KageHina Week Day 2
Prompt: Nicknames or Natsukashii (Nostalgic)
Word Count: 780
Note: Olympic AU because why not? The summer Olympics is being hosted in Tokyo in 2020 so this can totally happen. Inspired off by part of this post (imaginethehaikyuukids . tumblr post/86750880099/could-you-do-an-au-where-hinata-and-kageyama-have-gone#notes and in Kageyama's third person point of view. Also lots of manga spoilers.
"The medals will be presented by…" Kageyama has stopped listening at this point because it takes a lot of his will power to keep a stoic expression and not look stupid in front of the camera.
To keep his mind off of the fact that he and his team was being recorded by national television he thinks back on the final match. It was a heated match up between their team Japan and previous silver medalists team Brazil that had exhausted everyone on both sides of net both physically and mentally. The most intense part, which everyone would have to agree with, was the finale of the entire game. The game was coming to a conclusion scarily parallel to match between Karasuno and Aobajousai during Shouyou's and Kageyama's first Interhigh: both teams would refuse to give up the winning score and had lead to a repeating rhythm of deuce with each team scoring over each other every other point. It's 31-30, favorable to Japan, and Kageyama was almost certain this was going to be fate's cruel irony by repeating a past failure.
That is, until he hears a distantly familiar calling.
"Give it here!" He hears Shouyou scream at him as he rushes up towards the opposite side of the net.
Kageyama almost can't believe the orange-hair male was willing to close his eyes for the last time –during the most important moment- just to make an attempt to surprise the opponent. Kageyama holds complete trust on Shouyou's decision though and he makes the original speed pass from their first year together and then it connects perfectly with his partner's palm. The raven-haired male is almost scared of Shouyou being blocked by a wall again and he almost wants to close his own eyes as well.
He doesn't though and he watches as the ball sail pass all the players and hits the opposite side of court before Brazil's libero can catch it.
Kageyama looks towards the scoreboard as reassurance that what he had just witnessed wasn't just a dream. It isn't as the scorekeepers change the tally to 32-30 and whole stadium is cheering in utter joy over their home country's victory.
He then turns his body around to face Shouyou so that he can congratulate him but he stops short when he sees the sight before him.
Shouyou is just staring at his reddened palm and despite having lost a lot of his childish features throughout the years they have spent together, Kageyama is able to identify the smile on the idiot's face as the one he first wore when he had passed to him for the first time. A lot of emotions pass through but the most identifiable was accomplishment. The struggles that he himself faced against his king persona, the struggles he and Shouyou faced together –be it either concerning their professional status or their now more intimate personal relationship-, they had finally made it to the end.
"H-hey Tobio why are you crying? We haven't even been given the medal yet you crybaby!"
Kageyama was interrupted from his reminiscence when he feels Shouyou grab his hand and he uses his free hand to feel his now wet cheek. Indeed his plan to keep his stoic façade had failed and he had instead ended crying without realizing it.
"You're the one to talk dumbass! You look even worse than me," Kageyama chided silently as he took a look at Shouyou's face. The shorter male's ember eyes were now red and puffy from the crying he had done himself and his lips were quivering slightly.
Hinata had opened his mouth to retort but a chuckled had silenced what was about to be said. The person presenting the medals looked at them in understanding and putted one on both their necks.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the anthem of Japan," they announce in Japanese before doing so again in English and French. The anthem's instrument is played but whole stadium is practically a choir as the home nation's theme rings proudly until the end.
After the song is finished there is a lot of cheer as the award ceremony formally finishes. Kageyama can almost take Shouyou and kiss him right there on the spot. Almost, because they are still in sight of cameras filming live and nationally so the raven-haired has to play off the stoic as best as he can.