A/N: I'm back with an update. I have also one thing to inform you guys. My laptop is currently with my sister so I have only limited time to use computer during night time (about two hours) due to this I cannot progress so fast with the stories, but I'll try to make freguent updates.

Also, finally a long chapter. This chapter alone is longer than the first two together. I also thank you guys for reviews, favorites and follows. They are important to me!

The following chapter has been betaed by Snow Ryder.

The Hinata company is in verge of a bankrupt. In order to save the company the father has promised his daughter Natsu to marry into Kageyama family. But after unexpected circumstances the one standing on the altar and making the vow is the eldest son, Hinata Shoyo. Can these two survive living together in the same house?

Cry Of A Fallen Crow
Cry Two: Confession After Confession

Hinata and Natsu headed toward school and the older brother could not help but shoot glances at his younger sister. There was definitely something wrong with her. He had already realized earlier that she occasionally behaved strangely. During, the moments normal people would get angry; she shook them off with a wide smile. It was always like that, even about the marriage proposal.

"Are you sure that you're not angry at Otoo-san?" The ginger head asked his little sister. Natsu froze at his question. For a short moment, Hinata could see as her eyes glazed with anger but soon they got there color back and Natsu smiled happily. She turned to face Hinata.

"What are you talking about; of course I'm not angry. Otoo-san only wants the best for us so he's working very hard. I have to do my best to repay his kindness." Natsu laughed, which made Hinata to sigh in defeat. Natsu always spoke words from her mouth, she always knew how to counter-attack him and leave her poor brother completely speechless.

"Then, what about your boyfriend?" Hinata questioned.

Natsu glanced at her brother, raising her eyebrow. "What about him?"

"Won't he be angry at the news? I mean, no man can stay sane after hearing that his girlfriend suddenly has a fiancé," Hinata explained. Natsu's eyes widened for a moment and she fell into deep thoughts with a long exhale her mouth dropped a little.

"More than angry, Shi-chan will surely cry." Natsu let out a sad smile.

"EH?" Hinata was taken by surprise. Would he actually cry?

The girl continued, "He doesn't have any self-confidence, so rather than getting angry; Shi-chan will cry. He'll think that he's not good enough; that I have found a better man than him... that's the kind of guy he is." Natsu smiled at her older brother, her cheeks crimson red as she spoke of the man she loved.

A tear drop fell down her cheek.

"Eh? I got something in my eye." Natsu dried her tearing eyes, coming up with the most cliché excuse one could think of.

Hinata made a sad smile. He has yet to meet this man Natsu held close to her heart, but he was sure of one thing. If Natsu treasured this man so much that she'd cry for him, then he must be a really wonderful man. Hinata couldn't wait for the day he would get to meet him.

He was also sure of one more thing. Natsu wasn't completely emotionless... she truly did have emotions. Even though she never showed anger towards anyone, not even Natsu could suppress the feeling of sadness when having someone dear was being taken away from her...

The rest of the walk, both siblings remained silent.

To Hinata it seemed that Natsu would burst into tears if she even opened her mouth, so he knew better than to set off the bomb. It was better if he gave her time to think, the morning had been hard on both of them; especially Natsu.

After passing few shops and crossing the old wooden bridge, the siblings caught sight of the main school building. They had finally arrived and joined the other students who were hurrying to school.

"Oh..." Hinata was caught in surprise that they had arrived so soon. Thanks to leaving earlier with Natsu, for once Hinata managed to arrive on time. Usually he made it just in time so it felt weird that he actually had time to spare. Though, maybe it would've been better if they had taken a longer road.

Hinata turned to Natsu, hoping that she had already managed to gather herself. Most likely it wouldn't be the best, if Natsu was to meet her friends in such state of mind. She was usually known to be cheerful and bright, so her friends would definitely feel that something was off. It was for the best if Natsu didn't tell her friends about the marriage. It would bring a lot of unnecessary trouble and rumors.

When seeing Natsu, he understood that he had nothing to worry about. Natsu was already her usual self and waved at her friends when they called out for her.

"Nii-san! See you after school!" Natsu waved goodbye to Hinata as she dashed forward towards her friends, who waited for her to join them. In blink of an eye the girl was already accompanying her friends. Hinata chuckled. He was jealous of Natsu, she was so strong.

Hinata then changed his attention back to the school building and for a short moment, and his expression darkened. He inhaled deeply and pulled himself together. It was alright; just like Natsu, he was strong. He could definitely do it.

And so the eldest and only son of Hinata family headed towards his classroom.

No.

He couldn't do it.

Hinata sighed in despair and fell on his desk, wrapping his arms around his head. Even though he had been so determined in the morning, once again he had disappointed himself. He couldn't talk to his classmates; since the beginning of his third year, none of his classmates had approached him or even tried to make any kind of contact.

He would be lying if he said he didn't know the reason for it. His classmates avoided him like the plague. Even the members of the volleyball club he was in - as a constant bench warmer - tried not to speak to him if only possible. They were all acting strangely and he perfectly knew the cause of it.

Of course, like any normal human being Hinata liked to be alone sometimes. It helped him gather his thoughts together but wanting to be alone and being purposely left out of the group are two completely different things. Hinata understood it very well.

"Ano, Hinata-san?" Hinata heard a voice calling for him and snapped out of it. When he raised his head, he saw the class rep standing before him. She was a petite girl with long dark brown braids and round glasses. The girl was moving anxiously and her eyes were glued to ground as if she was afraid to look at Hinata.

Finally Hinata realized he needed to reply. "Yes?"

"You still haven't handed the notes for math class..." she was quiet - so quiet that Hinata barely formed the words. The girl glanced at Hinata beneath her bangs, but when her black eyes met with his brown ones, she immediately looked down.

Blinking his eyes few times, Hinata finally made a movement. "Right." He said aloud and turned to his bag. He took the notes and handed them to the girl. "Here." The boy smiled kindly, not wanting to scare her any more than she already was - and he could clearly see that she was scared of him.

The class rep reached with her trembling hand towards Hinata and with swift movement she snatched the notes from his hand avoiding any possible body contact. Without any words she then hurried to her friends, who were the center and most popular group of the class. Hinata was left stunned.

"I got them... Hinata-san's notes." the girl managed to voice, her whole body still trembling.

The others glanced at her and then at Hinata.

"Good work, Naoki." a female student comforted her friend.

"I feel bad that you were chosen as the class rep. Now our Naoki has to deal with that Hinata." A boy shrugged.

"It's really good that the school year is already ending. Hopefully, after we graduate, we don't have to see his face anymore." Another boy made a statement, glaring at Hinata with an irritated look on his face.

"I heard that his younger sister is the idol of the first years... but her older brother is just..." with that all the other students turned to Hinata. The boy blinked his eyes and when the group noticed this they all turned back to the circle.

"You know, I heard that few days ago Hinata..."

Hinata didn't even bother to listen to them any further. It was just going to be another absurd rumor. He had been labeled as a delinquent and mostly ridiculous rumors were spreading in the school. The uttermost reason for them... was most likely the people - the only people - who he hanged around with.

"Shoyo!"

Speaking of the devils, always in time.

Following the loud yell two figures walked into the classroom. The other one was just a bit shorter than Hinata and had his dark brown hair ruffled upwards and a tiny turf of hair which fell on his forehead was bleached. The person's brown and slanted eyes shined as he turned to the person next to him.

The person next to him was half head taller and he had amber-colored and sharp cat-like eyes. His neck length hair was blonde, though his hair root growth made his original hair color visible. This boy looked more composed than the earlier one and he was wearing troubled expression.

"Noya-san! Kenma-san." Hinata greeted the duo and stood up from his seat.

"We came to pick you up. Let's have lunch!" Nishinoya announced happily his stomach grumbling as an answer. The boys burst into laughter while blushing lightly. Hinata couldn't help his smile. He then took his bento from his bag.

"As always, Hinata hangs around with those repeaters..." He suddenly heard a whisper from the seat next him.

"Yeah. I heard that Nishinoya-san beat up ten people alone... He's scary..." A girl said, glancing at Nishinoya.

"You can only be with them, if you're like them. I bet that Hinata could beat us up any moment he wanted. I heard that he's actually the evil mastermind, who ordered Nishinoya beat up the guys just because he didn't like them..."

"Scary!"

Hinata sighed, ignoring the whispers. Somehow, he had gotten used to it. Just because he hang around with people who were labeled as the schools two most frightening delinquents, the rumors said he was just like them. But, he didn't care of the rumors anymore, as long as his dearest friends knew what he was like the opinion of other people didn't matter to him.

Even though Hinata was alright, Nishinoya wasn't going let it slide. "Shut up you guys! You can talk shit about me all you want, but don't you dare say anything about Shoyo. He's the kindest person you could ever meet. He saved me!" The little guy yelled, startling everyone. The whispers stopped immediately and Nishinoya crossed his arms puffing.

Kenma walked to Hinata and placed his hand on the ginger-heads shoulder. "If anyone of you dare to hurt Shoyo, be sure that I will come and haunt you till the end of the world." His cat-like eyes gleamed, frightening people; the atmosphere in the classroom grew darker and heavier.

This was bad. Even though the two of them only wanted to protect Hinata, with their actions they only made things worse for him. He bet that after this he would be completely isolated from the rest of the class. He needed to make something to save his situation from the oblivious and over-protective friends. "That's enough! Let's go already or we won't have enough time to eat our lunches!" The ginger-head said.

The two boys immediately agreed, but before leaving the classroom they both flashed angry glares at Hinata's classmates. Everyone got goose bumps. It was for sure, if they were even to look at Hinata they were all dead meat.

"Man, those classmates of yours. I can't believe they're so mean!" Nishinoya groaned immediately after they had stepped out of the classroom. He still had his arms crossed and was walking with heavy steps. "Why are we in different classrooms?"

Hinata didn't really want to tell that Nishinoya and Kenma only made his isolation only worse. If he did that he would most likely lose his only friends and he didn't want that. He was happy enough as long as these two were with him.

"Could it be... that they're scared of you because of us?" Kenma asked. Hinata felt like knife stabbing his back. As Kenma was very observant person he always managed to hit the bulls eye. The ginger head wasn't even sure what he was supposed to answer to his friend.

"There's no way it's like that! Shoyo would've told if it's that way! Also, what there's no reason to be scared of us?" Nishinoya replied instead of Hinata. He glared at the taller boy and Kenma shook it off by averting his eyes.

"Chibi..."

Nishinoya's vein popped hard. "OI! Don't go calling me that! You frigging bastard. You know that I hate it..." He rampaged at his friend. Hinata could only laugh desperately. Those two surely were close. He was glad to be with them and graduate together with them.

Nishinoya and Kenma were actually a year older than Hinata. Nishinoya and Hinata met when the latter one was in last year of Jr. High and Kenma was his senpai from the volleyball club. They were both starters in the volleyball club while Hinata was only bench warmer.

Due to his righteous and furious personality Nishinoya often got into fights with delinquent groups of other schools. The rumor of him beating up ten people was actually true. And because of that incident he was suspended from school for half a year and was forbid to enter the inter-high. When his suspension was over, it was already time for the final exams. He failed his tests and due to low grades had to repeat a year.

Kenma's story was simpler. He skipped school due to his weak body and as result his attendance was too low. Even though he did well in the final exams, the low attendance forbids him from graduation. Also, he sometimes went to save Nishinoya from the battles, but ended up mixing into them and beating up people...

And so, the "High Kings" of school were present for another more year.

"Let's stop talking about me. What took you so long?" Hinata finally asked, making the other two to stop their argument. They had almost arrived at their favorite spot - the tree in the middle of the school yard. The three of them sat down and took their lunches. Only Hinata's was a bento-box, though. The other two had bought an pan from the cafeteria.

"Ah..." Nishinoya said while taking a bite from his bread. He then pointed at Kenma. "This guy got called by a second year girl." The ruffle-head smirked. Hinata glanced at Kenma with widened eyes. The other boy was eating his bread with collected look, as if nothing had happened.

"So, what happened? Could it be... a confession?" Hinata's eyes started to shine as excitement filled his body. Kenma glanced at the boy who was waiting for him to answer. Hinata was like a little puppy.

"Something like that." The boy muttered while finishing his bread. After that he took a sip from his coffee.

Hinata smiled. "So, what did you answer to her?"

Kenma stopped for a moment and turned to look at his friend. Hinata was little startled of the intensity of Kenma's stare. Finally, the taller boy changed his attention back to the coffee. "I told her that I already have someone I care for."

"Eh? You have one? Tell me, tell me! Who is it?" Hinata got all excited and kept begging his friend. As an answer, Kenma just turned away from him and finished his coffee in one go. Trying to throw the can into nearest bin but failing, he exhaled.

Kenma stood up to pick up the can. "No way." He said when finally managing to throw the can into the bin.

Hinata pursued his lips in anger. "You're so mean!" He turned away from his friend, clearly sulking about the fact. Hinata glanced at Kenma from the corners of his eyes, hoping that Kenma would fall for his trap. But the boy didn't. He just kept staring at the leaves of the tree which were falling down.

"And you know what was the most amusing fact." Nishinoya laughed, turning Hinata's attention to him. "She was the most popular girl in the second year, Aizawa Hinori." The boy blushed just at the mention of the name.

Hinata was amazed, to think that Kenma had just been confessed to, and by the most popular second year too. He didn't completely understand why he had turned her down, but Kenma did say that he had someone he loved. It was better to turn her down right away, than have her suffer the whole time because he couldn't return her feelings. Kenma always thought of others feelings, and that was what Hinata liked in Kenma.

"Oh, it's Natsu-chan." Kenma muttered when he saw a ginger bush which didn't belong to Hinata. The other two boys immediately glanced towards the direction he was looking at.

"Speaking of popular, here comes the idol of our school!" Nishinoya's mood pumped up just by the sight of Natsu. They watched as the girl walked forward following a taller student who was wearing gakuran. "Eh, is that a third year student? Could this be a confession?"

"EHH?" Hinata screamed - his sister was being confessed to... AGAIN? It was the fourth time this week. Nishinoya's eyes shined and he followed the couple. Hinata - not wanting to be left out - followed him while dragging Kenma along. The trio was lurking from the brush, spying at the third year boy and first year girl.

"Why are we doing this?" Kenma asked, feeling uncomfortable for ease dropping into other people's business.

"Shh. Natsu is known for turning down every boy who confesses to her. Maybe this one will have some luck." Nishinoya said, excitement filling his voice. Actually he was the one who started his whole loop by confessing to Natsu on the first day of her high school life. Most boys didn't even confess because they liked her; this was their only chance to talk to the girl who was the schools idol.

"I guess the third years are getting desperate, because the year is ending soon..." Kenma mumbled, taking out his smart phone. He wasn't interested in the confession scene, so he decided to play a game.

"She will turn him down."

"What?" Nishinoya was surprised when he heard Hinata speaking.

"Natsu already has a boyfriend." The ginger-head was death serious as he spoke those words.

"EH? You mean the idol already has someone she's see-!" Nishinoya's voice rose, but Hinata and Kenma managed to cover his mouth just in time. Still Natsu managed to overhear the boys and glanced at the brush. She snapped out of it when the boy asked for her answer.

"Calm down a little!" Hinata whispered.

"Who is he? The man she's dating!" Nishinoya rambled. He had always been sure that Natsu had none and boasted of the fact that he was the first one to confess to her. But this matter changed things in many ways.

"I haven't met him yet, but I heard that he's older." Hinata confessed.

Nishinoya was in shock. His face turned pale. "Natsu! How could you do this to me!? And with an older man!" He started crying and cursed the person who she was dating. Hinata sighed and glanced at Kenma. With a small nod of agreement the two boys then dragged Nishinoya out of the place before Natsu would discover them.

After turning down the third year, Natsu walked to the bush where Hinata and the others had hidden. "You know Nii-san, it's not nice to spy on your little sister." She then chuckled and headed towards her classroom when the bell rang.

It was the final break. Hinata collected his stuff to his bag and headed towards the next class. It was his elective subject and the only lesson he had together with Nishinoya and Kenma. He was supposed to meet up with the boys, but before that he suddenly heard someone calling his name.

"Ano... Hinata-senpai."

Hinata turned around, searching for the source of the voice. Finally, he saw a girl standing before him, staring at the ground. She was wearing green slippers which implied that she was a second year. What was she going in the third years building?

"Me- Me?" Hinata finally mumbled, pointing at himself.

The girl turned her head, her face glowing crimson red. She pressed her legs together and moved her fingers anxiously. "You are, Hinata Shoyo-senpai, right?" At Hinata's nod the girl then continued. "I would like to speak with you."

Hinata's head was filled with multiple different thoughts, but there was one superior to the others. As they walked outside and towards the spot he had just seen Natsu being confessed at, he was getting sure of it. It had to be a confession.

Finally, the girl stopped and turned to Hinata. The boy stopped immediately, his whole face getting red just by the thought that he was going to be confessed at. He gulped loudly and stared as the girl tried to put her feelings into words. What was he going to say to her?"

"I- I like Hinata-senpai. Would you go out with me?" The girl finally managed spell out, her whole face tomato red. She closed her eyes, her body trembling as she waited for Hinata to answer her.

Since the very beginning Hinata knew what he was going to answer. He finally understood Kenma's words. It was hard to turn down a person, maybe Natsu felt this badly when she turned down all the boys who confessed their love to her? He gathered his courage.

"I'm sorry, but I already have someone I care for." Hinata answered, using the same words as Kenma. He watched - his whole body aching - as the girls eyes were filled with tears. Just how hard it was to turn down a person? Hinata bit his lip to be able to calm down even a little.

After sobbing for minutes, the girl then dried her eyes. With hiccupping, she then asked. "Could the person who you like be Kozume-senpai?"

Hinata's eyes widened in shock. What was this person talking about? "No, no. I'm straight! Where have you heard such thing?" He explained, trying to stay sane. First he was isolated and now people thought that he was gay, how the heck people came up with these rumors?

"Everyone in the school says that you two are a thing. Kozume-senpai is always staring at you... My friend just confessed to Kozume-senpai a while ago and he had told exactly the same thing. So I thought that maybe the rumors were true..." The girl explained.

"Definitely not! I'm straight and only like girls! There is nothing going between me and Kenma-san. Be sure to tell that to everyone else as well. I've had enough of these ridiculous rumors!" the boy explained. With awkward air surrounding them, they both excused themselves and the girl ran away.

With that Hinata finally headed towards the next classroom. When he had almost reached the classroom he saw Nishinoya and Kenma walking before him. He called for them and Nishinoya immediately answered to his call.

"Shoyo! Where were you? When we went to pick you up you had already left the classroom." The boy scolded the ginger-head.

"Were you bullied by someone?" Kenma asked out of concern.

"Eh? Something like that happened? Shoyo it is true! If it is, I'll go and punch that person right away!" Nishinoya's eyes were filled with anger and he was emitting dark aura. Hinata had to do his best to calm the older boy down.

"It's nothing like that..." He told and tried to come up with an excuse. "I just had the sudden urge to... go to toilet!" The boy then said. There was no way he would tell about the confession. This was one of the things he couldn't possibly tell to his friends.

Especially Kenma.

Hinata glanced at the blonde boy and gulped. Was the rumor true...?

Was Kenma in love with him?

A smile escaped from Hinata's lips when he heard the last bell ringing. Another school day was finally over, and like every others he had survived it. As third years had already retired from club activities, Hinata headed towards the school lockers.

He saw Natsu waiting for him next to the lockers. The girl waved at him and ran to her older brother. "Shall we go?" Natsu asked and Hinata immediately nodded. Natsu had been the manager of volleyball club, but as her popularity gathered around people who weren't even interested in the sport, she soon quit it. Now she was in the home-going-club and the amount of volleyball club members had almost halved.

When the sibling duo was walking down the road, Natsu suddenly glanced at her older brother. "You know Nii-san, it's not nice to stalk people." She muttered, lowering her voice to a dangerous tone. Hinata sweat dropped. Just like he had thought, Natsu had heard them.

"I'm sorry..." He tried to come up with something more, but failed greatly.

Natsu closed her eyes. "I'm not angry." Well Hinata knew that she wouldn't be, that's what made her Natsu. "Nii-san knows that I'm dating Shi-chan, so you knew that I would turn him down anyway." The girl laughed aloud while picking up her pace.

"Speaking of Shi-chan." Natsu stopped suddenly, making Hinata almost crash on her. The girl turned to her older brother, her eyes gleaming like to pearls. "I promised to meet him today." A light blush appeared on her cheeks and she turned away to hide her embarrassment.

Hinata stared at his younger sister. "I'll take you to the meeting place. I also want to meet this boyfriend of yours." He told with serious expression.

Natsu turned to him surprise written all over her face. The siblings stared at each other and when Natsu read the determination and concern in Hinata's eyes, she laughed. "Mo-o, you're still over-protective like always... Do as you want." Despite her first words, she still didn't shake him off.

When Natsu was ten years old, she had been kidnapped twice. Ever since the second incident, Hinata never let her go outside on her own during night time; he always accompanied his younger sister. There was always someone with Natsu, if not Hinata or their father then it was her boyfriend.

In addition to this, Hinata also had another reason. He wanted to meet Natsu's boyfriend. Due to the age difference of five years, the couple kept their relationship secret till Natsu finally turned eighteen. The age difference also made impossible for them to meet often.

Finally the siblings arrived at the meeting place, which was in a plaza under a clock tower. Natsu glanced around with worried looks trying to catch a glimpse of her boyfriend. Maybe he had forgotten that they were supposed to meet. Her expression was turning worried.

"Natsu-chan, you're mean. We meet for the first time in months and you bring a man along with you. Am I not good enough for you?"

Natsu cried of relief when she finally heard familiar voice speaking. She turned towards the voice and with teary eyes ran to hug her boyfriend. "Shi-chan! I missed you so much! I wanted to see you!" The girl completely overflowed with emotions of love.

Hinata stared at the man who was wearing business suit. It was clearly obvious that he earned well and was most likely a businessman - the suit gave him away. His features made him look very kind. He was wearing smile on his face, even his brown eyes smiled. He had short light hair and eyebrows and also had mole under his left eye.

When the couple finally parted their ways, Natsu gave a quick kiss to the man. After that she turned around and stopped when she saw her older brother standing frozen while staring at her. Their expressions were speechless - Hinata didn't know what to say, and Natsu looked as if she had just remembered that her brother was still present.

"Ah, right... Nii-san..." The girl whispered.

She then turned to look at the man next to her. "Shi-chan, this man is my older brother Hinata Shoyo." She introduced her older brother to her boyfriend. When the two mem glanced at each other they both smiled and nodded their heads.

"Nii-san, this is Sugawara Koushi. The man I love." Natsu blushed, taking hold of Sugawara's hand.

When first meeting the man Hinata had so many questions in his mind he wanted to ask. Natsu's words - the love and trust she had for this man - made them fade away in instant. He thought it would be better if he didn't bother them anymore. He had seen what he wanted and was happy with the result.

"I guess I should get going now. Be sure to come back home before night." The older boy said goodbye to his younger sister. When turning around and walking away from the couple he was smiling widely. He was so happy for his sister.

What he didn't know - what he wouldn't have believed even if someone had warned him - was that this would be the last time he saw his little sister alive.

A/N: I'm really not sure how this chapter ended up, were they too OOC? I hope not.

So we now know that Natsu is dating Sugawara (Don't ask how I came up with this pairing...). Well, does Kenma really love Hinata, I wonder. Nishinoya is an extra, poor him... and what's most important, what will happen to Natsu in the next chapter? You'll see it... next time.

There will be mention of random OC's, but if they're not described well enough, most likely they will not make another appearance. I want to concentrate on the canon characters, but since this world has so few females, I think I just have to add some every now and then.

Review, nee?