Dude they totally are! Kiyoko was not kidding when she made the crows comment because that team has got to be one of the most ridiculous teams to manage 😭
SYPNOSIS — karasuno’s new manager joins them for the training camp and unexpected events change his life
WARNINGS — there aren’t really any, c-block lev
AUTHOR’S NOTE — once again i am self indulging and simping for kenma through writing ㅠㅠ if only they were real
ngl you were excited for the training camp!
you see, you were the oldest child of six and your parents were hardworking people who struggled to pay for anything really, but always strived to give their children a good life.
so you never really left your little town of Miyagi. and you were fine with it.
on the bus ride, you sad next to asahi hoping to get some sleep since your little twin brothers threw a fit all night when they found out you would be gone for a whole week
and you wanted to 👶🏼🔫❌🔥😡🤬💀
but you didn't 😌
only because your mother would have killed you
so you get there
and whoo wee,
and whoo wee,
it's hOT😳
but not because of the sun
no no
when you exited the bus, rubbing away the sleep that lingered in your eyes and squinting at the bright sun, a flash of blond hair caught your attention
he was much shorter than you, a whole head really
you grew to 6'6 the week before and hinata and noya nearly killed you in envy.
his hair was obviously dyed blond, seeing as his roots were showing, but you liked it 🥰
though his eyes were what caught your attention. big golden irisis stared into your own, a look of caution and hesitation laced in them. they were cold and calculating, but all you felt was a small heat rush up your cheeks the longer you two held eye contact.
you only looked away when kiyoko asked you to carry some of the boys' bags for her, a cold feeling replacing the warmth at previously made home in your chest.
anyways, enough simping 🥴✋🏼
you were carrying many of the boys' bags, so your main focus wasn't really on the cute blond you saw (tragic)
plus this training camp was full of 🤢 men 🤢
more specifically, men who could hurt kiyoko and yachi
who you grew a close relationship with after you stood up for them at the tournament. she even attempted to make you cookies but poor babes burnt them 😭 but you still ate them
like- 🤢 mm 🤢 so- gag - so good 😀
done near gave you food poisoning 😀 but the smile on her face was worth it 🥰
anyways,
you're just trailing behind the girls, carrying all the bags, looking around, when GASP-
WHAT IS THAT!?
dropping the bags, you sprint over a little ways away from the girls where there's a little kitty 🥰
so obviously you pet it 🥰
oblivious to the world around you 🥰 and the pain you were unknowingly causing the second years 🥰
——
"stay away from our managers, city boy," tanaka growled, "you wouldn't want to anger our male manager."
noya nodded in response, an evil glint in his eyes, "he's murdered people! you don't wanna mess with him!"
yamamoto gulped slightly at the revelation. not only did karasuno have two beautiful managers whole nekoma failed to even have one, they also apparently had their own bodyguard.
he was not ignorant to the rumors that spread about their male manager. yamamoto heard about the fight he had gotten into during the small tournament in Miyagi, and he heard how the other guy had to go to the hospital for a broken nose and multiple cuts. he was said to be a giant, nearly seven feet tall and had a killer glare. rumor also had it he was a criminal, having sold drugs in another prefecture and ran to the country side to evaid the cops. yamamoto shivered at the very thought of coming face to face with someone so terrifying.
"he's over there with the girls," tanaka jabbed his thumb behind him, "probably guarding them like a-"
it was silent as all three boys took in the view in front of them. you, crouched down with your head resting on your knees, the curls on your head bobbing with each movement of your head and the crinkles in your eyes scrunching with every smile.
a little kitten lay on its back in front of you, it's paws thrathing about as it played with the chains and bracelets on your wrist, "aren't you a little cutie"
your voice had risen an octave or two.
nishinoya deadpanned, "baby voice. he's talking in a baby voice."
"our scary manager. . ." tsukishima snorted, slapping a hand over his mouth before laughs escaped him, "is playing with a kitten."
you looked up at your team, your eyes still crinckled shut and your smile nearly blinding everyone present, still oblivious to the scene you were creating, "look, yachi-chan! isn't he so cute?"
yachi fisted the fabric of her shirt as she bent down slightly, a flush present on her face, "he's too cute. . ."
so it's safe to say nekoma and the other schools present did not fear you 🧍🏽♀️
not what tanaka and noya were going for. . . but okay. . .
so you all went about your days, filling water bottles and handing out towels
and you completely forgot about the blond you saw earlier
until koari, a manager for fukurodani's team, asked you if you could bring out some of the heavier boxes from the storage
something about beating emo bokuto or something 🤷🏻♀️ idk
so you go back to the storage and find the box she was looking for
but when you pick it up-
"HOLY SHIT IS THAT A DEAD BODY?!?"
you drop the box on your foot in surprise when you suddenly come face to face with a guy sleeping on the boxes
and fuckkkkk-
😀😀 that shit hurted
the boy jumps awake and literally glares into your soul
and oh!!
it's the cute boy from earlier!
"so-sorry. . . i thought you were a dead body.."
"dead body?" the boy scoffed as he pulled out a nintendo switch from his pocket, "that's stupid."
you flushed at his words, a bit embarrassed you made a fool of yourself in front of a cute boy; but that embarrassment washed away when you heard the familiar sound of animal crossing starting up.
"you play animal crossing too?!" you nearly threw yourself at the boy, temporarily forgetting you were literally the size of a giant, "i love that game, but the spiders always kill me."
you shivered as you thought back to the many times the spiders snuck up on you while picking flowers or cleaning up your island.
kenma didn't respond but watched you from his peripheral vision, your eyes wide with wonder as you looked around his island and made a few comments here and there. your head was nearly resting on his shoulder, and normally, kenma would have pushed you away and hiss about personal space, but it was something about the warmth that you gave off that kept him craving for more.
the two of you sat in the storage for a while, the box kaori needed lay forgotten beside you and the hues of sunlight filtering through the small barred window near the top of the storage room.
this is peaceful, kenma thought, i like it-
a sudden weight on his shoulder brought kenma's attention to you, only for the warmth he felt in his chest to flare up and flames of warmth crawled up his neck and burned his cheeks.
you were asleep on his shoulder, soft snores escaped your mouth and your curls fell perfectly over your eyes. the lack of sleep from the night before finally caught up to you and claimed you as theirs.
the soft background music that came from kenma's switch drowned out to white noise the longer he stared at your sleeping face. occasionally, your nose would twitch and your mouth would part and drool slightly leaked out, but kenma couldn't find it in himself to be repulsed by it. it was endearing to him, really.
kenma wasn't sure what the feeling building in his chest was, and despite it being foreign and unknown, he didn't fear it - he welcomed it; craved it, even.
creep, kenma chided himself, you're being creepy. stop staring. and he did, only occasionally looking back at your face when you shifted or let out a weird noise.
kenma smiled, how to describe this feeling?
when you woke up you realised kenma had fallen asleep too and you just 🧍🏽♀️
what. . .WHAT DO I DO?! 🤡😀🧍🏽♀️
so you just sat there like a stiff board for a bit before realising it was night time
and your teams were probably worried
so you sucked it up and picked up kenma
aND NEARLY DROPPED HIM
WHEN HE CUDDLED INTO YOUR JACKET
LIKE DJJKDKS PLEASE STOP MY HEART 😩🥰😀😳✋🏼
you brought him to where nekoma was staying, and it was kinda awkward having to explain to kuroo what happened and why you were carrying their precious setter
yamamoto thought you killed him and just- 🤬❌😡🔥😤
"uh, no. he fell asleep in the storage room."
after that day, the two of you became close !!
which didn't go unnoticed by your teammates
kuroo kept noticing how kenma would stare at you when you walked into the gym with water bottles
and daichi noticed how you always tried to be the one who gave kenma a water bottle or towel
so the two capitains were like. . .
🧍🏽♀️🔫 please
because FUCK HOW??
THE TWO OF YOU ARE SO QUIET AND SUCH INTORVERTS PLEASE-
but they were determined to get you two together and came together to devise a plan 🥴
they would try to get the two of you alone, so you can have another moment and hopefully confess, while they would stirr up your feelings
like, "kenma's looking real cute today in that jersey, huh?"
"look at y/n, kenma! doesn't he look so cute in that sweater?"
"i bet you wish you were that water bottle, don't you, y/n?" nudge nudge
"oh to be one of y/n's chokers 😩 right kenma?"
iTS FULL PROOF 🤪🤪
until it wasn't.
you see
fUCKING LEV MAN
HES SO PRECIOUS BUT FUCKING LEV
when he first saw you he was so amazed by how tall you were, especially considering he's never met someone as tall as him or taller before,
so he just wanted to be your friend 👉🏼👈🏼
bUT HE WAS BEING SUCH A COCKBLOCK
whenever you and kenma were alone and it looked like one of you was gonna confess-
BOOM THERE'S LEV
when the two of you are sitting off to the side talking during a break,
🧍🏽♀️L E V 🧍🏽♀️
yaku has never wanted to murder that kid more 😡❌🔥🤬
it seemed like the two of you were getting a bit annoyed he kept interrupting too, but you never had it in your heart to tell him off
he is literally like a giant puppy dog please-
but kenma is another story
my guy would be throwing the meanest glares at this kid like-
like lev is walking up to the two of you while you were out back sitting on the hill despite how H O T it was, because ✨alone time✨
kenma sees him and just-
"nO- NO GO AWAY LEV! I SWEAR IF YOU TAKE ANOTHER STEP CLOSER I'M GOING TO SAW YOUR LEGS OFF AND USE THEM AS STILTS! I'M TRYING TOR CONFESS TO Y/N BUT I CANT DO THAT IF YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING-"
while he's telling you're just sitting there like. . .
huh. . .wait a minute. . .WAIT A MINUTE-
WHATDIDHESAY????
😀 my feelings are returned??? 😀
so you, being the bad bitch that you are,
you kissed him 🥰
kenma's gasped, his screaming suddenly silenced and his eyes wide as he processed what was happening. lev also stared in shock, slowly backing back into the gym, closing the door behind him to give you two privacy; not that it stopped the others from watching from the windows.
your eyes were closed shut, big hands cupping his small face as you kissed him. your lips were soft, kenma realised, and he wished this moment could last forever.
before he could kiss back, you pulled away. a little frown pulled on your lips when you realised he didn't kiss back and you hoped you hadn't made him uncomfortable. he still stared up at you with big golden eyes, widened in shock; unmoving.
you rubbed at the back of your neck, looking off to the side with an embarrassed flush on your face, "sorry, i thought you-"
it was all so quick. kenma grabbed you by the collar of your shirt, your chains rattling loudly. he pulled you down to him with much more force than you anticipated, the two of you falling to the ground behind him, your forearms holding you up beside kenma's head.
your eyes were blurry with the sudden movements and you worried you crushed kenma with your sudden weight, but before you could ask him if he was alright, he crashed his lips onto yours.
it was messy and uncoordinated, teeth clashing unceremoniously and you were sure he had bitten your tongue at one point; but it was addictive. the taste of him invaded your senses and destroyed every relational part of your body that told you to stop. you didn't listen.
no matter how high the flames in your lungs grew from the lack of oxygen; you didn't stop. no matter how loud the cheering and whooping from the gym got; you didn't stop. it was only when you could feel kenma tug at the buttons of your shirt, nearly ripping a few off, did you stop; even then, you had to force yourself to.
the two of you pulled apart, a wreck of gasping for breath and puffy lips. you pulled your hand out from beneath his jersey. when you put it there, you didn't know, nor did you really care; the feeling of his soft skin engraved into your hand like a branding iron.
it was then, in that moment, could kenma explain what the emotion growing higher and higher like uncontrolled flames in his chest was:
love.
so yeah 🤪
you got a boyfriend now 🤪
and ugh the two of you are so cute like bro-
THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE
LIKE A WHOLE HEAD-
your sweaters swallow kenma up, but he wouldn't have it any other way 🥴
sometimes after school or on the weekends, you'll take the commute to Tokyo just to see kenma
cough simp cough
it's okay me too
and you'll just let him sit on your lap and lay your head on-top of his while he plays video games-
UGH STOP IM TOO SINGLE FOR THIS
y'all play mincraft together too 🥺
you're a pretty good builder so you'll be the one to build the houses and stuff while he mines and protects you 🥺
he killed your cat once and you nearly cried pls-
everyone is so disgusted by how cute you are like- 🤢 stop. i'm gonna be sick
but god forbid someone messes with him -
not only do they have to face literally all of the nekoma vbc, but they also have to face YOU
a 6'6 still growing guy, wHO LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE HE WOULD BE A CRIMINAL ON CRIMINAL MINDS-
so yeah 😌 no one's messing with your baby 😌
or so you thought . . .
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SYPNOSIS — with two amazing managers, karasuno’s male volleyball team doesn’t really need another one, right? . . . right?
AUTHOR’S NOTE — this was a lot longer than i expected it to be ㅠㅠ
HELLO I AM BACK FROM THE DEAD
anyways
you never really considered yourself to be a sports type of person
so you just,
never played sports
and you have no clue what goes on when you watch sports so when your sibling blackmails gets you to go to their game, you just. . .
🧍🏽♀️wtf is going on
you're a second year at karasuno and you haven't participated in any extracurricular activities so your teachers are a bit concerned for your future
they convince you to look for a manager position within a sports team because-
they convince you to look for a manager position within a sports team because-
"colleges look for these types of things. it'll look good on your record."
plus they were just concerned you'd turn to a life of crime i mean-
you had a nose piercing and a bunch of extra ear peircings, you were tall (i'm talking 6'3 edging 6'4 typa height) and you had a resting bitch face
you also wore chains and rings. ya know. typical e-boy shit 🤪
whenever you walked the halls people always whispered and spread another stupid rumor about you because of how you looked
(your favourite was one where someone claimed you kicked a kids sand castle on the beach because while you didn't do that, it's totally something you would do)
rumor also said you had lots of tattoos under your school uniform, hidden away by your blazer and school pants
(you had one on your collarbone for a pet that passed away)
your uniform was always wrinkled and half-assed put on
(you never had the energy to iron it or hang it up. you just washed it and called it a day)
and overall you just exerted an intimidating aura, so people were kinda scared of you.
so your teachers: concerned 🥰
but fr, don't judge people by the way they look, totally not cool
they gave you a form to fill out and told you to find the third year manager for the team and give it to her
so you did
because you wanted to get into college
you filled it out and went to go find kiyoko shimizu
you knew of her, and based on the things people said, she was really pretty
and you'd think you'd be able to point out a literal walking godess,
but nope 😀
you spent all of your free time looking for her and barely got to eat your lunch until FINALLY-
during a break between classes you sAW HER-
you were a little irritated it took you so long, so your aura was just 😤😡🤬❌🔥
when you saw her, you'd agree that she was really pretty but she looked very uncomfortable
you'd wondered if it was something she ate but nope-
there was a guy practically pushing her into the wall, one hand on her hip and another caging her in- she had no escape;
and his face was way too close to be considered acceptable according to the social cues your mother taught you.
now, you'd like to consider yourself a gentlemen (though not a lot of women came to you out of fear you were a kidnapper)
so you did the only reasonable thing-
you shove the guy to the floor 😼
he fell flat on his ass, "hey what-"
then he had to CRANE his neck up to even look at your face and was just met with-
💀💀 death.
he was staring death in the face.
you glared at the guy on the floor, standing at your full height and the paper in your hands slightly crumpled from your grip. a smirk grew on your face as you watched him go through the stages of grief.
confusion. shock. absolute horror.
the guy on the ground visibly paled, his hands trembling on the floor as he craned his neck up to meet your gaze, "i didn't- she was- we didn't-"
"i- i-" you mocked, "i don't give a damn. it really gets under my skin when men take advantage of women."
you couched down to his height, your chains rattling with the sudden movement and the shimmer of each of the rings on your fingers catching the guy's attention. he gulped.
"and do you know what happens to things that get under my skin?"
he shook his head a slow 'no' under your vice grip on his uniform shirt.
bringing your face closer to his ear, the guy shivered at the feeling of your cold breath against his warm skin, "i exterminate them."
his eyes widened in horror before he somehow got our of your grip, sprinting down the hallways yelling profanities in his wake.
you picked up the crumpled paper you dropped and tried to straighten it out, whining slightly under your breath when it still looked like you had played a game of tennis with it
you turned to kiyoko and she just-
👁👄👁 wow
you kinda blushed as she kept staring at you because- holy hell
they were right
she's so pretty 😳
"um.."
you jumped a the sound of her voice before shoving the crumpled paper into her hands, "for the volleyball club"
and off you went 😀
your face felt all hot and you could practically feel the steam coming off of you
you basically 🏃🏽♀️💨💨 to your next class
kiyoko could only stare at your retreating form with a little smile on her face. she didn't even need to look at the form you gave her to know you'd fit right in with the vbc 😼
the next time you saw her was at lunch the next day when she told you you made it in
the banana milk you were drinking fell from your hands, leaving the straw handing from your slightly agape mouth as you stared up at the third year.
"i'll see you at practice this afternoon in the third gym. don't be late."
"i- yeah, okay."
but she was already gone 😔
ANYWAYS SO-
end of the day comes and you're a bit nervous to go to the gym, but oh well you're a bad bitch no need for the scared energy 🤪
so you're in the walk way to the gym (if y'all know what i'm talking about) and you're just standing there cause
NERVES CAME BACK
you're trying to sike yourself up to go in and introduce yourself
when the gym doors open and you come face to face with a short blonde girl
she's holding a laundry basket with jerseys
and she's just- 👁👄👁 at you and you're 👁👄👁 back.
so the two of you are just standing in the walk way like- 🧍🏽♀️🧍🏽♀️
before she sCREAMS BLOODY MURDER
AND DROPS THE BASKET
AND DIVES INTO THE GYM SLAMMING THE DOOR BEHIND HER
and you-
🧍🏽♀️ uhh. . .
the clothes spilled over the basket
so you pick them up and put them back in
you want to go into the gym, but you can still kinda hear the blonde girl screaming her head off
but you decide:
🤪🤪 eh, whatever. fuck it 🤪
so you open the gym doors and step in. laundry basket in one hand and a blank expression on your face when the girl points at you and-
"THAT'S HIM! THAT'S THE MURDERER WHO'S GOING TO KILL ME."
and all you do it just- 🎽🧍🏽♀️😐
a bald kid and a short kid with a blond streak in his hair post up to you-
"you got a problem, punk?"
"what's your deal with yachi-chan, e-boy?!"
they're literally about to pounce when-
"oh, l/n-san, you're here."
everyone turns to see kiyoko looking at you with a small small smile as she takes the laundry basket from you, setting it aside.
she places a hand on your bicep and looks to the team, "this is who i was talking about yesterday, the guy who saved me."
the two dudes who were posting up were literally frozen in place.
it takes a while for the team to warm up to you after that, especially because of your intimidating aura and the fact that you're almost taller than their tallest player
it's no surprise when hinata is the first to warm up to you along with kageyama since hinata thinks your height is cool and kageyama is indiferent
tsukishima is next when you are able to spit back a retort to his saltiness and yamagucci is not far behind when he sees that you're a softy🥰
the second years. . . don't like you. . . yet 🥴
the third years are your besties please-
suga is the one who brings out the crackhead in you and daichi keeps the two of you in line
you and asahi bond over the fact that you're just two misunderstood giants 😔 please they're just a pair of sofites
the second years only warm up to you during a small tournament they're invited to
kiyoko was once again cornered by some men (🤢kam) but yachi was cornered too
nishi and tanaka tried to keep the guys back with their . . . psychopathic ways
but it was unsuccessful 😔
they were just pushed back
you had been helping the others set up and warm up, figuring nishinoya and tanaka could watch over the girls like they normally did
but your senses were tingling
something wasn't right
kiyoko and yachi were taking a long time filling up the bottles and daichi was getting a bit mad that nishi and tanaka were taking so long with the girls
so you went out looking for them
and you saw a large crowd of guys but thought nothing of it until-
"please go away, our team is waiting for us."
yachi's voice was unmistakable and you swiftly turned on your heel and shoves your way through the crowd, which was fairly easy.
finally reaching the centre of the crowd, you scowled at the sight in front of you.
kiyoko and yachi were cornered, with kiyoko standing in front of yachi as the small first year whimpered at the sight of a bunch of tall, bulky men surrounding them.
you could feel your blood begin to boil as one of the guys grabbed a piece of kiyoko's hair and twirled it around their finger, a perverted smirk on his face.
kiyoko was visibly uncomfortable, but you could tell she was keeping it together for yachi behind her. nishinoya and tanaka had been pushed to the back of the crowd a while ago and could only sparsely watch from over the shoulders of the others crowding around.
slightly shoving the player away and putting yourself between him and the two girls, you glared menacingly at him, "back off, man."
he scoffed at you, eyeing your black karasuno jacket; the sleeves having been rolled up slightly and the veins on your forearm protruding from lifting the teams bags and such, "what are you gonna do about it, pretty boy?"
the nickname slightly threw you off and you could only wonder if the slight flush on his face was from you or the perverse thoughts he might be thinking about the girls behind you.
you decided to go with the latter.
before you could respond, you felt a tug on the back of your jacket. looking over your shoulder you were met with the yachi's slightly glossy eyes, "let's go, l/n-san. it's not worth it."
huffing and sending one last look at the player, you pushed the girls in front of you, leading them through the slowly dispersing crowd.
you were fully ready to let it all go, seeing as yachi and kiyoko weren't harmed and wouldn't be as long as they were in your vision, had it not been for the gruff voice that called out behind you.
"that's right, walk away and teach those whores who they belong to, pretty boy."
before anyone could blink, the guy was tackled to the floor by a blur of black, his head snapping to the side with a sickening crack as your first made contact with his face. there was a cut on his cheek where you had punched from one of your sharper rings, and there was a blaze in your eyes no one had ever seen before.
the crowd began to gather again, but for a completely different reason. people cheered and screamed as you and the player threw punches at each other, your lip busted and blood dripping down your chin from your mouth.
kiyoko and yachi tried to pry you off of the guy to no avail, and instead sent yachi and nishinoya to get the others.
you didn't know what happened, it was all a blur to you. the hard punches the guy threw at you seemed like feathers tickling your skin, but maybe that was just the adrenaline. the next thing you knew. two pairs of hands ripped you off of him, pining you to the opposite wall.
the guy got up with the help of his teammates, but his nose was busted and there were cuts on his face.
"you wanna say that again?!" you screamed as you struggled against asahi and coach ukai's hold as the guy flinched.
"i didn't think so."
you stopped struggling and let asahi and coach pull you away from the crowd, angrily wiping away the blood dropping down your chin and spitting out blood that pooled in your mouth.
everyone was literally 👁👄👁🧍🏽♀️
while you were- "back talk? it's quiet ain't no back talk!" 🤬😤🔥😡❌
kiyoko and yachi patched up the one cut out got on your eyebrow and asked you if you were okay
obviously they were shaken up by it, and felt guilty, especially yachi and she looked like she was on the verge of tears but-
"don't worry too much yachi-chan," you whispered as you placed a hand on her head and smiled as much as you could with a busted lip, "i'd do it again, with no hesitation."
she done cried 😀
and everyone else was just-
"hE'S TOO COOL" 😳🥴😭
the seconds years loved you after that 🥴 and now they use you to their advantage
"you don't wanna mess with us, our manager is a murderer!"
"yeah, he's killed people!"
while you're standing off the the side, crouched down petting a stray cat
the boys really appreciate you and everything you do because intimidation isn't your only speciality
you also have killer analytical skills too
having been ostracized for the way you look and being scary, you've learned to read people with a few glances as to not scare them
but now it comes in handy with reading your opponents
now, you're no god tier level at reading people like kenma is, but you're up there 😌
sometimes your opponent is so easy to read and you'll tel coach to call a time out and debrief the team, whole other times they're so closed off and you have no idea what they're thinking so you look at coach and just-
😐 idk either man. . .
all in all, you're all like one big family 🥰
note :: i wrote this in one day, so sorry if there's some mistakes or it doesn't make all that much sense but.. oh well 🤪
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