"Kuroo…" Kenma mumbled as he shook Kuroo to wake him up. He had just gotten back from the washroom where he bumped into the coach, and the coach said that he needed to see Kuroo urgently, and if Kenma doesn't get Kuroo to meet him, he will have to do triple of the trainings.

"What is it…" Kuroo groaned out as he sat up, rubbing the sleep away from his eyes. He then opened his eyes and took a look at Kenma who was yawning away, and lying down, turning his back to face him.

"Coach… Wants to see you…" he mumbled and drifted off back to sleep.

"Come in." the coach called, and sometimes Kuroo always wondered if old people have troubles sleeping actually. How can one be so energetic at 6am in the morning!

"Good morning coach. You wanted to see me?" Kuroo called out as he entered and yawned at the same time. The coach then beckoned him to take a seat in front of him, and Kuroo did so with clumsy movements as he was still tired from yesterday's practice with Bokuto.

"It's about [name]." The coach sounded dead serious, and Kuroo couldn't help but open his eyes wide, as he was fully awake already, since it was a serious thing.

"What about her?" he asked, with a hint of worry in his voice.

"I believe you know Iwaizumi Hajime, from Seijō?" the coach asked, and Kuroo nodded. He was definitely alright with Iwaizumi, but he was definitely not alright with Oikawa Toru.

"Well, I believe you should know then. [name] and Iwaizumi Hajime are extremely close friends. And I happen to bump into Iwaizumi sometime back when all of you were studying for the final examinations." The coach continued.

"You're the coach of Nekoma High's volleyball team, right?" Iwaizumi asked as he saw the coach sitting on a bench in the park, watching the kids play with a volleyball.

"Ah, aren't you Iwaizumi Hajime from Seijō?" the coach chuckled out and patted the seat next to him, which Iwaizumi nodded and sat down beside him.

"Today, we're not talking as I'm your rival's coach, and you're my team's rival. We're here, as a stranger maybe, as a friend, or as a mentor, whichever you will call it, Iwaizumi."

"Yes, I understand sir. But I was planning to look you up. It's regarding [name]." Iwaizumi spoke with a straight face.

"Ah, the new captain of Nekoma High's girls' volleyball team, what about her?" the coach asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice, and also worrisome.

"I'm extremely close friends with her, despite being in a different school now. She tells me things that bothers her and all, and I know every little detail about her. I saw how Tetsuro Kuroo was protective of her during the match we had at the Inter-High Preliminaries, and I couldn't help but feel that, he needs to know, you as well, as her coach too, should know." Iwaizumi spoke without missing a beat.

"What is it then?" the coach asks, feeling even more worried now.

"It's about [name]'s future."

"Iwaizumi has told me that [name] pushes herself far past her limits whenever she feels that she isn't good enough. He also told me that if [name] decides to go to college, she will stop playing volleyball." The coach spoke, and he saw that Kuroo had his eyes opened wide when he had mentioned that [name] will stop playing volleyball if she enters college.

"But, why?" Kuroo managed to croaked out as his voice shook. He knows that [name] loves volleyball more than anyone else has. He knows that [name] devotes her life to it, and she will give up anything just to play volleyball. But why will she tell Iwaizumi that she will stop playing volleyball when she goes to college?

"She has fractured her left hand and right ankle before, it may seem healed now but Iwaizumi told me that occasionally the old injuries will act up and cause her to sit out of matches." The coach spoke with pain reflected in his eyes.

"Then what about that day she said that she used her left hand for the first time?" Kuroo asked with confusion shown in his eyes.

"I believe she didn't want anybody to know about it." The coach spoke calmly.

"Why not she gets surgery then? Why give up?" Kuroo asked, as his body trembled even more.

"Money wise. It costs a bomb to get a surgery, especially when she has two places to fix. And now she's pushing herself over her limits once again as she has her own goals now." The coach tried to speak calmly as he saw how worried Kuroo is.

"I'll help her!" Kuroo yelled as he panicked at the thought that [name] will give up on her favourite sports just for the injuries.

"Tetsuro, the only time you can convince her, is when she graduates. Right now, on her mind is going to college, as well as leading her team to the very top which is the nationals." The coach spoke and placed a hand on Kuroo's shoulder to calm him down.

"… She always puts others first… She always does that… She never thinks about herself, not even once… She rather be hurt and see others happy than to let others down… Why can't she be more selfish for herself… She's always suffering alone…" Kuroo muttered out and the coach ruffled his hair with a soft smile.

"But that's what you like about her, no?"

"Kenma! You need to eat!" Yaku chided Kenma as he realised that he was eating extremely little for breakfast. He then turned to look and spotted Lev, eating… More than he should be…

"Lev! You'll have a stomach ache if you eat too much!" Yaku then groaned and gave up. He then sat down and started to eat his share of the breakfast.

"Tsukki! You need to eat. Eat until you can't eat anymore!" Nishinoya yelled out as he carried a big plate that was filled to the brim with food, and Tsukki couldn't help but tease him.

"Nishinoya-san… At least your stomach is big." And he covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing out loud, which Nishinoya then glared at him about it.

"Four eyes, you shouldn't be bullying your senpai…" [name] called out and ruffled Tsukki's hair as she walked past him with a plate of food in her other hand.

"Hey, hey, hey! Good morning!" and in came the owl, along with the rest of his team.

"You're as noisy as always, Bokuto-san…" Akaashi commented as he took a plate and started to grab the food from the counter, following closely behind Bokuto, afraid that the latter will create trouble early in the morning.

"Kageyama, don't be selfish! I saw that first!" Hinata cried out as he saw Kageyama taking the last pancake from the plate that was set on the counter. Kageyama then sighed and gave Hinata the pancake, causing the whole Karasuno gang to gasp.

"Is that Kageyama?!" Nishinoya called out in shock. Asahi looked like as if he was going to pass out anytime, and both Suga and Daichi were both stunned, staring at what had just happened before them. Tanaka then went up to Kageyama and placed a hand on his forehead.

"Yeap, he's definitely having a fever guys." Tanaka called out, and Kageyama couldn't help but feel embarrassed. He then noticed that Hinata was staring at him with a weird look, and then he snapped at him.

"I'll take it back if you continue to stare at me like that!"

"I didn't know the king of courts has such a kind side to himself." Tsukki teased, and Yamaguchi just snickered by his side. Kageyama then glared at Tsukki with angry marks on his forehead.

[name] then started to dig into her food when all of a sudden she felt someone nuzzling his/her nose into the crook of her neck, she then smiled softly and placed her cutlery down before ruffling the hair of her best friend, Tetsuro Kuroo. Kuroo leaned in more to her touch, and then he took a bite of her food that she had offered him.

She was glad that she was sitting alone at the table as the other girls had split up and mixed around with the rest of the boys, if she wasn't alone, she will never hear the end of it from them when they saw how she and Kuroo were acting. She then realised that she was still wearing Kuroo's jacket, and she was trying to get it off but Kuroo just decided to place his entire weight onto her, not allowing her to do anything.

"Keep it first…" He mumbled into her neck, and then dozed off. [name] sighed as she gave up trying to remove his jacket, and let him sleep on her shoulder while she ate her breakfast. Not knowing that everybody was looking at the duo the entire time.

"Kageyama, nice serve!" and Kageyama tossed the ball up and did a jump serve, but he had accidentally used too much power that it became an out ball.

"Out." Naomi called as she dodged the ball.

"Good call, Naomi!" [name] yelled out and ruffled her hair.

"Don't mind, Kageyama!"

"Yuki, nice serve!"

"Nice receive!"

"Bring it on!" Hinata shouted and jumped up. [name] then jumped up and did a solid block on Hinata's quick spike, which then when both of them landed, Hinata could only sulk, and [name] giggled at his cute actions.

"Almost there, shrimp." [name] called out and Hinata couldn't help but beam with motivation at what [name] had just said.

"Yuki, nice serve!"

"Nice receive!"

"Left!" Asahi called out, and Kageyama tossed a high toss that is slightly away from the net. [name] quickly rushed to Kyoko's side, and she also signalled to Naomi to stay behind them.

"Keep your block solid, Kyoko." [name] whispered to her and Kyoko nodded. They both then jumped up as soon as Asahi spiked, and sure enough it hit [name]'s hands, and she killed the spike.

"Nice block, captain!" Aiyu called out and gave her a high five.

"One lap of diving drills…" Daichi called out and then he started to do the diving drills together with his team, as well as Nekoma High's boys team who had lost to Fukurōdani Academy a score of 26-24.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Bokuto called out as he walked over to the bench where the girls were seated. The girls then giggled as they saw how shy Bokuto had become, whereas [name] was unfazed by it. She then looked at Bokuto and smirked.

"Not going to go easy on you, owl head." She called out, and Bokuto sulked slightly. Akaashi then sighed and dragged Bokuto away from the girls.

"That's what you get for belittling them that one time, Bokuto-san."

[name] then held out a towel as she saw Kuroo coming towards the girls along with the other boys of Nekoma High. She then handed it to Kuroo who gladly accepted it and wiped away the sweat that was dripping from his forehead.

"Washio, nice serve!"

"Nice receive!"

[name] then signalled to Aria who nodded. [name] then ran up towards the center but instead of jumping there, she jumped towards the side and spiked the ball that Aria had tossed, getting past Bokuto and Akaashi's block.

"Nice kill, captain!"

Akaashi sighed as he saw how synced [name] was with her team. He felt envious somehow, but he knew that he will be able to bring out the best in Bokuto, if only he wasn't so full of himself all the time.

"Kyoko, nice serve!"

"Nice receive!"

"Bokuto-san…" Akaashi called out and tossed the ball to Bokuto to spike. [name] then quickly signalled to Naomi to stay behind her as she blocks Bokuto's spike. Sure enough Bokuto ran away and did a feint instead, which Naomi receives it easily thanks to [name]'s signal, sending it to Aria.

"Captain!" Aria yelled out and tossed the ball to not [name], but she did fake out the blockers from Fukurōdani Academy. Aria ended up tossing the ball to Aiyu instead, allowing her to score a point without a blocker in sight.

"Nice one!"

"Bokuto-san, you ran away…" Akaashi commented with a straight face.

"N-No! I just got over their blocks! I got over them!" Bokuto cried out, feeling embarrassed.

"You let your guard down…" One of the teammates commented, and Bokuto sighed and sulked.

"Fine, fine! I ran away!" and he crossed his arms and sulked once more.

"One lap of diving drills…" Akaashi called out and dragged Bokuto with him to start on the drills while the girls head over to the bench for their water break once again.

"One lap of diving drills… Asahi you're doing double…" Daichi called out and started to do the drills, followed by the other team members of Karasuno High.

"[name]!" [name] heard her name being called and she turned to look who had called her. She wasn't sure who it was, but she looked around and couldn't seem to find the voice of the person who had just called her.

"I must be hearing things…" [name] mumbled to herself as she drank her water.

"[name]!" she then whipped her head around and looked out for the one who had called her, but she can't seem to find the voice of the person. She then scratched her head as she turned her whole body to take a better look, but she definitely knew it wasn't the ones in the gymnasium that was calling her.

"Alright, practice is over! Remember to rest well and eat up too! Clean up as well! Especially the boys! You made us do the cleaning early in the morning today!" Mukami Sensei ranted out and soon was dragged away by the other teacher advisors as they said he needed a drink to calm down.

[name] stretched and grabbed hold of her towel and bottle. She then took a look at her phone as she remembered that she was going to meet someone today. She then stepped out of the gymnasium and realised that it was raining heavily, feeling cold, she decided to put on Kuroo's jacket once again, and walk down the sheltered walkway, escaping from Bokuto.

"Hey, hey, hey! Where's [name]? She's supposed to be helping me with blocking." Bokuto cried out.

"[name]-senpai left already!" Aria called out as she went to gather the balls that were scattered around the court, helping Inuoka with it.

"Oh? Alright then, Kuroo!" Bokuto called out to the bed bead who was seated at the bench taking a short break.

"Aw, man…" Kuroo immediately sighed as he grabbed hold of his water bottle and took a sip.

"I haven't say anything yet!" Bokuto yelled.

"Oi, it's freezing here! Hurry up already!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming! Where are you?"

"At the end of the sheltered walkway, idiot."

"Why you got to be so rude? I see you."

"Because, it's you."

[name] sighed and raised her hand, smacking the person hard on his/her back. The person then winced in pain and had a soft smile plastered onto his/her face as he/she turned to take a look at [name].

"You're lucky that practice ended extremely early today."

"I feel honoured then, to have the great Iwaizumi Hajime to come see me immediately after his practice. So you were the one who has been calling my [name] when I was practicing!" [name] teased and stuck her tongue out while Iwaizumi ruffled her hair.

"Yeah. My mother made your favourite food when I told her I'm going to go see you, and here's your medication. Your psychiatrist gave me a scolding, nearly close to a beating if I hadn't glared at him. He said you shouldn't be skipping the sessions and focusing only on volleyball." Iwaizumi ranted as both he and [name] walked down the sheltered walkway, towards a secluded area where nobody goes to.

"I'm sorry you had to go through that for the 6th time." [name] apologised as she took hold of the medications that Iwaizumi held out for her, and she kept it into the pocket of Kuroo's jacket.

"That jacket looks a little too big on you, whose is it?" Iwaizumi asked as he started to grab out her favourite food from the plastic bag he was carrying, onigiri. [name] then sat down and made Iwaizumi sit down as well, and she grabbed onto the onigiri that Iwaizumi had held out for her.

"This jacket? It's bed head's jacket." She answered and took a bite out of the onigiri that Iwaizumi's mother had made, savouring the flavours and everything about it. She then noticed that Iwaizumi himself was also eating the onigiri that his mother had made, and they sat in silence for a good 10 minutes, to finish up the food.

"You know, I could easily beat trashykawa up and make sure he doesn't find trouble with you again." Iwaizumi spoke as he looked up to the night sky before them. They couldn't see the moon, nor the stars as it was covered with rain clouds, and it was still raining heavily.

"You know I don't want the both of you to fall out because of me. If he didn't do anything wrong to you, you shouldn't be doing anything to him, that's how you roll." [name] spoke as she looked out to the sight before her and Iwaizumi.

"True that. And also you will never accept my help or anybody else's help when it comes to your own personal matters." Iwaizumi spoke and then turned to give [name] a soft smile, which she gladly returns.

"That's just me." [name] shrugged her shoulders and giggled when Iwaizumi rolled his eyes at her and punched her lightly on the top of her head. [name] then held the area that he had punched and pout at him.

"Sometimes, I'm always wondering. Why do you put others first? Why do you let yourself suffer along when you know you have friends who are willing to help you? Why don't you think about yourself and put yourself first?" Iwaizumi asked as he looked out once again.

"I know what's it like to be alone." She mumbled out, and that caused Iwaizumi to look at her, beckoning her to continue, which she just had a soft smile on her face and turned to face out, continuing her sentence.

"You know that feeling of being alone? That feeling when you hate yourself so much, but you just don't want to see people ending up like you. Feeling worthless, hatred, everything. It's not a nice feeling, and I don't want that to happen to anybody." [name] spoke and continued to stare out to the sight before her.

"You're such an idiot, [name]." Iwaizumi sighed as he ruffled her hair.

"An idiot that you care about for the past 3 years, Hajime." She teased, and Iwaizumi could only smile softly at her.

"What about your injuries? Do you intend to get surgeries for them?" Iwaizumi asked.

"I'm… Going to stop volleyball I guess, after I graduate…" she mumbled.

"Alright, I need to go. It's getting late already. I wouldn't want to be late for practice tomorrow, if not asskawa will start provoking me." Iwaizumi muttered as he stood up and stretched. He then pulled [name] up and ruffled her hair once more before turning away and walking off.

"Thank you, for being an idiotic big brother, Hajime!" she called out, and could see that Iwaizumi felt agitated by the word 'idiotic', but she giggled as he continued to walk away, waving to her from the back.

[name] then smiled softly as she walked back towards the gymnasiums, and stopped in front of the third gymnasium where Bokuto and the others were, practicing their spiking and blocking. She stood at the entrance and looked inside, she then realised that they had gotten Yamaguchi to play with them. With a soft smile, she sighed and turned to walk away…

"[name]!" she heard someone call her, and she turned. She then realised that Suga had called out to her, and she waved before turning her back once again and walked away. When all of a sudden she was pulled by the arm. She then turned to see that Kuroo had grabbed hold of her, she stared at him with a confused look in her eyes.

"I'm going to shower and then sleep." Was all she said.

[name] stretched as she walked down the sheltered walkway. She had just finished taking a shower and was about to head back to the sleeping rooms when all of a sudden she spotted someone in the shadows. She stared at it for a little while, but chose to ignore and continued to walk. When she was about to turn in to the sleeping rooms, she saw Hinata standing in the middle of the walkway.

"Shrimp?" she called out, and saw Hinata turning to look at her.

"T-There's something else among us…" he mumbled, and [name] stared in confusion still. She then placed a hand on his shoulder and gave it a little squeeze.

"You must be seeing things. It's kind of late, you should go and sleep already." She spoke, and Hinata continued to speak.

"But… It looks like a kid…" he mumbled, and all of a sudden both of them heard footsteps coming from behind them, and she found that Hinata tensed up all of a sudden.

"Why are you all in the walkway…" they heard a voice, and they turned to look that it was a dark figure. Hinata started screaming, and [name] quickly covered his mouth with her hand as she narrowed her eyes.

"SHRIMP! IT'S JUST YOUR LIBERO!" she called out as Nishinoya stood out into the light.

"Huh… B-B-But, Nishinoya-senpai has grown shorter!" he cried out and [name] stared at Nishinoya, and she couldn't agree that Nishinoya had indeed grown shorter. She then burst out laughing and pointed at Nishinoya.

"Your hair adds on to 10cm of your height doesn't it!" she cried out.

"H-Hey!" Nishinoya stuttered with a flustered face. He then felt a hand on his shoulder…

"Don't make so much noise…" a voice spoke out, and when [name] and the other two turned to look, both Hinata and Nishinoya screamed, whereas [name] just burst out laughing as she knew who it was.

"Oi! It's me, Kuroo!"

"SHUT UP ALREADY AND GO TO SLEEP!" Daichi's voice sounded throughout the campus grounds, and [name] couldn't help but giggle as she saw how scared Nishinoya and Hinata were, and how embarrassed Kuroo was as his hair was almost flat right now as he had just gotten out of the showers. Hinata and Nishinoya soon left the duo alone at the walkway.

Kuroo was walking [name] back to the sleeping area where the girls were designated to, and he couldn't help but wanting to ask [name] about her injuries then. All of a sudden [name] held out his jacket to him, and he took it with a slight confused look on his face. She smiled a soft smile and continued to walk down the sheltered walkway.

"[name]!" Kuroo called out as he took big strides to reach her. She turned to look at him with a questioning look and then he breathed in a deep breath and started to speak once again.

"Are you… Hiding something from me?"

"Truth be told; I am hiding something from you."

"Why won't you tell me then?"

"Now isn't the right time. You'll know soon… Very soon." And she smiled up at him with a smile that Kuroo knew too well. A smile that shows that she will be fine, and he didn't need to worry about her for the time being.

"Well, goodnight." She called out and hugged him, before heading back to the room to get her rest.

In the sleeping room where the boys were designated to, none of them were asleep. Even Daichi. They were all awake, chatting away and also playing cards. Kuroo was sitting by the window once again, wearing his jacket. He sighed as he stuffed his hands into his jacket's pockets and then he felt some plastic in it.

Curiosity got the better of him and he pulled the object out. He noticed it was medications and then he turned it over to look at the prescription.

"Ah, that girl forgot about her medications…" Kuroo mumbled and made a mental note to pass it back to her in the morning.

"Ne, don't you think Kuroo is being weird lately?"

"He has been acting like an emo, sitting at the window…"

"Yeah… Is he trying to get [name]-senpai's attention?"

"Guys! Do you all know how Kuroo-senpai looks when he doesn't have his usual hairstyle?"

"Nishinoya-senpai and I saw it just now!"

And Kuroo immediately got into a pillow fight with Hinata and Nishinoya, causing laughter to erupt from the room as he was extremely embarrassed as nobody saw him without his hairstyle before.

"SHUT UP ALREADY!" the girls voice was soon sounded, and everybody went dead silent.