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The birds are buzzing, and bees are chirping. It's a nice calm morning in Blue Lock. Extremely calm. A bit… too calm.
Rin opens her eyes half expecting to be jumped by Shidou first thing, but to her surprise, Shidou isn't here. This is both a blessing and a curse. Sure, the roach isn't here to annoy her, but now the issue is not knowing where Shidou is so that Rin can avoid her.
That's an issue for later.
A sign leaves her lips as she sits up, upon looking around the room, she notices none of her roommates are there. Now this makes her raise a brow, for one, Karasu sleeps as much as she can –lazy ass– and Nanase usually waits around until Rin wakes up. But neither are here.
This sets off some kind of alert in Rin’s head, causing her to fling the covers off of herself, spring out of bed and grab her phone on the bedside table. She clicks it on and there it is,
9:17am
Dread washes over her. Rin groans in frustration, she never oversleeps, always getting up bright and early for meditation before early morning practice. Loki is so gonna chew her out for this. Just before Rin decides to set her phone down, she notices a few text messages.
She honestly doesn't really care who texted her, she's known for ignoring messages anyway or leaving people on read. But just as she's about to swipe it away, she sees who it's from. She taps on it right away.
Isagi Yoichi
6:30am
Hey Rin! Wanna do yoga together this morning? 😋
Another groan leaves Rin as she pinches the bridge of her nose. She claims she hates this rival of hers, but let's be real, hate is a very strong word.
That isn't the only message from Isagi however,
Isagi Yoichi
7:02am
Rin? You busy?? Are you ignoring me again??? 😭😭
Once more, another groan.
Isagi Yoichi
8:45am
I feel like I'm just spamming you now 😭🙏
Is everything ok tho? Usually you text me back pretty quickly
Hope you're ok!! ❤️❤️
Guilt pools up in Rin’s gut. She almost feels uneasy at the thought of not responding to Isagi, she usually responds pretty quick –only to Isagi, no one else. Rin taps away, typing a message up. It sounds a bit loserish –to Rin– but she sends it anyway.
Itoshi Rin
9:23am
I'm fine, overslept. Sorry for worrying you. I don't mind you spamming tho. I'm down for yoga, but you're probably in practice now.
After sending it, she jumps up and grabs her toiletries bag and a towel. It's late into the morning so she needs to hurry with her morning routine, she may not be afraid of Loki, but she sure as hell doesn't like being griped at for being late. Well, too late anyway.
A brisk shower was a good jump start for Rin’s day. It was peaceful being all alone in the locker room.
She jinxed it.
The door opens and in walks one of the banes of her existence.
“Ohh!” It's the blonde rat, “You weren't at practice~ Loki’s pretty madddd~” she sticks her tongue out.
“Huh? It's over already?” Rin raises a brow, she wasn't in the shower for that long and practice usually doesn't end until 10 or so.
“Duh!” Charles flips back some of her hair as she walks towards the lockers. “It's like 10:20, girl.”
Rin stills. 10:20? How fucking long was she in the shower for??
“Eh?” Charles peers over at the emo, “What? You look dumbfounded!! 😝”
“There must be something wrong with me today…” Rin mumbles to herself, face in the palm of her hand.
Charles just shrugs before she grabs a jersey shirt to change into, the one she's currently in is sweaty as fuck. What kinda training is Loki putting her through this early in the morning? Well almost afternoon now.
After letting out a small grunt, Rin stomps over to the sink to splash her face. “There has to be something wrong with me.”
“I dunno.” Charles shrugs one more time before joining the other at the sink, “Can I brush and braid your hair?” She gives a cat-like smile.
“Fuck no.”
“How mean!!” The blonde pouts. “Bet you'd let your little girlfriend play with your hair, hmph!”
Almost if on cue, Rin’s phone dings. Though it's not a normal ding, it's a set ringtone for one specific contact. Rin picks up her phone right away.
Isagi Yoichi
10:26am
Our practice just ended! Wanna grab a snack and hang out? 😗
Wait, YOU overslept? You feeling alright…?
“Ahhh so it is your girlfriend! You even gave her a special ring-” Charles doesn't get to finish, Rin covers her mouth roughly.
“She's not my girlfriend.” Her eye twitches.
Charles sighs, not bothering to struggle from Rin’s grasp.
Itoshi Rin
10:27am
Idk what's up with me today. Grab me some snacks, meet you at the yoga room.
Isagi Yoichi
10:27
Ok!! See you soon ❤️
“Yeah, not your girlfriend huh.” Charles playfully scoffs now that she's free from the taller’s hands.
“Shut up! Isagi isn't my girlfriend.” ‘I wish’ goes unsaid.
“Righttttt~ okay well you have fun! I'mma go annoy Loki or something until lunch~ 😈” Charles giggles to herself.
“Whatever.” Rin rolls her eyes, if she's a bit giddy about meeting up with Isagi… that's her little secret.
“Rin!”
The girl’s heart does a flip before she turns away from the yoga room door to face the voice. “Isagi? Thought you'd get here before me.”
“Aha…” The gal sweats, nervously twirling a lock of her hair. Her hair isn't long in any sense, just a bit past chin length. “I ran into Chigiri, Reo and Nagi, we started talking…”
“So you got fucking distracted? Hah, how lukewarm.” Rin fakes disgust.
“Sorry…” Isagi scratches the back of her neck, a lopsided smile on her face. “Uh, anyway! I grabbed a few different snacks, some I got from different stratums though.”
“How connected you are.” Rin snorts, opening the room's door and walking in. The other follows.
“Two Barcha members gave me some Spanish candies, I ran into Lorenzo who gave me some Italian cookies. Also seen Snuffy who gave me this random assortment of candy,” Isagi retells all of the events leading up until this point, “I ran into Prince too! She gave me a bottle of… Prince Water…”
“What the fuck is Prince Water?” Rin grimaces, laying out two yoga mats from them as Isagi yaps.
“Water with Chris Prince’s name on it… I guess…” The ravenette sweats. “Anyway,” she sets the plastic bag with all the goodies in it on the floor, “I was given some good ass German chocolate from Grim and Gesner too. And then some random things from the cafeteria.”
“Good God, how many people spoil you with sweets?” The younger ties her hair up in a long ponytail before sitting down on one mat. “If you eat so many sweets, it'll make you more lukewarm.”
“Are you calling me fat!?” Isagi jokingly exclaims before sitting on the other mat. “How could you~!”
“I-” The teal eyed pauses, eyes growing a bit wide. “You know I didn't mean it like that…” she mutters.
At this, Isagi chuckles lightly before breaking out in full laughter. Rin can't help but join her with a few light laughs.
After coming down from her laughter high, Isagi digs into the bag. “You gonna do your yoga?”
“No. Not feeling it for some reason.” She shrugs, “I feel like something is wrong with me today.”
“Sick?”
“No.”
“Not enough sleep?”
“Think I've slept enough.”
“Eating well?”
“We literally eat almost every meal together, you should know that I eat well.” Rin sighs.
“True.” Isagi smiles, “Are you stressed?”
“Well, I don't think I am…?”
“Hmmm, maybe you're just feeling mentally tired or something and don't realize it?” Isagi finally settles on a snack, pulling out the cookies Lorenzo gave her.
“It's possible, not sure.” She scoffs, “Give me one.”
“Could ask nicely~” The ravenette teases, handing a cookie to her companion. “Did you brush your hair? It looks messy as hell.”
“I brushed it.” A glare.
“Not very well I guess.”
“Shush.”
Isagi quickly stands, she speed-walks over to the small closet the room has. Since the two are always in here, they've stashed items in the closet in case it's needed. She grabs a small bag and heads back to Rin.
“Hm?” The tall girl raises a brow at the shorter sitting back down.
“Hair stuff! Can I brush and braid your hair?” Isagi smiles fondly as she gestures for Rin to turn around.
“Hmm.” Rin recalls Charles asking the same thing a while ago, which Rin had refused. But this is Isagi. “Go ahead.” She hums, turning her back to the other girl.
The ravenette’s eyes shine, she approaches and gently reaches for the girl’s ponytail. “I know you just put it up but it's so messy, it's physically paining me!”
“It's fine. Do whatever with it.” She speaks softly, “Honestly it's getting pretty long.”
“I like your long hair.” Isagi contently combs her fingers through the long, soft locks. “It suits you.”
Rin looks down into her lap, opting to play with her fingers rather than responding.
“I've noticed that you get quiet when I compliment you. It's cute~” The ravenette smirks, beginning to slowly run the brush through the other’s hair.
“...” The gal takes a deep, almost staggered breath. “Isagi… I…”
She pauses, “Yeah?”
“...”
Isagi waits, is it finally happening!? Is Rin confessin-
“Pass me those cookies, they’re good.”
The smile on Isagi’s face vanishes as she deadpans. A sigh escapes her while she grabs the cookies and hands them to the other. “Don’t eat them all! Lorenzo gave them specifically to me~”
“Calm down, unlike you I don't eat a lot of sweets.” Says the gal that immediately downs three cookies. “Are you and zombie girl, friends?”
“I'm practically friends with everyone to be fair. Though those cookies are hella good, when Barou and her bitches accept their offers from Italy and move there, they better send me cookies.” Isagi laughs in a proud manner, going back to her task of brushing out Rin’s messy ass hair.
“Interesting.” The emo smiles. Smiles. She only smiles due to the fact that Isagi can't see her face.
“I'm surprised you actually paid attention to my yapping!” Isagi grins. She puts the brush down, finally satisfied with the brushed out hair.
“Who said I paid attention?” Rin scoffs, crossing her arms across her chest.
“Who gave me the candies?” The ravenette tests.
“Dunno, wasn't paying attention.”
“Answer it correctly and uhhhhh,” She thinks for a second before a thought crosses her mind, “I'll pass to you during our one-on-one practice?”
“Is that seriously all you have to offer? Tch, lukewarm.” Rin sighs, uncrossing her arms and placing them in her lap. “Snuffy gave you the candies.”
Isagi grins in victory.
The next few minutes are in comfortable silence as Isagi begins braiding Rin’s luscious hair. The only sounds in the room are of Rin devouring the entire sleeve of Italian cookies. The worst part? Isagi is too happy braiding Rin’s hair that she doesn't notice until the braid is finished.
“Hah! I think I did a good job~” The ravenette smiles to herself. “Now give me a coo- …”
Rin crumples up the trash and slowly slips it into her lap to hide it.
“Nah…” Isagi is aghast. “You…”
“...” She looks to the side, trying to avoid Isagi as much as possible.
“You… TRAITOR!!!” Isagi dramatically grabs the sides of her incredibly shocked face. “You ate ALL of them!?! You bitch!”
“They were good.” Rin mutters, holding a laugh back. She can't break her tough guy persona.
“I can't believe this…” Isagi frowns. “So mean… and to think I liked you too…”
That catches her off guard. Rin turns ever so slightly, just enough to look at her companion.
“Sighhh, feelings no longer. I could never like a food hog!!” Isagi closes her eyes and pouts with a ‘hmph’.
“Wait,” Rin’s eyes are wide, “you… feelings?”
Isagi shoots her eyes open. The two make eye contact. “Uh…”
“Isagi…?” Rin turns around more, nearly fully facing the other girl. “Be honest.”
“...” The girl blushes, looking to the side in embarrassment. She got just a bit too into the teasing…
Rin waits, now fully facing the ravenette.
“Ugh okay yeah fine, I like you, Rin.” Isagi finally looks at her, a light dusting of blush painting her face.
“Like, actually? No teasing?” She’s serious, Rin is serious.
“Yes. Actually. I've liked you for a while now, aha… I honestly never planned on confessing first but… here we are!” Isagi sweats, blinking nervously.
“I'm gonna die.”
“Wait what!?” The ravenette panics, immediately grabbing Rin by the shoulders. “What does that mean? Don't die!?”
Rin takes a deep breath before locking eyes with the other, “Pinch me?”
“Huh? Do you think you’re dreaming??” Isagi cocks her head to the side.
“Yeah. Pinch me.”
“Well if you say so…” Isagi sighs before pinching Rin’s cheek. “Well?”
“...” Rin goes pale upon feeling the slight pain.
“Oh my God, are you going to pass out!?”
“I uh, like you too…” She says way too lowly, coming out as just a whisper.
Isagi raises a brow, panic subsiding. “What? If you don't like me back… just say so…”
“I like you too!” She finally speaks up. Her ears are completely red, in fact her cheeks are a similar shade. “Damn lukewarm NPC…”
The ravenette has finally had enough, she jumps the other and tightly wraps her arms around Rin’s neck. This causes the teal eyed to fall back with an audible wince.
“Jeez, did you have to do that?” Rin scoffs as if she hates it, though she hugs the other back. “Get off, you’re heavy.”
“Can't we stay like this a bit longer?” Isagi speaks from the crook of Rin’s neck.
With a drawled out sigh, “Fine. This hurts my back though.”
“Oh, you're fine!” The ravenette snorts, nuzzling her nose further into the other's neck. There's little to no space between the two as they lay there hugging. A very sweet sight. Infact, they stay like this. Enjoying the warmth of each other.
“Isagi.”
“Hm?”
“It’s been long enough. Get up! My back hurts!!” Rin complains, to be fair… it has been at least 20 minutes.
“Aww, okay fine~” The ravenette slowly gets up from on top of the other. As she sits down, she finally has a chance to take in the other’s ethereal beauty. “God, you're so pretty.”
Rin freezes as soon as she hears the words, with her face slowly turning red, she mumbles “Stop staring…”
“Eh?” Isagi smirks, “What happened to ‘Isagi, look at me!’ or ‘keep your eyes on me’ hmm?” She teases with a chuckle.
“Tch.” The girl scoffs, turning her head away to stare at the wall length mirror.
“Aww, even the tip of your nose gets red! That's so cute~”
The teal eyed gal ‘hmph’s before sending a glare to the ravenette. “You wanna die?”
This only fuels Isagi to laugh out loud, she laughs a bit too hard that she holds her stomach.
If Rin smiles at seeing Isagi laugh all pretty-like, that's for her to know and her only. To say her day got better is an understatement.
The dormitory door slides open, the three occupants of the room turn their heads to greet the gal that’s walking in.
“Rinnie~ you’re back! Oh how I missed you!!”
“Shut the fuck up you damn bug!” Rin scowls, “You only missed annoying me, so shut up!”
“Cat fight, cat fight!” Charles laughs loudly.
“What are you doing here? You have your own room, get out.” The teal eyed scoffs, walking past and to her own bed which she takes a seat on.
“Hanging with Shidou of course! 😈”
“Hell yeahhhh!! 😈”
Rin rolls her eyes as Karasu shakes her head with an amused sigh.
“Wait,” Charles perks up, looking Rin up and down before staring at her hair, “your hair… it’s braided?”
“Oh?” The bird sits up quick, raises a brow and a smirk, “From what I know, you can't braid yer own hair soooo~”
“Tch.”
“I couldn't braid your hair but someone else could? How unfair!” The blonde pouts, crossing her arms over her chest.
“Hmph.” Rin looks away from the other three, finding the floor way more interesting.
“Who braided it!?” Shidou grins, raising her eyebrows suggestively.
The three wait for Rin’s response.
“My girlfriend did.”
Rin reallllly shouldn't have said that… since it causes very intense questioning and teasing. Rip!
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EXTRA!!!
10:29am. 31 minutes before meeting up with Rin.
Isagi skips through the halls all giddy. Her first stop is the cafeteria to grab some snacks. Second stop is off to the yoga room to see Rin!
Whenever she texted Rin about practice ending… it was a bit of a lie. Practice actually ended 15 minutes ago, she just wanted some time to wash off and stuff –though she did yell at Kaiser for a bit but that's irrelevant.
After a little more skipping, she gets to the cafeteria. Upon entering it, she's greeted by three good friends. The Manshine Trio. She of course walks right over to them with a greeting.
“Isagi.” Nagi hums.
“Hey Isagi!” Reo smiles kindly.
“Isagi!!” Chigiri grins, “Perfect timing, wanna eat with us?”
“Ah sorry guys, I'm just grabbing snacks. I have to meet with Rin!” A faint blush appears on Isagi's face as she mentions the other.
“Ahhh,” Reo’s smile develops into a knowing smirk which she sends to Chigiri. “sounds fun.”
“I wanna hang with Isagi tooooo.” The white haired gal sighs out, “How troublesome.”
“Maybe next time?” Isagi gives a sincere smile.
“Okay.”
“Okay well we'll leave you to it! Have fun, lover girl!!” Chigiri pats her friend on the shoulder while giving a thumbs up.
“Aha, thanks…” The ravenette’s blush increases.
Upon gaining various snacks from the cafeteria, she finally gets to head to the yoga room. Isagi hopes that she can get there before Rin, not for any real reason, but just to say she got there first.
As she wanders the halls, she's suddenly stopped by a pair.
“Hey hey! If it isn't Isagi~” A Barcha member named Ignacio Lara says, “Oo whatcha got there?”
“Oh hey! Just some snacks, hanging out with a friend.” Isagi smiles at the duo.
Another Barcha member, named Picasso speaks next, “Well if that's the case, here take these.” The girl stuffs her hand in her jacket pocket before bringing it out and revealing candy in her hand. “Not sure if you'll like all the flavors, but I promise they're good!”
“Some of our favorites~” Ignacio smiles.
“Oh! Thanks you two!!” Isagi happily accepts the small candy packets, who would say no to candy? “I gotta go though, thank you again!!”
“Cya~” “Bye bye!” The two wave her off as she scurries down the hall.
Isagi continues to skip down the hall, it's pretty dead with no one around. Then again it is nearly lunch so everyone is at the cafeterias. However, that doesn't stop her from running into the one and only Don Lorenzo.
“Oh ho?” The zombie gal lets out a small laugh, “Well well well, if it isn't lil miss 150 Mil!”
“Hi Lorenzo! Sorry for almost bumping into you…” Isagi sweats nervously, she was so excited about seeing Rin that she almost actually ran into the other.
“Eh, you're fineee, don't even worry about it.” The gal stands up just a bit straighter, “Hm? Got some goodies huh? Hehe~”
Isagi smiles, mainly to herself as she thinks about Rin once more. “I'm on my way to meet up with Rin!”
“Ooo, exciting!” The zombie grins, but almost like a light bulb goes off in her head, she pauses for a second before walking away and into a room off to the side.
Isagi blinks, not really sure what just happened. Should she wait or just leave…? Her question gets answered however as the zombie comes back.
“Here~” Lorenzo holds out a sleeve of cookies, “I always hear how much you like sweets!”
“Aww! Thanks so much Lorenzo!!” The ravenette takes them with a big, happy smile on her face. “Wait, hear about it from who?”
“Barou-chan, lil Niko, Aryu. They all talk about ya.”
“Awww, that's sweet!” There's a soft but fond smile on her face, but then again, she hasn't really stopped smiling ever since running into Lorenzo. “Hate to cut this short but-”
“Heh~ go on to your lil princess! Have funnn!!” The zombie gal grins with a laugh, patting the other's head quickly before wandering off.
“Cya!”
It's not even five minutes later and she already runs into someone else. It's not like she's really in a hurry, but she's a bit excited so cut her some slack.
“Hey kiddo.”
“Oh! Hello Master Snuffy!!” Isagi smiles brightly, “Ah, sorry. Am I in the way…? I was kinda walking mindlessly in the center of the hall…”
“Oh no, you're fine.” The coach chuckles, “Oh? Got some goodies eh?”
Lorenzo asked the same thing, can definitely tell they're 'related'. “Yup! Gonna go meet up with Rin!” She thinks and then speaks.
“Very fun!” Snuffy suddenly stuffs her hand in her pocket to retrieve something. “I don't have many, mainly because we're athletes and I try not to eat many sweets,” she brings her hand out and in it are small fruit looking candies. “but I like to have one here and there. Here!” She hands them out for Isagi to take.
The girl’s eyes shine as she puts her hand out to take them, “Thank you so much, Master Snuffy! I really appreciate it!!”
“Heh~ enjoy, enjoy. Go on now, don't keep your friend waiting!” The lady chuckles, patting Isagi lightly on the head before stepping away. “Cya around, kiddo.”
“Bye! Thanks again!!” Isagi waves the coach off before scurrying away with a huge smile on her face.
Isagi hums to herself as she keeps on her path, but for some reason, the world really doesn't want her to get to that yoga room early. The ravenette runs into yet another person.
“Ah, Master Prince…” Isagi sweats nervously, she wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of her and nearly ran into the blonde. “My bad…”
“Ah! Well if it isn't Isagi.” The lady coach snaps her head around quickly, “Funny seein’ you here, eh?”
For what seems like the hundredth time, “I'm on my way to see Rin!” she says once more.
“Ooo~? Doing what, hmm?” She gives a devious smirk.
The girl blushes, “It's just hanging out! And some yoga…”
“Oh ho? Well it seems like you don't have any refreshments to go with that bag of goodies so~” Chris brings her shoulder bag to the side and grabs a bottle from the pocket. “ Here ya go kiddo, special Prince Water! It has a limited edition line art drawing of me on it!”
“Oh uh…” Isagi blankly stares at the lady… the lady that is talking to the Hall's camera instead of her.
“This special water here also has electrolytes that is very good for you! It's hydrating and REFRESHING!!!!” She finishes with a huge, satisfied smile.
Is this an ad read…? Isagi sweats nervously with a deadpan expression.
“Anyway,” The blonde finally faces the ravenette, “go on! Go enjoy your time with your lil lady~” Chris dramatically winks.
“Ah…” A bead of sweat rolls down her face, she's still not really processing the ad read. “Thanks… cya!” She hurries away.
Finally, she sees the door. The door to the yoga room that has been her goal this entire time.
But unfortunately, she woke up being the most unlucky person alive.
“The stars have aligned!”
Isagi groans. The yoga room is only like 30 footsteps away!!
“Yikes, you look mad.” A second person says with a snort.
Isagi turns around, she doesn't mean to look so pissed but… come on!! “Hi… Grim, Gesner.”
“Something has angered you?” Grim raises a concerned brow, “Bad timing?”
“Just a bit…” The ravenette sighs, her irritation slowly vanishes. “Need something? I'm about to meet up with Rin.”
Gesner opens her eyes for a second and examines the bag in the other's hand. “Snacks? Oho~ a date! Here take this chocolate then.” She retrieves two small packages of chocolates from Grim’s jacket pocket. “It's from Germany, we brought them with us!”
“Ooo!” Now that catches Isagi’s attention. “I won't say no!!”
“They're very exquisite! Do enjoy.” Grim smiles while flicking a curly lock of hair back. “Now, we won't take up anymore time. Go enjoy!”
The two wave as they quickly walk away.
Finally! Isagi whips around and books it for the yoga room door, shoving the chocolate into her bag. Getting to that room is all that matters. Just as she reaches that lovely door, she looks up at the approaching figure.
A smile grows on her face.
“Rin!”