On Amaya's way walking home, she passed a volleyball court. The 6th year stopped and looked at it. A boy just under her height ran past, claiming the court.

"Ama-chan! C'mon help me practice!" The boy called out.

Amaya sighed and reluctantly agreed to her friend's request. She set her bag down and took off any excess clothing that could possibly slow her movements. She calls out, running to the opposite side of the court, "Ok, lemme get into position-!"

Before the 6th year could finish her sentence, the volleyball was already flying towards her. Amaya stumbled, barely receiving the ball. Luckily, it just went over the net, falling right by it. The opposing boy tried to receive it, but failed.

He quickly stood up and looked at Amaya with brightened eyes. "Whoa! Ama-chan that was so cool!~"

"Yeah? Well, what you did wasn't" Amaya huffed. She was clearly upset that her friend decided to toss the ball over the net before she was ready.

Amaya grabbed the volleyball and served it. Her fellow 6th year received the serve efficiently, and she did the same. The two practiced just before the sun fell from the sky.

- - -

Amaya is outside, waiting for Karasuno with Kuroo and Kai. She had her phone out and out of boredom, she lightly tapped it against her leg, making a sort of rhythmic pattern.

The second year stopped once she felt a buzz from her phone. She's betting that they're going to be there any minute now and she wasn't wrong.

The bus containing the Karasuno Boys Volleyball club shortly arrived after Amaya's prediction. It stopped in front of Nekoma High and the first ones off were Tanaka and Nishinoya. The two exclaiming over a transmission tower, claiming if it was the sky tree. Kai corrected the two, then Kuroo bursted out with laughter.

Amaya scoffed at the two, then Kuroo signaled her to get back to the practicing teams. She nodded and began walking inside, walking along with Karasuno's managers.

Once the new manager saw that she was walking next to them, the blonde girl instantly greeted Amaya. Amaya nervously asked the blondie, "Can you please calm down? You don't have to-"

Amaya was interrupted by Yamamoto, who was exclaiming about the Karasuno managers. She rolled her eyes and walked back into the school, back to where the other teams are.

Amaya returned and was immediately asked to help Yaku and Lev with receives. She reluctantly agreed, tossing the ball to Yaku. He instantly received and she did a spiking motion towards Lev. Lev's receive wasn't all that great, which really wasn't surprising, so Amaya caught the incoming ball. She tossed it to Yaku again and a repeated cycle began.

- - -

It wasn't long before Karasuno arrived in the gym and the practice matches started. Amaya pulled out her notebook, next to the Nekoma coaches. Nekomata shook his head at Amaya, telling her that it wasn't necessary for this training camp. Amaya nodded, putting the notebook away. From then on, she only watched the matches.

As the day continued on, there wasn't anything interesting much coming from Karasuno and they sure pulled up a lot of penalties as they continued to lose the practice matches. It wasn't until near the end of the day, where there was only enough time for one more match is when the deviant duo arrived. Everyone in the gym looked at the two first years arriving fashionably late.

While the team was doing their penalty lap for loosing against Ubugawa just when the two arrived, Hinata and Kageyama took the chance to warm up for their next, and final, match of the day.

Karasuno's next match was against Shinzen and Nekoma's was against Ubugawa. Amaya spaced out, not paying attention to either match. She was only snapped back to reality when she heard the volleyball from Karasuno's court slam down onto the ground. From then, it seemed all the matches just paused, watching Hinata and Kageyama in amazement. Shortly after everything resumed, Lev hit a spike against Ubugawa's blockers, easily getting past them.

In the end, Karasuno didn't have to do a penalty lap for once in the day, and everyone got situated for the night. Amaya took this chance to catch up a little with Nishinoya, subtly searching around for the libero. Once she did, the second year called out to her friend, then walked towards him.

"Hey," the Nekoma manager said, looking down at her spikey haired friend. "You down for a little practice?"

Noya nodded, and the two walked to the gym, small talking to each other. Amaya grabbed a ball while Noya got into position. She tossed the ball to the other second year, which he received flawlessly. The ball was in a good enough position where she could spike it without jumping, and so she did. Amaya alternated between spiking, receiving, and setting to Noya, switching it up or doing the same every now and then.

While the two were practicing, they had a light chatter, trying to catch up with each other. Neither Amaya nor Nishinoya had anything else to say after that, so Amaya asked, "So, uh, what do you think about me, Noya?"

"Ama-chan, what kind of question is that?" He lightly laughed, "I think of you as one of my closest friends. Someone I can trust anything with!"

Amaya let out a sigh of relief. It wasn't exactly what she wanted to hear, but she'll accept it none the less. "Oh thank god, that's great to hear."

Noya looked at her in confusion. He caught the ball and asked, "What do you mean?"

The female second year nervously fidgeted with her fingers, thinking about her next words. Soon enough, she stopped what she was doing and looked at Nishinoya, "Well, uh, y'know it's been around 3 years and I just thought it wouldn't be the same and-"

"That's all you were afraid of?" he halfheartedly replied, cutting Amaya off. "Why would you be so worried about that? Once my friend, always my friend ya know?"

She looked at him and smiled. It felt so good to hear that, she almost started sobbing. He immediately noticed this and asked, "What's wrong?"

"N-nothing," Amaya stuttered, shaking her head. She sniffled, some tears falling down her cheeks, "You just made me so happy that I almost started crying"

Amaya laughed as tears trailed her face, probably making Noya worry more about her. She kept brushing it off as she's fine, but it seems her friend didn't believe her. She wiped her tears away as she stopped laughing. Nishinoya finally understood that Amaya is fine and whacked her back. The two walked out of the gym, still chatting like no tomorrow.

Just as Noya was about to leave, Amaya called out, "Wait-,"

Noya stopped and turned to look at Amaya. She paused, now knowing that he was looking at her. Her nerves took over and she shook her head. "No, nevermind."

The second year didn't mind it much and went to the room that the Karasuno boys are staying in. The Nekoma manager turned and went into the girls' room, noticing that most of the girls were still awake.

All the girls looked at Amaya as she walked in. Well, everyone expect Kiyoko. One of the managers watched the second year manager as she sat down. It was one of Fukurodani's, Kaori.

"Soooooo Amaya," Kaori chirped, "Is Karasuno's libero your boyfrieennd?"

Amaya's face flushed, "K-Kaori-! Don't act so childish! He's only my f-friend!"

All the other girls besides Karasuno's managers laughed at Amaya's weak defense. Nekoma's manager groaned in response.

"This is going to be a long weekend, isn't it." Amaya sighed, not at all satisfied with her manager friends.

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{ OH BOY! LONG CHAPTER! Could be longer, but whatever, didn't want to have this chapter stray too far. I still want a decent amount of chapter xd lol. I'm going to have the shorter [text] chapters be the ones that speed up time but still have Noya and Amaya interact and these longer chapters be the ones that could possibly get the two more closer together hMMMM?? 👀 hehehe I have an interesting way to end this story and I hope you guys like it :) anyways, ciao~ }