𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫 (𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐨 𝐓𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐮 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫)

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒗𝒆

A new week brings new hope. A refresh from the previous week and one more week closer till that day. Just like usual as I walked beside my sister to school, she hurriedly rushed over to her friends, leaving alone. Glancing at her, seeing her smile and laugh is something that I will never have. It was kinda nice watching her live her life, unlike me. However, I hated the tension in the house whenever we were in a room together. I could tell it was making our parents worried, we were twins. Weren't we supposed to be close? It got even worse when she found out that I had become the team's manager, mum questioned us at dinner, but none of us said anything.

Gazing up at the gorgeous, spring sky, maybe one day we could go back to how we were when we were young. Wishing upon the sky before entering school.

Once school finished, I began to slowly make my way to the gym, dreading it. On my way, I peeked out of the window to see everyone leaving to go home, but there were two figures just standing on the side. It was my sister, Hina and Kuroo. My sister went in for a hug before walking off. We were growing further and further apart, and there was nothing I could do. I held no control over this. Soon enough she would be too far for me to catch up and I would be left behind. Lifting my hand up to the cold glass as if trying to reach her.

"(Y/N)" turning around at the sound of my name to see some of the first years standing there. Inuoka and Teshiro. They stared at me in confusion, "what are you doing?" Inuoka asked as I put my hand down, "I was just on my way to the gym." Both of them nodded their heads as they began walking but stopped to look back at me, "come on, manager." I stared at them in shock before jogging up to them. The three of us walked together to the volleyball gym.

Once we entered the gym, no one was in their gym clothes yet. Instead, they were crowded around the coaches, "come on, guys! The coaches have something to say!" Lev called us over, the first year rushed over meanwhile I took my time, "you are so slow" someone whispered into my ear as the coach began speaking. Pinching Kuroo's side as I focused on the announcement.

"We have very exciting news!" Naoi spoke first before handing it over to Nekomata, "next week, we are going to have a practice match with Karasuno." The team suddenly became overly excited as they bounced on top of each other. Why were they so happy to have a match that wasn't even official? It's just practice. "This isn't just any practice match, we will be facing an old rival" Kai began to explain to me this rivalry between the two teams, but I still didn't find anything special about it. Guess I'll have to wait and see it for myself. This would be the first time seeing a match that wasn't just between the team. I handed out the permission letters to each member.

"Now go get ready for practice!" Nekomata laughed at the boys as they raced to the changing room with this sudden motivation, while apart from Kenma who walked behind carefully to not get squished. "This is gonna be your first match, good luck manager," Naoi said with a bright smile as I nodded my head before making my way to the girls changing room. I knew the basics of the game, but still, it wasn't anything extraordinary.

After I finished changing, I could feel the familiar unpleasant feeling in my upper body. It hurt, but I didn't call for anyone; instead, I sat down, taking deep breaths. I was going to be fine, I was used to this. This wouldn't happen every day just occasionally, but every time it did, I could hear the ticking from a clock. Counting down my time. Closing my eyes as I rested my head back, waiting for the pain to die down, eventually, it did but only after ten minutes.

Standing up in a hurry, I've been gone too long already. I needed to get back to the team. Rushing out of the room to see Yaku and Kuroo running towards me, sweat dripped down from their foreheads. "What happened?" I stated to them confused before Yaku started yelling at me, "everyone was so worried something had happened to you. Coach sent both of us to look for you!" My eyes widened at his concern, "I'm fine, I just had some lady problems" they both let out a sigh of relief before Yaku ran back to tell the others.

"I thought you ditched" rolling my eyes at his statement, "if it was that easy to get out of it, I would have done that. already." We walked back together to see the boys running towards me, "calm down, guys! I was only gone for a bit. Why were you so worried?" I watched them before Yamamoto spoke up, "you're our first manager and we ain't letting you go that easily!" It surprised me, he was never this confident around me. Kuroo wrapped his arm around my neck, "we consider you a part of the team, so of course, we would care about you." Glancing up at him to see him wink at me before he was pushed away from me, "stop flirting with our manager, we agreed no one could date her!" Yamamoto shouted at his captain.

Once everything was sorted with, I remained silent as I walked over to the sidelines as they began practising. They thought of me as a part of their team even though I denied hanging out with them and how cold I was towards them. How could they think that?

I was just an outsider.