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It was a trainwreck, that was what everyone said.
Because Hinata had his eyes on the ball but Kageyama was the sun for him and for Kageyama the sun was the ball. It was a trainwreck waiting to happen. It hurt everyone every time Hinata said:
"Kageyama do you want to go to the movies with me?"
With his innocent blush and his big eyes looking at Kageyama. Looking at the boy who just kept hitting the ball, Hinata would stay and wait and play. And leave with Kageyama being the no wiser.
"What?"
"I said that my family is taking a vacation trip to Tokyo and I am going"
The trainwreck had started in autumn and now it was winter. They had hoped that it would stop now because Hinata was planting himself in front of Kageyama, this had never happened before. Maybe the trainwreck wouldn't happen, maybe Hinata would take himself out of the equation and carry on like nothing.
"You can't"
Hinata was grabbing his duffel bag. For once leaving early, he was smiling when Kageyama grabbed his arm and he looked hurt.
And everyone saw the hope in Hinata's eyes. And maybe the trainwreck couldn't be stopped
"We have a match next week"
A punch to the stomach to everyone, Asahi had to control Nishinoya from not going to Kageyama and hitting him but in defence of Nishinoya even Asahi was controlling himself. But what hurt the most was Hinata who forced a smile and moved his arm out of Kageyama grip. Petted his hair as he smiled at Kageyama, and well no one could fault Asahi if later one of his softer shot hit Kageyama in the head. After all the boy deserved it and had a strong head.
"It will only be three weeks"
And he left.
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Hinata was bored.
Because his mother had gone with Natsu to some temple and his father was the business that had brought this unexpected trip. This trip that he didn't need to come but he wanted because he needed time for himself. And he thought that it would do him well, a change of air and to let his body rest from volleyball. And ok, maybe, he was also trying to run away from Kageyama, from idiot Kageyama who only cared about volleyball. He cared about his friends and the team but he still didn't saw anything else aside from the team and volleyball. And Hinata was tired from trying, so he decided to have this three weeks to move on.
What he didn't expect was to get bored on his first day and to miss volleyball this much. He was like a junkie and he needed his fix, so he had gone to the park hoping to see someone playing volleyball. Yet he hadn't found anyone. And with his hopes crashing and burning he sat in a park bench trying to feed the birds that came his way.
"Hey, kid! Pass the ball"
He was so lost in his pity party that he didn't notice when a ball fall right in front of his feet scaring the birds away. But when he noticed, he saw it wasn't any kind of ball, it was a ball for volleyball. He grabbed it as in instinct, he started touching around the ball, as he hadn't seen one just a day ago and he went to where he thought the voice came from, without looking to the boy that had shouted.
"Here"
He made a simple toss, the safest toss he knew how to make. Believing that that could help him get an invitation to the game, again he did this without looking.
"Shrimpy?!"
And it was then that he looked up and saw two persons that he did know, two unforgettable persons.
"Oh, thank God! Yes, you play with him!"
The one that had shouted was the one that stood up like a sore thumb, the one that had caught the ball and throw it to his friend and started walking away, fast, almost like he was running away.
"Aran! Don't leave me!"
The boy, the American one, the one that had caught his attention that first time saluted them and kept walking (running). Hinata thought of leaving but he was a junkie and he wanted to play.
And the boy had a ball, the only problem was that the boy didn't look like he was staying. He was stomping the ground and mumbling things that Shouyo couldn't get.
"So do you wanna play?"
He was a junkie, the boy stopped what he was doing and looked at him.
"Shrimpy what did I promised you?"
He was looking down on him, with the ball resting on his hip.
"That you would toss for me?"
The boy was smirking and Hinata was trying to do the best puppy eyes he had ever before done.
"After I won in the inter-high, that is what I said and the inter-high hasn't happened yet or did it?"
He was looking elsewhere while the boy kept smiling at him.
"No..."
Now he was pouting and he was ready to head back to the house his father had gotten for them for three weeks.
"Well I guess we could play a little, just a little"
The boy was looking at him trying to look indifferent but Hinata could see that he was hoping that Hinata was still interested. He was. So they played until the sun started to go down, they played simple but sometimes the boy would set Hinata up so he could spike. It wasn't anything difficult or as the plays, he made with Kageyama but it was a fix.
"Why were you alone?"
They were walking back to Hinata home, the boy had been nice enough to accompany him to his home as he knew better Tokyo and it seemed that Hinata had a reputation for getting lost.
"My teammates didn't want to go out because of the cold, Aran-Kun owed me a favour and dumb Samu got himself sick so I was all alone. Until you appeared Shrimpy"
Hinata was smiling because the boy was a rollercoaster of emotion. It was the only time outside from the game they had played that Hinata saw him show any emotion that wasn't related with volleyball, and it was amazing, interesting, he was like an open book, talking and laughing about things that went beyond volleyball.
"Hinata Shouyo, that's my name"
They arrived at the door of his home when the boy smirked at him.
"I know and mine is Atsumu Miya"
He kept smirking while Hinata looked for the keys that he knew he had left them somewhere. When he found them the boy was still looking at him, he seemed to be calculating something, Hinata had the keys on his hand but didn't open the door waiting for Atsumu who was still looking at him. It seemed that he had stopped his thinking when he nodded and opened his mouth.
"I'll come to pick you up and 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, ok Shrimpy?"
Hinata didn't understand.
"To play?"
Atsumu was smirking and his eyes were shining and he looked like a fox that had caught his prey. That had found what he was looking for.
"What else?"
Hinata was smiling and nodding fast until Atsumu got a hold of his head. And yes he was smiling like a hunter with his prey and he was petting Hinata hair making him blush, Atsumu left as Natsu opened the door but Hinata didn't notice as he kept looking Atsumu retreating back because he could swear that just now he felt his heart skip a beat but that wasn't possible. Yet it was much later, after dinner, after taking a shower and settling himself on his bed that he noticed that he had five missed messages from Kageyama and that was because he was setting the alarm for eight in the morning.
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"And then Nishinoya saved the ball with his foot and I...."
"Mmmm"
Hinata had been paying attention, he had. It was just that he was close to the meeting point he had planned with Atsumu the day before and he didn't want to get lost, not when later he would have to hear the mocking from Atsumu, even if it came with Atsumu not leaving his side in case he got lost again. In Hinata defence, it had been just one time that Atsumu had let him go to a seven-eleven to get a bottle of water that he got lost...twnty blocks but Tokyo was huge and Hinata was bad with directions and ok, he had called Atsumu who couldn't stop laughing, not even when he found him pouting and without a bottle.
It had been already two weeks and he was having the time of his life with Atsumu. Who was always down to play with him and toss to him. They even had tried the fast one and they had failed at first until they were almost as good as him with Kageyama. They were even thinking of making their own plays and Hinata didn't anything wrong from that, he was even felt giddy thinking about it. Also, Atsumu had taken the time to teach Hinata how to serve, to really teach him, not like Kageyama that just complained and didn't explain and hoped that Hinata understood by putting water bottles in front of him. That had been a hard one but it seemed to amuse Atsumu a lot how he could spike that fast and well but be a disaster in serving.
At first, it had been hard with the two of them distrusting the other but with time they noticed that they could learn from the other. And still, have fun. But for Hinata the bonus was getting to know Atsumu Miya outside the court. It was amazing, he worked hard to get where he was, he was cunning and sly as the fox that represented his school and he was damn proud about that. He never gave up, he liked the colour green and he prefers salty food before sweet. He loved the cold but he was a disaster in dressing accordingly for the weather. He liked reading except when the professor asked him to and his best friend in the world was his brother. At the same time, Atsumu took the time to get to know Hinata. He was quite nice when someone got to know him. He did have his nasty side, but it was well balanced.
And now Hinata was being introduced to Inarizaki team, and he was late.
"Hinata? Hinata?!"
Oh, Kageyama, shit.
"Yes, yes, I am here, Tsukki blocked the ace"
Hinata didn't know if what he said was right because he saw Atsumu laughing at something Asumu had said and he had lost all his other senses when he saw the way that Atsumu opened up when he was around people he cared about, Hinata lost himself in the way that he could separate Atsumu from Asumu and not by the hair but by the little details, the eyes, the gestures, their postures, they were so different to him, that he couldn't understand how people got confused by them.
"What? No..."
Hinata was crossing the street to the team, and Kageyama kept talking but Hinata couldn't keep up, he was too distracted, to focused on others things.
"Talk you later Kageyama"
He ended the call without hearing what Kageyama was saying.
He stood in front of the terrifying team that was Inarazaki. Everyone was looking at him and he was in awe of such an amazing team, they were an unstoppable force and Hinata couldn't stop himself from blushing and bowing to them in respect
"I am Hinata Shouyo from Karasuno team, please take care of me!"
When he looked at them, he saw everyone watching him with almost the same smirk that Atsumu had that first time in front of his house. And he felt that he was a bunny between a lot of foxes, and no he wasn't a bunny he was a crow. Thank you very much, but even then he had to admit that he was scared, they were after all one of THE powerhouses in Tokyo if not of Japan. That was how he felt until he felt the arm of Atsumu around him.
"Relax they don't bite...sometimes"
He was smirking, and Hinata blush got worst as his poor heart that felt like it was running away from his chest. He hoped that Atsumu couldn't feel it.
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Kageyama tried to call Hinata again three times more before he decided to call it quits. He would try again in two hours, for now, he would do homework and then practice some more. But he couldn't concentrate because he felt like Hinata was slipping through his fingers. For some reason, he couldn't understand he felt hollow like he was losing. They talked, but not as much as they did before. Hinata was always busy with something lately and Kageyama knew he was on a family vacation. Yet he couldn't help but feel worried and some kind of a pain in his chest.
It was probably nothing, he was just worried about how rusty would Hinata return when they got to play again. Yes, just that, worry.
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"You like him, don't you?"
Atsumu had been watching his brother and Hinata play some contest of hitting a ball to see who had a better hit. Nevermind that that game was for testing strength in a punch and not a spike. He had been watching from afar how Hinata said one more and Samu and Aran kept playing with him. He hadn't noticed when his captain walked at him but let's be honest he wouldn't have noticed even if he had been pay prepared, his captain was cool like that.
"What? No, I don't"
Kita was looking at him and he had those cold eyes focused on him and Atsumu knew he was screwed because Kita always knew, sometimes even before they knew and this wasn't good because Kita was smiling and he was the prey getting caught by the more cunning fox of them all.
"Then why are you smiling?"
Kita left to find the rest of the team while Atsumu noticed that it was true. That he was openly smiling while he saw Hinata Shouyo smiling at him. Because he had beaten his own record and Atsumu was smiling and walking at him to ruffle his hair to Hinata blush, his second favourite hobby since he noticed he could make Hinata do that and fucking him, maybe he did like Hinata Shouyo.
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It was the last day and Hinata was sad because Atsumu was quiet and the rest of the team looked tense. No one mentioned the big elephant in the gym, Hinata didn't know what to say. Well actually he did, he just didn't know how to say it or if he should. Because it was madness, idiotic and impossible, he couldn't like Atsumu Miya after three weeks.
Atsumu Miya who liked to tortured people and was sly as a fox, Atsumu Miya who played until his fingers hurt. Atsumu Miya who always smiled when any of his team made a point because of a play he prepared. Yet, he was slowly falling in love with the setter that lived in Tokyo and was his enemy. Typical Hinata to fall for the setter that didn't notice him. Idiot.
They were playing three against three, he was playing with Atsumu and Asumu. And they were like a good oil machined, a force to be reckoned. Because they made crazy moves and Asumu or he could do the spike that used to be of only him and Kageyama. God Kageyama, he had stopped thinking and missing Kageyama after the first week. After Atsumu had smiled at him for real and he had laughed at some dumb joke Atsumu had said after Atsumu had taken him to see a movie and he had learned what was Atsumu favourite flavour of ice cream.
"You got this Shrimpy!"
Atsumu was looking at him with that smile again and with his thumbs up. Right, it was his turn to serve, he was nervous but he was confident because Atsumu and he had been practising for this. He could do this he had to jump and hit the ball, breath in and out, he got this, he got this. He pointed with his finger at Aran, like the Gran King would have done, and he inhaled and exhaled. He jumped and hit the ball, and it wasn't an ace but it did pass the ball and Aran had received it. The game continued but he was in shock and Atsumu was running at him fast and hard, and he was hugging and spinning Hinata around. Hinata was in cloud nine laughing and holding Atsumu. He was flying through the clouds when they stopped spinning his eyes caught Atsumu eyes. It was a second of him wetting his lips and Atsumu looking at the movement of his tongue and they were kissing. Slow and sweet, Hinata had his legs around Atsumu hips and his heart was beating fast without control. But he didn't care because Atsumu was kissing him, it was the team catcalls that made them stop and rest forehead against forehead. Smiling at each other dumbly
"Go out with me"
Atsumu lips were red and puffy, and Hinata pecked them
"Yes"
And they were kissing again.
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Hinata was back, Hinata was finally back, and he looked different. Everyone could see it as they could see that Kageyama was looking at Hinata differently. It looked like a light had turned on for Kageyama, it was in that moment that the team had hope. Maybe the trainwreck wasn't meant to be. But a weekend passed and Kageyama didn't say anything yet they kept they calm, it was Kageyama after all, he was slow with this kind of things, there was still time, even if Hinata was acting weirder than usual with smiling at the screen of his cellphone or always taking calls between breaks, they still had hope.
Then a match against Nekoma came around, Nekoma was coming at their gym and they were practising for the match that was happening that Saturday.
"Come on Hinata, you have to practice this"
Kageyama had become more touchy with Hinata, holding him every time he had a chance, be it by passing a bottle of water or throwing a towel after a tyring practise, Kageyama kept touching Hinata every chance he got. And now wasn't an exception where he was holding Hinata arm as he moved him to the other side of the court
"I'm telling you I'm fine"
Kageyama had five balls lined up for them, and no one wanted to say anything but they knew that Kageyama was right, Hinata should practice it was Nekoma after all and they couldn't lose in their turf, it was just too shameful.
"No, practice"
Hinata was looking at him, and he grabbed a ball.
"Fine"
Kageyama looked pleased with himself. That was until Hinata made the same move as the Grand King with pointing his finger and then hitting the ball in the exact direction that he had pointed. Everyone was looking at Hinata with their open mouth but Hinata wasn't paying them any mind with going for his things and running away.
"See? Now I have to go somewhere else, bye"
It took them five minutes to catch up with the idea that Hinata had made that serve and that Hinata had left thirty minutes early. Only Tsukkishima lost hope at that moment.
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They had won against Nekoma. It had been a close call, they were in the third set but an ace serve from Kageyama had saved the day and everyone was celebrating. Even Nekoma was celebrating with them, they were a weird bunch. But what caught everyone attention was Kageyama that was avoiding everyone and that was looking for a ball of sunshine. A Sun, and now everyone knew this was it. The trainwreck wasn't going to happen. The moment they had been waiting for, their last hope. They were, obviously going to help Kageyam to look for Hinata but they couldn't found him anywhere.
Until they asked Kenma that said that he had seen Hinata walk outside with someone. They wanted to give Kageyama and Hinata their privacy but they were a noisy bunch so they didn't, they gave the false sense of privacy while they hide where they could be it in the shadows or behind the doors of the gym. They thought of different ways this would turn out, with a passionate kiss, an awkward confession from Kageyama, with Hinata blushing and not knowing what to do, they thought everything. But what they didn't think of as a possibility was of Kageyama stopping at mid-walk because Hinata was standing in front of him with Atsumu Miya. Who was kissing Hinata and putting his team jersey on Hinata. And Hinata was blushing, blushing harder than he had when he was around Kageyama and smiling through the kiss, it was a sweet kiss, a natural one. When they stopped kissing Hinata saw Kageyama and he didn't stop smiling, he grabbed Atsumu hand, interlocking their fingers and he walked with Atsumu to Kageyama.
"Kageyama! I want you to be the first to know that I am dating 'Tsumu"
Hinata was smiling like the sun, he was smiling at Atsumu who was looking at Hinata. And it was obvious that they were on their way to falling in love, they looked good together, they looked happy. And Kageyama was smiling while he said
"Please take care of my friend"
Atsumu looked at him with that smirk that they did know and not with that smile he had a minute ago for Hinata, and shit this was serious.
"Always"
Kageyama nodded his head once and turned around, it took him five steps. Two steps from the door before the tears started and no one stopped the other from running to their star setter that couldn't catch his breath while he heard his best friend laugh with Atsumu Miya while he walked away to spend the day with his boyfriend.
In the end, it had been a trainwreck.