You had made it to class at the last second and immediately slid into your seat where you leaned back and tried to calm your breath.
"Holy shit, I am sooo out of shape" you huffed, feeling drained from the run you had just had.
You tipped your chair and leaned further back, successfully resting your head against the desk behind you!
"Yo, Kenma" you said with a small smile towards the setter.
He looked up from his PSP and focused on you for a second or two, before looking down again and giving a slight hum to let you now he was listening.
"So how did you survive all these boring classes while your favorite person in the entire world was gone?" you drawled.
"Who are you talking about (y/n)-san?" he said without looking away from the game he was quite invested in.
You gave a mock hurt expression and retaliated in a dramatic voice
"Me of course!"
"How you wound me Kenma and here I thought you were glad to have your amazing friend and manager back!" You placed your arm over your eyes and stayed like that for a while.
"…"
Removing your arm just enough to see his face; you noticed a small but subtle smile gracing his lips.
"I missed you guys a lot" you murmured, placing your arm to cover your eyes once more.
Another long pause ensued.
"We missed you too" he said in a mumbled voice.
You chuckled a bit at the young pudding heads adorable demeanor and stretched out your arm so that you could pat his soft hair.
"I know you did, the old man himself called me almost daily while I was recovering" you said with a soft smile
You had really missed being in school, no matter how weird that sounded it was the truth.
The volleyball team was like a second family to you, and you honestly wouldn't have it any other way.
You retracted your hand from the setters' hair, and turned around on your chair so that you could face him without having to bend your neck.
"By the way Kenma…"
he took a quick glance at you.
"I heard you were put on lev duty for a while" you searched his face for an answer, and in no time at all you were rewarded with a small frown.
"Oi, what's up with that face? He's not THAT bad! He just needs to learn how to control his limbs" Haiba Lev, Nekomas' self-proclaimed ace, how you had missed that dork.
Kenma sighed and actually decided to pause his game for once.
"He's annoying, that's what he is" he said with such a displeased face that you couldn't stop yourself from laughing aloud. Almost choking to death on your own laughter
before you could choke out a reply, you heard the door to the classroom slam shut with incredible force, stopping your laughter in an instant.
The rest of your classmates had filed into their sets while you had been talking to Kenma, and were now silently staring at you, some with pity but most were trying to hide their snickers.
The setter just stared at you and discretely motioned for you to turn around.
And as you did you were met with the disapproving glare of your maths teacher, shit this was pretty bad, that man didn't have an ounce of sympathy for any kinds of disturbances, and sadly you were no exception.
"(Y/l/n), causing havoc in my classroom on the first day back I see?" He spoke up in a monotone, while keeping a sharp glare locked on you.
"…" keeping your big mouth shut was probably the best plan of action right now, the thought of having detention on your first day or any other day for that matter wasn't really that tempting.
"If you're done I would like to start class" he didn't wait for your answer, but instead turned around and started the lesson.
You exhaled quietly in relief and decided that today was surely not your day.
-Small time skip-
you had lived through the next couple of lessons without screwing up too badly, only dropping your pen a couple of times, getting caught staring out of the window instead of paying attention once or twice, and getting mildly scolded for munching on snacks during your English lesson.
Don't get me wrong, you're normally a pretty decent student, but there was just something about today, and we're not talking about your bad luck.
You had looked forward to seeing the team again, and though you had already reunited with a few of the members, you really couldn't wait until after school practice were they would hopefully all be showing you what you've been missing out on.
Talking about missing out, you should probably find coach and get filled in on their progress and training schedule, with that thought you started your search after the old geezer or Naoi, basically wasting your lunch period.
Yaku would all in all not be a very happy mother, but you've got to do what you've got to do, and if it's for the team you would practically do everything, even miss out on food.
Waving goodbye to Kenma you headed out.
- Small time skip -
"This is fucking bullshit I tell you" you grumbled to yourself, while continuing down the hallway.
You had been searching for the two of them for almost 15 minutes now, and you had neither seen them nor did it seem like anybody else knew where they currently were.
"You know what? Screw this! I can just ask them for it at practice"
turning around you bumped into someone, resulting in you landing flat on your ass, while the other person remained standing.
As soon as your body had hit the floor a jolt of pain had surged through your spine, and was now basically paralyzing you for the time being, while making you feel a bit dizzy.
You tried to look up at your perpetrator, and you actually had to look pretty far up. You kept tilting your head until you reached piercing green eyes and a silver mop of neatly parted hair.
"Holy shit…" you muttered.
The male simply tilted his head to the side childishly and stared at you.
It might've been the pain making your brain stop working properly, and later on you would realize just how fucking dumb you must've sounded, but none of that mattered at the moment, your mind screamed a single word at you and the next moment, well what do you know? You blurted it out like the tactless person you are.
"Titan"
seconds passed before lev's face lit up in a childish grin, and with his freakishly long limbs he scooped you up from the floor and held you in a hug, leaving your feet a good couple of inches above the ground might I add.
"(y/n)-Senpai! You're back!" he chirped; completely ignore what you had just said.
Still a bit unfocused because of the pain you just kept staring at him and tried to comprehend what was going on, wincing a bit at the tight grip he was keeping on you.
"You should be more careful senpai, coach said you hurt yourself and that was why you couldn't come to practice and toss to me~!" He chided.
"But now that you're back you can help me with my spikes~!"
Coming to your senses you finally hugged the giant cat baby back. Damn today had consisted of a lot of hugging so far, and you could only imagine that you would be getting more of them in the near future.
He continued babbling on and on about how Kenma had practiced with him, how Yaku was still coaching him reprimanding him with violence and how awesome his spike had become while you had been away. It was kind of adorable how hyped up he would get when it came to volleyball.
Sadly you had to interrupt his rant.
"Hey Lev?" you questioned slowly.
"Yes senpai?" Damn, you swore you could almost see sparkles surrounding him because of his happy demeanor.
"As much as I like being suspended in the air, I think I smacked pretty hard against the floor so I would like to be able to maybe sit down for a few! If that's cool with you kitty cat?" not even pain would keep you from occasionally teasing the tall middle blocker.
He spaced out for a bit before lifting you completely into his arms and carefully walked down the hallway.
"Lev you do realize I just asked you to put me down, right?" you said with a deadpan.
"But that's not what you said senpai, you wanted to sit and now you're sitting in my arms!" well, technically he wasn't wrong.
Besides, it wasn't like it was uncomfortable being carried around if you had to be honest.
"If you weren't such an adorable kohai, I would be smacking the shit out of you right now Lev!" you said, a smile quirking at your lips.
He hummed in acknowledgement of your empty threat, you might make yourself sound like quite the brute at times, but your brother was the only one who, in your opinion, deserved being knocked around once in a while.
[DING!]
Speak of the devil.
[To: Sir Douche Lord] [Message received at 12:51] 'Hey, are you still mad at me?'
[From: TsunTsun Trash]
[DING!]
[DING!]
[DING!]A few seconds later you had received a total of five consecutive texts from Noa.
'I said I was sorry, you know? Can't you just forgive me already?' 'Noya and Tanaka says hi' 'scratch that, the whole team says hi' 'or, those of the team members that you've met so far at least'
[To: TsunTsun Trash] '
[From: Sir Douche Lord]
[DING!]
Another text, golly gosh you wondered who that could be from.
[To: Sir Douche Lord]
[From: TsunTsun Trash]
'you just wanted me to feel bad didn't you?! (ಠ ∩ಠ)'scoffing at his surprisingly accurate guess, you wrote a quick reply of:
'why I would never, brother dearest'
beforeputting away your phone and looking up at Lev who was by now humming a happy little tune.
"Hey Lev, where are you taking me?" you asked, staring up at the giant
"you'll see in just a minute senpai~!" came his reply.
Soon enough the two of you stopped outside of a familiar classroom, yours to be more exact.
It would seem that your dear kohai had decided to take you to class before you would be late for it.
You tapped his shoulder a couple of times as a sign that you wanted to be let down now.
"Thanks for the lift Lev, but next time maybe I could just walk next to you, you know?" you said shaking your head.
"But it's more entertaining to carry you around (y/n)-senpai!" the middle blocker grinned.
You couldn't really argue with that, it had been quite an experience walking through the hallways from that high up, you had received a few befuddled looks here and there, but you didn't really care.
Sighing, you turned your back to Lev and waved to him over your shoulder.
"I'll see you later at practice Lev, maybe I'll even toss to you a couple of times" you knew that that was all you needed to say to him for him to be absolutely over the moon, and how could you deny this big man-child of his happiness? Besides he really had a bright future in volleyball ahead of him, he just needed some practice…
A lot of practice
walking to your seat you sat down, straightened up a bit and slammed the palms of your hands against your cheeks. All you needed to do now was survive another 3 lessons and you would be free to go to your first practice in what felt like forever.
"Piece of cake" you muttered to yourself, even though you secretly doubted that you would be able to concentrate for even a second.
