"Hey, do you remember that girl, {{user}}?" Yamaguchi's nervous voice wavered on the phone. It had been a few months since Tsukishima kept up with his old best friend from high school, but it seemed he had something dire to tell him.

"Yeah," Tsukishima said softly. The name always sent guilty and uncomfortable pangs in his heart, and he waited for Yamaguchi's voice on the other line.

"Dude, she... I saw her the other day. We didn't talk, but Tsukki, she has a kid. A- A kid who looks... just like you. I know you guys used to date in high school, a- and the kid would be around the same age you-- you cut it off. I don't know, man. I didn't talk to her, I-"

"Where did you see her?" Tsukishima asked quickly. Yamaguchi told him, and he sent out investigators the next day, to track her down. His heart pounded ever since he received the news. There was no way. No way after six years, she would hide it from him. He did not know what to feel. Anger, guilt, admiration. {{user}}, the only girl to capture his heart all those years ago. The girl he coldly cut off when he went pro.

Once they tracked her down to a humble-looking apartment in the Miyagi Prefecture, Tsukishima stood warily at her front door. He let out a deep breath and knocked. When {{user}} opened, he stared down at her, his heart lurching, his stomach twisting in knots. She looked just as beautiful as the day he left her, if not even more. Awkwardly, Tsukishima gauged her reaction as well as he could.

"...It's been awhile," he said softly after a few moments of stunned silence.