JUMP BUDDIES [Tendou Satori x Reader]

Chapter 2 - Straight Out of a Shoujo Manga

Days went on. Satori and I have been talking on and on about some Jump series whenever there's time available in the classroom. Being his one and only jump buddy, it was already a given. This time, we ended up spending our lunch break together at the school cafeteria.

"Man, that was my favorite part throughout the whole series!" he exclaimed as he we were eating.

"That was mine, too! Too bad I wasn't able to see it when we went to watch it's movie adaptation," I told him.

"It's your fault for falling asleep."

"And it's your fault for not waking me up, Satori."

"Can't help it. I was too immersed. It was sooo goooodddd..."

"Yeah. Thanks for rubbing it in," I was being sarcastic.

"Oh. Wakatoshi-kun!" he suddenly called as he waved his hands up high.

"Tendou," a stoic large man approached us.

"Come on now. Don't be shy. Sit down and join us," he ushered him.

The man sat down right across me. He looked familiar.

"Satori's teammate? Maybe I saw him from that recent match."

"Wakatoshi-kun, this is l/n f/n-chan. F/n-chan, this is Ushijima Wakatoshi-kun. He's the ace and captain of our volleyball team."

"Nice to meet you, Ushijima-san," I greeted him but he was silent and was looking at me so intently.

"Your girlfriend?" the ace's sudden question to the middle blocker lit my face on fire.

"N-No!" my immediate impulse was to deny his assumption.

"Well," the redhead wrapped his arm over my shoulder as he wore that lopsided grin of his, asking the captain, "we look good together, don't we?"

"S-Satori!" I was blushing hard due to the embarrassment.

Meanwhile, Ushijima-san took a second before he answered, "The two of you look just fine."

The redhead laughed and got his arm off my shoulder. "That answer is so like you, Wakatoshi-kun."

"Ah... Ushijima-san," I was finally able to get his attention. "I-I'm not Satori's girlfriend," I was able to tell him at last.

"You're not?" he asked.

"I'm his jump buddy. We became friends due to our interest in Shounen Jump so..."

"I see. I'm sorry," the ace apologized. "I thought you were going out since the two of you were on firstname basis."

"Wakatoshi-kun, if that's the case, then do you consider the two of us dating?" the redhead teased.

"No. I don't call you by your firstname, Tendou," the ace just answered it like that and Satori just laughed at him.

"No way... Is Ushijima-san always been this straightforward?" I asked myself about the emotionless face of a person in front of me as I chuckled.

Before I even realized it, classes were finally over for today. Ushijima-san invited me to come watch the volleyball team practice. Well... It was actually Satori whom he invited to visit the gym, then the middle blocker insisted me to go with him and the ace was fine with that.

"But why, though?" I asked myself.

Why would the captain invite his teammate to visit the gym to practice?

My train of thoughts was abruptly stopped with a loud bang courtesy of Ushijima-san. His spike was too powerful, it sounded like a cannon.

"Awesome..." I was amazed.