Chapter 8 - Battle Against Johzenji High (Part 1)

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All the school teams lined up in the gymnasium. In the bleachers were students wearing their uniforms facing the court where their teams were standing. As we all stood on our courts, the principle who I assumed was from Shiratorizawa was holding a wireless mic in his hands.

"Attention everyone," he began. "Welcome to our first every school combined volleyball event. I hope everyone is having fun! This event was to connect each school in the Miyagi prefecture and to let you students have a break and enjoy your school life with your fellow peers. Before we begin the games let us give a round of applause for each team standing on these courts."

The claps and cheers of students filled the gymnasium and I felt myself grow a little more self conscious.

"On court one we have Karasuno High Year 1 Class 3 going against Johzenji High Year 2 Class 5. On court two is Aoba Johsai Year 3 Class 6 against Wakutani South High Year 3 Class 1. And finally on court three is Date Tech Year 3 Class 2 against Shiratorizawa Academy Year 3 Class 3. Let the games begin and I hope everyone has fun!"

Another round of cheers erupted and the principle of Shiratorizawa walked off the courts and headed somewhere else, my guess was probably to the bleachers. My team huddled around our bench and I could tell that we were all a bit nervous, well Tobio didn't look nervous at all.

"Alright guys," I say and clap my hands together. My team looks at me. "Let's just have fun and play like there is no tomorrow! Let's start off with formation one. We got this!" I put my hand out and one by one we put our hands on top of each other. "Karasuno fight!"

"Fight!" they all shouted in unison after me and we walked onto the court.

Formation one consisted of our tallest players being in the front which meant that Kaito, Tobio, and Yuki would be in the front while Kagera, Amu, and I in the back. This is our high blocking formation. Although Yuki and Kagera are the same height, Yuki sucks at receiving so he stays in the front even though Kagera has more spiking power than him. Formation two is when I go in the front with Tobio and Kagera, our strongest spiking lineup. Formation three is when Tobio, Amu, and I are in the back with the three boys in the front, our strongest defensive form. Basically, Amu and Yuki never leave their positions. Kagera, Tobio, Kaito, and I keep switching since we are honestly better players, Tobio and I being the most useful and best all rounders.

"Now then," I mutter to myself as I prepare to serve. "Let the game begin!"

Third Person POV

(Y/N) spins the volleyball in her hands as she prepares to serve. The Karasuno bleachers watch in anticipation to see what their well-known first year will bring to the table. The whistle blows and (Y/N) throws the ball up into the air and she starts to run. She jumps into the air and with monstrous strength she hits the volleyball with her left hand and it flies to the other side of the court, hitting the right corner with perfect precision. The entirety of the bleachers - both Karasuno and Johzenji go quiet. The line judge points the flag at the corner and the ref blows the whistle, giving Karasuno a point.

The Karasuno bleachers shout and cheer in excitement. "Nice serve (Y/N)! Give us another (Y/N)!" they shout as she goes back to the line.

"You got this (Y/N)!" Kaito shouts to her and she nods at him.

Throwing the ball to serve another jump serve she slams it in between two of the players who hesitate to get it since they didn't want to run into each other. The Karasuno bleachers cheer again at another point earned for them. As (Y/N) prepares to serve another one she sees Tobio put two fingers behind him, a sign to switch up the serve to a jump floater serve. Taking four steps after throwing the ball up, she gently hits the ball as it floats to the other side.

"I got it!" one of the Johzenji players says as he goes to get the ball, but it falls right in front of him, shocking him and his teammates.

"Nice (Y/N)!" Amu and Yuki shout at her and Amu and (Y/N) high five.

(Y/N) goes to serve again and she aims for a net in. The ball falls to the ground before anyone could get it up. With the score being 4-0, (Y/N) serves another jump serve at a boy with dyed blond hair. He gets the serve up causing the Johzenji High bleachers to cheer a bit. Another player sets it up to a girl in the front, she jumps to spike it only to get blocked by Yuki, Tobio, and Kaito, Team 3's highest wall. The ball falls onto the ground and the students cheer at another point.

"Nice block guys~," Kagera cheers and they give each other fist bumps. "I guess it sucks being short, no way would she have gotten past you guys."

He is saying that loud enough for her and her teammates to hear! The two scorekeepers think to themselves as the ball goes back to (Y/N).

Flashback

"So why did you want to have this video call (N/N)?" Amu asked as she twirled her light brown hair around her finger.

Currently, the entire Team 3 were in a video call scheduled by their captain, (Y/N). None of the members knew why she wanted to call so suddenly, but they waited in anticipation. Tobio was worried that she injured herself, Yuki was thinking maybe she couldn't participate in the tournament, Kaito and Amu thought she got sick, Kagera, well he didn't care he was half asleep and wanted the call to be over with.

"I just wanted to talk about positions," (Y/N) answered, making everyone except Kagera sigh in relief. "We switched it up during our games, but for when we play against the other schools we should have line-up plans."

"Line-up plans?" Yuki repeated and scrunched his nose.

"Yeah! I was thinking we have three formations, one for total blocking, the other for our strongest spikes, and the last one for ultimate defense," she explained and they all nodded.

"You're taking this pretty seriously (Y/N)~" Kagera said with a yawn. "You must seriously want to win this and buy us stuff."

She shrugged her shoulders. "Well, I DO want to win." She winked. "I am pretty competitive, but I just want to have these lineups so we have a better chance of winning and playing more games."

"What are the lineups?" Tobio asked. He seemed to be fired up since (Y/N) mentioned that they could play more games if they had these lineups.

"Formation one - Total Block. We will have our tallest players, Tobio, Kaito, and Yuki in front." Kagera was about to say something, but (Y/N) continued. "Kagera, I know you and Yuki are the same height, but your receiving is better, and besides, Yuki's feints will annoy the receivers.

Formation two - Attack and Destroy. Tobio, Kagera, and I will be in the front while Kaito, Amu, and Yuki are in the back. This is our strongest lineup when it comes to spiking, we'll kill them with our spikes, and our blocking is still pretty strong, but our defense for this line will be a bit weaker.

Finally, formation three - Total Defense. Tobio, Amu, and I will be in the back while Kagera, Kaito, and Yuki are in the front. Our receivers will be solid and we have a still tall and strong block. Our attacks will be just as good as formation one, but not as strong as formation two. We'll only use this if we are tired and absolutely destroying our opponents. Or if one of us gets injured and we need to play with five players."

"You really planned this out," Yuki blurted out and (Y/N) laughed.

"I always plan ahead, besides we are just beginning," (Y/N) replied and smiled. "Now, let's talk about taunting our opponents! Right, Kagera, Yuki?"

The two freeze when they see (Y/N) smile evilly and shiver when they think what she will make them do.

"Yuki's feints will annoy the receivers, make sure to look down at them with a smug smirk! That'll rile them up and cause them to make mistakes!" she happily said with a small tint of pink on her face as her hands were connected.

Yuki sweatdropped and whispered, "Evil..."

"Now Kagera~" (Y/N) said and he felt a shiver go down his spine. "You have a strong spike and are a good blocker. Your attitude really angers people and causes you to make enemies! So, what I want you to do is whenever you block someone, taunt them. Even if you didn't block them, make sure you throw some sly remarks at them. Your cockiness and laid back attitude will anger them and make them cause more mistakes and that'll pressure them. We will completely destroy their spikers and receivers~! Ah, what fun it is to see their expressions when they realize they have no hope of winning and that they can only end up losing."

Sadist, he thought to himself. She's a total sadist! Kagera looked at the others to see that they were all avoiding eye contact. Yep, they all think she is a total sadist too!

"Yuki, a cold silent type looking down at his opponents and Kagera, a laid back and cocky type taunting them. A perfect duo to rile others up!" Amu exclaimed. "I'd be pissed off if those two did that to me!"

"(Y/N)," Tobio said, making her tilt her head cutely. "It is a good idea to use Yuki and Kagera to taunt them. Knif- Ni- Nice job."

"Thanks Tobio, Amu!" (Y/N) said cutely, which made Yuki and Kagera shiver.

Kaito looked at the scene in front of him and sweatdropped. Am I really the only normal one on this team?! And here I thought that job belonged to Yuki!

End of Flashback

(Y/N) serves again and the Johzenji team gets the ball up, but the powerful serve comes back to the Karasuno side as a chance ball.

"I got it!" Tobio shouts, making that first touch into a set to Yuki. "Yuki-san!"

Yuki jumps up in the air and two guys go to block him. Yuki winds his hand back to make it look like he was going to spike it, as he brings his hand forward to connect with the ball, he lightly hits it over the blockers, a feint. One of the receivers dives down to get the ball, but he is too late and it hits the floor. Yuki looks down at the boy and he looks up at Yuki. Although Yuki's eyes scream 'cold,' his smug smirk (which he practiced) screams 'LOSER!'

"Nice Yuki~" Kagera chimes in and he lightly pats his back. Kagera also looks down at the blocker with a smug face. "You were so close~"

Karasuno uses double team taunt! The taunt is effective! (Y/N) thinks to herself, chuckling. Pokemon would be jealous of our double taunt move.

Kaito looks at (Y/N) who is chuckling to herself and sighs. I am definitely the most normal one on this team now, he thinks to himself as he shakes his head.

"Give us another good serve (N/N)!" Amu yells out and (Y/N) replies with a "Okay!"

(Y/N) does a normal serve and the girl on the Johzenji team receives it. A boy then sets it to the guy with dyed blond hair. Tobio, Kaito, and Yuki run and go to block him. They jump, forming a high wall to block the spiker

"Yahoo!" he shouts as he spikes a poorly set ball, painting the line. Johzenji High finally gets a point, making it 6-1, and their bleacher cheers.

"Nice kill Terushima! Terushima!" the shout and cheer as the blond high fives his teammates.

"That was cool!" (Y/N) and Katio blurted out in unison as they watched Terushima.

"Okay guys let's get that point back!" (Y/N) shouts, putting on her captain facade.

A guy does a normal serve and Amu receives the ball, bumping it to Tobio. Tobio goes under the ball and sets it to Kaito who spikes it past two blockers. Terushima receives the ball and the setter sets it up to him for a back row attack. He spikes the ball and Kagera shakily receives it.

"Cover (Y/N)~!" he says and (Y/N) runs towards the ball. She looks over her shoulder at Tobio and does a backward set to Tobio. He jumps in the air and spikes the ball down into the receivers arms and it flies off his arms and out of bounds.

"Good job Tobio!" she shouts and slaps his back, hard.

"Nice cover (Y/N)," Kagera says and the two high five each other.

"You did well to receive that, he is the ace of the boys volleyball team," Tobio replies, making Kagera's eyes widen. Kagera takes a step back and clutches his heart. Tobio, complimented me! What an honor!

Kaito and Yuki sweatdrop at his action. He's being dramatic again, they think and glance at each other before sighing. This whole team is dramatic in their own way.

Johzenji takes a timeout and both teams walk to their benches. Tobio, Kagera, Yuki, Amu, and Kaito sit down on the bench drinking water while (Y/N) stands in front of them, also drinking water.

"Alright guys!" she says with a smile, holding her water bottle. "We have a good momentum right now. Let's keep it up! We'll stick with formation one and for the second set we will switch up to formation two."

"This is nice," Amu muttered and Kaito patted her head. "Even though I haven't done much."

"Yeah, (Y/N) basically stole the game to herself for a little while with those serves. I was getting worried that you would keep doing powerful serves," Kaito replied and (Y/N) giggled.

"I was, but I decided to make it easier for them so we could all play," she said and took another sip from her water. "Besides, Tobio was getting fidgety cuz he wanted to play."

"Huh?!" Tobio whipped his head toward (Y/N) with wide eyes and his mouth slightly agape.

"Yep, you were itching to play so much that you were moving around," (Y/N) answered and ruffled his hair since he was sitting down. "Anyways we still got this set and the next so we will all be touching the volleyball, so don't worry."

"Um, this might be a little off topic," Yuki suddenly said, making them turn towards him. "But, that spiker, the one with the dyed hair has been staring at you since this game started (Y/N)."

"Huh?"

"Huh?!?!"

(Y/N)'s calm face turned into one of disbelief. Her ears which were covered by her blond hair were turning a light shade of pink and were heating up. Good thing I have my hair down and not in a ponytail, she thought to herself.

"Ooooo~ Captain he likes you~" Kagera teased and (Y/N) stomped on his foot making him hiss in pain.

"He's probably observing me," (Y/N) retorted as she glanced over at the blond male who was sitting on his bench. "He's kinda hot..."

"What was that?" Kaito asked, not hearing what she said.

"Nothing!" (Y/N) answered a bit too quickly and she felt her teammates' eyes gazing at her.

The ref then blew the whistle and (Y/N) mentally thanked him for the interjection. The team put their water bottles down and then walked to the court.

"Now let's win this set!"

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