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30% Haikyuu: Rise To The Top / Chapter 4: Chapter 4

章 4: Chapter 4

Kageyama was annoyed. After they had arrived, the coach had asked three of his teammates to fill the team's water bottles, and they still hadn't returned. The coach then asked him to look for them, which kinda pissed him off. Now he had to waste the time he could be practicing his sets, to search for three idiots who couldn't even follow simple instructions. Not to mention that he had been in a sour mood lately.

There was some kind of unspoken tension in the team which he couldn't understand. He had asked some players.. well.. he tried to, but nobody said anything. He had brushed it off as nervousness before the junior-high prelims, but now he started to feel like it was about something else entirely.

As he went towards the washroom, he heard some familiar laughter and his steps quickened. Upon his arrival, he witnessed his teammates laughing and a short kid standing across from them. He recognised the kids uniform. They were their opponents in the 1st round.

He was about 160 cm tall and had striking orange hair with sharp hazel eyes. He had a good looking face and his hair was wild. He could tell that the kid would look handsome if gained a little height and took more care of his appearance. But what caught his attention was the look in his eyes. There was an something about it which unnerved him and judging by the suddenly dying laughter, his teammates thought so too.

He was just about to interfere and yell at his teammates, when the kid spoke.

"You find it incredibly funny right? What's so funny about it? I don't even need to wait for the match, to know that you're not playing. You guys don't even make the bench right? What makes you think you're in any position to make fun of anybody?"

His teammates went silent immediately. As the words sunk in, their face began to get more and more flushed. He could see them getting angry and preparing to say something back. But whatever they'd planned to say had to wait, because the kid moved and went ahead to stand in front of them, with an intense look in his eyes.

"Don't ride the cottails of your schools reputation. Because once you take that away, you'll find yourself with nothing left to stand for."

Kageyama could literally see the chills run down their spine. He wasn't the only one who witnessed their confrontation. Other people had stopped to watch it too. He could see them starting to talk with one another about the whole scene. Some were discussing among themselves, while others were explaining what happened to the people who arrived recently, after seeing everybody looking at something. He decided to intervene before things got out of hand any further.

"Hey.. second years"

As soon as the three Kita-ichi players heard the voice, they stiffened even further. They turned around to see Kageyama giving them a dark look.

'Crap!' they all thought together.

"Are you finished filling the team's bottles?" he asked. They all nodded shakily.

"Then stop standing here and wasting time. It's almost time for the official warm-up. Move." he fixed them with a glare and the three scrambled to follow. He then looked at the ki- no.. his opponent one last time, before he turned around to move.

"Kageyama Tobio from Kitagawa Daiichi right?"

The people who had witnessed the confrontation had started to move too, when they stopped again after they heard him speak. They wondered if they'd get to witness something interesting again.

Kegeyama stopped and turned around to look at the orange haired boy and after a while, he nodded.

"I'm Hinata Shoyo from Yukigaoka. I've seen you play and I have to say.. your tosses are really good. But that isn't why I stopped you. I stopped you because I wanted to tell you something"

Kageyama frowned a little but waited for him to finish. He decided to hear what he had to say.

"I just wanted to say that someday in the future.. you'll toss For me. It's doesn't matter if your spikers can't hit your toss because they're too fast.. I'll hit them all" Hinata said with conviction, and then turned around and left.

Kageyama was really surprised. Of all the things he expected to hear.. this wasn't one of them. The way that guy, Hinata, said it with such belief.. Kageyama found himself almost wanting to believe it too. But he didn't count his chicks before they hatched. He'd find out everything he wants to during the match soon enough.

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Kitagawa Daiichi won the toss and they choose to serve first. Hinata was really excited. Memories or not.. this would still be his first official volleyball match. He let his gaze wander to the side and sure enough.. at the viewing stands on the second floor, he saw three very familiar faces. He couldn't believe he finally got to see them. But those could wait.. right now, he had a match to play. He called for a last team huddle before the match began. Kitagawa Daiichi were doing the same.

"Kōji.. the first toss might come your way. Don't panic. Just somehow try to lift the ball up. Izumi.. you're the setter. Don't worry too much about the set. Just toss the ball up. I'll do my best to hit it. This is just a learning experience.. so everyone.. just play freely and try to enjoy the match. Forget about winning or losing. Even if we lose.. atleast we'll make some good memories here. So just relax and have fun" he told them with a smile.

His teammates didn't know what to say. They just turned silent. The constant pressure they were feeling suddenly became a lot less like some weight had been lifted. They knew how much this match meant to him.. how hard he had worked these 3 years, so they wanted to to do their best. But they were under a lot of pressure because they didn't know how to play and were afraid to let their friend down.. so to hear him say that almost made them tear up. Kōji actually teared up too.

"Besides.. when I become a famous player one day, you'd have quite the story to tell people too. You can all brag to everyone that you were my teammates in my first official match" he said with a smirk.

They all burst into laughter at that and any lingering pressure vanished along with it. They decided that the least they could do for him was to just give their best and have fun.

They returned to the court a lot lighter than before and got into positions. The referee blew the whistle, and the match truly began.


章 5: Chapter 5

The first to server from Kitagawa Daiichi was Akira Kunimi. He served the ball towards Kōji who wasn't able to receive it and the first point went to Kata-ichi. He served again and sent the ball towards the back between Kōji and Mori. Both went to receive it but left it for the other and it landed between both of them. It was two service points for Kita-ichi and anyone watching the match could tell that the Yukigaoka team was uncoordinated and hadn't trained much.

The third serve was sent towards Kōji again and this time.. he somehow managed to get it up but the pass was off. There was no way Izumi would be able to set that, so Hinata called for the ball and lightly sent above the net towards Kagemaya's position. Tobio was forced to receive the ball and could no longer set it. The ball was sent towards Kindaichi to spike but Hinata had already expected that as he was their best spiker and the difficult sets were usually sent towards him. Hinata got into position and jumped just as Kindaichi was about to hit the ball.

*Baam*

Kindaichi spiked it hard but it hit Hinata's hands and dropped on their side of the court. Kindaichi was completely shut down. There was silence throughout the court. The Kitagawa Daiichi players were frozen in shock for a couple of seconds but none more so than Kindaichi. He couldn't believe he was blocked by a player who was almost a head shorter than him. The Kita-ichi players had initially completely dismissed their opponents.. looking at how short they were. They couldn't believe there was someone among them who could jump that high and block their best spiker.

The spectators had much of a similar reaction too. It was extremely hard to find a short player who played a spiker position and jumped that high, so when they witnessed it.. they almost couldn't believe it.

"Wow.. Daichi-san.. did you see that small kid jump?"

"I did Tanaka.. He must have springs in his legs to jump that high"

"Look.. the Kata-ichi players seem to have recovered. I mean.. I don't blame them. I'd go in shock for a while too if I'd been in their place. Man.. I wish Nishinoya was here. I'd love to see his reaction" Sugawara started laughing imagining Nishinoya's reaction.

"Yes.. Let's watch. Things might get even more interesting" Daichi replied and they continued to watch.

Shoyo managed to calm down his excited teammates and got them to focus again. He noticed that the Kita-ichi players were concentrating more than before. 'Good' he thought. They were no longer underestimating him.

It was Kōji's serve and he sent in over to their opponents side. It was a pretty basic serve and they had no problem receiving it. The ball was sent up for Kageyama to set. Kageyama didn't want to get blocked again so he tossed the ball fast towards Kindaichi. Kindaichi barely managed to get a hand on the ball due to the speed of the toss, but was able to send it over the net.

Hinata received the ball and passed it to Izumi to set. Izumi wanted to set the ball high for Shoyo, but the toss ended up being way off. It was wide and very close to the net.

Kata-ichi players, including Kageyama saw the toss and were convinced that they had secured the point. There was no way someone would be able to hit that.. or so they thought.

Kageyama noticed an orange flash out the corner of his eyes and when he looked towards it.. Hinata had already made a wide jump and was in position to spike the ball. He tried to make a move but it was already too late. 'How did he get there!' was his only though before Hinata's hand made contact.

*Baam*

Hinata spiked the ball and landed outside the court. The ball hit the floor and continued on it's course to hit the wall behind the court. The score was now 2 - 2.

For the second time that morning, there was complete silence on the court for a few moments before gasps, exclamations and excited murmurs broke out everywhere.

"Woah.. Suga-san.. did you see that Chibi #1 spike!? How did he manage to hit that! I don't I would have been able to."

"Aah.. Tanaka. I thought it was Kata-ichi's point for sure. I have no idea how he got there." Sugawara replied, just as amazed.

"He has amazing speed and flexibility... coupled with that jump of his, he's basically a little monster. But I don't know if it will be enough." Daichi said.

"What do you mean Daichi-san?"

"So far.. it looks like he's the only one with any scoring ability on his team. He can't score alone. Kitagawa Daiichi is a strong team. They look cautious now.. It won't be easy to score against them from now."

It was as Daichi said. Kitagawa Daiichi quickly pulled themselves together and went at them harder. Hinata tried his best but he couldn't do much alone. Kita-ichi started to pull ahead and put a considerable gap in the points. But it wasn't all bad. Few things were starting to look up for Shoyo. The first few receives were pretty easy so he didn't have much problems with them. The later ones weren't as easy. He missed quite a few before before he was able to get a few up. His rate of success was increasing slowly.

His spikes got blocked continuously a few times before he was able to score points by hitting a few successful blockouts, along with a feint. He was also able to get few blocks and shut down the opponents spiker.

The first set ended with a score of 14 - 25. As much as he'd like to take credit for all 14 of those points.. they got four of them because Kita-ichi's spikers were not able to hit Kageyama's fast tosses, which caused more than one argument among their team with Kageyama yelling at them to be faster.

Hinata slowly got better as the game went on and he wasn't the only one had who noticed that. While a few things were slowly looking up for Shoyo.. them same couldn't be said for everybody.


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