I was on a warpath, nothing and no one could stop me from murdering those sons of bitches-
"Matsuo, get back here."
Except for Daichi-san, he could always stop me. Simply because he scared me.
"Why won't you let me kill them?" I grumbled, my arms crossed over my chest.
He just sighed at me. "You can kill Oikawa in the match but homicide is generally frowned upon. At least do it in an area without so many witnesses."
The entire team did a double take. "Daichi-san, did you just tell Matsuo it'd be fine to kill if there aren't any witnesses around?" Tanaka-san asked nervously.
He received a sunny smile in return. "Well that way we'll be able to easily hide the body. It's just being practical."
Oh my god I love that man.
"I knew I liked you for a reason!" I positively beamed. "Now let's go slaughter them."
You know how a group of crows is called a murder? Well I'm pretty sure each of us had an expression on our faces to express our need for said bloody adventure.
Fucking bring it Seijo. We're ready for you.
We entered the gym, completely ready to play. Unfortunately, due to demand, we had to come a few hours early to get ready and the sort. We had expected that and thought we would get that time to ourselves. News flash, we didn't. Or at least, I didn't.
Nope, I got the wonderful, read annoying, opportunity to be interviewed by several news groups. All of them about my supposed suitors.
I nearly gagged when someone asked me about my favorite position in bed.
The answer they received was: the one where I am closest to our lord and savior Jesus Christ. In other words, none of your goddamn business.
Most of the questions surrounded my feelings of playing against Oikawa, since, you know, they were under the impression that he liked me. A ridiculous thought of course but I played along. Just to make those bastards suffer alongside me.
"Hinata-kun, if you were to choose, which one of your suitors would you take on a date first?" One news anchor, coincidentally the same one from television the day before.
I put my head to the side. "I can't just choose, they're all great friends of mine!" Yeah I was still keeping up that oblivious uke act.
The squeals from the girls listening in to the conversation were audible from the other side of the hallway.
The news anchor also had one of those d'aww faces before she continued. "Then what's your idea for a perfect date?"
"One where both of us have a good time, no matter where we go to! But I would like to visit a zoo…" I made sure to become slightly bashful near the end of my sentence, just to give me more of an innocent look.
"That's quite cute of you." She chuckled softly, her eyes sparkling with that motherly look every woman seemed to have.
I gave her a sunny smile. "Hey miss, can I ask you something?"
"Sure, what is it?" She got a curious look on her face.
"What's a harem? People have been saying how lucky I am to have one but I don't know what that is?"
The cameraman behind her had been taking a sip of water, which was promptly spit out. The news anchor choked on her spit and had to cough for a bit.
She recovered soon enough. "W-Well, I suppose the best way to describe it would be when a man has multiple wives, girlfriends or suitors and they are in a multiway relationship. In your case you would have multiple male interests that want your hand. That's also a way of describing your relationship with the boys."
Welp, time to drop a little bit of the obliviousness…
"Wait, you mean Tendou-senpai, Oikawa-san, Kuroo-san and Terushima-kun have a romantic interest in me?!"
"You just now realised that?" The cameraman received a very lovely gut punch from his co-worker for that comment.
"Let him be innocent and cute." She whispered harshly, unaware that I could hear them.
Oh well, that was exactly what I was going for so…
The news anchor gave me a warm smile. "Yes, that appears to be the case."
"That… that changes things…" I muttered softly, raising one of my eyebrows.
"How so?"
"Well I mean, that means they've been flirting with me right? But I had no clue… how am I supposed to react to something like this?"
"By getting more men into that harem." The audiolady grumbled, obviously wanting my little love circle to expand.
Not that I didn't want that myself…
Ahem.
"A good start would be finding out if you do have a romantic interest in men."
"That's easy, I do." I deadpanned, no need to keep that a secret. "I have been flirting with them myself for a while now."
That got their attention.
"And with which of them have you been flirting?"
Bitch was hoping I'd reveal my interest in one of them, try again.
"All of them."
That startled her. "Why all of them? Wouldn't it be easier to pick one and keep with him?"
"Perhaps," I shrugged, "but I didn't know they actually had a thing for me so it was mostly just me figuring out if any of them were gay."
"Matsuo? Are you done? The match will start soon!" Tanaka-san came to my rescue.
Bless you baldie, I was getting sick of all those questions.
I quickly ran up to him and we headed to the court together. "Thanks for that save senpai."
He gave me a toothy smirk. "Of course, what're senpai's for!"
I returned his smirk with one of my own.
"By the way," Tanaka-san began, "I was wondering how the other teams reacted to that news episode yesterday?"
Good question, something I hadn't even thought about until he mentioned it. How did they react?
*Aoba Johsai, the day before*
"What the hell Shittykawa!" Rang through the empty corridors of the school.
"Ah! Please don't hurt me!"
A few crashes were audible.
"Hide me Matsun!"
"What the- don't use me as a shield!"
"Honestly though Oikawa-san, what possessed you to do that?" Kunimi sighed, annoyed at the mess that was usually called the teacher's lounge.
Oikawa peeked out from behind his human shield, dodging a few pens thrown by Iwaizumi. "That stupid redhead thought he could lay claim on Matsu-chan, as if I'd let him. I just didn't think there were more guys around that wanted him…"
"Of course you didn't!"
"Iwaizumi, calm down." Hanamaki held his friend back from commiting murder. "We can't do anything if you kill him."
Iwaizumi took a few deep breaths to calm himself. "So were you serious about liking him or what?"
Oikawa responded by childishly sticking his tongue out, angering Iwaizumi again.
"Dammit Oikawa! Stop avoiding the goddamn question!"
"Fine! Maybe I do like him! So what!"
Immediately Oikawa regretted his outburst. It was one thing for a teammate to out you (ahem Tsukishima ahem) but another to do it yourself. By accident. In a situation where it couldn't be taken out of context.
He just hadn't expected the replies he got.
"Knew it."
"So it was that kid."
"Oi Yahaba, you owe me 100 yen!"
"Dammit Oikawa-san, you've made me lose a bet!"
Needless to say that Aoba Johsai had no problem with a gay captain.
*Nekoma, same time.*
"I cannot believe this. First you skip class and morning practice. And then you have the audacity to get yourself on television because you claimed Hinata Matsuo-kun as yours?" Yaku impatiently tapped his foot on the ground, arms crossed over his chest and glaring down at his captain.
For once Kuroo didn't have his shit-eating grin on his face. It wasn't often that Yaku actually got pissed off but when he did, you'd best be careful.
That was why he was on his knees in front of the libero. "I'm sorry?"
"Sorry doesn't cut it." Yaku glared. "You're doing extra laps."
"What! I'm the captain you can't make those decisions!"
The look Yaku send him made Kuroo shrink back. "Try me."
Nekoma was far more concerned that he inconvenienced the team and Matsuo than that he was gay. Kuroo wasn't sure that was a good thing.
*Johzenji*
"So you're gay?"
"Yep."
"Awesome."
Terushima sent a smirk at his teammate. "I know right."
What? Did you think the most carefree team of all would care about something like that? Of course they wouldn't give a shit.
*Shiratorizawa*
"Get going Satori! You've still got 100 serves and spikes to go!" Washijo Tanji screamed at the suffering red head.
"He's really done it now." Semi said as he watched his friend sluggishly run and spike another of Shirabu's tosses.
"Well, he's only got himself to blame. As usual."
Leon chuckled. "Can't say I didn't expect this though."
"Oh yeah, you've met him right?" Goshiki asked.
"Yeah, he's a good kid. Can't say I know too much about him."
"Hurry it up! I'll add more to your training!"
"Please have mercy!" Tendou cried.