After coach announced the practice match he continued,"Our starters for the game will be as followed: Goto Araken, Ishida Mitsuo, Kitamura Kano, Yu Nishinoya , Nishida Taigen, and Tatsuki Kai, these 6 will be our starters and we will rotate Eichi in to serve and Isao for relief everyone else will be on the bench in case of accidents. Everyone get some rest this weekend we will be training in team coordination."
After our meeting me and Noya ran home to tell our parents the news.
"That's great Kai, we will definitely be there." My mom said when I told her I'd be starting. Even though she has seen me play, I'm excited for this match. The last serious game I played was two years ago so she hasn't seen much of what I can do since then.
"Get some rest and train hard so you don't embarrass us." My dad joked.
I scowled at him and went to sleep. The next couple of days the coach kept true to his word everyone was exhausted. It was a good thing he gave us two days before the match for rest and stretches, otherwise I don't know if the others could have moved let alone play the next match. But I feel as if it was all worth it, our chemistry has improved tremendously and we've even started making good team plays.
"I like our chances this game." I say to everyone, once we're in the locker room.
Everyone just looks at me weirdly and as I was about to say something Araken asks,"Isn't Kitagawa Daiichi just another powerhouse, in fact didn't they finish at the bottom of the powerhouses?"
Eichi also chimed in,"Yea from what I heard they were pretty average last year."
I shook my heads at them looking down on Kitagawa Daiichi,"You guys best not look down on them, even though they weren't great last year it's mainly because they had no direction with their setter being a first year. I've even heard that he's turned into a true monster."
Everyone was surprised by my words. "Someone even Kai considers a monster, looks like we're in for a rough one." Eichi says chuckling to himself.
As everyone finishes changing, the first years clean up and everyone goes home. I stayed behind to hit my serve number. This was a little game I played with myself which I started when I was improving my serve. My serve number started out as 100 serves I would do after practice and I increase it by one every day. Right now that number is 116
After my serves I pack up and head home. I greet my parents eat and pass out on the bed. After 2 days, it was finally time I was standing outside one of the best junior high volleyball schools in the anime.
[Hey everyone glad you have been sticking with me so far. I know I've been rushing a bit on the matches (and that this chapter was pretty short) but the purpose was for me to build his character and get to the first arc of the story. I'm excited to write these next couple of chapters I hope you all enjoy :)]
[P.S. I'm going to start excluding the chapter number now that I know it puts a chapter number for me so if you think I've skipped a chapter I haven't it's just me adjusting it.]