[volleyball! ! ] Ruoxu Xianchen

Kageyama subconsciously thought that he wanted to urge him to pay the bill, but the girl opposite was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

"No, I'm... oh no, this expression is too cute, what should I do hahaha! That... I know you paid the bill, I just want to sit down and chat with you for a while... Hey, I said , No, have you forgotten about me? Didn’t you meet in the volleyball club before?”

Izumo pouted in dissatisfaction, and after the boy showed a sudden realization expression, he quickly raised the corner of his mouth: "My name is Narumi, Narumi Izumo, first and second grader in Beichuan, how about you?"

"Shadow Mountain... Feixiong."

After telling the truth about his name, Kageyama put down the spoon in his hand in a daze, looked at the girl in front of him who was acting happy for some reason, and finally asked: "Well, Narumi-senpai, what is the matter with you?" Woolen cloth?"

The boy's eyes were wide open, and he looked very solemn with his hands on his knees, but Izumo, who was questioned by him, still had an ordinary look, with the corners of his mouth curled up and showing a peaceful smile——

"I just want to chat with you casually. For example, uh... Oikawa-senpai? By the way, can you tell me something about Oikawa-senpai?"

[four]

"Kageyama-kun is really a loyal fan of curry, I only order this one every time I come."

After forming the habit of patronizing this family restaurant two to three times a week, Kageyama has accepted again. After he sits down, the part-time Narumi Izumo will put his work aside and come to chat with him. .

In the past half a month or so, this kind of scene has happened frequently, but every time Kageyama got bored and wanted to tactfully reprimand him, the adult woman with the sign of "Leader" would stand silently. Going to the back of Izumo, he showed a more terrifying expression than Iwaizumi taught Oikawa, and then gave her a merciless reprimand.

Every time at this time, the grievance of the girl burying her head and sincerely admitting her mistakes made him unbearable to be harsh, but when the restaurant head waiter turned around and left, the way she turned her head and playfully stuck out her tongue at him made him angry again and again. Sending out "she doesn't look like senior no matter what", such a weak emotion.

Therefore, from the time he entered the door, sat down and ordered the meal, to the time when the girl who sneaked in was caught, it took as long as 5 minutes and as short as less than a minute. Known things, almost all confided.

"Wait a minute, Narumi-senpai, I really don't have anything to tell you about Oikawa-senpai, so today..."

——Let me finish eating quietly by myself today, please!

In the end, Kageyama still couldn't say this subtext, and could only hope that Izumo would understand it by herself, and the girl who heard him say that, immediately showed a clear smile after a pause: "This way Ah, I see, I am so sorry to ask you to talk about Senior Chuan every time~"

Even though she was saying apologetic words, every time she saw Izumo's usual smile, Kageyama couldn't be sure what she meant, whether she really expressed it clearly.

He tremblingly looked at Izumo, who still had no intention of leaving, but after the girl on the opposite side leaned forward with her chin in her hands, he was caught by the flash of brilliance in her wide-open dark brown pupils , an indescribable feeling made him stand there abruptly.

"In that case, today, let's talk about you, Kageyama-kun~"

[W]

"In that case, today, let's talk about you, Kageyama-kun~"

Izumo proposed so, and the bright smile on his face at that moment made Kageyama, who should have been used to her smiling all the time, take five seconds to come back to his senses.

——And after the girl on the other side laughed out loud, he was awakened in embarrassment.

"Why this expression, it's too stupid, I didn't say anything serious~"

"Senior Narumi!"

Kageyama wanted to stop her mocking laugh, but no matter how harshly he yelled, looking at the flushed face was still not intimidating at all, but Izumo finally stopped laughing enough and continued to support her. Cheek looked at him with a smile.

"Well, it's stupid, but it's just cute, I don't hate it~"

In Kageyama's poor vocabulary, he couldn't find words to refute at all, but he could only restrain his embarrassment, trying to remember what Izumo said just now to ease the embarrassment.

"I just said... By the way, why are you talking about me? Narumi-senpai, even if you are curious about other people's affairs, there should be a limit."

"Because you said that Senior Oi Chuan has nothing to say, so there must be a lot to say about yourself, right~"

Why does this reason sound so reasonable? The speechless Kageyama boy stared angrily at the unconscious Izumo, but he inadvertently considered the connection between the two.

"It's not that she is against Oikawa-senpai... but if you want to say that Oikawa-senpai and I have something in common, the only thing in common is volleyball. Could it be that Narumi-senpai is also interested in volleyball?" 』

He was 12 years old at the time, but his mind was volleyball besides volleyball. At that moment, Tobio Kageyama felt that he had discovered some shocking secret and was as happy as he was.

"Narumi-senpai, are you also playing volleyball?!"

"Eh?"

Perhaps because the topic jumped too fast, when Izumo was asked back by Kageyama, he subconsciously spit out a monosyllable expressing doubts, and then the girl who gradually understood, laughed a little far-fetched for the first time.

"I'm not playing, but my brother is on the volleyball team. He also graduated from Beichuan No. [-] before. Now he's in Aoba Castle West in high school. Next time I have a chance, I can introduce you. My brother is very good~"

In the end, I specially added this sentence of boasting, and as expected, I saw the envious expression of the boy in front of me with bright eyes, and his rare joyful appearance made Izumo sigh with joy again——

"You're so cute, Kageyama-kun~"

[land]

The above are the parts that Kageyama Tobio has always remembered in the past three years. Although he himself can't explain the reasons why these memories are deeply rooted, but the next part is only when he met Narumi Izumo again. Dimly retrieved memories.

When he began to feel that something was wrong, Kageyama had already been promoted to the second grade and was firmly seated in the team as the setter, but the habit he had retained before was still practiced as before, until he never met Izumo in the family restaurant, he was in a daze Sometimes I feel that in my fulfilling life, something important is suddenly missing.

"Narumi? You said Izumo, she has quit her part-time job for almost a month, and it seems that her shoulder was injured."

Once or twice, he thought it was just a matter of scheduling. After five or six times, he guessed that she would be busy when she entered the third grade, but after a month in a row, he finally couldn't help but asked the restaurant when ordering food. The foreman, then got this answer.

In fact, there is nothing worth paying attention to. When she recovers from her injury, she will probably come back and continue to work part-time. Besides, whether she is there or not, it doesn't matter much to him. Rather, he hopes that such a person can be quiet. .

If he didn't later, and heard his teammates talk about the name "Narumi Izumo" during club practice, maybe Tobio Kageyama really wouldn't care about it, so maybe he would gradually forget about her...

To be honest, he didn't expect that Izumo's popularity in the volleyball club would be so high. Just mentioning her name, several members of the club stretched their hands and feet, and immediately surrounded her, making him only vaguely. Heard a few vague words——

"Accidental injury", "retirement as a last resort", "framed by juniors' jealousy"...

Even though the vivid description over there sounded fragmented to him, he could guess the general idea by linking these words and sentences together, but what he didn't expect was that at this time, Tobio Kageyama realized that he was originally interested in Narumi. Cloud knows nothing.

——I only know that she is one class higher than myself, but I never know which class she is in; I thought that she must be in the house department because she is doing part-time work, but she also joined the club, and she was still the main candidate to participate in the competition?

"Hey, you guys..."

Wanting to inquire deeply, the questioning blurted out, but when the people who were talking turned their eyes to him, Kageyama calmed down and couldn't ask any further, because no matter how you look at it, these things have nothing to do with him.

"... Stretching exercises, do it well."

After missing this opportunity, the existence of Narumi Izumo really seemed to have disappeared, and the increasing training intensity in the team did not allow him to care about other things, and soon, at the graduation cherry blossom salute In the middle of the game, Tobio Kageyama, who was still devoting himself to volleyball training, completely lost all opportunities.

But now, the girl with his familiar smile, running around the crimson track and field under the bright sunlight, seemed ordinary, but completely surprised him.

"It turns out that Narumi-senpai is from the track and field club. Well, if a girl is as tall as her, joining a sports club is inevitable, but playing volleyball is more suitable."

The young man who muttered in a low voice put his hands in his pockets, turned around and walked towards the gymnasium.

Ruo Xu Xianchen·Zhong

[zero]

Because in Karasuno, the classrooms of the first grade and the second grade are not on the same floor, so Tobio Kageyama saw Narumi Izumo very rarely since then, but the rare encounters in the morning when going to school or during the lunch break were very important to him.