A/N: Hello people! I thought I would write a fem!Hinata fanfic for a change. Those are practically non-existent haha.
I hope you enjoy this fic!
Hinata Shouyo did not like to be wrong.
But when her fears were confirmed this instant, right in front of everybody, she more than wished her thoughts on her countless sleepless nights were proven wrong.
"What do you mean by 'I cannot join?'"
"It means what it means. You. Cannot. Join. The. Team"
Hinata stared wordlessly, mouth slightly opened in shock. Truthfully, a slight part of her saw it coming but she refused to believe it. Believing it would only condemn her dream. She was an optimistic person after all.
However, when the dean turned his back on her after blinking lazily her way and waiting for a few minutes for a response from her - a response she failed to give due to her being abashed - Hinata saw her hopes being broken like glass and she was almost tempted to reconsider dubbing herself an optimist. Almost.
"Wait!" The young girl reached out and grabbed the fat, retreating dean by the hem of his suit.
"Wait," she repeated, softer this time, "you cannot do this! Please! This is my dream! It is the sole reason I enrolled in Karasuno High School. Please!" - and also because I did not get good enough grades to enroll in powerhouse schools - she quietly added in her head but refrained from telling that to the dean. It would only pulverise her chances in the team.
The fat man breathed out through his nose and turned to face the ginger haired girl once more. He gave her a cursory once over then quirked a thick eyebrow. "I can and I will do this. I have every right here. Look," the black haired man then sighed in exasperation, shaking his head a little. Here he was, being bothered by a first year on the first day of school to boost. His job demanded too much for what he was paid for. "Hinata-kun, was it? This is a boys' team. The boys' volleyball team. Why are you asking to join the boys' team when Karasuno has a girls' team?" he enunciated slowly to make his point.
To his utter surprise, the small first year only brightened at his question. He watched, taken aback, as her large honey coloured eyes became even larger in excitement and the corners of her mouth turn up into a big toothy grin.
"Because I want to be the next Little Giant! And the Little Giant was in the boys team" she replied enthuastically, bouncing on the spot to accentuate her excitement. Her loud voice drew the attention of the other students in the volleyball gym court they were currently in and the dean casted a quick glace to all the curious eyes watching them now. Some even stopped what they were doing to whisper among themselves.
"Little Giant you said?" at the enthusiastic nod he received, he sighed once more. Yes, he was definitely not being paid enough. He drew in a long breath.
"CAPTAIN!" his loud booming voice made the small ginger head before him jump and cringe at the same time. He internally snickered vindictively. Served her right.
He glanced around till he found a teenage boy running towards them from the other side of the gym. He wore the white shirt and black P.E shorts mandatory for training.
"You called for me, sir?" the tall, dark haired teen asked curiously and quickly glanced at Hinata before fixing his gaze on the dean in front of him.
"Yes, umm..."
"Sawamura Daichi, sir." the captain supplied dutifully.
"Yes, Sawamura-san. This is Hinata Shouyo," at this, the middle aged man gestured to the girl lazily, "and she wants to join your team -," Daichi blinked at the girl questioningly, flabbergasted, "- so take Little Miss Wannabe Giant here," the dean paused then placed his hand on the upper back of Hinata and roughly pushed her forward towards Daichi, "and explain to her that she entered the wrong gym. Please show her the girls' court and, if you have to, I have the rules and regulations booklet in my office to try convince her."
After delivering his speech, the middle aged man turned and left the gym, leaving a puzzled Daichi and a slightly anxious Hinata behind.
They stayed like that for a few minutes, one gawking at the door of the gym helplessly and the other nervously biting her bottom lip and wriggling her hands together. They only snapped back to reality when they heard several footfalls approaching them.
Daichi looked behind him to see and silver haired teenager and another teen with hair shaved so short he was almost bald.
"Daichi, what was that about?" the newcomer silver haired player asked his captain while looking at the short girl beside said captain and smiling gently at her to not scare her more than she apparently was.
The young captain cleared his throat to inconspicuously buy time to collect his thoughts. He then looked at Hinata on his left who was now rocking back and forth on her heels, waiting. He studied her. She was wearing the girls' school uniform, was about 5'2 feet tall with bright orange hair, large honey coloured eyes, small chiselled face, cute button nose and it was obvious she had a slim frame even with the thick school pullover she was practically drowning in. All in all, she didn't look like a volleyball player even for girls' standards. Heck, she barely reached his shoulders!
"I am Hinata Shouyo! And I want to be in your volleyball team!" the small ginger head quipped cheerfully while raising an arm up in salutations. Daichi almost face palmed.
"Yes, what she said." He looked pleadingly at the silver haired boy, clearly at a loss of what to say next. Fortunately, his friend was swift to understand the situation.
The teen smiled pleasantly to Hinata and drew a hand to his chest to introduce. "I am Sugawara Koushi. I play as setter and I am in my third year here. This," he paused and placed a hand on the shaved haired teenager beside him, "is Tanaka Ryuunosuke, second year and a wing spiker." He smiled wider at her attentive face. "And Daichi is our captain and is a wing spiker but he specialises in receives."
Hinata regarded each one of them respectively at each introductions. She knew they were studying her and she, in turn, studied them too. Sugawara-san had shiny silver hair and dark grey eyes. His heart shaped face had a small mole on his left cheekbone. It fitted him. He was also very tall, like the rest of them. The next one, Tanaka-san, has really short stubble as hair since, she deduced, he liked to keep shave his hair off. He had narrower dark eyes and a mischievous grin and slightly darker skin than Sugawara-san. Sawamura-san had a slightly tanned skin tone too but a slightly more muscular frame than the first two. Her first impression of them was not bad. In fact, she liked them, specially Sugawara-san.
"Hinata-chan, you do know this is a boys' team right?" Suga asked cautiously. At her adamant nod, he immediately relaxed. 'Okay, at least she knows what she's getting herself into,' he thought but kept it to himself. Tanaka peered curiously down at the redhead and tried to gauge her. "Say, how tall are you?" He asked.
"5'2 tall, senpai!" was the cheery reply. The effect was instantaneous.
"Ooooh! She called me senpai! Ahahahaha!" Tanaka laughed good naturedly while simultaneously slapping the girl on her back, careful not to hurt her but wanting to share his mirth. "I like her, Daichi! She should definitely join us!"
At that remark, Hinata visibly perked up even more. Hope was shining in her honey eyes as she regarded Daichi expectantly. The other two turned to look at him as well. The captain started to sweat a bit under the stare of his fellow school mates and he coughed up a laugh nervously. "Well I have nothing against her joining. We could do with some more members." he said finally.
Suga smiled at his captain then directed it at the ginger head. "I agree with these two. You are welcomed in the team. However, I am not sure if everyone will agree. But it is Daichi who accepts new recruits and if he allows you to join, then no one can contest the captain's decision except the coach and the dean."
An orange blur was all Daichi could see before he had to stagger backwards to keep balance. The black haired teenager chuckled and patted the girl on the head in an attempt to calm her down while she was yelling "Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou" in his shirt and jumping on the spot in glee. He never saw a bigger, sunnier smile on anyone else's face before the girl pulled back to face him again.
"Welcome in the team!" the three seniors chorused happily then proceeded to ruffle her hair one by one. Suddenly, Tanaka stopped mid-hair ruffle and appeared to realise something.
"Wait a sec... Is there some kind of law against having a mixed gender team? And besides that..." his eyes travelled to the sole girl of the group then glanced at the volleyball court, seemingly to consider something. "What is it Tanaka?" Suga voiced, asking the question their captain also wanted to.
The tall wing spiker returned his gaze to the redhead and hummed, thinking. "Her height might be problematic," he replied pensively, "I mean, I am not even sure if she can jump high enough to touch the top of the net, let alone block or spike to the other side. She will have to go to the front eventually with the team rotation."
Suga nodded his head in understanding. "Yes, I thought about that too but I figured she could be a pinch server or a libero. She is shorter than Nishinoya so she could probably pull it off," he hummed, thinking, "but we will have to see her play to evaluate her future position and as for the rules…," he trailed off, looking pointedly at Daichi to continue.
The raven haired teen cleared his throat. "I will ask the dean for that booklet. We will know for sure then." Both Suga and Tanaka nodded their agreement.
As the three boys discussed, Hinata was looking back and forth between them, feeling a bit left out.
"Anou… I am not sure about the rules but I want to play! It is okay if I cannot participate in official matches but I would like to participate in unofficial ones if so! I want to be known as the Little Giant!" She gave them a big, toothy grin. "And don't worry! I may be short but I can definitely jump! I jump very, very high! The view of the other side of the court from above the net is my favourite part!" the ginger head chirped while making rash motions with her arms while explaining. "I go like whoop, then the ball goes like wham then I will run and jump then baang!" she continued and everyone sweatdropped, not fully comprehending what she was saying but getting the gist of it.
Hinata was going on and on and on with her explaining and sound effects as emphasis when Daichi suddenly clapped his hands and laughed nervously. "Hinata, umm, maybe now is the time to go join everyone else. There are newcomers too, like you, waiting other there," he gestured to the other side of gym where Hinata saw six other students, all in P.E gear, "and I was talking and explaining to them how things work around here when the dean called me."
The honey eyed girl let out a quiet "oh" under her breath. Four seconds passed when, "OH! MY NEW TEAMATES!" and the girl ran off excitedly towards the group of boys clad in white and black.
The three seniors stood behind, amused at the girl's reaction. Then Tanaka grinned and took off after her calling for her to wait.
"Do you think she'll be fine?" Suga asked, a tinge of worry in his voice now that the jovial mood started to ebb away together with the retreating girl. He watched how she bounded over and practically pounced on an unsuspecting Ennoshita – who had his back to her while lecturing something to the other four new recruits who stood next to each other before him – and then started to vigorously shake the startled second year's hand in greeting.
Daichi shook his head and smiled sadly.
"I hope so, Suga. I hope so."
A/N: There will be romance later on because I am a die-hard romantic at heart. As for the pairing, it is a secret till the later chapters but I will let you know that I have a tendency to like rare/unusual pairings.
Constructive criticism is encouraged but flames are not!
I would really love to hear what was wrong with this first chapter (or what didn't make sense) and where I can improve. I thank you all in advance!