DoD in Highschool (English)

Chapter 9

When the bell rang, Kenji grabbed his bag and threw it over his shoulder. "Well, now comes the fun part of the day.", "Oh yeah." Satan grinned brightly when he left the room together with his best friend. They went to the separate building on the school yard and climbed the stairs up to the upper gym that was for the highschoolers. In the changing room, Lucy didn't look so happy. Before Satan was able to throw any comment at it, Satsuki Tachibana noticed it. "What's wrong?" Lucy stood there, still fully dressed, with a short sports trousers in his hand. "I... do we seriously need to wear short trousers in P.E.?" he asked. "Yeah. Got a problem with that?", "I hate wearing short trousers, so... yeah." Satan did his best not to laugh. "Poor guy. But you need to endure that now." Satsuki said. Lucy crunched his teeth. "Goddamnit..."
When they entered the gym, the young teacher ordered them to sit down in front of him. He had a list in his hand and made ticks on it. When he discovered Lucy and Satan, he smiled at them. "Ah, welcome. You're the Murakami- brothers, right? The new exchange students?", "That's right." Lucy answered. "I'm Aoi-Sensei. Welcome to my lesson." He made ticks again. "Who of you is Kaito?", "Me." Lucy raised his hand. "Okay." Aoi nodded. "Fine, then. I greet you to my lessons today. What I am planning for them is a little warm-up before you are going to spend the main time with improving your practical volleyball skills. You will divide into four teams of six and one team of seven and start playing against each other. But before we start, I wanna have a short talk with Raiden and Kaito." Satan and Lucy stood up and went with Aoi who waved them to come to him. "I have no idea what you've been doing at your school... So I need to ask you some questions to gain a picture of your current status. Did you play volleyball at school before?", "Sure we did." Satan answered without hesitation. "Great, so you are familiar with the rules?", "Yes, we are.", "Good. And do you know all the basic ball-controlling techniques and make use of them?", "I guess so, but I think it wouldn't damage us if we get them explained again.", "Okay, I'll do that for you in the game phase. Do you think you can integrate yourselves easily here? Some students of the class are very good at volleyball. The level is already quite high.", "I think that won't be such a great problem." Lucy said confident. "We will adjust ourselves to the circumstances and try to do our best.", "Fine." Aoi smiled. "I know I am not allowed to mark you, but I can give you feedback if you like. Does that sound okay for you?", "I would be glad." Lucy replied politely. Aoi-Sensei smiled and then turned around to the class. "Okay, run three rounds and then warm up with the ball." he ordered. Everyone got up and followed the command.
After the three rounds, Kenji was the first one to get his hands on a ball. He came to Satan and Lucy. "Well, guys, what about warming up together?", "I'm fine with that." Satan answered. "But at first, we get a five-minutes private lesson from Aoi-Sensei to refresh the technical stuff.", "I see. Well, I'll be waiting for ya." The teacher came over to them. "Well, I will just give you an introduction in digging, passing, setting, spiking, blocking and serving. These are fundamental techniques you should definitely know."
When Aoi-Sensei explained and showed them the different techniques, Kenji watched them. The both had no problems with comprehension and so, they were able to immediately integrate into the game. They joined Kenji. "Well, I guess a little warm-up with the ball would help you to get along with the game." he meant smiling and than passed the ball to Satan who used the digging- technique to send the ball to Lucy. He had no difficulties at all to pass it on to Kenji again. Five minutes, they held on without letting the ball fall to the ground. "Well, not that bad." Kenji grinned.
Aoi-Sensei called them all to come to him. "Okay, you should all be pretty warmed up now. Then, we need five people to come here and choose their teammates. Any volunteers?" Some hands raised themselves into the air. "Alright. Keiko, Hayato, Shichiro, Asuka and Mami, it's your turn." The three boys and the two girls came to the front. "The girls may start." Aoi commanded.
Satan and Lucy were separated from each other. While Lucy was selected by Hayato, Satan was chosen by Shichiro. At least, Kenji landed on the same team. Except of Shichiro, Jiru, Elaine and Mio were in their team. "Not such a bad choice." Kenji said. "Mio is in the Volleyball Club, so she is quite good at it. And Shichiro is that super sportive guy.", "Sounds like fun." Satan commented. "It will definitely be fun." Kenji smiled. "What about Keiko, is he good at it?", "More or less..." Kenji shrugged with his shoulders. "He has good leadership skills, but that's all. He has average skills, that's how I would estimate him.", "Hm..." Satan nodded. "Well, we'll see.", "Yeah."
Every team received a number. Satan's was number three. "Well, we will make a little tournament right now!" Aoi-Sensei announced. "The team with the most victories will be the winner of this tournament. Team One will play against Team Two on the first pitch. Team Three will deal with Team Four on the second one. Team Five will have a short break. Every game will last ten minutes.", "A tournament, huh?" Satan rubbed with his hands. "Well, that makes me fired up." Kenji laughed. "Hahahaha... I can see that. Well, come." He went to the second pitch. The team of Asuka was already waiting. Hayato's team was sitting on the bench. Lucy had leaned back, folded his arms and closed his eyes. "Where do you wanna begin?" Shichiro asked Satan. "You're the newest in our troop, so you have free choice of position.", "How nice of you." Satan smiled. "I guess I'll stand back and remain on position five.", "The Outside Hitter?", "Exactly.", "Okay, I'm fine with that." Shichiro smiled. "Mio, you're the Setter. Kenji, you're best on position two. You know, the Opposite Hitter.", "Gotcha.", "I will start on position three, the Middle Blocker. Elaine, that leaves position four or position six to you." Elaine started thinking. "Well... I... guess I'll be on position four then.", "Okay. Then, Jiru is the Libero. Fine." Shichiro smiled. "We're going to rotate anyway, but it's better we start on our favorite positions so we have higher chances of winning.", "Just don't fail, Shichiro." Jiru made digs at him. Shichiro looked at him. "Funny, Jiru. Really." They took their positions on the pitch.

The tournament went good for Satan's team. They lost just one game- the one against Hayato's team, also because of Lucy- but they were satisfied. Kagami, who was in Hayato's team as well, always had taken the position next to Lucy and he had tried to do his best in ignoring her. That wasn't always possible.
The last opponent was Keiko's team and that was when it happened. Satan was on position two and the ball flew right towards him when Shichiro yelled: "Smash it!" Satan raised his arm and spiked the ball with full demonic force- right into Keiko's face. A scream ripped through the gym when Keiko went down to the ground. His nose was bleeding. Normally, that wouldn't have been a situation anyone would regard as funny- but nearly the whole gym burst out into laughter. Satan tried to hold it back but he spectacularly failed. He started laughing and wrapped his arms around his stomach. He fell to the ground and yelled it all out. Kenji was also dying of laughter. Aoi-Sensei quickly went to Keiko and gave him a tissue. "Are you okay?" Keiko looked at him with a look that screamed 'ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND?!?' "It hurts." Keiko replied. "I'll fetch an ice pack for you." Aoi-Sensei went away and Keiko pressed the tissue against his nose. Haruna Ito kneeled down next to him. "Keiko-kun, I hope your nose isn't broken.", "I hope so too..." he mumbled from behind the tissue. "Raiden, your hit was very freaking painful." Satan tried to pull himself together but all he was capable of saying was: 'My apologies' before his voice was suffocated by his laughter. Kenji came towards him, still laughing. "Wow, you made a prophecy, Rai.", "I noticed that." Lucy sat on the bench again. He was one of the only people who was not laughing- possibly because he never laughed, so who was even surprised.
When Aoi-Sensei came back with the ice pack wrapped in a cloth, Keiko pressed it against his nose. He got up, went to the bench and sat down. "What a mess..." The young teacher sighed. "Stay here for the rest of the lesson, Nakamura-kun. You're freed." Then, he turned around to Lucy. "Okay, other theme. Raiden, I've been watching you during the game.", "Excuse me, I'm Kaito." Lucy corrected him. "Oh, sorry." Aoi-Sensei scratched himself on the back on his head. "Well... I need to say that you are quite good. Of course there can always be some improvement, but you are already quite good.", "Thanks for the compliment."