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Kageyama bolted upright in a cold sweat. The remnants of his nightmare faded into his reality as he realizes who is missing from his life. The thought of getting out of his warm bed and moving nauseates Kageyama, so he pulls the blankets of his bed around his figure, and checks his phone underneath the warm prison. The brightly lit screen displays missed texts that he wish he could forget. Messages from his school mates, his extended family and the volleyball, giving their condolences. Kageyama herd footsteps coming up the stairs and wrapped the blankets around him more firmly.

"Tobio, I think its time you got up. At least eat something, you don't have to go to school...Just, please, get up." Kageyama's mothers delicate voice floats from the door. Kageyama groans but caves in and makes and effort to stand. His phone with the already forgotten messages falls onto the floor as Kageyama follows his mother to the downstairs kitchen. A simple breakfast is laid out where Kageyama usually sits at the kitchen table. Kageyama makes no effort to eat but goes to the fridge and drinks milk from the carton.

"Please, honey. Eat just a little, you've been cooped up in your room for the past week. Your fading away." Kageyama's mother worriedly fusses over his well being.. Looking at her watch, she gathers her bags and makes her way to the door. She hesitates and calls to Kageyama over her shoulder.

"I have to go to work, but I'm only a phone call away. If you need anything don't hesitate to call me." Kageyama's mother reluctantly walked out and with one last glance to where Kageyama stood, she shut the door behind her.

After tipping all of his uneaten and untouched breakfast down the sink and scraping the rest in the bin, he walked back up to his room. Picking up the phone that 'ping-d' with every incoming text. Even more concerned text's from his classmates and from the volleyball team lit up the screen. He failed to reply and turned of his phone, placing it beside the photo of Hinata. A sudden sadness filled Kageyama as he looked at Hinata's brightly shining smile. He turned abruptly, not wanting to be reminded of the tragedy that happened that night. Kageyama walked to the bathroom that joined to his own room and ran a bath, hoping that it would soothe his weary soul and relax his tired muscles.

—Time skip— ((A/N: I usually don't do time skips, but I feel like this part is going too slow!))

The house was silent and Kageyama was wrapped in his usual blanket cocoon, the depressing aura coming from Kageyama was repelling as he sank further into despair. The only person who accepted him for who he was and treated him like a normal human being, had slipped through his fingers. He's gone. Kageyama remembered how Hinata's face looked through the attack, the pained expression and his sweaty hand grasping Kageyama's. Kageyama remembered the ambulance being too late. Suddenly instead of setting volleyballs, he was helping plan his best friends funeral.

A lonely sound of a doorbell sounds all throughout the silent house, cutting Kageyama out of his thoughts. The doorbell rings again and Kageyama forces himself to answer it.

The door opened to reveal Hinata's parents and younger sibling.

"Hello, Kageyama-San." Akito said in a sad and tired voice.

"Goodmorning, Natsu-chan, Mr and Mrs Hinata." Kageyama automatically replied, "Would you like to come in, we have coffee?"

"Oh, no dear. We were wondering if you would accompany in cleaning out Shouyou's room. It might make it easier on Shouyou's spirit if you are there too." Mitchiko ((A/N: I don't know the names of Hinata's parentals. So I just made them up :) ) looked at Kageyama with hopeful eyes. But its such a private act, sending off your child to heaven. Cleaning out all belongings and sorting through stuff that has most likely not been touched by anyone but Hinata. Deciding what could stay and what could be thrown away.

Could he really intrude on that?

"When are you..." Kageyama trailed off, not wanting to finish the sentence.

"We were hoping to have it done...now.."

Kageyama looked at Natsu. Her childlike features looked almost dead from countless nights of crying and her lack of proper care for herself. Kageyama made a decision, he would be there for her and Hinata's parents.

Kageyama didn't feel the full weight of the burden he made himself carry, until he was standing at the door... Looking at the broken family. He had done this, this was his fault.

"I want to help" Kageyama said after a long pause. Hinata's parents let out the breaths they had been holding. Kageyama had decided that he would be apart of anything that could take the weight of Hinata's death from their shoulders. Anything for Hinata. Anything for his family. The whole accident was his fault after all.

"Are you available now? We are going to drop off Natsu at a friends house... We would like to get this done as soon as possible" Akito chimed in.

Kageyama nodded, holding back his tears he willed himself to run up the stairs to grab is phone and wallet. He then followed the rest of the family to their car.

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The car trip back to Hinata's house was awkward and tense. Kageyama kept blaming himself for what had happened to Hinata... What he had done to this family. Hinata's parents didn't have much to say and Kageyama kept silent. Staring outside the window and remembering all the times he would walk with Hinata home. As if Mitchiko could sense Kageyama's discomfort, she attempted some kind of conversation to ease him.

"So...Kageyama. How are you going?"

"Uh, I'm f-fine" Kageyama stuttered over his words, obviously stunned at the innocent question that meant so much more.

"You were there in his last moments, weren't you?" Kageyama's dad asked.

"Uhhh, yeah I was. I was there with him until the end"

"I believe our son wouldn't want anyone else with him in his last moments. You could never get him to shut up about you. At first, all he wanted to do was kill you, or die trying. But now I believe that he wanted to grow old and die with you, you two had a dream, right? To become the best in the volleyball world? I think Hinata would want you to pursue your dreams, either with or without him." Mitchiko said very seriously to Kageyama.

"Errr, Hinata and I were going to be the best, but I don't think I'll ever achieve this goal without him" Kageyama half halfheartedly said, mostly to himself as they arrived and the all too familiar house that Hinata and Kageyama used to pull all-nighters frantically studying. Trying to learn an entire terms worth of work in a couple of hours. The car stopped and Kageyama let himself out of the car. Akito was already at the door, unlocking it and Mitchiko pulled him aiside for a brief moment.

"If its not too much to ask" She whispered, "Would it be alright, if later...When your feeling better...If you would tell me what he was like in his last moments?"

Kageyama could do nothing but nod, tears threatening to fall.

Kageyama stood behind Mitchiko and Akito as the front door was unlocked and he was invited inside.

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That was the end of Chapter one! I hope you liked it and you can tell me if you did either in the comments or on my Tumblr ((Link in my bio!)) I'm having a lot of fun writing this story... Things are about to get reallllly interesting! :)

Until next time,

Winter Summers 3