KARASUNO HIGH SCHOOL
was a known school for volleyball. The flightless crows, some would say. Personally, Shiori had no idea why her sister had been interested in attending in the first place. It was a random choice that drove her curiosity to no end. She was determined to find out, and she would.... When she got out the front door of her house.
"Damn it, I'm late! Bye mommy!"
"Language!" Her mother scowled, calling after her.
"Love you!" She replied, running out of the Kawamoto household and towards the school. Thankfully, she didn't live far away from the school. Although this wasn't useful to her either way since she was fifteen minutes late.
'Damn, that girl! She could've at least woken me up,' the ravenette cursed her older sister out and ran quickly until she finally reached the high school, making a dash to the gymnasium.
When she finally arrived, she spotted a tall black-haired guy and a short redhead who seemed to be screaming up at him like a chihuahua. She furrowed her eyebrows and walked up to them, gaining both of their attentions.
"Hi! Is this the where the boys volleyball practice takes place?" She asked, smiling politely, causing them to widen their eyes and blush lightly.
"Y-yes!" Answered the shorter one, while the other boy stared at her in shock.
"Thank you!" She bowed and then knocked at the door lightly before sliding the door open. "Hi?"
Three males looked at her and reacted the same way as the other two boys. Her eyes scanned them over and they widened as she saw a familiar face.
'Sugawara, Koushi?' she thought to herself, looking up at the silver-haired third year.
It had been a while since she last saw him. He went to the same middle school as her and she had a huge CFA (crush from afar) on him. She always admired him and found him in every way, attractive. She always went to watch him during the girls and boys combined volleyball practices. Though in that time, she was a different person. In order to not draw attention to herself like her sister wanted, she cut her hair and wore fake glasses. She barley talked and was considered strange. Hanae never questioned it or cared, it was convenient to her. Her crush soon ended after he went off to high school, and she had forgotten about his existence. Well, until now. Her dark blue eyes continued to stare up at him in wonder, her long black eyelashes tickling the bottom of her eyebrows. The other two boys looked at each other and cleared their throats to snap them back into the moment. Shiori frantically shook her head and moved her gaze onto the captain of the team.
"Hi! I'm Kawamoto Shiori!"
She bowed and reached out into her bag, pulling out a copy of the form she had filled out in order to join the club.
"I've applied for the position as dietitian and nurse. I've been in contact with Shimizu-Senpai about it, I'm sorry if my visit is a bit disrupt," Shiori apologized, looking up only to see one of the boys fawning and blushing.
"Sooooooo pretty!~~~"
She looked at the bald boy and smiled in appreciation, her eyes closed and her head tilted.
"Thanks!"
Tanaka only fawned more and turned a deeper shade of red. He was overly infatuated with this girl and he had only just met her. He would soon have to report to his good friend Nishinoya about her, who would surely think just as highly of her- it was a given.
"Oh, you're already in, Kawamoto-san. Shimizu-san already notified us about it. We're really happy we can have you offer yourself like that," the team captain told her, smiling in gratefulness.
It really was something to be thankful about. They needed a dietitian more than anything else and the fact that she could also work as a nurse for minor injuries on court was just the cherry on top.
"So, I'll come here everyday after school ends, unless you guys need me in the morning. We can talk more about diet plans and regimens later and when you guys get practicing more. I do need some time to observe and plan, if that's okay," Shiori told her captain, causing him to widen his eyes in shock and then nod.
"Sure Kawamoto-san, whatever works best for you. We do have a practice match on Saturday morning though, so it would be ideal if you could attend."
Kawamoto nodded her head and gave him a thumbs up. Now she really was excited. The truth was she really had no experience whatsoever as a dietitian, she simply only took a summer course and got certified to do it. All she knew was how to heal, cook, train, and play volleyball. She only had to combine all of those things and she could only hope that it would be enough.
The girl turned and sat on one of the free benches near the court and pulled out a notebook and pen and then a binder. Before she could get to work, she felt a presence beside her causing her to look to the side and see one of her upperclassmen.
"What can I help you with... senpai?" She asked, not knowing his name. She pulled her hair up into a ponytail and looked at him intently. He gave her a grin and pointed to himself.
"I'm Tanaka Ryuunosuke! But you can call me Tanaka-senpai!"
She nodded and he then pointed at the binder that was sitting on her lap.
"What's that?!"
She opened it to reveal a page with a picture of Sawamura, Daichi along with his information on the side.
"They're my own records! I have one on each of the players on the team minus any new ones that I don't know of. They have information on each player, but the most important part of these are the health records. This will help me keep track of any allergies or maybe special treatment that might be needed or medicine," the teenage girl explained.
Tanaka's eyes filled with wonder and he shot up from the bench to shout into the air,
"AWESOME!!!"
"Isn't it!??!?!"
From a distance, Daichi and Suga watched in amusement. They didn't know too much about the girl, but they knew that she would soon grow popular around the team. Only Suga noticed there something was off about her. No, not off, maybe familiar? He didn't know too many people though and he certainly did not recognize her from anywhere.
"You're wondering where you've seen her, I presume," said Daichi, turning to the vice captain of the volleyball club who only nodded in return. "She is Kawamoto Hanae's little sister."
Sugawara's mouth flew open, but he closed it in an instant.
"Wow, I didn't know Kawamoto-san had a sister... They don't look anything alike... At all," Koushi admitted, looking back at the girl and trying to find any similarities between her and her elder sister.
Kawamoto Hanae wasn't short, but Shiori was definitely taller, standing proudly at 173 cm. Hanae wore her curly black hair crazily, her brown eyes warmed like coffee to match almost perfectly. Her skin was tan and she had pure arm muscle thanks to playing her beloved sport. On the contrary, Kawamoto Shiori was tall and lean, her skin as pale as the snow that fell during the winter. She had impressively long silky black hair that ended at her hipbones. But what seem to stick out the most about her, were her dark blue eyes that hid behind long dark lashes. They were mysterious and some would say that they were easy to sink into.
Daichi nodded in agreement and looked back at his friend.
"Hanae-san takes from her father's side of the family and Shiori-san from her mother's side," Sawamura explained, causing Suga to raise his eyebrows at the amount of information his friend had about the sisters.
"A-ah! My family is good friends with the Kawamoto family! We live close by and sometimes eat dinner together! But Shiori-san never attended dinner or anything. She was quite shy for some time. I really hadn't met her until now."
Sugawara nodded in understanding and then raised his head to the door as two newcomers entered.
"That must be Tsukishima and Yamaguchi-san," Daichi stated, watching the tall blonde and freckled boy walk towards the pair on the bench, causing the two to look up.
Shiori stood up and bowed.
"Hi! You guys must be two of the new club members. I do need you both to fill some stuff out and get a copy of your health records, but I do need you guys to request the school for that. I believe Takeda-sensei can help with that!"
"Well you're a chatty one," Tsukishima stated bluntly and Yamaguchi only blushed at her.
"P-pretty!"
She laughed in flattery and scratched the back of her head.
"Sorry about that! I'm Kawamoto Shiori! I'm new as well so I hope we can get along," she bowed, and quickly went back to normal. "But for now I have to steal them away, Captain-san," Shiori looked apologetically at her captain who only shook his head."
"Don't mind. There are two other boys though, so if possible could you get around to them as well?"
She nodded and looked up at him,
"Could I have their names?"
"Kageyama Tobio and Hinata Shoyo," Sugawara answered from beside Daichi.
"Kageyama and Hinata, got it," she repeated the names given to her and wrote them down before pulling out four sheets of paper and handing two papers to both boys.
"That one is a form you have to fill out for general information for your profiles and the other one is a form you have to fill out in order to request a copy of your guys' health records and giving me permission to pick them up as well," she explained, pointing at each assigned one and then handing them pens. "When you're done hand them over to me. I'll be sitting down on the bench."
Tsukishima sighed in annoyance and sat down, Yamaguchi sheepishly copying his movements and settling down next to him.
"Say... Kawamoto-san seems familiar. Don't you think?" Yamaguchi whispered to his friend who only shrugged, rolling his eyes.
"Beats me."
Once the pair finished filling out both forms, they handed them over to Shiori who only looked up in shock.
"Tadashi-san? Kei-san?"
The pair stared at her, confusion evident in their facial features.
Shiori stood up and pointed to herself, stars in her eyes as she exclaimed,
"I'm Kawamoto Shiori! We used to play volleyball together at Sanshi's court! The volleyball court!"
The boys remained clueless and confused as to why she suddenly grew so much trust to call them by their first names— and she rushed to pull out her cellphone, her eyes brightening as she searched through it and found what she was looking for. The girl pushed her phone in front of them and grinned. Shining through the screen of her phone was a photo of three kids, two smiling brightly and one with a sheepish look, clearly annoyed to have been in the picture. There was no denying that that boy was Tsukishima Kei, his short blonde hair and glasses couldn't lie and neither could the freckles on the smaller boy's face in the picture, who was without a doubt Yamaguchi Tadashi.
"That was such a long time ago, Kawamoto-san!" Exclaimed Yamaguchi, surprised at her memory.
"Please, call me by my first name! Both of you. My sister also goes here so it may be a bit confusing," the ravenette explained, turning off her phone and rubbing the back of her neck. "And... you both have changed, a lot," she commented, looking at both of them, her dark blue eyes trailing off to the blonde.
'He's... really handsome.' Shiori thought to herself.
"Really? You look the same, Shiori-san," Tsukishima responded, causing an arrow to fly through her heart and her knees to drop to the gym floor.
Shiori's hand gripped the skin above her heart and lines began to form next to her.
"Tsukishima-san...." She whispered in pain, tears running down her cheeks.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY TO SHIORI-CHAN YOU PUNK!"
Tsukishima then walked to his gym bag, Yamaguchi following after him- trying to match the pace of his long strides.
"Ne, Tsukishima, why'd you say that to Shiori-san?"
It was apparent that Shiori had changed a lot. She no longer had unnecessary baby fat and short hair, or bangs that covered her eyes.
The bespectacled blonde shrugged casually, a shadow of a smirk passing over his lips.
"Just felt like it."
That was the only thing he responded, as he looked back at her. But at the very back of his mind he couldn't help but think something completely different. He couldn't help that she was pretty, and nobody could deny it.
Not even Sugawara, who tried his very best to focus during practice, couldn't help but sneak in long stares at the oblivious girl whenever he could.
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also i'm aware that tsukishima and yamaguchi are introduced AFTER the morning practice with hinata, kageyama, tanaka, and sugawara BUT for writing purposes i introduced then earlier. i don't really think the timing was all so important anyways :) that is all :)