Trouble...?

It had been a couple of days since the team had lost to Seijoh. The loss is very fresh and extremely painful in all their minds.

 Hinata has also been withdrawn over the last few days as if he is trying to figure out something, figure out how he can improve. Hinata can’t come into terms with the loss, not yet anyway, he genuinely believes that he is the reason they lost, only if he would have been better.

The higher he wanted to go, the taller the wall gets and blocks his view from the top.

Saying that Sugawara was disappointed would be a huge understatement, he thought they would win, no he believed that they would win. This was an immensely powerful team, Karasuno had not seen a team this good in a long while but it wasn’t adequate……

It just wasn’t…….

Sugawara watched as Coach Ukai came in and instructed them to quickly finish with their warm-ups. He was too not exactly in a mood to be optimistic, he was worried… the regular players were blaming themselves, he knew that… he himself was a part of that just last year’s tournament against Date Kou.

The members were doing their stuff when the door opened and Suga watched as Kiyoko and Takeda sensei walked in, the pair of them looked elevated? he was sceptical… very suspicious...

“Good evening everyone!” Takeda sensei greeted, Kiyoko also seemed to have a small smile on her face.

Daichi also looked at Suga, both of them sharing a look… mildly worried about what the teacher was going to announce. 

“I know that the lot of you have been particularly disappointed at the inter-high” Takeda sensei started, the lot of them sweat dropping, sometimes their advisor indeed lacked a filter ”we recently had a pair of transfer students into the first year and both of them want to join the team”.

“Um …. Ok sensei, who are you talking about? and we would always appreciate more members” Daichi questioned genuinely interested on who would want to join their school at this time of the year plus they wanted to join the VBC.

Takeda sensei smiled wildly “Kazama-kun, Kazama-chan, both of you can come in now”

The team watched in shock as a guy possibly taller than Tsuskishima and a girl as small as Hinata walk in. The guy was in his sports uniform and he seemed visibly nervous, the girl, on the other hand, wore a friendly expression. The pair of them bowed, the girl speaking first

“Thank you for having us”

“Yeah...yeah...thanks”

Suga smiled, the boy was apprehensive, he would be. After all, he had changed schools and had to join a whole new team

“Another girl manager!” Tanaka cried looking at Nishinoya.

“Ryu!!”

For some reason the atmosphere in the gym was light. The girl seemed to giggle to herself, not mention the guy gave a small smile of his own.

The girl gave a bright smile “Hello, my name is Asuka Kazama and I’m in class 1-4 and I would like to apply for the position of manager”. The second-year simps were visibly gloating the fact that they could possibly have three managers.

The boy, on the other hand, gave a hesitant smile “I am Jin Kazama, class 1-5 and I’m a volleyball player”.

Tanaka started to size up to the new kid “huh!... do we have hustler”

“No!” the boy cried.

Daichi and Suga sweatdropped, they could very well have another Asahi.

“Tanaka, stop terrifying the poor boy” Suga scolded “you are making yourself look stupid”. Suga then turned to Jin and asked softly “What position do you play?”

“Wing-spiker, senpai!”

Ukai blinked genuinely surprised, with the new kid’s height, he should have been a middle blocker. 

Kageyama looked deep in thought, the boy seemed very familiar, he just couldn’t put a finger of where he had seen him before. Even the girl, he knew he had to know them, he just had to.

“Kazama-kun, lets test you shall we?” Coach Ukai asked, patting the boy on the back, trying to ease his nerves, the boy smiled sheepishly “Jin, sir” he then pointed at his sister “we are both Kazama sir it could get confusing”. Coach Ukai looked at the sister, who agreed with her brother, nodding her head “Asuka, sir”

The coach smiled to himself, the pair of siblings knew they weren’t part of the club, they would have to earn the right to call him coach.

The coach turned to the third-year manager “Shimizu, teach Asuka-chan the ropes”. The girl’s eyes brightened at the prospect.

“So Jin, you will be showing your serves, your spikes and finally followed by your receives, is that clear?” Ukai listed, Jin nodded.

“Sawamura, NIshinoya, Azumane. The three of you are on the receives when the kid serves” the trio nodded, not exactly knowing what to accept.

“How many serves, Sir?” Jin asked, his aura shifting completely. He was no longer the apprehensive kid who came for trying out. He was now focussed.

“3”

Ukai knew that Nishinoya or even Daichi would really quickly get used to the kid’s serves if he ended up having a powerful serve, it was still a big if. Either way, he was confident of their receivers to pick it up.

Kageyama still couldn’t figure out where he had seen the male before. 

Jin held the ball given to him, walking a couple of steps away from the white line he took his place. Ukai blew the whistle. The receivers were ready, they didn’t know what to expect. It could be even just a normal serve, but they weren’t gonna slack.

Taking a deep breath you can do this, he reassured himself.

The onlookers watched in awe.

The boy gave an astonishingly powerful jump serve, the ball flew with unimaginable force, curving dangerously close to the antenna and slammed itself next to Daichi.

“What the hell was that?!” Ukai exclaimed.

Jin blinked “um… a jump serve?”

“I mean, how..that-”

“Waaa!” Hinata blurted out “That was so cool, the ball went swoosh and then was like  bam!!”

Jin blushed “at my old school, we had to do 100 serves for discipline sometimes”

“You!” Kageyama exclaimed, he just realised why the new kid looked familiar. Kageyama pointed at Jin, who blinked in puzzlement. “You are the jaguar” and he pointed at Asuka “And you are the eagle tactician!”

“Pointing is rude” Asuka mumbled, pouting. Kiyoko had to hold back an urge to squeeze Asuka’s cheeks.

“Jaguar?” Hinata asked confused “What’s that? And...” he observed at Asuka “Why does she have a nickname?”  

Kageyama ignored him continuing “What are you both doing here in Karasuno? Aren’t you supposed to be in Shiratorizawa?”

“You are from, the same school as Japan?!”

Jin looked at Asuka, who looked equally confused. “Do you perhaps mean Ushijima-san?” she asked carefully, Hinata nodded earnestly.

“Then, what are you both doing here?” Daichi asked softly. The twins seemed to be visibly uneasy with the inquiry. The pair of them appeared to be the kind who wore their expressions on their sleeves.

“You dont have to say” Suga smiled softly, he looked at Asuka “But I dont understand what you can do though?”

“She makes the best strategies!!” Kageyama exclaimed.

“I can speak for myself, thank you very much” Asuka grumbled. Kiyoko liked the girl already, this girl would make a good pair with Yachi.

Yamaguchi who was standing near Asuka sighed, they could very well have someone like Tsukishima. But she seemed nicer?

“My old coach at Kitagawa Daichii told us that, along with having a strong line up” Kageyama continued excitedly “Shiratorizawa Junior High, also had this manager who was a really good strategist, who was one of the reasons why the Junior High came in the nation’s top three for the last three years!!”

“Why does he sound like a stalker?” Asuka was truly surprised, she wasn’t a notable member of the team most of the time.

“The king seems to be falling in love”

“Shut up Tsukishima!”

Jin too was genuinely surprised, it wasn’t that Ka-chan is not noticed, but her efforts were often neglected because she wasn’t a player.

Jin already liked the team.

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