Online Love (fem reader × Kenma Haikyuu)

29. Its like dancing

I smiled at the sound of shoes squeaking on the gym floor, today was the last day before the camp starts and the boys must be all over the place.

As I handed the boys their luggage  Hinata poke my back "Yn??" "Yes Shoyo?" I turned to him with a soft smile and he wiggled excitedly from left to right "Since you helped Kinoshita last time, can you help me now?" I frowned and shook my head "oh- Shoyo I am not in position to 'help' you. I mean I would if I could be a help, but trust me I won't" I laughed it off. "Come on please! I am really desperate!" I sighed and nodded "fine okay...what is it?".

"YAY!" Shoyo jumped up and down and dragged me to the net. I sighed, the boys were all out of line today, because Kiyoko and trainer Ukai are in the school to prepare everything for tonight.

"So...I am fast! You know?" "I know Shoyo" I agreed gently. "But...whenever I want to run really fast to the other side of the court I catch myself running over my own legs! Like Puish!" He demonstrated me what he meant and he was right.

When he tries to run too fast to his other side, he could easily trip over his legs! I had the same problem in dancing once. When you have to do fast footwork in changing directions, your legs are sometimes slower than your mind and you trip over them.

"Oh I see...well I can only tell you how I solved it in dancing, but I don't know if it works for volleyball too, Shoyo" I sighed. "I don't care! Show me!" I laughed and looked around.

"Wait here" I pointed at our spot and run towards the club room, coming back after a minute.

"The ghetto blaster?" Shoyo asked confused while tilting his head.

"Yep! Just follow my lead" I pat his head as I turned on my playlist on my phone. I quickly stood a few meters infront him and turned my head to him "follow my motions". I took a deep breath and bent my knees slightly. At every first beat I jumped slightly to the side and then to the other "that looks like ice skating" Hinata laughed but I heard him following my motion "exactly. I know in volleyball won't be music, but the point is to find a rythim! If there is no music, imagine it." I called over and I think he understood.

"Bam da da da da BAM da da da BAM!" I called out, at every Bam of the beat I switched direction quickly with a swift leg movement. "OH! I GET IT!" Shoyo called out "it's like dancing on the court!". I nodded "Exactly." I stood up straight and stood beside him instead.

"We are going left to right to right to left. Okay?" "Okay."

I waited for the chorus "1 2 3 4!" And with that Shoyo and me moved in sync from side to side, he had more strength in his legs, causing him to make wider jumps as me. "Use the bending of your knees to generate a good headstart of a powerful jump. It's not important how high you come, but how far! So don't use that energy to make a high step Shoyo, but a wide ranged one." I explained him. "If you waste the power and speed you generate you'll be out of breath quicker!" He frowned "so I should focus my energy on wider steps than high one's?" "Yes, at least when you're trying to get somewhere on the court to take on the ball. When you serve you have to focus that strentgh in your legs again to get high, in dancing it's called power directing." He nodded and stood back up straight.

"I'm going to throw you some balls in random directions, I want you to test out what I showed you" "Okay!!".

I went on the other side of the court and played him a ball to the very right, he only got it in time "Shoyo focus on your posture! If you shift your weight so much forward you grow slower!" "Okay!" I played him another one to his left and this time he got it in perfect time. I kept playing him some balls before stretching "that's enough, I think you got it now". "Thanks yn!" Shoyo beamed and ran to Nishinoya to show him what he just learned.