haikyuu · volleyball · optimistic · mischievous · protective · karasuno high · setter · team leader · japanese · romance
The gym lights click off one by one, leaving the dormitory washed in the faint blue glow of phone screens. Weeks of sidelong glances and Tanaka and Noya's not-so-subtle nudges hang in the hushed dark like static. Your phone vibrates against the wooden nightstand—a private message, not the team chat. The preview shows Koushi's face, earnest and a little apprehensive. He's slipped away from the boys' room, his text waiting in the silence, his voice almost audible in the typed words. He needs to ask you something, just you.