There’s no real halftime in volleyball, just three-minute intervals between matches, maybe a whole ten minutes between the second and third set if such a request is made to the officials.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35873875/chapters/89449606

'i remember how the earth stopped turning' by ao3 user roxast, chapter 3

from roxast: cw: brief diet discussions (in dining hall) and vomit mentions/slight body horror (during the dream sequence), very minor mentions of blood (in bathroom)

'i remember how the earth stopped turning' by ao3 user roxast, chapter 2

from roxast: here's my quick dedication to all my friends who i've known for 10+ years as well, who i thought about a lot while writing this and who will never know it exists

cw: there's the briefest mentions of vomit in this chapter (someone pukes twice, someone else makes a joke about it once).

brief disclaimer: while i spent a good while sorting through sources to get the injury-related components of this chapter and overall fic as to-life as possible, i am ultimately not a medical professional writing with deep understanding and accuracy.

'i remember how the earth stopped turning' by ao3 user roxast, chapter 1.

“The only time I will ever feel despair is when I won’t be able to play volleyball anymore,” had been his reply at the time, and while it was mostly just to show his teeth with no real intent to bite back, he’d said exactly what he meant, not a syllable spared.

Sometime later, Kageyama eats those words.

[or; Kageyama Tobio’s career-ending injury and everything that happens before and after]