🔹🏐The Courts Calling🏐🔹- A Haikyuu Fanfiction

Training Camp (Part 2)- First Impressions

We finally made it to the bottom of the mountain and into a more populated city, where large buildings lined the sides of the road. Our school may have been well known, but we don't exactly come from a big area. We are buried behind acres and acres of thick forests, not counting being so high up in the mountains that our ears pop almost on a daily basis. I couldn't help but enjoy coming down for away games, it felt good seeing genuine city life with my own eyes.

There was a large building approaching on the left that everybody noticed, standing up in their seats and banging their fists on the window as if that could make the bus drive faster. After my speech, everyone seemed eager to begin matches, or in other words, crush our opponents. Its exactly what Jiro wanted from the beginning, but I just hoped we could get through a few days of this camp with friends before he forces us to chase them away like he always does.

When we pulled up to the sidewalk, there was already a large crowd waiting for us to arrive, all wearing outfits that consisted of both red and black. This must have been our inviting team, Nekoma.

Taking in another deep breath, I jump up from my seat and stand in the aisles again for my team to see. "Alright Timber Wolves!" I call, my voice rising to a screaming volume again that seemed to shake the whole bus So that even Nekoma could hear from the outside. "Keep in mind, first impressions always count, so let's make sure we give them something to remember!"

"Yes, Alpha!" They reply in chorus, pumping their fists in the air before going back to gathering their things.

Turning back around, I grab my blue and white team jacket off my chair and slip it over my uniform cover, which was just a white tank top and blue Katsushika pants. As I prepared to head toward the bus exit, I felt Miyu's excited presence behind me as she bounced back and fourth on her heels, barely able to contain her overflowing excitement. Before heading to the front, I reach up and give her hair one last ruffling, then place my arm around her shoulder as I lead her forward with Kiyomi and Mika right behind us.

The Nekoma team's coach was there to greet us at the bus door as it opened, but before I could get there, Jiro shoves through and almost slams me against the bus rails, making me have to fight to not lash out. The Nekoma coach seen his rude actions, and even if he seems to want too say something, he decided against it. "Welcome, Jiro." He greets the Katsushika coach, extending a hand to shake while trying to hide his expression of concern to me. "I'm glad you and your team able to make it safely."

Ryuunosuke didn't even bother meeting their coaches gaze as he forcefully shoves the hand away. As he spoke, he took his time stepping off the bus and onto the sidewalk, teetering his head around to get a glimpse at our surrounding area. "I see your still in the game after all these years." He replies, making it sounded as if he expected the guy to be dead. "Now I'd rather just skip the talking and get on with it before we decide that this isn't worth our time."

A low growl escapes my throat, and I prayed that Jiro wasn't able to hear it. Coming off the bus with his regular sore attitude doesn't exactly give the best first impression of our team, but I don't know what I even expected from coach in the first place. His whole deal was acting like everyone worships the ground we walk on, and the message he was sending told me that this was how we were expected to act from now on. Great...

After he clears the way to let us off, it was nothing but a blonde blurr as Miyu races past me out of the bus to get the first view of the high school, snapping me out of my crumpled mind and back to reality. It was so sudden when she just comes to a dead stop in the middle of the walkway, causing me to almost stumble straight over her tiny frame. "Watch it, Pup!" I warned, but it was clear I was the last thing she was paying attention to.