@hootxdamn
Tobioâs day had started off fairly good. During morning practice, the coach had announced that during the next game, he wanted to try using Tobio as the setter, to give him a chance at his favoured position. Of course, he had been excited beyond belief, having only agreed to play the role of a wing spiker instead because he had to play on the team to keep his scholarship.Â
He should have known it would be too good to be true.Â
When Tobio had gone to retrieve his uniform from his gym bag, the entire thing was ruined â purple splotches of what he could only assume was grape juice covering it. Attached was a crumpled, fruity note that said ânice try tobio-chanâ in pretty scrawl, signed by his captain and current setter. Oh yes, it was too good to be true that Oikawa would allow him to play his preferred position, even at the coachâs request. So naturally, Tobio had gone to the coach and confessed to making a mess of his uniform on accident, but was granted a loaner uniform for the time being until the dry cleaners was able to get the stains out of his usual one.Â
Refusing to fall prey to Oikawaâs tricks, Tobio had decided to go to the community centre where he knew the other volunteered, intent on confronting him before things continued. Instead, he found another excitable man coaching the tyke volleyball team. Upon recognizing who it was, Tobioâs eyes lit up considerably, a childish excitement filling him as he hung around until the man wasnât crowded by little kids.
âKahâKayâKageyama!â He stuttered, jerking his hand out to the spikey haired male with as much grace as a blind man. Tobioâs cheeks flushed suddenly and he grasped at straws for his reasoning for approaching the man, at a loss for words in the presence of a face he knew very well.
âI-Iâm a fan! Your spike was top 5 back in high school â I-I love volleyball!âÂ
You would think after spending his entire day teaching a hoard of children under the age of 6, Bokuto would be tired of the little tykes. Likely due to the fact that he himself was just a big child at heart it was with genuine enthusiasm that the man dedicated countless nights a week coaching volleyball to the local elementary school team.
Having already spent half the practice reviewing the fundamentals, the owlish coach had set the kids into pairs, getting them practice receiving the ball the other tossed... Though mostly he had set up the entire room to be a death trap of flying volleyballs. Same thing right?
With his attention focused on the kids at hand, the former captain didnât notice the gymnasium door open, nor did he notice the rather excitable university student staring at him like he was the last piece of meat on the barbecue.
That was until said student approached him, all but stuttering out his own name like he was in the presence of a celebrity, hand shoved out and his face looking set to burst. Unable to help his laugh, Bokuto reached out to grasp his hand, shaking it enthusiastically.
âKageyama huh? Good name!â He boomed, drawing his hand back as he placed both onto his hips, just staring down at the kid.Â
âHaha! Yeah thatâs me! Iâm impressed you know that! Do you play at all; or are you just a fan?â