Mrs Americana

2

Y/n Sawamura

The squeaking of sneakers against the seemingly fresh polished gym floors. The slamming sound as the volleyball smashed into the floor. That was the most relaxing thing in the world to me. It's like walking through those gym doors could automatically make me feel better, and it would. It always did.

Today is the first day of tryouts, i know i should be more nervous but in all honesty, I'm not. I'm a good player, volleyball is my life. It's not like Karasuno really even had tryouts anyways, they had already accepted my papers.

"Hi! You must be the new girl, Daichis cousin right ?," A freakishly tall girl greeted me as I stepped into the gym, "I'm the captain of the girls team, Miura Hana."

"Yes! Hello i'm Sawamura Y/n," I told her reaching out to shake her hand with a friendly smile. "I'm very excited to have to opportunity to play with you."

"It's so great to have you with us this year," Another smaller girl added approaching us. "Hello my name is Himura Mizuki, I'm the libero for our team.".

"Oh that's so cool!" I told her, "My best friend back in America is a libero!"

Himura looked as if she was going to say something more to me but was cut off by a third girl coming over screaming over us.

"YOU MUST BE DAICHIS COUSIN!" She screamed at me, "WHATS IT LIKE TO LIVE WITH DAICHI-SAN? DOES HE INVITE THE TEAM OVER? YOURE SO LUCKY!"

"Ebina!" Himura yelled at the girl while elbowing her side, "Sawamura doesn't want to hear about your crushes on her cousin and his friend!"

At this I just laughed. She was right though, his friends were constantly over at our house. Mostly Sugawara and Tanaka, but a few times he's invited the whole team over. When he does this I try to stay in my room as much as possible, not that it does much for me though, considering we share a wall. I was friendly with Tanaka and Sugawara though, they seemed nice. Not that any of us made an effort to talk though, aside from Tanakas attempts at flirting with me which Daichi always slapped the back of the buzz cut boys head for.

"Don't worry about it! Me and Daichi aren't very close, we don't talk a lot for people who live in the same house." I giggled to both the girl named Ebina and Himura. "and please, just call me y/n!"

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Tryouts, or more exactly, practice; went great. Apparently the official setter for the girls team had graduated last year and Miura-san told me I was almost guaranteed the spot. All the girls seemed fairly nice, Ebina seemed to dislike me though. The whole practice she had been making comments to me, as if I didn't block all of the spikes she tried to hit down while we were matched up. I was suddenly ripped out of my thoughts by a familiar voice.

"Y/n!" A girl called out to me.

I turned my head to see Himura and a boy I am almost positive I'd seen before jogging over to me.

"Hey Himura-san! What's up?" I asked her.

"Oh well, I know you are staying with Daichi and-" She started to tell me but was interrupted by the man standing with her.

"This is the American cousin?" Man bun asked her before sticking his hand out to me, "Nice to meet you, I'm Azumane Asahi, Mizukis boyfriend, just call me Asahi though."

"Nice to meet you too Asahi," I said shaking his hand, "I'm Y/n."

"Hey actually, we wanted to know if you wanted to walk home with us? We both live right down the road from you and Daichi." She told me.

"Of course, I'd love to actually!" I told her.

The rest of our 15 minute walk together was actually really pleasant. It was nice to finally have some friends here in Japan, people I can actually talk to, other than my family, living in my time zone. They're both such sweet people too, and they seem so happy together, even I could tell just how in love they were. Mizuki and Asahi both told me all about my new school and stories about their other friends who I've yet to meet.

Finally it felt like something was starting for me here in Japan.

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a/n: sorry this chapter is on the shorter side, it's somewhat a filler chapter but i needed to write it to introduce people into the story so y/n is less of a loser 🙏🙏🙏 the next chapter is all about our man tho

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