Opposites Attract ᥫ᭡.
Rin Itoshi x Katie Mikage
Part four - Katie is everywhere
Kaite somehow always managed to appear next to Rin.
***
Suddenly she’s around during hangouts, waving at Rin like they’re old friends while he’s mentally preparing for combat.
She ran up in a soft pink dress and hugged his arm dragging him towards her friends “Guys this is Rin.”
“Katie the poor guy looks miserable, where did you find him?” her friend said, laughing at her antics.
“I found him at the beach. Hes Reo’s friend!”
She turned and looked up at Rin with that same intoxicating smile “You want to go get cake?”
Rin sighed “No”
She stuck her tongue out blowing a raspberry with her thumb down.
“Come on Katie the cake shops gunna close soon” her friend called.
“Bye Rin, I will eat some cake for youuu!” she said dashing off grabbing her friends hand giggling.
***
After a game Rin swore he was seeing things until his suspicions were correct and something pink suddenly tackled him.
“Boo!” Katie chuckled as soon as she made contact with Rin who managed to steady himself.
Katie was hanging onto him like a koala at that point.
“Katie, why are you here?” Rins face was already showing his annoyance.
“How come you didnt fall? You're really strong huh Rin?” Katie looked like she was trying to solve an intense math problem.
“Katie, get off of me.” The tips of his ears were already pink.
“Okay! You were really good! Like you were out there all like pow! Whoosh! Boom!” Katie beamed.
Rin’s heart stopped for just a second but Katie didnt notice because she was still doing poses and making sound effects.
“…How did you get in here?” he sighed.
“I told Ego I would donate a bunch of money to the facility if he let me come visit,” she said proudly. “Apparently I’m good for morale.”
Rin stared at her.
“You bribed Ego.”
“I prefer the term support sponsor.”
Before he could respond she suddenly gasped.
“Oh! Which reminds me…”
Katie ran toward the giant bag she left near the benches and yelled, “I brought fresh cookies! Come get ’em!”
The entire room immediately turned toward her.
“You brought snacks?” Bachira asked excitedly.
“Dang,” Shidou laughed, throwing an arm around Rin’s shoulder, “and she bakes too? Might just have to steal her from you, Rin.”
“She’s not my girlfriend,” Rin said flatly.
Katie blinked up at him innocently.
“Not yet, but in my head you are.”
Why did Rin almost find it cute when she said that? He shook the feeling off.
Nope. Defintley not.
***
The next day she was back again.
Rin walked out of practice sweaty, irritated, and already exhausted from listening to Shidou yell for the last two hours only to stop when he spotted something pink waving aggressively in the hallway.
“…Katie.”
“Rin!” she grinned brightly, jogging over to him like she belonged there. “Look, I learned soccer terms.”
She pulled out a tiny notebook covered in glitter stickers and flipped it open proudly.
Rin stared at it in disbelief.
“…Why.”
“So I can understand when you’re being dramatic during games.”
“I am not dramatic.”
“You literally yelled ‘use your eyes’ at someone today.”
“Because he wasn’t looking.”
“And yesterday you called someone an ‘offside merchant’ like it was the worst insult imaginable.”
“It is.”
Katie hummed thoughtfully while scribbling something into the notebook.
“Interesting. Defensive aggression linked to emotional instability.”
Rin looked offended. “That’s not what that means. Stop psychoanalyzing me.”
“Oh!” she gasped dramatically. “So when you kicked the wall after practice that was normal and emotionally healthy?”
“I didn’t kick the wall.”
Bachira suddenly appeared behind him. “You totally kicked the wall, Rin Rin.”
“I hate all of you.”
Katie beamed at him completely unbothered.
“It’s okay, I still think you did a really good job today.”
Rin paused.
It was stupid how easily she said things like that. No teasing hidden underneath it. No expectations. Just honest praise delivered with the same casual warmth she carried everywhere.
“…We lost,” he muttered.
“And?” Katie tilted her head like the answer was obvious. “You still played well.”
For a second Rin didn’t know what to say to that.
Thankfully Bachira ruined the moment immediately by leaning over Katie’s shoulder.
“Wait, why does your notebook say ‘Rin insults translated’?”
Katie quickly slammed it shut against her chest.
“Trade secret.”
Rin narrowed his eyes suspiciously. “What else is in there?”
She grinned. “Page seven is just ways to tell when you’re annoyed.”
“I’m always annoyed.”
“Exactly! See? I’m learning.”
***
One morning Rin walked into the kitchen half awake only to stop dead in his tracks.
Katie was standing there in an oversized Blue Lock hoodie flipping pancakes while Bachira sat at the counter cheering her on.
“Good morning, Rin!” she smiled. “I made breakfast.”
“Why are you in the facility kitchen?”
“Your security guards know me now.”
“That’s not an answer.”
“They let me in because I brought strawberries.”
Bachira pointed at her dramatically. “She bribed them with fruit. It was incredible.”
Rin stared at the plate she handed him. It was shaped like a soccer ball.
“…This is stupid.”
“You’re still eating it though.”
And he did, worst of all, it was actually pretty good.
***
It got worse after she learned his schedule.
Somehow she always appeared exactly when practice ended. Rainy days? She had an umbrella. Long training sessions? She had sports drinks. One time Rin came out after an especially terrible loss ready to snap at everyone only to find Katie sitting on the curb beside the bus with a tiny handheld fan pointed at him.
“You looked overheated,” she explained.
Rin blinked slowly. “You flew to another country… carrying a fan?”
“Well yeah. You’re meaner when you’re dehydrated.”
***
The team accepted her existence disturbingly fast.
“She’s like a stray cat Rin accidentally fed once,” Chigiri said.
“A really rich stray cat,” Braou declared.
“She keeps bringing snacks so I support this relationship,” Nagi stated without looking up from his phone.
“It’s not a relationship,” Rin snapped immediately.
Katie looked up from where she was braiding little ribbons into Bachira’s hair. “Aw, he’s shy.”
“I’m going to kill all of you.”
***
Their game overseas was supposed to be focused entirely on training. Finally somewhere Katie-free.
Unfortunately for Rin, the moment the team stepped into the city, Isagi noticed something horrifying.
Bachira followed his line of sight and gasped really loud “WAIT!”
Everyone looked up as Bachira pointed dramatically toward one of the massive digital billboards downtown.
Rin followed his gaze and immediately regretted it.
Katie’s face was staring down at the entire city.
She was dressed in some designer gown, soft pink lights glowing around her while giant letters advertised a new luxury fashion campaign. The ad looped across multiple screens lining the streets.
Then Rin noticed there were more.
One across the intersection.
Another wrapped around the side of a building.
One plastered across the bus stop they’d just walked past.
It was like she’d taken over the entire country overnight.
“…What,” Rin said flatly.
Meguru burst into laughter immediately.
“Hey Rin, look! It’s your girlfriend on the billboard!”
“She is not my girlfriend,” Rin muttered automatically.
“I didn’t even know she modeled,” Reo admitted, still staring up at the screen.
“Honestly it makes sense though,” Eita said casually. “She’s hot.”
Reo looked genuinely disgusted.
“Ew. Gross, dude. That’s my cousin.”
Eita just smiled micheviously. “Still hot though.”
“Seriously!” Reo pointed accusingly at the billboard like somehow this was Katie’s fault. “Stop looking at her like that.”
“I was looking respectfully!”
“There’s no respectful way to say ‘she’s hot’ while staring at a thirty-foot photo of my cousin.”
Meanwhile, Bachira was absolutely losing it.
“Rin, this is soooo funny. Your situationship is famous.”
“We do not have a situationship.”
“Then why do you look less annoyed about her picture being up but more annoyed at the people looking at her instead?” Chigiri asked.
Rin opened his mouth. Closed it. Opened it again.
Honestly the modeling itself wasn’t even shocking. Katie somehow managed to do everything. She showed up to practices, charmed security guards, bribed Ego, baked like somebody’s grandmother, and apparently modeled internationally on the side.
At this point Rin wouldn’t have been surprised if she casually revealed she owned three companies too.
Still, seeing her face blown up across an entire city without warning was unsettling.
Especially because she looked… different.
Not personality-wise. The smile in the photos was still unmistakably Katie. Bright, playful, warm.
But the styling made her look elegant in a way Rin wasn’t used to seeing. Sophisticated. Untouchable almost.
Which made it even weirder when his phone buzzed in his pocket.
Katie :)
did u guys land yet??
A second message appeared immediately after.
Katie :)
WAIT DONT LOOK AT THE BILLBOARDS ITS EMBARRASSING
Rin stared at the giant screen towering above him before typing back.
Too late.
Three dots instantly appeared.
Katie :)
…oh no
Meguru leaned over Rin’s shoulder trying to read the messages.
“OHHH look at him texting his celebrity girlfriend.”
Rin shoved him away.
“She’s not my girlfriend.”
“Sure,” Tabito snorted. “And Reo is poor.”
***
At some point, Rin realized he’d stopped asking why she was there.
She just… was.
Curled up on the blue lock couch during movie nights. Waiting outside practice scrolling through her phone. Sitting beside him on the team bus humming to herself while he pretended not to notice her leaning against his shoulder whenever she got sleepy.
And somehow, without anyone noticing exactly when it happened, Rin started looking for her too.
