Disclaimer: All the rights of the manga Haikyuu and its characters to Haruichi Furudate.

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Chapter 09: Daily life

The volleyball teams from many schools prepared for the Interhigh. Karasuno was also animated. They would finally have the complete team taking part in a tournament. Many players were excited with their nerves at the surface of their skins, nervous and filled with the hope of their dreams of becoming the best and going to the nationals.

On Aoba Jousai, the whole team was training harder, that tournament was their chance to finally get a revenge against Shiratorizawa, their worst opponents, although, Oikawa was particularly interested in defeating his kouhai Kageyama too.

The whistle of the arbiter echoed signalizing the end of the training, Oikawa teased his vice-captain for not receiving any attention from the girls watching the training, and he almost received a kick if another member had not restrained the furious Iwaizumi.

When they left the gymnasium, Oikawa walked happily until his brows budged and his whole body petrified on a walking position. His eyes became distant and he turned to the side like a robot, Iwaizumi was stunned at first, but he understood immediately when he looked ahead, there was the new girl whom his friend had been avoiding.

"Where are you going, huh?" his vice-captain pulled his collar keeping him on place.

"No, no, I don't want to go there, Iwa-chan!" he strived fleetly trying to escape from the strong grip on his collar.

"Calm down, idiot. It's not like she will bite you or anything." He sighed heavily, he had been dealing with his friend's idiosyncrasies for too long.

"B-bite?" Oikawa's face got blue, and he desperately started to put off his jacket, Iwaizumi had to grab him with another hand to keep him constrained.

"Be quiet! Stop acting like a child."

"No, no…" he wailed shaking his head negatively "She's a savage, don't let me get near her, please." His beg in a yelp.

"You sat near her during the whole week and she didn't even notice you, genius!" his sarcasm placated a bit Tohru's frenzy. "Sheesh…" he finally let go, after ascertaining the other one wouldn't try to flee again. "If you don't want to talk to her, just don't talk, there's nothing complex about it!"

He walked ahead and Oikawa followed hesitantly, however the captain couldn't avert his eyes from the scene when he walked past by the girl. She had her back turned to him, and she was looking almost hypnotized to the other side of the street across the entrance of the school. His eyes directed to the same place as her and as he left the school grounds, he saw a group of delinquents smoking.

Why was she looking at them? Why were those delinquents hanging around that place? He was sure he had never seen those vile guys around, yet… His eyes narrowed menacingly as he looked back at the girl… Was the presence of that group there her fault? That doubt remained on his mind as he left.

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At night,

In the cafe,

Hoshino hurried to take the orders to the clients, when she had finally finished her run, she sighed after doing a good job and her eyes passed by the room to see if there was another table with unattended orders. Her eyes stopped on the table near the glass walls on the left, on the corner of the place, there were…

"You two again… What are you doing here today?" she approached them still holding a tray.

"Hoshi-chan! How are ya?" Tendou greeted with his usual smile "We came here to visit you, of course."

"This is her workplace, you shouldn't bother her like that." Ushijima was outspoken and his friend flinched.

"Hey, hey, you should support me here… We're doing a good deed, Wakatoshi-kun." He whispered putting a hand to hide his mouth from her.

They listened to a soft chuckle, Hoshino covered her mouth, to hide it, but they could still listen to her.

"See? That's a good expression she has now! Didn't I say it would work?" Satori smiled with the same level satisfaction of when had fulfilled a hard task on volleyball.

Ushijima stared at her, he looked somewhat impressed, but Satori could never tell if he was indeed amused because on the next moment, the lack of expressive traits on his friend's face was back.

"What are your orders, sirs?" she asked in a jesting way.

"Two coffees please." The red-haired again asked before consulting his colleague.

"I'll be back in a minute." She left hastily and vanished somewhere inside the kitchen.

"Now, you can rest assured, she is quite fine, Wakatoshi-kun." He thumbed up for his friend.

"Why are you telling me that?" he asked oblivious to the exquisiteness of his companion.

"Weren't you worried about Hoshi-chan? That's why we came in the first place."

"I've never said anything to make you believe so." He retorted with an uninterested expression, but there was a trace of annoyance imbued on his words.

"Of course not so clearly, but weren't you telling me about that Arata guy and what he did back then? I assumed you were talking about the matter because you were concerned about Hoshi-chan…" he raised a brow indicating he had sent an irrefutable argument.

"… I don't know what he was up to… But he's not a big deal…"

"At least, Hoshino-chan seems in a good mood today, let's hope you won't foil her mood by saying rude things again and make she throws hot coffee at you." He grinned in a mocking way.

"Why would I throw hot coffee on him again?"

Her voice startled them, and they jumped on their seats, looking at the girl who was standing by, holding a tray with their orders.

"Ah, that was nothing! We just came by to see if you were doing well, we're happy you look healthier today, Hoshi-chan!" he diverted the attention from the initial subject.

"I'd love if it was true, but you're not being very sincere changing the matter, right?"

She handed their coffees and smiled, her boss was coming to shout at her again, and she left before he had the chance to. They left after drinking their coffee, and Tendou touched amicably his partner's shoulder.

"See? She was smiling a lot today, we're a good influence to her, so, let's keep coming."

Ushijima did not even try to discuss about how it would affect her health if she ended up losing her job because they came to disturb her during her work hours. Tendou was enjoying going to that place as if it was his new hobby, and he had to drag his inseparable friend every time.

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Nekoma High school

The preliminaries from Tokyo would start soon. Lev was excited to play, but as he had already stated, the first year would only become a titular member if he trained receives, of course, he would have the opportunity on their training on the training camp that would start after the preliminary.

Kenma was occupied with some sort of game again and Kuroo was bored, he organized the schedule of the training inside his own mind, trying to make sure he wasn't forgetting anything. He entered his classroom distracted with those thoughts but he stopped immediately after spotting someone, on his seat:

"Hello~" a girl beckoned sweetly to him. The same girl he had met in the middle of the streets, who was she?

Their last meet was brief and hurried, but he wouldn't forget that person even if he tried to. That was the girl who was drenched in rain back then, the one who suddenly yanked him and kissed him. Shouldn't he accuse her of harassment? He liked jokes, but that wasn't a joke.

"She really came… I thought she was mocking me when she said she'd see me again… Well, she is a student here, so I shouldn't be so dazed with this… But what worries me is what does she want from me? I'm sure this girl is planning something…" he thought feeling some apprehension invading his posture.

He took a peek around, there were three boys inside the classroom and they were distracted, he was grateful they didn't notice. He didn't want any strange rumors spreading. She was not even that beautiful, he'd say she had a common appearance; it was good that she wouldn't call much attention, he'd be damned if she was one of those beauties that bewilder boys and catch the attention of everyone on the surroundings.

"Aren't you greeting me? How cold of you." She had a cynical, perverse smirk. "After everything you've done…"

"It was you who have done something to me!"

He wanted to shout but that would call too much attention, however, it was too late to worry about that, his colleagues were looking at them now. Of course it was unavoidable; after all, she wasn't a student from his class. It was easy to know she was an outsider and she was very pretty too. The universe was conspiring against him.

"I'll listen to you, but can we talk outside?" his tone was very low and he smiled nervously.

"Why?" she crossed her legs, indicating she intended to stay longer "I like this seat. It's close the window, there's a refreshing breeze blowing, did you know?"

Her ironical tone made a vein pop out of his head as he gritted his teeth forcing a grin. She really wanted to make him cringe under her snobby and bossy attitude. He thought about many names to call her, but as he was an honorable gentleman he didn't voice any of them.

"You're Kuroo Tetsuro-san, right?" she chuckled stretching her hand to greet him "It was very indelicate of me to not tell my name before, I'm Kiriya Izanami, but you can call me just by Izanami."

"I know another name to call you." He huffed inwardly and greeted her with a strong grip.

"Well…" she casted a sly look at the watchers spying the scene, and they flinched, turning their backs to her to pretend they weren't interested.

She smiled at the black-haired and pulled him closer again, this time to whisper on his ear:

"I only came here to tell my name, Kuroo-san, I hope we can get along well."

She finally stood up and walked past him, he followed her with his eyes again, analyzing what she was trying to pull by coming there. She seemed a complex, intelligent and extremely scheming individual. Her steps halted and he was uptight again, what would she do now? She whirled and looked back at him, telling in a loud tone with a fake cheerful smile on face:

"Kuroo-san~, you will take me home today too, right? I'll talk to you later!" she winked once in a playful way.

He was pale when she left the classroom his head staggered when he looked at his classmates who started to play with him.

"Wow, Kuroo, who is that girl? She's a chick!" one of them slapped his back.

"Did you use your guile to win her heart?!" other one asked amused.

"Shit." It was what his face told, she had outsmarted him again. How could she do that? Now, some strange hearsay would spread through his classroom and worse, to the school. He wasn't even interested on her, for God's sake, just what did she want from him? Wasn't it easier if she told him straight what she wanted and he would solve the matter?! Why was she turning his life more difficult?

He breathed heavily, calming down, if she would use her tricks to corner him and blackmail him later, he would show her whom she had messed with.

CHAPTER 09/END

So, what do you think about Izanami? XDD she's very provocative and secretive, but it's very funny to write about her, just wait to see her background, her character will be developed with more depth from now on!

And what about Asami? She's a sweet, right?