Chapter 1: Those Blue Eyes

"Hey, Kageyama!" Hinata sprinted up to his towering teammate as the school day ended. "Do you need to study for the next test?!" Kageyama pressed down on the short boy's head with a crushing force and the orange haired boy started to shake.

"Of course I need to study, idiot…" He mumbled, trying to keep his voice down. "Don't start shouting obvious things…" He growled.

"O-Okay, I-I was just a-asking…" Hinata groaned trying to keep on his feet as Kageyama dragged him by the scalp to Class 5. They could feel the eyes of the classmates around them as the taller boy dragged the other across the room to the seats around their blonde, skittish manager. Practically throwing the small boy into his chair, Hitoka Yachi squealed at the loud noise.

"O-Oh… it's just you g-guys." Her voice shook as a nervous smile spread across her face crookedly. "Did you guys need some notes?" Hinata and Kageyawa nodded their heads vigorously before bowing their heads and shouted 'Please!' "O-Oi! St-Stop that!" The blonde started to get anxious again, waving her hands in front of her. "B-But right now I'm actually copying someone else's notes since I was sick a few days ago." The boys looked at her, a little bit of shock in their eyes.

"Who's notes?" Hinata asked. Yachi pointed to the front of the room where the entrance was. Her finger led their eyes to a small body with long black hair that laid down their back. "Who is that?" Hinata asked.

"That's Yuzuki, she's actually the one that you guys should be asking for tutoring." Yachi stood up, gathering her notebooks and note-taking utensils and led the boys to the desk in the corner. "Here you go, Yuzuki-chan, thank you so much again!" Yachi bowed deeply and the girl waved her hands in front of her.

"Y-Yachi-chan? It's alright! I'm glad I could help." She smiled at her blonde classmate before realizing the shadow that was casted over her. Looking up with her blue eyes, she spotted the towering setter and his small friend. She smiled up at them. "Are these friends of yours?"

A small blush came across the boys' faces as they bowed their heads and introduced themselves in a very formal and stiff way.

"Hey, there's no need for that." She said calmly. The boys, still bent over, looked up to see her still smiling at them. From their position, Kageyama was eye level with her as she opened her eyes to look at both of them with a warmer smile. "I'm Yuzuki Shimizu, nice to meet you."

Kageyama felt his face grow warm and he just dropped his head again. "Her eyes… are so blue!" He thought to himself until Hinata spoke in a questionable voice.

"Shimizu?" Hinata was already standing straight up as Kageyama slowly regained his posture. The girl nodded. "As in… Kiyoko Shimizu?!" The outburst of their manager's name didn't seem the faze the blue-eyed girl that much as she only looked at him with slightly wider eyes.

"Yeah…" She mumbled, "My older sister if the manager of the volleyball team…"

"WAHHH?!" The duo shouted in complete shock, getting uncomfortably close to her face. "Why didn't you become the second manager?!" Hinata asked, forgetting that Yachi was standing beside him. His question subconsciously stabbed Yachi in the chest, and when he realized it he immediately apologized and tried to comfort the depressed manager.

Seeing how Hinata was preoccupied, Yuzuki looked ahead of her as she rested her head into the palm of her hand when she leaned her elbow on her desktop. "Because I'm not interested volleyball…" She mumbled just loud enough for those Kageyama her to hear.

"Oh yeah! We almost forgot!" Hinata hollered, slamming his hands on Yuzuki's desk. She sat up straight and looked up at his wild brown eyes. "We need your notes."

"Eh?" She asked, "My notes?" Hinata nodded as she searched her bag for her notebooks and piled them neatly on her desk. "Which subject?"

"English." Kageyama finally spoke. Yuzuki looked up at him and he made direct eye contact against and lost him composure and had to look away again. She just looked back to Hinata.

"Do you guys need help with the pronunciations too?" They nodded. "Good! I have them written down so that might be helpful." She opened her notebook and pointed to the writing next to the words and phrases. Hinata, Kageyama, and Yachi looked at the paper with glowing eyes. "I have problems pronouncing things right , but I could remember definitions easily so this helps a lot-"

"Thank you so much Shimizu-sensei!" The three of them bowed their heads deeply in a row in front of her desk.

"S-Sensei?" She asked aloud. "You don't have to be formal with me, ya'know." She leaned her head on the backs of her folded hands. They looked up at her smiling again warmly. "Just Yuzuki-chan is fine." The trio blushed and nodded their heads with a 'Yes ma'am'. "What did I just say…" She sighed.

A few minutes go by as the boys were sitting copying her notes and she had already gathered her things to leave. "Oi, Sh-Yuzuki-chan," Hinata caught her attention just as she was about to walk out the door. "We still have your notebooks."

"It's fine, just bring them to me when you're done with your test." She waved for them to keep it. "Your test is in a few days right? So just keep it."

"But," Kageyama started, "don't you need to study too?"

Yuzuki shook her head, "My sister kept her notes from the past years, I'll just look at those and make adjustments." She chuckled, "Besides, from what I hear, you guys need it more than I do." Her blunt comment pierced their chest as she waved goodbye and left their sights.

A few hours go by and it's dark outside when the duo are on their way home. The walked in silence for a little while as Hinata dragged along his bike and Kageyama just walked, but the orange-haired boy noticed something was off with his setter.

"Hey, Kageyama?" He asked to fill the silence. Kageyama didn't answer and the smaller boy just got angry and kicked the back of his long legs and made it knees buckle. Kageyama fell face first into the ground.

"Oi!" Kageyama got up and started to squeeze and pull on Hinata's head. "What the hell was that for?!" He shouted.

"Yew wure spasing owt,"(You were spacing out) Hinata looked up at his teammate with concern when he released him, "are you okay?"

"I'm fine." He snapped and continued walking. Another silence fell between them as Hinata trailed behind.

"Yuzuki-chan was kind of cute, wasn't she?" Hinata's question stopped Kageyama in his tracks. He didn't noticed until he was not ahead of him and turned around. "Kageyama?"

"Sh-She wasn't that great…" Kageyama started walking again beside Hinata and stopped where they usually parted ways. They had stopped for a moment, obviously one of them wanted to say something but nothing came out.

"Well," Hinata finally spoke, "I'll see you tomorrow at practice!"

"Yeah, see ya." Kageyama turned away whenever Hinata did and they went their separate ways.

As his walk, Kageyama wanted to remember what that girl looked like, but nothing came to mind. Her whole face was a blur and so was her body. The whole memory was a blur. Just as he got to his door, he finally remembered something about her.

Her bright blue eyes.