Towards the end of the third day practice, Yachi helps out the team and staff by cleaning up the gym, washing the bottles and do the laundry since she was on duty. She was collecting the used towels from every team before she managed to go to the laundry room and washed the towels before hanging them outside.

The sun was already setting and by this time, the kitchen staff is already on duty. Yachi slightly sighs to herself that the third day was finishing. Just two more days before they were going back to Miyagi.

'It felt like two weeks already…maybe it's because I'm not used to it.' Yachi thought before she took the wet towel from the laundry basket and hang them up on the laundry line outside of the laundry room near the kitchen.

On the other side of the area, Eri was already done with hanging up the vests so she peeked her head to Yachi and called, "Yachi-chan, I'm heading in first to help the girls at the kitchen."

"Un. I'll finish up the rest over here, thank you for today, Eri-san." She replied back and waved to the older manager who left the laundry-hanging area.

"Yosh, let's finish this up, Hitoka." Yachi mutters to herself as she continues to hangs up the rest of the towels.

As Yachi was hanging the towel, a sunlight shone through her eyes which made Yachi blinks in discomfort before rubbing her eyes.

"Yachi-san!"

A voice called out, startling her as she jumps at the newcomer. When she sees the familiar black haired boy in her blurry vision, she greeted him.

"Kageyama-kun?"

Kageyama suddenly leans in closer to looked to her face, even with the short distance, Yachi was surprised by his sudden action.

"Are you okay, Yachi-san? Why are you crying?" He asked, his voice wavered in concern.

Yachi's eyes widened, "Crying? I'm not crying, Kageyama-kun."

Kageyama narrowed his eyes, "You weren't crying?"

Yachi shook her head, watching Kageyama's stiff shoulders relaxed and leaned back. "I thought you were crying…I saw a glimpse of you through the towels and saw you rubbing your eyes…"

Yachi chuckles lightly, "And you thought I was crying? It's okay, Kageyama-kun. I'm fine."

"Oh…okay…" He took a few steps back and looked at the towels in the basket. He began to reach out and took out a towel to hang it up, "Let me help you."

As Yachi was about to say that she was okay and she didn't need any help, the previous conversation with Bokuto rang in her mind again.

"So you don't have to feel indebted or guilty when we choose to help you out at times."

So instead of declining his offer, Yachi smiles and thanked him instead. "Thank you, Kageyama-kun."

"Hn." He grunted before silently hanging up the rest of the towels.

The atmosphere had become peaceful, with the winds gently blowing, the sun was setting far off in the sky, coloring the world in warm colors of orange. Yachi took this moment to look up to the colored sky with relaxed mind as she inhaled the fresh air inside her lungs.

What a beautiful evening.

With the last towel to hang up, Yachi waited for Kageyama to hang up his last towel. When Kageyama was done with the last towel, he walks between the hanging towels and found Yachi in the midst of the hanging towels when she was staring at the orange sky with bright eyes.

Like a picture from a movie scene, Kageyama couldn't help but stop his tracks and stare at the sight in front of him.

Somehow, Yachi seems to glow under the sunset light and her entire figure appeared to be so soft and lovely. Her blonde hair with the cute little star pins on her head, her soft expression, her smallness that seemed to agitate Kageyama's insides to reach out to her and hold her in his arms –

Kageyama shook his head. 'What the hell.' He seemed to be surprised by his own flow of thoughts inside his mind when he thinks of Yachi.

"Are you done, Kageyama-kun?"

Yachi broke Kageyama out of his thoughts as he looked back to her and stiffly nodded. Yachi smiles and reached down to grab her basket and carried it to her hip.

"Dinner must be ready by now, let's go and eat." She said as she begins to walk away from the laundry area.

Somehow, by some nonsense of no-logic-but-gut-feeling, Kageyama hastily reached out to Yachi's wrist and stops her from going further.

Yachi turned her head around and stared back at Kageyama in shock. She looks at his hand around her wrist before she looks back to his face again.

"Kageyama-kun?"

Kageyama then let go of her wrist quickly. "A-ah, sorry." I wasn't thinking properly.

"What's wrong?" She asked again, feeling a little bit concerned at Kageyama's conflicted expression.

"Nothing…sorry for grabbing you suddenly like that." Kageyama apologizes.

'Why did I do that?' Kageyama seemed to be confused by his own action as well.

Instead of questioning on his strange behavior, Yachi took this chance to pull him back to reality.

"Let's go to the cafeteria now. You must be feeling hungry after practicing endlessly today."

"Hn." Kageyama grunted in reply before following Yachi towards the cafeteria.

No words exchange between them anymore but Kageyama's head was filled with millions of questions to why he was behaving so weirdly when it comes to Yachi.

He did feel it for a brief moment, the peaceful visage he sees earlier of Yachi basking in the sunset light in the midst of the hanging towels, like a memory of a dream inside his mind which seems to bring him genuine comfort.

His hand reach out to his chest where his heart was beating so loudly against his chest from moments ago. He shifts his eyes to Yachi from his vision and wondered why his heart beats strangely every time he stands near her.


"Man, I'm starving. What a long day we had." Hinata stated as he sat down with his tray, facing Yachi and Kageyama as he was joined by Yamaguchi and Tsukishima on his side.

"I'm so tired, I can't even think anything but food right now." Yamaguchi agreed before he places his hands together and chanted 'Itadakimasu' before digging to his rice.

Yachi watched with an equally tired and amused smile towards her friends. She does agree how long today's hours felt. She had been so busy with the Fukurodani team and also the other managers who were asking for additional help, her day was full of so many things.

But it was a fulfilling day because she gets to learn and experienced a lot of things from the other team. She had two remaining days until they were finally finished with the first week of training in Tokyo with the other schools, then they were going back to Miyagi.

"Yacchan, how's your day? I haven't seen you properly ever since breakfast today. Was it interesting being with Fukurodani? You get to see their Ace closely!" Hinata asks enthusiastically as he was munching on his rice.

Yachi pondered for a moment before she replied, "Hm…all I can say is that it's not a surprise that they get to go to the nationals every year. Every member was very good in each matches."

Kageyama added, "Were they different to Nekoma in terms of defense?"

Yachi tilted her head, "They are good at connecting the ball but it was more like their offense were pretty good. They did not hesitate to spike every balls they can counter."

Yamaguchi piped in with awe, "They are really confident, as expected of the team that goes to nationals every year."

"We're not going to lose to them! Ah – you should share us the details later about Nekoma and Fukurodani team play, Yachi-san." Hinata perked up with the suggestion.

Yachi nodded, "I do have some notes from their plays in my book. I'll gladly share with you all later."

"Yes, thank you so much, Yachi-san! It's so nice to have such reliable manager like you in our team." Hinata replied with ease as he went back to his dinner.

Yachi merely smiles shyly as she continues to eat her food. Kageyama stares at Yachi from her side and kept on munching on his food.

As their dinner continued, Hinata kept updating on what the team was doing during the day while Yamaguchi added several information about what Yachi missed out. On the other hand, Kageyama and Tsukishima remained quite as if they chose to eat dinner without talking much.

Afterwards, the time went on peacefully until they were finished. And right before they all retire back to their dorms, Tsukishima lightly spoke to Yachi before they separated their ways.

"Don't tire yourself, Yachi-san." He spoke easily before he slipped by her and went on his way towards his dorm.

Yachi could only gave a small smile after his retreating form.


The next day, Yachi was rotated to Nekoma for the second time and since she knew the members a little bit better than last time, practice started very smoothly from morning hours. However, just like the strangeness in her own team, Nekoma weren't so different with their eccentricities as well.

"Kenma, put that thing down – we're going to practice so start stretching." Kuroo nagged at the pudding-haired boy who only gave a scowl in return as he kept on playing the game in his phone.

"Just five more minutes, we're not starting that early anyway so why the hurry." Kenma responded bitterly as he kept his eyes on his screen.

Yachi was done with filling the water bottles when she came back to Nekoma to find this scene. Kuroo sighed, palming his face with his hand.

She then spotted Lev who was running around with a tank top and greeted Yachi brightly, "Yacchan, I grew taller by a millimeter!"

Yachi blinked her eyes owlishly in surprised before she managed to reply, "Woah…Lev-san, you're still growing?"

Lev pouted at Yachi's less enthusiastic response, "Of course I'm still growing, Yacchan~"

Kuroo turned sharply towards Lev and spoke, "Lev, keep walking like that then you'll be hearing more yelling from the coach. Wear your shirt properly."

"O-osu captain." Lev replied nervously before he turned away and wore his gym shirt.

"Did you see that, Yacchan? This is what I had to go through as captain. The children won't listen to me properly." He spoke with such tired tone that somehow it made Yachi chuckle instead. The fact that he called his teammates children somehow reminded him of Daichi who also had the same expression towards Karasuno's members.

She guessed that captains do share similar experiences with their teammates not listening to them.


Author's Notes:

Hello! This time we have Yachi rotated back to Nekoma team again.

I'm not sure about this chapter haha so I just made sure that the bridging of the plot is good enough, I hope it didn't come out too awkward to read. Thank you for reading the story until this far! Alas, this is all I will be posting for this year. Next time I update it'll be after the new years.

What a year! I graduated this year, got my first job and also posted this silly story. I'm glad that many people enjoyed reading Yachi Effect! I'm very grateful for all the comments, critics, and suggestions left by all of you. English may not be my first language but I'm very happy that my thoughts and message can come across to everyone properly.

Once again, thank you everyone for all the wonderful comments and reviews! I'm so grateful! Please be careful and stay safe as always! I'll see you all next year!