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2011. That was when earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, changing thousands of lives. 

And Kobayashi Yuki is just one of them.

A month ago, he was just a normal boy, graduating from a small middle school in Fukushima and was excited to go to the high school. However, the disaster changed his life. He lost both parents, not because they died, but because they were still missing until now. 

He lost his home. He lost his friends. He lost his school. He lost everything.

Having no choice, he moved to Tokyo, to a small, new orphanage to accommodate victims of the disaster who didn't have any home or wanted to change their lives in the biggest city in Japan. In his mind, all he wanted to do was enter a normal high school, do a part-time job, make some money to help the orphanage, and maybe if he were lucky enough he could be admitted into a good university with a scholarship.

However, one challenge from the volleyball team and one half-Italian blonde boy turned everything upside down. Now, he was trapped inside the crazy team, being dragged into the mess.

Inter-High.

National Tournament.

Volleyball.

Those three words kept spinning around his life as he entered a crazy high school life. Can he strive in the place where he was unfamiliar with? Would he be a good volleyball player? And what does the future hold for him?

The Birth of A Volleyball Legend

It was just a simple question. Honestly, everyone should be relieved that the problem wasn't that big. Or… So that was what they thought.

Unfortunately, reality didn't agree with that. For Uehara, even though Riku had a decent reason to not pass the ball at him, he would see it as a blatant disrespect toward the ace, as if the blonde boy wanted to challenge his status as the team's ace. Of course, it was just a paranoid thought here. Normally, he wouldn't even entertain that thought. However, empowered by Riku's amazing performance in the last couple of games and his horrible state today, he couldn't help but feel like he wasn't wrong. It didn't help that Riku didn't back down when he came at the younger boy, and instead, the setter dared to stare back at him with no fright in his eyes.

If Uehara was in doubt before, he sure knew now that Riku wanted to challenge his status on the team.

Second Crack (II)