What are the odds

8

The phone towers and power were back up and running and still no one had heard from the Karasuno team.

It had been a full twelve hours before anyone had even realised they were missing, not until late the morning after they'd left.

Their families had assumed they'd waited out the storm with their coaches and managers while their coaches and managers had assumed they'd gotten home safely. None of them heard about the mountain slide that had happened until they'd arrived back home having taken a different route.

Sugawara Koushi and Azumane Asahi's parents were huddled together in the Sawamura home with the homeowners, all with worry etched into their features. Their boys were close with each other and so over the years, their parents had become close too. Usually, conversation and laughter flowed easily between them but on this particular night, there was none of that.

You could almost taste the fear in the air as the adults tried desperately to silently reassure themselves that their boys would be okay.

"What if-" Asahi's mother starts fearfully before being cut off by Daichi's father.

"No, no what-ifs. Our boys are strong, and- and they're smart," He says determinedly.

"You're right, we can't give up hope, the authorities are organising search parties, we can join them in the morning, they'll be fine," Sugas mother says with such certainty that the parents around her actually start to believe her.

"But what if-" Asahi's mother starts again only for Suga's mum to get up from her seat and whack the other woman on the head none too lightly causing her to end what she was saying with a loud "Ouch! what was that!"

"Negativity chop," The other woman says shrugging her shoulders and sitting back down. The men laugh, each having seen both the elder and young Sugawara's utilise the 'negativity chop' when they deemed it necessary. The adults soon fall back into silence, each too worried to keep up and kind of conversation and eventually they disperse to their own homes, hoping to hear something about their boys before the night is over.

None of them sleep that night.