"So, what position do you play, Yama-san?" Kazumi asked as they walked. The Karasuno Boys' Volleyball club and Kazumi were going to the roadside dumpling store for a takeaway dinner. They were walking together, but small groups among them were making a lot of commotion (Kageyama, Hinata and Tsukishima were fighting, the second years were having a walking wrestling match while the third years were deep in conversation).

"Erm, I don't have a position yet…" Yamaguchi said, his eyes casted downwards in embarrassment. It was bad enough for his classmates to ask him questions like that, but a girl who had been the ace of her team asking felt a lot worse. "I'm not a regular…"

"I see!" Kazumi nodded as if it was totally acceptable. "But even non-regulars have positions too. What position do you play?"

"Huh? I…I really don't know… I was used as a pinch server once, but…" Yamaguchi hoped Kazumi did not ask the outcome of his pinch serve.

"Oh, so they haven't assigned you yet?" Kazumi said, scratching her head. "So what position are you aiming for, then?"

"Eh? Aiming for?" Yamaguchi had never thought of that. He was just concentrating on increasing his level on the whole and adding a special point to himself as a player, which was the currently unsuccessful jump float serve. He had hoped to become a Middle Blocker like Tsukki, though. "I think…Middle Blocker…"

"Middle Blocker?" Kazumi smiled. "That's great!"

He immediately thought against the idea. "Ah, b…but I think my height is still not…"

"Really? Nah. Sure you're not as tall as that glasses dude, but you're still pretty tall." Kazumi grinned, slapping him on his back.

"Er….ah….thanks…" Yamaguchi was sure Kazumi had found him short just ten minutes ago.

"Are you good with spikes?"

"I…I'm okay…I guess…"

"Your receive?"

"N…Not too good…"

"Toss?"

"Eh? Er…not too good either…"

Kazumi nodded after every response, as if Yamaguchi's responses were perfect. He had a feeling that she might be thinking of ways to get Daichi to replace him.

Kazumi glanced over, and laughed. "Oh, Yama-chan, don't look so scared! It's not going to be that hard! It's an open competition, but not for pros, you know?"

"Eh? Oh…" Yamaguchi laughed nervously. Kazumi had transited from Yamaguchi-san to Yama-san to Yama-chan, and he could already feel Tanaka and Nishinoya's wrath from behind.

They bought a packet of dumplings each and stood by the side of the road, munching down happily.

"So from tomorrow onwards, is it possible that I train in the 1st gymnasium as well?" Kanda asked Daichi.

"Oh, sure! But when we're doing pairings you'd have to train with us."

"No problem! Thanks a lot, senpai!" Kazumi said happily.

"Ne, Kanda." Kageyama said. "Why do you want to join this competition?"

Kazumi shrugged. "Why not?"

"Shouldn't you be training for the Springs tournament?"

Kazumi stared at Kageyama. "Kageyama, even though we've never been teammates, but we were in the same school in the same club, and we were classmates for two years, and we trained together during our first year. How can you be so uncaring?"

"Huh?" Kageyama exclaimed, flabbergasted. He quickly turned to his flaming seniors all around him. "O…oi! Don't look at me like that!"

"You probably didn't even notice that I went to Karasuno with you, did you?" Kazumi chided. "Lisa's also in Karasuno, and she's in the girls' volleyball team, and I bet you don't know that too."

"Hayashi? She's in Karasuno?" Kageyama shuffled uncomfortably. "Oh, I…I didn't check who was coming to Karasuno…"

"So I guess you won't know that I didn't join volleyball in high school."

"EH?!" The response was overwhelming, which made Kanda almost overturn her packet of dumplings.

"Why? Aren't you the ace?" Hinata shouted. ("B…being the ace for a year doesn't sign me up for a lifetime of volleyball!") "How can you give up on volleyball?!" Nishinoya said agitatedly. ("I…I'm not! Can't you see I'm joining a volleyball competition?") "The girls' team needs strong players, KARASUNO NEEDS TO BE REVIVED!" Daichi shouted. ("You know, Lisa is strong too…") "I thought we could train together!" Tanaka wailed. ("Well, we are, for two weeks!")

"I just want to try something new, you know?" Kazumi explained, exasperated at the volleyball-lovers-idiots in front of her. "I'm in the dance club now! And we just finished our competition so I'm allowed to take two weeks break. I'd be missing a concert performance, though."

"Dance?" Kageyama frowned.

"What's with that look, Kageyama? Are you judging me?"

Kageyama stared at Kazumi. "You're…not doing this because of Hayashi, are you?"

Kazumi's energy level seemed to dip at that instance, but she picked it back up immediately. "Nah, I just want to try dancing! It's fun! Like volleyball, everyone is connected and every move is choreographed and practiced. And it's so emotionally intense and everyone becomes silent and their full attention is on your every move. And if you put up a good performance, the audience's deafening applause and standing ovation makes up for any points deducted. What's best is that everyone has a smile on their face after each performance, even if you did not win ultimately. It's really awesome!" Kazumi grinned.

The volleyball idiots stared at her uncomprehendingly.

"And volleyball is giving me too much muscles it's becoming gross, you know." Kazumi added with a shrug. "The more I spike the larger my arms become. I don't want that."

Suddenly they got it. "Is…is that so?" Daichi said with an awkward laugh.

"But you were an ace spiker right?" Hinata asked excitedly. "Ne, ne, Kazumi-san, how do you become an ace spiker? I want to be an ace spiker!"

"Huh? How? That's a strange question…"

"Don't answer him, Kanda." Kageyama said flatly. ("Shut up!")

"I could spike pretty well, I guess…"

"Even with your height?" Hinata was elated as he jumped up and down.

"Well, I guess it's quite disadvantageous and so my spikes weren't very powerful, but they were effective. And I could do a back attack, which was quite rare in girls' volleyball. Maybe that's why."

"Back attack…" Hinata repeated with awe. "Like Asahi-san…"

"I could do power spikes that go past blockers too." Kazumi continued. ("Oi, stop encouraging him, Kanda." Kageyama growled.) "But I can only do that at most three times in a match before I run out of energy (and then subsequently contract serious muscle aches such that I have to sit out the next game and only come out to pinch serve)."

"Oohhh! Power spikes! Like Asahi-san!"

"And I can set too! Used to be a setter like Kageyama. So sometimes when I can hit a pass direct I will pretend to spike it, then whoosh, I tossed it to the spiker to my side, confusing the blockers. I also have a good receive. In my second year I was asked to replace the injured libero for a tournament. So whenever they tried to prevent me from spiking by aiming at me, I will go 'boom' and return the ball so perfectly to the setter such that they will regret that they ever aimed the ball at me." Kazumi rambled on, adding hand motions for effect.

Everybody stared, mouth agape, at the blue dipped hair girl in front of them. There was only one thing on everybody's mind: this girl is a genius.

Asahi went "eek! Don't look at me like that!" as the entire volleyball team glared at him.

"Kanda-san, you're good…" Ennoshita said in wonder.

"No wonder you would want to play beach volleyball." Sugawara commented. "You can receive, toss and spike well."

Yamaguchi gulped in fear. He paled when Tsukishima said "So, you're going to play with her?" Did he have time to back out yet?

Kazumi saw Yamaguchi's face and laughed. "I told you, you'd be fine!"

"But you haven't even seen me play yet…" Was what Yamaguchi wanted to say but terror was blocking his throat.

"Can I play with you instead? Can I? Can I? Can I?" Hinata said excitedly. Tanaka and Nishinoya were nodding behind him, also eager.

"Er…" Kazumi did not think she was able to comment, as the annoyed aura around the team's captain was becoming scary.

"So, see you tomorrow at the morning practice!"

They had finished their dinner. Kazumi waved goodbye as she sprinted in a different direction. Her dance club jacket was hung over her bag, and it was strange that they only noticed it now.

"What a lively girl." Sugawara noted.

"Why didn't you tell us you know a girl like that?" Tanaka chided Kageyama.

"She was a libero! A libero!" Nishinoya emphasized.

"She was an ace spiker! An ace!" Hinata emphasized.

Kageyama sighed in frustration. "As she said, I didn't know she was in Karasuno…"

"Isn't that great, Yamaguchi?" Narita said. "You get to practice with a genius!"

Yamaguchi had to force a laugh.

"It's not that great." Kageyama said suddenly.

Everyone turned to him, surprised. "Why?"

"She's a great player, but… If…if I were the King of the Courts…" That took a while to come out of Kageyama's mouth. "Then, in Kitagawa Daiichi girls' volleyball team, there were an equivalent of two Queens."

"EEEHHHHHH?!" The response was overwhelming.

"KAGEYAMA YOU HAD TWO GIRLFRIENDS?" "I knew it! There was something going on between you and Kanda-san!" "Who's the other one? Is she cute too?" "DAMN YOU, KAGEYAMA!"

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!" Kageyama shouted back.

"So Kanda-san was conceited like you?" Hinata asked, frowning. "She seems nice, unlike you."

After smacking Hinata on the head, Kageyama continued, exasperated. "It's different. It's not…a mocking nickname. She was the legitimate Queen outside the courts. But more of… a slave driver kind. Ever since she became the captain in the third year… I don't know how to put it, but I had never been gladder that I was not a girl."

Yamaguchi gulped. "The training was tough?" Is that why Kazumi seemed to be so confident of Yamaguchi even though she had never seen him play? Because she could spartan train him until he was good enough?

"Worse." Kageyama said seriously. "She was a genius, but she never realized that, and she expected everybody to be as good as her. She…sorry, senpai, but she made our captain look like a kind obaa-chan."

Everyone's faces went pale, even Daichi's. Especially Yamaguchi's.

"But she's only like that during training though. Any other time she's cheerful and high spirited." And Kageyama walked on thinking that that resolved everything.

Sugawara murmured to himself over and over that "this is good for Yamaguchi, this is good training for him." Everybody else walked on and gave Yamaguchi a solid and empathetic pat on his back.

Yamaguchi felt his legs wobble.

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End of chapter!

I just wanna say that the volleyball team has way too many characters, and handling all of them together is rather tough. So if it seems as though I kept missing out some characters or stuff like that, pls forgive me OTL just erm, know that they are still in the scene and paying attention, but just not speaking hahahaha

Also, I had so much fun creating this OC! I didn't plan for any romance to happen in this fic, but I developed feelings for my OC so maybe I would pair her up with someone just cuz I like her HAHAHA

In the next chapter, a second OC might appear! :)