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'This is the life~' I thought to myself as upon waking up from my well-deserved rest, I instantly noticed that I was surrounded by a constant influx of boxes of strawberry pocky.

Smiling to myself, I grinned happily as I without any hesitation opened a packet, merrily munching on a strawberry pocky while still half asleep and ignoring the definite celebrations going around somewhere.

After my oh-so-awesome service aces, I accidentally fell asleep. You can't blame me!
In my defense, I was extremely tired. And somehow when I woke up, I ended up here, being surrounded by dozens of my favorite snacks.

God this must be heaven~ <3

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As M/N continues to swoon over the many boxes of strawberry pocky around him, the people downstairs were busy setting things up.

"Oh my god the food's finally here! I am starving!" Atsumu cries out as the food delivery that the team had ordered finally arrived.

Taking a glance at the plethora of takeaway boxes that were delivered, Akagi was surprised, "That's a lot of food. Can we even finish?"

"We're definitely finishing that, don't worry. It's not even that much to begin with." Osamu states as he along with Aran slowly sets up the variety of cuisines on the dining table.

"You sure about that?" Riseki questions as he eyes the stacks of food that ranged from pizzas to herbal soups warily.

"I'm surprised you allowed this, Kita-san" Suna voices out as he takes various photos of the delicacies.

Kita with his face unchanging speaks, "Well, since coach is paying for all these, it really doesn't matter. Maybe we instead hadn't ordered enough... Anyways, any leftovers can be stored in the fridge and consumed tomorrow. So no pressure."

"I never took you for that kind of person, Kita-san..." Atsumu utters out as he gazes at his captain in concealed shock.

Kita smiles briefly, "It's our compensation from the coach since he couldn't be here for the after-celebration. So, we should make full use of it. As my grandmother always says, we shouldn't waste the resources given to us."

The Inarizaki team could only state blankly at their captain as they all simultaneously thought the same thing, 'I do not think that's what your grandmother meant...'

"Anyways, do you think M/N is awake yet?" Kita asks as he notices that the food is already almost completely prepared nicely on the dining table.

"I'm not sure, but I'll go check." Riseki answers, taking responsibility for dragging the ravenette downstairs since the team was at his house for the celebration.

As Riseki made his way upstairs to fetch the sleepy M/N, scattered murmurs of M/N's incredible service aces could be heard from below.

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"Akiri-kun. Akiri-kun, you awake yet?" Riseki calls out as he opens the door to the room where they had deposited M/N's sleeping body.

Shaking out of his previous confused state, M/N replied, "Yep, I'm awake!"

Riseki exhales audibly in relief as he greets his finally awake desk partner. "Good to see you up and running. I'm not even going to ask why you were so tired. Cause honestly, who the heck just falls asleep on the court?!"

Riseki lets out an exasperated sigh as he then witnesses M/N having the audacity to look somewhat smug and proud at the fact that he had fallen asleep on court. All while still having the time to munch on the various boxes of strawberry pocky.

Being so done with his classmate, Riseki shakes his head as he gestures to M/N to get up. "Come on, food's ready downstairs. We're celebrating our Interhigh victory."

Hearing his classmate's words, M/N could only eye his strawberry pocky wistfully as if being forced to leave his one true love behind.

Riseki on the other hand could only roll his eyes in amusement as he witnesses M/N's sad puppy eyes, looking as though he was breaking up with a lover just because the ravenette required to leave his strawberry snack temporarily.

'Oh gods, somebody help me.' Riseki thought to himself as he gazes at his friend's despondent expression.

Upon reaching the edge of the staircase downstairs, loud cheers from the team could be heard as they all looked thrilled that M/N had finally awoken from his priceless beauty sleep.

"MVP M/N!!" Atsumu yells out as he presents dedicated support to the ravenette.

"All hail Akiri!" Akagi laughs out as he sees M/N's surprised Pikachu look.

"What the fuxk?" M/N blinks slowly as his mind tries to formulate a reasonable reason for all the boisterous cheering. M/N just wanted to go back to sleep and get back to his strawberry pocky.

"All right settle down you all. Let's start tugging into the food instead of talking, okay?" Kita steps in, getting everyone back on track.

"Let us all dig in, I'm starving." Suna whispers out as he stares at the vast variety of food with concealed excitement.

M/N blinks confusedly as he sits beside Kita on his left, and with Osamu on his right "Wait a minute, what is going on? Why is there so much food?"

"We're celebrating our Interhigh win." Aran answered simply, beginning to devour the food.

M/N pursed his lips, he got that point. "Then the food?" M/N questions as he takes a bite out of his slice of pepperoni pizza.

"Coach is paying for it." Kita smiles as if it answered every single question.

Just as Atsumu was about to elaborate, much to the surprise of the team, M/N simply nodded somehow enlightened. "Oh... That makes sense."

"Huh?" Suna let out an uncharacteristically unrestrained sound.

M/N's face turned grim for a second as he turned to Kita, chiding, "Shinsuke, I expected better from you."

The team was startled. Did M/N just scold their captain?

Nonchalantly, Kita merely sighed answering, "I know..."

Cue another instant shock that shot through everyone's system at Kita's admittance to his mistake. Wait, what mistake did he even commit?

That was until Kita continued, sounding ashamed "I should've ordered more."

M/N nodded once more agreeing, "Yep, you should've."

The remaining team was just too stunned to speak. M/N is advocating spending their coach's money like water...

Guess M/N may still have some lingering grudges towards Coach Kurosu for making him participate in the Interhigh. Not to say that the team was mad at the inclusion.

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"Let's play a game!" Atsumu hollers out, looking at the remaining members.

A few people had already left Riseki's house due to various reasons, leaving only Atsumu, Osamu, Suna, M/N, Kita, and of course the host Riseki behind.

"Well, there's still six of us around here, so why not?" Riseki shrugs.

"Hm, what shall we play then?" Osamu ponders as he waves to Aran who had just left the house.

"Can't we just lay down?" Suna yawns as he lethargically places his phone down for a moment.

"Of course not, Suna! This is a rare occasion!" Atsumu exclaims, highly excited.

M/N nods in agreement, pitching in, "Yep, it'll be fun."

Suna was about to disagree but Kita spoke up right then, "I agree, let's play something. It's going to be exceptionally rare to spend time with M/N soon as the end of his student exchange draws near after all."

"Oh yeah..." Suna utters out softly in realization, his mood dampening. He had completely forgotten that M/N was only temporarily here in Inarizaki, as at this point he felt so familiar that anyone would think he was a fixed character.

"Alright then, let's play." Suna agrees as he shifts himself into the circle formation that the rest had settled subconsciously into.

"Wait... What are we playing again?" Riseki questions as he stares awkwardly at everybody in the circle.

Atsumu blinks taking a moment to process, "Oh right, I forgot that we hadn't chosen a game."

"Why not play Truth or Dare? We're conveniently already in a circle, aren't we?" Osamu suggests.

Kita agrees instantly, his eyes twinkling with hidden mischief, "Oh yes, that's a great idea."

"Well, since the captain has spoken, who are we to deny, right?" Riseki smiles.

Atsumu then ponders for a moment, "What about the penalty though?"

Riseki's face brightens up in enlightenment, "I have some pure lemon juice. We can take sour lemon juice shots as punishment!"

"That's good, but why don't we add wasabi in as well to up the intensity?" Kita suggests as a devilish smirk graced his lips for only a mere second that had the rest of the Inarizaki members wonder if they themselves were hallucinating. After all, how could their perfect, routined volleyball captain Kita Shinsuke let out such a devious expression?

"That's perfect." Osamu grins, himself bubbling with excitement over the game.

At that moment, everyone who approved of the game, simultaneously turned their eye line towards M/N who was honestly just drifting off.

"So M/N, what do you think?" Atsumu asks, snapping the ravenette back into reality.

M/N, still in a daze only nodded, agreeing to the game of Truth or Dare.

The rest cheered jubilantly at M/N's approval before Atsumu declared out loudly, "Then let the Truth or Dare game commence!"

M/N could only shake his head silently as he observed Riseki setting up the shots for punishment while the rest were elated. That was of course until a familiar jingle caused M/N to spike up into high alert.

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*Ding~

Bzzt. Bzzt.

Mission 9:

《Tell no lies during the whole game of Truth or Dare with Inarizaki》

Reward: 85 points
Failure results in penalty spin.
Time limit: till the game ends
Rules: Player will be required to not dodge any questions/ requests regardless of their nature

Good Luck!
≥3≤

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Wait a damn flipping second!
The mission didn't personally involve a person... X could do that?!
How did he not know??! :0

Well, at least this mission doesn't seem too hard. He has always been honest anyway. ( ꈍᴗꈍ)

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Author's note:
My dear M/N, don't ever say that. You'll jinx it. *Shakes head in disapproval*

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