Fandom: Haikyuu
Title: Days in a Life
Pairing: Kageyama Tobio x Hinata Shouyou
Kageyama lies on his bed, shifting under the tangling mess of sheets and pillows, eyes clenching tight as memories of the day prior forcefully make their way into his mind. He remembers it all. The way his parents told him about the arranged marriage with a big smile on their faces. The chaos that followed soon after, which needless to say, had led to a sudden interruption of their dinner, and therefore, to the Hinata family excusing themselves with the promise to meet up another time. But one thing Kageyama remembers above all is Hinata's expression. The way the boy's face looked all flustered. Kageyama assumed his behaviour was due to the sudden blow delivered by their crazy parents. It's not every day you are given the news that you're getting marry with someone of the same sex, on top of that, without knowing it yourself, after all. His parents had dropped that bomb on them as if it were nothing. Anyone would go mad or be confused about it. He buries his face onto his large pillow, refusing to get up and confront his parents about the whole mess they had created. He had to though, if he wanted to clarify things and get everything back to normal, if his parents were normal in any way. He jolts up from his bed into a sitting position when something suddenly strikes his mind. Did Japan legalize gay marriage? For what he knew from the little knowledge he had of his country, Japan was one of those countries had yet to approve of it. So how did his parents come up with that absurd idea? And what about the media? As the only heir of one of the biggest CEO company in Japan wasn't this kind of news real bad for the image of the Kageyama family? Tobio could already read an imaginary article about him on the newspaper saying -Kageyama Tobio the heir of the Kageyama's has turned gay-. A look of pure terror makes its way into his face at the sole thought.
Gossips were never good.
He swiftly gets up from the bed, passing a hand through his black hair, trying to make it less messy, and hurriedly makes his way towards the desk, sighing as he flips his laptop open and waits for the screen to come to life. After a quick typing and research, the site of his interest appears on the screen and –BINGO-. He was right. Well, he knew all along but he just wanted to make sure since the only thing that Kageyama had the most knowledge about was solely volleyball. With a grin on his face he runs downstairs, not even bothering to change of his pajamas. When he enters the kitchen, he sees his father drinking his morning coffee while reading the newspaper. And of course he seemed to be in a bad mood.
"Morning Tobio." The man greets him without looking away from his journal as not to steal precious time to his reading. Tobio slightly bows his head down, mumbling a 'good morning' barely loud for his father to hear. His mother enters the kitchen soon after, all joyful and cheerful, so much that makes Tobio flinch in his spot.
"What are you standing there for dear?" his mother inquires, planting a soft kiss on her son's forehead before ruffling his hair.
"Oh Tobio, you are not even dressed yet? And look at your bed hair. Sit with us and have a proper breakfast first." She says as she sits next to her husband and beckons his son to do the same.
Tobio feels a sense of constriction, like something heavy on his heart that cannot be uplifted easily. He sits, although begrudgingly, studying his father's looks as he skims through his newspaper, expression changing every time the man seemed to read on a different article. He then grabs the carton of milk on the table and pours a glass of milk for himself, drinking a big gulp.
He swallows hard before speaking.
"Actually about yesterday," he starts, as he sets the glass, now half empty, on the smooth surface of the table. But he doesn't even have the time to finish his sentence that his father abruptly slams the newspaper against the table, making him jump in his seat.
"I am really disappointed about you and about what happened yesterday." the man says with a boisterous tone. His mother as well looks at him with deplorable eyes, as if with that stare she wanted to make him understand she strongly was on his father's side. Tobio has to swallow a lump down his throat this time, speechless, as the tension fills the room and his father continues speaking.
"I hope you won't give us ulterior motives of disappointment, Tobio." he says, and it wasn't a plea but an absolute demand.
Tobio struggles to find the words, eyes shifting nervously, knowing well that arguing with his father was something that only a fool would do. Even so, Tobio takes all of his courage and eventually speaks up, or at least he tries, because the only audible things that come out of his mouth are 'Japan and gay marriage' to which his father and mother suddenly start laughing amused much to Tobio's chagrin.
"What's so funny?" Tobio asks distraught, not comprehending what was so hilarious about it.
"Oh dear, you don't have to worry about this." His mother says, although she has some difficulties speaking clearly because her voice is still muffled with laughter. "By the time you and Hinata kun will marry you'll both be 18, and in three years gay marriage will surely be legalized also in Japan." She concludes with a cheerful clap of her hands to which his father nods approvingly.
Kageyama looks at her in utter shock as if suddenly she had grew another head. He knew his parents were crazy but not to this extent. Too bad Tobio wasn't yet aware they had gotten worse with the years.
"Besides you are lucky," his father says, "Mrs Hinata just called me this early in the morning, and despite what happened, they are still willing to organize this wedding."
Tobio shivers. The way the word wedding rolls off of his father's tongue seems totally and utterly wrong. How could he marry another boy just for the sake of the family company? It was absurd. It wasn't that he disliked Hinata or anything but, hell, that 'but' was where the whole problem laid.
"Dad, I don't think…" Tobio tries to say only to be cut off from the loud and persistent ringing of the phone coming from the living room. He sees his mother rushing towards it, while his father gives him a murderous look as if he knew what he was about to say and wanted to shut him up before saying anything more. "Listen son," his father says solemnly, "I know what you're thinking. How can two males get marry and how they do..." he pauses, struggling to find the right words not to scare him off, but Tobio bristles nonetheless. Before his father could say anything else though, his mother dashes towards them with an excited smile on her face, phone in hand. Needless to say the sight of his mother looking like a child that had just received her favourite toy didn't make him feel any better. He glances at the phone dangling between his mother's fingers. It wasn't what he was thinking, right?
"Good news! Mrs Hinata just called me and we arranged a date for you and Hinata kun."
She breathes out enthusiastically. Well, if that was good news Tobio had no idea what bad news were then, and he was not sure if he wanted to know given the circumstances. He can feel the glass of milk he had just drank lingering in his throat as if it wanted to spill out from his mouth, such was his happiness.
"A date?" Tobio asks incredulous, "But I don't think this is…" Interrupted yet again by the way his mother gives a meaningful look to her husband, Tobio feels another shiver run up his neck. He knew nothing good was coming from that look.
"Dear, did you talk to our son about that?" Among the jumble of his thoughts Tobio hears his mother ask his father, and for a second he wished to be deaf.
"Uhm, I was getting to it?" The man replies with a strained tone. Tobio really was afraid to know what his father wanted to talk about at this point. Another meaningful look from his mother makes Tobio completely lose the last bit of self-control he has as he sees her excusing herself before leaving the room and muttering something about how this was a man to man talk.
But Tobio didn't want this man to man talk like his mother had called it, he just wanted to run away, far away.
"So," his father starts, crossing his hands and resting his chin on them, "since now you are engaged I've been thinking that we should have… well, you know the talk."
Murderous Silence.
Even though it was still too early in the morning for his sleepy brain to comprehend everything, it didn't take a genius to understand what his father was talking about. Sure, Tobio was only 15, but he knew what he was referring to. He tries to recompose himself boring holes on the kitchen table as if there he could find an explanation to the mess he had been caught in.
"The talk?" He repeats with trembling lips as if the word didn't want to sink in.
"Yeah, the talk." His father says again, unabashed.
"Dad, I'm only 15. I don't need the talk." Tobio hisses.
"It's because you are 15 that you need the talk."
His father insists, and Tobio really wished to just dig a hole and disappear into it. What did his father know about how two men screw? What was he even talking about? Actually, why they were having this conversation in the first place? Nothing made sense. He brings his hand on his hair as a desperate attempt to make his mind go astray; hoping all of it was a joke, a really bad joke. But when his mother barges into the kitchen, Tobio is pulled back to reality again.
"Oh dear," the woman says, pointing at her husband in a not so polite manner, "you are scaring our son with your weird explanations."
The man gives his wife a look of disapproval, "Fine, then how am I supposed to explain to him how two men get down to business?"
The woman brings a hand on her mouth as a laugh escapes her lips,
"The way you say that sounds tremendously wrong dear."
Tobio watches his parents dumbfounded. Knowing them, they were capable to picture in their mind at least five years ahead of his life, and arrange the way the baby's room would look once he and Hinata married and had some babies. Because of course for their crazy parents they would have some even if scientifically speaking that was impossible.
"Anyway, Tobio dear," his mother chirps happily as a silent curse rolls off of Tobio's lips. "There's no time to waste. Go and get prepared. The date is in an hour, and Tsukishima kun will accompany you."
Tobio rolls his eyes, trying to restrain a feral growl. Why him of all people? He was sure the bastard would tell his parents every little detail about his 'supposed to be romantic date'. He sighs, making a face at the word 'date', stomach churning as his mother pushes him towards the door. Before being shoved out of the door though, his father calls to him.
"Tobio?"
"Yes dad?" he replies, shoulders slumping dejectedly.
"Are you really sure you won't need the talk?"
Something cracks inside of Tobio's head, and for the first time in his life he wanted to cry. Seriously, what could go wrong more than this?
…
Hinata had been in a daze for the whole morning. The events of the night before had been quite exhausting, and he still couldn't bring himself to believe that his parents had organized an arranged marriage unbeknownst to him. Anger should grip at him and linger at the pit of his stomach since his parents had once again acted on their own, not taking into consideration his feelings and threating him like he had no right to make any decision regarding his life. Yet he feels quite serene about the whole matter, maybe even a little bit happy. He grins unconsciously when the grumpy face of a certain black haired boy comes to his mind. He remembers all of Kageyama's expressions, carved in his mind as if he could see them right now in front of him, and for a reason he can't fathom he just can't stop smiling.
His thoughts are fast dissolved when his cell phone on the nightstand starts ringing loudly. Brown orbs shoot immediately open, eyeing the device as if with his stare he could make the annoying ringing stop. Whoever it was that was giving him calls this early on a Sunday morning had no sense of measure, and Shouyou contemplated if he should just toss his phone against a wall like a volleyball. As if on cue, the evil device decides to shut up much to Shouyou's relief, only to ring again soon after warning him of an incoming message. With a soft yawn, Shouyou lazily stretches a hand to reach his cell phone on the nightstand, eyes beaming at the screen upon recognizing the caller id.
From: Kenma
Sunday 8:25
Msg: You owe me a new video game. You didn't show up yesterday for our volleyball meeting, and you didn't even have the courtesy of warning me.
Shouyou has known Kenma since he could remember. Kenma was a childhood friend, but more than that he was his best friend, the sort of friend you can confide in and tell everything with no fear of being judged. They had stick up so much to each other that they knew every little secret they had. Those secrets usually people didn't share with just anybody. Simply put Shouyou knew Kenma's biggest secrets and vice versa.
Shouyou bites down a growl, eyes narrowing at the content of the message as he starts typing a reply.
To: Kenma
Sunday 8:28
Msg: C'mon Kenma, I don't have the money for that. Besides something really unusual happened yesterday.
From: Kenma
Sunday 8:29
Msg: You're a rich brat, you can ask your mother. And what's that about?
To: Kenma
Sunday 8:30
Msg: Yeah, like you don't know my mother and the absurd value she gives to money lol. Anyway, yesterday my parents brought me to an arranged meeting for marriage.
From: Kenma
Sunday 8:31
Msg: That must have bothered you a lot. I can sympathize with you. Who's the girl?
To: Kenma
Sunday 8:32
Msg: Nope, no girl. My parents want me to get marry to another boy.
After sending the message some time passes as Shouyou stares at his phone waiting for Kenma's reply, and when he receives none he ponders if maybe the news was too shocking for him.
He lets out a heavy sigh, dropping his cell phone on his side when suddenly it starts ringing. Shouyou picks it up, his voice still slurred with slumber as he answers,
"Kenma?"
"Are you serious?" On the other side of the line Kenma's loud voice seems highly surprised, which was weird since he usually was calm and collected, but Shouyou guessed the news was indeed shocking even for someone like Kenma.
"Yeah," he replies subtly.
"Wow! That's amazing! What gotten into your parents? I mean, I'm happy for you unless the boy is an ugly turd?"
"Ohooo Kenma! On the contrary, he is a fine hot piece of a guy!" Shouyou says with an overly excited voice that sounded foreigner even to his own ears. "And he even plays volleyball." He concludes.
"He can't possibly be hotter than me!" Comes a husky voice beside Kenma that Shouyou recognizes to belong to Kuroo, and suddenly colour floods his cheeks. He didn't want to know what Kuroo was doing this early in Kenma's room, or rather, he knew but preferred not to go deep into it.
"Hey chibi chan! I can teach you some tricks about how to kiss your partner wonderfully."
Shouyou could hear him loud now; obviously Kuroo had stolen the phone from Kenma because he could hear Kenma reprimanding Kuroo. The weird muffled sounds coming off the phone let Shouyou suppose they were both wrestling to get hold of the phone now.
"Kuro please, don't say such embarrassing things to Shouyou."
"Why not? He should be glad I'm this kind and that I wanna teach him."
Shouyou hears the couple bickering until Kenma gets hold of the phone again.
"Sorry about that, Shouyou." Kenma says apologetically even though he has to restrain a smile as Kuroo childishly complains to him. "Anyway, that's really lucky." He says only to be interrupted by Shouyou from the other line telling him to wait when Daichi knocks at his door. Kenma doesn't have to wait long for Shouyou to back to the phone though.
"Omg Kenma, guess what? I got a date!" Shouyou says in a shrill, and Kenma has to put some gap between the phone and his ear for a moment.
"That's sweet." He replies, bringing the phone back to his ear once he deems it safe to do so.
"You can go all out and kiss him just as Kuro said." He adds with a mocking tone that gets Shouyou flustered.
"Kenmaaaaaa," Shouyou whines, Kenma can catch all the embarrassment lodged in that whine.
"I'm not like you and Kuroo," he continues, his voice still laced with embarrassment, "I never kissed anyone."
"But you said you like him, right?"
"I said he's good looking. I don't know if I lik…"
"You said he's hot." Kenma corrects him, "Which means you wanna kiss him and maybe more than that."
"Kenmaaaa," Shouyou whines louder, even more embarrassed now when suddenly someone knocks at the door again,
"Can I come in?" asks a soft voice from outside.
"Come in", Shouyou breathes out upon recognizing his other butler's voice, Yamaguchi. He puts Kenma on hold again, and Yamaguchi timidly enters the room, eyes casting downwards as he says, "Your parents told me I'll be the one accompany you for your date."
Shouyou raises an inquiring brow, usually it was Suga the one assigned to this kind of tasks, but he guessed the butler was busy with other matters if his parents told Yamaguchi to accompany him. Not like he minded, Yamaguchi was a quiet type after all.
"Oh alright," he smiles brightly, and Yamaguchi looks at him in surprise. He had thought his master was upset about the whole matter but it seemed like it was not the case. Yamaguchi smiles back and adds,
"Also your parents are requesting you downstairs for breakfast when you're ready."
"Sure thing." Shouyou replies firmly, and Yamaguchi excuses himself soon after.
"Kenma?" Shouyou calls to make sure his friend is still on the other side of the line.
"Yeah, I heard." Kenma says with a calm tone.
"Well, I have to go, speak later."
"Yeah ok, have fun on your date."
"Don't forget to kiss him, chibi chan." Kuroo says besides him but a hand is clamped on his mouth before he can say anything else and then the line goes dead.
Shouyou lets out a heavy, long sigh, covering his flushed face with his hands as he whispers to himself, 'I have got a date.'
…
"Stop it with that look. It's annoying."
Tobio snarls at Tsukishima who had eyed him the whole morning with a grin on his face. It was 11:45, and both of them were in their chauffeur driven car, heading to the Hinata's household where they had to be exactly at noon for 'the royal date' how Tsukishima had called it.
"Don't be grumpy, king. Aren't you happy you found your queen?" Tsukishima snickers, covering his mouth with his hand to give a mocking effect. Tobio really wished he had a volleyball with him to smash it against his butler's face. He'd do anything to wipe off that annoying smirk of his. Though he doubted that would help with the task. Seriously he just couldn't cope with the fact that a boy like him had become a butler. It was beyond ridiculous.
He gulps when the car comes to a full stop and he sees the Hinata's mansion right in front of him. Surprisingly, Mrs Hinata was standing right before the gate, waving a hand in greeting, as if she knew exactly when they would arrive. Beside her stood a different butler from the one Tobio saw the previous evening when they'd had the Hinata family as guests. Tobio lets out a rueful sigh, stepping out of the car and directing towards the entrance of the mansion with a slow pace. Tsukishima walking beside him just as a perfect butler would.
When they both reach the threshold they politely greet one another, Tsukishima eyeing the other butler carefully as they exchange their greetings.
"I'm glad you're here Kageyama kun."
Mrs Hinata says cheerfully, as if the huge mess that had happened the night before didn't count in the slightest. Tobio feels cold wrap at his body. There was something scary about the cheerfulness of the woman. The way she smiled at him even though the previous events had not been pleasant. It was like if the woman was surrounded by a dangerous and mighty aura that screamed that nothing of what had happened the night before was going to repeat itself. And Tobio shivers, feeling the immediate urge to just go back to the car and run away. Unfortunately for him though that wasn't one of his options.
He breathes out slowly. All he had to do was talking with Hinata, and then together they'd knock some sense into their -not so normal- parents. Hinata himself had expressed his dislike about his parents to choose a bride for him, after all. Well, groom in this case, but that was behind the point. So Tobio was damn sure the boy would oppose against this marriage with all of his will, especially now that they both had found out their partner was of the same sex.
"This is Yamaguchi, our other butler." Mrs Hinata says, stopping Kageyama's tortuous thinking. "He will be the one accompany you on your date for today." She adds before gesturing them to come inside.
"My son will be downstairs soon." the woman says gleefully, glancing at Kageyama meaningfully. "I'm so glad you two are going to get marry in the future, Kageyama kun. I'm sure you will make my Shouyou very happy."
Tobio growls mentally, but gives her the best smile he can master even though he's really bad at smiling and scares off people most of the time when doing so. For an inexplicable reason he had like the sensation that going against her right now was the wrong move.
"O-of c-course." He says, stuttering, as he tries to cover that gaffe with a laughter, which however, comes out nervously. From his peripheral of vision though, he can see Tsukishima giggling at him, and Tobio takes a mental note to absolutely murder him later.
"Mommy!" Comes a high pitched voice from down the corridor, and then the figure of a little girl running fast towards her mother, as she vivaciously launches herself at her.
"Natsu!" Mrs Hinata exclaims, "Weren't you playing in your room?"
Tobio supposed she was Hinata's little sister because he could really see the resemblances.
"I was, but I got bored" Natsu huffs, boring her face into her mother's lap, sneaking a glance over at the two guests soon after. She quickly moves away from her mother, her white and orange flowery dress fluttering as she turns around. She crosses her arms on her chest just as an adult would do and stares at Kageyama pointedly.
"So, you are my big brother's fiancé?" She says nonchalantly, making Tobio flinch slightly. "You are tall. I'm sure my big brother likes you a lot."
Tobio can feel every ounce in his body twitch in disbelief. That little girl didn't seem to be more than 7, but her way of speaking surely didn't belong to a girl her age.
"Y-yes," Tobio replies, unsure of what expecting next.
"You are really handsome too." Natsu compliments him, smiling brightly as she moves closer. Tobio feels warmth spreading on his cheeks. Even though she was only a little girl, Tobio was not accustomed to receive compliments about his looks, and so all he can do it's just staring, as the girl tugs at his sleeves and delivers the final blow.
"Ne ne, are you and my brother going on a date? Are you two going to kiss a lot?"
Tobio's face immediately blanches and his jaw drops as he processes the girl's questions. Seriously, what the hell did her parents teach her? Dates? Kissing? Shouldn't girls her age play with dolls, or games, or whatever? How come she was so forward? So… Tobio didn't really have the right word to express such boldness. He stays there still for a while, having no idea how to reply, far too shocked to think of a proper response.
"I really am sorry Kageyama kun," Mrs Hinata laughs softly, interrupting the awkward moment. She rests her hands over Natsu shoulders; pushing her towards her and making her lose her grip on Kageyama's sleeve. "My daughter really has a wild fantasy."
Yeah and a chatty mouth too, Tobio thinks to himself.
"Natsu dear, go back to your room now."
"Eeh!? Don't want to. I wanna wait for big brother. He's going to have his first date and I want to see him before that." Natsu pouts widely, as she makes her point, and Mrs Hinata gives her a reprimanding look. Just when Natsu is about to open her mouth to complain some more, her brother appears from upstairs and calls to her.
"Natsu!" Shouyou says her name sweetly as he steps forward.
"Big brother" Natsu shouts, as she swiftly runs towards him and clings to him like a little spider monkey. Shouyou readily catches her and securely keeps her in place with his arms.
"Big brother look, your boyfriend is here." She says as she springs off of him, her eyes sparkling like she'd just received her favourite flavour of ice-cream. There's something really embarrassing in the way Natsu utters the word 'boyfriend' though, because both Kageyama and Hinata turn immediately red. It's only a matter of few seconds but in that incredibly short amount of time the two exchange significant glances, scrutinizing one another. Tobio lets his eyes travel over Hinata's clothing, trying to restrain a growl at the sight of that lithe body wrapped in such fitting clothes.
Shouyou wears blue knee-length pants and a half sleeve white cotton shirt decorated with random text and orange shades. Tobio wears tight black cotton pants, a cotton white shirt with random text and the symbol of a crown on top of it, a light blue jacket that contoured perfectly around his body.
Shouyou swallows hard at how good Kageyama looks in his outfit. It seemed like they were in sync because Kageyama's clothes matched perfectly his.
"You look…"
They say in unison, stopping at the same time when they realize everyone is looking at them, and they immediately snap out from their private world.
"Oh, Shouyou dear. You look stunning." Mrs Hinata says, stealing the words off of Hinata's and Kageyama's mouth.
"T-thanks." Shouyou thanks her mother with a small smile, still embarrassed at the way he and Kageyama had exchanged those meaningful looks just earlier. Shouyou could swear Kageyama was embarrassed too.
"C'mon now, there's no time to waste," Mrs Hinata jovially claps her hands together, "So, you kids go and have fun."
Tobio nods a bit reluctantly, and then opens the door, motioning Hinata to go ahead of him, but Mrs Hinata suddenly shrieks at the gesture,
"Oh, Kageyama kun, you are such a gentleman, opening the door for your soon to be bride."
She says, completely ignoring the weird looks everyone casts her way, aside from Natsu who was busy looking at Kageyama and her brother with dreamy eyes. Tobio was starting to understand from who Natsu had taken her boldness. Then he heaves a sigh, trying to ignore the smug look Tsukishima was giving him, and he walks beside Hinata into the sunny day.
