After catching his breath and wiping his eyes, Hinata looked up at Kageyama with a serious look in his eyes. A shiver ran down Kageyama's spine and froze him in place. He felt this feeling before but he couldn't remember where from. Though, right now his mind was stuck on Hinata. He couldn't look away from the ginger. He had come to know Hinata as being happy, energetic, and out going. Now, it seemed like the person sitting across the table from him was far from the Hinata he knew. This was a different person.

"Why aren't you asking questions? Why aren't you asking where you are? Do you even have any idea why you're here and why I'm here?" Hinata continued to lecture Kageyama. With each question he spat out towards the other boy, the air seemed to get cooler with each question and the warm Hinata seemed to get farther and farther away. "Why aren't you saying anything? You can't just accept all of this. You don't even know what day it is."

Hinata got up and walked over to the curtains that covered almost the whole wall on the far side of the room. He pulled them apart to reveal a glass door that slid open onto a balcony. The sky was dark already from the setting sun. Multiple stars shimmered in the expanse of the black sky over the city town's skyline with a bit of red smeared near the horizon still.

"It's night out." Hinata stood staring out the door, waiting for a reply. Kageyama was confused, sure it was night, it's a normal thing that occurred everyday but what he didn't remember was Hinata's house having a balcony.

"Yeah, I passed out till night fall, it's not weird." Kageyama was going to question Hinata about the balcony but stopped when he saw the look on the others face.

"Normally it wouldn't be weird but it is when you've been asleep for the past four days!"

Kageyama's face dropped and his mind wheeled. Four days. He'd been asleep for four days at Hinata's. There were tons of questions filling his mind and any of them would have been acceptable to ask right now but nothing came out of his mouth. Four days. That's why his voice had sounded weird when he woke up. Then thoughts of his parents, school, and volleyball crossed his mind.

"I need to call my parents. They're probably worried about where I am." Kageyama made to stand up but Hinata closed the distance between them and pushed him back down to the floor.

"I told them that we had a last minute training camp for the week."

"Then what did you tell the team?" Kageyama asked but there was no reply for a few seconds.

"Nothing really, I haven't gone to school since you were passed out here. Suga texted me once and I said that I had a super bad cold, he probably figured that you also caught it from me." Hinata's voice was oddly monotone, the explanations seeming to fall from his mouth without much thinking. "By the way you're at my apartment and I'm almost out of some things so we need to go shopping later, especially if you decide to stay here."

"Your…apartment? But your family and you live in a house don't you? Also, since I'm awake now then why would I stay? I obviously need to go home so I can get ready for school and volleyball, dumbass."

Hinata shook his head and sat back down across from Kageyama. This wasn't really the conversation he wanted to have, there was something else he had to talk about with Kageyama and now he needed to.

"I moved out a while ago and ended up in this place." Hinata took a deep breath and was about to continue talking to get to the important part but Kageyama cut him off.

"Why didn't you tell anyone you lived on your own? Wait, we still walk home together and you go towards your house though. Is your apartment that way?"

"I didn't really want anyone to know. You're only finding out because of circumstances. Plus, no, it's actually the complete opposite direction I didn't want to be near my family's house." Hinata started to play with his fingers; he was intertwining them together where they rested on the table.

"Then why did you walk with me to the usual spot when you should have been going the opposite way? There are a couple of apartment buildings near your house as well, so why didn't you get one there?" Kageyama was aware he was asking a lot of questions but nothing was really adding up. He never saw Hinata as the kind of guy who would just up and move out while in high school.

"I didn't want you to think something was up with me and I couldn't move to one closer to there. The reason I moved in the first place was to protect Natsu."

"Protect…your sister?"

Hinata took another deep breathe. This was the moment to tell him. Now he would see how Kageyama reacts and if he runs out on Hinata.

"Kageyama, there's something I should tell you before we talk more." Hinata waited to hear a reply from the boy sitting across from him to show that he was listening. He looked up and saw that the other wore a questioning face. It was rare they had a serious conversation like this without it ending in a fight, name calling, or racing each other somewhere. Kageyama nodded, encouraging Hinata to continue talking. "Um, don't freak out or anything, well I mean you probably will but…okay, um, I'm going to say it… Kageyama, I'm a ghoul."

Hinata flinched and screwed his eyes shut. This was the first time he had told someone who's not a ghoul that he's a ghoul. Of course, Hinata had fantasized multiple times before about telling this fact to Kageyama and the team. He always imagined them accepting it and then wanting to see his kagune and red eyes thinking they were cool. Although in reality, he knew this wouldn't happen. All the newspapers and TV shows talked about was how much ghouls are to be feared, that they aren't human, and can't be trusted. Hinata didn't know very many ghouls personally but the ones he knew were nice, to him at least, and he knew that they could be trusted. A few minutes passed and Hinata was stuck in his head as he worried about the others reaction. Kageyama hadn't left or screamed yet so that's good. Hinata continued to talk to fill the heavy silence.

"My parents and I decided it was probably best that I moved out now and got my own place because even though I was born a ghoul, Natsu wasn't. So since she's at what my parents called a 'difficult age' we decided it was best for me to get my own place at least for a while to avoid an incident where my hunger gets bad when I'm home with Natsu and I do something I would regret." Hinata was rambling but Kageyama still wasn't replying. His face was blank but at the same time it was scrunched up with concentration. This look frightened Hinata more than the glare he would receive after missing a perfect toss.

On the other side of the table Kageyama's brain was in overdrive as pieces finally fell together. Hinata just said he was a ghoul but he must have been joking. Now that he was thinking about it, there were some days when Hinata would act weird. Such as when the team went out for food after a game or practice then right after they ate he would excuse himself to the bathroom for a while, and whenever they had a game in Tokyo the ginger always came back with an extra bag of something that he never tells the rest of the team about. Hinata was a ghoul. It finally clicked into place inside of his head. He looked across the table at the nervous ginger. His fingers were becoming more intertwined and his face was pale as he looked down waiting for Kageyama's reply, waiting for anything.

"So, you're really a ghoul?

Hinata was taken aback by the calm response.

"I'm really a ghoul."

"Like one of those ones that have been on the TV lately?" Kageyama was staring at Hinata as if looking for an answer that was hidden on the ginger's face.

Hinata slowly closed his eyes then opened them. Bright red pupils surrounded by black stared back at the other. Kageyama sucked in a deep breathe and held it. Hinata's eyes were breathtaking. He had heard tales of what a ghoul's eyes were supposed to look like but up close on Hinata they were a mix of terrifying and attractive but he wouldn't tell Hinata that. The raven haired boy let out the breath he was holding and continued to look into the chilling red eyes of the other.

"You really are a ghoul."

Hinata let out a little laugh and looked down. When he looked back up at Kageyama his eyes were back to the normal warm brown colour.

"Yeah, I really am."

Kageyama broke their eye contact to look down. The plates of food were still sitting on the table between them; surprisingly Hinata's plate still held half of the red meat that made Kageyama's mouth water. Then he realized another thing. Ghouls can't eat anything else except for humans but Hinata looked really happy when eating that meat.

"But um, can't ghouls only eat…"

Hinata continued to stare at Kageyama. He just accepted it so easily, especially once he saw his ghoul eyes. Like he had just been told what Hinata's position was on the volleyball team, although Hinata could tell that he had to think about it a bit due to the long reply wait time.

"We can only eat human. Well, in public we have to eat normal food or at least make it look like we are eating it."

"Does that mean that meat is…?" Kageyama couldn't bring himself to say what it was out loud.

"Yeah, it's human. I cooked it a bit so that the juices would come back out."

Kageyama's face went even paler. He wanted to throw up when hearing Hinata talk about it.

"But you made me…" Kageyama was only saying partial sentences now. He was more shocked at the fact that there was human flesh in front of him than the fact that an actual ghoul sitting across from him.

"You complained about the normal food tasting terrible even though it's fresh. Anyway, you said it was delicious." Hinata tilted his head to the side; he didn't understand why Kageyama looked like he wanted to throw up all of the sudden. Although, being told all of this in a short amount of time may have been a bigger shock than Hinata had judged it to be.

"But…I'm not…I mean ghouls eat human…and I'm not…" Kageyama couldn't even form a full sentence now.

Hinata sighed heavily as he watched the worried Kageyama. There were rumours spreading around about the different ways ghouls could be created. No one believed them because there were some completely fake ones and some really crazy ones but there were some ghouls who believed in them fully. The oldest and most spread one told about how a human could be turned into a ghoul. Hinata had heard it one night but brushed it off as just another rumour created by the news channels. This 'rumour' states that if a human happens to be eaten by a ghoul till almost death but left with their major internal organs intact then there is a slight possibility where the human will die briefly but come back to life within seconds as a ghoul. Of course their body will need time to regenerate itself and it is also in this stage of regeneration that the once human body will grow a RC cell organ for the kagune. There are only a few rumours that this method for making ghouls had worked before but it's said that most people die from the shock before they become ghouls so even if it does work it's not highly used by many ghouls to make others. Although, there are some who do believe it works and these ghouls have more of a tendency to rip apart the human so that if there was a chance then they wouldn't be able to come back alive as a ghoul. Hinata had doubted this rumour much like he doubts and ignores most of the others but now he knew the truth. There was proof sitting in front of him.

Second chapter out! So I've decided to change the chapter release date for this fic to be on Sundays (give or take a day sometimes based on my schedule). The next chapter is going to be longer with more action and kagehina happening in it so I hope you all will keep reading and enjoying it!