AN: Hello again! Sorry, not a lot happened in the last chapter but things begin to somewhat heat up in this chapter in between Kageyama and Hinata. The more gruesome parts come later. Thanks for being patient with me! Okay, here goes.
-Hinata's POV-
When I get home, I see Natsu run and my mom walk to me. "Shou-chan! Let's play again today! Mommy has to work late today so we can play for a loooong time!" I pick up Natsu and look at my mom, wondering if what she said was true. But what I really wanted to do was text Kageyama and ask if he wanted to practice just me and him.
"Sorry, Shouyou, Natsu is right. But make sure you do your homework first. And don't stay up late." she tells me. "Okay."
About 2 hours have passed and I still haven't done any homework. Whatever. I'll do it later.
"Shou-chan! Let's play!" Natsu says, barging into my room with her arms full of dolls. I stare at her, trying to come up with an excuse to not play. Then, my face lights up as I come up with a better idea.
"Natsu! Let's play volleyball instead!"
"Okay!" she exclaims, dropping all her dolls on my bedroom floor.
When we get to the front yard, I show her how to put her arms, and I tell her that I'll throw the ball to her and all she has to do is keep her arms stretched out.
"Here, I'll show you. Throw the ball to me."
She throws it, but not very high, so I have to really lower myself down to reach it, but I hit it. "See?" I say, and when I look at her, her eyes are big and sparkling. Her mouth is open, and she says:
"WOW, Shou-chan, that was so cool! I wanna do it!"
About 10 ish minutes pass of me throwing to her and her missing (usually) and me practically laying down on the ground to hit the ball when she throws it to me. Then, I see a weird, creepy, human-like figure. The sun has set, and I squint my eyes for my eyes to try to adjust in the darkness, but I still can't make out what it is.
"Shou-chan, you okay?"
"Natsu, come over her" I tell her, picking her up.
I walk over cautiously to the person, and thank goodness Natsu is distracted with playing with my hair because if she saw it, it would really scare her. I swallow hard, and say, "H-hello?". The person moves forward, causing me to flinch back a bit. The person starts to run over to us and I freeze, covering my arms around Natsu protectively. I shut my eyes tightly and after a few moments I open my eyes to see- KAGEYAMA? "Kageyama? What are you-" "Ahh! Shou-chan! Scawy monstow!" (Scary monster). She yells, grabbing two fist fulls of my shirt in her hands and digging her head into my neck.
This time Kageyama flinch's; Natsu obviously startled him. "No, no Natsu it's okay. He's my friend." She moves her head and stares at him, and he stares back, and I look at Natsu to see what she does next. She moves forward in my arms, motioning to go closer to Kageyama. I move closer to him, and we're dangerously close. She reaches up to Kageyama's face, and with her chubby hands she squishes his cheeks together, and she starts to smile. I can see his face; he's pissed. I can't hold my laughter in and blurt out laughing. I can't believe Kageyama let my sister do something to him that I'd never be able to do! I look at Kageyama to see him glaring at me. Natsu starts to latch onto Kageyama's clothes, and with my laughter dying down, I hand her over to him. Or try to.
"She wants you to carry her, Kageyama."
"What? No way. I can't hold a small, fragile human."
"Small humans are called toddlers, babies, or kids. And it's easy. Just put one arm under her butt and another around her back. She does the rest." I explain. He's fidgeting a lot so I decide to help him. How hard is it to carry my kid sister? 'Bakageyama'.
I grab one of his arms and quickly transfer Natsu to his side, sliding his arm under her butt. 'Oh man, am I getting a kick out of this or what!' I put his other arm around her back and say "See? Wasn't so hard, was it?" I stand back, and quickly snap a photo and run to my house, laughing all the way. I look back, and see Kageyama speed walking over to me.
"Take the small human. Please." he mumbles the last part, but I pretend to not have heard it.
"What was that last part? I didn't quite catch that."
"Please."
"Huh?"
"PL-"
"Okay! Kageyama, ha, I get it, but not so loud, Natsu is asleep!" I say, putting my hand over his mouth. I take my hand off his mouth, and he looks over to Natsu and sighs.
"Come on in, let's put her to sleep."
"So… can you… take her?"
"Huh? Oh, hah, yeah."
I see Kageyama look over at the volleyball on the ground, and look at me.
"Wanna play?"
"Put her to sleep first. And delete that picture."
"Okay, and no way." I say, running inside.
As I put Natsu on her bed, I hear Natsu mumble something:
"Huh? What did you say?"
"Shou-chan, let's play tomowow too. With K- Ka- Kayama."
"Hm. Okay, we can play. Maybe not tomorrow, but I promise we'll play with Kageyama. Goodnight, Natsu." I say, pecking her on the head.
When I get outside, I see Kageyama laying on the grass. I walk over quietly to him and leap into a sitting position next to him, legs outstretched in front of me. He semi opens his eyes, and rolls over, his back facing me.
"Come on Kageyama! Let's play!" I say, shaking him.
He lays there for a sec, and then gets up. I get up too, excitedly. Even though there's no net or anyone to throw the ball, we still manage to somehow, awkwardly play.
"So, Kageyama"
"What"
"Why-"
"I came here to… check on you because you didn't seem right… are you okay damn it?"
I stand there surprised, letting the ball fall.
"Wait, did I just hear you right? You were worried about me? Are you okay?"
"Just answer the damn question already."
"Oh… I'm fine, maybe a little tired, but fine. Thanks."
After about an hour of playing, I start to feel drowsy. I yawn, and say,
"Kageyama, I'm starting… to feel… a bit… tired.. Maybe we can take a short break?" I slur.
I barely see him nod and fall on the grass immediately, dead asleep.
-Kageyama's POV-
I see Hinata start to play poorly again. And figure that any second now he's going to ask for a break. When he does, I nod and watch him fall on the grass. I run over to him and bend down 'Oh, he's asleep'. The way his cheeks are smooshed together make him look so cute… CUTE?! No. I'm straight. GAH.
I move him to a more comfortable position on his back, and lay beside him, hearing nothing but his soft breathing.
A few minutes go by and I hear him say somethings in his sleep. It's not all clear, but I understood some of it.
"No… 'm not… short… shut ut… not… short… I be… ace…"
Suddenly, he puts his arms in the air, trying to defend himself, kicking his legs, and trying to put his head back. His eyes shoot open, but he's still in his dream, seeing his enemies and crying. He starts whimpering and I try to shake him awake, but he only kicks more violently. I hold his hand tightly, and yell "Hinata! You're okay! Wake up, it's just a bad dream."
He sits up, waking up, launching himself my way.
I try to catch him, but end up knocking us both over. I open my eyes to see Hinata staring at me with wide eyes. He's laying on my front and my back is on the ground, but I pay no attention to that right now.
"K-Kageyama?"
I see a dry tear stain on his right cheek, but his tears start to pour out again, falling onto my face.
"Hinata, what, ya know, happened?"
He sits up on my stomach, and since he's so light it doesn't bother me. He begins to wipe away his tears, only to make more fall.
"I-" hiccup! "I d-don't-" hiccup! "want t-to ta-talk about it…" hiccup!
I sit up, picking him up off me and setting him down in front of me. Without hesitating, I hug him tightly, and rub his back. I've never seen him like this, and it's shocking to see someone who is usually so happy suddenly break down right in front of your eyes. What do you do in that situation? All I can do is let him cry his heart on my shoulder for a few minutes, and soon enough I can hear his breathing. He's falling asleep again. I let go of the hug and hold his shoulders to stop him from falling on the ground, since he's falling asleep.
"Kageyama, yyoouuu can ssstay at myyyy house tooonight." He's slurring his words again. Cute- NOT CUTE. At all. Nope. Maybe a little.
I want to decline, but considering the state he's in, I don't want him to start crying again and not have anyone there to comfort him. I nod, stand up, and pick him up from the armpits, standing him up. He grabs my arm, and while yawning, he leads me into his house. We go up his stairs and he starts to ask me a question "Kageyama, how… did you get-" yawn "my address?" "Suga gave it to me when he asked me to check up on you. I was gonna go and check on you anyway… but…" 'Crap! What am I saying? Ah screw it.' "I didn't have your address." "Oh." yawn
He opens the door to his room and trips on something, pulling me forward "Gah! Ow! I forgot Natsu's dolls re in here, sorry." he says. "Yeah I can tell" I say, gritting my teeth and holding my foot in pain. "Sorry, only one bed in my room. We stopped having visitors a long time ago so we got rid of our extra mattress. If you don't mind, we can both sleep on the bed, or I'll just sleep on the ground. Up to you." "No uh, don't sleep on the ground." "Okay." yawn
Hinata shrugs and walks to his closet, behind him. He rummages through his stuff, and takes off his clothes- except his boxers- his spaceship boxers! That's hilarious, and cute. No, just hilarious. He puts on a tank top and baggy sweatpants. "I'll be back" he says. He walks to a larger room, but I can only see part of it through the open door frame. I'm guessing the room is his moms. He comes back and hands me some clothes.
"This was my dads, but he doesn't live here anymore, so you can borrow it." 'His dad didn't take his pajamas with him? That's weird.' "Okay, thanks." I quickly change into the tank top and long, plaid, loose pajama pants and put my clothes neatly in pile in the corner. Hinata's room is somewhat messy, but not as bad as I always pictured it to be.
"So, do you want the spot on the outside of the bed, or the spot that would be between me and the wall?"
"The outside, I guess."
"Okay."
He lays on the bed, and turns himself away from me, facing the wall. 'Wow, I never pictured myself doing this, this is so awkward.' I lay down, and pull the cover over me, facing away from Hinata. I check the time on Hinata's alarm clock; 12:41a.m. Great. Oh well. I turn off the light and start to go to sleep. I feel Hinata roll over on his side, and I do the same. I look at him; I'm wide awake now. He's staring at me, and after what feels like hours, he begins to move his left arm, and holds onto my left hand with his left hand. I see him bite his bottom lip, and I tighten the grip a bit. He smiles, and finally starts to drift off to sleep…
AN: Hey! Did ya like it? I hope so. Please leave a review, thanks! Gruesome parts of Hinata being picked on coming up soon! Bye :3
