, studying in class, eating lunch at the cafeteria with the volleyball team, going to practice. her usual routine, one she was perfectly content with.

however, as the weeks went on, watanabe grew closer to kunimi. not just metaphorically, but literally.

there had been multiple occasions where shiho had been moved from her own seat next to kunimi because watanabe was there. the teacher showed little to no care as they clearly favoured the new exchange student.

she had started to join her and kunimi's group during group projects, making their once perfect duo into a forced trio.

yes, it annoyed her greatly.

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"akiraaa! hurry hurry! coach will yell at us if we're any more late!" shiho exclaimed, slamming the classroom door open and dragging kunimi out, ignoring watanabe.

"at least let me get my b—"
"we're already late! get it later!"

"ugh, you're always late nowadays! it's cause of that dumb new girl!" shiho grumbled.

"you shouldn't be speaking about your friends like that, shiho," kunimi frowned.

"she's not my friend. she's your friend. i'll speak about her however i want. and right now i'll speak about her negatively because she's stealing you from me," she scoffed jokingly.

kunimi, however, did not seem to like the joke.

he yanked his hand away from shiho's and sighed, annoyed. "exactly. she may not be your friend, but she's mine. at least try to treat her decently."

shiho recoiled, undeniably hurt that he was taking watanabe's side. "wh— i— fine, whatever."

kunimi merely nodded, seemingly satisfied with her response.

the pair entered the gym, greeting the team as kunimi went to change and shiho went to the bleachers, taking out her old volleyball uniform from her bag and stalking over to the bathroom.

"shiho-chan! are you playing with us today?" oikawa asked, taking note of her volleyball uniform and tied-up hair.

"yep. i'm a little pissed. might as well use volleyball as an outlet."

the boys had decided to play a three-on-three, the teams divided into oikawa, shiho, kindaichi and kageyama, kunimi and iwaizumi.

oikawa started things off with his infamous jump serve, kunimi only barely receiving the ball. kageyama tossed the ball to iwaizumi, who slammed it straight over shiho's block, luckily received by kindaichi.

shiho grinned, half-fired-up, half-pissed off by the fact that iwaizumi had managed to completely avoid her block.

so naturally, as one would, she immediately called for the ball and jumped as high as she could, spiking the ball down onto their court, getting her revenge.

the match went on to be won by the kageyama-iwaizumi-kindaichi team, 25-21.

shiho collapsed onto the floor, and groaned, pissed at the loss and sore from the sudden explosion of movements without warm ups.

she began cooling down, stretching her legs and arms as she went through everything that went wrong in that match and why they lost.

"i should've gotten that last receive! we might've had a chance if i didn't fuck that up.... or that spike that went out—"

suddenly, the gym door opened to reveal mia watanabe, all heads turning her way. including kunimi's.

"oh, watanabe. are you ready?" he asked, picking up his things.

"oya? kunimi, is this your girlfriend?" oikawa asked, grinning stupidly, making his way over to the girl.

"we're just classmates, oikawa-san. please don't go around making assumptions," kunimi sighed.

"akira! where are you going? i thought we were heading to the convenience store after this," shiho asked, vaguely hurt.

"ah, right.... i forgot to tell you, we were planning to head to the cafe down the road to finish the literature project," kunimi said.

"....i'm in your group too, though? why is it just you two going to work on it?" the girl asked, trying her best to hide the way her chest ached.

"huh? watanabe, did you not invite shih— "
"sorry, gotta go before they run out of lemon slices!" watanabe interrupted, dragging kunimi out of the gym.

".....what the fuck?" shiho asked to the now-empty spot where kunimi and watanabe once stood. "did she just? fucking take kunimi??" she added on in disbelief, pissed the fuck off by this sudden intervention.

she didn't like the fact that watanabe had gotten so close to kunimi. glaring at the door and wishing that it would have fallen on watanabe or something, she stood up and walked over to the bleachers to retrieve her bag.

"shiho-chan, who was that?" oikawa questioned, tilting his head a little, cautious of the sudden change in the girl's mood.

"some new transfer girl. i'd say 'some new transfer bitch' but akira dearest doesn't like me calling his so-called friend such vulgar insults," she muttered, rolling her eyes.

"sounds to me she's trying to steal your boyfriend," kindaichi snorted, walking over to the two, kageyama trailing behind the turnip-head.

"wait, shiho-san and kunimi-kun are dating?" kageyama asked, confused. the other boys stared at him.

"....can you really not tell? shiho-chan obviously likes kunimi," oikawa said, dumbfounded by the boy's obliviousness.

"oh. you like kunimi-kun?" kageyama turned to asked shiho. she slowly nodded, biting the inside of her cheek in slight embarrassment.

"does that blonde girl like kunimi-kun?" he asked. shiho sighed.

"i don't know, kags. let's hope not."

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