Chapter 10: School Life
Time Skip 1 Year
Sora POV
"Beep Beep"
"Ugh...." I say as I groan and grab my phone that's on the desk beside my bed. I pick it up and turn it on. I squint my eyes and look at the time seeing that it was already 6 o'clock. I groggily roll out of bed and make my way to the bathroom.
I turn on the light and do my business. I brush my teeth and come out of the bathroom, I open up my small closet and pull out some clothes for the day. I grab out some extra sport outfit that I forgot to put in my bag. I stuff it in my sports bag and place it next to my school bag.
I walk back into the bathroom and rinse my mouth. "I'm still tired...." I yawn out and stretch a bit. I then make my way to the small kitchen area and pull out milk and pour myself a cup. I open up the bag of bread and place one slice in the toaster.
'I miss breakfast from home.' I thought as I drank my milk and took out the piece of toast and spread some avocados on it. I eat the slice of toast and sit down on the small table and stare off into space in my own thoughts.
'It's been about a year already since I've been here. I've been improving my techniques some more and learned new techniques and styles that I haven't ever learned before. I also was able to pin point issues and workout my muscles more than I ever did in Japan.' I sigh out remembering the training regimen that Nakamoto assigned to me for my strength and endurance. It was a lot more harsh and harder than what I ever did before. But I'm glad that I was able to have this opportunity to get stronger and be one step closer to my goals and dreams.
I got up from my seat and washed my hands off. "Ughhhh.." I groan as I feel that my body is still sore from the volleyball training and the weight training. I had asked Nakamoto about the strength to hit the volleyball hard with more power than I have before and he told me muscles.
That's when he remembered about my strength training and not just my regular practice with volleyball skills but my strength. I make my way to my bed where I layed out my clothes and put on my workout clothes on.
I grab my phone checking the time seeing that it was 6:45 a.m already. I put on my shoes and grabbed my phone and keys.
Locking the door, I went down the stairs and made my way onto campus and began my morning run. As I ran I saw other athletes jogging around campus and wave with a quick good morning to them.
"Sora! Good morning!" I turn my head around to see my friend run up to me. I give her a smile and reply back to her. "Morning, Kira."
She smiles back cheerfully. We ran together making our regular rounds around the school and made our way back to the dorms. Kira lived in another dorm farther away from me so she joins in my jog later. "See you later in class!" She excitedly said as she waved and entered her dorm.
I smiled at that, she reminded me of Shoyo a lot. 'A bright and cheerful person'. I thought. I smiled even more as I ran back to my dorm remembering all of my time and childhood with Shoyo.
Though we come in contact even less now. There would be an occasional text or message that came through, but he's busy with his own training and school and I got my own. Plus the time difference is quite big so it's hard to talk when one is either asleep or busy.
I finally arrived at my dorms and made my way up to the third floor entering my room. I hopped inside the bathroom and gave myself a shower.
I rubbed my hair with the towel and changed my clothes into my school uniform that I had picked out earlier. I dried my hair with the towel and grabbed my all of my bags and school books placing them in their spots and made my way out of the dorm.
I walked for a 10 minutes from the dorm to my class. Talking and chattering were heard throughout the school buildings and classes as I walked by. With small Good mornings and hi from other students that I had class with or knew.
I entered my classroom, English class first in the morning. I walked to my seat and sat down getting my stuff out. I sighed out and placed my head on the desk. 'Even though I'm better at speaking and reading English, I still have to take this class.' I rant to myself in my head and huff.
"Why the long face?" with a poke to my cheek. I look up to see my other friend who is Japanese here, she took a seat next to me. "Morning Aiko." I say and sit up properly in my seat. She rested her head in her palm and looked at me. "Tiring isn't it?" she asks and I nod my head seeing that there are eye bags below her eyes.
"You stayed up late?" I asked and she sighed out and nodded. "There is a big project that's coming up, so I stayed up pretty late working on most of it. My science class is working me to the boot." she tells me. I nod my head, slightly glad that I was taking more easier classes than her advanced classes.
"What about you?" she asks me. I place my head in my palm as well. "I'm so sore and tired. But it's great working and practicing volleyball but I'm a bit tired." I say and pop my shoulders. She winces at the sound. "Ouch, can't imagine myself doing a sport. That sounds rough, I'm no where near athletic. I'll just stay with my science and knowledge." She tells me with a laugh.
I laugh along with her. "Though I wouldn't be able to understand all that difficult science stuff you know. So, that's pretty amazing. But even with all this soreness and stuff that comes from training it tells me that it's paying off and I'm getting somewhere. Stronger and better than before." I tell her and she smiles at me as more students come walking in.
"That's amazing! But now we have an hour or two stuck in this class of learning English. Ready for my horrible accent?" She asks me sarcastically. I chuckle at that. "Same here. At least we can say more stuff and understand things when teachers are talking." I say.
Aiko nods her head and the bell rings. Shortly after the teacher comes in and we both sigh out looking at the teacher.
~Time Skip~
"Finally classes are over!" I say to Kira who is walking next to me. She laughs and agrees with my statement. We both walk together from our last class to the gym area. The multiple gyms and sport areas come into view and a smile makes it way onto my face.
"Excited for practice?" Kira teases me. I laugh a bit "Yep! Indeed I am." She laughs at me and nods her head. "Well, I'll see you at the weight and lifting room. See you I gotta catch my basketball coach!" she tells me while going to another gym. I wave her goodbye as she leaves and make my way to the volleyball gym.
I open the door as it makes a sound as it opens. "When your done changing, start your stretches and warm ups." Nakamoto says as he sets up the nets. "Yes." I reply and head to the locker room.
I come out shortly after to see him bringing out other equipment for my training. I get started on my stretches and move onto to jogging around the courts a couple times and do some exercises to warm my muscles up.
"Ready." I say and make my way over to Nakamoto. He turns his head towards me and motions me over to him as he grabs a notepad and a board. "Since you started your muscle training a month ago, I will be adding onto some more exercises that will improve your strength in your arms where you can hit with more power and your legs in these areas." he tells me while pointing to a chart in the notebook to the parts of the body that we'll be working on.
He continues "But focusing on volleyball techniques and stuff at the moment. We will be working on your blocks since we've already covered some dives and spike techniques. Once we finish and get your blocks down, we'll be going back to dives and spikes to make them stronger and refined." I nod my head in understanding. "So we'll be having some other players come in as well to practice with us. "
My eyes widen at that comment. 'This is the first time working and bringing in other players to practice.' I thought and he spoke up again. "They'll be coming in soon after they finish warm ups and their trainers finish explaining."
"Really?! That'll be great!" I say excited to test out and practice with others, since I haven't played with anybody for a while rather than coach.
He nods his head and gives me a smile. "Yep, they'll be three of them. A setter and two blockers. You guys will be switching a lot to it's be the setter and one of you against two blockers."
I nod my head excitedly. I walk over to my bag and pull out my knee and elbow pads and fix up my hair into a ponytail.
After a good while of warming up and hitting some spikes did they come in.
"Hey, what's up?" I turned around at the voice. As I did I saw three students who I assumed I would be playing with me. One girl and two boys, they walked inside with their coaches and made their way over.
Nakamoto walked over to them "Good to see you guys here! Let's get started shall we?"
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