For the Love of Volleyball

Volleyball Practice

Koichi was walking outside the gyms at Fukurodani, a usual thing he did, because walking helped him calm down. Today the volleyball club was practicing and apparently they forgot to put the net up over the door, because a ball went flying outside and hit Koichi in the face. Hard.

Falling over the dirty blond haired boy landed on his bottom his face turning a bright red from the impact. "Ow!" He yelled as he cupped his hands over his face in pain. "Bokuto-san, you need to be careful!" Said the mysterious person who was in front of Koichi. Peeking up from his hands he noticed the setter Akaashi was standing over him, "Are you alright?" He asked gently, while holding his hand out for the other to take it. Koichi blushed, although it wasn't very visible due to his already red face, and took the setter's hand.

Helping him up, Akaashi smiled softly, "He got you pretty good didn't he?" The taller of the two chuckled. "I-I.." Koichi's freckled face turned a deeper red as he looked down nervously, "Y-yeah." He stuttered shyly.

Akaashi picked up the ball, smiling still, "Well, you're welcome to watch, or were you looking to join?" He questioned, tilting his head. "O-oh, I'm fine, I'll just watch." Koichi smiled warmly up at the setter. "Akaashi, what's taking so long?!" Bokuto came running out of the gym. "Bokuto-san, shouldn't you apologize?" The setter turned to the owl like captain.

Bokuto sized Koichi up, glaring at him, "What're you doin' here?" He questioned rudely. Akaashi sighed, "Bokuto-san, please stop being rude, you hit him in the face." The black haired boy covered his face in annoyance. "N-no, it's alright, it was an accident." Koichi swallowed hard, slightly intimidated.

Akaashi frowned looking at the slightly smaller boy, "He is sorry, he's just an ass." The setter glared at his captain. Bokuto looked shocked, "Hey!" He pouted, "Just come on the others are waiting!" The captain frowned, grabbing the setters hand and pulling him inside. The black haired boy looked unamused, but looked back at Koichi, "He's a bit moody today, so maybe come back later?" He smiled before he was dragged into the gym, Bokuto slamming the doors shut.

Koichi blushed and smiled brightly, "Akaashi actually talked to me!" He squealed and ran off, his day ending wonderfully.

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Aikihiro had joined the volleyball club a little late, but had learned quickly, and was now a wing spiker for the Karasuno team, he often switched with Tanaka. Everyone was quite impressed being as he was so small, only a few inches taller than Hinata. Who was extremely excited when there was another person who joined that was short.

They were practicing with Aoba Jousai today and honestly, they weren't doing too bad, they had just switched Kageyama out and put Sugawara on the court. Sugawara was Aikihiro's favorite setter, he was flexible and knew how to adjust. Kageyama was too fast for him, but that's why Hinata was there, he played decoy when Kageyama was the setter and he thought he was pretty good at it.

"Aikihiro!" Sugawara called to the blackish-purple haired boy. Walking over while taking his hair down and fixing it up into a bun again, "What is it, Suga-san?" Aikihiro asked with an uninterested tone. Sugawara pouted, "Aiki-chan, don't be like that, and I think they're going to try to be a bit stronger with their spikes being as you're blocking with Tsukishima for now. So, be ready." He said sternly, Aikihiro nodded and wiped the sweat off his face with his arm.

By the time he got back into position, the captain of Aoba, Oikawa, had entered the court. Aikihiro was staring at him, because holy shit he was tall.

Oikawa looked up from talking with his coach and looked straight at Aikihiro, confused as to when they got a new player. The black haired boy raised an eyebrow at the taller player, almost a little intrigued with him. Oikawa smiled and waved as he switched with one of his teammates.

"Aw, when did another Chibi-chan appear?" Oikawa said tauntingly, "When my mom gave birth to me? I don't know." Aikihiro said sassily  and stood up straight, putting a hand on his hip, trying to look cool and it seemed to have worked because Oikawa was thrown off. "Well, let's see how that cool face of yours is when I crush it with the ball." He smiled innocently.

Aikihiro smirked, "Let's see how yours is when I keep you from scoring." The entire Karasuno team gasped and looked scared, because they knew he didn't know how powerful the captain's serves were. Oikawa kept smiling, but you could tell he was irritated, "Okay! Let's put it to the test then!" He said getting into position.

Aikihiro was still smirking, because he knew Oikawa was powerful. He had talked with Kageyama about it, he wasn't walking into the dark with this one.

The Aoba captain backed off the court a few feet and threw the ball up in the air, running and jumping, hitting it so hard it made a loud smack noise.

The captain of Karasuno, Daichi, quickly moved to receive the volleyball and did so, but a little crooked, "Asahi!!" He yelled and the other wing spiker sprung into action and corrected the crooked hit, "Suga!!" The taller long haired spiker yelled, "Right! Aikihiro!" Suga yelled. Aikihiro took off toward the right side of the court, jumping up quickly as the two blockers rushed to his side and jumped.

Suga hit the ball backward towards Hinata who was already up in the air and smacking the ball down, scoring the team a point. Aikihiro landed and smirked at the two blockers, "You should pay attention more~" he laughed. They frowned and went to their positions again.

The back and forth of everything continued for a couple of hours until the score was 24 and 24, a tie. It was Oikawa's turn to serve again, and Karasuno had switched their positions, Kageyama was back on the court, so they put Aikihiro as the middle blocker.

Oikawa did his famous jump serve and Aikihiro noticed where it was going before anyone else could react and he dove as fast as he could, sliding his hand out, the ball hitting the top of his hand and coming back up into the air. "Nice!" Daichi yelled as he quickly received the ball and sent it towards Kageyama, who then set it toward Hinata using their freak quick. They had scored the last point. The entire team erupting into cheers.

Aikihiro looked toward Aoba's captain while laughing with his team. Oikawa had a shocked look on his face, nobody had ever been able to do that before, so how did he? Frowning the captain glared as the small spiker came running toward the net. "I told you, I would!" He laughed and Oikawa frowned more then smiled brightly, hiding his frustration, "Good job, Chibi-chan! I hadn't known you were that good!" He came over to the net, looking down at the smaller boy. "But, I'll get better and even you won't be able to receive that." He continued smiling as he waved leaving with his team after they said their thank you's.

Hinata ran over to Akihiro, "You made the Grand King angry!!" The orange haired boy said with wide eyes. "Well, that's his problem not mine. I keep my promises." The black haired boy stated while letting his hair down and scratched his head. "So cool!!" Hinata screamed while grinning.

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Hi, my babies, okay this is for my little haikyuu friends, one of the characters was actually designed by them and he was the cutest TBH(it's Koichi btw) but idk I love it so far so tada yay anyway, love you guys~