A/N: I am so sorry this chapter was overdue by a whole month. I had eager plans of writing this during my holidays but got sick at the start of them and eventually couldn't do anything. I hate when this happens, and once again I'm so sorry this chapter is due so late.

The good thing is that I managed to work on the character profiles. I have now completed six characters out of the ten "main" ones and then I need to work on the other significant characters. Hopefully I get few of them done before updating the next chapter.

I also received very good reviews at the other chapter and I want to thank everyone who did review, favorite or follow my story. You're the reason I can continue writinf down this muse of mine. Hopefully you guys enjoy this chapter as well.

Kageyama found out the secret of his wife. But Hinata isn't the only one keeping secrets. The reveal of his gender brings Hinata into Kageyama's life and Hinata's world is turned upside down. The reality he once knew will never be the same. During summer Hinata reunites with his old friend and meets with someone he'll eventually declare as his rival. Beach-volley, festivals and duoble date. Sudden knews break him apart. Hinata's reality is falling apart whereas Kageyama won't look his way.

Cry Of A Fallen Crow
Cry Twenty: Making Up With Haikyuu

He looked absolutely horrible.

Hinata stared at his image reflected from the mirror and couldn't help but to force a smile. His eyes were red and swollen. His face and hair was a mess. He looked like a walking dead, having dark bags under his eyes and his skin being as pale as snow. The smile he was wearing on his face would definitely creep out any person seeing him at that state.

A week had passed since Kageyama's discovery of Hinata's real gender and identity. Neither of the lads had left their rooms ever since. Them meeting each other, would've brought the house into a state of chaos once again, they knew it, and tried avoiding that from happening at any cost.

Hinata was mostly following Miharu's advice of not leaving the room, meanwhile Kageyama stubbornly refused to leave his room to eat dinner in the dining hall. In the end, Miharu had brought the dinner to his room and he had eaten it there.

Despite looking like he had been risen from death, Hinata had already gotten over the incident with Kageyama. It's not like he wanted to, but more like he had to. If Kageyama knew his real identity there was no reason for him to pretend to be someone else, and keep on deceiving him. At this point he had only one option, he needed to tell the truth to Kageyama. The raven was to decide what to do after it; after all it was Hinata, who particularly was freeloading in Kageyama's house.

Hinata took a final glance at himself and breathed deep. It was so strange to see himself being dressed up as a guy again, after keeping up with the act for months. The orange-bush then pulled himself together and headed outside his room. After sliding the door closed, he then glanced at the stairs.

A loud gulp passed down his throat, but he refused to look away from the stairs.

Hinata had made up his mind. For the whole week he had thought about it over and over again and finally he had gathered his resolve to clear out everything with the raven. Slowly but surely he then headed towards the stairs. If someone was to see his face, determination was written all over it.

Upon entering the second floor, Hinata was welcomed by an unfamiliar sight. He was in a small hall where two armchairs were positioned at the opposing corners, whereas a tree like plant was opposing the stairs. There were four doors, each of them leading into a room Hinata had no idea of. It was only at that moment, that Hinata realized he had not been into the second floor before. He had no idea which room was Kageyama's.

Staring at the doors with confused look for a while, Hinata then decided to go with "sink-or-swim" technique and try knocking every door. He started with the one closest to him - the one positioned right next to the end of stairs. The ginger walked there and placed his fist near the door ready to knock.

Hinata closed his eyes, and told himself to calm down his nerves. His insides were killing him and he felt like he could throw up at any moment. He had to do his best not to run into toilet at that very moment. Finally, the ginger gathered up his courage and knocked the door.

No answer.

He decided to try it one more time.

"Miharu, didn't I tell you not to bother me at this time of the day?" He finally heard Kageyama retort. Lucky, he had found the right room on his first try. Hinata sighed of relief and then tried to come up with a good reply to Kageyama. He was on the battlefield and any wrong more would be the end of it.

A quiet whisper. "I'm not Miharu."

Silence.

He should've guessed as much.

"I DO NOT RECALL GIVING YOU THE PERMISSION TO ENTER THE SECOND FLOOR." Kageyama yelled out loudly, which startled Hinata. "Come on, I gave you only one order… one simple order to follow, and you couldn't keep following even that. Gosh this is why I hate… wo… dumbasses." The raven continued, correcting himself. It was obvious that he still hadn't gotten over his shock, or accepted the fact that Hinata in fact was a man.

The ginger quietly listened as the man on the other side of the door kept throwing insults at him, and finally slid down the door. His back was now facing the door, and he leaned back, letting his head rest on the door. "I'm sorry for breaking the rules." The ginger apologize after Kageyama finally calmed down. Before the raven could say anything, Hinata continued. "I just hope that you would listen to my story."

Without even waiting for Kageyama to answer him, Hinata started telling his story. He told everything there was, starting from his family and Natsu agreeing to marry Kageyama, even though she was in love with someone else, and how she eventually lost her life. He told everything about the things he had gone through during the months he had to pretend to be a girl and Kageyama's wife. He poured out all of the feelings and thoughts he had secured and locked up inside of him, making sure they would never crawl out to see the sun light.

By the time he had managed to tell only part of the story, Hinata Shoyo was already crying. He let the tears fill his eyes and slide down his cheeks as he continued his speech. His vision was blurry, he could barely speak between the sobs and his heart was aching just by the thought of everything he had went through.

But Hinata Shoyo continued.

He had decided to reveal everything to Kageyama, not leaving out even a smallest detail. This wasn't going to stop him – some stupid tears weren't going to stop him from speaking. The other side remained silent as Hinata kept on revealing his inner thoughts and feelings. "I'm so sorry. I am so sorry Kageyama-san." He finally apologized between his loud sobs.

"I am so sorry for deceiving you! I didn't want to do it. I knew I was doing the wrong thing, but I had no choice." Hinata kept a short pause to sob. "I had no choice… I lost my most precious thing. I lost my dearest sister and I couldn't bear to lose the health and smiles of my parents as well." The thought of Natsu made an image of the girl flash before Hinata's eyes. He froze, and without any warning, started to bawl like a little child the second later.

Without any warning, the door suddenly slid open. The movement made Hinata to smack his head against the floor. While he was still recovering from the incident a hand suddenly gripped his arm and he was pulled up by force. "Wha-!?" The ginger could only mumble when Kageyama suddenly pulled him along with force.

The duo dashed down the stairs while Kageyama was dragging Hinata along. The latter boy took his sweet time to realize what was going on, and before he knew it, they were already downstairs and heading towards the veranda. "What are you doing!?" He finally managed to ask.

Kageyama took Hinata all the way to the volleyball court and then pushed him away from him, while taking a volleyball from the basket. He lifted his arm high in the air and smacked the ball with full force. It went straight towards Hinata and the ginger just barely managed to avoid it. "Are you insane?"

"Shut up, dumbass! You're not supposed to avoid the ball." Kageyama went for another shot and this one was too fast of Hinata to dodge. It smacked right in the middle of Hinata's face. A scowl appeared on Kageyama's face. "Don't receive the ball with your face either. Use your arms and legs, idiot."

"What the heck, what do you mean!?" Kageyama still hadn't given any kind of explanation. Hinata had no idea what the other boy was talking about. And he needed an explanation.

Kageyama's expression darkened, but he stopped, just for the time to give an explanation. "Whose fault you think it is that I missed practice for a week? Take the responsibility and be my partner, dumbass." And so the raven continued smacking balls at the ginger.

Hinata finally started to understand what Kageyama was after. After the first shock had faded away, instead of running away from the balls, the ginger concentrated on how he should receive them. Yet, most of the times he failed and the ball bounced to his face. "You really suck at receiving." Came a dry comment from Kageyama. Hinata clicked his tongue and bent forward a little.

"One more time!"

A smirk appeared on Kageyama's face and he then lifted up the ball. With a powerful swing he smacked down the ball and yelled at the same time. "Who are you?"

"What?" Hinata missed the ball.

"Who are you?" Kageyama repeated the question upon hitting the second ball. The ginger finally realized what he was after. And so he answered.

"Hinata Shoyo."

"Hold old are you?"

"Eighteen!"

"What school you go to?"

"I just graduated from Karasuno High School." Hinata answered honestly. Due to the marriage mess, he had completely missed the entrance exams and his career plans.

"Is Hinata Natsu really your younger sister?" Kageyama continued questioning.

"Yes, she is!"

And the same patter continued for almost an hour. Kageyama continued on spiking while throwing questions, and Hinata did his best to answer and receive at the same time. They had to stop when Kageyama's knuckles – that burst open for not being completely healed yet – were covered in blood so badly, that the balls were also painted in red color. At some point Kageyama had already forgotten about the pain and aimlessly continued smacking the ball while his numb arm bled.

The exhausted and huffing boys stopped to catch some breath. Kageyama wiped off the sweat and covered his bloody fist, that seemed finally get its senses back. Only now he realized how much it hurt to have his knuckles burst open again. He would have to extend his days without practice for another week.

"My god, what happened to you?" was Miharu's first question, when she walked to the veranda and saw Kageyama and Hinata laying on the wooden flooring exhausted. Her eyes then spotted Kageyama's bloody arm and her expression fell. "What have you done, Tobio-sama? We need to get you hand treated." Without further notice, she took hold of his healthy arm and went to treat his other arm.

Once she was done, Kageyama had his arm bandaged all the way till his wrist. "You must let your hand heal completely or it'll get only worse. Playing volleyball in this house is banned till your hand heals completely." Miharu told. Kageyama knew that without her reminding about it. He had to endure one more week of not touching volleyball. And it was all the gingers fault – Kageyama thought as he turned to look at Hinata.

Miharu's eyes wandered to the clock. "Tobio-sama, shouldn't you hurry? You do remember that it's full moon today? " She questioned what made Kageyama to look at the clock. The color escaped from his face when he realized that he was running late. He had completely forgotten that it was full moon that night. The orange-bush had messed up his life and plans completely.

It took only split second for Kageyama to grab Hinata's arm and head towards the front door. The ginger was one again taken forcefully somewhere he had no idea of. Before he managed to get idea of the situation, they were already sitting in a car, heading somewhere Kageyama had called 'Fallen Crow'.

It was almost midnight when the door to Fallen Crow suddenly crashed open, and an angry looking raven dashed in while dragging a smaller figure with him. "I said to follow me! It wouldn't hurt you to listen to me every once in a while, dumbass." Kageyama raged as he tried to force the smaller guy inside the lounge.

"I'm not coming in before you tell me where you're taking me!" Hinata tried to struggle against the raven but it was obvious that he would lose in the battle of strength. But he wasn't going to stop before trying. Kageyama clicked his tongue and his expression darkened.

"Like I said-"

"Shoyo!" Hinata froze upon hearing a familiar voice. He opened his eyes and saw his dear friend standing before him. The very one he hadn't seen for three months. "Shoyo, is that really you?" Nishinoya asked, as if to confirm his eyes weren't lying to him.

Hinata's body loosened up as soon as he heard Nishinoya's voice. He had missed the boy so much, he had wished to see him every single day. He wanted to tell the older boy all about his worries and what he had gone through in the Kageyama household. And how he was standing before him.

"Noya-san…" Hinata could whisper before bursting into tears. "NOYA-SAN!"

"SHOYO!" Nishinoya ran to Hinata and forced him into strong embrace. Hinata bawled his heart out, for the first time in months feeling like he was living again. The older boy kept him in strong hold, making sure the ginger wouldn't fall on his knees.

"Shoyo, where have you been all this time? We missed you so much with Kenma, when you disappeared all of a sudden! It is true that you were forced to marry Kageyama?" Nishinoya kept throwing questions at Hinata one after another, not giving him the chance to answer them. Hinata's eyes glazed at the mention of Kenma. He wondered how his friend was doing.

"I'm sorry for not informing you anything and disappearing all of a sudden." Hinata explained that he had practically no other choice to do. He had to break all of his connections as Hinata Shoyo. After that he glanced at Nishinoya with troubled look. "How's Kenma-san? Is he doing well?"

Nishinoya was taken aback at the way Hinata brought up their friend. Why did he look so troubled? In the end, the brunette smiled. "He's doing fine. Kenma was accepted to Nekoma University and has continued playing volleyball even there." He kept a short pause. "We should call him sometime together, I bet he'll be surprised to hear news about you!"

As Nishinoya kept on chatting with Hinata, Tsukishima approached Kageyama with a dark look. "Oi, why in the world did you bring that shrimp here? Do you know what day it is today?" He glared at the raven, who seemed to answer with equally scary expression.

Upon hearing familiar voice, Hinata finally noticed the people around him. There were some people he didn't recognize – and they mostly looked scary – but Hinata was surprised to see familiar faces. Yamaguchi waved his hand shyly as he stood next to Tsukishima, who seemed to be agitating the raven with his presence. Kiyoko also nodded shyly, and Hinata thought she looked gorgeous in her waitress uniform.

Finally Hinata's eyes met with a familiar pair of hazel ones.

His whole body froze.

The two men stared at each other.

"Sugawara-san." The ginger whispered.

Sugawara looked straight into his eyes and then his eyes wandered to the floor. Finally he glanced at the orange-bush again and nervously moved his lips as if he was about to say something. "Sho-" he was already speaking up, when the clock suddenly rang, as a sign of midnight.

Hinata could only stare in confusing and fear when the people before him suddenly transformed into all kind of different animals. In the place of Kageyama, there was now fluffy Japanese Spitz, and a Snowy owl was hovering above the place Sugawara had stood few seconds ago.

"This is why you shouldn't have brought the shrimp here. It's full moon today." Hinata heard Tsukishima's voice speaking all of sudden. He didn't understand where that came from. After all animals didn't speak, right? And he didn't hear any kind of other voices.

"Shut up. I got caught in the moment." Kageyama sulked, and this time the Japanese spritz barked.

"It's no use crying over spilled milk. But we surely have gotten ourselves into awkward situation." A brown falcon suddenly cried, and Hinata heard a deep male voice speaking. He wasn't sure who the person was as he had never heard him speaking before.

The owl hovered around the lounge and finally landed on the bar counter. It spread it wings open and hooted. "Daichi is right. How are we going to explain this situation to Shoyo?" The voice belonged to Sugawara.

"I bet he'll think we're some kind of creeps…" A raccoon dog suddenly made a noise. The male voice speaking sounded worried, and maybe even slightly scared.

"Asahi-san, you're wrong! Shoyo is a good guy! I'm sure he will understand if we explain everything to him." Nishinoya suddenly yelled, as suddenly an albino red fox hissed angrily.

"Ah, I'm sorry I didn't mean to bath mouth him." Azumane answered to his friend.

"This is all your fault in the first place." Tsukishima blurted out, glaring at Kageyama. (At least it seemed like that). Hinata still couldn't locate the blondie, as he didn't make any noises when speaking.

"You little!"

The situation was getting worse and everyone started their own conversations. Hinata's ears hurt, as not only he heard the voice inside his head, he also heard the animals communicating with their own voices. The worst was when the white wolf joined the conversation by howling loudly.

"PLEASE STOP! I'M GETTING A HEADACHE!" Hinata finally reached the point, where he couldn't bear to listen to the chaos anymore. The voice's suddenly calmed down and all of the animals turned their eyes at him. It's was kind of creepy, as Hinata had never been surrounded by so many animals at the same time.

"Shoyo-kun…" Hinata suddenly heard Yamaguchi voice's speaking. A weasel suddenly approached him. It was weird to hear the boy call him by first name.

"Yes?" Hinata answered, looking down at the weasel.

Silence filled the lounge.

"No way, this can't be." Sugawara sounded surprised.

"He can understand us…" Sawamura gulped loudly.

A/N: I'm not sure if I mentioned it already, but the guys are always referred by their surnames, while I call the girls by their first names. That's why it's Sawamura and Azumane instead of Daichi and Asahi that we mostly hear them being called in anime and manga.

I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. I finally reached the point where Kageyama's life and secret are finally being revealed. How will things fold up from this own. We will see it in the next chapter.

I try to come back as soon as possible, but I can't guarantee anything.