Receiving 101 (Yuu Nishinoya X Reader)

The Match

Again and again the line, hitting recieves one after the other, passing the spotlight onto the next before Coach decided to shake things up. "Alright everyone gather up!" He said climbing down the ladder. Everyone ran to the board. "Nice recieves guys, but it's time to put your money where your mouth is! We are going to do a couple full rotation practice matches. Here's the divide."

Coach grabbed a marker and began writing on the board, calling out names. "Nishinoya, Hinata, Kageyama, Yamaguchi, Tanaka, you're on the left! ___, Tsukkishima, Suga, Asahi, Daichi! You're on the right! Grab your jerseys and then get to your sides!" "Coach! I'm playing in a practice game?! But I'm not on the team!" ___ said panicked. "Today you are!" He said laughing. "I watched you hit those recieves and you've got potential! Now I want to see what you can do on the court rather than the sidelines!" ___ gasped. "Are you sure?!" "Yeah! I'm sure!" Coach said. "You've never played on a team before right? I wanna see what you can do. Follow Daichi's lead. He'll help you out. Now get out there and make me proud!" "Yes sir!" ___ cheered grabbing a jersey. "Thatta girl!" Coach said patting her on the back.

___ quickly pulled her coloured jersey over her shirt and jogged over to the right side. "Alright guys, bring it in!" Daichi yelled. Everyone gathered up. "Okay so here's the plan. Hinata and Kageyama are really going to go all out with those crazy quick attacks, so we'll need our receivers in full power to try and counter that. Tsukkishima, I want you focusing on blocking that, but don't forget about Tanaka on the left. Suga, focus on passing to Asahi whenever you can, but I'll take some hits as well if needed. ___, I want you to put your primary focus on recieving the ball for this rotation. Nishinoya told me quite a bit about your skills and he's no liar, so I want you to go all out alright? I'll be on the back lines with you for now." "Right!" ___ said nodding. 

"Alright everyone, hands in!" Daichi said. "On three! One, two, three..!" "Fight!" Everyone yelled. "We got this!" Daichi said nudging ___ gently on the side. "We'll hold down fort back here. It's just you and me for now. Don't be afraid to communicate by the way, If the ball is too far out of your reach let me know and I'll cover you. We're a team here, so let's act like it." "Got it!" ___ said holding her hand up for a high five. Daichi slapped her hand. "Let's do this!" He said getting in position on the right. ___ was on the left, right across from Nishinoya.

"Hey ___," Nishinoya called. "Don't hate me if you lose 'kay?" "Don't worry about it!" ___ called back,"Because we're not losing!" She got into position. Yamaguchi was up to serve first. "Alright ___," Daichi whispered next to her, "Yamaguchi is serving first. Chances are he's going to send us one of those nasty jump float serves so we gotta be careful. They're rather unpredictable, so you really gotta watch out for them. I have a feeling he is going to be sending them to the left corner behind Asahi so be prepared to watch for it. I'm not sure if I can get there in time so I'll leave it to you. I'm counting on you okay?" "I won't let you down!" ___ said, a serious expression on her face. 

Coach blew the whistle and Yamaguchi jumped up. Sure enough it was a float serve, and unless it changes direction last minute, it was coming right towards her. "Got it!" ___ called. Just then the ball swerved sharply towards the left and started dropping quickly. This was all on her now. Daichi couldn't reach it in time, and to be honest, she didn't want him to. This was her time to shine. She would show Nishinoya, and coach, and everyone what she was made of. It was now or never.

She dove.

"It's up!" Daichi yelled moving to hit the ball. "Suga!" "On it!" Suga yelled recieving the ball and setting it to Asahi. Asahi sent the ball slamming down on the other side of the net. "One point!" Suga cheered. "Nice job predicting that serve ___," he said. "I could never do that." "Thanks!" ___ said grinning ear to ear. "You just gotta keep your eyes on the ball!" "That was great!" Daichi said patting her on the back. "I don't know how you predicted that was going to the left quick enough to dive for it, but keep it up!" He cheered. "I will!" She said grinning. "You better keep it up or I'll surpass you!" She teased. "I'll believe it when I see it," Daichi said back grinning, "Though with that prediction it might just happen." "We'll see." ___ said getting back into position.