[Yeah man i am not writing that national stuff i don't have high imagination so yeah i will be writing after the nationals part.]
Well we made it to the top 8 in nationals well it is still luck that we did not face any stronger team at the start but we did face Kiryuu(Top 3 ace) in second round and man he is good just like Wakatoshi but their teammates just relied on him too much like every rally dude somehow had to smash the ball which is an emergency set.
At set 1 we did face some problem but starting from set 2 we got the flow in our hands back.
and then in round 3 we faced Yurisei Junior School yeah that is the school of Sachirō Hirugami and Kōrai Hoshiumi well we did play with them but they not as good as they were compared to in High school man but it was funny to see how Oikawa was playing with Sachiro the whole time using feints deceipts and dude is the No 1 Middle blocker in High school in high school he will surely boost that to the other players how he played with him the whole time.
And as for Hoshiumi dude had some hops well clearly not at the the level of High-school but he still has not mastered tooling with blockers.Yeah sometimes he would just fire at the ceiling well that was an easy match for us.
But somehow in the top 8 we got match with Itachiyama Junior School yeah the team that has the best chance at winning Nationals.And man that curly hair bastard pissed me off like he seriously had not much power compared to Ushiwaka and Kiryuu but the spin he add to the ball. He played us by his hand the whole time by using the spin to use wipe against our block our tooling with our blocks. But it was not impossible to block him yeah we blocked him 5 times in the whole match, Ooh and how could i forget about their libero yeah Motoya dude is seriously fast and has skills. He kept receiving my serves. That man seriously annoys me and for the rest of their players i can say for sure that they had higher level than most of our team members.
And that was the first time there in nationals we lost both the sets simultaneously and as for the rest of the tournament yeah Itachiyama got the first prize and second prize was given to Yako Junior High yeah that is the team which had (Miya twins) and Aran Ojiro and as for third it was inubashi Junior School well i did not recognize any player from this team.
well nothing special happened after that 3 year had their final game at the last day of their junior high and this time there was no crying well except for Oikawa. But after i taunted him to not lose to Shiratorizawa in High school he was back to normal
Oh and i got the position of Captain.
Well it's been 6 months since seniors left and it's somewhat lonely without them as for Junior man they are a pain in the ass and espically Kageyama problem has started with team due to his lack of communication skills he is somewhat separated from the team and he spend most of the time with me only to compete with me.
But in these past two days Kageyama is absent in school and has not come to practice i mean i can understand about the school part but not coming to practice that is totally different.
After practice i go to kindaichii and asked him about kageyama.
"Hey Kindaichii wait for a second do you know anything about Kageyama and why isn't he coming to practice latey."
"No senpai me and kageyama are not even in the same class and we don't talk too much."
"Ok do you have his address i will just go to his home."
"Oh yeah i do have that it is near the store market 23***5 residence."
"All right then see you tomorrow at practice."
With that i took off to his residence
"It's somewhere here yeah here it is" i ring the door bell
and a fine and a 19 or 20 year old girl came and open the door.
"Huh who are you?"
"Hello i am Rise Kyota i am kageayama school i came to know that kageyama hasn't been attending the school for two days and he has been missing the practice for two days straight."
"Aah let me call him down can you wait here please."
"Aah of course"
After 5 min Kageyama came and open the door
"Aah hello Rise-Senpai i am sorry that i could not attend the practice these days because my grandfather expired recently."
'Aah kageyama Grandfather i did not know when he was expired but i did know that Kageyama was very attached to him since he was the one who introduced him to volleyball.And i think that was the starting point of kageyama became more self-centered.'
"Aah i am really sorry for your loss Kageyama you can take a few more days off if you want that's fine by the team."
"Ok thank you Rise senpai"
"Hah all right i will help him just a bit so at least he will not have to go through what he did in his final if he continues to be like this."
Now after one more day kageyama joined again but his attitude man now i know he is egocentric but after he panic he will do crazy fast set up and his trust level in players start drop and that's the main problem he will face in future or this upcoming competition.
And if you are thinking why don't i help him all i can say is words it's up to listener if he is able to understand like if i am telling you now that six who are stronger together will always be stronger that you will say that what i am saying is quite obvious but you will not understand it until you experience it own.
Junior High Athletic Meet(2010)
"All right folks just like last year we are going to win to nationals"I said to my team.
'Hah man i am seriously not good at encouraging stuff'
All the matches were quite simple for us if i had to say and in finals we are facing Chidoriyama yeah surprise right they defeated Shiratorizawa from their bracket in second round everyone saying that they are the dark horse of this year.
Now my team line up is like this-
Kageyama(Setter)
Rise(MB)
Kindaichii(MB)
Kaito Hashikami(WS)
Akira Kunimi(WS)
Keigo(Libero)
Akito(WS)
This is our Line-up and majority of them are 2 years.
[Match Start]
By coin toss we lost so it's their serve first
Kunimi Rise Kageyama
Akito Kaito Hashikami
this is how we are going to start our first set And their setter is going to be the first to serve means three legal hitter in front. Their setter gave a normal serve but it was aimed right at the edge.
But Kaito got his hand but it was not good it came up on middle.
Kageyama got under the ball and tossed an open set to kunimi who jumped but the opposite team had three blockers marked on him already.
Kunimi cleverly used a feint and since it was starting rally they didn't expect him to use feint so suddenly.
1-0
"Haha Nice one Kunimi."
Next it was Kageyama turn to serve he served the ball right between their libero and WS when setter is going through due to which their Wing Spiker made a mistake and messed his receive.
2-0
On his next serve he served it in the front row and making their Front row hitter taking a knee to the ground all right making my decision easy now i only need to mark their middle blocker and their right side hitter and he set it towards their right side hitter i immediately dashed to the right and with Kunimi i jumped and just as he hit it i blocked it and just as the ball was about to hit the floor Nishinoya brought the ball back up again by sliding his hand under the ball.
'All right now that was awesome.' I mentally thought.
I got back to my position and now they have three attackers coming as the middle blocker got close he suddenly changed his approach from a A quick to B i noticed that instantly and position my self to his Dominant hand.
just as the setter set the ball i jumped and blocked his line shot but Kunimi and Akito were a step too late so he smash the ball.
2-1
"All right don't worry we will acclimate to them slowly." I shouted to encourage them.
'Hah man this captain thing is really tiring if i am to be honest.'
In High school i will let Yahaba be the captain for 3 year.
Next their MB serve a normal serve which we received easily and Kageyama set a quick toss in the middle and two blockers responded immediately but just as i was about to strike i twisted my waist and avoided the block by a cross shot.
"You have got nice blocks!!."I said but looks like it ticked them off.
Now it's my turn to serve as i walk back i feel a chill pass through my whole body.
"Man Nishinoya is one horny bastard i am telling you."I muttered to myself
As i turned around i see him just staring at me mumbling something.
With referee whistle i tossed the ball upward and did float serve at right back opposite to where Nishinoya is.
just as he touched the ball it slipped from his hand and gaining us 1 point.
3-1
On my second serve i delibrately aimed it between the two players just as their setter rushed forward the ball is between them but at last moment one of them dived forward and saved the ball but it was off so their setter did a emergency set but it was ugly as the ball drifted too close to the net.
Their Ace rushed forward just as he jumped our blockers perfectly executed their timing but at the last moment their ace turned it to feint but i saw through that and made the first touch high to give the forward players time to get back to position.
Kageyama got under the ball and set the ball to Akito who wiped the ball using the blockers and gaining us 1 more point.
4-1
[Fwweeee]
Time out
After time out over we got back to the court and i see that Nishinoya has got the most part of the court now.
With referee whistle again i again tossed the ball and sed it to middle but this time it's not a floater i added clockwise spin to the ball.
Nishinoya rushed to the middle and just as he made it to the middle the ball changed it's trajectory and landed where Nishinoya was standing previously.
5-1
"Woah there's no stopping of his serves today from the start he has started his dominance on the court once again." Commentator1
"Yes i can say for sure that he will surely have many high school scholarship coming his way after his last tournament." Commentator2
"Hey no sad faces we knew that our opponent are good but so are we you have not even showed them your new moves all right now go and get that ball." Shouted Chidoriyama Coach from sidelines.
On my fourth serve i tossed the ball up and all of a sudden Nishinoya shouted at me all right then my next target is you.
i hit it towards nishinoya at the last moment.
'Aah not good it got some spin on it.'
Nishinoya received it perfectly and their setter set it to their Ace player who smashed the ball directly on line right beside my foot.
'Man now that's some power he got.'I thought as i got goosebumps all over my body.
5-2
with that i rotated out and Keigo got in back.