A/N: I am a month too late, but yeah... I'm here to make a recovery and update a chapter. The most important reason why I waited for the update is because I finally got myself a beta and I needed him to catch up to me. And so along with this new chapter, we have the first two chapters coming out betaed! Enjoy this chapter.
Hinata and Kageyama are happily married. But trouble comes, as Hinata has to hide his gender from his husband. So Hinata becomes Kageyama Natsu. Also, his new high school life is full of action. He befriends with Aomine Amaya, who reminds Hinata of his pastself. Also you can add in a troublesome stalker and receiving a present from Kageyama... But wait... What happens when Kageyama finds out the truth? The truth of Hinata being a man.
Cry Of A Fallen Crow
Cry Eight: Escort Done Right
It was a very peaceful morning in the Hinata household; the mother was preparing breakfast while her husband was reading the newspaper that had arrived in the morning. She stood near the stove, frying eggs and bacon while wearing simple cream-colored apron. When fried eggs and bacon were done and she had prepared the dishes, the woman sat down to enjoy the meal with her husband.
Ever since Natsu's death, and Hinata moving to live with Kageyama the mornings in the Hinata household had become very quiet and dark. Both of the parents were still in shock of having lost their daughter and marrying off their son. The cheerful voices of arguing siblings were gone and the warm of their presence was slowly disappearing. Those happy days were now a fragile memory, that could fragment any moment.
The woman sighed as she pulled her dark straight hair behind her ear. Taking a bite from her breakfast, she glanced at her husband who still had his face glued on the newspaper. "I wonder if it was the right thing to do..."
The end of her sentence was left unsaid as she couldn't finish it.
The head of Hinata family finally pulled his attention away from the newspapers and glanced at his wife. Being married for years he knew just from the tone of her voice that she was worried. Those beautiful eyes of her he had once fallen in love with were now swelled up, and she had dark bags under them.
Ever since Hinata left the house, she had cried herself to sleep every single night.
"What do you mean?" the man finally asked, even though he was clearly aware of the meaning of her words. His wife made a troubled face and while taking a bite of the bacon, she then spoke quietly,
"I mean about our Shoyo marrying the heir of Kageyama family. Detective Takeda told us to keep those two apart; he told us clearly that they should never meet each other." the woman said, and lowered her head. Two big pearls had appeared near her eyes from the thought that something bad could happen to her son. She had just lost her daughter; she couldn't bear if she was to lose Shoyo too.
The husband folded the newspapers and finally started his breakfast. He understood the worry of his wife but... "That's something stupid we were told eight years ago. We kept them apart for so long already and nothing happened... I'm sure that his words had no meaning to it; it was simple insignificant worry." he tried to cheer up his wife and assure that everything was alright; nothing bad was going happen to their son.
"I guess you're right..." the woman finally gave in and continued the breakfast. But no matter what her husband said to her she still had that unpleasant feeling. What could it be called, a maternal instinct?
Yes, it most definitely was a maternal instinct.
To the hell with that 'escorting to school' -stuff.
Hinata had crossed his arms in a very un-lady like manner as he sat in the car, and was staring outside, his brows furrowed. He had agreed to go by car because he thought that the school was far way, only to find out that actually it was less than a five-minute walk from their house; and now they had to take a detour because of his husband's personal issues.
Kageyama glanced at his wife, who looked as if her periods just started, and then turned to the driver. "You can stop the car here." he told, and when it had stopped he turned back to Hinata. "Now, do you remember the conditions?" the tone in his voice annoyed Hinata.
The carrot-head glanced at the raven with deathly glare. "Yeah yeah. We are strangers, and make sure that no one finds about our marriage. Don't come talk to you in school; we DON'T know each other. Walk to school from here and set up our meeting to be an accident... return home alone. Oh, and if someone asks if I'm related to you because of the same surname, deny it. After all we're complete STRANGERS." he nagged on and on.
Hinata didn't see point in of doing it. What was the purpose of Kageyama hiding his marriage? But now that he thought about it, Kageyama was the heir of an influential company; then why there hadn't been any press or media in their wedding? Had it really been held in secret? That matter hadn't occurred him before now.
Kageyama showed an approving expression and continued. "Walk down this street and you'll arrive at the school; I bet you won't miss it. Wait for me at the front gate. Once the car arrives do everything according to the plan." the raven-head told and his driver helped Hinata out of the car.
Hinata watched the car set off and sighed. Heading towards the direction Kageyama had showed him, he let another sigh escape. When Miharu had suggested Kageyama to escort him to school, he had imagined of something like them walking side by side... but never had the chance of driving around the town for twenty minutes so that Kageyama could explain the situation, being left in the middle way to walk the rest of the distance and actually carrying out Kageyama's plan, occurred his mind.
As Hinata continued walking, his mind still puzzled, he soon caught a glimpse of a white school building. The building was all white, still fresh - being built less that ten years ago - and well-organized, with only few trees in the school yard. Completely different from his old school, it gave out the feeling of riches guys school. In no time, Hinata finally arrived at the front gate of the Teikoku Academy.
Now only to wait for Kageyama.
It didn't take long for a black car park near the front gate. Hinata's expression brightened and he pulled himself together while heading towards the car. If he was so screw up then Kageyama would end him. The driver walked out and opened the door. From the car stepped out, what it seemed to be... a girl?
The ginger-head froze to that place, only to realize that even more black-colored cars started appear and parked, as the students of the elite school arrived. He was dumbstruck, completely taken aback by this sudden turn of events. How was he supposed to find Kageyama when he still hadn't remembered the mark or appearance of the car?
As Hinata swayed his head in panic, he didn't sense as a person with enraged expression approached him from the Maybach Exelero parked just behind him. "Oi, you're in my way!" Hinata jumped up from startle when he heard familiar voice. He turned to the boy with relieved look, but his face fell when his eyes met up with Kageyama's flaming ones. His whole presence was flaming with killing intent.
Hinata couldn't control his body's sudden urge to tremble, and as he tried to force himself to calm down - after all it was only Kageyama! - he muttered out. "Ca- ca- can you please tell me the way to faculty's room?" he asked, just like Kageyama had directed him.
The orange-head could felt temperature returning to his body, when the daunting aura slowly faded away. He hadn't noticed when it happened, but for a moment he had even stopped to breathe. Taking a deep breath, he then raised his head and peeked a glance at Kageyama.
The raven had turned back to his stone face, and spoke. "Follow me."
Without any further words, Kageyama headed towards the school building. It took seconds for Hinata to assimilate his words, and finally he dashed after his husband. As they walked forward, Hinata glanced around and realized two facts. Most of the students wore different colored uniform than them; a completely black one (in a way, they stood out). The second was; they were all staring at them (they really did stand out!).
"Oh, it's Kageyama-sama from 3-A why is he at school today?" a female student spoke.
"Eh? Didn't you hear that the volleyball club is having Promotion match today. All of the third years have come." she was being answered.
Kageyama-sama? Ohoho, so even people in school referred him with that ending. The fuck with people; he might be the heir of Kageyama family, but in the end he was nothing more than a human. Also, what they meant by Promotion match? Was Kageyama playing in a team; if yes, then exactly what team.
Hinata glanced at the boy. He was tall and popular, so most likely either soccer, basketball or baseball. Those were the teams with most fans after all.
"But who's that girl with him? I think I've never seen her?" a sudden question interrupted Hinata's flow of thoughts.
"Yeah, maybe a transfer student?"
"I think. But to think that Kageyama-sama is actually interacting with a girl."
"Maybe they know each other?"
Oh, so now they were whispering about him. Not that he really minded it, he had already gotten used to back in his old school. This just proved that no matter what was the social standing of the person people were all the same; whispering behind ones back was part of human nature.
"Kageyama-san!" the whole area fell silent immediately as a female approached the king of the school. Kageyama glanced at the girl with straight black hair and dark brown eyes and waited for her to continue. "What are you doing here? Everyone has already gathered up and they're waiting for you!" the third-year (now already retired) manager of the volleyball club scolded the setter.
Kageyama seemed to flinch, having forgotten all about the meeting because of the troubling orange-bush, but his expression soon returned to normal. He glanced at his wife from the corners of his eyes. "I go there immediately." It was useless to argue against her, he knew it very well. "But I would like you to take her to the faculty's room. It's her first day here, you see."
The third-year managed seemed to been taken aback by Kageyama's sudden request, but she nodded in agreement. After that she started pushing the raven-head towards the second gymnasium; he needed to hurry or the others would get mad at him. With a quick glance, Kageyama whispered to Hinata. "Break a leg."
That's when their ways parted.
As Kageyama headed towards the gymnasium, he heard the crowd (especially girls) around him whispering about his connection with the transfer student. It was getting on his nerves and he wanted to yell at them to shut up, but he also had an image to protect. An image of an unapproachable, cool and quiet boy who was into volleyball. He had spent three years establishing this image and he didn't want it to scatter into pieces when he had only three weeks till graduation.
His image was good because it kept those annoying fan girls away from him, but in this situation it backfired him hard. Everyone was curious why he was familiar with the new female student.
The most annoying ones would be his teammates.
"Oh, he's here! The King has arrived." an insult pierced through Kageyama's ears as soon as slid the gymnasiums door open. His face darkened and he send murderous glare at Tsukishima Kei. "Arriving late like usually, King." was a smug smirk he received from the four eyes.
"Hey, Tobiocchi tell me who that beauty was! The one you arrived to school with!" Oh, another annoying voice was heard. Kageyama tried to keep his calm when a person with lower-back length curlish blonde hair dashed towards him and wrapped his arms around the startled setter, while burying his head on Kageyama's chest.
"Oh, the King made his Queen jealous." Tsukishima kept mocking the setter whenever he had the chance. Kageyama pulled a nerve, but the other person didn't seem to mind the insult at all. He just turned to Tsukishima and smiled widely. "I bet you're actually the jealous one. Even Tobiocchi has accepted a girl to stay beside him, so our Tsukkii seems to be lonely."
"Don't dare to call me that." Tsukishima's voice dropped to dangerous level, but the other person didn't seems to mind it. He just continued with laughing tone.
"After all you've been chasing after Tobiocchi ever since middle school. But Tsukkii you must know that he will never look at your way, after all his head is full of Oikawa-san. Too bad for you Tsukkii."
"I told you to STOP calling me by that nickname." the calm middle blocker finally snapped. The whole gymnasium fell silent as everyone stared at Tsukishima, wondering what had upset him so much. Kageyama glanced at Tsukishima; he knew the reason for his bad mood, but after the sharp glare he received from his teammate, he decided to stay silent.
"Okay, done with the chit-chatting, better prepare for the upcoming match. I bet most of you haven't had the time to train recently, so let's warm up and stretch our bodies." the call from the captain, Matsuura Masato, finally returned the atmosphere back to normal.
"Haiii!" Isoya Nobuyuki, the blonde who was again clinging to Kageyama answered with enthusiastic voice. The other ones followed his lead, and slowly the retired third-years returned back to their daily warm up routine.
Meanwhile the team's manager and Hinata finally arrived at the faculty's room. The girl slid the door open and smiled at Hinata. "We're here." she told and Hinata thanked her. As he was about to enter, her words stopped him. "Are you and Kageyama-san acquaintance's?"
It took only split seconds for Hinata to recover from the shock and he smiled widely. "No, I just met him at the front gate and asked him to help me." with that he walked in and asked for the teacher who was supposed to be his home room teacher.
The manager was let stunned at the door and she stared at Hinata talking with his home room teacher. "Just asked him to help you? What a strange girl." she chuckled and headed towards the gymnasium.
"Oh, you're the new student transferring to our class." a male teacher in his middle thirties spoke, when he finally remembered that his class was getting a new student. It was a rare time; no one would change school when the year was about to end. "Kageyama Natsu, right?" he asked, Hinata nodded lightly. He noticed that almost every teacher turned their eyes at him just by the mention of his name. Was it because of Kageyama?
Most likely.
"This surname, by any case are you related to Kageyama Tobio?" it finally came, the deathly question. If Hinata remembered right, Kageyama had told about their marriage to the principal, but he wished to keep it a secret from the teachers and the student body. To this moment, the answer Kageyama taught him was...
"No we're not, we just happen to share the same surname." Did he do it right? Was this fine with Kageyama, he wouldn't end his life, right?
The teacher looked surprised at the answer, but closed his eyes and stood from his seat. "Come. Let's introduce you to the class, Kageyama." he told Hinata to follow him and the orange-bush went after him.
Finally they arrived at the 1-B classroom of the advanced class. The teacher turned to Hinata and told him to wait for a moment. He would call for him when to come inside. Hinata nodded and after the teacher disappeared into the classroom, his pulse suddenly fastened and the orange-head started to panic.
It was his first time being a transfer student; and let's not forget that he was wearing a female uniform. What was he supposed to do; how was he supposed to introduce himself? He needed to make good impression of himself, but also had to be careful not to mess up. If he was to make a grave mistake here, all the trouble he and Kageyama had gone through would be for nothing.
Hinata shook his head and slapped his cheeks. This wasn't the time to panic. He needed to calm down and think straight. Only to make sure that he wouldn't mess up anything. The orange-bush took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, repeating the motion few times.
"Kageyama, please come in." the teacher called for Hinata and the boy walked up. He was very nervous, and the fact that everyone's eyes were glued on him didn't help him to calm his nerves. The boy walked near the teacher and wrote his name on the blackboard.
"I'm Kageyama Natsu. I was transferred here due to fathers promotion. Also I play volleyball." he felt necessary to add the last part in the introduction even though neither Saeko - with whom he had trained it - or Kageyama had mentioned it. That was to show how much importance volleyball held in his life.
The whole classroom felt silent; though as someone started whispering it escalated quickly and soon everyone were quietly chatting with each other while staring at the transfer student.
"Okay, class quiet down. Kageyama your seat is the empty seat next to Kaion Emiko. Kaion, can you stand up?" the teacher instructed and soon a girl with short and spiky brownish-black colored hair stood up. Hinata walked to the empty seat next to the girl and when he glanced at her, she was smiling widely at him. "Can I trust Kageyama in your hands, Kaion?"
"Hai, hai." the girl smiled widely at the teacher, while her chestnut-colored eyes sparkled in excitement. Finally she sat down, but kept throwing quick glances at Hinata. The orange-bush laughed desperately, she was surely being over excited about something.
"Okay, let's start by taking the attendance." the teacher spoke and then took out a student-book where he had the names of his students listed down. "Aomine Amaya." he spoke the first name only to realize that - like usually - her seat was empty. His expression dropped a little and he put absence mark next to her name.
Hinata glanced at the empty seat on the window row. Was that her seat? Hmm, what kind of person she was, he wondered.
"Okay, let's pause the practice and enjoy our lunch." Matsuura instructed everyone as he lifted the last ball in the air, which Kageyama passed to Isoya, who spiked it near the back line, barely making it in.
Kageyama clicked his tongue. "Don't aim at the back line just to test how good your control is." he scolded the wing spiker, who was celebrating that he had managed to nail the ball in. The blonde glanced at the setter and smiled widely.
"Oh, don't worry Tobiocchi. I've been practicing my spikes with Nobucchi and now out of ten, nine will always go in." he laughed and wrapped his arm around Kageyama, who looked rather troubled by this sudden action. Even though they had been on the same team for more than two years, Kageyama still hadn't gotten used to Isoya's personality.
Kageyama's eyes narrowed. "If you cannot be one hundred percent sure that it'll go in, then don't aim there. Even if it might be hard place to receive the ball, if we lose even one point that could be the end of!" he scolded the ace of the team. Isoya looked dumbstruck for a moment for Kageyama's strictness, but then started to laugh.
"Tobiocchi, you're as serious as always." for a second his smile turned into smirk. "Don't worry, I won't aim there unless I know it'll go in." he assured the gloomy setter, but Kageyama wasn't convinced with it. He had worked hard to find the best course Isoya could spike at, but the wing spiker wasn't taking his effort seriously at all.
"Oi, King and Queen! We're heading to the cafeteria!" Haiba Lev called for the duo. He was only mimicking Tsukishima with the names, so when it came from his mouth it sounded more of a nickname than an actual insult, unlike when the four eyes spoke it.
"Yeah, if you chat any longer, we're going to leave you behind." Shibayama Yuuki shouted with a wide grin on his face. Isoya glanced at Kageyama and followed the others members. Kageyama was about to go after him, when he suddenly remember the bento he had received in the morning.
So instead, he walked to Tsukishima and Matsuura who had both brought their own lunches instead of going to cafeteria with the others. "Go without me, I have lunch prepared for me." the setter told as he started to take out his obento.
Kageyama could feel as the temperature in the gymnasium fell down about ten degrees. When he turned over holding the box in his arms, he saw everyone staring at him with frozen looks. Expressions like shock, startle and fear were written all over their faces. Isoya and Haiba were the worst ones; they had tears appearing to the corners of their eyes.
"Wha- Wha- What is this? Kageyama has actually brought a bento!" Kunimi freaked out, almost passing out.
"Do you see any pigs flying, well do you see? Pigs flying!" Isoya started running around the gymnasium trying to verify if he could spot pigs flying outside.
"No it must be it! A wolf has died in the woods!" Haiba fell on his knees, defeat written all over his face. (1)
Kageyama stared at the freaked out trio and glanced at Matsuura and Tsukishima who seemed to be the only sane ones in the gymnasium. They had taken this shock the easiest, remaining calm and silent. Kageyama wondered what actually could shock the captain and the middle blocker. "Is really that bad, for me to bring a bento?"
"Of course it is!" Kageyama almost jumped in startle when he heard Shibayama speaking. The guy was so small that he didn't even notice when he had suddenly approached him. The dark-haired shortie had tears rolling down his cheeks. "For three years you never brought obento to school even though Miharu-san went all the trouble making one to you every morning. And now, after all the years you suddenly bring one and even dare to ask if it's that bad. THIS IS A SHOCK! A REPORT OF A LIFE TIME!"
"More over, this bento isn't made by Miharu-san." Isoya mumbled, when staring at the un-covered tori bento which had tamagoyaki added to it.
"Hey-!" Kageyama snapped when he realized that the blonde had stolen the box from him. When he had managed to do that?
"Ah, could it be!?" the blonde suddenly seemed to have an idea. "This is from the girl from the morning. She wanted to thank you and gave her bento to you?" he suggested, and everyone turned to Kageyama waiting for his answer.
It was getting troubling, Kageyama thought as he was suddenly in the middle of everyone's attention. But actually Isoya did good, this saved him from the trouble to think and explain how he had gotten the bento. "Well, yes. Something like that did happen."
"Tobiocchi..." tears appeared into the trios eyes.
"Oi, if you don't leave now you all have to run the gymnasium ten times as a punishment." Matsuura commanded everyone. He had to do something to avoid the drama scene expanding further, and of course, threatening was the best way.
"Yes, captain..." everyone answered with disappointed looks.
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Matsuura's nerve pulled hard. What were their issue?
"YES, CAPTAIN." the quartet answered with loud voices and dashed towards the cafeteria.
Matsuura sighed at the childish behavior of this teammates and glanced at Kageyama, who was staring at the bento box in his arms. "Sorry about them..." he subconsciously apologized to the raven setter. Kageyama just glanced at him and flashed a smirk of apology accepted.
Meanwhile Tsukishima was staring at Kageyama with eerie look on his face. 'As if you would accept a bento from a girl you just met. I know you better than that, King.' he thought and then changed his attention towards his own bento. 'But if it really was from her, then I wonder who on earth is that girl...'
A/N: I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter, and please do leave a review. Just one note
1. While Isoya uses the English way to pronounce something impossible happened, Haiba Lev uses the Russian variant for the idiom. The saying "Wolf died in the woods" literally means that something extraordinary and unexpected happened... EDIT: After talking with my parents and sister, I assume this idiom could also be from Ukraine or Poland. Russian people do use it too, but it's not very famous there.
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