A Haikyuu love story

The returnee on the run

Sighing, the girl still examines the building. It used to look exactly like that in the past. It has not changed a bit while she was away ... Whether this is good or bad, she still does not know, but if it is really as it used to be, then she will probably find out faster than actually wanted...

To her own surprise, she still knows exactly where everything is and finds her classroom pretty quickly. Again, nothing has changed. The same bare walls. The weird smell. The same faces. Everything as before ... But what did she expect? In half a year, not much changes... And just as before, she sits down on her seat, just as if it was the most normal in the world ... But not two minutes later, someone is suddenly at her table.

"So you're back ..."

Just when, the already slightly confused Aya wants to turn aside, she is already thrown off her seat best friend by one of her classmates. With great difficulty, despite the acute lack of air, she tries to get her classmate down from her. Yes, the day cannot start any better...

Still visibly annoyed, she drags her feet down the corridor. Not only her best friend has made a big uprising because of her return, no, just the whole class. They bombarded her with questions... Oh yes, she's so lucky ... In her opinion, they could have quietly ignored her, it would have been so much easier ... at least for her ... It was a miracle that the others let her go to get something to eat. And since she is already alone, she should enjoy this especially peaceful time and savor it to the fullest!

"A-Aya?!"
Irritated, she looks to the side. That was it with her peaceful time just for her alone... In front of her is the guy who is rumored to be one of the most dangerous guys here. But she knows for a fact that, unlike his reputation, he is the biggest sissy she knows ...
"Yo, Asahi. Long time no see," she says in a bored tone and briefly raises her hand to greet him.
He just looks at her. He is completely frozen. How could he even get a single word out? But how can she talk to him so relaxed and normal, even though they had no contact with each other when she was away...? And that was at least half a year! Six months! But he was not the only one with who she did not want to be in contact during this period... No, she just kept away from everyone ...
"So then. It was nice to see you again."
She raises her hand again to signal her departure. But when she has already turned away and took the first step, she stops abruptly.
"Don't tell Daichi."
Without even waiting for his answer or any reaction, she leaves the frozen third year behind. A few seconds pass before he realizes what has just happened, but as soon as he comes to his senses, he sprints through the hallways, right into the classroom he's looking for.
Meanwhile, Aya has successfully gotten her breakfast and is back in her seat as usual. But unfortunately, that should not stay long ... Just as she wants to bite into her honey bread, the classroom door is torn open. Not that that bothers her ... But when, just seconds later, that face suddenly appears with that frightening expression ... Well, that bothers her ... That much that she falls off her chair ...
"Do you really think that you can just turn up like that after half a year, without even saying hello?!"
His anger is definitely visible. She sees that... and unfortunately everyone else in the classroom...
"Still so damn scary...", she murmurs to herself and gets up again.
"What did you say my little Kohai?!" he asks with a scary smile.
Her normal bored expression settles on her face again. His eyes leave her completely cold. Silence break out. Such a thing would probably be called a cold war, a damn cold one ... But suddenly, before all this can escalate, the door flies open again and a completely out of breath Sugawara stumbles in.
"Aya...!" He squeezes out of his airless lungs when he discovers the girl.
"Suga," she greets him with her always bored look and monotone voice.

Suga, on the other hand, is clearly over the moon. He shines all over his face, he would like to greet her, hug her and then ask what happened in the time they did not have contact, but right now Daichi does not look so happy with the whole situation...
"Aya, training is at normal time today," growls Daichi, standing in front of her to get her attention again.
But he fails. With a sigh, she sits back in her chair.
"I won't come."
Sugawara suspects nothing good when he sees Daichis body twitching after this statement. He does not like her statement at all...
"But why not? You watched us many times already... We also have new ones from first year...! ", Sugawara tries to convince her.
"You already have a manager who helps you with all things...and what would it bring you if I come to watch? Besides, I've already been to another club ... "
"Don't be late!", Daichi interrupts her and leaves the classroom.
"S-see you later ...!", Sugawara says nervously smiling and runs behind his Captain.
Sighing, she drops her head on the table. She will not go there today. Never.

Well, unfortunately...
"H-hey! Let me down now! I-I'm serious ...!", she yells at him.
He does not pay any attention to her. He easily carries the girl that he threw over his shoulder earlier, through the corridor. He simply ignores her protest and the confused looks of the other students. If she does not come by herself, then he has to help. And he definitely does! He carries her to the gym and sets her down just before the door. This is the best moment to disappear, in her opinion... With a quick hand movement he opens the gym door and pulls her at her wrist.
Immediately all eyes of those present present people in the gym rest on the duo. As much as she would now continue to shout at him ...she is just too busy staring at the people who are staring at her. But when she discovers someone who already looks a bit nervous, the others are instantly forgotten.
"Azumane ~," she begins with a disturbing smile, "I thought we agreed that you would not say anything~"
Completely unable to move from the spot, he watches as she pulls his captain, who still holds her by the wrist, in his direction.
"HEY! You can't talk to Asahi-san like that! ", says the small guy and protectively stands in front of the ace of the team.
She is not very impressed and does not even bother to take him seriously. So instead of stopping, she just keeps going.
"Out of the way Nishinoya!" She orders with a grunt.
If that keeps up, she'll definitely run him over! But suddenly Nishinoya clicks. Her whole appearance seemed familiar to him! Why didn't he think about it soon?!
"Aya ...?" He tests questioningly.
Once again he looks at her more closely and after a few seconds he is quite sure. That is her! That face, her behavior and the way the captain deals with her!
When she is only two steps away from Nishinoya to fight Azumane, she is suddenly thrown to the ground again.
"AYA!" Nishinoya exclaims.

Completely overwhelmed, the brunette lies on the floor and tries to understand the murmur that the boy from her year gives of himself, but without success. But suddenly she gets rid of the extra weight. And immediately, without losing any time, she gets up.
"Ah ... Thanks...?" She says unsure as she looks into Tanaka's angry face.
Well, she can understand him, after all, she just left without saying anything. That's why she did not want to come here ... She wanted to end the whole topic "Volleyball" ... This is all Daichi's fault! And then he dares to let her go when she is being run over. He could at least have fallen with her!
"It was nice to see you again ... See you ...", she says and turns her back to the exit.
"First you just disappear and then, when you reappear, you want to disappear again?!", he says with a threatening expression.
Aya has no choice but to stop. He's right ... so she should listen to him until the end ...
"Why did you just disappear?! Why didn't you say anything? A-and now you appear again as if nothing happened...?! ", Tanaka sobs.
"I-I'm-sorry ...!", stutters he normally so disinterested girl.
In the meantime, Tanaka has big crocodile tears running over his face.
"H-hey, i-it ok! I'm off right now! ", she desperately tries to calm him down, but she fails.
He does not seem to calm down a bit. And when he comes to her, she is finally at the end. She has not had a chance to think about a direct confrontation with them yet and now the worst case has happened...! But she has no time to worry about it. Without warning, Tanaka pulls her into a far too tight hug and begins to squeeze the air out of her lungs.
"I missed you so much! Where have you been?! We won't let you go again! "
Unfortunately, Aya is not even in the mood to ask him to let go... she's too busy choking miserably ...
"That's enough!", Daichi says in a firm voice and pulls the two apart, "You, concentrate on your training and you, sit down and wait until the training is over."
Normally she would protest, but his expression tells her that she should rather do what he wants at the moment. Besides, she would only attract more attention if she stars a fight with the captain of the volleyball team again and keep the whole team from training... Reluctantly sighing, she makes her way to the sidelines.
But just as she has arrived at her new seat for the next hours, the door is opened with a jerk. But before she even has the chance to turn around, someone runs against her.
"Ouch," sighs Hinata, rubbing his aching forehead.
He was so absorbed in his thoughts about training that he did not pay attention to where he was going. Normally nobody stands there during training...

In Ayas opinion Hinata confirms only their dislike for first graders. For her, this species of people is just unbearable noisy and even more terribly motivated as far as life is concerned. But the worst of all is probably the fact that you will find these people everywhere ... In every school form, the newcomers to the later work ... just everywhere! However, the fact that she also belongs to this annoying species at some points in her life is skilfully masked out, since she is neither loud nor motivated about anything she does.
"Oi Hinata! Stop right there! Otherwise I will...-!"
The other half of the sentence, however, is stuck in Kageyamas throat, his head is swept empty, so that the reason why he wanted to cut Hinata into small pieces is completely forgotten. He is still standing in the doorway, pale, staring at the girl wide-eyed. Hinata does not understand it, but what he understands is that this girl is the reason Kageyama leaves him alone. Well, that's not too bad...! So he does what everyone would do. In less than a second, he is behind her and screams:"Come on, come on!"
With clenched fists he jumps again and again like a wild squirrel. But all this leaves Kageyama cold.
"Is this always like this...?", she mumbles into herself and leaves and stops to stare at Hinata.
For the first time since entering the room their eyes meet. Yes ... her piercing look bores almost through his head ... Immediately Kageyamas face turns a strange shade of red. Never in his life has he had such a hard time keeping eye contact with the person standing in front of him. She seems to have no problem with staring at him. She even nods in appreciation. Kageyamas heart seems to stop. She really recognized him...!