The doors to the all the team's dorms rooms opened up and the managers went in to wake up their teams.
Kiyoko quietly walked over to Daichi and gently shook him before moving onto Suga and Asahi. The room started to wake up as people were pulled from sleep.
"Could you do me a favor and wake up Nishinoya and Tanaka for me?" She crouched next to Daichi as he was sitting up.
"Yeah, sure." He said while watching her get up and walk swiftly over to the door.
"Oh. Also, Tsukishima wasn't in his bed. I thought you ought to know." She said in her soft voice before walking out the door and shutting it.
"Suga, you go wake them up." Daichi said before falling back down and curling up under his blankets.
"Fine." Suga said before getting up and gently shaking the two.
After everyone was ready they all met downstairs in the dining hall. Tsukishima was already down there and was asleep with his head on the table, along with the captain of Nekoma and Fukurodani. There was one guy next to them who seemed to be fighting off falling asleep at the table, unlike the other three.
"Hey, why is four-eyes at the captain's table?" Tanaka whispered into Daichi's ear, "Isn't that table reserved for the captains?"
Daichi was not happy right now. He was in fact irritated. Asahi had dragged him out of the blankets and he was really tired. Nishinoya had lit fire to the volleyball net with Hinata last night when they ate too much sweets and were on a sugar rush. Daichi and the others had spent a good hour putting out the flames. He was not up for talking with anybody right now.
"Tanaka, why don't you go sit down with the others at the table please?" Suga stepped in before Daichi killed him.
Suga guided him over to the captain's table and left for the Karasuno table.
"Good morning." The one remaining person that was awake said to him.
"Good morning to you too. I don't think I've gotten your name…" He said back.
"Akaashi Keiji. Your Daichi Sawamura. Nice to officially meet you. What happened to you? Wasn't the person that set fire to one of the nets last night on you team?"
That did it. Daichi got up and moved over to the Karasuno table and sat down In between the other third years. He set his head down on the table and closed his eyes. "I'm not sitting over there today."
Suga gently pat his back and looked over across the table. "Hey, you don't have to race when you eat. You're going to get the hiccups." He warned to the four who had resorted to shoveling the food into their mouths.
"We won't be able to get to practice more if we waste time eating." Hinata said, then choked on his rice. Yamaguchi started to help Hinata, while Kageyama, Nishinoya, and Tanaka continued to eat everything at the speed of sound.
"I'm assuming someone did something. Did you find out why Tsukishima was over there?" Asahi said in a soft voice, while trying not to put himself on Daichi's bad side.
"No. One of the other captains must have invited him." When he looked back up Akaashi had fallen asleep with his head on the table, and joined the other three. "What have they been doing that made the fall asleep at the table of all places?"
….….
After they ate, the team's all warmed up and started the training for the day. The indoor cooling systems failed several times, and several times they had to practice outdoors in the moist and sticky heat of the afternoon.
"This is starting to become annoying. Having to switch in and out of the building. I feel like I could pass out in this heat." Kuroo said to Kenma while looking up at the sky and squinting. They had found shelter under a large tree behind the courts. "Why does the heater die today?"
"Akaashi and I were wondering the same thing." Bokuto stated while sneaking in on their conversation, with the one he mentioned right behind.
"It's more like he wanted a reason to bring me with him." The black haired setter said to Kuroo. "The weather channel said that it wouldn't be this hot."
"Well the weather channel lies." Kenma said without a though, still looking at his game.
"As if you know anything, your face is always stuck on that video game screen." A voice said from behind the group. Kuroo, Bokuto, Akaashi, and Kenma all looked behind them to Tsukishima walking past. They looked at him in utter shock. Even Kenma, who always was looking at a video game screen was staring at him surprised. He had even dropped the device that was usually in his hands.
"Hey now Tsukki, there is no need to be so harsh. I don't remember him ever being rude to you." Kuroo said, any looks of joy and happiness drained from his face.
"Well maybe I'm feeling irritated."
"Why would that be?"
"It seems that every time I want to be left alone and by myself, you three are suddenly there. Don't you think that it would start to get annoying?" He said back, without even a dent in the emotion on his face.
"Akaashi, should we stop them or keep watching?" Bokuto whispered.
"I'm not sure. This time I am at a loss on what to do. Kenma, are you-" Akaashi turned around to check on the small gamer but he was gone.
It was starting to each the afternoon, when the temperature was estimated to reach its highest. The tree no longer was able to give shade worthy of anything so Bokuto and Akaashi moved closer to the heated argument between Kuroo and Tsukishima.
"What if we want you to hang out with us more often?" Kuroo said while looking his opponent straight in the eyes.
"You tricked me into blocking for you. It doesn't mean that we are automatically friends." Tsukishima was visibly pissed by this point in the fight.
It seemed like centuries had passed with the two staring each other down, and the other two looking at them, wondering what is going to happen. Soon, they all broke out in a sweat. The heat of the afternoon was finally sinking into them. The longer the four started at each other, the more the heat took its toll.
Tsukishima had his eyes on Kuroo the whole time. He wasn't going to lose this argument and give in like the last time. Suddenly a flash of black clouded his vision for a split second. In shock, he jumped back.
Nothing could be done. It's was as if his eyes had started to melt. More and more of theses flashes of all different colors had started to hurt his head.
"Hey Tsukki, are you ok?"
He could hear everything around him but he couldn't see. The flashes of light had completely engulfed his vision.
….….
