The girl had asked because she had noticed that both kageyama and hinata had been listening intently to the conversation they had been having.
"I'm not sure-" kageyama started but were interrupted by hinata as he was giving his answer.
"Yeah! Sounds like fun! Let's do it!" hinata said excitedly.
"Yes! Let's catch this serial killer!" the girl replied in equal eagerness.
"What were you going to say kageyama?" the guy with the dream of following his mom's footsteps asked.
"I was going to say that I'm not sure I have time considering the tournament that's coming up..." Kageyama answered while giving hinata a glare that clearly said "And that means you don't have time either, idiot!".
"Oh, that's right... but we can still investigate during breaks! Come on kageyama! Don't you want to be a cool detective!?" hinata said over excitedly.
"I... want to..." kageyama said with an expression that showed them that he was clearly torn between yes and no. You see, either he played detective with them and used his breaks on that instead of practicing with hinata, or he declined playing detective and practiced instead. Although considering the fact that hinata seemed like he was going to join them no matter what, he probably wouldn't be able to practice during the breaks which would mean studying...
"I'm in." kageyama said after thinking things through properly. He didn't like studying...
"YES! Then let's start our investiga-" the girl started, but she was interrupted by the bell signalizing that the break was over.
"We'll start our investigation together tomorrow then..." the guy said.
Both kageyama and hinata thought about the conversation they had been listening in on during the rest of the day, but neither of them thought about it in the same way as the other.
One of them thought about it as something dangerous, and the other didn't think it was such a big deal, but they both had appeared like they were just like they normally were. Both of them are wearing a mask of sorts, but for different reasons. Neither of them know about the other person's mask however, and both of them think that they're the only ones wearing a mask.
One of them is a serial killer, and the other is not.
Kageyama thought about the fact that he was going to pretend to be a detective with the others and try finding out who the serial killer, that's been active in their town lately, is. He didn't know how to feel about that to be honest. He did after all know more than the others, he had to be careful not to give them too much information. Especially since he have no way of explaining how he knows about it all, and where he attained such knowledge.
Kageyama was going to be able to spend time with hinata at least.
You see, kageyama discovered something a while ago... he discovered that he had fallen head over heels in love with hinata. Hinata had, without him realising it, become his beacon in life. Kageyama hadn't noticed how much hinata had begun to mean to him before he was in too deep, before hinata meant everything to him. Kageyama didn't exactly have a easy life, and ever since he had met the little ball of sunshine he began to feel more happy on a general basis.
He hadn't confessed his feelings to hinata yet, but he was planning to do so soon.
Who knows, maybe he'd get the chance to do so tomorrow? He was definitely going to try and find a chance to confess his feelings to hinata tomorrow.
Hinata on the other hand did not think about kageyama in that way, he had in fact never considered it. His mind was occupied with other things entirely, and he never felt like he had the time to even consider love or anything related to that. Hinata was struggling with his anxiety too much to be able to successfully concentrate about anything else than volleyball, and sometimes he failed to do that too.
Hinata had a lot more anxious moments than anyone else knew about. He didn't understand how people didn't notice that he was more anxious than he let on, was his mask really that good? He felt like everyone was able to see how badly he really handled things, but nobody commented on it... so maybe it actually didn't show? That would, in hinata's eyes, be something akin to a miracle.
He was also feeling anxious about tomorrow...
Tomorrow he'd have to play detective and try figuring out who the serial killer in the area is, and he really hoped that they didn't figure it out... and yeah, he was the one who jumped at the idea, but what was he supposed to do? He had an image to uphold... an image which was his way of hiding from the harsh reality, a way for him to disguise himself and blend in with the "normal people".
He seemed normal, happy and carefree to the world, but he felt anything but those things.
And when the time came for both of them to go to school the next day they both wished they had said no to playing detective the day before.
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It's a REALLY short chapter, but I kind of needed to end it there...
But anyway! I hope I hear from you guys, because your comments are the only things that keep me going!
(I might write another chapter for this for tomorrow's kagehina month entry... but it's not decided yet... you see I kinda like the idea of this fic...)