Fly (Keishin Ukai) - COMPLETED

4 - Freedom

Saturday mornings were always the same in the Nishinoya household. Pancake Saturday's her parents had called it. Despite the unoriginal name, the story behind it was quite beautiful. It was how Yuki and Yū's parents met. They would tell the story so often that the children knew the story word by word, and at the simple mention of it, both would groan, though Yuki secretly loved it. Deep down, she was a hopeless romantic and hoped one day she could tell such a wonderful story to her children.

"What are you planning on doing today Yuki?" Yū asked with a mouthful of pancakes - most would grimace at the sight, but after sixteen years of living with him, she got used to it.

"I'm not s-sure," she replied, her eyebrows scrunched together at the realisation. Since she started being the volleyball coach, she had something to look forward to each day, and now she was not sure what to think. Without the Volleyball coaching, what else could she do? The only other hobby she had was drawing, but that involved staying in her room - and that was the last thing she wanted.

"H-have you g-got any p-p-plans?"

"I was thinking go hang out with Tanaka today; you can join-"

"Have you completed that homework?" Their mum interrupted.

"Eh - I was going to do it with Tanaka?" Yū tried to give his biggest smile, but their mum's dark glare did not budge.

"Or I can just stay home and do homework," he muttered, earning a smile and nod from their mother. He groaned and looked at Yuki. "Can you help me?" Yuki laughed but agreed.

The two spent the morning and early afternoon working doing his homework. They laughed and talked and honestly, there was not much work being done. Yú was the only one that Yuki stuttered far less around, but only when they were alone. She found comfort and could relax around him. Unlike her parents who, she felt like, pitied her ever since that day, while Yú treated her the same.

"How are you finding the coaching?" He asked.

"Good, I gave Hinata s-something to practise over the weekend, s-so s-should be interesting to see him next training." She gave a bright smile.

"Have you got anything for me?" Her little brother grew excited like a puppy dog seeing a treat.

"Like s-something for you to practise?" She asked, her head tilting to the side, confused. He nodded enthusiastically. "Uh - I'm - I'll have to t-think about it."

"Awesome! I'm going to tell Tanaka!" Yū was out of the door before she had a chance to answer. She chuckled to herself when she heard the door slam, for a sixteen-year-old boy he sure was excitable. She went downstairs to talk to her parents but was surprised to see she was alone. She stood in the middle of the hallway perplexed. She did not know what to do, and her body was itching to do something that was outside.

With new determination, the younger woman made her way up the stairs and to her parent's bedroom. Volleyball was not the only sport she was good at; she was also a runner. Her parents had told Yuki they had gotten rid of all her uniforms and sports gear - but she knew that was a lie, her mother was a hoarder.

Yuki was rummaging for a while through her parent's bedroom, but she had found nothing. Was her gear truly gone? She gave a deep sigh, gutted that her sports life seemed to have disappeared. As she walked out of her parent's room and started to shut the door, she saw that under the bed hid a drawer. She had not seen it before; the handle was carved into the wood.

Cautiously Yuki approached the hidden drawer; deep down, she knew that is where her parents had hidden everything. They would not want to get rid of so many years of her life, but they also did not want her to find it. Her fingers slipped into the camouflaged handle, and with a quick breath, she tugged it hard, cracking the seal and revealing the contents inside.