SMALL LITTLE THING THAT I THINK WOULD TOTALLY HAVE HAPPENED AT SOME POINT
Tsukishima glares wearily at the blue eyed boy who had once again tried to boss him around during their training, he stands straight and mumbles a sarcastic comment, smirking coldly. Kageyama growls and the two instantly start bickering, only stopping when Mika tugs on Tsukishima's arm and pulls him away. The emerald eyed girls expression was the only thing that made the golden eyed boy consider following her.
They stood at the wall, the bespectacled boy staring at her with interest. The duo had starting making random little bets every now and then and it was usually Mika who initiated the bets and with that it was usually Mika who had lost. The girl smirks and licks her lips, covering her mouth and facing the blonde.
"How much for me making every single person blush?" She asks softly, a strange sparkle in her eye that made the golden eyed boy kinda creeped out. Whatever his short friend was planning, it would surely be worth a lot.
"I'll invite you to dinner at mine and if you lose I get cake," The taller boy bargains, not risking putting any money on the table as usual, because of that his family was growing quite fond of Mika. The tanned girl brings her thumb to her lip and bites it softly before nodding slowly and smirking, mumbling her thoughts aloud.
"It worked in a Doujinshi, it surely will work here," Her voice low and full of evil intent, the blonde standing next to her cringed slightly. Oh god, Tsukishima thought, this was a bad idea. He knew better than to encourage the small girl, or maybe he didn't because watching her be an idiot was incredibly worth it. The tanned girl lightly taps her nose before skipping over to Asahi, which confused Tsukishima slightly. The small girl sneers at the long haired boy and starts laughing evilly, earning the attention of all the training boys.
"Ne, this goes to all of you assholes," The short girl grins and sticks both of her middle fingers up, the observing blonde smiles slightly, looks like he gets free cake today.
M-M-Mika-chan?" The frigid third year asks, tearing up slightly. The tanned girl grins wickedly and leans forwards, sticking her tongue out and licking up the length of both of her fingers slowly and with a grin, her hooded emerald eyes gleaming with determination as she licks her lips when she finishes. Tsukishima buries his face in his hands and swears under his breath, the dumbass probably didn't even realise what she was suggesting.
"Is there something on your hand MikAH NISHINOYA? TANAKA? WHY ARE YOU GUYS ON THE FLOOR?! AHH," Hinata shouts suddenly, the blonde moves a finger so that his eye could watch the cringe worthy scene. Asahi and Suga were pushing the sniggering, more like cackling, girl out of the gym, whilst they were both blushing the grey haired boy was scolding her tremendously. Daichi and Ennoshita were praying, Hinata was staring at everyone with wide confused eyes, Yamaguchi was hiding behind his tall blonde friend and everyone else was on the floor either dead or dying.
"I think you and Mika should stop those bets, it is getting out of hand," Yamaguchi mumbles and the blonde pulls his hands off of his no longer red face, sighing loudly. The megane wasn't about to admit defeat just yet...
"Each bet we make increases in intensity, how can I top that?" The blonde mumbles, ignoring his friends loud sigh.
Now, on with the shit show
"C'mon ladie- MIKA WHAT- WAKE YOUR ASS UP!" A very muscular person picks me up and throws me over their shoulder, only letting me go when we get to the changing rooms.
"Coach, I wasn't asleep I was-"
"Just get dressed idiot, you're serving first. I sussed out these girls and wowie they can handle a long game, their stamina is legit. We have to finish them quick and hard-"
"That sounds like most my Friday nights," Ai and I mumble at the same time, snickering at eachother and dodging airborne waterbottles. Azre sighs loudly and ignores us, smiling softly when she saw the excitement pouring through the room.
"Yui and Konomi, you two need to tighten up your receives. Thing one and two, more sass. You gotta be intimidating.-" The red haired woman continues to list out advice whilst we all get dressed, Ai already leaving to set up our area on the court and suss out the other team.
"- Mika needs to get her head out of her ass and stop being a joker," She finishes casually, acting as if she just complimented me. Not even blinking at my pure shocked expression. I gasp loudly and put my hand over my heart, looking between her and the snickering twins.
"Excuse me but people would pay to have their heads up my- Ahh actually I disgusted myself with that one. Sure thing Coach, I'll try extra hard on these girls. Putting on my big girl pants," I state loudly, lazily throwing my fist into the air and smirking at the snickering lady. Azre seemed to be humoured by what I was going to say, filthy woman.
"Good."
The game was really anti-climactic, well the first set was. I served five times in a row and got us five points, their receivers not getting it at all and their team still on zero. Their libero eventually got a freeball and then Watabe and Yui completely wrecked their blockers asses with a badass serve. It kept going like that till the scores were 10-22. A total domination on my teams behalf.
Things got interesting when their coach opened his fat mouth.
"Now, c'mon you bunch of stupid girls. I expected to be bored but this is ridiculous, I can't believe I'm coaching a stupid girls team. You're all a joke," He had said, loud enough for any referee to hear it but no one acknowledged it. Well except for Azre who 'coughed' a very naughty word.
When he said that the dead eyed girls slowly started working like clockwork, all of them being completely synchronised. It put us at quite a disadvantage. Since we had only just started bringing our A-game our teamwork wasn't top notch. What they were doing was beautiful, like they were dancing across the court. It was amazing to watch.
I wasn't watching that, no I was distracted by the prick who had trained the team. He made my mind whir. Every few minutes he would scoff or mumble a sexist insult. Every time he did the girls would get better, as if they were intimidated. Scared, yet so insecure that they believed everything they had said. So when we lost the first set and he had grunted a 'you didn't suck' their eyes all lit up.
It really pulled me out of my comfort zone. No one else seemed to notice, they didn't even blink.
"Mika what was that? Put your head in the game or you're coming off," Azre scolds loudly and I flinch, glancing at her and nodding slowly. Put my head in the game? What game? This is slaughter. They're so strong. Aren't they? They have the ability but they're not confident enough to do anything with it. It makes me pity them.
When I was placed at the front I tried harder, I was fierce and confident and I gave it 100 percent of my power. Every spike and every toss. We were winning the second set but my mind was a blur, everything was fuzzy. Surreal. Almost nightmarish. Maybe I hadn't been woken up or maybe I'm still half asleep-
SLAP!
The girl threw herself away from the man, her small hand covering her burning face. He towered over her, eyes gleaming with disgust, a small boy hiding behind his leg. Both the children had huge curious green eyes and charcoal black hair, the eyes of their father and the hair of their mother. His eyes were filled with rage and disgust, his mouth turned and twisted into a tight scowl. The girl trembled beneath his gaze and slowly fell to her grazed knees.
I feel the soft surface of the volleyball slap against my face and further the back of my head against the hard floor. Well that is one way to snap me out of my thoughts. Everything came back at once, the cheers of all the schools, the whistling referees for both our game and all the others, the squeaks of the shoes on the freshly waxed floors, the shouts of teammates and coaches and the sounds of my team asking for me. It went from black and white to a world of colour and when I quickly sat up the world of colour started spinning. What the hell is wrong with me? I'm- I'm I'm not breathing. Wh-
"Mika? Mika what is wrong? Coach I call timeout!"
Why can't I breathe?
"Timeout timeout! Yui bring her 'ere,"
Why isn't my mouth working? Why can't I see anything clearly?
"Shit, Mika are you ok? Look at me."
Who was talking? What is- what is happening? Why is my chest hurting so much? Why can't I breathe?
"Maybe it is a late reaction to the other game? Maybe she was..."
MAYBE i WAS WHAT?
"What the hell?! Why didn't anybody tell me that!"
Tell them what? What is going on? Am I missing something?!
"Should we call an ambulance?"
No! No! I'm ok- I can play. I'm alright. I, I just can't... I just can't breathe but I'm fine don't be scared.
"No, she doesn't have anyone to come get her.."
What-?! HOW DO THEY KNOW THAT?! WHO TOLD THEM?! THAT IS MY SECRET. IT IS NONE OF THEIR BUISNESS NONE OF THEIR BUISNESS NONE OF-
"MIKA! STOP! BREATHE!"
"Shit, she just got worse,"
HOW CAN I BREATHE!? EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE HATES ME.
"Shit, listen I'll.. I'll take her, you guys will just have to do without me for a little whine.."
NO! AZRE DON'T LEAVE THEM!
"C'mon, win for us.."
They're getting quieter...?
"..."
"I don't.. I don't know if she will be ok..."
"Why are you off your medicine? You know it is important." The strict voice made my eyes snap up instantly, the new presence in the room wasn't needed. I look away silently, both my hands clenched tightly into fists. They were out there playing without me, Azre had returned to them after I woke up and begged her to go. I ruined everything. Threw them off their concentration..
"Mika you're not better-"
"YES! I AM!" My voice was too high pitched to be mine, it scratched out of my throat and hurt my ears. The woman didn't even flinch.
"School is too much for you, maybe you should go to a ward-"
No. No. I can't.
"I'll take the medicine- I'LL GO TO THERAPY. DON'T SEND ME TO ONE OF THO-"
"A child who loses not only her twin brother but also her parents and their relatives in the time span of 16 years is not a child that should be around other children." The voice was cold hard and the stuff of my nightmares. It was the cold hard truth. I had been living it up, making friends, joining a team and going to tournaments. That was all just the blurry good parts that I dwelled on and thought about. This was what I pushed down and ignored.
"You lied about your foster parents- You could be sent to juvenile detention. You weren't even in the same prefecture as your aunt." She couldn't hear my heart breaking.
"I have people that would adopt me-"
"No one wants you Mika, you kill everyone who loves you," Her brown eyes were enchanting as she gently pushed her hand through my hair. As if what she said wasn't a blade through my heart.
"You, selfish child. You think that you have some pstd, psh. You're not the brother who was nagged into playing near the road by his sister, you're not the married couple that were driving home from a restaurant arguing because they didn't know what to do with their useless child. You're just the crumby bits that are left behind.-"
"MIKA YOU'RE AWAKE," Hinata cheered loudly, throwing himself into the room and pulling me tightly against his chest, his arms holding me so tightly that I almost forgot to breathe again. How? How could his very appearance make everything feel ok again? The tears that fought to leave my eyes were gone, the lump in my throat and the burn in my chest too. I was ok.
"I'll be back later, see you at dinner time Mika," The woman sneers before leaving, her shoes clicking loudly behind her. The beat making my head spin.
"Where is everyone else?" I ask softly, my arms finding their way around Hinata's body.
"Ahh, the nurses are only letting a few visit at a time. I obviously came first~ Since I'm your favourite!" The ginger sings in, smiling widely when I giggle gently.
"Want to know what happened?" I ask after we finally stop hugging, the short boy sits on the edge of the bed and nods viciously.
"Heh, you and me both.-"
"How did the matches go? I heard you beat Aoba Johsai! I'm so proud of you! You faced them! You did so well Mika!" He shouts, blushing when someone behind the door laughs softly. I feel tears spilling from my eyes and I choke out a sob, I move onto my knees and hug Hinata again, crying lightly onto his shoulder.
"Shouyou, I love you. You mean so much to me." I say softly, no romance in the words. Hinata knew that as he whispered the same words back, gently rubbing my back.
"When I heard about what happened I almost threw up on Tanaka on the bus, I was so worried. But my strong best friend can handle anything right?-"
"I'm weak Hinata-"
"What is wrong with that? Everyone is weak in some ways. You'll grow stronger every time you fall, ok? So don't worry if you scrape your knee on the way down, I can bandage you for when you're up again."
"Hinataaa!" I cry loudly, holding the boy and never wanting to let him go. Eventually someone outside coughed with annoyance and the ginger had to switch out. He swapped with an uncomfortable middle blocker with blonde hair and beautiful eyes.
"I don't know how I can follow that," Tsukishima grumbles softly, lifting his arm as I wrap my arms around him, I swear I felt his hand on my back for a second.
"Just having you be here means enough to me Tsukki," I mumble into his chest, giggling when he pushes me off with a blush.
"You're so weird," He grumbles, crossing his arms over his chest and clicking his tongue.
"You're probably coming out later today, since it's a mental health thing and everyone here is an idiot. Oh speaking of idiots, your social worker told us about the adoption thing and uh my kaa-san heard her and we-"
Suddenly two other excited blonde people burst into the room.
"Welcome to the family Tsukishima Mika!" Tsukishima's mum cheers, pulling me into the tight hug. Akiteru hugs me too and Kei stubbornly refuses. It would be confusing if I didn't use first names.
"G-guys! Th-that is too much! W-when and h-"
"We have enough rooms and plenty of money, plus the social worker can't say no, I already checked. I finally get a daughter!" Tsukishima's mu- I guess my mum now? cheers softly into my ear, when they both stop hugging me I gasp when I see huge smiles on their faces, Kei was still blushing behind them.
"It is more complex then th-"
"Kei! It is nothing that I can't handle." The woman scolds, gently elbowing the tallest in the room. More tears escape my eyes. Jesus christ this day is more intense and dramatic than anything I've ever been through. In a weirdly amazing perfect way.
After that crying fest it was Yamaguchi, who cuddled me and told me comforting things and warmed me up and made me smile. The third years come in together, Suga hugs me the tightest, Daichi comforts me and Asahi makes me smile and giggle. Then it was Ennoshita and gang, each warming up my heart even more. Then it was Tanaka and Noya and surprisingly Kiyoko, who was smiling softly and standing at the door whilst the two second years sob and run towards me.
Tanaka hugs me tightly and Nishinoya copies.
"Mika! My strong kouhai! I was so worried!" The chibi cries, the badly nods and lets out an over dramatic cry.
"Don't scare usss likee thattt!" The baldy cries, they both move away when Kiyoko moves from the door and wordlessly kisses my forehead, smirking when my face exploded with red. We all chat and laugh for a while, those boys lifted my spirit as much as Hinata did, perhaps more in some ways.
Ukai and Azre came after them, both telling me off but then being the cute tsundere's they were they made me smile. Surprisingly Kageyama was last.
"Mika I'm sorry, I was so mean to you this morning. I shouldn't have spoken to you like that." He apologises as he walks into the room, after checking that we were alone. His blue eyes land on mine and he sighs softly with relief.
"You don't look too bad, asides from the crybaby eyes," He teases light heartedly, blushing when I laugh and open my arms for a hug.
"C'mere Tobio, join the rest of the guys and girls in my dramatic scene," I sing, laughing when he blushes and sends me a glare but eventually lets me hug him behind pulling away and sitting at the windowsill.
"I heard you punched someone, dumbass," Kageyama sends a disapproving look and I frown, my eyes dropping guiltily to the floor.
"I almost broke her nose, she should have gotten me sent to juvenile or whatever. I guess I'm not better, I'm not fit to be in public-"
"That is bullshit, I'll punch you if you say that again. You're pretty damn sane Mika, maybe you have a low temper but considering what she did to you, I think you're both in the same boat," He mumbles before blushing and looking out of the window uncomfortably.
"Don't punch people with that excuse though," He adds lightly.
"Yes dad-"
"WHAT?!" His squeal so was worth it.
Tsukk- ah Kei was right, I got let out before it was even time for tea. I was given more medications, well they were given it Tsuk- to my new mother. She did insist on being called Kaa-san but it felt a bit odd. Maybe Tsukki-Kaa-san would be better, I wasn't sure about titles.
We got into his mothers box shaped car and my eyes widened in surprise, I didn't even know they had a car.
"Tou-san works overseas and visits on occasions, he earns a fair amount," Tsukishi- Fuck- Kei's voice comes from next to me when he notices my awed expression. Akiteru giggles from the front seat, he called shotgun, and turns around as the car silently starts.
"Now that you two are siblings I don't have to worry about Kei-kun getting a girlfriend-"
"Aki-kun! That is inappropriate!" Tsukki-kaa-san scolds, looking away from the road to scold the boy. My hands tighten on the arm rest-like things attached to the doors as my mind whirs. The bespectacled boy next to me looks down at me with a raised eyebrow. Cars. I just realised. They died in a-shit- shit I can't-
A slender fingered hand wraps around my own, intertwining the fingers and almost overlapping my small rough hands. Tsukki- frick- Kei's hand was as boney as usual but it had a soft comforting touch to it that made breathing feel a little easier. My eyes stay locked out the window and I can imagine that Kei was glaring out the other. It barely lasted a second though cause his hand was gone before I could even check to see if it was there.
"I know that things are moving a bit fast and that it may be hard for you to cope at first but you must know that we want you to feel one hundred percent safe and at home with us," The blonde womans voice was soft and comforting and it made my breathing relax further. Why was she so caring?
"Did you know my mother?" I ask gently, the gears in my brain whirring. We were neighbours for all of our lives, well at least for as long as I could remember. I think. I never really got to know people on the outside.
"Yes, she was my closest friend until she met your f.. Kimamori-san, I lost touch with her soon after. I only heard about her having a son- so I was quite surprised when I saw you. You're the splitting image of her, well asides from those eyes," She says softly, the soft pop song in the background being drowned out by my shocked gasp.
"Th- you... you knew her? Is- is that why?"
"No Mika, I wanted to adopt you because you're a good child who just.. got a bad pick at life," Her eyes went to the rear view mirror and landed on my own, her eyes were like Kei's but prettier.
She pulled up in front of my house, after fully stopping the car she takes her seat belt off and looks at me with a small comforting smile.
"You and Aki can grab whatever you need, Kei can help me clean out the spare room, alright?" She says softly, everything about the tall woman was soft and kind and gentle and reassuring. Akiteru leaps out of the car and practically pulls me out of the backseat.
"C'mon Mika-chan~ let's go~!" He smiles widely, his hand grasping mine tightly and his eyes holding an almost unseen sharp concern. As if he thought I'd try to escape. My stomach churned weakly but I said nothing.
Timeskip
"Nee nee, tell that Stingyshima that if he even tries to upset you that I will fight him one on one," Hinata says from the other side of the phone, chuckling at the sound of my giggles. I was all set and whilst I waiting for Tsukki-kaa-chan to cook I decided to give Hinata a quick call.
"Oh oh! By the way- Daichi told me that Yui told him that you girls came second! You went against the girls shiratorizawa and lost, I guess any team from there is really scary! That means you have a chance for the winter tournaments though! That's so great!" Hinata cheers, his loud voice making me cringe slightly.
"T-that's great. I'm so proud of them. How did your games go?"
"Ah.. we lost to the grand kings team-"
"Fuckin' Oikawa-"
"LANGUAGE!"
"Sorry Shou-chan. Well that means you can do the winter tournaments too right?"
"Yeah! Yeah! We're going to win this time!- oh! Natsu-chan just asked for me. I should get going! Cya tomorrow Mika~!"
"Bye Shou-chan," I say softly, smiling and setting my phone down on the new bench. Everything was different, the room, the house, the colours and the lights. It was all strange.
Tap tap
"Dinner is ready Dokeshi," Tsukishima mumbles lazily from the other side of the wooden door, I get up and stretch before yanking the door open and gasping at the sight. Dinosaur shirt! Strawberry pajama pants! Oh my-
"Don't say a word or else I'll suffocate you in your sleep," Tsukishima mumbles with a dead serious tone, turning around and walking down the halls. This house was also a lot bigger that mine. So it was hard to navigate. Plus it was only one story.
"Mika-chan! Sit with me!" Akiteru shouts, everyone already sitting cross legged at the table, the blonde pats the pillow next to him expectingly. I blush and sit next to him, smiling widely at Tsuki-kaa-chan.
"Itadakimasu," We all say in harmony.
This was so weird. It's like an actual- an actual family..
That night
I woke up to the sound of my door being slammed open, I sit up quickly and blink at the blurry figure. I reach for my glasses and quickly put them on, sighing in relief at the first year. I also turned on the lamp as I reached for my glasses.
"What's up?" I ask softly, realising that I was trembling. Why did he look so concerned?
"You screamed? Is something wrong?" Tsukishima asks, clearly annoyed that he was the forced to come check on me. The other two blondes probably being too lazy or deeper sleepers. Anyway, my eyes widen a bit and I bite my bottom lip gently.
"I thought that was just in the dream, I'm sorry-"
"Ugh you're annoying. You're not meant to apologise for something like that, you're meant to like ask for a cup of water- which I'm not getting for you. You've got legs-"
"I know I know, I'm being a nuisance. I'm sorry- I'm really sorry. I just.. I can hear their- ah his voice. He's so.. angry. It's my fault.." I mumble gently. Tsukishima clicks his tongue and leans against the door frame.
"Could you stop? It's really scary- It's like you're possessed," He states plainly, walking out of the room. Did he just- wowie. That was such a Tsukki move. I shrug and take my glasses back off, turning the lamp off and laying back down. Eventually I fell asleep.
The morning
Why is their music in my brain? Am I hallucinating? What the shi- oh it's just headphones false alarm. I slide the white soft headphones off of my ears and stare at them quietly. I don't own any.. oh. Tsukki.. he.. gave them too me?
That's why I slept so much better..
I squel softy and hold the headphones against my chest before letting out a deep breath and sneaking them back into Tsukki's room. I had woken up like half an hour before everyone else so I decided to get ready early, brushing my hair and putting on my binder and what not. When everyone drowsily emerged from their rooms I had already made charcoal toast and honey. Tsukki-kaa-san almost died of laughter.
Which was totally what I was going for..
"Oh sweetie, that is so cute~! Why don't you water the plants whilst I make breakfast, ok?" She says softly, ruffling my hair and giggling at the embarrassed grin on my face.
"Yeah, that sounds nonflammable," I mumble before rushing outside.
After drowning all the plants in water I went back inside to see a much lovelier breakfast set up.
"So Mika, would you like to keep your last name?" Tsukki-kaa-chan asked in the middle of everyone eating. I glance up at her and bite my lip, setting my chopsticks down on the empty plate.
"I.. yeah.. not because I don't love your last name it's just.. Ky.."
"That's completely understandable, now, for my favourite part."
Kei slaps his hand on his face and groans quietly whilst Akiteru cackles like some sort of witch.
"When can I buy you some girly clothes?"
Dun! dun! dunnnnnn! This is kinda a beta- ish.. I NEED COMMENTS ON WHAT YOU GUYS THINK- SHOULD I GET RID OF THE WHOLE BEING ADOPTED BY THE TSUKISHIMA FAMILY THING OR SHOULD I LEAVE IT I AM SO SCARED AHHHHHH