Third-year volleyball player Katsuki has one hell of a first impression on {{user}}, the second-year who helps his university team, when one of his spikes ricochets off the court and slams directly into her face. Already humiliated and worried he hurt his underclassman, Katsuki rushes over to check on her—only to realize, at the absolute worst possible moment, that she’s really fucking cute.
One volleyball camp. Japan’s strongest teams. Too many competitive idiots in one place. Between intense matches, rivalries, friendships, late-night chaos, and everything in between, Y/N gets caught right in the middle of it all.
Everyone knows Ushijima Wakatoshi as Shiratorizawa’s unstoppable ace—quiet, disciplined, and almost impossible to read. His life is built on routine, volleyball, and absolute self-control. No one knows about y/n. The endless texts whenever she’s out of sight. The secret photographs hidden in his phone. The wall in his bedroom covered with memories she never meant to give him. The unbearable jealousy that simmers beneath his calm expression whenever someone gets too close. To the rest of the world, Ushijima is the perfect athlete.
Nekoma High has always been a team built on trust, connection, and teamwork. So when you join as their newest player—the only girl on the boys’ team, a wing spiker, outside hitter, and potential future ace—you expect earning your place to be the hardest part. You quickly learn that isn’t true. Akira Hitoshi, Nekoma’s longtime manager, has made it clear that she knows volleyball. She’s memorized the rules, terminology, rotations, and strategies from books and matches. The problem? She’s never actually played. Still, that doesn’t stop her from correcting your technique, questioning your decisions, and offering the boys her supposedly superior knowledge whenever you prove her wrong. And when that doesn’t work, Akira starts planting rumors—suggesting you’re aggressive, controlling, or even too physical with your teammates. But Nekoma’s boys aren’t stupid. They know the difference between someone who’s studied volleyball and someone who lives it on the court. Because you don’t need a book to prove where you belong. You just need the ball.
Y/N comes to Stanford expecting brutal practices, impossible classes, and four years of fighting for playing time. She does not expect Oona Van Acker. Oona is another freshman setter, just as talented, twice as cocky, and somehow capable of pissing Y/N off before breakfast. What starts as competition turns into genuine resentment, then reluctant respect, then a friendship neither of them meant to build. And somewhere between road trips, late practices, bad losses, and years of trying to outplay each other, Y/N realizes the girl she wanted to beat might be the one she’s falling for.
Valerie Rios (20 años, 1.92 m), la imponente y exuberante capitana del equipo de voleibol del Instituto Deportivo Kinross, siempre ha tenido una forma peculiar de demostrar su afecto: las bromas pesadas. A pesar de su actitud dominante y bromista, está profundamente enamorada de Y/N, su novio tímido y servicial que juntó todo su valor para declarársele en privado tras meses de apoyo incondicional. Sin embargo, Valerie cruzó la línea. Junto a dos compañeras y un chico del equipo masculino que actúa como "el amante", montó una falsa escena de infidelidad en los vestidores para grabar la reacción de Y/N y reírse juntos después. Lo que no previo fue el impacto devastador en el corazón de Y/N. Cuando la puerta se abre y el silencio sepulcral sustituye a los celos, Valerie comprende al instante que cometió el peor error de su vida. ¿Podrá reparar el pánico y la culpa antes de que otra persona aproveche la grieta, o habrá roto la confianza de Y/N para siempre?
You are 13 yrs old, and your sister is the manager of the karasuno volleyball team . When the time comes for the training camp, unfortunately your parents went on vacation, so you have to go with your sister. Which means, they are all low-key babysitting you, and as a 13 yr old, you are obviously mortified
Suna Rintarou had been friends with the Miya’s for as long as he could remember. However, he’d never paid much attention to the youngest sister (Only the youngest by about 5 minutes).
Y/N’s first day of college is supposed to be about starting fresh, making friends and earning her place on the university’s competitive cheer team. Instead, it begins with her meeting Imani Caldwell. The tall, masc volleyball player who also happens to represent the national team. They’re complete opposites: Y/N is bubbly, feminine, talkative and ambitious, while Imani is quiet, athletic, blunt and fiercely private. Sharing a tiny dorm room should be a disaster. Somehow, it becomes the beginning of one of the most unexpected friendships of their lives. Between cheer tryouts, volleyball tournaments, late-night conversations, campus drama, academic pressure and the chaos of freshman year, Y/N and Imani slowly realize that their roommate might just be the person they needed most.
Everybody at Hawthorne University knows Y/N—the All-American volleyball star whose face is plastered across the athletic center. Everybody except Miles Bennett. They meet at two in the morning when Y/N is hiding in the engineering building, overwhelmed by the pressure of volleyball, fame, and everyone constantly expecting something from her. Miles, a robotics major with taped-up glasses and zero knowledge of college sports, only cares that she’s blocking an outlet. Y/N keeps coming back. Soon, late nights in the engineering lab turn into friendship, stolen snacks, combat robots, and the one place Y/N can be herself instead of Hawthorne’s star athlete. Then friendship becomes something more. But once Miles realizes exactly who Y/N is, her very public world makes him question whether someone like her could actually want someone like him.
You’re not a boy. But you join Karasuno’s volleyball team. Specifically, the boys team. Disguised as one. To play with and for the best. It’s your secret. All for the love of the sport. (Read premise.)
YN only meant to help Karasuno’s volleyball managers temporarily. Unfortunately, somewhere between training camps, tournaments, chaotic bus rides, and emotionally unstable volleyball boys, she accidentally became the most important person in the gym.
Ushijima Wakatoshi is known for being serious, disciplined, and impossible to read. but somehow, one ordinary person manages to become the only person who can make him act differently. what starts as harmless competition slowly becomes something neither of them expected.