Follow Your Passion: A Seamless Tumblr Journey
Sypnosis: Summary: F/N L/N, isagi's childhood best friend, recently started football. Turns out, they were a prodigy nobody could have seen coming. But it looks like someone's little brother caught their eye.
Genre: Enemies/rivals to lovers, crack, lowk angsty if you squint, cringe sometimes, romance
A/N: the amount of times that I had to remake this is embarrassing to say the least. Like actually. SIGHH💔💔💔 I’m gonna try to figure out how to make a masterlist on mobile..
CHAPTER: 001
PREVIOUS: CHAPTER 00
He let out a sigh as he settled his phone down. He had just finished practice, and yet look at him: already texting you and hiori. He didn’t know what he was feeling. He kept on contradicting himself. After all, you and him were enemies- well, technically rivals. And yet: here he was, asking hiori for advice on how to become your ‘friend’. He hated how he felt - after all, you were a stepping stone for his victory. A mere puppet he can use to make himself get better. Nothing more, nothing less. So he didn’t know why he was feeling like this. It was nothing he was used to - you two were rivals, for gods sake. He tried to brush if off as him using you, but he knew that wasn’t it. Rather, he knew that couldn’t be it. He sighed and looked at the time.
9:35 AM.
Well, it’s about time he went to eat breakfast. As he was walking towards the cafeteria, he realized something- he heard little to no noises today. No screams from shidou, no ‘please teach me!’ From nanase, no smug remarks from karasu, heck - not even CHARLES. He was a tiny little bit suspicious but decided not to waste time thinking about it.
He went into the cafeteria and noticed karasu and shidou sitting next to each other while talking. ‘Weird.’ Was the first thing he thought. He wasn’t sure if the two of them got along, but he didn’t spend time on it too much, simply shrugged it off and went to get his breakfast.
Just as he was about to sit from a far away table, he heard shidou yell out “RinRin! Come sit at our table!” And well, to put it frankly: that honestly sounded like actual hell.
But he knew shidou and karau would start an argument over it, so he grumbled and went there anyways. He did sit at their table, but just a few seats away from them.
He paused as he heard them mentioned your name in their conversation. He tried to play it off as if he wasn’t totally eavesdropping on them and started listening in carefully. Hopefully he’d get something out of this..
Shidou raised an eyebrow when karasu mentioned you. “Y/n… who?” He asked the second your name was dropped. Karasu smirked before spilling the tea. “Y/N L/N. Aka japan’s prodigy. She’s isagi’s childhood best friend, and she started soccer about two weeks ago. She’s really good. Right, Rin!?”
Rin scowled and looked at them for a fraction of a second. “She’s not lukewarm, I guess.” Was all he muttered before continuing his food. Karasu turned to shidou with a smirk on his face. “See? Even rin agrees!” Shidou looked at karasu with a grin on his face. “Mhm.. you’ll have to introduce me to Y/N! I wanna know what kinda person she is!” Shidou yelled out in his usual excited tone. Karasu replied with a “oh trust me, you’ll like her a lot.”
Rin scowled and simply grabbed his empty tray of food and settled it down where you put it back (Idk the name of it okay, pls spare me☹️).
He went outside of the cafeteria, ignoring shidou yelling “leaving so soon, rin-rin!?” And going straight to his room.
He was so tired of this day already.. why couldn’t it just end.
(This happens after rin’s POV btw)
You were sitting through yet another boring ass math lesson. You didn’t wanna be here - after all, you ended SO LATE today! At exactly 4:20PM, to be exact. Thankfully, tho, this was your last lesson. Unfortunately, THIS was your last lesson:(. You could barely even keep up - just writing down whatever was on the board and not bothering answering the questions since it was obvious to you, you were going to be wrong either way. Sighing as you started playing around with your pencil, you feel a soft tap on your shoulder. Ah, it was your classmate, hikaru. He was pretty, nice and popular. Plus, he was really smart. A great guy, really - unlike a certain someone you know. You paused and slightly turned to see him about to whisper something in your ear. “The answers 440. Thank me later.” You paused, damn, was he always this hot or was it just you..? Anyways, off topic!! You finally got the answer to this stupid math problem. Later on during the lesson, he asked the teacher if he could sit next to you. With a few “oooo” coming from your friends, the teacher agreed to let him sit next to you. You didn’t mind, the dude was nice and knowledgeable. Getting to know him was going to be great. There was a slight awkward silence for the first few minutes where you were sitting together, until he decided to break the silence and gently took your notebook when he noticed that you were struggling on one of the questions. “Ah, are you stuck on this one?” He pointed, and you nodded. He smiled and stared at you for a little before going “okay, this one is a little tricky, so you have to pay attention. Basically, you start off by-“ he continued as he explained how to do it to you. He was so.. nice.
After math class, it was around 4:23 PM. You were packing up your stuff and was getting ready to leave until you noticed hikaru waiting for you outside of the classroom. He smiled and offered to carry your bag, which you un-shamefully said yes to. (Your bag was heavy okay, a girl’s gotta have her priorities straight 💔💔) and he didn’t even seem mad as he took your bag and carried it for you. He even offered to walk you home, which you said no to because you had to have soccer practice with rin. When you explained that to him, he offered to walk you there, which, honestly: you weren’t really against it. So that’s how you found yourself here - walking to practice together in a slightly awkward silence. You tried to break it a few times, but no words would come out, so you just decided to stay quiet and continued walking.
Just as you were about to reach practice at exactly 5:30 PM, you noticed rin with the usual scowl on his face. Actually, he seemed slightly more pissed off than usual. Hikaru settled your bag down on a bench and gave you his number before saying “see you tomorrow at school!” Before giving you a quick hug and leaving while you waved him off.
Rin paused, questioning if he should as this or not. He decided he shouldn’t and kept quiet about it, continuing practice as you usually do. There was an awkward silence for a while until you decided to speak up and said “uhm.. if you wanted to know who that was, it’s a guy called hikaru. He’s from my school.” You mumbled and noticed rin subtly nod at the information before scoring yet again.
Rin looked down at you and sighed, finally saying something. “You’re more lukewarm than usual. If you’re gonna slack off, then don’t bother coming to practice.” He said. You slightly turned to him with a smug grin on your face. “Are you worried for me, rin rin? That’s so cute!” You let out. A small ‘tch’ was all you got back as he started leaving.
You looked at him leave and yelled out a “heyyy!! How about we hang out outside of practice??” Which got rin to stop moving. He turned to you, expression unreadable as he said “I’d rather die than going anywhere with you.” Well, nothing you weren’t used to, atleast… “damn, you’re harsh, rin-rin!” You shot back. He glared at you and simply left the field. There was no use in arguing, not when it’s against you of all people.
You packed up your stuff as well and left the field, running towards the last train to make sure you don’t miss it because you would be cooked otherwise. As you managed to squeeze into the very last one, you let out a sigh of relief. When you got off on your stop, you started walking out of the train station and into the streets you knew all too well - a sense of nostalgia washing over you. You got home and opened the door before yelling out a “Mommm!! I’m homeee!!” And settling your shoes down before getting in your house. Your mom let out a chuckle and said “you’re always going out lately! Don’t tell me you have a boyfriend now?” “Mom!” You whined as you grabbed your fav snack from the counter before going upstairs to your room. “If he exists, please introduce him to us!” She teased. You yelled out a “mom, stop embarrassing me!” Before closing your door and jumping on your precious bed and getting out your phone.
Huh..? Unread message from yet another unknown number? And they texted in ganglish??
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