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The Birth of A Volleyball Legend

2011. That was when earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, changing thousands of lives. And Kobayashi Yuki is just one of them. A month ago, he was just a normal boy, graduating from a small middle school in Fukushima and was excited to go to the high school. However, the disaster changed his life. He lost both parents, not because they died, but because they were still missing until now. He lost his home. He lost his friends. He lost his school. He lost everything. Having no choice, he moved to Tokyo, to a small, new orphanage to accommodate victims of the disaster who didn't have any home or wanted to change their lives in the biggest city in Japan. In his mind, all he wanted to do was enter a normal high school, do a part-time job, make some money to help the orphanage, and maybe if he were lucky enough he could be admitted into a good university with a scholarship. However, one challenge from the volleyball team and one half-Italian blonde boy turned everything upside down. Now, he was trapped inside the crazy team, being dragged into the mess. Inter-High. National Tournament. Volleyball. Those three words kept spinning around his life as he entered a crazy high school life. Can he strive in the place where he was unfamiliar with? Would he be a good volleyball player? And what does the future hold for him?

lank_0z · Sports
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Yuki's School Life

After that day, Yuki's routine changed drastically. In the mornings, before he went to school, Kawaki assigned him a task to maintain his condition, which included light jogging and a series of exercises to keep his body in peak shape. This usually took about forty minutes, and afterward, he helped all of his little siblings prepare for their day.

After school, he and Riku—sometimes joined by Kato if she wasn't busy—would go to the 'Sumida Volleyball Arena,' the home ground of the Tokyo Thunder, to join the training. The schedule varied from days filled with physical training, drills to improve their basic skills, learning about strategies and codes that the others typically practiced for games, to sometimes not even going to the court, but instead heading to the multimedia room—which was something they both became familiar with after joining the team—to watch recordings of the main team's performances for inspiration.