This is my first haikyuu fic, and I started it because I really wanted to write an OC X KAGEYAMA story, as there seems to be barely any long fanfics in this category yet I've thought up so many different possibilities! Kags is so adorable so I really couldn't resist! My OC isn't a self-insert nor a mary sue (I think), and the volleyball club scene won't be fully in there for a few chapters I think, but our OC is Suga's little sister! I say this with all my fics, but my update goal is usually every week, but I may miss weeks when I busy in real life (the sadness), especially since at the moment I am still writing a divergent fic which I am nowhere near finished, I just felt like Haikyuu! Enjoy!:)
Disclaimer: I do not own Haikyuu. If I owned Haikyuu I would own Kageyama and then my life goal would be complete.
I lie in bed, waiting for my alarm to ring. I've been restless all night, the prospect of high school casting a shadow over my mind. Karasuno High School is said to be a nice, normal school, but there was only one reason I chose it, I didn't even bother
/applying to others, I just want to go to school with Koshi. Ever since he left middle school he's been distant from me, but we used to be so close. He doesn't even pretend we're fine anymore, doesn't hide the… hate is too strong a word, he doesn't
/hide his dislike for me in his eyes.
I suppose Karasuno has other benefits, it's a fifteen minute walk from my house, it's reasonably high on the league tables for academics, which is important since I think I'm probably going to go into aerospace engineering, or in general vehicle engineering.
/Not to mention the girl's basketball team was in the top 10 last year, so it's a reasonably high level. I should be worrying about making friends I guess, but that doesn't seem too important to me, I've always thought friends will just happen, if
/they're good friends.
But I want to be closer with my brother, Sugawara Koshi.
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As soon as my alarm rings, I crawl out of bed and change into the school uniform, a simple white shirt with a short grey skirt and a burgundy bow round the neck. I add some long grey socks on, then brush my long, dark silver hair. It's quite a nice uniform
/actually, though there is an optional pullover, it's a little yellow for my liking.
"Morning," I say as I enter the kitchen, where my mum is eating her breakfast. "Where's Koshi?" I ask, whilst reaching for some food.
"Didn't he tell you? He's heading to school early, something about Volleyball as usual. He's so dedicated your brother, going in early on the first day." As my mother speaks my energy lessens. I thought we'd be able to walk to school together, but then
/again, he's 17, he probably thinks its lame to walk to school with your sister. Besides the setback, I start my walk to school on time.
After registering, lessons start straight away, in Class 3 most of the students seem quite quiet, which is good in my opinion. I've always made friends in clubs rather than lessons, as I do actually pay attention. Studying is supposedly so important,
/but if I pay attention in lessons, I find remembering everything much easier.
It gets to lunch, and time for clubs. I go straight to the outdoor basketball courts after changing into sportswear, some black shorts and a white t-shirt, and tie my hair up.
I join the group of first years just in time before the basketball coach asks us to line up, and starts questioning our experience. I come at the end of the line, and the anticipation builds in me as the Coach is a retired national player in her 50s,
/and very strict. She reminds me of the old ladies who live down every street, loud, authoritive, but will always let you off if you sugarcoat everything you say.
"Sugawara Rui?" Coach questions, and I nod.
"From Nagamushi Junior, Sensei." I speak straightly. "I have played for three years, mostly as Point Guard, but I am knowledgeable in all positions bar Centre.
"Nagamushi? Were you the first-string Point Guard, Sugawara?" Coach questions, and I nod sheepishly.
The coach smiles broadly. "You're allowed to mention you were the leading Point Guard of the national champions two years in a row!"
"But surely that is all different now, as new teammates mean a completely different team." I reply politely, smiling lightly at the other girls.
"Of course, let's start warm up!" The coach calls. The practice passes by, and I make friends with most of the other first-years, most notably Sato Chou, a tall dark haired girl who plays centre.
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Over the two weeks school sets it's pace, and Basketball positions are decided. I get put in as first-string Point Guard straight away, as there isn't a third year who plays Point Guard, whilst Sato-chan gets into second string.
I barely hear anything from Koshi. We've walked to and from school together a few times, but any questions I pose about the new year or school are immediately shut down. If I see him in the hallways he doesn't meet my eyes, though his best friend Daichi-san
/always smiles. The only way we ever talk is if I ask about the boy's volleyball team, of which I know there are four new first-years, and that two of them are incredible, especially the setter. But I can see Koshi already working himself up, a prodigy
/first-year with the same position as him…
So, when I see Daichi-san, and what looks like the rest of the boy's Volleyball team lurking round the basketball courts, I can't help but walk over.
"Daichi-san?" I question, gaining the attention of the entire volleyball team.
"Daichi-san? Do you know her?" A ginger kid questions.
"Waaaaa why do you know a pretty first-year Daichi?" A boy with a shaved head asks.
"Rui-chan, are you busy, do you need to be playing?" Daichi asks politely while I take in the slightly overbearing smiles the rest of the volleyball team are giving me. Except two of them, both extremely tall, a blond boy with glasses and a black haired
/boy I believe is in my Class. Though I notice Koshi isn't here.
"No, Coach has the third-years playing while we watch. Do you need something? Is Koshi coming?" As soon as I ask the question Daichi-san gives me an apologetic look, as I'm sure he knows about the rift between Koshi and I.
"I'm not sure where Suga is, but we were wondering if we could ask a favour, from the whole volleyball team of course, including Suga." Daichi says with a smile plastered on his face.
"So you want something then." I conclude, placing a hand on my hip with my eyebrows raised.
"Ah yes… Suga wanted to ask if we could borrow the Basketball team's minibus for a practice match on Friday… you see we don't have one and the school one is being used for a school trip."
"Don't think you can name drop my brother and expect me to do anything foryou please Daichi-san." I say, but my tone is teasing.
"You're Suga's first-year sister? You're so pretty!" The boy with the shaved head says not so subtly and I give him a wry smile.
"Yeah… I wouldn't remind him of it if I were you. Come on, we'll have to ask coach, though we aren't using it." I lead them onto the court to approach coach who's sitting on the side.
"Coach? This is my brother's volleyball team, they were wondering whether they could borrow the minibus for a practice match on Friday. Sensei…" I trail off looking to Daichi to continue.
"Takeda-sensei would be driving us, Coach." Daichi-san says. "Please consider it, sensei!" And with that, the rest of the volleyball team echoes him in unison, before dropping down in a 90 degree bow.
"Volleyball team? I heard you did alright last year… what about basketball do any of you play?" Coach stands and questions them, shaking her finger at them.
"I played in junior high, coach!" A nondescript second-year answers.
"You did, did you? Well, how about you watch this match and then I'll make my decision!" Coach replies, and the volleyball club bows again and I motion to the benches.
"Thank you Rui-chan." Daichi says smiling, and I nod.
"I've never heard of Suga-san having a sister!" The shaved head boy speaks once again, and I turn to him.
"And you are?"
"Tanaka Ryunosuke! Come on everyone, introduce yourselves to Suga-san's sister!" He bows his head, and the rest of the club begin to follow on.
"Kageyama Tobio, we're in the same Class." The raven-haired boy nods his head and I smile in recognition.
"Yes, did you manage to finish the long Japanese history homework?" I ask in what I hope is a friendly tone, but he just shakes his head.
"No. I got bored, so I went to practice my serves."
I chuckle lightly.
"I'm Hinata Shoyo! Nice to meet you, Suga's never told us about you before!" My jaw tightens as the feeling of hurt rushes through me, but I nod lightly.
"Sure."
"Oh come on! Saito take a seat on the bench, you may not be first string but your upperclassmen now! You should be setting an example! Sugawara, go even up the playing field!" The coach yells and I bow respectfully before waving to Daichi as I go and
/join the pitch.
Third Pov.
"No one mention her and Suga's relationship from here on out to her or Suga, it's a touchy subject." Daichi quickly orders as soon as Rui is far enough away.
"Why? Is something wrong? Suga must love his sister, he's like that!" Tanaka replies easily and Daichi sighs.
"Suga's been at ends with her for years now. Call it what you will, they were just born differently." Daichi says.
"Born differently?" Hinata questions.
"She seems just as nice as Suga, just prettier!" Tanaka says.
"No, they have reasonably similar traits. Hardworking, loyal, dedicated. I meant she tends to… succeed more. Look at her now." Daichi indicates to the fairly tall girl dribbling the basketball with ease. "I think she used to play volleyball, but she got
/put on the starting line up in her first year of middle school, while Suga only ever got to play in his last year. She switched to basketball, and she became the leading player of her team and became national champion, and received best player two
/years in a row. I heard she gets brilliant grades as well. Not to mention a lot of attention from the boys her age."
"She's top in our year." Kageyama says silently.
"Really? How can someone be so clever?" Hinata exclaims.
"She got top marks in entrance exams. It's been two weeks and we've been given her essay as example." Kageyama continues.
"Ah, so it's like that. We all know Suga's clever and studies hard, but despite being older, he told me he always feels like he's in her shadow." Daichi says.
"That sucks." Tanaka comments, and Daichi nods.
"She's doubled her teams score after playing for five minutes against the rest of her third year first stringers… that's reallygood." Ennoshita says.
"Yeah, I've always felt bad for her. She's quite modest about her achievements as well, there's just space between them. I hope it closes with her coming to Karasuno." Daichi explains, as the big, light grey eyed girl with defined curves jumps up to let
/the basketball drop through the hoop.
Rui's POV
I can feel Daichi talking about me from here. Well, it's not like it's a secret anyway. As coach blows her whistle, I move over to Chou.
"Rui-chan, why were you sitting with all those boys… was that the third year who smiles at you in the corridors?" Chou-chan questions quickly, and I chuckle.
"Yes, that's Daichi-san. He's my brother's volleyball captain, that's his team. He has something he wanted to ask coach, so I sat with them. Was it a good game, did you see anything I could improve on?" I answer her, and she returns a smile.
"It was brilliant, of course it was Rui! I think Coach will probably tell you to dribble lower to the ground, you're taller so you have to lower your body more, you know, the usual." Chou replies and I scowl, it's always the same, but I can never remember
/to fix it.
"Go on without me, I have to talk to coach." I tell her as we're dismissed.
"Coach, will the Volleyball team be able to use the minibus?" I ask, and she smiles at me.
"Great playing as usual, you still need to dribble lower! Everyone else is shorter, so you must do this! And yes, I suppose so." Coach replies.
"Do you think a basketball representative should go with them, to ensure the minibus isn't damaged?" I ask shyly, and Coach looks at me suspicious.
"It's your brother's team, right?"
"Yes, I want to go and support him, but I don't think he'd let me." I tell her honestly, and she lets out great barks of laughter.
"Go on then! Make sure they keep my bus clean!" She says, before walking off.
"Does that mean we are able to use the minibus?" Daichi-san asks, and I turn with a smile on my face.
"Yes, with one condition, that a basketball member escorts you to ensure the bus isn't damaged or dirtied." I tell him, and the volleyball team jump up in thanks.
"It will be good to have you with us, Rui." Daichi says to me and I grin.
"I'll be seeing you on Friday then!" I say to them collectively.
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It becomes Friday morning quicker than I realise, and though I miss Koshi in the morning, Kageyama approaches me before our first class.
"Please accept my apologies!" He says obediently bowing at his middle.
"Of course, of course!" I say, in attempt to stop him drawing everyone's attention. "What are your apologies for, you haven't done anything."
"The practice match today, it was requested that I play setter. I know you wanted to come to support Sugawara-senpai, but he won't be able to play." Kageyama explains, bowing his head multiple times. Concerned he may get whiplash, I place a hand on his
/back and get him to take the seat next to me at the back.
"It's alright, calm down. Why was your playing setter requested?" Was he the prodigy setter Koshi told me of briefly?
"Most of my classmates from junior high go there, we ended middle school on bad terms. It's my guess that's why I was requested." He tells me, and I sigh.
"Then you couldn't have done anything about it. It's understandable, you shouldn't worry so much." I reassure him, fiddling with the bow at my collar. Kageyama is very tall, and his deep blue eyes are extremely striking paired with his raven hair, and
/I can see a slight sheen on his skin.
"Did you have training this morning?" I ask, and he nods. "Was my brother there? Was he upset about not playing?"
"Sugawara-senpai was there. He said he wasn't bothered not playing, but… er… was a little distressed when Daichi-san told him you were coming." He says, and I can't stop the frown moving to my lips.
"I'm… I'm sure he just didn't want his little sister to see him on the bench." Kageyama says, in attempt to be comforting, so I give him a small smile. "Daichi-san said you used to play Volleyball. What position did you play?"
"Setter. The equivalent of Point Guard in basketball really, it wasn't too hard to understand the differences between the two sports." I answer.
"Why did you stop?" He asks, and I have to look away from his bright, unblinking eyes.
"Um, why? I guess… it was convenient at the time. I enjoyed Volleyball, a lot, it's just my school had a very strong girl's basketball team. The volleyball team wasn't very good." I say, and though he nods I see his brows knitting together, so I laugh.
/"It's good to see my brother's first years are so dedicated to their sport. I will say I would still play volleyball, if I had time to. But basketball takes up my sporting activity now."
"But Volleyball's…." Kageyama trails off and I smile at his cute, puzzled expression. Cute? Excuse me.
"I know, it's just… a bit late for me to change now. And there isn't a brilliantwomen's volleyball team here either, it would be a little hard." I tell him, and he nods slowly. I can't help but smile slightly. "Did you manage to finish that history
homework?"
"Kind of…" He mutters, starting to take his books out of his bag.
"May I see?" I ask, and he hands over his work. Ah… so I guess kind of, means he wrote just enough to pass it being done, but only tried for the first quarter, and then seemingly got confused, so filled the rest of the page with filler.
"Will I pass?" He asks bluntly, and a sympathetic smile grows on my face.
"I doubt it." I say honestly.
"Ugh, it's too short isn't it. I'll add another paragraph…"
"No, actually, mines a little shorter than this." I tell him, and he just blinks confused. It's really adorable. "I don't mind helping, in fact, you've just crammed all the information you can remember into this first paragraph, but rushed it a little,
/and then you ran out of stuff to say, right?"
"Yep."
"If you just structure what you put in this first paragraph into a full essay, you'd definitely pass, if not get higher." I tell him. "I can help you if you want… if you do something for me in return."
He looks at me dubiously, as if to say he doesn't care that much about passing.
"Not that I'll say yes, but what would you want?" He asks carefully.
"Could you invite me to watch your lunchtime practice? Basketball is cancelled, and I'm curious to see yourprodigious skills." I present the idea to him, and he just blinks, pauses, then looks at me blankly.
"It's an open practice, you don't need an invite." He points out and I roll my eyes.
"I know that, but it's polite to ask, and I think if I did just turn up Koshi would throw me out if I didn't have a proper invitation. Besides, I'm coming along to the practice match, why don't we say it's part of your apology for taking my brother's
/place." I remember how this conversation started and manage to use it as a device to get him to accept.
He shrugs, then nods. "I was thinking of asking you to come anyway actually. Now it just means Yoshida-sensei won't get even more pissed at me." He says carelessly, and I pout slightly before smiling.
"Thanks, Kageyama-kun!"
Our class tutor enters the room then asking for silence, but I take a quick glance back at Kageyama-kun who's still looking my way.
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"Do you want to eat lunch then?" Kageyama asks simply as our last lesson before lunch finishes, not meeting my eyes whilst scratching the back of his neck.
"Sure, I know somewhere we can sit without the busy's of the cafeteria." I tell him as I follow him to buy his lunch. I have my usual bento, with Chicken naban I made yesterday, and I lead him, though he was hesitant, to the girl's club room building,
/where I motion for him to start climbing the tallest Oaktree that has a thick branch higher up that leads onto the roof.
"Have you done this before?" He asks as he steps up to the first branch, before I start following him.
"Yeah, I found it on the second day of school. I'm not really one for the social aspects of eating in the cafeteria, it just prolongs me eating my food which is the only important thing really." I tell him. "Plus it means we're outside, which is always
/better."
We perch ourselves on the ledge created by the air con fans, and as the club room building is a few storeys high, there's a nice view of the greenery further on.
"So I've gathered you're not much for acedemics, are you?" I ask him, and he shakes his head, a mouthful full of food. "Any subjects you vaguely like, or are you never going to stop playing volleyball?"
"Volleyball." He says simply and a chuckle. "You're clever, but you could be a professional basketball player as well." He says it completely seriously, but with a kind of cute blank look on his face.
"I'm a bit of a wimp. I enjoy basketball, but I can't see myself having it as an occupation. I like sports because of the competition, but… I've never really lost. And I don't want to know what that feels like." I admit to him.
"So you're afraid of losing a game, and losing your whole career as a result." He concludes.
"Basically. And winning doesn't always mean successful in terms of a job. I guess I'm too careful to take risks like that in real life." I say. "But I think everyone's afraid of losing. You said you ended on bad terms with your middle school teammates,
/surely you'd never want that to happen again."
His usually straight face twists into a scowl and he pointedly looks away.
"No."
Yet he still answers.
"Besides, I'm really interested in mechanics, engines and such. Especially aeroplanes. Piloting never really stood out to me, since nowadays it's the technology that ensures a safe, fast flight. I've always thought it would be a fun job. Always something
/new, never the best."
"You don't want to be the best?" He asks, and I think it over.
"Being the best is nice, but in sport… for me it's always made me lose insight. When you're the best, who can you challenge? With science, there's always a challenge." I say.
"Though if you start offnot the best, it would be nice to keep on working, till you come the best. That's the fun part. That's why Volleyball is so fun." Kageyama says, and I nod with him.
"Volleyball's different from basketball. In Volleyball, you can't do everything yourself, you can't touch the ball twice in a row. It's a true team sport. Basketball's a bit of a fake team sport. I've gone whole games where my teammates have barely touched
/the ball, because my dribbling skills are the best way to go about it." I explain to him.
"Then play volleyball." I can't help it, I laugh at his straight-forwardness, and smile brightly.
"Yeah, maybe I will, now I've got a chance to make up with Koshi. We should go." I finish, putting my bento box away in my bag and start climbing down first as Kageyama follows me.
"Rui-chan-"Kageyama pauses as I turn back. "Eto… Daichi-san called you it, so I assumed…"
"Call me Rui-chan, everyone calls me Rui anyway." I say with a smile.
"Right… Rui-chan, let's go this way."
That marks the end of my first chapter! What do we think, is it alright? I always find starting novels the hardest, once I get into it it's much easier. Anyway, I started the involvement in the middle of episode 5, as I thought it wouldn't be right if another character was involved in th madness, so I hope it worked out, please read and review as always, and I hope this fic is enjoyable in the future!
