𝗣𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗠 ⸺ 𝖭𝗂𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗈𝗒𝖺 𝖸𝗎𝗎

⁽ ²⁹ ⁾ "ℒℯ𝓉 𝒯𝒽ℯ 𝒢𝒶𝓂ℯ𝓈 ℬℯℊ𝒾𝓃!"

A/N: Hello, readers! First chapter of the preliminaries are here! Enjoy!

edited on september 16th, 2021 @ 10:48am

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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

CHIHARU WAS WITH HIS TEAM in the building where the other schools were also in since it was preliminaries. He wasn't nervous, more like excited. He was leaning against the wall when his phone buzzed in his volleyball jacket. He took it out, smiling when he saw that it was only his twin brother.

Hiro 🏀:
> Heard that your preliminaries started today, so I wanted to wish you luck.

Haru:
Thank you, Hiro. <

Hiro 🏀:
> Let me know if you make it to the finals. I'll make the effort to travel to Miyagi to watch you play.

Haru:
Will do. <

Chiharu turned his phone off and sighed. He looked up and saw Hinata. "You all right, Hinata?" He asked his junior, noticing how pale he was looking.

"H-Hinata, are you okay?" Yachi asked in concerned. Chiharu then saw Yamaguchi shaking as well, making him worried for him.

"Yep. I'm fine. I puked on the way here, and that relieved me a bit."

"Of course, you'd feel sick after eating all those pork bowls for breakfast."

"It's normal to eat pork cutlets on game days!"

"And by "normal", you mean..."

Suddenly Kageyama went over and started yelling at the orange-haired male. "You moron! Hinata, you stupid moron!" He exclaimed as Chiharu snorted.

"Is moron the only word you know?" Chiharu teased as Kageyama blushed in embarrassment.

"I-I'll do my best to expand my vocabulary!" He announced as Chiharu snickered.

"Relax, Kageyama. I was just teasing you." Chiharu smirked as his other teammates were talking amongst themselves, like how Asahi and Yamaguchi were getting nervous.

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Once Karasuno was dressed in their own uniforms, with Chiharu proudly wearing the number zero in bold white lettering.

Daichi looked over to them. "The game before us is over. Let's go!" He informed, as his team nodded and followed their captain into the gymnasium.

"Yeah!"

TWEEEET!

Everyone was doing their warmups with Kageyama doing their sets as they each took a turn spiking the ball. "Your shaved head is seriously lame. Seriously, like seriously, seriously..." Chiharu heard a guy from the opposing team call out to Tanaka who overheard.

Tanaka then had a praying face. "I will go forth. Let us play a good game." He said as Chiharu smirked when Tanaka ran up and spiked the ball that Kageyama sets to him. "Take this, damn it!" He yelled as the other two players from the opposing team flinch at the power that Tanaka had.

"Thank you for that opportunity." Tanaka prayed and slightly bowed to Kageyama who just looked confused but bowed back. Someone from the opposing team recognized Chiharu.

"Hey, look at that guy."

"Isn't that Mayuzumi Chiharu?"

"You mean that disappearing libero that's ranked in the top three liberos in the country?"