Chapter 9
Oh no. Oh god. It was happening. Everyone was going to find out now. He couldn't just stand up and walk this one off he could feel it, his leg wasn't supposed to at that angle, but it was fine right? It just came loose right? All he could do was lie here and wait for Karasuno to realize something was wrong, he wasn't hurt but his leg wouldn't work. His breath quickened and his teeth clenched as did his fists, what was taking his team so long, it felt like he had to have been lying here for hours already. Then he felt a comforting hand on his arm and he relaxed.
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As always Daichi watched in fascination as his teammate jumped and just kept flying upwards, it was amazing he thought that someone so small and which such hardships could manage to climb to such great heights. Hinata spiked the ball and it spun to the ground with Komi just missing it. Daichi watched with with a smile as he fell back to earth, but that happiness quickly crumpled into deep fear and dread as Hinata hit the ground and started crumpling.
Everyone was frozen. Was he going to get up, as Daichi and the rest of Karasuno started to move towards the fallen crow the rest of the teams were still frozen in shock. As they got closer he saw Hinata's leg and stumbled slightly in shock, it twisted so the foot was at impossible angle and where it should attach to the stump it was bent as well so the whole thing was slightly askew. On top of that the prosthesis had clearly come part as that leg had slipped so it looked way too long. Daichi quickly looked up and saw Bokuto and Akaashi staring at the leg from the other side of the net and quickly he muttered to the rest of the team to surround Hinata and block him from view. As the team quickly shuffled around he could here Takeda, Ukai, Yachi and Kiyoko running up to them and they soon pushed through to the inside of the circle of sweaty boys. Then the shouting started.
"What's wrong with shrimpy-chan?"
"Is he ok?"
"What's wrong with Shouyou?"
Daichi could her their feet thundering as they ran towards them.
"Hinata are you ok." He asked quickly.
"Kinda? I'm not hurt but I don't think I can walk. I'm pretty sure something in my leg came off the stump." Hinata responded sadly looking down at his leg.
"Ok," Suga suddenly cut in "Hinata how do you want to do this what do you want this? What do want to tell them?"
"I think I might as well tell them now no way hide it." He said the he hesitated and added blushing. "But um, can Asahi pick me up or something? They were already taller then me and knowing some of them they might trample me."
Daichi looked at Asahi the taller boy nodded and grabbed the smaller one under the arms and picked him up. Then everybody in the gym stared as the leg in his pant leg fell out. Everyone stared in silence at both the leg and the boy who was now on the back of the tall boy. Then it started.
"What's that? A leg! A LEG YOU DO THAT WITH JUST ONE LEG!"
"WHAT ARE YOU!"
"HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!"
"How do you play?"
"Why didn't you tell us?"
The shouting grew and grew, as it got louder Hinata starting sinking low on Asahi's back. Karasuno noticed and responded with their own shouting.
"Please quiet down you're scaring Hinata a bit."
"YOU'RE SCARING MY PRECIOUS KOUHAI!"
"The shrimp may be annoying but we need him so stop terrifying him to death."
"SHUT UP THE DUMBASS IS SCARED!"
"C-could you p-please q-quiet down?"
This just added to the noise and everything got even louder. Soon some of the more responsible players and coaches started trying to quiet the group down until Hinata took matters into his own hands. He sat up tall and bellowed,
"SHUT UP! I KNOW YOU WANT AN EXPLANATION BUT I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING UNTIL YOU ALL SHUT UP!"
Every quieted down. Hinata took a deep breath and started to explain,
"I lost my leg in a car accident when I was 10. Two months later they gave me an unbalanced hunk of plastic they called a prosthesis, a cane and a promise of something better soon. I didn't get anything better till I was 12 right before I started junior high because I wanted to play volleyball. I was in physio for the first half of first year, when I got back to school I went to join the boys volleyball team and found it didn't exist. I spent the next year and a half building up my strength and balance when I jump and begging tosses off of random kids. People didn't want to because they didn't want me to hurt myself. Finally in third year I dragged my two best friends and a bunch of first years to a tournament. None of them played volleyball. We played Kageyama in the first round and got knocked out of the tournament. After that I started playing with the neighbourhood mom's team and the girls team. Then I went to Karasuno, I kept it a secret so I could play they only found out just over a month ago." He took a break and looked downcast.
"Understand if you don't want me to play anymore, but can I just stay for the rest of camp be the ball boy maybe?" Hinata looked up only to see confused faces looking back at him.
"Why wouldn't we want you to play Shrimpy-chan?" Asked Kuroo, Hinata looked at them his face glowing with hope.
"Yeah! Ace put him down so he can put back on his leg we have a game to finish!" Shouted Bokuto, Hinata looked like he was going to cry.
"Told you they wouldn't care Dumbass." Kageyama commented scathingly.
Asahi put Hinata down on his good leg and Noya ran forward to get his leg ready. Noya picked it up then looked at puzzled, he turned and brought it over.
"Hinata does this look right to you" Noya asked carefully, pointing at a broken screw in the knee joint. Hinata paled suddenly he took his leg gingerly from Noya ignoring the questions from the others. He attached it then tried to put his weight on it. It collapsed again. Hinata struggled to his feet again and tried once more. It collapsed. He looked at the shocked faces of everyone looking at him and started to cry.
"It's broken… I can't walk… I can't play… What's left now?"
A/N So I completely apologize for this late and shitty update. As well as the cliff hanger I may be evil and I apologize. On another note I have this friend tendous_satoris(actually a shoutout just saying go check her out she's on ao3 and writes fluffy one-shots) that always responds to comments posted on her fics so I'm wondering if you want me to respond or not? Once again like it? Hate it? Leave a review just please no flames.