His Warrior Queen: A Haikyuu!! Novel (Tsukishima x OC)

Chapter 95: Bokuto: All Fired Up

Oh man, I am all fired up!!

It was so amazing watching Nekoma play Karasuno.  Of course, part of why it was so amazing was I got to see my two bros play against each other in a real match, but then also there was Shoyo, and I'm kind of proud of everything he's learned from me and stuff.  It's kinda cool to see someone you've taught go and use the stuff they learned from you and actually win because of it.  I guess that's why teachers and coaches do what they do.

Oh man - I wonder if this is how Naka-chan feels when she watches Karasuno play!  It's pretty awesome.  I'm gonna ask her about that later.  

I felt kinda bad for Kuroo-bro, because he knew I was rooting for Tsukki-bro and Karasuno.  Which might seem kinda unfair of me, because Tsukki is only a first year and he gets two more tries at this, while Kuroo-bro and me only have this one shot left.  So you'd think I'd be rooting for Kuroo-bro.  

And I was!  In my heart.  See, Kuroo-bro knows I'm always rooting for him in my heart.  Whatever else is going on, I'm always rooting for him.  And he's always rooting for me.  'Cause we're bros, and that's just how it is.

But Tsukki...he might not know that yet.  So figured I'd better root for him with my mouth, 'cause otherwise Tsukki might think I wasn't rooting for him at all and then he might feel kinda bad.  And I didn't want that!  You should always know that your bro's got your back!  So I wanted to make sure of that.  Plus, I'm Shoyo's mentor, so he needed to hear me cheering for Karasuno.

I would have been super happy for whichever bro won.  They were both amazing.  They both did their absolute best, but today, Karasuno came out on top.

I know Kuroo is okay with it.  He's a little sad, but he's really happy, because he just played the best volleyball game of his life.  And I got to watch him!  And I was so fired up, we won our way into the quarter finals in straight sets!

The quarter finals!  One quarter of the way to the final!  Wait...that doesn't seem right.  Because wouldn't that mean we'd have to play like four times as many games as we already had to play to get to be in the final?  But we have to win this game, and then win the next game, and then we're in the final!  So how is this one the quarter final?  I wonder what it's one quarter of?

Anyway, I guess it doesn't matter.  What does matter is that I get to go up against Kiryuu Wakatsu in our next match!  That's gonna be awesome!  He's super powerful, and he's known as the guy who can hit like literally any ball, so I wanna see what that's actually like up close.  And then, I wanna beat him.  Because that's what we came here to do.  Fukurodani came here to win all the games.  Until we're all done.

As we're getting ready for the game, I can hear the chatter.  The commentators are talking about it too.  They're going on and on about how I'm a top five ace and Kiryuu is a top three ace and how this is gonna be a battle to see which of us is gonna be top four ace or something.  But none of that matters.  They're missing the whole point here.  I'm not here to be top four, or even top three or anything like that.

I'm here to win it.

I gotta show why I'm here.  They all gotta know what Fukurodani...what I...came here to do today!

I grumble a little, and suck in some breaths.  "Whether it's top five...or top three...it's all too many!" I yell out, catching the attention of my teammates.  This is gonna be my inspiration speech...like Kuroo's blood thingy.

"I'm gonna be... THE TOP ONE!" I pose dramatically, just like Kuroo would.  Well, not just like Kuroo, 'cause I'm more intense than he is.  He's all subtle like, and I don't do subtle.