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“Osamu!” He turned when he heard his name and just barely moved to the side as Komori came rushing at him,
“Woah! Careful Mori,” Osamu grinned as he watched Komori stumble slightly before he was tumbling forward when a sudden weight appeared on his back, he saw spikey dark hair in his peripheral and knew who it was immediately,
“Jesus, Kagi.” Osamu laughed slightly as Akagi jumped off of his back and back onto the floor, they were soon joined by Akaashi, Sakusa and Suna. The group stood together in a mostly empty hall.
Akagi and Komori were practically jumping out of their skin with what one could only assume was excitement, why? Osamu wouldn’t have a fucking clue, there was always something with those two. He raised his eyebrow at them as he crossed his arms over his chest. He glanced over to the other three, but they looked just as confused, save for Sakusa. Osamu could never quite decipher what was happening in that head of his, ever.
“What’s got you two jumpin’ round like that?” Osamu finally asked, Komori looked like he would burst if Osamu had asked a second later, and Akagi was grinning like he was told the most mind-boggling, interesting information. Osamu doubted it was anything that was all that intriguing.
“I heard there’s gonna be a new student!” Osamu was sorely mistaken. A new student at Inarizaki Academy, so late in the year? It was unheard of. Osamu looked over to Suna, but he just looked confused but also unconvinced. Sakusa had just the slightest change to his face. His eyebrows were furrowed just a little more than usual. Akaashi looked slightly intrigued.
“Does this new student have a name?” Akaashi questioned, Akagi nodded so hard Osamu worried he’d throw his neck out, and Komori deflated slightly and frowned.
“Well, no, not really at least.”
“What do ya mean, Mori?” Osamu questioned as his brows furrowed, he urged Komori to continue with his hands.
“I heard from a few other students that they’re calling him Vulpes.” Komori sighed and looked disappointed at the lack of a real name. Sakusa hummed in response but looked puzzled, what was the point of an alias? Suna rolled his eyes and looked even less convinced that they were getting a new student, Akaashi quirked his eyebrow and seemed to be thinking about something.
“That’s the Latin word for fox, huh..” Osamu mumbled as he brought his hand to his chin, it was familiar to him, but he couldn’t for the life of him, remember why. He racked his brain for anything to tell him where he’d heard it before because he knew that it was something he was told, in person. Akaashi hummed from beside him, taking Osamu’s hand in his own having noticed Osamu zoning out.
“Are you okay, love?” Osamu looked over to Akaashi and smiled as he nodded, but he couldn’t get rid of this itch that he was forgetting something important. Osamu watched, amused, as Akagi tried to convince Suna and Sakusa that there would be a new student. He supposed they would find out if a new student was in class, with his father, General Miya Isamu.
Osamu sat near the back of the classroom so that he didn’t have to be close to his fath- Isamu, the entire lesson. He was chewing on the back of his pen, staring out of the window beside him when the door opened and someone walked in, much of his face was out of view as he walked in, and he came to a stop in front of Isamu, Osamu didn’t need to see his face to know he was glaring at Isamu.
“Vulpes.” Osamu heard Isamu greet the boy, holding his hand out for a customary handshake, Vulpes looked at his hand, completely ignoring it. Isamu sighed before pulling his hand back to his side.
“Very well,” Isamu muttered as he turned to the class, Vulpes following suit. Isamu introduced him to the class, only referring to him as Vulpes and not supplying a real name, just an alias. Osamu looked at Vulpes’ face, it was covered mostly by a black mask that connected to the undershirt he was wearing.
Vulpes seemed to be scanning the whole class, stopping briefly when his eyes landed on Osamu, Osamu could’ve sworn he looked surprised but the look was brief so he couldn’t be sure. Vulpes’ eyes landed back on Osamu just moments later but this time the two made eye contact. Osamu’s stomach dropped. He didn’t know why, but a feeling of familiarity mixed with the familiar twinge of fear washed over him. Vulpes’ eyes were so familiar, so close to those of someone he once knew, but they were dull and empty.
The eye contact was broken when Isamu told Vulpes to take a seat in the empty chair next to a student Osamu didn’t remember the name of, he never bothered with the names of his classmates, they were all rich kids with sticks up their asses, save for maybe 2 or 3 out of the 23 students in the class.
Osamu sat beside Akaashi at lunch, placing his food down in front of him as he did so. Komori looked at him with a child-like wonder, Akagi had a similar expression on his face.
“So..” Osamu looked at Komori confused, what was Komori saying ‘so’ for?
“What?” Komori face palmed as he looked at Osamu like he was stupid, it pissed him off slightly.
“So is the new kid in your class?” Suna groaned and rolled his eyes, mumbling something about being stupid.
“Komori, even if there is a new student they ain’t gonna be in Samu’s class.”
“He is.” Suna looked towards him like he’d just told them they won the war, utter disbelief. Komori looked excited, yelling ‘pay up’ at Suna as soon as Suna recovered from his disbelief, grumbling profanities as he handed Komori forty dollars, Komori then split it in half and gave twenty dollars to Akagi and Kept twenty for himself. Akaashi chuckled at their shenanigans and Akagi giggled like he and Komori and pulled off the heist of the year.
Sakusa tapped Komori on the shoulder and signed something to him that Osamu didn’t catch, Komori nodded and turned back to Osamu,
“Kiyo wants to know if the new kid has a name or if it’s still the alias I mentioned before,” Osamu nodded, he felt a nagging feeling that was telling him something, something that he couldn’t understand.
“Still Vulpes, I also don’t know what the fuck he’s meant ta look like. He wears a mask that covers most of ‘is face.” Komori sighed in defeat and Akagi looked like he physically deflated.
“Do they talk?” Akaashi looks towards Osamu for the first time since he sat down.
“I haven’t heard ‘em talk, Isamu introduced him.” Akaashi hummed and turned back to his food before turning back to Osamu,
“You haven’t touched your food, is something bothering you?” Osamu sighs and rests his head on his hand.
“I’ll tell ya about it later,” Akaashi nodded and there was a look in his eyes that told Osamu he would hold him to that. He turned back to his food and Osamu wondered how he got so lucky.
He was about to start eating when there was a shout, he turned around and saw the Vupes standing above Kindaichi, a first year, and Kageyama, another first year, was standing behind him, Vuples was glaring at Kindaichi as he stared down at him.
“What the fuck...”
“Oh, he’s ballsy...”
People were murmuring as he looked over, nobody ever really stood up to Kindaichi considering who his mother was, so yes ballsy definitely described what Vulpes had just done.
“Who the fuck do you think you are?!” Kindaichi yelled as he stood back up, not really looking towards Vulpes until he was stood straight up, Vulpes was a few inches taller than Kindaichi. Kindaichi opened his mouth to say something before he noticed the height difference and the glare, Kindaichi’s mouth was promptly shut.
“What? Yer not gonna keep bein’ an asshole?” There was venom to Vuples’ voice as he spoke, Osamu didn’t miss the Kansai accent, didn’t miss how similar it sounded to his own, didn’t miss the familiarity. Osamu heard someone stand and looked in another direction to see Ushijima Wakatoshi stand up.
“Vulpes.” Vulpes looked over towards Ushijima, he then looked behind himself and motioned for Kageyama to follow him. He walked over to where Ushijima was, Kageyama following behind like a lost puppy.
“What the actual fuck was that.” Suna looked towards Osamu like he knew what just happened. He didn’t though, he was just as confused if not more.