The Crow's war

chapter 5

(With karasuno boys)

Right as Echo fell a mix of screams and laughter could be heard coming from the boat. Sugawara could only give a confused look at Reign as he calmed his laughter. Shaking his head Sugawara focused on going over to the side where Kageyama kept staring at the ground trying to find where the girl went.

"Why are you laughing about this?" Daichi asked. He turned around to yell at Noya and Tanaka to stop running, which for some reason they decided would be a good idea. Then after they had stopped running, he redirected his attention to Reign who had stopped laughing completely. Shaking his head, he spoke up.

"It's funny seeing your reaction to that. Just watch and you'll see." Reign replied before counting down. "In three, two, one." once he had finished Echo zoomed past them flying upwards before doing a flip and returning to the boat. She landed and smiled at Kageyama who was a little freaked out by the fact that she had a pair of wings now. Her wings folded down against her back as she little out a giggle of her own.

"Wha-wait how did you do that? Better question: why would you do something like that?"

"I can tell ya." Reign shouted, calling the two boys over. "How she did that is simple; she's a shifter or protector as we call it. I'm guessing that Sho didn't tell you about this world, didn't he?" Suga and Dachi shook their heads.

"He never gave us any clue that he wasn't from our world. I mean, sure he could jump higher than expected from someone at his height but that never crossed my mind. The only thing I know about this place is what he put in the letter for us. About there being a chance, of whoever is here breaking into our world and starting a war. And us being in danger with him around us."

"That makes sense. He always seemed like the type to explain things to the point where you only understand the basic idea of what he actually meant." Reign sighed about explaining what Hinata meant to say. "But forget about that for now. I'll tell ya what happened with Echo over there. Her family is now as protectors for the eagles. In our world people are half animals and they can only resemble the main animal of their homelands. Protectors are different though they can shift into any of the four animals or look like a normal human like you."

"Wait hold up!" Tanaka shouted. "Do you mean that Hinata is part animal? Like an actual animal?"

"That would be so cool, imagine if we were like that. We could impress Kiyoko or prank anyone." Noya added in excitement. He jumped into the air and landed wobbling a little because of the uneven floorboards.

"I have to agree that would be useful and it might explain why he can jump so high." Kageyama agreed.

"Yes, Sho is one of us; his family is one of the protectors of the crows. And I have a reason to believe that you might know another one of our protectors. He's a part of the main Neko protectors and the first one of his family to return after so long, Kenma Kozume."

"So did those two know each other before?" Daichi asked. "That explains the way they first acted."

"Yeah, they did! Apparently, they were almost always seen together during the day." Reign replied. He told them about the few times he had passed by the two overhearing them laughing about something. Needless to say, the Karasuno boys were surprised for sure. From what they saw, the Nekoma setter was very quiet and non-expressive. He didn't try to stand out and didn't like to speak out for very long. But the way Reign was talking about Kenma made him seem like a completely different person.

"Are you sure we're talking about the same person here?" Tanaka asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure I don't really know any more protector's children who have that family name."