There you go, an update! My writing is still rusty, but I am trying to regain my old writing style. Enjoy.
Kindly tell me what you think about it. :)
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Ripples dribbled down from the sky, or so was the bleak view that faced Kageyama as he stared at the window during his lunch in his cafetaria. He guessed he couldn't complain about the food, to begin with he wasn't a picky eater, though he prefer protein filled food that would give him the necessary energy to play volleyball. Facing him is Hinata, who was also eating his meal happily. Offhandedly, he caught himself wondering about what kind of illness the other boy had, he had looked so normal, a little hyperactive maybe. Slightly annoying. But Kageyama welcomed the friendliness the boy had shown him grudgingly, after all not many people had been nice to him. His former teammates had called him the King of the Court and he dimly wondered what they are doing right now.
"Hey Kageyama, do you know they also play volleyball here?" Hinata chirped suddenly, "The management think that its a good exercise, and it gives us endorphin when we are playing sports, so they encourage us to play volleyball in this place. Not many people want to team up with me though, you see." The boy looked down for a while. "Compared to most of them, I am a complete newbie who never really played before. Ne, Kageyama, do you want to play with me? What position do you usually play?"
"...Setter." Kageyama said.
"Setter, hm? I like to spike, I like the feeling of rush that went through as my vein connect in my palm to give out a good bam." He grinned, slurping his udon amidst talking.
Somehow being with Hinata reminds him of the high school days he never enjoyed. Perhaps things would have been different had they went to the same high school. "I hate people who can't hit my balls, though." Kageyama quipped, warning the other boy of his perfectionist tendencies.
"Its okay, I will try my hardest too. Maybe we can be a good combination. Wanna check the volleyball court after this?"
Kageyama munched his katsu, and nodded. He wasn't going to let his enthusiasm show, but the notion of being volleyball again gives him a newfound hope.
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As Hinata and Kageyama approached the volleyball court, he could hear the sound of the quickstep of people running and hustling instead, and he could hear the faint sound of sneakers touching the floor, making squishy noises in the midst. At long last, he thought, I am about to be reunited with volleyball, he thought. He entered the court and saw the ongoing game, but his eyes were fixated at the two men whose face are the same, one was setting, and the other hits the ball straight to the other team's spot. Apparently, that was the hit that cinched his eyes.
This was not the level he expected volleyball to be played in a mental hospital.
Gauging the setter who just hit the ball, he seems to be about the same level as Oikawa san, though the thought of Oikawa brought a subtle tinge in his heart. Despite being twins, Kageyama can see subtle difference between the twin, the boy who sets has darker eyes, and a darker smile. He was not like Oikawa san, Oikawa san is not dark, he is sometimes depressed, and is sad, Kageyama can see that, but Oikawa is petty sometimes in his mannerisms, and still have the basic conscience which propelled his popularity and likability among people.
Oikawa is bright, like a flashy car, with exaggerated movement and a ready smile, and sometimes he has a childish streak, but he is not... cruel. At least not in a way that is deliberate and elaborated and his vendetta is only based on momentary ill intention and he still know when to stop as his feelings are not deep, that's what makes him so versatile and shining. This man, compared to Oikawa is a deep murky well of unknown content, somewhat he also sensed a feeling that this is someone not to be trifled with, and that unlike Oikawa with a celebrity like aura, this is a man who forged through life with blazing determination and dark thoughts that ensnare people that get too close.
But, he can also see the similarity between this man and Oikawa, this man grinned as readily, Kageyama watched him grin towards his twin who gave him a ready high five. Kageyama felt a shiver when the setter turned to look at him, with an assessing look, it was a predatorial look, he has seen it in snakes in the national geographic channel his father has forced him to watch, the kind that slithers the prey suddenly, choking them quietly with a look of detached amusement.
Time seem to have stopped until the boy's lips curved into a smile, a pleased one. He approached Kageyama with intent.
"You're Tobio kun, right." He said, his voice smooth as silk. "I am Miya Atsumu. I heard you play volleyball as well." Hinata seemed to have shrinked beside him, not daring to speak, Kageyama can only sense his fear.
For the first time in his life, Kageyama felt threatened. Every instinct urged him to leave, but he stood rooted in his place as if by some magnetic force. "Yes, I am a setter as well." He did not know why he added the last bit, perhaps out of pride or out of some desire to create a common ground with the other boy.
"Hm? Is that so? Then we must play together sometime." A slow smile crept in Miya's lips like slithering snakes, and for the first time since this conversation start, he noticed Hinata. Hinata has been uncharacteristically silent since this conversation took place.
"Your friend, hm?" Miya mused, eyes narrowing as if in contemplation. Sensing the discomfort caused by Hinata's silence and Kageyama's wariness, Miya smiled and waved them goodbye, promising that they should play again.
"Contact me anytime, Tobio kun." He said, and looking at Hinata, he further said, "You too, of course, Hinata kun."
Apparently the match was over, and they were all getting ready to leave. Before they leave, the other twin gave Kageyama a somewhat pitying look.
It unsettles him greatly.
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When Kageyama and Hinata were the only one left in the volleyball court, he asked the boy who had been uncharacteristically silent all this time.
"Hey Hinata."
Hinata looked at him surprised, as if he was caught in some dark thoughts of his. "Yes?"
"Do you know that Miya guy?"
HInata gulped, averting his eyes. "That was the first time I talked to him, but he is bad lot. I have heard some bad rumors about him. He is apparently a diagnosed psychopath, very charming, smart and talented, he was already scouted to some major sport university. But there was a case about him forcing a fangirl of his to suicide. It was so slick too, so well arranged that the police can find no evidence to link him to it. I heard that his parents are the one who admitted him here, out of worry. I heard their house burned a few days before his admission to the hospital, and that his twin brother is the only one who can stop him."
And Kageyama thought he was fucked up. "So we have a suspected murderer in this place?"
"Well, no one can pin the crime to him, so he isn't technically a murderer." Hinata paled somewhat and looked uneasy. "He seemed to have taken an interest in you, though. Normally, he only talked to his twin brother, they would stay in one room, and the nurses crushes on them like crazy. Apparently, they think his psychopathy hot."
"Is his twin mentally ill as well?"
"I don't think so. He was only there for company, I guess. Family is stronger than everything after all."
"The conscience of the other half, almost poetic." Kageyama said sarcastically.
"I guess everybody has their own scars to deal with." Hinata said, somewhat mystically.