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Giyuu packs his racket and tennis uniform into his bag, his classes over for the day, tennis practice beginning in a whopping 25 minutes.
If he takes a shortcut through the left wing, he should be able to make it out of the campus and walk down to the cafe to fetch a coffee and make it back in time for training. But that would mean passing through the 3rd year dorms... As a 2nd year...
He pulled on his white trainers, slinging his bag over his shoulder and grabbing his blue tinted visor, his wildly unkempt hair tied back into a ponytail, his twilight blue hair, which seemed black in most lighting, framed his soft features and sharp jaw, his pale skin contrasting with the raven coloured hair.
He hurriedly locks his dorm, rushing down the halls and quietly sneaking through the left wing. He walks along like a mouse, dainty and quiet. He manages to make it through without being noticed and walks down the seemingly endless halls, before making an abrupt turn and heading down one of many staircases. He walks through the garden towards the entrance gate, casually walking through and strolling down to the nearest cafe.
He orders his usual, a standard to-go coffee and a small pastry, enough to energise him but not effect his performance too greatly. He inhales the pastry and thanks the barista, walking out with his coffee and heading back onto campus. He rushed to the tennis courts and spots majority of the team, great, he isn't late nor early, perfect timing.
There aren't many classes which include being outdoors at this time, only the botany and photography 3rd years, who usually don't bother the tennis or basketball teams. The team gets to work, practicing any weak spots overall, as they have nothing to compete for at the moment.
Not until nationals anyways.
Giyuu leaves early as always, heading to the changing rooms a good 10 minutes before everyone else. he changes out of his white shorts and polo shirt, he never wears the thin fleece he's supposed to, he thinks it's ugly and doesnt suit him. He throws on a pair of washed out jorts and a studded belt, tying his converse before throwing on a random shirt he'd grabbed from his wardrobe before leaving his dorm, it turned out to be a linkin park shirt.
Great.
Now he had to wear a shirt with his favourite artist that most people thought was cringey and left in the 1990s, despite being a popular artist still. He reapplies his eyeliner, walking out of the changing rooms and rushing down the corridors, trying to return to his dorm in time for his roommate to return from foodtech, so he could try whatever the girl made.
His roommate was a girl named Shinobu, she's noticeably shorter and smaller then most 2nd years, often mistaken for a 1st year, She had black hair with purple tips, it's length was just past her shoulders, often tied up in a bun with a butterfly clip from her older sister, a 3rd year named Kanae. Shinobu took small doses of poison every day to become immune, which is why she looked sickly pale and frail, despite her being quite strong.
Today she brought lactose free pancakes for giyuu, as he's slightly lactose intolerant. slightly. He scoffs them down before thanking her and telling her he has to go, leaving to practice flexibility and gymnastics, is what he says, when really he sneaks off and admires the variety of plants in the woods on campus. He sits and takes notes of the plants, the bluebells specifically, they're his favourite flower. So alluring yet so dangerous, beautiful and deathly at the same time. He sketches out a patch of bluebells and then a hemlock, he doesn't know why, he doesn't particularly adore hemlocks, he just finds them interesting... The way they slot perfectly with bluebells, almost as if the two were made to grow next to eachother.
As he's making notes on some of the more colourful flowers he can see, a voice rings out from behind him, "Whatcha doin out here by y'self pretty boy?" Giyuu, startled, jumped and stood up, closing his notebook and grabbing his pen. "I-I'll be off now! Sorry!" he says, beginning to scutter away. "Wait.. I didn't get ya name?" The boy who snuck up on him calls out, to which giyuu comes back and apologises. "Ah- yes im sorry-! I'm Tomioka Giyuu, captain of the varsity tennis team, I'm a 2nd year though-" "Tomioka? Stupid name If you ask me... I'm Shinazugawa Sanemi, botany major."