School had only just barely finished but Kageyama was already in the gym attempting to improve his serves. Originally he'd wanted to perfect his tosses too, but he couldn't do that without anyone putting the ball in play first.
It was while he was serving that the door opened and Daichi, Sugawara and Asahi entered the gym. Normally they were among the last to arrive because they walked from the main building and to the gym in their own pace unlike some first years who always hurried to practice. Well, one of those hadn't shown up yet.
"Where's Hinata?" Sugawara asked after looking around and confirming that the short middle blocker wasn't anywhere around.
"How would I know?" Kageyama asked. He turned to face his seniors as he spoke.
"Kageyama, don't you want to practice tossing some more?" Asahi asked. "I could serve," he suggested.
Kageyama nodded and Asahi walked up to him and was handed the ball. Kageyama then went to the other side of the net to do a toss from over there. He would just have to toss it back to Asahi as he could catch it somehow.
But Asahi screwed up the serve a little bit and Kageyama, who had only thought he would need to make the toss, was unable to catch the ball. He watched out of the corner of his eye as the ball headed towards the floor and then someone received it and sent it up above Kageyama who made the toss and sent the ball back to Asahi. He then looked to the one who had received.
"You've done better, Asahi-san," Nishinoya yelled.
"I thought so," Asahi said. "That was a mistake, sorry Kageyama," he said.
"Don't mind…" Kageyama muttered.
"You slipped a bit up too, Kageyama," Sugawara said as he walked on the court.
Kageyama sent Sugawara a slightly confused look, not getting where he had gone wrong.
"You delivered the toss fine, but your timing and way of handling the ball was a little off, probably because it looked like it was gonna drop," Sugawara explained and showed Kageyama where he'd gone wrong. Nishinoya came up to them and watched as Sugawara was explaining.
"What's all this about?" Tanaka now also entered the gym and noticed how Nishinoya, Sugawara and Kageyama were all standing together and talking.
"I think they are trying to learn from each other," Daichi answered.
"It's rare for Suga to be able to teach Kageyama something," Asahi said as he walked up to Daichi and Tanaka.
It was then a white light appeared under Sugawara, Nishinoya and Kageyama and they all looked confused as it appeared.
"What-" Sugawara started, but before he could finish his question, the white light surrounded them and blinded their vision completely. When they could see again, the scenery had completely changed from the gym they had been in a few seconds ago.
"Yuu-san!" they heard a girl exclaim as all three boys blinked and they now became more aware of their surroundings.
They were standing in the middle of a street. There had once been buildings on either side, but now most had either burnt or collapsed. Only a few were still standing. The buildings that were closest had collapsed though.
In front of them, in the middle of the street, two girls were standing and staring at them with wide eyes. One of them had blonde pigtails and violet eyes. She was standing slightly behind a shorter girl with ashen violet hair, tied back in a purple bow.
"Who is Yuu-san?" Sugawara asked.
The ashen-haired girl blinked and then seemed to collect herself. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't seem like he's here now. Who are you?" she asked.
"What happened here?" Kageyama asked.
"Where is here?" Nishinoya asked.
"We should answer their question since they asked first," Sugawara said, calmly. "I'm Sugawara Koushi," he introduced himself. "The black-haired guy is Kageyama Tobio, and the shorter guy is Nishinoya Yuu."
"I'm Hiiragi Shinoa, and the girl behind me is Sanguu Mitsuba," the ashen-haired girl introduced. "To answer Nishinoya-san's question, this is Tokyo, as to what happened, a catastrophe," she said.
"When did this happen?" Sugawara asked, not being able to recall that a catastrophe of this scale had happened in Tokyo recently. He highly doubted the other could recall that either.
"It happened around eight years ago," Mitsuba said.
"But we were in Tokyo recently," Kageyama said in a confused manner. He looked around again as if trying to look for something he would recognize.
Sugawara had already gone way past that. If this was Tokyo, it was certainly far from the Tokyo that they knew, which meant that this was either far into the future or an entirely different dimension.
"This is a bit of a stupid question, but what year is this exactly?" Sugawara asked.
"2020," Shinoa answered.
"Then, what kind of catastrophe are we talking about?" Sugawara asked.
"Shinoa, don't tell me that those guys don't know where they are, what time or the situation," Mitsuba whispered loudly to Shinoa.
"Sorry Mi-chan, but that does look to be the case," Shinoa said. "Let's finish patrolling and pray that we don't get attacked. If we do, we're probably all gonna die."
"Are you serious?" Nishinoya asked.
"Keep your voices down," Sugawara whispered loudly to both Kageyama and Nishinoya.
Kageyama nodded without saying a word, but Nishinoya looked very unwilling to do that.
"Don't worry so much," Shinoa said. "If it's just a fourth horseman, Mi-chan and I can hold it off while you run, you just can't get in our way. It's only if we are found by a vampire that we're doomed," she smiled.
"That's… somewhat reassuring," Sugawara answered while trying to smile. Kageyama and Nishinoya couldn't really say that they felt at ease either. In the world where they came from a vampire could only be found in stories and myths. They weren't even sure what a fourth horseman was supposed to be. Regardless, these girls seemed very familiar with both terms.
"Can someone tell me how we ended up here again?" Nishinoya asked as the three boys followed behind the girls on their patrol.
"There was that white light… then we were here I think," Kageyama said thoughtfully.
"That's all I recall too, what about you, Suga-san?" Nishinoya asked.
Sugawara thought. "I can't recall anything other than that either," he said.
"But what triggered it?" Kageyama asked.
"I'd rather know how we get back," Nishinoya said.
"We'd all like to know that," Sugawara said as they continued on following Shinoa and Mitsuba in this new, strange, broken world.
I wonder if this went good or bad. I haven't written anything for Haikyuu before, but isn't it a first time for everything? Anyways, you're VERY welcome to tell me how it went.
Thank you for reading
Jackie
