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Yachi got off the bus and squinted into the bright light she stretched her arms above her head and looked around. Karasuno Had been invited to go to a training camp, and even though she had just joined the team as a manager she had been able to tag along with everybody.
she remembered how she had worked with Hinata and Kageyama to get their grades up, but despite their efforts that didn’t work and she could only hope that they would get their supplementary lessons done soon.
As she looked around her nerves got the best of her. Everyone was so big and tall! What if they weren't looking and squashed her like a bug? She made a mental note to try to keep out of everybody's way and then scurried over to where Kiyoko was standing.
she felt better standing by the other team manager who seem to be immune to the massive Giants walking around the parking lot, Kiyoko turned to her and said “Come on Hitoka, let's go meet the other managers and set our stuff down.” Yachi nodded frantically in agreement and then picked up her bag and practically glued herself to Kiyoko's side as they went over to the other managers.
Kaori, one of the fukurodani managers looked over to Yachi and smiled “ Is this your first training camp?” she asked sweetly, “ Oh! Yes” Yachi replied “I-is it that obvious?” she asked nervously, what if that meant they could tell that she was inexperienced and they saw that she wasn’t a good manager?
With that on her mind Yachi quickly added “ I’ll do my best as a manager!” Kaori smiled but it was Yukie who spoke, “ great, we’ll need all the help we can get. Nekoma doesn’t have a manager so we will be helping them along with our own teams.”
All the girls started walking towards where Yachi guessed they would be staying so she followed along making sure to keep close to the managers, they seemed nice and so Yachi vowed to try her best and not be a burden to any of them.
As they were walking Eri was pointing out all the teams to Kiyoko and her, “That's Ubugawa, my team, the captain is Masaki '' she said pointing to a huge scary looking guy with fish lips. “ Over there is Fukurodani who’s captain is Bokuto, and there's Nekoma whose captain is Kuroo” She added pointing to an Owl like man who was energetically talking to another boy who was calmly looking back at him and then she pointed to the Nekoma captain.
He was tall like everyone else but what really stuck with Yachi was his face, his hair was spiky and covered one eye partly, she was too far away to see the color of his eyes but they looked sharp, he was talking to Daichi and overall he was absolutely terrifying.
Yachi took a quick look around and decided that out of all the captains Kuroo looked the most intimidating, and she decided to try to stay out of his way the most.
They reached the room where they would be staying and put their stuff down, Yachi raised her arms above her head and took a deep breath, they were finally here. Now they had to play against big strong teams.
Yachi frowned slightly, those teams would be hard to beat but she just had to believe in the Karasuno boys. They were also super strong, although they were missing Hinata and Kageyama she told herself to have faith.
Then Kiyoko Turned and said “ We need to go fill up the water bottles, they are back at the bus.” They walked back to the bus to go pick up the water bottles and Yachi was pleased to see that most of the big scary volleyball guys had went into the gym and she noted that the Nekoma captain wasn’t outside anymore too.
Shaking her head to get rid of any thoughs about that roosterhead she and Kiyoko got the bottles and went to fill them up.
Yachi was filling up the last bottle went she turned to see Sugawara standing there, she jumped a little but then smiled “ Oh hello! I didn’t see you there” Suga smile and asked “ I came out to help you carry the water”
Yachi was about to tell him that he didn’t need to do that and she could carry them but he had already picked up some waters and was walking back to the gym so she just picked up the rest of the waters and hurried after him into the gym.
The gym was full of tall scary guys. She quickly set the waters down and made her way over to Kiyoko who was talking with Daichi. “ Are you ok Hitoka? You look a little pale.” Kiyoko asked concerned, “ Y-yeah I'm fine. There's j-just a lot of scary looking guys here.” Yachi admitted quietly
“aw don’t worry about them Yachi, they may look scary but they are all very nice” Daichi told her “And if anyone messes with you just tell us and we will set Tanaka and Noya on them.” Suga said playfully.
Yachi looked over at Tanaka and Noya who were being just as rowdy as they’ve always been but now there was an added nekoma guy who had a mohawk and looked like a delinquent.
Yachi turned back and expressed her thanks to the 3rd years for looking out for her. “Oh,” Kiyoko said, “ I forgot my clipboard back in the room.”
“I’ll get it” Yachi volunteered quickly, partly to get out of the gym and also because she wanted to prove that she was worthy of being a team manager. “ Alright, it’s right on top of my bag. You can’t miss it” Kiyoko said and Yachi was already turning around and briskly walking out of the gym.
As she exited the gym yeah she took a deep breath of the fresh air, she let it out with a huff and turned to walk to the place where the managers slept.
Yachi had a bounce in her step and quietly hummed to herself as she entered the room, she stooped down and picked up the clipboard she noticed there was no pen to go along with it. She looked around to see if it had fallen but seeing none she wondered if she should look for one in Kiyoko’s bag.
No! She thought, what if she realizes I went through her stuff! She might get mad and then everyone would hate me!
But I can't just not give her a pen because then she might think of me as incompetent. She sat there for a moment fretting over how she was no good at her job before she looked over at her bag.
Oh, I could just give her one of mine, she thought. So she quickly riffled through her bad and pulled out a purple pen with little blue stars on it.
Then quickly remembering her own notebook she pulled it out too along with her favorite pen, it was black but it had a little yellow cat on the top and you clicked the tail to write. Smiling to herself with her problem solving skills she left the room and hurried back to the gym this time quietly singing to herself.