I walked to the boy's gym, clearly mad at myself. How can I mess up on such a simple thing called block follow ups? I don't know.

I enter the gym and solemnly drop my bag on the bench and take a seat on the bench. Watching the boys, I realized how much they were better since the first day of school. Their form was clear, the setters would set the ball perfectly in the spiker's hand and the defensive was top notch.

The girl's team on the other hand wasn't as good. The setters would have trouble matching the spiker's speed and jump and the defensive wasn't much better since they were always debating if it was to go out.

One of the coach saw me on the bench and called for a water break. He walked to me and sat down next to me.

"Practice ended early?" he asked. I shook my head.

"Practice is still going on"

"Are you telling me that you ditched practice?" the coach has a stern look on my face. The words 'ditched practice' caught everyone's attention, especially Hajime and OIkawa's.

"No nothing like that. You see, I got, I-I got" By now I was crying. Usually I tried to hide my emotions until I'm alone. But it's to late now because I was crying rivers. Hajime walked over to me and wrapped me into a hug. I hugged him back and sobbed into the crook of his neck. We stayed like that for a while.

When I was done, I pulled away and wiped my tears.

"Miyuki, tell me what happened" asked Hajime in a sweet tone. The same one that he used to use on me when I had a nightmare when I was a kid.

"I got kicked off the team" I whispered loud enough for him, the coach and Oikawa who was standing behind Hajime to hear. Their eyes widen in disbelief.

"Iwaimouto, why?" asked Oikawa as he sat next to me.

"Inoue kicked me off because I wasn't able to receive all 100 block follows" I said, remembering every moment. I swear I can hear Oikawa 'tch' at after I said that. Maybe because I said Inoue, his ex.

"How many did you receive?" asked the coach.

"78" The number seemed to amaze everyone.

"78?! That's a lot considering that you wouldn't know which path the ball would follow" said Watari. I always liked him because he was able to cheer anyone up and he was really kind.

"Yeah that's a incredible number" said Kindaichi.

"Say Iwaizumi, would you like to practice with us until you're back on the team?" asked the coach.

"Yeah Miyuki! You can help me bring back this trash to practice from his fangirls!" exclaimed Hajime making me laugh.

"Hey that's not nice Iwa-chan! Iwaimouto is a lot more nicer than that right Iwaimouto?" asked Oikawa with a puppy dog face. I laughed at his face and replied a maybe and got up.

"So coach I can practice here until I get back right?" I asked to make sure. He nodded his head.

"You can also join in on the drills if you'd like"

I was pumped! Not only I have a new place to practice but with the boys, I'm sure I would get better. Receiving Oikawa's serves, following up faster blocks and spikes and receiving all sorts of hits would be so much fun!

Practice itself was really fun. Well better than the girls. Here, we got to play a match at the end of practice, had individual practice to work on our skills and do group practices where you would work with someone and practice with them. I practiced with Watari since we shared the same position.

At the end of the day, the coach was telling us some news.

"Alright everyone get enough rest, tomorrow we have quite a match" said the coach. I pulled on Oikawa's sleeve.

"What match?" I asked with curiosity.

"We're playing a college team tomorrow as a practice match" explained Oikawa.

"Oh Iwaizumi-chan, would you care to join us for the practice match tomorrow?" asked the coach.

"Yeah if Iwaizumi-chan came we would definitely win!" said Kunimi.

"I guess it's settled then. I'm coming!" I said.

Today wasn't as bad as I thought. This new place to practice might make my goal a reality.


This was way shorter then I meant it to be. But this was a fun chapter. I really don't like Inoue but I have a feeling that she will make a bigger appearance later on. Can't wait to write the practice match chapter but my hands are soo tired. Thank you for reading and enjoy your day! Oh yeah the vote for if she gets back onto the girl's team is still going on so VOTE VOTE AND VOTE!