A family thing

Chapter 7 A wonderful team with disgusting teammates

"First important lesson, explosive power.", Hinata-San said. 
"What's so special about it?", Yoichi asked confused since he wanted to learn how to have this free playing style. 
"It is very special.", the coach explained as he shut on the television in his home gym. He quickly put on a random volleyball game from the Schweiden Adlers from 2017 with Hoshiumi in the starting line up. 
"As you might know, I'm not the only player in the Japanese squad below 180 centimeters.", Hinata explained and pointed to a white haired boy on the screen. "His name is Korai Hoshiumi. He has played with your brother for like 4 years."  
"So, where's the point for me to learn that?", the 16-year-old asked confused. Hinata just pressed the play button on the controller. Highlights of the 2017 V-league final between the Tachibana Falcons and the Shweiden Adlers were played. 
"Here comes Simon Kamar with the service.", he heard the commentator say. An unknown man walked up to the service line and threw the ball into the air and hit the ball with a strong swing. It has been picked up nicely by the opposite hitter. 
"Nice receive. Kageyama gets to the ball and sets it for Hoshiumi and he slams it into the right corner. What a show is happening here.", the commentator spoke. An animation showed the curve of the ball. 
"Korai-kun is one of the best outside hitters I know.", Hinata paused the video and sat down at the bench. "He is a sniper. Always looking for the holes of the defense. It is hard to block him." 
"But what about Ushijima-San?", Yoichi asked, remembering the times he watched the V-league with his parents to cheer for his brother. 
"Well... How should I describe it...", his coach began to explain. "Look it this way. Ushijima is like a wrecking ball whilst Hoshiumi is a tank. Both things are capable of destroying a wall, though the differences are the ways to do it. Ushijima's attacks relies on his very powerful shoulder that can cope with every set you give him. However, the draw back of this playing style is the load up time for such a strong spike." 
The highlights now brought out an attack from Ushijima, who did just as Hinata explained. A long load up of his shoulder, followed up by a powerful hit.
"This load up costs time. He cannot which he uses to observe the opponents blocks, but, however, he cannot adjust to a sudden change within the block.", Hinata brought out the weaknesses of his national teammate. "Hoshiumi however, does have the ability to do so. He can jump up and loads up within a small time and changes the course of his spike. However, he can only do so until the time he touches the ball. But that's not the real reason I want to show you Hoshiumi." 
Hinata then adjusted the video to the scene, where they could see the player jump up. 
"For shorter players like us, it is essential to have a strong explosive power, that brings us to the height, we want to be at.", he explained. "But that's not only important for volleyball. It is important for many other sports like short sprints, high jumps and also football." 
He then switches to a highlight video of Julien Loki. The French player entitled to be the next legend dominating world football. There he could be seen sprinting to the goal in the world cup quarter finals with the defenders hardly following behind him. The distance became longer just when Loki passed the middle line of the pitch. 
"There you can clearly see the accelaration of this sprint dribble.", Hinata pointed out and then put on the legendary header of Christiano Ronaldo where he took a run up and jumped to an unhuman height. 
"Both of the goals, were scored through one crucial thing.", the orange haired man spoke. "Explosive power. It can help you accelerate faster and it can help you jump higher. An essential thing for many sports. So we'll definitely improve on that." 

Yoichi woke up from his flashback of the first day in Brazil as it was his turn to perform the sprint drill on the grass. 
'Explosive power.', he thought and walked to the starting line. The boy with the shark teeth walked next to him. 
"May the faster one win.", he said arrogantly. With that a horn honked. Yoichi immediately took off. 
'First small steps and then make them bigger.', he thought and accelerated, leaving the shark teeth guy in his dust. A pink haired boy was observing him from the sidelines. He was always daydreaming. 
'Why the hell does that boy seem so unmotivated to participate in the training?', Yoichi thought after he has crossed the finish line. 
"Let's call him Princess!!!", demon shouted inside his head. 
"I thought the others were worthless for your ridiculous and immature nicknames.", the owner of the mind retorted.
"Well, first impressions aren't always right, as you know.", dictator defended them. 
 "Whatever...", Yoichi gave up and walked to the next test on his schedule, which was a smiple running work out inside the gym. The shark teeth guy joined him and soon they were running kilometers after kilometers on the track mill. 
"Ha, looks like you have a very good explosive power to accelerate but a bad endurance to keep the velocity up!! HAHAHAHAHAHA", the blonde guy beside him shouted triumphantly after seeing the tired expressions on Yoichi's face. 
"What was your name again...", the youngest Kageyama managed to say. 
"GAH, I'M RAICHI, RAICHI JINGO, ASSHOLE!!!", the boy with anger issues shouted. 
"Whatever...", Yoichi muttered and finished his set. Wasn't it supposed to be a small atheletic test? They've done it for three days until now. It's more like a training camp, no, scratch that. It's more like a training hell. Next came the jump test. He put on a special belt for the measurements. 
"Here. Have some water, before we do it. It's important to stay hydrated.", a big guy said and gave him a bottle of water. If Yoichi remembered correctly, that guy's name was Kuon. 
'Yeah... Something like that... Kuon... Kuon Wataru. I got it. HAH. THE GUY WITH MEMORY ISSUE IS JUST MY BROTHER. NOT ME. HUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA', he cheered inside of his head. 
"Thanks." 
"Now let's start with it."