So this was written for this years NaNoWriMo, it will be 50K words and continue after that as I was a bit too ambitious. I love Tsukishima, Hinata, Kageyama, and a few more characters, so I hoped to include them in a story. Below is a better summary since it seems FF has a really strict limit. Thanks for reading.

Summary: In middle school, Kei Tsukishima had it all, excellent grades, excellent social skills, and popularity that would make anyone want to be around him. When you wanted something done you went to him. Homework, he could help you easily ace it immediately. Studying, he would make you instantly understand any challenging subject. Feeling down, then talk to Kei and he would say just the right things to make you feel like you're the best. Kei was who everyone dreamed to be.

Now that Kei has enrolled at high school, he has realized that he is missing something vital that everyone around him had. Tired of feeling like an outcast, he has given himself rules to guide his high school life. These rules, he hoped, would enable him to be the person he has always dreamed of being, one with actual friends and a normal social life. Struggling between being his usual self and being the perfect person he managed to be has been hard. Fortunately on the first day of implementing his plan he met Shouyou Hinata, a bright cheerful unique character who brought him bountiful joy. However, this was threatened by seemingly impossible circumstances happening back to back, going against the very laws of nature. Kei and Shouyou, through sheer strength, willpower, and dedication, and friendship battle the odds to right wrongs, stamp out evildoers, and return Karasuno to how it is supposed to be.

Kei Tsukishima, ace student, woke early to prepare for his new journey that was soon to start. This was going to be the first day at his new high school, Karasuno. Though he had no problem with meeting new people or even going to new places, he still felt a bit of anxiety over what unknown events could happen. Karasuno was going to be vastly different from his middle school. He would have to meet new people, try to stay at the top of his game in academics, and be forced to join some new school club. The list of things he added to this list became longer and longer in his mind. Before he knew it, he had a list of fifty things on it. He stopped immediately and move on. He reasoned that the best thing to do would be to tackle these things head on and get right into it. A laid-back easy going attitude wasn't how he became the ace student of middle school after all.

Kei immediately checked his mobile tablet to see if he had any pressing matters to attend to before leaving his house. A notification appeared the second he looked at it.

"Make sure to lock up and have a good day at school Kei!" he read on the screen. As he was about to type a response a second message appeared, "I loved Karasuno, I hope you will too (*≧▽≦). Be sure to make a friend today!" Kei rolled his eyes in response. His brother, Akiteru, loved to include emoticons in his texts. This annoyed Kei to no end. Why couldn't he just used a normal smiley like other people? Though he did assume that was how most normal people texted, he didn't have many friends who texted him. Kei shot back a short and quick response and immediately prepared to leave.

Because he lived within walking distance of Karasuno, he could take his time. Kei's journey took him by a gorgeous waterway. It looked simply stunning in the morning hours. This would be the first time going this this way so he took in the scenery like a newborn seeing its mother for the first time. Birds chirped all around him, the sound of rushing water flowed beside him, and some early morning senior citizens slowed walked by him. A hillside of flowers with enough colors to make a rainbow feel jealous was the icing on the cake for this landscape. He was glad to be alive to see such a sight. He almost wanted to take a photo of it to commemorate it. Photos had become very important to him though he couldn't pinpoint why. Giving in to his inner desire, he snapped a photo of the entire scene. It would be a great addition to his photo book and one he would surely caption "First Day of High School." He chuckled to himself at the idea of a high schooler maintaining a photobook of such a common event, but it was something he enjoyed.

As he passed the waterway and reached the busy market area, he started to see others headed in the same direction. He knew that these were students as they were dressed in the similar black and orange plaid pants or skirts, and the white short-sleeve shirts with a crow on the shirt pocket. A few looked at him, nodded, and continued on their way. Because he was a bit taller than most students in his class, he was used to being starred at. It still made him a bit uncomfortable and sadly it did turn people away from talking to him. Hopefully the students at Karasuno would act differently. At least they nodded at him, so he wasn't being ignored. He hoped that his actual class would be friendly.

Signs pointing to Karasuno High School became more numerous as Kei walked closer. As the crowd grew he assumed hewas right in front of it. In front of him, a tall arched gateway with the words KARASUNO written on it confirmed his assumption, indicating he had arrived. He had been here a few times with Akiteru but this was the first time he entered Karasuno from the front. He kept walking. Before he could enter he noticed a really short orange haired boy gazing in excitement at the big statue of the crow in the courtyard a few feet from the arch. Kei wondered if the boy had never seen a statue of a mascot at a school before but otherwise passed him by. The statue wasn't anything special. In fact, anyone living in the area would have seen it numerous times before. He inwardly chuckled but otherwise kept walking. Perhaps it was a middle schooler who come to the wrong school by mistake?

Though Kei didn't realize it, the orange haired boy at the statue was actually waiting for Kei to come to school. The crow statue was taller than the boy so he was briefly distracted by it. It had been his first time to Karasuno High School so it was strange to see such large attention to detail given to something as ordinary as a crow. As Kei walked by, the boy realized who he was waiting for had arrived. The boy immediately remembered the email he received the previous day.

"Hey, Shouyou,

I know we haven't talked in a few years, but I am hoping that you could do me a favor. Kei will be at Karasuno High School along with you. He has become intensely focused on his studies since abandoning you and everyone else in elementary school. His time in middle school should have been a time for him to find himself, but it seems that was not the case. In fact it seems like he is completely changed. He's still my brother and I love him for who he is but I don't like seeing him like this. He was unable to make any friends or do anything that most normal people his age do. I miss how he used to be. He doesn't even remember the past anymore. Since you will be going to Karasuno, could you help him? Maybe if you spend time with him his memory will return. If not at least keep him some company so he can break out of his shell and live. You're always so happy and could really make Kei feel good.

Thanks,

Akiteru T. (‐^▽^‐)

"

Shouyou immediately followed Kei into the school.

Kei found his homeroom easily. The first years were placed on the third floor of the school. They were separated into five homerooms with his, the fifth one, being E. Wondering if this spelled doom for him, (why would I be in the final one, when I should have been one of the first to turn back my acceptance letter, he thought), he immediately tried to find a seat. As an ace student, he thought, he could sit in the first seat of the first row. That would give him the best choice for answering questions and paying attention. Though a part of him cringed at the thought and the memory how being in front often separated him from his classmates and made them feel inferior to them. If he got all the attention in the front then he didn't want the same death stares that haunted him in the past to recur in the present. Looking around he found one in a more ideal spot. The seat by the window in the second row from the back looked perfect. Upon sitting down, he saw the short orange haired boy he passed by at the statue enter the room.

"Hey!" Shouyou said happily upon picking the seat in front of Kei. "I'm Shouyou Hinata, and you are?" he attempted to sound like he didn't know him. It would be bad if Kei found out his brother had sent him an email asking him to watch after Kei. How embarrassing would that be if that happened to me, Shouyou thought.

Kei smiled politely, nodded his head, and responded softly, "I'm Kei. How as the statue"?" Kei attempted to try to have a discussion. It would be bad if he failed on the first day of school to try to make friends. He had trouble being social so short and simple responses could be the secret to trying to start a friendship.

"It was so big, I've never seen anything like it before. The feathers looked so real. The way it was starring if you looked it in the eyes. Well at its eyes, I couldn't see straight into them since they were so high up. But still." Shouyou was clearly still interested in the statue and almost forgot what he was supposed to be doing.

Kei adjusted his glasses as he was shocked by how someone could be so interested in a statue of a crow. Of all the things out there a crow, really? It wasn't like it was a Romanesque statue. He was going to say a witty remark but then he thought that he might offend Shouyou. He simply smiled and nodded. He gave himself a virtual pat on the back for making such a smart decision.

"You're so tall! You probably could have starred into the eyes of the crow. You're eye level with it I think." Shouyou said with a bright smile. Kei tensed up a bit which Shouyou seemed to notice. Not knowing what was wrong he changed the subject, "so I hope this year is a good one, I didn't do too hot in middle school but at least I made it here!" Kei seemed to relax a bit at this. Shouyou wondered if he had some issues with his height or something. Since he wasn't that close to him he thought it wouldn't be good to ask Kei about this. Maybe later if things can work out between them then he could inquire about it.

"I did pretty well in middle school, it was pretty challenging but I passed with flying colors. I think high school won't be that hard if we work hard. By starting out strong on the first day, being focused, paying attention, and studying, I think that doing all of this helps us out. As the saying goes, start strong, and finish stronger," Kei said with a smile while looking at Shouyou's. Shouyou seemed to feel a bit empowered by what Kei had said. Though Shouyou wasn't that good in schoolwork, he felt that with Kei on his side any and all things could be possible. He made a mental note to make sure to study with Kei when exams came up.

Kei panicked a bit when Shouyou didn't immediately respond, did he say something wrong or mean? Kei's smile started to falter a bit. He couldn't stop smiling or his plan would be ruined. If Shouyou found out he couldn't handle a normal conversation then he would have to start all over. He couldn't go home and tell Akiteru that he failed to even hold a conversation with someone or even get a friend. "K-" Shouyou started. "Ding Dong!" the school bell rang interrupting what Shouyou was about to say. This saved Kei from having to maintain his smile but it did little to keep him from inwardly panicking over his situation with Shouyou. Shouyou turned back to his seat wondering why Kei tensed back up and looked a bit worried.

Shouyou continued to worry as the teacher went through the class roster and the syllabus for the semester. When it was time to pull out their notebooks to take notes on solving simple algebra equations for x or y, he immediately tore off a small sheet off his notebook paper and scribbled his number on it. Maybe Kei would text him during class? He passed the paper over his shoulder quickly making sure it landed on Kei's desk. "VRRRM, VRRRM" Shouyou heard a few minutes later. His cellphone had gone off. He opened it.

"Hi Shouyou. Focus on the teacher, you're not good at school remember." Shouyou read. He was about to type another response when another message came

"(。◝‿◜。)"."

Shouyou smirked. He didn't think Kei was the type of person to use emoticons, maybe it ran in the Tsukishima household. Though if Kei was using emoticons then maybe he was feeling alright. Perhaps he was worrying over nothing. He sent back a message about eating together for lunch and turned back to the teacher solving an equation on the board.

Kei was glad that Shouyou responded. He inserted an emoticon because he thought it would be the right thing to do. Using emoticons was what people did to be friends right? So maybe that would work. "Thank you Akiteru!" he silently whispered to himself. It didn't seem like Shouyou had any misgivings about him or his earlier statement. He was slightly mad at himself for being unable to stop from saying those types of statements. He always had an issue with saying the right thing at the right time which ended up making him seem like a saint among all men. Though this would make people like him at first it eventually got them to turn away from him. They would want to compare themselves to him. When they realized they couldn't even come close to his level they would keep their distance. Because this happened during his first year in middle school, he was left friendless. He didn't want to repeat the same thing for high school. High school would be different. For now he would look forward to lunch with Shouyou and hope that they could get along better.