𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍'𝐒 𝐀𝐂𝐄

12; horrible taste [UPDATED]

[updated; most of the chapter is new]

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the next day, atsumu watched as seishun faced his high school team. the black-and-white uniforms were more than familiar, and he couldn't help but reminisce to his high school days. the girls on the inarizaki team didn't seem as confident or good as he remembered. at the sight of seishun, they cowered in fear. 

"losers," he muttered to himself. atsumu couldn't believe that the team, that used to win all the championships, was now like this. 

his phone buzzed suddenly, and he opened the message.

seishun: our bet still on to see if inarizaki can beat us?

atsumu: no thanks. i'm not losing money today

 seishun: ur school sucks btw. idk how they got all the way to the fourth round

atsumu: ok ur hating too much. u might suck it up, u never know

seishun: u make me laugh sometimes 

atsumu: sometimes? u mean all the time.

seishun: no not at all. ok bye wish me luck

atsumu: eat shit lol

seen.

atsumu saw seishun roll her eyes as she stood up and made her way to the court. not much longer, the game ended. who won? niiyama, of course. they were onto the next round, and to atsumu's amusement, against tokonami.

atsumu found the girls that had shit-talked her to the moon. he recognized the exact girls that had been speaking badly of her, and watched seishun scan the faces of the girls. he had tried to describe them to the best of his ability, but it only resulted in seishun getting mad because he was horrible at giving descriptions. 

still, seishun was more serious, on the court, than usual. she'd give tokonami a run for their money, just as atsumu had asked. 

seishun had mentioned all the remarks they'd made to dai, who was enraged. twenty minutes before their match, dai informed the entire team about it, and declared that, just as atsumu had said, they wouldn't show mercy. 

so here seishun was, first to serve. 

seeing dai's determined frown, she wanted to laugh. dai's order was that seishun targeted each player on the court with her serve. who was seishun to go against dai's order?

as the whistle blew, seishun tossed the ball high into the air. she jumped, her hand smashing down on the ball. it flew, like a rocket, toward one of the girls. startled, she tried to set the ball. it was a big mistake.

the ball slammed into one of her fingers, and she let out a shriek of pain. 

seishun bowed half-heartedly. "sorry," she called out politely, her expression blank. according to atsumu's description, the girl had been the one that wanted seishun to get into an accident, just so they wouldn't have to play her. 

atsumu was in awe, up in the bleachers. "damn," he mumbled under his breath. 

seishun served five more times. another girl was subbed out, due to another finger injury. seishun hadn't even done it on purpose, either time. they were just incapable.