It'd been several weeks since Coach Ukai had the team's meeting and quickly after, the dates of the training camp were released. The camp was being held two weeks before summer break, during break, and two weeks after break. No one protested and were excited to get back to volleyball training.
Due to the fact, the members would be staying at the training facility, they were required to get their parent's permission in the form of signing some heavy paperwork.
It took Yamaguchi about 5 days to convince his parent to let him go, the doctor agreed as long as there was an onsite nurse with proper information on the rares and verbal confirmation that Yamaguchi wouldn't strain himself too much.
With his parent's and doctor's consent the only thing left was to wait until the date of the camp arrived.
The days seemed to drag on as he began attending school regularly and interacting with his teammates as usual. The idea of the lineages began to seep to the back of his mind.
That was until the first day of the camp arrived, he'd woken up half past 5 am with cold sweats and a knot in his stomach.
His previous worrying had come back, but he felt better prepared with his coach and best friend there to support him.
They'd been asked to drop by the training facility before heading off to school for a meeting with the coaches. Which is how Yamaguchi found himself walking with Tsukki so early in the morning.
Neither had said anything outside of their usual hellos and morning small talk. Their mind filled with volleyball and curiosity about what was to happen during the camp.
Despite interacting with his teammates every day, the topic of his lineage hadn't come up and he'd been able to avoid telling them. He knew it'd come up during camp at some point, so he'd been thinking of ways to tell them beforehand.
His chance had long past and he'd decided to let it come up naturally at camp. He'd have to deal with the question on why he kept it to himself when it came up.
His biggest concern would be if they started treating him differently, he just wanted things to remain the same as before.
Lost in thought, Yamaguchi failed to notice their orange haired companion had run up to the pair walking. His boisterous voice catching the brunette's attention.
"Good morning!" Hinata sounded 20x as excited as usual, it had to be the idea of playing volleyball.
"Good morning." the pair who'd been walking responding in unison, both glancing to one another.
"You should sound more excited, I mean after school we get to start practicing again! I can't wait to step foot in the gym and get back to playing volleyball," he called out, his hands curled into tight fists. "I can already feel the sting of the ball on my palms." his gaze full of fire.
Tsukki felt exhausted just watching the small idiot, his attention quickly moving from Hinata to Yamaguchi as he assessed the brunette's expression. He could tell that he'd been feeling better since their talk at the Tsukishima household. He would even go as far as to say that his best friend looked rather excited.
"You're too excited this early in the morning..." the blonde sighed, his comment directed at Hinata.
"How can you not be excited, we get to play volleyball and practice with other schools!" the shorter exclaimed loudly as if worried they wouldn't be able to hear him.
"Well, so far the only school joining us is Nekoma. That's not exactly much different than our regular practices." Tsukki rather enjoyed raining on Hinata's parade.
"Personally, I think it's pretty dumb that a school from Tokyo is coming to a camp so far away when they have to attend classes most of the camp." he added
Both Hinata and Yamaguchi agreed by nodding their head, although if the member's of the Nekoma volleyball team where anywhere near as excited as they were, they doubted the team minded much.
After Tsukki's comments, the group fell silent. Jitter's about getting to practice took over and their minds were full of volleyball.
It was only minutes before the trio was at the training facility, duffle bags of clothes and overnight personals over their shoulders. A paper sign on the gym doors, come in before boarding the bus. Team meeting.
With a glance at each other, they entered the gym to see both Karasuno's and Nekoma's teams sitting while facing a whiteboard.
Tsukki, Yamaguchi, and Hinata sat with their team, the coaches entering the gym only moments after them. The only noise in the eerily quiet gym was the sound of breathing, the coaches looked extremely serious
Ukai's booming voice called the attention of both teams. "Listen up, these next several weeks are going to be hard but worth it. You'll be working you asses off trying to get your team back to unity because of this whole lineage business." he started.
"The lodging area has assigned rooms, your names will be taped to the door. It's a mix of both teams, so please get along." his arms were crossed and his legs spread firmly apart.
"The schedule for training, meals, and personal business will be posted in each room. So, please look them over when you return from school this evening." Ukai finishes.
"Leave your belongs here in the gym and you can retrieve them after school and head to the lodging to see room assignment. The buses to ride you to school are waiting outside, thank them properly!" Coach Nekomata announced.
It took the boys only minutes to set the bags aside and head to the buses, each boy trembling with excitement for the camp.
They kept the camp to themselves at school, in fear of not being able to attend. The day dragged on and Yamaguchi could barely stand it.
By 2 o'clock, he was practically begging to get out of school, along with the rest of his team.
The team of boys raced to the bus meeting spot to board up. Yamaguchi sat next to Tsukki, per usual, neither said a word the whole time. He wondered who he'd be rooming with and secretly hoped it was with Tsukki.
The bus ride was a solid 25 minutes to get back and every moment was filled with the idiotic arguments of Hinata and Kageyama.
Yamaguchi and Tsukki were the last to get off the bus and the brunette was shocked to feel at his arm.
"If anything happens, don't keep it from me. I don't want to be kept in the dark about things happening," Tsukki mumbled as if worried someone else might hear him.
"I'll be there for you…" his voice got even lower.
Yamaguchi tilted his head and smiled, "Thank you! I just hope we get to room with each other." he sounded cheerful.
With that, the pair headed into the gym and retrieved their bags.
The lodging was directly next to the gym, the first floor being the baths and dining facilities, the top three floors were completely rooms.
Both teams could fit on the first floor of rooms with a few to spare, managers and coaches were on the second floor.
Once Yamaguchi saw who he was rooming with, his heart sank. He'd been extremely worried about rooming with someone he didn't know. Room 207 was being shared by him and Kuroo Tetsuro and next to them in 206 was Tsukki and Sugawara.
Both Tsukki and Yamaguchi glanced at each other with a sigh, their hope for rooming together had been smashed.
The rooming situation was going to make the camp rather interesting.