A/N: The snow has fallen, we lost electricity, we have entered the month of my birthday and last (but not least) I've been marathoning One Piece. Okay I admit, yes, no one cares... so maybe we should actually start the chapter? But before that, everyone thank you for the reviews! I really try to have time for answering to them in the future!

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 Nine: His Longing, Their Pride

Before Hinata realized it, it was already the lunch break. The first three breaks had felt so similar to his old school that for a moment he even forgot that he had actually transferred schools. What brought him back to reality were the teachers, who obviously were different.

During those breaks no one had approached him. They had only shot few curious glances whispering to each other, but clearly kept distance from the transfer student. What Hinata remembered about transfer students from his old school - for the first days until they became part of the class, they were the center of everyone's attention - like celebrities. So this kind of behavior felt strange.

But it's not like Hinata minded it, vice versa, this made things a lot easier for him who had always been the loner of the class. He didn't like to draw attention, especially negative one; the less people came talk to him the better. At least he could have a peaceful school life.

Out of routine from Karasuno days, Hinata put his books to his bag, sighed of despair and finally fell on his desk wrapping his arms around his head. The orange-bush closed his eyes and heard the other students chatting happily - he could even hear topics about him mixed within them.

Unconsciously the boy let out a gloomy smile; it felt so familiar - students whispering about him even though he could clearly hear them. The only thing that lacked was the cheerful cries of Nishinoya and Kenma who had come to pick him up.

Hinata's heart squeezed.

Remembering his friends hurt to the point he wanted to cry in pain. No - leaving them without even saying a word, Hinata didn't even deserve to be called their friend anymore. He still could remember the doleful expression Kenma had worn when Hinata ran away from the pudding-head. He had betrayed the only friends he had held so dear.

Oh, how much he missed them. At this point Nishinoya would run into the classroom and announce happily that they came to pick Hinata up for lunch. He would then yell at everyone who was talking bullshit about his ginger-head friend. Kenma would walk to Hinata and threat everyone, making things even worse. They would then both look at him and smile happily while calling him 'Shouyou-kun'.

"Kageyama-chan!?"

Hinata was startled awake by the unexpected call. He raised his head and behind a blurry vision saw a faint outline of a female. The boy blinked his eyes and felt as a tear drop ran down his cheek.

Huh?

"Kageyama-chan are you alright?" The person asked in worried tone. Hinata quickly dried his teary eyes (how embarrassing, to think that he actually ended up crying) and smiled at the person.

"Yeah, just perfectly fine," he answered, even though just a moment ago he had been in the verge of tears. It was only now that he finally recognized the person standing before him. Her spiky and unkept neck length hair was brownish-black in color and she had chestnut-colored eyes with big pupils. She was obviously taller than Hinata had that body structure of an athlete. Her skin was already slightly tanned, even though it was only March.

If Hinata remembered right, this girl was the one who was supposed to help him adapt to the new school. Her name was Kaion Emiko - that if his memory didn't betray him. What exactly did she want from him?

Emiko let out a desperate smile, wondering if the person who had just been crying ones eyes out was really alright, but soon remembered the real reason she had called for Hinata. "Say Kageyama-chan, do you want to join us for lunch?" Emiko said, pointing at herself and then the two people sitting around her desk. The two girls smiled at Hinata, and the boy then turned his head back to Emiko.

He was speechless. This was his first time anyone beside Nishinoya and Kenma had asked him to join lunch with them. This was the first time a girl had approached him without her whole body shaking in fear (the reason for that was most likely, because he was dressed up like a girl...).

"Kageyama-chan?" Hinata was returned back to the reality after a worried question. He glanced at Emiko and then laughed desperately. "Well, if you don't mind me joining you..."

"Wah! It's settled then! Ka-chan, Mi-chan!" the girl clapped her hands happily and helped Hinata to move his desk next to her. When the desks had been put together, the three girls and Hinata-boy moved their chairs around them. Each of the three girls took out her obento.

"Kageyama-chan, don't you have bento with you?" Emiko wondered, as the orange-head had no lunch before her. Hinata, who had once again wandered into his imaginary world, snapped out of it and leaned towards his bag to take out his bento.

He had been in charge of making bento for more than three years already, so there was no way he would forget it. Hinata opened the wrapping and started his meal. He watched closely from the sides as the three girls before him chatted happily.

The atmosphere was so warm; so this what it felt to be part of the class. This place was the very place he had yearned for all his years - to be part of the class circle, to chat happily with everyone. It was so dazzling, stepping out of the shadow into the sun, that he felt tears forming into corners of his eyes.

But even though he had finally been accepted as part of the class, something felt different. He wasn't all that happy as he had expected to be. Taking a bite from his tamagoyaki, Hinata realized. The reason why his chest itched despite all the happiness, what because those two weren't beside him. The causes of the pair were Nishinoya and Kenma.

"Whoa, your bento looks so yummy! Did your maid make it for you?" Came an unexpected question.

"Pardon?"

"I'm talking about your bento," Emiko repeated while pointing at the half eaten box in Hinata's arms. "Did your maid prepare it for you?" The other two had also stopped chatting and stared at Hinata with curious looks.

Hinata glanced at his bento. "A maid? No way! Miharu-san did mention something about giving me a hand, but in the end I have made my own bento's since Jr. High," he shook the topic with a laugh. He continued on, only to realize that the three girls were staring at him with serious looks.

"Um... Did I say something wrong?" He questioned, not understanding why the girls were so serious.

Emiko was the first one to recover. "No, I was just surprised that you made it own your own. I'm sure I wouldn't be able to do it." She told honestly showing a weak smile at Hinata.

"I think I have never in my life even stepped into the kitchen." The orange-haired girl stated while taking a bite of her bento. Her eyes then turned at the last person. "What about you, Kazu?"

The girl with straight chestnut-colored hair tied up on side pony tail fixed her rimless glasses and replied with a quiet voice, "I have the habit of forgetting to eat unless someone brings food to me." It wasn't clear if she was praising her inability to cook or the fact that people took care of her to the point they brought food to her.

Hinata stared at the three girls with his mouth wide open. He wasn't even sure how he was supposed to react to these news. How in the world there could be people in Japan who had never set their foot into the kitchen? Just what kind of rich and spoiled young masters were these people? What kind of school was this?

While Hinata was still recovering from the shock, Emiko made a quick glance at the boy wearing the female uniform. Her simple glance slowly turned into intense stare as she furrowed her brows. At some point the stare turned into glare, emitting a strange aura from behind.

Hinata backed off from the girl. "Wha- Wha- What it is?" He stammered.

Emiko drew her finger near her lip and pushed it against her teeth. "I think that we forgot something very important-"

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

"Ah?"

The three girls voiced one after another, the chestnut-haired having a tone of confusion and question in her voice. Emiko then grinned widely at Hinata. "We forgot to introduce ourselves."

"I'm Nakashima Michiyo, nice to meet you." Came out a confident introduction from the orange-haired girl. Her hair was pulled back and kept in place with a blue-colored headband which matched her ocean-blue eyes. She had very light skin tone, was slender and had very adult like appearance. Hinata had taken a notice of her since the very beginnig, but this made things clear for him. Michiyo definitely was those "popular" and "class-leader" like persons; the ones he got along with the worst.

"Furukawa Kazuko, I like painting..." The chestnut-haired girls last words disappeared beneath her breath. Her face looked troubled and she quickly hid behind the painting book she was holding in her arms. Unlike Michiyo's adult look, Kazuko resembled more of a weak and petite princess, who was waiting for her knight in shining armor riding a white horse come and take her away to his country. Most likely Kazuko was the type to shut herself out from the outside world; in many ways they were similar, so Hinata was sure that they could get along well.

"And I'm Kaion Emiko. Just like Kageyama-chan, I have a thing for volleyball," Emiko winked her eye while smiling widely. Her brownish-black hair was messed up to the point Hinata wondered if it was a new fashion. In many ways, Emiko was placed between Kazuko and Michiyo - she didn't look as childish as Kazuko but she didn't have the adult look of Michiyo. It was obvious that she was the athlete type, which was the type Hinata got along well; at least if the other party was willing to befriend him.

A chuckle escaped from the orange-head as he thought that Emiko reminded him of Nishinoya. That would make Kazuko like Kenma and Michiyo would most likely be... Natsu. The flashbacks of his sister made his chest hurt, and Hinata glanced away from the trio. Doing this, he received concerned glances, which made him to show fake smile.

Michiyo and Emiko changed glances at the weird behavior of their new classmate, but shook it off with a shrug. The orange-head then spoke, as she was packing her finished lunchbox. "Say Emi, didn't the volleyball club have Promotion match today?"

Emiko glanced at her friend trying to recall, where she had heard the name. "Ah, right! Promotion match! I better go and watch it!" Her expression brightened and her usual smile returned. The girl turned to look at Hinata. "Do you want to come along?"

"Eh? But I..." Hinata hesitated. Of course he wanted to; he would love to do anything related to volleyball, but wasn't sure if Kageyama would like the idea.

Emiko grinned. "Okay! It's decided then!" She threw her fist high in the air. At the same time the bell rang, and students started to return to classroom.

"EHH?"

"Everyone, let's assemble!" Matsuura's yell echoed in the second gymnasium and the third years stopped practicing. They gathered around their captain and sat down to take a break and have a drink. Matsuura was the only one who remained standing.

The captain checked everyone from his team and then smiled. "Good it seems that we've gotten our rhythm back. Now about the upcoming match against our juniors. " He started and took a sip from his bottle. "It's usually rare for such thing to happen but as you all know, our team is gathered from the strongest individuals of our generation. We've managed to enter inter-high and spring high for three years in a row and even managed to win the championship thrice. That's very well done from a school that was established only ten years ago."

"In our second year, it was us seven who managed to pull our team all the way to semi finals of inter-high. During that match we all realized that we still lacked something, and after crushing defeat we went home and practiced non-stop for four months. It was thanks to this lesson and our desperate will to get stronger than we managed to win the championship in spring high." Matsuura showed a wide smile to everyone.

"But even as strong as we were, you guys never took our wins for obvious. You didn't let loose even once and always chased after the ball. You were so serious about playing, that thanks to someone certain one hiding his ankle injury we almost lost against a no-name school." The captain flashed a murderous glare at Kageyama who gulped loudly and glanced away from him. Isoya patted Kageyama's back strongly and flashed him a wide teeth grin.

"Thankfully we managed to pull though thanks to our substitute setter. The match against Karasuno was our toughest match. No one of us who've guessed that they had fourth years who were actually allowed to play. And they weren't just any fourth years, they had to be the strongest Karasuno players in their history; The Brain and The Guardian Diety. After that the other teams weren't as much trouble as the crows and we won the championship." Matsuura crossed his arms and smiled proudly at this team.

"Captain!" Haiba Lev raised his hand to get a permission to speak.

"Yes?" Matsuura answered, sounding annoyed for the fact that his speech was interrupted.

"When are you going to finish, I want to go and play more!" The middle blocker questioned and yawned loudly. Everyone else lowered their heads in silent agreement and Matsuura's vein popped. He had finally gathered the team to hold an appreciation speech and this is how his team treated him.

"I'm about to end so sit still for a moment and shut up!" The white-head snapped. After the silent moment as everyone turned their attention towards him, he coughed and continued. "We have went to harsh and long road to get here and even managed to receive the nickname "Generation of En Passant' along the way. But our journey isn't over just yet. We still have to show our juniors what exactly it means to be a champion team. We have to pass along the "Teikoku" spirit that our seniors passed to us."

At the end of his speech, Matsuura added the final touch. "We might have won the Promotion match last year, but mark my words. I will never forgive you if we are to lose to our juniors. LET'S GO AND WIN!"

"OOOH!" Isoya yelled loud and Haiba and Shibayama joined him. Kunimi, Kageyama and Tsukishima didn't seem to be so enthusiastic with it, but their eyes were burning with fervour and the desire to play volleyball.

"It's sure is hot in here! Be sure not to set this place on fire, volleybaka's." Came out a female voice when the gymnasiums door slid open. The manager of the team entered the building while wearing an apron and carrying two big boxes. She was accompanied with two other girls, who were the current managers of the team. "Thanks girls, you can go now. I can handle the rest."

"Handa-san!" Everyone greeted their manager. She took off the apron and undid the high bun that kept her long hair in place. After that the manager, Handa Kou opened the boxes and smiled at the volleyball team members.

"I made some onigiri's with the girls, come on and enjoy." Kou told. There wasn't much a manager could do for the team, especially a team as strong as these boys. Less alone, a retired manager was even more unuseful, but Kou wanted to be a help for her team till the very end. So, she had gathered the second years managers and helped her to make onigiris' for the team.

The boys glanced at other and smiled widely. Now that they thought about it, they hadn't eaten anything since the lunch break. Isoya's stomach started grumbling loudly and he laughed childishly at the sound. Matsuura smiled. "Then let's take a break and enjoy the onigiri's our manager has prepared for us."

Once everyone had had their portion of the food, Kou put away the boxes. She then gathered up everyone's bottles and went to fill them up. When she returned Kou stared at her the team for a moment and small smile escaped from her lips. She was so glad that she had become their manager. She was so thankful that she could help them for the past three years. They were so dear to her. And now... this dear team was breaking apart.

While in the thoughts, Kou noticed something different in one of the players. Her eyes narrowed in thoughtful manner and she walked closer to Tsukishima. "Say Kei-chan," there is came, Kou's habit to call people by their first names with adding -chan to the end (everyone, expect for Kageyama. She wasn't stupid enough to call the schools king merely by his first name; that's how much she valued her own life). "Have you grown taller again?"

Tsukishima glanced at the manager and then at himself. "I guess my body has been hurting for a while." He stated monotony. It had been on his last year of Jr High that he had had his grown spurt that he hadn't connected the pain to it. When was it that he would finally stop growing?

"What, you mean you're taller again?" Kageyama yelled in disbelieve and stood up next to Tsukishima. The difference between the two of them wasn't big, but it was fair enough to realize the growth of Tsukishima. "SHIT SHIT SHIT! It took me three years to catch up to your height and now you tell me you grew taller again!"

Tsukishima smirked at the desperate sight of his teammate. "I guess that even the King can't catch up to me." He provoked the angered Kageyama, who took hold of his bite. Dark aura surrounding Kageyama, he took hold of Tsukishima's shirt and was about to land a blow on the middle blocker; that's if Isoya hadn't come to a rescue.

"Oh, so Tsukicchi is closer to reaching my height, but I guess you never will! Ahaha! I will always be the tallest one here! How COOL is that!" To tell the truth, he hadn't really come to a rescue, Isoya just wanted to brag about his height. And indeed the blonde was tall; even Haiba who at the height of 194cm was the second tallest member on the team, was 15cm's shorter than the gigantic Isoya.

Matsuura and Shibayama were watching from the sidelines and everyone had gathered around Tsukishima and the idiotic Isoya. The former one sighed loudly. "Even if I'm not exactly short one, I feel myself l midget when surrounded by those guys."

"If you're midget then that would make me a dwarf! How do you think I feel when even the manager is taller than me?" Shibayama had lake of tears rolling down his cheeks. Matsuura chuckled at the boys reaction; truly anyone would feel being a dwarf when he was the only member with the height less than 180cm. But he loved this team; he loved every single person in the team.

And there was someone, they still hadn't thanked.

"Everyone, gather up!" Matsuura then yelled and everyone stopped fooling around immediately and headed towards their captain. Only Kou was left watching from the side. She assumed Matsuura was going to say a words of encouragement for the team, and so was completely caught of guard when the captain suddenly turned towards her.

"Handa Kou-san, I thank you for the depths of my heart for taking care of us volleyball idiots and enduring with us for these three long years!" Matsuura yelled with serious tone in his voice and bowed deep. "THANK YOU SO MUCH!"

"THANK YOU SO MUCH!" The rest of the team followed after their captains example and bowed deep while yelling in union.

Kou backed off from the team while trying to hold up her tears. This really meant that they were going to fall apart soon. The girl dried her eyes and smiled happily. "I'm not worth of your sweet words... But if you really want to show your gratitude, then go and beat our juniors in the Promotion match." She encouraged everyone.

"OOOOH!" Matsuura and the rest of the boys held back their tears while yelling.

"Kageyama-chan let's go!" Emiko shouted loudly when the last bell rang and the class was dismissed. Before Hinata could pack his books to bag, she took hold of his wrist and dragged the poor orange-bush into hallway.

"Ah, Kaion-kun..." Hinata panicked of the sudden kidnapping. Emiko turned to him while still running and smiled widely. "Just call me Emiko."

"Etto... Emiko-kun... I don't think we need to be in such hurry. The game won't start in another 15 minutes." The ginger-head corrected himself, but Emiko didn't seem to hear him; vice versa she only picked up her speed.

Once they reached the shoe lockers, Emiko finally stopped for a moment to speak up. She rapidly turned towards Hinata and spoke, her eyes flaming with intense heat. "This is where you're wrong, Kageyama-chan. Don't underestimate the power of our volleyballclubs fanclub. Those fangirls are like felines when it comes to the members of volleyballclub. Once we enter the second gymnasium we enter the battlefield of front row places."

Hinata gulped. Things went more crazy with every word he heard about the school. Of course he knew that sports club tend to have fangirls; back in Karasuno there was always a pack of girls watching the practice; but to the point that it was to be called a battlefield? Exactly why?

"Oh, we're here! Now Kageyama-chan, let the battle start!" Emiko smiled at the orange-head as they entered the stand. It was filled with girls screaming, chatting and squealing. Like back when he had first entered the school, Hinata noticed that most of the students were wearing all black uniform - he and Emiko stood out. He did spot few black-and-white uniforms among the student body.

Pushing their way through Emiko headed towards the center of the stand, where the best spots were. Hinata was surprised to see that there were also few male students who had come to watch the match. All of a sudden, Emiko spotted a glimpse of orange hair wearing a white uniform, that didn't belong to Hinata. She was standing at the front row in the best spot, where they could perfectly see the both sides.

"Mi-chan, you've come to watch the game as well?" Emiko questioned her friend, wondering how she had managed to get there before them even though they had clearly left the classroom as soon as the bell rang.

Michiyo turned at her friend and smiled widely. "There's no way I'm going to miss this match. Especially not when he's playing." The orange-haired girl smirked widely and Emiko smiled to her as an answer.

"Players assemble!" Was a loud yell coming from the coach, who was going to judge the match. Next to him was standing Handa Kou and the three second-year managers. The trainer, the club advisor and two first year managers were standing on coach's other side.

The players lined on the back line of the court and bowed at each other. As soon as this was done the fangirls started yelling and screaming each of their idols names. Hinata felt his chest tightening as he watched the players. He wanted to play too. He wanted to stand on the court and touch the ball!

It was only then when his eyes spotted the boy with raven-head and dark blue eyes. The boy's brows were furrowed down and he was wearing a sharp scowl. His whole essence made it look like he wanted the squealing fan girls out of the hall, but no avail to his glare the girls pitch of the voice went up by another scale.

Hinata felt sweat running down his body. He knew who that person was...

KAGEYAMA?

A/N: Next time we'll see you in the Promotion match between the third-years and the current team - and something more spicy to add to the story! Ahah!

As you can see most of the characters have heights different from the original story, I decided to mark down the heights here - also the third year team is to be introduced now. I'll only list down the characters who had been introduced; for others you have to wait for them to make their first appearance.

(The height growth is due to characters being older than back in Haikyuu and believe me, boys at the age of 15-16 are still in their growing period. Only third-year students have barely any change in their height.)

Hinata Shoyo - 165,2 cm
Nishinoya Yuu - 161,3 cm
Sugawara Koushi - 176,2 cm
Shimizu Kiyoko - 167 cm

Let me introduce you the third-year volleyball club members of Teikoku High.
(The number in front is their shirt number, the nicknames are to be explained in following chapter. Also the members original team from anime, or if they're an OC is mentioned)

1. Wing Spiker - Matsuura Masato - Ex-Captain/Bishop - 182,3 cm [OC]
2. Wing Spiker - Isoya Nobuyuki - Queen - 210,1 cm [OC]
3. Setter - Kageyama Tobio - King - 188,4 cm [Karasuno]
4. Wing Spiker - Kunimi Akira - Bishop - 185,2 cm [Aoba Jousai]
5. Middle Blocker - Tsukishima Kei - Rook - 191,2 cm [Karasuno]
6. Libero - Shibayama Yuuki - Castle - 162,3 cm [Nekoma]
7. Middle Blocker - Haiba Lev - Rook - 195,3 cm [Nekoma]

Without any further words, I hope that you will leave thoughts about this chapter. Due to my busy schedule, I will most likely be back only in December. See you all then in "Generation Of En Passant!"