Lead Wings | Ushijima Wakatoshi x Reader

𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖜𝖔

I don't play volley so some things won't make sense, sorry.

You open the door to the gym and all eyes turn to look at you. Mostly because you are wearing a (color) sweater with its hood over your head and a mask that's covering half of your face, letting only your (color) orbs to be visible. To them, you look like you are about to kill them. There are so many boys and a few girls so you assume that those are the managers of the teams. You turn around to search for the one that asked you to come here: Keishin Ukai. He gulps as your scary gaze meets his and stutters as he starts speaking.

"Hinata, can you let them serve this time?" He says, pointing to you. The ginger looks at you from head to toe and his whole-body shivers at how intense you are watching him. But he nods and runs off the court, handing you the ball. He's a bit shorter than you so he must a first year. He still has time to grow, but you appreciate that he has the 'balls' to play a game where height is your best ally. You take the object from his hands and place down your bag. You give the blonde man another glare, this way telling him that you are still mad at him.

You bounce the ball in your hands a few times on the floor and then jump, ready to serve. You look at the boys on the other side of the net: they are wearing black T-shirts, having over them blue vests and red shorts. As they are able to receive the ball, the game keeps going, with you running around to help them. The captain of the rival team watches you with cat-shaped eyes, like he is trying to read each and every one of your moves. The setter with big blue eyes from Karasuno throws the ball in your direction and you delay your jumping to match with the spin of the ball, their blockers already up to stop you. You hit the ball with force, scoring a point as it lands on the floor and makes a loud sound.

Surprisingly, the hood from your head wasn't blown away as you ran, so your identity is still hidden. They don't need to know who you are, for now. The coach from the other team doesn't seem to mind your intervention in the game, as probably Ukai already told him that you would join.

"I'm so sorry! The timing was a bit off!" The black-haired boy says to you. You shake your head for a 'no' and return to the back of the court to serve again. Looking at the score, you see that Karasuno is far behind from winning this set. When he said that his team needs help, Ukai should've said instead that they need a miracle from God. It's not that they are bad, but they are not the best either. He gave you a few details about them and told you about the setter progeny they have on the team. Now that you witness his tosses, you can clearly say that he is indeed one.

As you are about to set again, the phone from your bag starts ringing loudly. You drop the ball on the floor and run to pick it up, no longer caring about the game. You find it and press the button to answer immediately, without checking who was calling you as you already knew. You bring the phone to your ear, but before you can say something, the person on the other line starts screaming, forcing you to yank the device away from your ear so you won't go deaf.

"Where are you?! We just started playing and you disappeared! We have an official match in two weeks and you are skipping practice?!" The deep and angry voice of your coach makes your body shiver. Crap, you are in big trouble. I mean, you already knew that he would be mad, but holy shit, you've never heard him being this loud. You pull down the mask covering your mouth, as well as your hood, and you bow from the middle, like your coach was in front of you.

"I deeply apologize for my lack of discipline! My brother came to the city asking me to help him with his team and I couldn't refuse him! I promise that I'll be there tomorrow for practice. I accept every type of punishment you find to be fit for my behavior!" You say in one breath, since you already had the words prepared. If he asks you to come back, you'll make a big fool of yourself in front of your juniors.

"We'll talk tomorrow," he says and ends the call. You exhale loudly, relieved that he let you off the hook this time. It's not the first time you skipped practice and used a lame excuse to get away with it, but your coach knows you well. You will never bring up your brother out of the blue if it wasn't actually true. Your big brother that looks at you with wide eyes as you lift yourself.

"You skipped practice to come here?! Are you out of your mind?!" At this point, all of the matches stopped. Either because someone won, or because they were curious about what was going on.

"Hah?!" You snap and turn to him. "You haven't spoken to me in months and suddenly you call me and tell me that you need my help! Unlike you, I'm always there for you!" He opens his mouth to say something else, but immediately closes it shut, probably because he realized that you were right. "You still look at me like I'm a child that you need to protect. It was one injury, get over it already!"

"It wasn't just an injury—" "(Name)-san?" You hear someone calling you from behind, and you turn on your heels, finding the source of the voice looking at you with big brown eyes behind his grey bangs. You completely forgot that everyone was watching you, especially the now third years boys.

"Hi," you say in a shy voice, waving at them, completely embarrassed by the situation you are in. Before you can apologize, you feel how he wraps his arms around you, followed by the other two.

"We were so worried about you!" Daichi is the first one to speak, still holding you in his arms.

"We heard from Michimiya-san what happened during the match," Asahi continues, sounding like he is about to start crying.

"And then you stopped coming to school until the year finished. She told us that you received a scholarship here in Tokyo, but—"

"Okay, enough already!" You push them away as their big bodies were starting to crush you. "I fell and hit my head, stop making such a big deal out of it!" You tell them, at the same looking back at your brother. "You promised me that you'll go to the nationals, why are you here, looking like the world ended for you?"

As you lecture them, Hinata gets closer to Tanaka.

"Who is she?"

"Ah," he scratches the back of his head, "she was the captain of the girls' volleyball team of our school. I remember her saying that she was a wing spiker"

"She's one of the top 3 aces in Japan for the college category," Bokuto says coming from behind them, placing one arm on Hinata's shoulder and the other on Tanaka's, "Ukai (Name)," his bright yellow eyes watch the movement of your body as you keep scolding Asahi for his lack of roughness as an ace. Kageyama, Kuroo, Kenma, and many more hear this statement. The way you hit the ball earlier was enough to prove that his words were true.

"Wait, did she say that Ukai-san was her brother?" Hinata asks, after putting two and two together. He looks at Tanaka and Tanaka looks at him, then they look around at their teammates. It seems that the ginger wasn't the only one that had just understood what her words from earlier meant.

"Eh?! Coach's sister?!"