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The Hinata household had become the team’s unofficial hangout. Since Hinata had to babysit his sister while his parents were at work, he wasn’t able to meet up with the team outside of the club often. Hinata had been devastated so Sugawara had then taken it upon himself to show up unannounced at Hinata’s house for an impromptu team meeting. Since then, the Hinata Household was where the Karasuno volleyball team met up when they weren’t at practice.
The team was currently cooped up in Hinata’s room while Natsu decided to take a nap. The room was mostly quiet with small chatter here and there. Until Nishinoya decided to focus his gaze on the first years.
“So,” Nishinoya said, a smirk taut on his face. He had a spark in his eye that spelled trouble and Kageyama was dreading what was to come out of the second year’s mouth.
“Have any of you guys met your soulmates yet?” Ah, there it was. Kageyama internally groaned at the question. Whenever the topic of soulmates popped up Kageyama (at least tried to) tactfully avoid it as much as possible. He really didn’t want his team to have any more reason to dislike him. If they heard that his own soulmate had rejected him, abandoned him, what would they think?
Unlike Kageyama, Hinata perked up at the question.
“I have!” A laid-back smile graced the ginger’s features as he spoke. “It’s Kenma, the setter of Nekoma! We found out when we ran into each other during our first training camp.” There was a fond look on his face as he continued to talk about how him and Kenma found out. Something about them always having a “feeling” or some sappy shit like that. Kageyama grumbled as he watched Hinata blabber on.
Yamaguchi and Tsukishima also had an odd look on their faces as the two shared a fleeting glance. Yamaguchi smiled at the blonde before he opened his mouth. “Actually, me and Kei have known since we were kids!” Yamaguchi said with a small chuckle. Tsukishima playfully hit him and mumbled “idiot” under his breath. The fond look on his face betrayed the sentiment of his words.
“Shut up, Tadashi,” Tsukishima said with a faint blush on his cheeks.
“Ah, sorry Tsukki,” Yamaguchi said, not looking the least bit guilty.
Kageyama bit his lip as the other first years recounted how they all found out. He didn’t want to admit it, but he was jealous of them. It wasn’t fair.
“Kageyama?” Sugawara’s curious eyes darted towards him. The conversations around him halted. Shit did he say that out loud? From the confused looks his teammates gave him, it seemed like he did. Kageyama averted his gaze from his teammates and found a particularly interesting part of Hinata’s carpet to look at. Tsukishima narrowed his eyes at him and Kageyama only shrunk into himself.
“Oi king, you too good for us peasants to bless us with an answer?” Tsukishima prodded. Kageyama grit his teeth and bit back a scowl. He really didn’t want to get into this right now.
“I, uh— It’s really nothing,” Kageyama mumbled intelligently. Tsukishima raised a brow at him while Sugawara cocked his head to the side with a concerned look. Kageyama felt his cheeks and ears grow red from the attention he received. He hated this. He just didn’t want his teammates to look at him any different.
“It’s stupid, okay? So stop bugging me about it,” Kageyama huffed out, annoyed.
“Come on, Kageyama! What’s “not fair?” Hinata whined out. There was a slight pout on his face. Kageyama groaned at the sight.
“King just probably hasn’t found his soulmate yet,” Tsukishima said with a sly grin. “Aww, what? Is the king jealous that us lowly plebeians found our matches first?” Kageyama felt his eye twitch at that.
“Kei, stop being an ass,” Yamaguchi said, trying to moderate.
“Yeah, can you just drop it?” Kageyama grit out. He wasn’t up for bearing his heart and soul out to his teammates at the moment. They were going to judge him and he didn’t need that right now.
“It’s okay, you don’t need to tell us right now,” Sugawara put his hand on Kageyama’s shoulder. He kept his eyes pointed to the ground. Suga gave his shoulder a little squeeze before continuing. “He’s not comfortable sharing, got it? Don’t push him,” The others gave their vice captain a sheepish nod before they continued what they were doing before the whole talk of soulmates.
The room went quiet for a bit, an awkward silence seeming to break out. Kageyama let out a quiet sight as he buried his head in his hands.