6 Getting back into the game

Chapter 6

After changing into our training uniform we entered the gym and wow, that was a nice serve, He did a power serve but he managed to place the ball exactly on the road of the spiker. The spiker in question didn't manage to leave enough space for the libero to get the ball so he was obliged to get the ball up and so stop his run.

I was as usual obsessed with the game that I didn't see the ball coming right at me until Aran cried to get my attention. And by reflexe and experience I manage in the split second that before the impacte to do a cuff and to amortize perfectly the ball that was coming onto me.

"Wow that was a really nice cuff and you weren't even prepare, you must be a really good libero" Said the blond hair twin

"Well actually I'm more of a spiker but thank you, I'm Tenshi Suzaku nice to meet you" I respond.

He then presented me to the rest of the team and I introduced Aran, the first few minutes of the training were just chatting between us and the creation of some sort of familiarity between us, until the coach arrived.

"Hello guys, come around, I'm going to say a few words. First of all as you may know I was also a student and volleyball player for this school when I was younger, you may know me however because of my professional career. When I was playing for the black color we were a powerhouse that ran by the motto of : The win for our predecessor. However if we want, and I know we can, get back to being a power house, we need to take a step back and rebuild our philosophy, Indeed a team isn't qualify by our school or it's past, so I create a plan for 3 mouths where all the player will train their stamina and they play, appart for the stamina part, I will not help you, I will let you play freely on the court and after 3 mouths, I want a new strategies and if possible a 6. For now, drop the ball and let's go to the gym."

And like that you train only our stamina the entire week, few players, ancient and new, drop and quite saying that with this new coach we will never be able to win anything, apparently some parent even try to put pressure on coach Norimune, but I was seeing so serious progress for the players that stay. It's even helped the survivor create a team spirit.

This was apparently one of his hidden objectif, as he said "Difficulties create links and sort the weak." And he was right, the whole team was like one, and we didn't even start to play together, we started to hang out in school outside of our classes, we didn't bear any interest in which years we were. I started to become really close with Aran, he was my best friend in this school, I couldn't wait to present Sachiro to him, I'm sure we could do a serious trio on the court.

The twins Atsumu and Otsamu were pretty fun, but the one that was surprisingly a clown was Rintaro Suna, a Middle blocker with a nice elasticity. Shinsuke was viable and being with him was like being behind a wall, however this wall could also crumble one you the instant you do something bad, his silent personality work well with me because of the drama my family lived, I can of keep my thought to me when don't needed, I'm not at his stage but I'm less noisy as I used to be. Michinari Akagi the Libero was a cool guy who wanted to live his life a cool way, he wasn't worried about anything and generally didn't create problems, fortunately because with Astumu we had enough. However when he trained, he was so focused on any mouvement he would miss or could do better than we all thought that he had a double personality. Aran was neutral, he wants train as much as he wanted to walk in the woods, he had kind of a weird passion about woods, but hey who I am to judge, and the few time that I followed him through his walk, it managed to appease my thought and guild, it's was quite relaxing.

I started to really get back into volleyball and I have to say that this stamina training really helped me get back in form. The atmosphere around the team helped me change my thoughts and accept the reality I was living, There wasn't anything I could do now except living my life at max speed like my mother would have wanted.

In classe things were pretty annoying, because of my looks and my friendship with Aran we were often asked questions or if we wanted to come with them, some were even seeing us as trophies to have as friends. Some girls were even following us in our practice and meeting with some twin fans. Apparently a Twins vs Tenshi fanclub were playing in the background.

They was however a interesting girl, she was the russian student, she was pretty cool to chill with, I knew that because we were always pair together in the differentes classe because she had difficulty understanding the curriculum, and as I was a top student they tried to balance it, she wasn't the inintersting stupid type of girl, she just arrive in Japan so she had difficutlies understanding what the teachers were saying, actualy if you take the time to explain to her, she was quite smart, and brilliant if you manadge to get her full attention on the subject. She had that quirk that if she was passionate about what she was learning her IQ would multiply. She was a passionate girl, and always gave her max in the good or the bad. She sometimes would do a monolog about who in the class was going out with who, I wasn't listening all the time and she would give me the death rattle when she would catch me losing attention, but I would have to say that it's never bother me, it's was kind of one of her quirk. Oddly enough she would never suspect that I would be in a relationship.

Sometimes she would stop speaking and just look outside. Once I managed to get her to speak to me, she told me how her parents were always traveling and that she didn't have a saying whenever she wanted to stay or not, and that she may one day quit this school and go live somewhere else.

As she opened to me, my thoughts traveled between my mother and her story, she noticed it but funnily didn't give me the death glare and just told me that she hoped that one day I would also open to her.

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