Irreplaceable || Haikyuu

7. Practice Match

Y/n's POV

I entered the gym building and waited for the boys to come in. I noticed Kiyoko, who was standing under the stairs and waved at her. She waved back in return when her gaze met mine and gave me a faint smile.

She had a board a pen in her hands and told me to come over.

"Good afternoon, Mizu-senpai. What's up?" I asked as I got close enough.

The ravenette handed me the board and pointed. "We don't have a wing spiker. What should we do about it?" she asked me.

I furrowed my eyebrows, "Hmm... I guess I know someone who used to play the wing spiker in this school..." I said.

Kiyoko looked at me and tilted her head, "You met Asahi Azumane?" she asked.

I looked at her, wide eyed, "How'd you know?"

She sighed a little disappointed, "He's been in our team for two years. I did wonder why he stopped suddenly."

I leaned back with my arms behind my head, humming.

I looked over Kiyoko's board again, inspecting everyone's names. So far, I got most of the players' names but stopped when I read a name that was unfamiliar to me. Libero was written next to it.

Nishinoya Yuu.

"Nishinoya?" I asked out loud.

The attractive upperclassman nodded as she pushed back her glasses from her nose. "Yeah, he's been absent due to his punishment. But it's supposed to end today, I wonder why he didn't come this morning..." Kiyoko said. I didn't want to dig any further and just nodded.

Soon all the players came into the gymnasium, all dressed out of their school uniforms. I cleared my throat and stood in front of the boys, gaining their attention.

"Let's warm up and later, we'll check your receives and spikes in pairs. So go ahead and do 10 laps." I said with a serious face.

The boys chorused 'Yes, ma'am!' before running around the gym.

After they were done, I set balls to the boys and they spiked it one by one. On the other side of the net, another group of boys received the balls that came towards them.... until it was Hinata's turn.

When the ball flew over to the other side of the net, Hinata missed it completely but someone else came it.

In a whoosh, a guy received it perfectly and it was pretty fast too.

"Noya!!" Tanaka said excitedly.

Wait... Is he....?

"Tanaka!! I'm finally back from my five month banishment!!" the libero said happily.

The two toned haired guy.

His eyes found mine and gave me a large grin. "Hey! It's you!!" Nishinoya said happily.

Good grief... there's another one...

Tanaka looked at him strangely, "But you're Yuu?" he said, making me facepalm myself.

Yep...

I dusted myself and pointed towards him. "You're late, mister libero." I said before crossing my arms. The shortie's cheeks turned slight shade of pink before apologizing in embarrassment.

"SORRY, MISS COACH!" he yelled.

"Wait... YOU'RE SHORTER THAN ME!!" Hinata cried as he spilled tears of joy. Nishinoya turned to him angrily and yelled at him.

I sighed, "Don't yell, Hinata and Nishinoya. Just go and get warmed up, will you? The rest, let us continue." I announced which everyone chorused back with, 'Yes ma'am!'