[Volleyball] Mizuno-san next door

The third day of the camp, May 5th, at 5:13——

When only Nishitani and Tanaka were left in the dining room and were fascinated by Shimizu-senpai who was packing up the tableware, Kageyama walked to the door of the dormitory alone, and unconsciously squeezed the cold key ring with his hands in his pockets.

Maybe it was because he drank too much tea after dinner just now, or the health condition of senior sister Shimizu was worrying—he now had a faint premonition of uneasiness, mixed with some chaotic feelings.

Behind is the quiet and empty hall, and in front of it is the park greenway winding towards the distance under the direct sunlight at noon.

He glanced at the bicycle parked against the wall. According to the news he just received on his phone, Aki Mizuno should arrive here soon.

The birds resting on the trees by the roadside made "chirp" calls, pouring into his eardrums uninterruptedly, as if they would never get tired of it.Until the girl who suddenly appeared at the end of the greenway rushed toward him as if wrapped in wind——

He heard the familiar address, followed by footsteps as clear as drumbeats.

The birds that were alarmed by this sentence stopped singing, flapped their wings and flew to the blue sky, and even a few leaves slowly fell.

"Mizuno." Kageyama showed a slightly surprised expression, still staying where he was, and when she ran in front of him, he awkwardly greeted her, "Why did you come here?"

Yaji brushed his messy bangs together, and winked at him: "Because I saw you waiting? By the way~ give me the key back!"

"Oh." Kageyama didn't ask any more questions about the answer, took out the key and put it in her outstretched palm, then pointed to her side, "Your car is there, thank you so much last night, Mizuno. "

"You're welcome." Yaji looked up at his expression of sincere thanks, and responded with a happy smile, "Then I'll go back first, you go quickly..."

However, before she finished speaking, she opened her mouth in a daze, and stared at the direction behind Yingshan with her eyes wide open, as if she had discovered a new continent.

"What's wrong?" Aki's abnormal reaction made Kageyama also turn his head curiously——

It was Kiyoko Shimizu, the team manager in tracksuit and bag.

"beauty!"

Yaji's exclamation caught Shimizu's attention, and the gentle eyes behind the lens cast doubts on the two people standing at the door.

"Yingshan, what are you doing here?" Qing Shui quickly walked in front of them, looking at Ya Ji with shining eyes, "And you are...?"

"Qi, Shimizu-senpai!" Kageyama replied loudly, his tongue was almost tied up, he didn't know why the manager who was supposed to be in the restaurant suddenly appeared here, "I'm returning her bicycle..."

"Hello, senior, my name is Aki Mizuno!"

Hearing about last night's supper incident from Sugawara, Shimizu immediately understood what the two of them meant.Facing the school girl who warmly greeted her, a shy pink appeared on her face: "Hello, I am the manager of the volleyball club, Kiyoko Shimizu."

While answering, Shimizu looked at Yaji curiously. Although she had known the existence of the other party for a long time, it was the first time she saw Ya Ji.The hot girl with stud earrings and short skirt in front of her had a great impact on her heart.

"Ah! Then can I call you Manager Sang?" Yaji clenched his fists in front of his chest, excitedly approached her and sighed, "I didn't expect there to be such a beautiful manager in the volleyball club!"

"Well, thank you." Qing Shui nodded with a blushing face, then quickly turned to Yingshan and explained, "Well... I'm not feeling well. I asked for sick leave this afternoon, and now I have to go back."

——Sure enough, what Sawamura and the others said... She thought to herself, and confirmed that Aki was indeed not good at remembering people's names.

"Oh! Senior, please rest well!" Kageyama relieved the confusion in his heart, and quickly bowed respectfully.

"Both...goodbye." Qing Shui raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and simply waved goodbye to the two juniors, "We will have to work hard this afternoon."

"Goodbye, Manager Sang!" Yaji kept raising his arms high and waving, watching her go away, and then came back to his senses and asked, "She's home, what are you going to do this afternoon?"

"Of course it's training as usual." Kageyama curled his lips, he still hasn't realized what kind of disaster losing Shimizu will be to the volleyball club, "I should go, goodbye."

He turned around and prepared to go to the gymnasium, leaving Aki standing at the door with his head bowed in thought.

"Mr. Setter!"

Yingshan stopped in his footsteps, and there was an undercurrent in his dark blue eyes.

Her calling was like a spell, making his vague premonition of uneasiness become reality in an instant——

"Can I help? It just so happens that I don't have to go to work today."

When the iron gate of the gymnasium was pushed open, the team members who had already started their respective training saw the setter who had disappeared for a while, and he walked in with a dark face.

As for the kind neighbor who said he was going to be the acting manager, after receiving the grateful permission of Coach Wu Yang and Mr. Takeda, he was mixing sports drinks for everyone in the kitchen.

"Kageyama, you're so slow." Hinata wiped the sweat off his brow, holding the volleyball in his hand, "Does it take so long to return the bicycle?"

"It's probably because Mizuno is late?" Tsukishima Yin teased with a smile, the process of everyone pressing Kageyama together last night was really interesting.

Who would have thought that there would be a day when the bad-tempered Lord Wang would turn red and willingly suffer from being interrogated by his predecessors?

——This is all thanks to Aki Mizuno.

"Senior Shimizu asked for leave, and Mizuno became the acting manager." To Tsukishima's surprise, Kageyama just replied coldly, picked up a volleyball and began to practice passing, "She will stay today until evening before going back .”

"real or fake?!"

"Hey... did she come by herself?"

"Sister Jiezi! We will miss you!!"

Sure enough, this news made the entire volleyball club explode. Fortunately, coach Wuyang appeared in time and together with Captain Sawamura, brought the off-the-line training back on track.

"I'm so thirsty!" After a while, Hinata raised his head and shouted, the huge amount of exercise made him feel seriously dehydrated.

"Keep everyone waiting!" Even if it wasn't the usual gentle female voice, Ya Ji's appearance made the team members seem to see the light of salvation.

Just because she was carrying two baskets of ready-made sports drinks.

— but the taste...

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu who took the first sip, and Hinata made a sound that made everyone put down the water bottle silently.

Kageyama frowned, watching Hinata rushing to the toilet in embarrassment, thinking that it's a good thing he didn't rush to take the first sip.

"Mizuno, what did you add to it?" Sawamura raised the bottle and asked with concern.

"According to what the teacher said, you used that powder to make a sports drink?" Yaji took out a bottle from the basket strangely, and under the terrified eyes of the team members, he opened the lid and took a sip.

She knew it the moment her tongue touched the liquid, but it was too late.

"Hey——!" Yaji closed his eyes sadly, feeling that his entire tongue was going to be numb, picked up the basket, turned around and ran, "Sorry, I'm going to redo it now!"

Accidentally put too much powder, the manager's job is far more difficult than she imagined.

Kageyama watched her leaving in a hurry, wondering why she forced herself to do things that she was not good at. In fact, it is completely okay for everyone to do these things after training.

The following disasters were one after another, and almost everyone became a "victim" under the unskilled work of the interim manager.

In addition to the sumptuous dinner after the training, everyone couldn't fault it, but the soap bubbles and broken washing machines in the laundry room were silently telling how many ghost stories they had experienced this afternoon.

"I'm sorry!!" After dinner, Yaji bowed deeply to the team members sitting around the table, and the too short skirt made Wu Yang standing behind her silently look away.

"It's okay, the washing machine was about to break down." Dongfeng comforted him kindly. If he hadn't found out and unplugged the power in time, the cloud-like bubbles would have spread to the corridor.

"But, it's not just about the washing machine..." Yaji's eyes were red, and her voice began to choke, causing her to bury her head in embarrassment, "Sports drinks, timing, mopping the floor..."

Seeing her talking more and more, Hinata blamed herself more and more, and eagerly supported the table to stand up to comfort her, but Kageyama stretched out his hand to stop her.

"Wait, idiot." Now he is extremely calm, neither angry nor protective, "If you do something wrong, you are doing it wrong."

"What... Mizuno-san didn't do it on purpose!" Hinata retorted with a full face, "Kageyama, you are too strict!"

When Aki heard what Kageyama said, his expression became even darker, and he became silent again.

"Tsk." Wu Yang rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, "This doesn't look like you at all, Aki Mizuno."

"I know." The ruthless words of the "King" became the last straw that broke the camel's back, causing her to turn around in depression, "I caused trouble for everyone today, please cheer for the training match tomorrow."

——Even the seemingly omnipotent "King of Responsibility" will encounter extremely difficult things.

The sky-blue pupils that were still shining brightly at noon were like a pool of stagnant water at this moment.

As if struck by a bolt of lightning, Kageyama stood up abruptly, only then realized how exaggerated what he had said, ran after Aki with his legs, and ran out of the restaurant quickly: "Hey!"

From the sunny afternoon to the moonless night, the two met again at the door of the dormitory.

Yaji stopped the bicycle he was pushing and looked at the slender figure, feeling more and more confused in his mind.

Fortunately, she no longer wanted to cry, so she put on a relaxed smile as usual: "Is there anything else you need, Mr. Setter?"

"Sorry Mizuno... I was too harsh just now." Kageyama's muffled voice sounded a bit awkward.

I wanted to cherish this feeling.

He should have noticed.

——"Because I hate... the feeling of not being needed."

She who said such words was turned away by herself.

"No, you're right? I messed up your accommodation, and I'm the one who should apologize." Aki smiled and shook his head, trying to ease the atmosphere that became more stagnant for some reason, "Okay, I'm fine Yes~ you go back quickly..."

"I have something to tell you."

"Eh?" The other party's tone was too serious, which made Yaji stunned.

Kageyama paused for a moment, stepped forward, pointed at the dazed girl in front of him, and yelled out his most straightforward thoughts with all his strength: "Even if you can't be the team manager, I still need you!!"

"..."

"In short, that's it." Finally, Tobio Kageyama expressed his heart to her, regardless of how much ambiguity his words might cause, he looked directly at Aki Mizuno who was completely down.

It was a long time after hearing this suspected confession, before she reached out and patted Kageyama's shoulder, recovering from the shock.

"Mr. Setter."

"Ok?"

"Can you tell me your name again?"

"Shadow Mountain Feixiong."

"Okay, I'll take it seriously."

"what?"

"I have to go home, goodbye, Kageyama-kun."

She lifted her foot onto the bicycle, leaving the young man who was still in a state of confusion, and fled like a rabbit with a kick of her toes.

"Yaji dear..." In the bathroom, the white water vapor covered the mirror with a thin layer of mist, blurring the beautiful face of the person in the mirror.

She raised her hand to remove the hairpin fastened to the back of her head, her red-brown hair was flowing down, and the curly ends rested on her white and smooth back.

"I think, you are probably... in love?" Maki Mizuno hesitated for a second before quickly expressing his conclusion.

And lying on the glass shelf, the other end of the connection with the hands-free mobile phone——

The girl in a dress and home clothes let go of her five fingers, and the gardening pot in her hand fell on the floor tiles in the yard, making a dull "bang-dang" sound.

"What?" My sister's reaction was still expected, and Maki raised the corners of her lips playfully, and asked in a calm voice, "Am I right?"

"Sister..." Yaji bent down slowly, picked up the water bottle that had fallen on a puddle of water, felt that his left hand holding the phone was trembling uncontrollably, and didn't know how to explain, "I, I... "

"Kageyama-kun managed to make you remember his name? Just analyze it from this point..."

"I just promised him to remember it!" Yaji stood on tiptoe and poured all the remaining water into the potted plant in front of him angrily, "What do you like..."

Words of denial hung in the air.

Her heart was beating wildly at a fast pace, and the cold moonlight shone on her slightly hot and blushing cheeks, and her breathing became more and more rapid.

—— She gently closed her eyes, knowing exactly what this meant.

"That's the end of the friend game, Aki-san." Maki's mature and gentle voice sounded in his ears, like the whisper of a witch's charm, "I believe this will also be a relief for him, okay?"

"I understand."

The girl who was already in love sighed, raised her head, and stared blankly at the light pink roses in full bloom in the pot.

This plant, which she has carefully cultivated since three years ago, is now so prosperous that it climbs out of the courtyard wall, like a green waterfall hanging down to the surroundings, and the little pink petals match the dense leaves, making it dreamlike. The scenery filled the corner of this small courtyard.

"'Like a newborn flower'...?"

She muttered in her mouth, what kind of emotion was there at this moment, suddenly became clear.