It was just your average morning practice for Karasuno, nothing out of the ordinary-

"TANAK PUT YOUR SHIRT BACK ON!"

"NO WAY!"

"I'LL TELL DAICHII!"

"Sorry Suga-san…"

Ahem, like I said, nothing out of the ordinary.

Furthermore-

"Matsuo, why are you narrating practice?" Yamaguchi asked, confused at my monologue.

I looked up at the taller boy. "Because I'm bored out of my mind. Besides, this is kinda funny to look at isn't it?"

"I suppose you do have a point there…" Yamaguchi mumbled as he looked at Tanaka-senpai being scolded by Suga-san, much in the way a mother would.

I let out a short laugh. "Suga-san and Daichi-san are kind of the parents of this team, aren't they?"

"Now that you mention it," Tsukishima observed, "they do really act like two overworked parents."

"Though that might just be because of their troublesome children" I chided in, smirk on my face.

Tsukishima met my smirk with one of his own. "Now I couldn't possible think of who the more troublesome ones are."

"Definitely not the second years plus the freak duo." We said in unison, successfully pissing of Noya-san, Tanaka-san and Kageyama. Shoyo was too confused to know what we said.

Luckily the two of us were spared of death by angry senpai by Daichi-san, who chose that moment to enter the gym.

"Can you guys calm down? We've got guests you know." Daichi-san sighed, already done with the team.

Ah right, the match that convinced Asahi to play volleyball again. That was something I'd better not change.

We needed volleyball Jesus for our future games!

So when that fateful toss was thrown to him, even though I could easily get it, I let it hit the ground. Got to give the man some confidence after all.

"Well," Asahi-san panted out, "I guess I'm going to give volleyball another try after all."

I was sure I wasn't the only one who smiled.

If I was smiling, then Noya-san was absolutely beaming. "Welcome back Asahi-san!"

I was so excited, I was so excited.

Why you may ask?

Because Nekoma! We'd be having our practice match with them soon! And Ukai would become the advisor coach!

I don't care what anyone says, Nekoma is awesome. I will fight you on this.

So something to tell you, Kuroo had been my favorite character ever since first seeing that ridiculous bedhead of his.

I was so going to flirt with him, heck, he was the most likely guy around who would return my advances for the sake of shits and giggles.

So yes, I was excited to meet the overgrown cat. I mean, who wouldn't be? The guy was great at volleyball, got on Tsukishima's nerves and was hot to boot! Hell yeah I wanted to meet him!

Gimme the sexy cat man!

"Matsuo? Are you okay?" Suga-san asked me as he waved a hand in front of my face.

"Huh, yeah why?"

"You've been staring into space for a while now." Suga-san gave me a concerned look.

I waved my hands and smiled. "Don't worry Suga-san! I was just a little lost in thought."

"Well if you say so…" Suga-san still seemed concerned about me but with another wide smile on my part he backed off.

I was also excited for another reason.

What reason?

As part of Asahi rejoining the team Noya-san and Tanaka-san, somehow, managed to convince Daichi-san to have a movie night. Not just any movie night, a full-on horror movie night.

Shoyo was absolutely terrified, meanwhile I was elated. I loved me a good horror movie and I had heard great things about Japanese ones in my previous life. I had never watched them back then simply because I felt that I wouldn't be able to really appreciate them if I didn't speak the language. But now that I was a Japanese teenager I had enough opportunities.

Maybe Suga-san thought that I was scared too. Hell no! Not at that time at least, I knew I'd be terrified when the film was over and have nightmares for days to come.

I was actually kind of wrong. I did get scared, but I had already watched The Ring several times, what caused my amusement were the reactions of the others in the room.

I had to hold in my laughter as Noya-san, Tanaka-san and Shoyo jumped in fight due to another cheap jump scare. How did they keep getting scared by things that you can see coming from miles away?

I wasn't the only having a lot of fun at the others expense, Tsukishima was hiding his laughter behind his hand and had to turn away a few times while Suga-san smiled innocently and chuckled lowly, as if he hadn't just seen someone die on screen. Daichi-san, Kiyoko-san and Yamaguchi, surprisingly enough, had mastered the art of poker face. None of them reacted to anything in the movie.

Let's just not say anything about Asahi-san's reaction because I think we all know it.

The entire team was laughing loudly, to remove the creepy air that had surrounded us during the movie.

And then, as if prompted by some unknown ghost, Noya-san's phone started ringing.

The entire room froze in place.

"Well that's an odd coincidence." Tanaka-senpai laughed nervously, clearly afraid of what the caller would say.

Kageyama swallowed. "What're you waiting for Noya-san? Hurry up and pick up the phone."

I knew he was just trying to be tough, keeping up his appearance and all that but it was pretty damn clear that he was terrified.

"You're right! There's nothing to be afraid of, absolutely nothing to be afraid of." Noya-san said, more to assure himself than the rest of us, as he approached his phone.

He picked it up and put it on speaker.

"Seven days."

…

The entire room started screaming, I too, was terrified. What the fuck? How in the absolute hell was that happening? It didn't make any sense at all-

Wait a fucking minute, I knew that phone number.

I felt my eye twitching as I grabbed the phone from the ground as Noya-san had dropped it.

"Really Oikawa-san? Did you really have to?"

Silence, then.

Laughter erupted from the device in my hand. "Sorry Matsu-chan! But this was just too great of an opportunity to pass up!"

"I hate you, words cannot describe how much I hate you."

"I know you do." He then continued laughing, chortling in glee at our expense.

Daichi walked up to me, that simple smile everyone on the team learned to fear on his face.

I silently handed him the phone.

"Oikawa Tooru," he began, his tone conversational. "I hope you have somewhere safe to run to."

Daichi-san's tone turned dark, darker than a normal person's voice could go.

Was it wrong to fear for my friend's life?