Heiress - Female! Kageyama Tobio Fanfiction

Chapter 3

The first half of the year flew by for Kageyama Tobio. She had gotten comfortable with a routine.

Every morning she would walk to school, meeting up with Kindaichi and Kunimi at the same crossing every single morning, each having their respective yoghurt drinks in hand. On Mondays, she would robotically go through the day and only zone in again in time for volleyball practice. As promised, Iwaizumi had found her a space to change on her own, away from prying eyes. Sometimes, the space was taken by others from different clubs, but she could make do with the restrooms.

Tuesdays were the only days club practice wasn't on, this allowed the first-year trio to hang out. Their usual areas were the park, arcade or to wander through the town.

Wednesdays were okay, volleyball only really on her mind. This was the day were Iwaizumi would catch her before the team left to go home. After changing, she always met him waiting outside of the room, scrolling through his phone patiently. They would just catch-up, talk freely between one another with a platonic senpai-kohai conversation. He would always buy her a snack as they walked home from the convenience store too. Kageyama found herself looking forward to Wednesdays.

Thursdays and Fridays were her favourite days though. That was when she would stay late with Oikawa to train.

He would go through the basics, getting her bumps cleaner, more solid and reliable. Setting was a breeze, she picked up as many tips and tricks from Oikawa as she could. They never spent too much time on that aspect. Spiking was fun, she would work on her timing and approaches to the net. Kageyama enjoyed hitting the tosses from her senpai. Oikawa would always tease her when she made mistakes but always helped her up.

"Come on Tobio-chan, you can do better than that."

"Woah, that was pretty good Tobio-chan! Let's try that again, yeah?"

"Watch closely Tobio-chan! Your amazing senpai will only show you once!"

Every time he gave her a compliment or something to motivate her, Kageyama's smile would only grow brighter.

Oikawa would also go into basic positioning and rotations. After the first week of volleyball practice, she described and showed her interest in specialising as a setter. At that, Oikawa jumped at the chance to train her, rambling on about how it was the best position.

That was about a month ago though.

Ever since the inter-high and their loss against Shiratorizawa junior high in the finals, Oikawa had seemed busier. Less time to spend on working with Kageyama, he abruptly cut their after-club training saying he needs the time to work on himself. She often found him working on his jump serves after every practice.

Kageyama watched in awe at a distance. In their training sessions, she had only just managed to get the hang of underarm serves. Oikawa had given her tips on overhand serves but never touching on jump-serves.

But that was a month ago.

She didn't think too hard about it. Oikawa-senpai was a third-year so he needed the time. She left it for a month, just working closely with her other first-year peers. That was until the practice match today was declared. Another school was announced to be coming over to play a practice game with them, this stirred up lots of excited chatter.

As the game started, everything seemed fine. Kitagawa Daiichi had been calmly racking up points while also losing some in the process. It wasn't until the last set where everything started to go downhill. Oikawa's sets began to falter. Off-time, too low, too far. It was clear something was wrong.

She was watching Oikawa-senpai with worry in her blue eyes, not noticing the coaches calling her over to the bench until she was nudged by Kindaichi. Walking over, she was ecstatic upon finding out that she was going to be subbed in.