I Loved You

Prologue

"Iizuna, Nagaoka, can you two show the new first years around?"

"Sure." Iizuna smiles as Nagaoka nods slightly, approaching the new first years. "Welcome to the Itachiyama Volleyball Club! Our facilities are pretty big so we'll show you all around!"

"Thank you!"

Y/N trails a little behind the group as the two second years show them around, taking them to the courts, storage room, locker rooms, everything she can think about, they have it. The new first year players look at the facilities in awe as she watches them, not really wanting to get involved. Noticing this, one of the second years walks up to her.

"Hi! I'm Iizuna Tsukasa, the official setter of Itachiyama." Iizuna introduces himself as he smiles, taking her by surprise.

"Hi... I'm L/N Y/N, the new manager..." She trails off shyly as he grins.

"It's nice to meet you L/N-san! I look forward to having you on the team!"

"Thank you, I look forward to working with you too." Y/N smiles.

"Is there a reason why you're staying a little behind?" Iizuna asks curiously. "You can look around a little more if you'd like."

"Oh, it's fine." Y/N chuckles. "The players are more important, I'm sure they need to look around a little more than I do."

"Hey don't say stuff like that." Iizuna says as he shakes his head. "You're a teammate too. You're just as important as any other member on the team."

Y/N blinks in surprise as she looks at him, before smiling slightly and nodding. "Thanks."

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Entering the second year's building as a first year is a little nerve-wrecking, but luckily no one really cares as Y/N quietly navigates her way to Iizuna's classroom, having been asked by the coach to give him some schedules.

Eventually finding his class, Y/N peeks in through the door to look for him, finding him talking to his friends at his desk. Just as she's about to call out to him, one of his classmates accidentally stumbles and drops her books.

"Ahh sorry!" She groans and bends down to pick it up.

Instinctively, Iizuna covers the corner of his desk with his hand so that she doesn't hit her head on it.

Having witnessed the exchange, Y/N smiles slightly to herself.

'That was really nice of him...'

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Y/N sighs at the morning summer heat as she continues packing away and rearranging the equipment, staying back after practise to clean up the storage room a little. Most others have already changed and gone back to their classrooms for school to start, but she still has a little time before she needs to start going.

Deciding to stay back so she wouldn't be alone, Iizuna pops through the door as he looks around. "It looks pretty good to me."

"Yeah, that's because I'm already finished now." Y/N chuckles as she sighs and walks over to the door. "You haven't changed yet?"

"Nah, I was kind of just walking around in the gym aimlessly." Iizuna says as she raises her eyebrow in suspicion.

"You sure? You weren't doing any extra practise behind my back were you?"