Akiteru drove Tsukishima to the school with his luggage along with some groceries for their Golden Week training camp. His younger brother had told him that Yachi had forgotten a few ingredients and that he offered to pick some up for her since Akiteru could drive him to school.

Yachi waited at the school for their bus along with some of the other members of the club. After they arrived, Yachi came up to Tsukishima and started chatting with him.

"I guess Yachi really was Kei's friend," Akiteru thought to himself. He had only guessed that they might be during the Shiratorizawa game, but he was still surprised that his younger brother did have friends other than Yamaguchi.

Akiteru then saw something strange; Tsukishima smiled after teasing Yachi about something. It wasn't a smirk, snicker or snarky grin, but a smile - a real smile. He pulled Tsukishima aside and told him, "Oy, you know you're smiling right now, right?"

"So?" he replied as if smiling was normal for him.

"..." That wasn't the response he had expected. "Never mind," Akiteru said as he sweat-dropped. As he watched Tsukishima continue to chat with Yachi, he smiled and thought to himself, "Yachi is pretty amazing."

******

The team got onto their bus with their belongings and made themselves comfortable. Hinata and Kageyama were excited to be able to play volleyball and forget about school. The first years were also eager to go because they had never gone to a sports camp before.

"I can't believe I get to go on a trip with Yachi-senpai," Tobikomi said with hearts in his eyes.

"You're pretty lucky," said Nishinoya. "We were so sad when we found out that Kiyoko-senpai wasn't sleeping over with us last year."

But the one girl on the bus didn't notice anything around her because she was not only stressed, but also a little nervous too.

"I hope I remembered everything. There was so much to keep track of," said Yachi. She reviewed the lists in her notebook to see if there was anything left to do. "Uwaaa~~ I'm totally going to mess up!" panicked Yachi.

"Wow," Hinata said while looking over her shoulder from the seat behind her. He took a peak at Yachi's notes. "You planned all the meals for our training camp?"

"Yeah," replied Yachi. "I have no idea how Kiyoko-senpai did this last year. She planned the meals, bought the ingredients, cooked the food, and cleaned up after each meal. And that was for about four days with three meals each! She had Takeda-sensei's help but it's still a lot." Hinata nodded in agreement as his respect for Kiyoko increased even more. There was a lot that a manager did to support a volleyball team.

"You'll be fine," reassured Tsukishima. "If anything goes wrong, you can get these guys to help," he said while pointing at Hinata and Kageyama.

"They're probably not the best candidate though," Yamaguchi stated with a laugh. "Their help wasn't so great last year. I'm sure Tsukishima wouldn't mind helping you out instead," Yamaguchi said, more to tease Tsukishima than to reassure Yachi. Tsukishima responded by glaring at him, which made Yamaguchi flinch and second guess how often he should tease him.

"Thanks guys," Yachi smiled shyly. "I want to try to do as much as I can though and to do my job well. Then you can concentrate on improving your volleyball skills."

When they got there and settled in, the coach took them to the gym for their first practice. After doing some drills and a practice game, Coach Ukai, Takeda-sensei and Yachi watched them as the team wrap up their first practice with serving.

"What wrong, Ukai-san?" asked Takeda-sensei after hearing a sigh from him.

"I don't know if I'll be able to help all the players as much as I want to," said Ukai. "I'm already struggling with getting the starting players to improve and to mesh well together. Daichi and Asahi were key players to our team as well as Sugawara."

"Yeah, the team does feel different without them now," stated Takeda.

"But I also don't want to leave out the other players as well. I remember how discouraging it was to not be a starter. But there's only so much I can do."

"Would it help to get another coach?" asked Takeda.

"It would be nice but you had enough trouble getting me as their coach. I don't know how feasible it is to get another one."

Yachi asked, "Is there anything I could do to help with practices?"

"Well, it already helps that you toss the ball to Kageyama during spiking practice, which I appreciate," said Ukai. "I think what I need for now is someone who could stand on the box and spike at the team to practice their defensive skills. Then the non-starters wouldn't have to just stand there and watch during that particular drill. They could practice at the same time in another gym. But I don't think you know how to spike though."

"Yeah, I don't think I can do that," said Yachi. She thought for a moment and suddenly remembered something. "You said that you just need someone to stand on the box and spike, right?"

******

The team sat together during dinner and they all complemented Yachi on the food she cooked. She tried to play down their praise and told them, "Curry chicken on rice is a simple meal. It wasn't that hard."

"But you did put a lot of effort in planning the meals," reminded Tsukishima.

"It's better than last year when Kiyoko-senpai wasn't feeling well," mentioned Kageyama. "Nishinoya-senpai and Tanaka-senpai forgot to turn on the rice cooker."

"Yeah, your food is really good," Yamaguchi added with a smile. "I got seconds."

"Oh... Thanks guys," Yachi said with a timid smile. She wasn't very used to receiving complements, so it actually felt a bit awkward but nice at the same time.

When they finished their food, Hinata was about to go back to the gym to practise some more, but their captain stopped him. "Hold on, Hinata," Ennoshita said while clasping the back of his shirt. "Someone needs to do the dishes."

When nobody volunteered, Tobikomi came up with a solution. "Here! I can do eeny, meeny, miny, mo!"

"Is he a little kid or something?" Tsukishima commented.

Tobikomi pointed at each member as he recited the rhyme. "... Meany...," he said as he pointed to Tsukishima (to which Hinata snickered) "... Miny...," he pointed to Yamaguchi and, "... Mo!" he went back to point at Tsukishima.

"What the heck?" Tsukishima raised an eyebrow. "You're supposed to go back around to Tanaka. You also didn't include yourself."

Tobikomi smugly shrugged, "That's how my friends did it. So I guess you're doing dishes."

Yachi giggled at Tsukishima's annoyance with the libero and then decided to help him out. "I can do the dishes with you Tsukishima. I was planning on doing them anyway."

"But you cooked," said Tsukishima. "Are you sure?" Yachi nodded in response.

"Wait, no!" exclaimed Tobikomi. "That didn't count! I was actually joking-"

"Come on! Let's go practice! I'll teach you everything I know!" Nishinoya said as he dragged his pupil away.

"Nooo~~~! Yachi-senpai!" he yelled out.

As the rest of the team left, Tsukishima and Yachi proceeded to collect all the dishes from the dining room. Some of the guys had put their dishes beside the kitchen sink while others had left them at the tables. Yachi went back to carry some more dishes from the cafeteria while Tsukishima soaked the pot and stacked the dishes in the kitchen. As Yachi returned to the kitchen, she watched Tsukishima for a bit, thinking that it was nice to be able to help him out like this.

She remembered when she was first introduced to the team as a manager. All of the members enthusiastically welcomed her to the team while Tsukishima just stood there indifferently. She giggled at the memory, knowing now that it was just his personality to do that. But if she was told that the two of them would become friends, she wouldn't have believed it.

"Are you going to bring the dishes over?" Tsukishima asked her.

When she realized she had been staring at him, she blushed from the embarrassment. "Y-yeah. I'm coming."

Tsukishima started to wash the dishes and casually began conversing with her. "The kitchen got pretty messy," Tsukishima smirked while looking around the room. "What the heck did you do in here?"

"I- I was in a rush, okay?" she snapped back but was still flustered. She started to pack up the leftovers but then stopped to wonder if she should. "I don't know when anyone would eat the leftovers. We already have more food to cook for tomorrow."

"Someone's bound to get hungry tonight," stated Tsukishima as he recalled their past meals as a team. "I have no idea how some of them can eat so much."

When Yachi finished handling the leftovers, she came to join Tsukishima at the sink. He soaped; she rinsed.

"I was glad that there's this large window here," Yachi said referring to the one in front of them. "It made the kitchen feel nicer while I was in here." The sun had set by now and it was dark outside. Yachi leaned over the sink to try to look at the sky. "Too bad I can't see the stars right now. The kitchen light is reflecting off the window."

Tsukishima smirked and asked, "Do you want me to turn off the lights then?"

Yachi froze but tried to stutter something out, "I- Uh- What?" She didn't understand why that question threw her off guard.

"I'm kidding," he teased. "How can we wash the dishes if the lights are off? We can go outside later to look at the stars."

"Okay," she nodded timidly. She had actually breathed a sigh of relief when he said he was joking.

Tsukishima washed a few more dishes and handed some to her. He glanced out the window and smirked. "Well, at least you get to see the moon."

"Of course we can see the moon," she commented with a small smile. "The moon is the closest so it's the brightest." She continued to rinse off the soap from the bowl he had handed to her. She waited for the next one, but she noticed that Tsukishima had stopped washing dishes and was staring at her.

"You're not talking about me right?"

"What?"

"You said Tsuki is the closest so it's the brightest."

"..." After she registered what he was trying to say, Yachi blushed and got flustered again. "N-no, that wasn't what I meant. I guess you are kind of close. We have gotten to know each other more lately, and I consider you to be a friend, and we are literally close because you are washing dishes beside me, but that's just a coincidence, but wait, it's not a coincidence because I volunteered to help, and-"

Yachi had been waving her arms while her words streamed out of her mouth. To stop her, Tsukishima grabbed her hands and told her, "You're rambling again, Yachi."

She felt his large hands covering hers, as if he was protecting her from hurting herself. She stared at their hands, and then it finally occurred to her what she was looking at.

"Eeeeeee!" she shrieked as she quickly swiped her hands away from Tsukishima's grasp.

"What's with that reaction?"

"Yes! Sorry!" she promptly replied.

"Yes?" he asked with a raised eyebrow. Yachi thought he must have been confused as to why she was acting like this. She was perplexed as well. Tsukishima sighed and looked like he was disappointment about something. He ended up changing the topic to help put her at ease. "So what's on the schedule after dinner?"

"What? Oh," Yachi managed to say. Her heart was still trying to return to its normal pace. "I think we just have free time right now. Let's finish up quickly so you can go practise with the other guys."

"Okay," he replied as they continued to wash the rest of the bowls and utensils.