How to fly with clipped wings (English ver.) HAIKYUU!! FAN FICTION

Chapter 48: The Confession

A/N: Before you continue...PREPARE YOURSELF! I didn't cried but it was touching...a little too much hilarious. Inarizaki will appear in this chapter and the next is the match! 

When Ukai announced that Inarizaki was their next opponent, Mikaela pumped her fist and hissed under her breath, evidently pleased. The team seemed to regard her questionably before she could explain herself.

"If you don't completely and totally decimate Inarizaki," she had announced, punching her fist into her palm, "I'll have to punch Miya Atsumu myself."

"And that's a lot of paperwork," Ukai has said quickly as he jumped in, shooting her a fleeting glare.

"It'd be funny," Tanaka had added, and Suga had slapped his shoulder.

They spent an hour dissecting Inarizaki's play style. Mikaela threw everything she had at them (which was more than she'd ever had on any team, ever) and went through each player, taking extra time to insist that Miya Atsumu was a jerk (Ukai told her to remain 'unbiased') and talking the team through their play style and what to watch out for.

The team started winding down and getting set up to go to sleep. Mikaela made post on the couch in their main common area, notepad on her lap and her laptop propped up on a pillow. She had headphones plugged in, and she was listening to one of Inarizaki's Inter High matches. Mikaela scowled to herself as Miya got a service ace.

"You gonna go to bed soon?" Kageyama asked, sitting down next to her on the couch.

Mikaela shrugged, her eyes trained on the screen. "Maybe."

"Kaisha."

"Eventually." Kageyama raised his eyebrows at her, and she rolled her eyes. "Kags, I'm no use to you during the game. I'm only good for prepping you guys. So if I can get even one more bit, it's worth staying up."

Her cousin frowned. "Of course you're important during the game, dumbass."

"Kags, I literally stand and watch."

"Yeah, but you glare occasionally and it whips us into shape."

The cousins looked up to see Daichi, who had his arms crossed. "Hey, Captain," Mikaela said as casually as she could, temporarily pausing the game. "I do?"

"Yep. And if you're not in your room in the next half hour, I will throw you in there personally."

Mikaela raised her eyebrows. "Challenge accepted."

"It wasn't a..." Daichi huffed, throwing his hands up in exasperation. "Suga, help. Mikaela's being difficult."

"What now?" the vice captain asked, sliding up next to Daichi and smiling pleasantly at the first years.

"Wants to stay up watching videos."

"Unless you plan to make me move by force, Suga-senpai, I'm afraid that I'll be staying firmly rooted in this spot," Mikaela said, cocking her head and gesturing to the screen. "Inarizaki won't wait."

Suga frowned. "How much sleep did you get last night?"

"Five hours."

"Kai," Kageyama said with a sigh, shaking his head.

"What? That's a good amount."

"Mikaela," Sugawara said carefully, his voice dipping from pleasant to deceptively suspicious, "what's the least amount of sleep you've gotten in a night from researching a team?"

She shrugged. "Who said I have to sleep?"

There was a collective sigh from the group. "If you're not in bed in fifteen minutes, I'll come get you," Kageyama said firmly.