Prologue 1 : y/n

"Ahhh! It's scorching hot!" A second-year volleyball team manager screams as she stretched her arms above.

"Yeah, I feel like I'm melting y/n-chan" The brown-haired setter agrees while swaying his jersey to fan the air inside his chest.

"Iwa-chan I'm not in the mood to do anything today." Oikawa cries to the boy standing just behind them.

"Me too" The girl beside him agrees and she fell onto the floor of the gym and lay on her back. "I want to sleep to forget the weather." and she started to close her eyes.

"Oi! Stand up l/n. You too Lazykawa! We need to practice. The coach will be here in few minutes." Iwaizumi pulled the two to stand up.

"Hey, we're friends for a year now and you still call me by my family name. That's why you always confuse my brother." y/n says still her eyes closed.

Her brother is a previous member of Kitagawa Daiichi's volleyball team. He's the last year's team captain and ace before he graduates. It's that time when y/n entered the same school as first year and became the team manager.

"Learn from me Iwa-chan. I call her y/n-chan from day one." Oikawa proudly said. Iwaizumi bets that even her brother is not on the same team, Oikawa would probably still call her y/n.

Since young, y/n always play volleyball with her brother. She loves volleyball but paranoid enough to join an official team and play in an official match.

Her brother is a good player. He even got featured in a magazine twice before. She's afraid that if she pursues the same exact path her brother walks, people will have high expectations from her too. Just imagining it makes the young y/n shivers.

So when her brother asks her if she wants to join the girl's volleyball team in middle school, she refused. She excused that she just want to watch from the bench and support the players.

y/n, Oikawa, and Iwaizumi became close with each other. They look like siblings with Iwaizumi as the eldest brother who always gets stressed with all the crazy things y/n and Oikawa would think and do.

Another year has passed and they're on their last year in middle school now.

"Hey, y/n chan. You'll go to Aoba Johsai too right. Please say yes. We need a pretty manager" Oikawa said with a wide smile of hope and puppy eyes.

Y/n stop tossing the ball she's casually playing. Usually, she'll laugh with Oikawa's antics about being their pretty manager but a sad expression appears instead. She shakes her head and shows a sad smile.

"Don't tell me you'll go to Shiratorizawa like your brother?!" The brown-haired boy exclaimed. Gaining attention from other members in the gym.

Y/n giggles as it's so obvious how disappointed he is if the answer is right. But it's not Shiratorizawa either.

She shakes her head again. "Tokyo" she finally said. Her grips tighten on the ball she's tossing a while ago.

"That's far." Iwaizumi comments.

"Our father's work required him to transfer to Tokyo. Also, ni-san will follow after his last year in high school, He's planning to go to a university in Tokyo after a year. As for me, I'll start my first year high at Nekoma." the girl explained.

Silenced filled up for a while until Oikawa breaks it. "I'll miss you y/n chan!!!!!" Oikawa cried and hug the girl.

After a while he finally released her. They just lay their back on the walls without saying a word. Suddenly, a freshman with black hair and a fringe that hangs just above his dark blue eyes approached the three sempais.

"Oikawa-sempai! Please show me how to do a jump serve." His eyes are motivated and he looks so eager to learn.

Oikawa straightens his back and faces the young Kageyama with his hand resting on his hip."Yada yo!" He exclaimed. "Why do I'll help someone who'll be a threat in the future? You're an idiot! Baka! baka!" He said mocking the kid while sticking out his tongue.

The boy's facial expression saddened.

Iwaizumi hits Oikawa at the back just instantly. "Hoi! Don't pick a fight with freshman!" He said with an irk in his head.

"Stop it Tooru-kun!" y/n hold Oikawa's arm to calm him down. She then diverts her attention to the boy. "Let's go there, I'll try to help you the best I could." She said with a wide smile and brings the kouhai away from Oikawa.

"Hey don't steal y/n-chan!!!" Oikawa shouts only to earn another hit from his friend.

"Shut up. Shittykawa!"

• • • • • • • • •

Graduation came just as instant. The three sats on the stair going up to the club room of the volleyball team.

The ceremonies ended a long while ago. Some students already left school and the sun starts to set. Orange and purple hue painted the sky reflecting on their faces.

"Y/n-chan" Oikawa said breaking his voice at the process. He could no longer say anything as a lump starts to block his throat.

Y/n reached for his hand warming them. "We could still meet someday. I promise." She assured with a smile. This time she also reached her other hand to Iwaizumi. He's quite the whole time but y/n could see that he's saddened too.

"I'll miss you guys." She said before caging her friends in a tight warm embrace. It causes the boys to blushed but it faded just soon.

"We'll miss you too." They say in unison.

• • • • • • • • •

The truck carrying their things arrived at their new home in Tokyo. Y/n rushed upstairs to find her new room. She found empty rooms obviously but not sure which one is hers.

"Otousan? Which one is my room?" She peaked on the balcony.

"It's on the far end." Her father replied. Just as instant she runs to it and opens the door to the last room. A vacant room welcomes her. It's bigger than her old one and she's delighted to discover that her room will have a window now.

A glowing smile appeared on her face. She excitedly runs across the room to open it almost tripping on the process. The air blows her face just as instant making her squint her eyes.As she opened her e/c-colored eyes again, it meets with the boy standing in the room just across hers.

They're both frozen for feels like a whole minute as y/n unconsciously analyzed his features.

He's tall and lean. He has narrow eyes which she's can't tell the color from their distance. He has black hair that looks messy and spikes upwards. He also has a fringe on his right side that partially covers his eye.

His facial expression is surprised as her. He looks like a cat caught stealing something.

"Hey!" He broke the silence. He tried to fix his hair one last time but it still sticks up. He looked at her with his signature killer smirk. "The new girl next door!" using the term used in pertaining to a character who is often used in romantic stories.

y/n's eyes widened from that awkward encounter. She doesn't know how to respond. Seems like it's out of the script.

"Hello," she simply said. "I have to go" she followed and closed the window even before he could speak again

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