A family thing

Chapter 19 Effort

"Man your sister is talented.", Atsumu said as he joined Hinata at one of the games from his sister at the spring tournament. "Gotta say, if she was born earlier, then she would have been part of the monster generation."
"She has no talent.", HInata replied. "All of that came from hard work."
"I know, but it wouldn't hurt to praise her sometimes.", the setter said. 
"It's not a praise. It's an insult.", another voice from behind them said. 
"Kita-San.", Atsumu greeted his former high school captain. 
"All efforts someone has put into one play, will just go to waste by calling him a talent.", Kita continued as he took a seat next to Atsumu with an onigiri in his left hand. "It's rude." 
"Oh come on. I just want to praise her.", Atsumu whined like a baby. 
"Oh, why don't you just shut the hell up. I want to watch the game alright!", Osamu said from behind Kita and took a seat next to him. He too was holding an Onigiri and started to take off the wrapping paper of it. 
"Did you get me one too?!", Atsumu asked and looked at his brother with hopeful eyes. That hope was soon destroyed by a simple word, "Nope." 
"How can you do that?!", the twin with the yellow hair shouted outraged. 
"Because it's my business. You need to pay. That's how economy works.", Osamu replied and took a big bite from his Onigiri. "Besides, I need money to afford the stand position I rented to get here in the first place, dumbass." 
"But I'm your brother, shouldn't I get a mates' rates?", the other Miya twin argued and started to make puppy eyes. 
"Yes, that's why you're paying twice as much as other customers for their onigiris.", Osamu answered ignoring desperate actions of his twin brother. Thinking of it, those puppy eyes he was making would rather make him puke than lowering the price for him. 
"But I'm your brother..."
"And that's brotherhood for ya." 
"Jeez, can't you both stop arguing for like five minutes?", Kageyama asked them annoyed. "There's a damn game I wanna watch without hearing some stupid adult siblings behind me behaving like little children."
Surprisingly that worked. The Miya twins silenced. Kita was kinda impressed. 
"But anyway, what would you call it then, if it isn't talent?", Atsumu asked Hinata who observed the movements of his sister. 
"Hinata receives the ball in a graceful way.", the commentator could be heard through the loud speakers. "What a nice dig. Here comes the set from Hana to the back row and Hinata jumps up again and slams it down the middle. What a spike!" 
"No mercy for the Wanaka High girls' volleyball club.", the second commentator agreed. "She really takes a lot from her elder brother Hinata Shoyo." 
"I can only agree with that. A surprise everytime. No wonder, she has already made it to the Japanese-women U20 national team.", the first commentator said as all the team mates from Natsu cricle around to celebrate their point. 
"Effort.", Shoyo answered Atsumu. 

Yoichi walked to the exit of the pitch. Team W has circled around Kuon to beat him up. 
"YOU NEVER TOLD US, HE COULD RUN THAT FAST!!!", Keisuke shouted and stombed onto the poor guy. 
"I don't know...", Kuon said painfully. 
"Shouldn't we help him?", Kunigami asked Yoichi who was about to get out of the arena. 
"Alright...", Yoichi sighed and walked up to the group of people. "Oi, fuck off now, won't ya, ya bunch of pathetic losers!!" 
Kunigami face palmed, 'That was definitely not, what I initiated. But I guess it'll work...' 
Juchiro immediately grabbed Kageyama's kit and lifted him into the air, "Do you want us to fucking kill you?"
"I said to fuck off, you pathetic loser.", Yoichi repeated his own words calmly. "Or do you want me to kick your fucking ass, wanker?" 
"Cut it.", Kunigami said out of the sudden as he seperated them. "Don't lay your hands on my team." 
The muscle guy looked at Juchrio with a menacing stare. Even Yoichi was impressed by that as the elder twin brother finally let go of him. Kuon took that chance and fled from the pitch. 
"Kuon's running away! The fucking coward!!", a team W player shouted after him, which all the team Z players ignored even though Yoichi was still having a stare down with Juchiro. 
"Thus concludes the seventh and eighth matches in the fith stratum.", the AI-voice spoke and ended the tension between the two teams. The results of both games appeared on the huge monitor. 
"Team V won 5-2 against team X? The hell...", Igaguri muttered as looked at the board with worries in his eyes. Yoichi on the other hand, was looking at it with excitement. 
'We can not draw the next game, if we really want to have a fixed position in the table.', he thought. 'So it's alll or nothing. I kinda like that.' 
He walked out of the court and went for the shower. 
"Ey, Kageyama. Can I just ask something?", Raichi spoke to him while they're showering. 
"Sure, what is it?", Yoichi replied and enjoyed the warm water pouring down on him. He turned around and turned it to the coldest degree possible. 
"Oh, that's cold.", he stuttered but embraced it anyway. 
'No shit, sherlock...', Raichi thought as he looked at his team mate freezing in his shower. "Well, I just wanted to ask, why did you pass it to Chigiri, at the peak of the game?" 
"Why not?", Yoichi asked back and put some shampoo onto his hair. 
"Well, the whole game, he did nothing. Why didn't you pass it to me instead?", Raichi replied. 
"Now first of all, I wasn't quite sure when I first saw him, but after some time, I realised who he really was.", the raven haired started to explain. 
"And that would be?" 
"Chigiri Hyoma. The speed monster, you know? That pink haired dude in all those high school magazines and so on. He was on the same team as the Wanima twins." 
"Yes sure, but to me, it didn't seem, that he was better than them."
"He is. He is still in his first year, as we're speaking and before he came to that club of theirs, nobody knew of that school."
"Oh that Chigiri, but what happened afterwards?" 
"He tore his ACL and kinda lost his passion for football.", Yoichi answered. "He needed something to find it again and I gave it to him." 
The raven haired turned his shower off and walked to the exit, "But I admit, Raichi, I admit that I was making a very risky move at that stage of the game." 
Then he walked out of the steamy room.