Chapter three: View from the summit

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I walked in and greeted the upperclassmen, they returned the greeting, and soon  Kiyoko-senpai also walked in and greeted everyone Hinata was asking tobio if she was a manager but was ignored and also cut off by Sawamura.

 “Alright let's get started I'll be on the tsukishima team.” Hinata seemed scared as Sawamura assured him that Tanaka was a stronger player and had more attack power. “but I won’t go easy on you” 

Tsukishima called out. "who should I crush I mean block first, so hard to choose but I know I want to see the king lose.” Yamaguchi panicked,

“Tsuki they can hear you, be careful.”

“I know genius, I want them to hear me.” tsukishima said to Yamaguchi while Sawamura muttered wryly “Tsukishima, you have character problems.”

As Tsukishima continued to mess with my brother, Tanaka was getting upset saying he’ll crush him to a pulp as Hinata stuck his tongue out. I signed. Soon the match began and when Tanaka spiked the ball. He got fired up and removed his shirt and started waving it around causing me to giggle.

Hinata went to spike the ball but was blocked by tsukishima “you sure can jump if only you were 30 cm taller, you could’ve been a superstar.”  The Sawamura team was winning the set by 2 points while Tsukishima was talking about the king's toss. It was now my brother's turn to serve after Yamaguchi messed up his serve.

He did his jump serve but Sawamura received it and Tsukishima set it to Yamaguchi who spiked it, earning his team a point. “Steady receivers like that are Daichi specialty, they have a badass defense.” I heard Tanaka explain to my brother and Sawamura asked my brother if he thought he was a weak spot.

“I may not have as raw talent as you but I’ve been training a lot longer than you. You won't break through that easily.” Sawamura said getting back to a receiving position. Tsukishima started again but was stopped by Hinata telling them to quit with the nickname and to quit picking on the guy and then asking why he keeps calling him king. Tsukishima explained but, of course, he doesn't know half of it either.

“That right I tossed and nobody was there,” Hinata then shocked my brother with his words. “yeah but that was middle school. You toss to me just fine so it makes no difference to me.” The team was laughing as he said  “besides the issue is getting past you” he pointed at the blonde saltshaker as he got ready to serve. “you need to kick tsukishima ass and join the team and become the setter then you have to set the ball to me it’s not that complicated” my brother looked a little overwhelmed by the bright tangerine. 

“oh shut up that over-the-top attitude of yours is disgusting, effort alone won’t get you anywhere. if you think otherwise you're sorely mistaken.” he served but Tanaka received and sent it towards my brother who set it to Hinata to spike but it was out of bounds, “Look I don’t care about what happened in middle school...I’m just grateful for any set I just want the ball. I’ll jump anywhere. I’ll hit any ball believe it.”

“you guys can do quick attacks and you didn’t tell me,” Tanaka yelled at them but Hinata didn’t know what a quick was and of course after that tsukishima started being an ass again going on how Hinata wasn’t fit to be a spiker. Hinata agreed with him and his disadvantage with his height “but I don't care I just want to be on the court as long as I can possible”

“have you listen to anything I’ve been saying you can’t substitute sprite for height unless you want to be a libero that is,” tsukishima said as my brother stood next to Hinata. “To break the wall and allow the spiker to spike is the setter's job,” my brother said.

He then dragged my brother Hinata away to a corner to explain a quick but did quite a bad job at it might I add. Soon the match was back on. The 1st try was a fail as well as the 7 other times at one time Hinata even got stuck in the net. “you look like a fish” Tanaka laughed as we tried to get him down. 

When we got him down he told my brother he couldn't guess his timing at all.  “you have lighting fast reflexive" my brother said as they were arguing  Suga walked over and started “Kageyama you need to make sure history doesn’t respect itself, uh you see”

“he got super fast reflexive speed incredible jumping power he can learn a quick,” my brother said pointing at Hinata   “that's not what I was getting at. I think I know how you guys can be more effective. Hinata doesn’t know what he's doing. He doesn’t have experience or technic like the people you competed with in middle school but he’s a rare asset”

Suga said making Hinata flush red and say “I’m no genius or anything”, “who said that,” Tanaka said.  “if I had your skill I mean think about why not try adapting more to Hinata character then the other way around do you see what I’m saying.”

“you can do Suga,”  Tanaka said encouraging Suga.  “Can’t you use his abilities more effectively, I’m a setter like you so it freaks me out to see you play last year. You have incredible talent and control of the ball but most of all your good at analyzing the opponent block moves and make decision on the fly I’ve got none of that.” Tanaka looked like he was going to disagree but Sawamura stopped him telling him to let suga talk.

“you're good at what you do and have almost too much determination but your ability to analyze your surroundings is your most important skill so pay closer attention to your ally.” suga threw the ball to my brother.

“use your fastest highest jump I’ll get the ball to you,”  my brother said to Hinata who asked, “what do you mean?”

“go where there’s no blocker at your max speed and spike as hard you don’t have to watch my toss.” Hinata agreed and soon they tried and it was a success.

“Guys just now he did that with his eyes close,” Sawamura said shocked but honestly it shocked me too and the other people too “huh” “what”.

“from the moment he left the ground till he shrugs his arm his eyes were close Kageyama just made a pinpoint toss into Hinata hand but Hinata wasn’t even looking at the ball  I don’t know how he did but his timing was perfect.“

“oi, why did you have your eye close?” my brother yelled at him while he said that my brother told him not to look at the ball and knew if his eyes were opened he would look at it. “I wasn’t telling you” my brother was saying but Hinata interrupted him with “but it worked right.”

“I know it works but who works on nothing but trust with someone they don’t know very well.” my brother was just staring at Hinata. 

“I can’t help trust is the only way I know how to do it" they so made a game plan and the match continue the next time they tried the quick Hinata got hit in the face. Kiyoko asked him if he was okay, causing him to sputter out "yes ma'ams." 

The set was 15-22 with Tsukishima's team still in the lead.

“what are you smiling about this is the second time I’ve been spank in the face,” Hinata asked my brother then complained asking him if he was doing it on purpose. They won the first set by  Tanaka scoring the 2 point lead and the setpoint who was excited and took his shirt off again but was scolded and made fun of by the other upperclassmen. 

After that, they took a quick water break and handed my brother his water bottle and his towel. The second set was a back and forth match the whole time Tsukishima even removed his sweatshirt. My brother's team won but they were exhausted. I handed Hinata some water and a towel and made my way to my brother who was hanging onto the net. I handed him his towel and water bottle.

“those were such great tosses tobio I'm so happy you look like you were having fun” he nodded his blank face intact but the brightness in his eyes gave away his feelings my brother feeling always showed through his eyes.

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