Life On The Court

Chapter Three

I do apologize that it took a while to update! But here's a short one for now!

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The next day, after a full day of school, Ryohei stood with their teammates in their gym uniform, ready to get started with training. They had a plain gray t-shirt on with black shorts. Along with knee pads, but they also grabbed some elbow pads just in case. They didn't want to chance hitting the ground too hard and not be able to play anymore so shortly after rejoining the team. "All here?" Ukai asked, standing in front of all of the students who nodded. "Yeah!" They exclaimed. Ukai hummed and nodded as he began to explain. "The practice match against Nekoma is in four days. Inter-High preliminaries will be soon thereafter. We've got no time, but you guys are full of holes. Since that's the case, there's only one way for you to win. Practice. Practice. And practice. Save the ball, even if you have to barf!" Ukai exclaimed. Everyone was silent as Ryohei made a face at the words he said, only one to respond to him immediately was Hinata who exclaimed. "Yeah!" Ryohei gave him a look, but didn't say anything.

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They started with receiving. Ukai was propped up on some sort of stool with Kiyoko giving him the balls to spike. Each team member had to receive at least 5 balls successfully. Nishinoya obviously had no trouble at all while Ryohei almost missed their last one, but nonetheless received all of the ones they needed. Once it was time for spiking, Ryohei felt the need to show off— or in this case— do better if possible. Glancing around, they sent a hand signal to Sugawara who nodded his head and awaited his turn. And soon it was. Ryohei sped off towards the net before Sugawara had even thrown the ball, but by the time they reached the net, Sugawara tossed it, allowing Ryohei to spike as hard as they could. Upon hearing the impact they created and the stinging in their hand, they couldn't help but grin to themself, feeling satisfied, but they could see how Ukai was looking more at Kageyama with Hinata's turn. It made them sad knowing there was a possibility that they wouldn't get a chance or not much more time to play with Sugawara.

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Hours had gone by before they had decided it was time to go to the place they would be staying for training camp. But the moment they got there, Hinata was storming the building and looking around it in excitement. Ryohei could only sigh and shake their head as they assisted Takeda and Kiyoko in the kitchen with making dinner. Kiyoko was going home since their house was nearby, but Ryohei decided they wouldn't considering it would probably be suspicious if they also said they stayed nearby— despite the fact that Takeda and the third years know this fact. They heard some yelling, so with Takeda and Kiyoko they went to investigate. "What are you guys doing?" Takeda asked after being momentarily startled. Ryohei peaked around the corner just as they heard. "Take-chan...we can't...go on..." Tanaka barely managed to get out as he and Nishinoya were on the ground, looking extremely pale. "What's going on, Takeda-Sensei?" Ryohei asked, stepping out to where the others could see them with Kiyoko. They two of them were wearing aprons, but the boys immediately reacted to Kiyoko with her hair up cooking for them. They looked like they were revived, so Ryohei only shook their head and walked away to get back to fixing the table so they could eat.

Once the apron was off and they changed into something more comfortable, they returned to the table to Hinata once again letting out noises of excitement. They placed their hands together like everyone else and exclaimed. "Thank you for the food!" And got to eating. They didn't think they were the best cook, but seeing everyone having no problems with any of the food let them know that it was okay. Hinata and Kageyama were practically shoving everything down quickly. And after a couple of minutes Kiyoko asked. "Seconds, anyone?" Obviously Nishinoya and Tanaka were standing right by her with their empty plates and mouths practically filled with food still. "Yes, please!" Ryohei's sister stammered out a reply out of their excitement but nonetheless gave them a second serving of food.