Freak Romance
born on the day of earthquakes
Summary: They didn't get along at first. Not at all. Hinaxfem!Kage
A/N: I wanted to keep using Kageyama's first name. But Tobio is a completely masculine name so I looked around for the most fitting name for the genderbent kid. I decided on Toshiko because it starts with T and ends with O.
Written for the lack of Hinaxfem!Kage fics that I want to read.
They didn't get along at first. Not at all.
Hinata Shouyou hates the woman at the second glance. Yes, second glance. Admittedly, Hinata is mesmerized by the sheer beauty of her neat long black hair in a high ponytail, the stark whiteness of her smooth skin. Her lean body made sexier by her volleyball uniform. Her long legs. Not to mention her eyes, sharp and blue like a hawk's.
Hinata knows she's a great volleyball player too with the way she handles the ball. What pinpoint accuracy of her spikes. She's good with her serves, less on accuracy this time but greater in power and speed.
But then he hears her speak.
"Jump higher!"
"Faster!"
"MORE!"
Her voice isn't at all shrill. It's just commanding, just like a Queen demanding from a servant. And if you didn't follow her, you'll be beheaded.
Hinata wonders if he can stomach such a teammate. Apparently, her teammates doesn't when Hinata soon learns of her nickname, "Queen of the Court". He thinks it's very fitting with how she orders people around.
He also thinks her beautiful if adorned with a crown and a majestic purple robe.
Hinata shakes his head vigorously. What the hell is he thinking? But even when he finally settles his thoughts down, his large almond-colored eyes still find their way on the player he sees as the most gorgeous one on the court. To his surprise, those blue, blue eyes are staring back at him.
"Uh... ahh..." Hinata desperately thinks of anything to say as his face colors. He completely forgets that the female on the court is still in the middle of the game and that there is a huge gap between the two of them so she will not hear a single thing that he'll say unless he shouts loud enough.
"Shouyou!" A very loud voice startles him out of his embarrassment. Hinata turns to see Nishinoya standing next to him. "Let's go. Our game's on in five minutes."
"Ah, y-yes, Nishinoya-senpai!" Hinata says. He shoulders his bag as his eyes unconsciously strays on the tall female figure on the court again.
A part of him feels disappointed when he doesn't meet her eyes as her focus goes back on her game.
There's a brat who kept on looking at Kageyama Toshiko.
He's short, painfully short for their age. He reaches a little past her shoulder, she notes. His hair looks fluffy and ginger, sticking in all directions like he just got off a roller coaster. His wide eyes look distracted, unless they're trained on the volleyball he's about to spike. Or when they're focused at her.
He's from the same school she's in, Karasuno High. Funny how she'd never notice him if she didn't catch him staring at her during one of the games in the tournament.
She turns around as she finishes her stretching with her captain, Michimiya Yui. Only the two of them are serious about the volleyball club practices, so her senpai asked the captain of male volleyball club, Sawamura Daichi, for a joint practice game. Sawamura agrees on the two-on-two match in the gymnasium that Friday afternoon.
"Don't underestimate us girls," Michimiya says good-naturedly.
Sawamura chuckles. "Show us what the female volleyball team got, then."
Kageyama's eyes are immediately drawn towards the ginger-haired male who keeps stealing glances at her. Their eyes meet instantly, but the boy turns away in a blush.
Apparently, she and her captain are playing against him and a boy with silver hair.
Kageyama knows the silver-haired male. He's the male volleyball club's setter, Sugawara Koushi. Not an aggressive player, in her opinion, but is notable with how he handles his tosses to his teammates even with an average build.
It's her serve that will start the game. She gives the ginger haired male a look before tossing the ball high up and slamming it with a rather unexpected force. The ball hit the space just centimeters beside the left foot of the smaller male.
The whole gym had gone silent at the loud wham of the ball.
"That's amazing!" comes a yell. Kageyama blinks at the male who just spoke, noting the large L on his shirt. Libero, huh? She then notices his face, the lock of blonde hair tickling his forehead. It's the boy who she once saw with the ginger-haired male.
He runs towards his captain. "I want to play against her too!"
"Calm down, Nishinoya," Sawamura says. "There's only a single practice match scheduled today."
"Then next week!"
Kageyama catches the ball passed to her, gripping on it as she turns her blue eyes upon those large eyes again. She's surprised when she found them staring right back at her. No blushes, no twitching fingers. Just a serious stare that tells her to bring it on.
She brings the ball up to cover half of her face, hiding her small smile. Bring it on, huh?
She serves, making sure that she hits the ball harder. The boy receives the ball this time, bringing it nicely up in the air. Sugiwara positions for a toss while the orange head runs, jumps and spikes the ball. Kageyama slides down, catching the spike. Michimiya tosses for her, and she returns the ball with a sideline spike.
Nishinoya whistles and jumps around a little when the ginger-haired boy doesn't catch the ball. Sawamura puts a hand on the smaller boy's shoulder in an attempt to calm down the excited libero.
"Your receives are bad," Kageyama comments, directing her words at the orange-haired male. "Move faster!"
"Toshiko-chan!" Michimiya calls in warning at her junior. She can see from the corner of her eyes that the boy tenses. But before she can say anything, the boy opens his mouth wide.
"YES!"
Indeed, gradually, the small male's movements increase in speed. Even his spikes get stronger as the game progresses. Kageyama notices that the ginger-haired male doesn't plan on giving up the ball as long as it's in the air.
She finds him scary like that.
The game ends early with a painful score of 12-25. Girl power, with Kageyama's overwhelming presence on the court. Sawamura and Michimiya go to one corner of the gym, planning the next practices. Kageyama decides to help in gathering the balls when the ginger-haired male approached her.
The blushes are back. Also that insufferable twitching of his fingers accompanied by muttering as the male tries to find the words to say.
"Ah... umm, uhh..." He takes a deep breath before bellowing out in a voice that echoes all around the gymnasium. "Please go out with me!"
For the second time, a pin can be heard falling in the complete silence of the gymnasium. Everyone turns to the male completely red in the face, ears and even neck when he realized what he just said. He stutters again, trying to string his words of apology and to say that he should hang himself and just die at the insolence - even though he feels he can already die from the embarrassment. But Kageyama beats him from speaking.
"Yes."
There isn't a single eep from the ginger-haired male nor from anyone else in the gym after that. The male blinks, trying to process what he just heard.
"Yes...?" is all that he can mutter in his surprised state, his voice completely laced with confusion and question.
"Yes, I'll go out with you," Kageyama says. "Shouyou, isn't it?"
She first heard of his name when Nishinoya called the male as she caught him looking at her. She watches in amusement as the male goes impossibly redder.
"S-S-S-S-S-S-Shouyou?!" the boy gasps.
She knows why he gave her such reaction. She just called him by his first name, right on the first time they had spoken to each other. Actually, she has no idea why she agreed on going out with him when all she knows of him is his first name. And his large almond-colored eyes. And his eye catchy fluffy-looking ginger hair. His small height.
And most of all, his complete love for volleyball.
She watches him too, blue eyes trained on him in his every game in the tournament. She knows of his weaknesses, of his explosive power and of his inhuman speed and reaction time. But she doesn't know when she started liking him enough to answer yes when he suddenly asks her out.
She notices him squirming again. "Is there something wrong?"
"...uhh..."
"Stop squirming, moron."
"Moron?!"
"I'm just asking what's the matter."
The male goes silent again. But only for a while.
"...your name?"
"Hah?" Kageyama says. "Speak louder."
The ginger-haired player looks like he's about to cry. "W-What's your name?"
"WHAT THE HELL, SHOU-?!" Nishinoya yells on top of his lungs as he watches the scene unfolding from the court side. But Tanaka covers the mouth of his senpai as he - and all others - observes for the reaction of the girl. A bespectacled blonde boy keeps chuckling on one side though.
They're sure that with that question, the newborn relationship will only last for those few precious minutes in the gymnasium. They don't know how wrong they are.
"Kageyama Toshiko," comes a gentle reply. She bows politely. "Please take care of me, Shouyou."
The male bows back, ingrained manners making him do it automatically.
'Please take care me, Shouyou...' kept echoing in his head. He can't help but flush again.
"Please just call me Hinata for now, K-Kageyama," the ginger male manages to say. "Calling me by my first name isn't very good for my heart..."
