This is the story from day 6 of my kagehina month (see my profile for more info).
This is set in an AU (alternate universe) where there's a clock on your arm that counts down to meeting your soulmate. I think I saw something like this AU somewhere on tumblr, but I mainly took it from the movie "in time" and several AUs I read here on ... there's always a lot of soulmate AUs here C:
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The whole team had gathered in the changing room to change from their training clothes to regular school uniforms. Tanaka and Nishinoya talked loudly and excitedly, but if you actually listened to what they were saying you'd understand that they weren't really making much sense most of the time. The third years were quietly listening while changing their attire. They were used to their loud teammates and by now they only half listened to them in order to step in if needed. Tsukishima and yamaguchi were chatting quietly together while changing. Tsukishima had this weird telepathic thing going on in which he always managed to tune in on things he could pick on in other people's conversations while still talking to someone else. Mostly yamaguchi.
Kageyama and hinata was changing silently. Which was odd, because it was a known fact that the two airheads always were at each other's throats. Usually over a small thing or some sort of disagreement they were having that day.
"Hey hinata! Has your clock stopped yet?" Tanaka asked suddenly.
Hinata never really gave it a thought. He hadn't really checked it in years, two years to be exact. He had been too busy with volleyball. Last time he checked it was still ticking, but when he looked down to check it this time, all of the digits were zeroes.
"WHAT!? WHEN DID IT STOP!?" hinata burst out, shocking most of the team out of their own thoughts as their focus was turned towards the source of the loud noise.
"Are you trying to tell me that you haven't paid any attention to it whatsoever?" Tanaka replied in disbelief, looking as though he had heard the most unthinkable thing in the entire world.
"Well, yes, no… I did check it once in a while before, but lately I have been focusing too much on volleyball. But I didn't think…" hinata replied quietly, a blush making itself evident on his cheeks.
"When was the last time you checked it then?" Noya asked curiously. He wanted to find out who hinata's soul mate was, and he liked playing detective whenever he had the chance.
"About… two… years ago… I think…" hinata answered, his voice getting quieter for each word that came out of his mouth. He was feeling very self-conscious and embarrassed right now. Why hadn't he checked the damn clock once in a while?
"TWO YEARS!?" Noya asked in utter disbelief.
"Is it really that surprising? Hinata is one of the biggest airheads in history. Only person I know who can rival him when it comes to stupidity is the king, in fact I bet that he have neglected to check his clock for a while too." Tsukishima said tauntingly.
Kageyama however, did not notice the insult because all he could think of was how long ago it was since he checked his own clock. The dreadful feeling he had after realizing how long it had been since he had checked it made him stiffen visibly.
The whole room was quiet when they saw kageyama's reaction and realized that the previous statement was spot on.
"You… really? Is there no end to you two's stupidity?" tsukishima asked disbelievingly. He hadn't actually thought that he was right. He had just said it in hopes of riling kageyama up.
"I-I don't…" kageyama started but couldn't make himself finish the sentence, in fact he wasn't really sure what he was planning to say in the first place.
"So how long since you checked yours?" Tanaka asked, slightly dreading the answer. He just hoped that it didn't exceed hinata's two years.
"Teanahafyes" kageyama muttered so quietly that it would take a miracle for anyone to actually understand what he had said. No one had seen kageyama's cheeks this red before, which could only mean one thing…
"WHAT!?" hinata shouted, his eyes wide and mouth open. He looked really shocked.
"You could understand that!? Shoyo are you actually superman?" Noya asked disbelievingly.
"You couldn't?" hinata replied, asking the shorter boy in return.
"I don't think anyone here understood that except you." Sugawara said, smiling gently.
"Oh… well he just said three and a half years!" hinata replied.
And then the whole room got quiet again, this time everyone had suspected that it was bad, but not THAT bad. Three and a half years? How could anyone discard their clock like that? Didn't those two care at all about who their soul mate was?
"You should really check your clock…" hinata said quietly, efficiently breaking the pressing silence.
"Yeah! How do you know that yours hasn't stopped too?" Tanaka asked.
"I uh, okay…" kageyama answered awkwardly. He did NOT appreciate this situation. At ALL.
Everyone stood in silent anticipation while the setter rolled up his sleeve to finally check his clock.
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I know it's a criminally short chapter (and the rest of them are probably going to be just as short...), but I made two chapter for this day of my kagehina month (in my defence).
And as I said in my other fanfic (kagehina: "I think..."), I won't continue this story unless I get feedback (This counts for all of my kagehina month entries).