Yeah, I'm a first year! [ hinata grins and calls out "nice receive!" for makoto when he gets it back to him, because that's what a proper teammate does. you're a real volley now, makoto.

but, he can maintain conversation easily in doing this, so he sends it back carefully. ] Um...kinda both, I guess? My junior high only had a girl's volleyball team until my last year. But--I really wanted to play, really bad! So, I trained and taught myself how to play for two years, and I played with the girls and the old ladies in my neighborhood that had a club and I got a bunch of my friends to toss for me--and, eventually, we made a team! We weren't really very good, and I was the only one that knew how to play, really, but... it was still good, and I still got to be on the court.

[ and lose to kageyama, but, that's a story for another day.

he keeps receiving the ball as this is going on, easy as anything, and hinata just looks really, really happy as he's saying this, smile on his face kind of soft and warm compared to his usual megawatt smiles. ] But being on Karasuno...it's the first time I've ever had that "team feeling", you know?