Red Herring

Oikawa Toru is not a Genius

I finally got this chapter done after some time. Life has just been busy with some other things going on. Not only that but there's this one thing that I've been wanting to do for quite some time... I don't know if I should mention it here, since I'm still working it all out. Though once I actually start doing it, I'll definitely say something on here. It's a bit of a side project(yes another one) that I'm actually gonna stick with. There are just quite a few moving pieces in it that I have to put in motion. Anyway, hope you like this chapter!

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"WHOA! YOU REALLY ARE GOOD AT THIS!" A young Endo Joji marveled with his sparkly blue eyes wide with wonder. The cool spring wind flowed around him and his two new friends as they played around in the school courtyard. It had only been about a week after Joji had moved to Japan. He was settling pretty easily into his new environment and that included making some good friends, Iwaizumi and Oikawa.

He found out that they enjoyed playing volleyball with each other. The two taught him how to play since all he knew was that you hit the ball over the net. Apparently, it was a bit more of a complicated sport than Endo first thought. He learned about the positions, the terminology, different Japanese teams, and bonded with his new friends over it.

They were currently passing the ball around to each other. Now Endo wasn't the best at receiving yet, though that might just be because of who was spiking it at him. Oikawa may only be a kid, but his serves were pretty solid. Strong enough to where Endo couldn't receive it properly and the ball always ended up flying far away after hitting the ground. Endo was thoroughly impressed with Oikawa's skill. He could only wish that he could be like that!

Oikawa smiled widely, obviously smug with the compliments that he was getting. "I know, I've been working really hard on this."

Their other friend, Iwaizumi narrowed his eyes, "Don't boost his ego more than usual, Endo. His head is big enough as it is."

Oikawa pouted at his best friend, "Iwa-chan!" Endo just laughed as they continued to banter and pass the ball around. Getting interested in volleyball wasn't something that Endo ever planned on, but having friends who played it, and were good at it, he's more than willing to get into it too.

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Junior high wasn't totally fun in Endo's opinion. While it wasn't as bad as grades school, because Endo had found a way to make "friends", it was still as stressful as his other school experience. The good thing about his time in junior high had to be practicing for volleyball. That was only because he practiced just about every day with Asahi at the park. Endo didn't necessarily like playing on his team since all of his teammates were snobbish brats, but he dealt with it. He had to learn how to play volleyball on a team so that way he'd be good enough to get on Karasuno's team once he got to high school.

As he was waiting at the park for Asahi to arrive, he spotted another boy coming towards him. The fluffy brown hair and brown eyes were far too familiar to Endo. "...Oikawa?"

His old friend stiffened before turning to him slowly, "Endo?"

The two just stared at each other for a long moment. They were both sizing each other up with critical eyes. They haven't seen each other in quite some time, not since they ventured off to their own junior high schools. Joji saw how Oikawa had grown taller, almost as tall as him, and his hair had grown out a bit more. Oikawa was able to see how Joji had seemingly grown some sort of muscles on his arms since he last saw Joji with noodle arms. Not only that but his blond hair was back instead of it being completely black or two-toned. They certainly could see that the other had changed quite a bit.