Rose Gold

Chapter 1

"I will beat you... we WILL meet on a court again," Hinata declared to the 'King of The Court' as his own team nicknamed him. Kageyama turned to look at him and smirked, it was only a small, almost unnoticeable one. But Hinata's Keen eyes still managed to see it and it irked him to his core. Kageyama, seeing the small orange-haired boys' annoyance, departed with his team to go get lunch before their next match. Hinata stomped away, going back to his team who gave him a grin and waved. He softened his expression and waved back, "Hey, we should get lunch!" One of his friends recommended it and everyone happily agreed. They were walking around town when they spotted a small store that sold meat buns. "Hey! What about here?" Hinata smiled and skipped inside to buy some lunch to fill himself up. He stopped in his tracks when he saw some people standing in the shop. "No wonder he lost! He had those losers on his team, they barely managed to play and the only reason they stood a chance was because Hinata was there!" Hinata overheard a bystander say, his eyes widened with realisation 'My team dragged me down... I can only trust myself...?"Hinata walked home, leaving his team- no... ex-team behind. He ignored all the worried shouts from his former teammates, Hinata wanted to get home as soon as he could and practice Volleyball by himself so he could get into Karasuno or Aoba Johsai. Hinata rode his bike as fast as he could home, not letting a single drop of sweat escape his forehead.
Hinata rushed into his home to grab his volleyball, he glanced to the side and saw his headphones. They were slightly coated in dust and grime, it had been a while since he had used them. He hesitantly reached for them and his iPod nano and played his former favourite band : My Chemical Romance. As it started playing a smile grew on his face, he walked outside with his Wilson style Volleyball onto his freshly mowed lawn. His sister looked curiously at him as he walked outside to do some of his one person drills. He threw his ball against the wall then spiked it back. If he wanted to beat Kageyama all by himself then he needed to become the best volleyball player that he could be. Every time the ball flew behind him, he would rush back and bump it to the wall then spike it down. By the end of the hours of practicing his receiving and spiking had significantly gotten better. "Shoyo? What are you doing?" His little sister, Natsu, stumbled outside to say. He caught his ball and turned to look at her. "I'm practicing." He bluntly said while bouncing the ball on the floor then catching it again. Natsu looked at
him with a sad expression on her face then walked back inside, back slouched. Hinata wandered back to his foregoing position and caught a glance of his previous jumping reach scores against the board of the basketball net, he quickly decided that he would exceed his reach. He stepped back, placed down his ball then ran up to the board. He focused on jumping off his toes, Hinata had managed to touch just under his old score. He looked at his feet and noticed soft pads below his big toes. He then wondered what would happen if he tried to jump off those pads. Hinata ran back to his former run up spot and got into a sprinting position, he took off running to the board. As if time had slowed down, he glanced down to his feet and momentarily pushed down on the balls of his feet. Hinata leapt up as if he were a spring, he practically flew in the air before touching the back of the basketball net board and descending back down. Hinata glanced down at his feet then his jump height, a wide grin spread across his face. '342cm'