Author's Note: I only own the plot.
OMG I just found an Omegaverse doujinshi. I can't believe someone made one. It's called Miracle Fate and it's cute. I am so glad other people see KageHina in this type of universe. It made me squee when I saw it.
Okay, we start off this chapter on day four of the training. I am skipping the first few days, sorry. If you want to know what happens those first few days then go read the manga. (Hint hint nudge nudge). I still didn't make it to the decision of the council. Almost there… I promise.
Dr. Ryugazaki paced around nervously. The voting was about to start. They had fixed the wording technicalities a few days ago. Dr. Ryugazaki had gotten the call yesterday and cursed when he found out that the wording he had snuck in there to delay things a bit longer had been corrected and they were ready to start the voting. He had hoped the wording snafu would be enough to delay things through December until the council was out of session through the end of January but he had no such luck. The council had decided to make the vote just before they let out for the holidays.
The doc hadn't told the boys about the revote today either. He had been woken abruptly at three in the morning with a call that the voting would begin the day after tomorrow, was shoved on a plane not 2 hours later for a 14 hour flight, and barely had enough time to nap in the hotel before he had to be at the International Council building for the vote. He wished he had had more time to prep the boys for the vote or even just tell them about it and he wasn't sure if they watched the news enough to know about all of this. They were both busy in the middle of training camps for volleyball.
Dr. Ryugazaki had no idea how this vote was going to go. It was always a long shot but with how meticulous they had been about the wording of the document they were going to sign, there was a good chance that this might actually go through. And he hoped for it. Tobio and Shouyo were good boys but they wouldn't do well with the media poking into every aspect of their lives yet. The doc also knew that no matter when the announcement was made, them being fate mates could also potentially affect their volleyball careers depending on how their university coach felt about mates playing on the same team. There was a huge stigma in sports about players mating too young thanks to an idiot coach a some decades ago that had forced his players to mate in order to better deal with hormones and rut that "interfered" with extra practice time.
"Ryugazaki-sensei? We're ready to get started." Dr. Ryugazaki looked over at the councilman's aid. Well, time to get the party started. He stood and followed the aid up to the podium in front of the council. He really hoped this went well.
It was the fourth day of practice when Kageyama noticed that something was off. Well it wasn't something… he was off. Plain and simple. His focus was drifting away from the court and the games every now and then and it was starting to piss him off. Normally he didn't have any issues with concentration or focus when it came to volleyball, but today he was having trouble. Every so often he'd catch himself drifting off, thinking about Hinata. If it were just worrying about Hinata it wouldn't be so troublesome. He had good reason to worry. Hinata had taken a ball to the groin yesterday and Kageyama had felt it. It had almost knocked the air out of him when he felt Hinata in so much pain. Kageyama had broken their agreement not to communicate over the bond but with Hinata in that much pain he hadn't been able to help it. Worry had gotten the best of him and he had to make sure the dumbass was actually okay. But it wasn't worry that had Kageyama's thoughts drifting.
Kageyama found himself thinking about Hinata in a most inappropriate manner. Well, it wasn't exactly inappropriate, they were mates after all. But thinking about Hinata in an intimate way while he was in the middle of practice… it was definitely not the time for it. It wasn't until he found himself getting half hard that Kageyama knew something was actually wrong. The only times this had ever happened in practice before was right before he went into rut, which definitely wasn't right. Hinata was in Miyagi and he was in Tokyo. There was no way he could get triggered from so far away, and this didn't feel like getting triggered. It felt like he was getting ready to go into a normal rut. Damn it, that wasn't supposed to happen anymore right? They already had a troublesome trigger, they didn't need any more complications.
Was this just a side effect of being away from Hinata for such a long period of time? When they had fought before and didn't talk to each other for a month, there had been nothing like this. Granted they had still seen each other every day and sat next to each other in class. So this training camp was the first time they had been away from each other completely since they had mated. It was also the furthest they had been away from each other. Was it the distance that had set him on edge? Or maybe his body was prepping for being reunited with Hinata at the end of the week? Whatever the case may be, he found himself in quite a predicament and for the first time in his life, he was actually grateful to hear the whistle blow signifying it was time for a 15 minute break between sets.
Not wasting any time Kageyama headed to his gym bag, grabbed his water bottle and his phone, and made straight for the bathroom. He was going to take care of this problem before it could get any worse. Perhaps if he shot off a couple of times throughout the day it would make it easier to concentrate when he was on the court. When he reached the bathroom he hurried into a stall and locked the door behind him. A blush found its way to Kageyama's face. He couldn't believe he was actually going to masturbate in the bathroom at training camp. He bit his lip as he pulled out his phone and went through the pictures. Luckily he still had a few picture of Hinata from Halloween dressed as a maid. Hinata had been furious when he realized Kageyama hadn't deleted all of the photos. It had taken almost a 2 days to convince Hinata to let him keep the pictures till after the training camps. Granted, he was going to find another excuse later to keep them indefinitely but he was still working on that.
Kageyama smiled when he found the photo. Not wasting any time as he pulled his black gym shorts and cotton boxers down and got to business.
Hinata would be lying to himself if he said he hadn't noticed it, but he chose to ignore it. He had no idea what the hell was going on with Kageyama or why arousal and pleasure was coursing through their bond in the middle of practice. Quite frankly it was annoying and extremely distracting. He was having a hard enough time keeping his mind on volleyball as it was with his body and mind drifting through memories of Kageyama's hands and fingers all over him. But with Kageyama's arousal coursing through the bond it was almost nigh impossible to concentrate on watching the matches before him and learning from everything he could see. Perhaps if he had been allowed to play in the matches instead of being a ball boy it would have been easier not to notice what was happening over the bond.
The feelings were intense enough that Hinata had had to make 2 trips to the bathroom to take care of himself. He didn't like doing such things in public bathrooms, not after everything that had happened with Sumita. Kageyama was definitely going to get it when he got home. Whether 'it' was a beating or something far more sensual in nature, he hadn't decided yet but he would definitely let his annoyance be known. To make things worse Hinata had planned on staying over at Kageyama's house again tonight, which meant he wasn't going home. It would be extremely unpleasant to take care of himself in Kageyama's house without the boy himself there. They already had enough issues with Kageyama's parents, imagine how much worse things would get if they found him rubbing into Kageyama's pillow with his hands in very private places.
Unable to take it much more Hinata shouted at Kageyama through their bond. Oi, whatever you're doing stop it. It's really distracting. At the he moved his attention back to the game in front of him, purposefully ignoring his mate over their bond.
Kageyama jumped at Hinata's voice as it pushed him over the edge and came hard. His face turned bright red in unbelief when realization hit him. He really just… at training camp, in the middle of the day. There was no doubt about it now, he was getting ready to go into rut. Whether that was supposed to be able to happen or not it was happening. He was just going to have to do his best to deal with it.
Sorry. Kageyama's voice floated through their bond, but Hinata didn't respond. He was probably too busy ignoring him to respond. But that didn't bother Kageyama. They had both agreed it was best not to communicate in public through their bond. He checked on Hinata's feelings one last time before finally letting it go and moving back out into the bathroom. He could feel Hinata was also battling with arousal on and off but it was probably in response to him. He wished he could just shut that part of his brain down when it interfered with volleyball. He still had some time before the next match would start so he pulled out his phone and dialed Dr. Ryugazaki's number. He wanted to ask the doctor if it really was possible to have a normal rut as a fate mate.
Kageyama sighed when there was no answer. It wasn't usual for the doc not to answer a call but he didn't really have time to ponder on it. The bathroom door opened and one of the coaches walked in. "We're about to start the next match Kageyama-kun." Kageyama nodded and waited but the coach didn't show any signs of leaving to let him finish his business in private. He cursed inwardly. That meant the coach wanted to talk to him. That couldn't be good. Sure enough the coach started talking again.
"Your focus has been off the last couple of games." The coach prompted, prodding Kageyama to talk. When Kageyama didn't talk he flat out asked the question. "Care to talk about it?"
Kageyama deliberated. He knew his game had been off and these coaches were here to teach the best of the best in Japan so that meant they were really good at observing. He would need to offer something up about the sudden change in focus but he hated lying, not to mention he wasn't exactly good at it, especially on the spot. So Kageyama decided to go with a half-truth. He would mention the rut but nothing else. "I think I'm about ready to go into rut." He stated but didn't offer anything else. He expected the next question from the coach to be about his scent. There was no way the coaches had missed Hinata's permanently attached omega scent, he knew his temporary teammates hadn't. They bugged him non-stop about having an omega's scent all over him and all over his stuff. He'd gotten so annoyed that without thinking he growled out the truth that he hadn't noticed Hinata had scented his stuff while they were packing. It was the truth, he really hadn't. They'd been all over each other since they'd mated and he'd been sleeping at Hinata's house for so long that he didn't think anything of Hinata's scent being so strong on his clothes. He had vowed to pummel the dumbass into the next century when he got home. They were supposed to be keeping a low profile and their scents were already mixed enough. What's more, he didn't understand why Hinata would feel the need to do that in the first place. Everyone at the training camp was male and either Alpha or Beta, was he worried about the Beta's? Hinata really shouldn't be worried.
But in all honesty it had worked out as its own excuse. The other guys had supplied their own explanation to Hinata scenting his clothes and proceeded to ask a million questions about what his girlfriend was like, how long they had been dating, and how possessive she had to be if she was scenting his clothes already. He highly doubted the coaches would be inclined to believe that. However much to his surprise the coach didn't ask anything about it.
"Well, that would definitely pull your attention. I'll let the other coaches know and we'll try to get you a few more breaks if you need to take care of things again." The coach turned to leave and Kageyama breathed a sigh of relief he didn't even know he was holding. Just one more day. He could survive one more day. He prayed to anyone that was listening that this would be exactly like a normal rut. That meant he wouldn't go into full blown rut until the day after tomorrow. He was supposed to get home tomorrow night. Oh please oh please let this be a normal rut and not some reaction to being away from Hinata.
Tsukishima frowned at Hinata's almost blank stare. Hinata had been staring incessantly since the matches began but something about this current stare was off, different than his normal unsettling stare. It annoyed Tsukishima to no end. The pipsqueak shouldn't have been allowed to stay in the first place and now the idiot was spacing out. Tsukishima walked towards Hinata planning to rib him about the lack of focus when he caught a faint whiff of heat and it made him pause, a look of disgust on his face. Oh please don't let that idiot go into heat here.
Tsukishima sniffed the air again to confirm but the faint scent was gone almost as fast as it came. He decided then that he needed to keep a closer eye on Hinata. It would be extremely embarrassing to the omega going into heat at a time like this, but it would also be embarrassing for Tsukishima as well. Hinata had muscled his way into the training camp, which had been more than a bit embarrassing as his fellow teammate. He didn't want to deal with Hinata going into heat so suddenly.
"Oi, you planning on drooling your way through Nationals?" Tsukishima taunted at Hinata, bringing the omega out of whatever day dream he'd been in. Hinata frowned at Tsukishima.
"No." He responded quickly as he pulled his focus back into the real world. It was harder than he'd like to admit. He knew what Kageyama had just done, there was no mistaking that feeling of pure bliss.
"Then how about you actually focus and learn something while you're here. It would be awfully rude if you didn't since you practically strong armed your way into training." Tsukishima remarked with a look of contempt on his face.
"I've learned a lot more watching the matches than you have playing in them." Hinata retorted. He didn't really know if it was true but he wasn't in the mood for Tsukishima's crap. He was tired, he wasn't allowed to participate in the matches, he was horny, and he wasn't going to see his mate for another 2 days, possibly three.
"I highly doubt that." Tsukishima remarked. "What's a matter? Can't get your mind off how much you miss your dear sweet king?" he teased Hinata.
Hinata rolled his eyes. Tsukishima could be such a jerk. He really didn't see what Yamaguchi saw in the ass. "At least I think about my partner's feelings." Hinata responded back crossing his arms. A look of anger passed over Tsukishima's face but it disappeared quickly and he opened his mouth to retort but Hinata didn't let him. "Have you even talked to Yamaguchi yet?"
"That's none of your business." Tsukishima ground out, as if warning Hinata that he was about to cross a line he shouldn't but it didn't stop the omega from taking that step anyways.
"Probably not, but Yamaguchi is my friend." Hinata said with a serious look on his face. "The whole team can tell how he feels about you. You should stop ignoring it and give him an answer." Tsukishima made to open his mouth but Hinata continued. "Even if the answer is 'I don't know' or 'Not yet' he'd be ecstatic you know. Acknowledgment is the most important part. It's the one thing all of us omegas on the team have in common. The beta's feel it too. It's the reason we are the way we are. Nishinoya and I are loud and outgoing because that's what we think it takes to get the acknowledgement we want. Yamaguchi is quiet and tries to come off mature because that's what he thinks will get him your acknowledgement. Hell, at this point, even if the answer was 'No' I bet he'd be over the moon"
"It's still none of your business." Tsukishima replied with a frown as he suppressed a growl.
"I just thought you should know. I know you've been thinking about it."
Tsukishima stared at Hinata in surprise for a moment. On rare occasions Hinata had an insight into the people around him. Tsukishima never understood where it came from or how the idiot could be dead on the mark but he'd seen firsthand that Hinata could definitely see things that others couldn't. Without another word Hinata turned that gaze of his back towards the game and Tsukishima really did wonder if Hinata had learned more than he had simply by watching the others play. With eyes like those it was quite possible.
It was the last day of training and Kageyama was even more frustrated. He was definitely going into rut. He had to make a trip to the bathroom every few hours. Annoyed beyond all get out he couldn't take it anymore. There had to be something he could do, so he tried to call Ryugazaki-sensei again while he was on break.
The doc answered on the first ring. "Ah, Tobio. I was just about to call you." Kageyama's brows furrowed. He didn't like the sound of that. The doc only called to check up on them every once in a while and never during a training session. "But since you called me so why don't you go first?" Kageyama sighed. Well whatever the doc had to say it didn't sound very important at the moment in light of what he was dealing with.
"Is it possible for me to have a normal rut?" Kageyama asked flat out. There was no use beating around the bush about it. He needed an answer and if it wasn't a normal rut then he needed to know what the heck was going on so he could fix it and get his head back in the game.
There was silence on the line as the doctor took in this new information in surprise. "Wait are you saying you're going into rut without being triggered?" Ryugazaki asked with interest.
"I don't know, but right now I feel like I usually do before a normal rut." Again not one to pull punches he explained the situation flat out. "I've been half hard all day and I can't get Hinata out of my head." After a breath he clarified that a bit more when it occurred to him that Hinata's voice inside his head was a normal occurrence. "I mean, I can't get sexual thoughts about Hinata out of my head."
"And what about Hinata? Does he feel the same?" Dr. Ryugazaki asked.
Kageyama shrugged even though he knew the doc couldn't see him. "I don't know. I can tell he's aroused but I don't know if it's in response to me or not. I'd ask him but he's doing his best to completely ignore me right now."
Dr. Ryugazaki sighed heavily. Perhaps the universe really was conspiring against these two poor boys. They didn't need this on top of everything else they had to deal with. "Well to be perfectly honest it is possible. It is possible that you and Hinata may experience normal periods of heat and rut on top of your trigger. But it is highly unusual for most fate mate couples. Out of the hundreds of pairs I have studied around the world only 4 other couples have experienced regular intervals of heat and rut on top of their trigger. And only two couples have ever had more than one trigger."
Great." Kageyama remarked with sarcasm. "So this could be a normal period of rut or we could have a second trigger?" He really didn't like finding this out only now.
Dr. Ryugazaki sighed and continued. "Well you two are so young and outside of the norm for fate mates that I'm not sure what rules apply to you at times. I honestly didn't think that you two would have to deal with normal periods of heat and rut or a second trigger because of how strong your bond was and the fact that your trigger is the strongest one I've ever seen."
"Is there any way to tell which it is?" Kageyama asked as he turned his back towards the coach to get some sort of semblance of privacy.
"At this point in time no. If it's normal rut then it will happen at regular intervals, so take note of the date it starts and ends. If it's a second trigger related to the circumstance of you two being so far away for a long period of time or something else completely unseen then it will only happen if the circumstance happens again. When you get the time you should sit down and just write about everything going on around this time. It will be really helpful later for us to narrow things down if it turns out to be a second trigger."
"Is there anything I can take or do to put this off? I'm having a hard time concentrating on volleyball and I'm not going to see Hinata until tomorrow." Kageyama asked. He remembered before that the doc had said normal suppressants didn't work for fate mates. Did that mean there was nothing he could do?
"Well, normal suppressants won't work on you two. Usually suppressants work by altering the release of hormones in your brains and slowing it down. In fate mates the suppressants don't work because the release of your hormones are at different levels and different variations. There have been many studies to develop a suppressant for fate mates but there are very few pairs of fate mates compared to normal couples and again even fewer of those couples who deal with normal periods of heat and rut so there has not been much progress. Though some studies have shown that if both the alpha and omega fate mates take suppressants at the same time it does increase the effects of the pills but cannot suppress heat or rut for more than an hour at a time."
Kageyama frowned. "So that was a no, right?" he asked to clarify things.
"That's a no." Dr. Ryugazaki repeated. Kageyama cursed internally. Why did it have to be now all of a sudden? "You'll be going home tonight right? Do you think you'll last until then?"
"Yeah, I shouldn't be in rut completely until tomorrow, if this is a normal rut."
"Hopefully your right and this is a normal period of rut and not a second trigger of some sort. I guess it's lucky you'll be going home tonight." Kageyama sighed. That was one way to look at it.
Kageyama groaned in frustration as he waited at the train station for his mom to come pick him up. It was almost 11 at night and he was tired from training and tired from the ride home. He hadn't been able to get a wink of sleep on the train as every hour he'd have to get up and head to the bathroom to take care of his unruly lower half. He'd ended up killing his phone battery viewing those picture of Hinata he had. What's more, his mom was late picking him up and he wasn't going to see Hinata until tomorrow.
He was half tempted to have his mom take him over to Hinata's house tonight. He could feel how aroused and horny his mate was and it was driving him mad that he felt the same but couldn't do anything about it until tomorrow. He had tried to ask Hinata through their bond if it would be okay to come over that evening but he hadn't gotten a single response. So he consigned himself to going home and spending the long night away from his mate. But if Kageyama was right and he was going into rut it was probably a good thing he didn't see Hinata for the next few days. He couldn't guarantee any sort of gentleness over the next three days.
Kageyama glanced at his watch. Where the heck was his mom? He was going to have to make another trip to the bathroom at this rate and he would really prefer to do it at home in his room. He really should have brought a portable charger for his phone. He could bet his mom had tried to call to tell him she'd be late. It was another 20 minutes before his dad finally pulled up in the car.
"Where's mom?" Kageyama asked as he shoved his stuff in the back seat of the car and climbed in the front as quick as he could. He really wanted to get home.
"What, don't want to spend time with your old man?" Mr. Kageyama asked in jest. Kageyama frowned at his dad's sense of humor. He really wasn't in the mood. Mr. Kageyama just grinned. "How was your trip?" Mr. Kageyama asked trying to lighten the boy's mood.
"Can we just get home?" Kageyama asked. His mind was starting to head south again and he really didn't have the mental capacity to discuss the training camp at the moment. Mr. Kageyama could smell the faint scent of rut coming from his son and understood his hurry to get home. He gave his son a knowing look which made Kageyama blush all the way to his roots.
"Just don't go too overboard okay? You'll regret it afterwards." Mr. Kageyama remarked as he placed the car in drive and started the short trip home.
"Like I have a choice." Kageyama responded in a huff. Now that he and Hinata were mated this wasn't supposed be happening anymore.
Mr. Kageyama just brushed his son's bad mood off. Tobio was always in a bad mood when rut came around and he wasn't surprised to see that this time wasn't any different, even after the boy had mated. Mr. Kageyama decided it would be best to leave the boy to his own devices for the ride home, not wanting to agitate his son anymore. He was going to have a rough few days ahead of him.
When they made it home Kageyama made to grab his bag in the back seat. "Just leave it there" his dad remarked. "I'll get it. Go take care of things." Kageyama nodded and left the bag, almost running up the stairs to the apartment. He was relieved when he grabbed the door knob, finally home at last, but the relief didn't stay. As soon as he opened the door the scent of Hinata fully in heat slammed into him and he felt his body harden to the point of pain. Wait a second, what the hell was Hinata doing here? And when had he gone into heat?
No other thought made it through Kageyama's head as he went straight to his room, passing his mother in the kitchen. He heard her say something about Hinata but his mind was too preoccupied to listen, focused on his mate.