genre: haikyuu imagine, slight smut
pairing: kei tsukishima x fem!reader
summary: fast furious inspired but i never watched the movie.
you swore you were done with this shit.
engines snarling like wild things, streets lit with flickering LEDs and cigarette lighters, bets barked into thick night air.
you’d lived enough of it to know what came next. the high, the crash, the long silence afterward.
your dad died on the track.
not a metaphor. not some quiet decay of spirit.
a real crash. metal screaming. fuel in flames.
he flipped doing 110 trying to shave milliseconds, the whole town betting on him to win.
you found out later he’d bet everything he had. everything you had. your college fund. your mom’s savings. her wedding ring.
gone. all of it, before the second lap.
your mom didn’t cry when they told her. just shut the garage door and left it locked for a year.
then, just when she started to breathe again, you nearly died too.
a night run. stupid impulse. someone else’s car, someone else’s ego. a curve taken too fast, and then nothing but noise, nothing but pain.
you woke up with a fractured rib, road rash down your hip, and a jagged scar across your side that still tugs when you stretch.
your mom cried then. harder than at the funeral.
held your hand like it was the last thing she had left and said, “i can’t do this again.”
pulled the tarp over baby blue. tried to forget the way it felt to fly.
you were stocking vending machines at your part-time job when you met him.
it was late, past midnight, the parking lot humid, the hum of cicadas louder than the overhead lights.
you’d clocked out with a sour attitude and sticky palms, uniform shirt tied around your waist, walking toward your busted civic when you saw him.
leaning against a yellow 350Z, aggressive and spotless, parked two slots down from your car.
not looking at you — looking at her.
your hood was popped, half her engine exposed. you’d checked the coolant before your shift and forgot to close it.
he didn’t even flinch as you approached, just tilted his head at the sight of you.
“didn’t think she’d still run.”
you squinted. “excuse me?”
he nodded at the chipped paint along the fender, the mismatched spoiler — all scars you remembered helping your dad patch.
“baby blue. i remember her. your dad used to open her up on third and ash, right?”
your jaw tensed. “she doesn’t race anymore.”
he looked back at her, thoughtful. “shame. waste of good blood.”
you frowned. “the hell does that mean?”
he finally looked at you.
and when his eyes hit yours, narrow, amber, sharp as sin, it was like being sized up and stripped bare at the same time.
“you were better than him,” he said, simple. “cleaner. smarter. faster.”
you felt your throat close up. “don’t talk about my dad.”
he held your gaze. didn’t blink. then: “race me.”
you laughed in his face. “fuck no.”
“i’ll pay for your tune-up. no strings. just race me.”
“i can’t afford a race.” you couldn’t afford to lose.
“don’t want your money,” he said. “i want the story.”
you stepped closer. “what’s your angle?”
his smirk was small and devastating.
“i want to see if the legend’s real.”
he dropped money on parts like he was buying gum.
coilovers, pads, an oil cooler. high-grade synthetic. a new clutch kit.
and then, to your surprise, he didn’t drop it off and vanish.
night after night. t-shirt rolled at the sleeves, hair pulled into a lazy tie, hands already dirty.
he worked quiet. efficient.
passed tools before you asked. understood baby blue’s rusted wiring like it was language.
“you really could’ve just paid someone,” you said once, yanking open baby blue’s rusted hood.
“where’s the fun in that?”
he knew your car like he built her himself.
and you hated how easy it was to fall into rhythm with him, passing tools, brushing hands, swapping stories without really talking about anything.
you also hated that it only took three nights before he had your legs around his waist.
you’d been underneath the chassis. tank top sticking to your back. grease on your stomach.
he leaned over to hand you a wrench and you’d caught a flash of his stomach under that black t-shirt, lean and pale and when you looked up — he was already watching you.
“you’re staring,” you said, wiping your face with the back of your hand.
he crouched down. voice low. “yeah?”
you didn’t mean to say it.
and the next thing you knew, your back was hitting the garage wall, mouth open under his, his fingers under your waistband, grease still smudging his neck.
he didn’t ask. just kissed you like he already had. like it was tradition.
mouth hot, unyielding. tongue piercing clinking against your teeth.
you tasted heat, dust, black coffee.
and when your back hit the hood of baby blue, you felt the metal rattle against your spine.
you let him lift you up, thighs hooked around his hips. his fingers pressed into your waist, teeth at your neck, hips rolling hard between your legs.
and after that, every night, it was the same.
he fucked you against it.
quiet. messy. stretched across her hood, bent over her door.
sometimes your hands shook from the engine. sometimes from him.
your mom stopped checking in on you guys in the garage.
the night of the race, everything felt loud.
louder than it should’ve.
streetlights lit up the city like an altar.
your hands trembled as you pulled your gloves on. tsukishima leaned against his yellow Z, arms crossed, lips quirked.
“hope you’re not gonna go easy on me,” you said, brushing your thumb along your gearshift.
his gaze was molten. “never.”
he stepped closer and your breath hitched.
“but when i win…” his eyes dipped, slow, raking down your body and back up again. “…you owe me.”
you licked your lips. “what exactly do you want?”
he smirked. “i got a couple ideas.”
you pull up second, tires smoking, chest rising like you ran the whole way.
he’s already out of the car, eyes blown wide, golden under the lights.
you climb out, breathless.
don’t say anything at first.
he walks toward you. stops close. “you almost had me.”
at the sweat on his collarbone, the way his forearm flexes when he wipes his mouth.
you shift, grimacing. “i’ll pay you. i just… not all at once. might take a few—”
“y/n, i don’t want your money.”
you blink. “then what do you want?”
his gaze dips. you feel it before he says anything, the weight of it on your skin.
you smile. slow. feel your fingers twitch to grab his jacket.
“garage?” you offer, voice low.
he tilts his head. “backseat.”
you grab his wrist and pull him into the dark, and when his hands hit your waist again, you’re already unzipping your hoodie.
baby blue purrs behind you.