Volleyball Sister

Ten

I slowly blinked, looking at my ceiling, then at my calendar on the wall. Two weeks, five days, and who knows how many hours she's been gone. I sighed, sitting up, then got ready for Saturday practice. When I got to the school, it was quiet and I didn't like how dark it seemed now that she was gone. I went to the gym then saw the guys slowly getting ready, as if on autopilot instead of laughing while they did it.

"Tanaka, help us set up." Coach said then I nodded, going to help with the ball cart. As practice progressed, we kept making mistakes but coach wasn't scolding us this time, since he understood.

"Excuse us! We're looking for Tobio Kageyama and Ryunosuke Tanaka!" We looked at the doors then saw the same cop from his house, another cop with him. Kageyama and I went over then the cops cleared their throats.

"Would you boys mind following us outside? This shouldn't be said in such an echoey room." We nodded then went outside with them, standing under the shade of the covered sidewalk.

"Is this about my sister?" Kageyama asked and they nodded.

"We managed to fix her phone to the extent of us capturing the last image her camera saw. Do either of you recognize this man?" Officer Suoh showed us the photo then I eyed it closely, trying to recognize the guy but shook my head.

"I do." Kageyama said and I looked at him.

"That's the boy from her junior high, he had a large crush on her. He was devastated when she moved to Iwatobi and he disappeared, no one has seen him since." He said then I looked at him.

"What was this boy's name?" Officer Habari asked then Kageyama was silent for a moment.

"Ryuuji, Ryuuji Kyosuke." He said then the cop nodded, writing it down.

"Thank you, Tobio. You may have just saved your sister's life." Kageyama lit up like he never had before, his eyes wide and bright and his cheeks their milky color from before. Now I know why Hinata loves him so much.

"I saved her?" Officer Habari nodded then they left as we went inside.

"Is everything okay?" Coach asked but I looked at Kageyama, who looked hopeful.

"Yeah, just some good news." I said then the team ran closer.

"What is it?"

"They know who took her." I said and Kageyama started smiling.

"I-I know the face of the guy who took her. Her phone caught a photo of him and they managed to get it." He said then Hinata hugged him.

"That's awesome!" He yelled as he hugged Kageyama tighter, who hugged Hinata tightly.

"She's gonna come home-"

"If they find her-"

"Tsukishima, enough. She's coming home and she'll be okay." Coach Ukai said then we got back to practice, but all of us were making fewer mistakes. When practice ended, Kageyama's mom came in then beamed as she saw him.

"Tobio." He looked at her then she laughed some.

"They have her, they found Hana." She said then all of us ran to the doors, got on the bus, and went to their house as they went to get Hana. I ended up pacing back and forth, I couldn't sit still at all. When the door opened, all of us looked at the entryway as Kageyama came in, his mom following with Hana in a blanket. She was looking down, barefoot, dirty, and wasn't talking.

"Hana?" She jumped, looking up some at me, then I saw through her hair that she looked terrified by her surroundings.

"Hana?" Enoshita breathed but Kageyama ushered his sister upstairs, probably to her room or something.

"What happened to her?" I asked as their mom, Himiko, stood there then she slowly came over.

"Uh, there wasn't much that she had talked about. She just said she wouldn't talk about it, then she wouldn't talk. She hasn't said a single word to Tobio or I, just the cops who asked." She said then looked down.

"She-she has... Her body is now 20% scar tissue, they say she's been through a lot of trauma, they're surprised she even lets us touch her." She said then I looked at the steps.

"Call her friends, Ryunosuke. Please let them know she's okay but-but she's not Hana." She said and went upstairs, leaving us down here.

"What..." Hinata whispered then I looked at him.

"What happened to her?"

"That's the question, Hinata. Truth is, we knew she wouldn't come home herself." Daichi said then I felt like we hadn't gotten Hana back, not the one we knew.