Shōji Kaito

"'Having 'luck' means nothing. The only thing that really matters in a match is making a damn good point.'"- Shōji Kaitō

Shōji Kaitō (Japanese: 開士 正治 Kaitō Shōji) was a third year student at Shiratorizawa Academy and one of the volleyball team's Wing Spikers. She currently works at a cafe in Tokyo, Japan.

Appearance
Kaitō has short dark blue hair, her eyebrows being the same color. Her eyes are usually narrow and sharp, giving her an angry expression. Her eyes are a bright emerald green and her pupil is sharp and straight, making her look like a cat. She sports the standard Shiratorizawa uniform, is tall standing at 181cm, and is pretty thin but strong.

Post time-skip, she looks the same but has grown her hair out like she did when she was younger, and likes to wears glasses.

Personality
Kaitō is usually seen as quiet or not very nice of a person, but with friends or her teammates she is quite open and loud. On the case of friends, if one of them is in a fight, argument, or in a situation she feels she needs to break them out of, she will gladly do so. She never leaves a friend behind, seeing them as family. On the court and/or in a match, she is quite calm and is a main source of strategy, coming up with solutions on the spot. She likes to see the look of annoyance people give her as she gets the ball past a blocker. Winning is definitely not a priority, but is taken nonetheless. Her and Tendō seemingly work in almost perfect sync together, although nobody knows how, not even them.

People called her weird when she was a kid for befriending Tendō, who, to them, was seen as a "Monster". She didn't care what they said, and happily became Tendō's friend despite that. Being a Wing Spiker made her proud of herself. She felt stronger as she gained points for her team.

Despite her usual personality she puts front of being aggressive and rude, she is quite the opposite. Tendō, being the only person to see her cry, tries to tell others of this, much to her annoyance. She is also very much a prankster, and a troublemaker. Her and Tendō gave each other nicknames, Tendō still using Kaitō's, the latter grown embarrassed of calling him a nickname from when they were kids (Tenten). Her favorite song (which is also her ringtone in high school) is Magic Girl by Orange Caramel.

Background
In elementary school, her father convinced (more like forced) her to join the school's volleyball team. Back in this time, she was very timid and didn't have that many friends. Her aura seemed to scare people. But she met Tendō, who seemed to be going through a similar situation as her, not being accepted and being seen as something they weren't. After defending him from a bully, who tried to convince her to join their team and not the "Monster" team to which she declined, they quickly became good friends, and still were in high school. Since then, her personality had grown and deepened into who she is today. In her first year at Shiratorizawa Academy, on the first day, she grew insecure about her appearance and cut her hair short, not aware that Tendō also attended the school. When they found each other, Tendō asked why she had done that, saying that she looked perfectly fine with long hair. She ended up growing it out after high school.

First Year Training Camp
Prior to the Spring Tournament, Kaitō joined the rest of the retired Shiratorizawa third years in participating in several practice matches during the First Year Training Camp. After noticing Hinata among the rest of the first years, she promptly began to strike up a friendly conversation. In turn, she found out he wasn't supposed to be there, and couldn't play in any of the matches. Of course, an idea struck her. During one of the matches where the third years were going up against the first years, Kaitō jumped up to spike, giving Hinata a look. Hinata, remembering that glare to be when and where she would strike, barely had any time to get into position before she slammed the ball past the blockers and it barreling toward the red-head. It bounced off his arms, hitting him in the face, then flying back into play. Kaitō gave him a thumbs up, and Hinata shooting her one back. Even if he wasn't allowed to play, Kaitō would still find a way to keep him active and motivated, as she did with anyone she knew.

Karasuno vs Nekoma
During Karasuno's match against Nekoma, Kaitō and Tendō join Goshiki in watching the game on his tablet. She expresses her annoyance about Nekoma's setter, saying "He's pretty feisty for someone who doesn't look like he even likes the game. He probably has more skill than me, even as a second year, he's pretty crazy from what I can see." Seeing them play, Tendō notices and points out that even if it was a live feed of a game that they weren't in, she looked like she was in the middle of a play, her eyes wide watching their every move, and Kaitō looks away embarrassed, saying she couldn't help it.

Statistics
She is a relatively good Wing Spiker, being able to hit and score seemingly impossible points at times. She's learned a few things from Tendō, such as reading opponents' movements. Once she finds a way to score, she latches onto it until she makes the point, or gets blocked and scored on instead. She finds it a good method to find and latch onto the strongest player on opposing teams, draining their motivation with her spikes and Tendō's blocks. Once they've lost enough courage, she lets go, going onto the next person. She can read feints pretty well, body language is definitely not foreign to her.

Her quick reflexes have saved her a few points.

Jumping Reach: 316 cm

Satori Tendō
Kaitō and Tendō met in elementary school. Since then, they've developed an unbreakable friendship, Tendō becoming worried when she brought up someone trying to confess to her.

After the timeskip, they continued being close friends, despite their distance (Tendō being in Paris and her still being in Japan). She likes to visit him once or twice a year.

Wakatoshi Ushijima
Being the captain of her team, Kaitō finds Ushijima to be respectable. When she can't seem to find her groove, she goes to him for advice with spiking.

Tsutomu Goshiki
Kaitō and Goshiki get along pretty well. They both find it fun to practice with each other. Although they both seem as rivals, striving to be better than each other, they can relate on a lot of things together.

Fumihito Kaitō
Kaitō's brother. They have the better relationship out of anyone in her family. He is basically a carbon copy of her, dark blue hair, green eyes. He is much more extroverted than her. He's always been a writer, even in the timeskip, he's found writing books, mostly about volleyball, from both his AND Kaitō's experiences.

Trivia

 * Favorite Food: Anything mango flavored.
 * Current Concern: People always seem afraid of her, even when she's nice.
 * Her star sign is Gemini.
 * She likes to prank her teammates, especially when they stay late during practice.
 * Kaitō's brother previously attended Shiratorizawa Academy and was in the volleyball team with jersey number 8, which is why her and Goshiki get along so well.
 * Kaitō can use both her left and right hands, but only prefers to use it in volleyball as a "Sneak attack".
 * Kaitō's father forced her to begin playing volleyball, as his entire side of the family had done.
 * Kaitō is always seen with a beanie on, this is because her grandmother (who died when she was 7) made her many hats for winter times, and when she passed, Kaitō always wore them out as a good luck charm.
 * Her favorite manga is Black Clover, but she does like to read One Piece.
 * Kaitō was a middle blocker in elementary, but moved on to try other positions in middle school. Because of this, she looks up to the middle blockers on her team, especially Tendo.
 * Nomenclature:
 * Shōji (正治) - Proper, Heal, Peace, Happiness
 * Kaitō (開士) - Sea, Ocean; Soar, Fly