dream2503
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Hinata Shōyō had promised himself he wouldn't be nervous.
New school, new team, new role-nothing he hadn't survived before.
But as he stood in front of Inarizaki High's gym doors, clutching the clipboard Kita had given him, his heart thumped like a runaway volleyball. He wasn't here as a player this time. Not as Karasuno's decoy, not as the boy who could jump higher than his height should allow.
Today, he was something completely different.
A manager.
He took a breath, pushed the doors open-
-and was immediately hit by a wall of noise.
Atsumu yelling at Osamu.
Osamu yelling back.
Suna filming everything like a nature documentary.
Aran stretching calmly in the middle of the chaos.
Ginjima wrestling with a net that absolutely did not need wrestling.
Hinata froze.
This... was Inarizaki.
Loud.
Chaotic.
Unpredictable.
And somehow, despite the nerves twisting in his stomach, Hinata felt something spark inside him.
A challenge.
A chance.
A new beginning.
He tightened his grip on the clipboard.
"Okay," he whispered to himself. "I can do this."
And with that, he stepped into the chaos.
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