Ushijima Wakatoshi x Reader - Blunt Admiration
The school bell had rang throughout the whole campus, signaling that classes had ended for everyone. Everyone had started packing their stuff to head home, while some stayed for afternoon club activities. You hadn’t join a club since none of them quite interest you. It gave you the chance to visit your (very eccentric) friend Tendou play volleyball with his teammates.
You casually approached him one day when he had the latest jump maganize, both of you became instant friends from the mutual interest. Since Tendou was always with Ushijima, he too, had become friends with you. Albeit, his demeanor was hard to deal with at first, but you soon grew fond of the Shiratorizawa Ace. You were, however, very much bewildered when he offered you to come to his practices one day and from then on you visited him and Tendou as a regular.
Opening the doors to the volleyball gym, you saw the team had divided into two groups. Semi thought he had spiked the ball past , but was quickly blocked by Tendou. The Guess Monster began to chuckle at Semi’s agitated expression. Just when Tendou was about to start teasing Semi, he heard your voice.
“Ay! Nice one Tendou!” You gave a thumbs up for him, the red head immediately came over to your side to greet you and spoke with animation.
“[Name], [Name]. You won’t believe that yesterday I found this awesome manga. It’s a sports manga, it’s called Haikyuu. You should definitely read it, I think I have the first volume in my bag.” Before he could go grab said volume, Ushijima’s deep voice interrupted the little chat you both had.
“Tendou, we are still in the middle of practice. Leave that for later. [L/Name], I think you should refrain from cheering Tendou on. He might not concentrate like usual.” Ushijima’s gaze had looked into your eyes, the statement would have ticked you off before, but you shrugged it off and complied. Knowing his words held no malice.
“Haha, sorry Ushijima. Would you rather me cheer you on instead?” It was a light-hearted joke on your part, you didn’t expect him to stop mid-way from walking away and turn to you with curiosity. His eyes blinked a few times, registering what you had said.
“If that would stop you from cheering him on, I do not mind.” Ushijima held no expression whatsoever, though you could somewhat tell that something was off with him today. You brushed it off as nothing more than him being Captain and taking his teammates into consideration.
“Oh, alright then. I’ll be right over there sketching if you guys need me.” You pointed to where the chairs were, a few feet away from the coach and manager. Ushijima simply nodded in affirmation and walked away, Tendou following suit. Walking your way over to the chairs, you sat down and pulled out your sketchbook and mechanical pencil. Coach Washijo and Saitou were too busy looking at the players to pay you any mind.
At first you had a hard time thinking of what to sketch out, your attention was wondering from place to place trying to figure out what to draw. Your (e/c) eyes landed on Ushijima about to do a serve, this was actually the first time you had actually paid attention to the tall male in action. It was mesmerizing to say the least, the jump he did to serve the volleyball made you jump from your seat in admiration. Dropping your sketchbook and mechanical pencil in the process.
“That was amazing! How do you do that every time?” The volume of your voice was a lot louder than you had expected it to be, you earned a few chuckles from Ohira, Tendou and the coaches. Your cheeks had slowly started to warm up from the embarrassment, Ushijima looked at you for a brief moment and averted his gaze back to one of his teammates. Quickly grabbing your stuff from the ground, you sat back down on your seat, trying to make the heat from your cheeks cool down and heart rate by looking at the ground, anything really.
The pencil in your hand started to aimlessly draw random things in your sketchbook, by the time you actually noticed, you had drawn Ushijima. It was pretty decent for the amount of time you had spent on it. Looking around you, you sighed in relief that no one had noticed what you’ve been drawing, trying to desperately hide your sketches. Your gaze would ever so often land on Ushijimas features, of course there was no denying at this point in your life that you had grown some feelings for the volleyball Ace. You admired him as a person and as someone who you could be with.
The way he looked at you at times made your heart accelerate in an uncontrollably, it was hard to breathe. How he would speak to you, making it feel like it was just the two of you in the room, or when he would momentarily touch your arm for your attention. Like right now. You were lost in your own world that it was a surprise to you that Ushijima came up to you and tapped your right shoulder, startling you from your daydreaming. Jerking your head up, the males eyes looked into your own with confidence. Christ you had fallen, real hard.
“Practice has ended. Are you going to stay here?” His deep voice had made you blink a few times, processing what he told you. You shook your head in disagreement, grabbing your things, you stuffed them into your bag.
“Thanks for telling me, I think I would have freaked out if I was by myself. By the way, where’s Tendou? He didn’t ditch you did he?” You chuckled softly, lightening the atmosphere between the both of you.
“Tendou went to go get some drinks from the vending machine. He also wanted me to spend more time with you.” The last sentence caught you off guard, literally making you do a double take at his words. Your eyes had widened, extremely bewildered. The urge to ask the question you’ve been wanting to ask him was so strong, it was unbearable, but you were too shy to initiate first. So you stuck with the simple question.
“Why?” Having too many question in your mind, you mentally smacked yourself for only responding with that. Ushijima had turned his whole body and walked towards you, towering over you. Gulping down the saliva that was in your mouth, you waited patiently for his answer. His breathing was somewhat soothing for you in this awkward moment, it wasn’t helping that your palms were slowly starting to swear from anticipation.
“I find you attractive. When focusing solely on one thing, you come into my mind and it has become quite frustrating to even concentrate. I asked Tendou what was wrong with me, he stated that, in his words, I’ve fallen for you. My only solution is to ask you if you feel the same as I do.” Your body momentarily stopped breathing from the shock at his blunt confession, it was too much for you to process.
“Say yes [Name]! Say yes!” Turning your head to the side you saw Tendou at the entrance of the volleyball gym, cheering both of you on. Muttering under your breath, Ushijima couldn’t quite hear you.
“Speak louder.” He demanded, with a hint of desperation if you looked closely. “YES! I-I do like you too. I actually admire you a lot.” You smiled up at him shyly, your eyes averting away once in a while from his intense gaze. Leaning to the side once more, you looked at Tendou and narrowed your eyes. “You happy now?” Tendou started laughing and gave both of you a thumbs up gesture. “Now kiss her Wakatoshi-kun!” Your eyes widened.
“Wait wha-” A foreign pressure had placed itself on your lips, the feeling was new for the both of you. Since you hadn’t responded as quick as he wanted you to, he was about to pull away when you suddenly maneuvered your right hand behind his head and brought him into a deeper kiss to the best of your abilities. It was pleasant for a few more seconds until Tendou decided to snap some photos and giggle like a child. Immediately you pulled away from Ushijima and went after Tendou’s phone.
Unfortunately for you, he was too fast and ended up leaving with the evidence to show everyone tomorrow.
———Bonus———-
“Toshi, why do you still have that picture of us that Tendou sent you?” Your head had laid itself on Ushijimas lap, pondering at the photo that became his background. As you looked at his phone and back to him, you noticed the smallest of smiles appearing on his face.
“…It was my first kiss with you.” The sharp inhale you took almost had you choking, you quickly hugged the tall volleyball Ace while muttering “how cute he was”. You still weren’t used to his bluntness.