#the karasuno kids probably lost their shit when they see a crow just give ukai a shiny rock and ukai pulling out bird seed to feed it dhsh

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Haikyuu:R/FY/N

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You stood on the upper level, watching the boys below run practice drills.

On both sides of the net were mixed six-member teams. One side had Daichi, Kageyama, Hinata, Nobuyuki, Asahi, and Yaku. The other had Kuroo, Kenma, Tsukishima, Tanaka, Yamamoto, and Nishinoya. Behind both teams stood three players.

*Note: I put the names in order that they would be read in an official American volleyball match. Starting with the serving position, front left, front middle, front right, back right, back middle. If you are still confused let me know and I can draw a quick floor sketch.*

This drill was supposed to combine everyone’s focus skill. The three servers would do what their position entailed, the opposing side would practice a set, and then when and/or if it come over the net, the other six would have to catch it before it hit the floor. The coaches explained that it would help not only focus their practice, but would force the team members who were just catching the balls to practice their foot work.

Behind Hinata’s team stood Yamaguchi, Lev, and Shibayama. The other three practicing servers were Hinnoshita, Fukunaga, and Kinoshita.

The rest of the team members had been sent on a conditioning drill around your campus. You really wished you’d been purvey to the details of their conditioning drill, but were glad the Nekoma Coach didn’t kick you out from the gym.

He had seemed surprised when your team’s Coach Ukai explained that they’d be having a ‘shadow’ for the weekend. And, the expression he turned on you made you believe just existing in the gym was a considered a terrible sin. However, as you were grateful, he just said to make sure you didn’t get in the way and wouldn’t obscure the practice.

Hence the reason why you were on the upper level.

After watching the practice drill for a few moments, you wondered what it was you should be paying attention to. This wasn’t a normal practice so it did not give any real insight into how the team worked together. It was also hard to make out what individual people were saying since so much was going on, and the team coaches would shout over plays didn’t help very much either.

You had been taking note of the smirks that the younger and older coaches sent back and forth, the teasing facials, and what you assumed were growls of annoyance while they watched their players. But, that could only be so useful.

Sitting behind the rails, you let your forehead lean against the bars. You started flipping through your notebook pages, re-reading the comments you had written about your teammates the night before.

The sudden loud whistling cut your train of thought.

“Come on, come on. Bring it in already.” Looking up you saw eighteen volleyball players head towards the Karasuno Coach. “Once Coach Nekomata comes in with the others, we are going to switch up the drills. So, take a little break.”

You smiled as you stood, finally having a chance to go to the same level as you school mates.

“Come-on Kageyama-kun!” You watched as Hinata pulled on the setter’s arm. “Come toss for me!”

You smiled at how the taller first year just glared down at the middle blocker.

“No. Coach Ukai told us to take a break.” He said bluntly.

“But I want to practice more hitting!” When the ginger-child realized his partner wouldn’t assist him, he pulled his hands away and you assumed he went to go find someone else.

However, as soon as he looked up after turning away from Kageyama, Hinata’s gaze caught yours and he sent you a blinding smile.

“(F/N)-san!! You’re still here!” He yelled, grabbing onto your hands.

Your first reaction was that of surprise. He is very friendly, you found yourself thinking as your features returned to a more natural state. “Yea, I had to go to the upper level to make sure I didn’t get in y’alls way.” You explained pointing over to the stairway.

“That’s fun! Was it awesome, watching the practice from above? I bet everyone looked so cool! Weren’t Kenma’s tosses just great? He always knows exactly what to do!” You laughed as the other first year continued bragging about his friend. “So much better than Kageyama’s. I mean if Stingyshima and Roster head had actually tried, we would have gotten blocked.”

You let out a loud laugh as the boy sent a quick glare to his friend before smiling back at you.

“Wai-wait.” You laughed out, clutching your side. “Who?” You had a pretty good idea who the boy was talking about, what you wanted to make sure.

Hinata’s expression shifted as he realized he had used his own nicknames for the two players. “Oh, Tsukishima-san and Kuroo-san.”

“Got it.” You smiled at the boy. “So, Kageyama, if they could’ve blocked the spikes, right that’s what you said they were called?” Hinata nodded at you and you returned to look at the setter, “Why didn’t you change tactics?”

Kageyama’s expression didn’t change much. He still held a scowl, but his eyes blew back a tad bit. “They weren’t trying to block and I wanted to see how slow I could make this baka go.”

Laughing, you threw your head back. “There you go Hinata-kun. He was…wait what?” You abruptly asked, jerking your head back to the blue-eyed individual.

“His thing is speed, right? So, if we get people to expect that and then slow it down, we have another weapon at our disposal.”

You were amazed at how Kageyama thought through his actions. And made a mental note to write this down when you went back up to your notebook.

“BAKAYAMA! YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME THAT!!!” Hinata screeched from next to you, suddenly facing the setter directly.

“If I did you would have over thought things and screwed it up.”

The next thing you knew, Kageyama was walking away. Hinata quickly followed after him, sending an apology over his shoulder. Claiming he’d come find you later to talk more.

“Well that was unexpected.” You said to yourself.

Then looked to either side of you, letting out a sigh of relief when you realized you were actually alone.

“So, let me get this straight.” Kuroo whispered, leaning in closer to the group he was talking with. “You all like her? Like, you all want to get with the same girl? And, you just met her yesterday??”

The Nekoma captain threw his hands up in astonishment and began falling back when Daichi, Suga, and Yamaguchi nodded. At Tsukishima’s ‘tsk’, the captain completely lost his top.

“How? Why?” He looked between the boys and the girl they were currently discussing. “Sure she has something about her, but like you can’t all like the same thing can you?”

Suga shook his head in disappointment, “Don’t refer to girl’s as things Kuroo-san. It’s degrading.”

The jet-black-haired captain just looked like he was fed up with Karasuno’s co-captain’s shit. “I wasn’t calling her a thing. I would never be so rude about a precious kitten, even if she is a crow for whatever reason…but no, I was saying you can’t all like the same THING about her. Unless, you do..?” He drawled.

Now it was Daichi’s turn to shake his head, “I don’t think so. I mean sure, maybe a couple guys overlap reasons, but we are our own people.”

“Not like it’s any of your business.” Tsukishima interjected.

Yamaguchi nodded in agreement with his friend, while the third years just hoped Kuroo wouldn’t be too offended by their kouhai’s comment.

Kuroo was too busy laughing to notice their worry. “Is that right? And what if I were to try and claim her as my own.” He held a hand up to silence Suga before adding, “As my girlfriend.”

The glares the cat-boy got in answer could have killed a raging bull with a grain of sand they were so intense.

Holding his hands up in surrender, his hazel-orbs contrasted. “Kidding, kidding. But I’m not going to lie. Might start a betting pool about who will win her favor between your teammates.” Kuroo winked at the opposing team members, before sauntering off towards his team’s vice-captain and Kenma. Smirking the entire way.

“Well, at least he’s not going to go after her?” Yamaguchi offered, trying to help his friend calm down a little.

The blonde simply tsk’d in response before heading out of the gym. Thinking, why do I even want to get closer to her? Like that baka just said, we just met yesterday. He shook his head before stepping through the door frame and taking a deep breath of fresh air.

“Just give him some space Yamaguchi-kun.” Daichi said, making the boy stop his process of standing. “He’s probably thinking through some things now.”

The first year just nodded at his captain’s words and made his way over to where Kageyama and Hinata had just left you.

“Daichi,” Suga began. “What do you like about (F/N)-sama?”

The captain smiled at his friend’s question, “I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours?” At the silver-haired boy’s assenting, Daichi closed his eyes. A fond smile overtaking his features. “Remember when she first came yesterday, and I had asked her to introduce herself a little more before getting started.” After Suga hummed in response, the short-dark-haired boy continued. “Well she did this thing where she tried hiding her smile behind her hand and tried to play it off as thought she was reaching for her pencil.” The boy opened his eyes, and sent a blinding smile to his partner. “Her eyes shown with humor, but she since she was there for her club she kept a professional manner. I think I just really appreciated how willing she was to accommodate to us, and how expressive her actions are.”

Nodding, Suga pulled his gaze from his best friend. “Those are pretty good reasons, Daichi.”

The captain just nodded, his silence telling the other to give his own reasons.

Sighing, the boy let a hand trail through his silver locks. “So, you should remember after your question last night, Hinata-kun just bombarded her with questions. She seemed to take it in stride for a bit, but I thought it’d become troublesome for her so I interjected, right?” The movement of dark hair in his peripherals told Suga his friend remembered. “Well, she the little nod she gave me, the slight half-smile that seemed to send a silent thank you, combined with the fact that she was so enthusiastic about learning about us? I thought we had just met a lost angel.”

Daichi stood up and smiled down at Suga. “Guess this really is going to be a thing. Huh? Us, fighting over a girl. Who would have guessed.”

When his friend laughed, and followed suit by taking his own stance, Daichi’s smile turned into a smirk. “Well, we do have so many other things in common, I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later.”

“But, we’ll be fine no matter what. I’m just worried for some of the other guys on the team.” Suga expressed, his smile faltering.

Daichi dropped his expression of mirth. “They’ll have to just accept her feelings for what they are. I wasn’t kidding last night when I said we were not going to make uncomfortable. Her feelings are just not, no actually they are more important than ours. If anyone cannot accept that, they don’t need to be here.” He brought his smile back to his face, “But I don’t think any of our boys are that stupid.”

Suga laughed at his captain’s final statement, silently agreeing to the sentiment.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Apologies for it being two days late.

But like let me tell you why because holy crapanoli. I'm now a volleyball coach. So for the next couple months with everything going on this will probably be pushed to being updated weekly instead of daily and I just wanted to give all of you avid readers an update.

Additionally, I have finally decided I'm going to write endings for every boy. But, I'm going to keep these types of chapters going until through the "practice match day" that I've already planned out. From that point the chapters will be crazy long because it'll be the endings. I digress. In summary though, I really do feel bad for suddenly cutting this from almost daily updates to weekly. But I hope you all understand because volleyball is such a huge part of my life and I'm so excited to take this new journey.

Thanks for reading!

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