Disclaimer: I do not own Haikyuu or the story of Canon of Lies (or any of the words used in it), which was written by Bubun Hanten, and illustrated by Kazuki Rai. Canon of Lies part 1 can be found here post/110530449061/canon-of-lies-part-1

And Canon of Lies part 2 can be found here post/111071242076/canon-of-lies-part-2

Hinata's POV

Canon of Lies

Lie 5

I woke up and found myself lying in the nurses office. 'Huh...? Wait, what happened...?' I wondered. 'Oh right, my stomach hurt, and I got taken to the nurse's office, and I took some medicine... Oh... I must've fallen asleep...' I thought as I stared at the ceiling.

Wait, what about practice. "Practice!" I yelled out as sat up. I remembered that we had practice and that I probably missed it.

As I sat up I saw that Kageyama was standing by the left side of the bed. What was he doing in here? "Kageyama? Wh-what are you doing here? What about practice?" I asked him.

"It ended earlier. We couldn't all hang around here, so only I stayed." He explained, not looking me in the face.

"And... Th-the nurse?" I asked.

"She's out. If you felt fine when you woke up, you could go home, otherwise you'd need your parents to come pick you up." He further explained to me.

"Want to call them?" He asked while reaching over for my bag.

"No! I'll be fine!" I yelled.

We sat in silence a few moments. '...Crap. Collapsing during practice and then passing out? This is NOT good... I'll just have to apologize and beg his forgiveness.'

"Hinata." I jumped a little. Kageyama's voice pulled me out of my thoughts.

"Go out with me." "I'M SORRY!" We both said at the same time me bowing to him in apology suddenly stoping. What did he just say?

It was silent for a second. "Why?" He asked loudly.

"What do you mean 'why'?!" I yelled back. More silence, and Kageyama avoided eye contact with me. "...Wh-what are you talking about?"

"...A stomach ache and lack of sleep. The nurse said it was due to stress and pressure leading up to Haru-Kou... but it's because of me... isn't it?" He asked.

At first it didn't all go down, but slowly I was starting to understand. I looked up at him to see him painstakingly staring at the floor. My eyes were wide, scared to ask the question that hung in the air. "...Kageyama... do you realize how I actually feel about you...?" I asked with all my nerve suddenly flying out of the window. I wanted to run away.

He looked at me out of the corner of his eye and then back down to the floor, and I had my answer. 'My mind went totally blank. Collapsing... and then worrying Kageyama... and making him feel like he has to say this to me... what the hell am I doing? I'm going to protect him and his volleyball.' Those words hung in my mind. 'In the end, all of those lies I told were useless.'

"And so... Hinata... I actually..." Kageyama said slowly.

'Right then, my mind was full of so much frustration and shame... that I didn't even notice... how badly Kageyama's hands and voice were shaking with nerves.'

"... am in lo-"

I cut him off. "Don't. Don't give me your pity. It doesn't suit you." I said harshly while staring down at my lap.

"Huh?!" Kageyama yelled out.

"I'm not going to date you. I'm never ever going to date you!" I yelled out at him with my eyes closed. 'I was just being stubborn.'

Kageyama's face suddenly grew angry. "What do you mean pity?! What are you trying to say here?!" He said pretty much screaming at me.

"Well i'm right, aren't I? You've just convinced yourself that if this is gonna affect practice like this, then you may as well go out with me!" I yelled back at him suddenly feeling a little more sad but still very angry and frustrated.

~Kageyama POV for a moment~

"That's not it! I really do...!" 'You're really egotistical, aren't you?' Oikawa's words rang in my head and I stopped in my tracks. 'I guess I can't blame him for thinking that...' I thought to myself as my head hung low. I stood up straight again, and tried to calm myself down a little. I just wanted to get my feelings across. "...Hinata, I really am in-"

~End of Kageyama POV~

I cut him off again. I didn't want to hear those words come out of his mouth, not if they weren't true. So I lied. Again. "I'm not in love with you anymore." A short silence hung over us and I could feel his eyes on me. "I'm not."

He leaned one hand on the bed and grabbed my shirt with the other. "Stop lying!" He yelled at me.

I closed my eyes, I didn't want to see the expression on his face. "It's not a lie! In fact, now I hate you!" I screamed out at him, desperately trying to get him to leave me alone.

"Just listen to me!"

"I don't love you! I don't love you! I'm not- in love with you!" I yelled while I placed both of my hands on the sides of my head.

"Hey now! What are you two yelling about?" The nurse came in, moving the curtain back a little. Kageyama let my shirt go and his eyes shifted from me to her. "Hinata, are you feeling better now? If so, you should go home for the day." She told me calmly but firmly.

Kageyama turned around, grabbed his bag, and headed for the door. "...He seems like he'll be fine on his own, so i'll leave now." He told the nurse with and angry tone in his voice.

"Eh? O-oh, okay." She said.

Neither of us made any sort of eye contact as he left the room, and he slammed the door behind himself as he left.

Later that night, I sat by myself in my room with all the lights off. I felt sad and didn't know what to do with myself. I placed a hand on my stomach, but took it off as I heard a clatter outside my window. 'What was that? A burglar?!' I got to my feet and made my way to the window.

When I moved the curtain aside to see outside, I was a little surprised when I saw Kageyama climbing the fence surrounding our house. We both made eye contact and jumped a little out of fright, making Kaegyama fall backwards off of the fence.

I quickly ran outside and made my way to where he was. "What the heck are you doing?!" I said as I slid out from around the corner. He was lying on his back, and looked like he was in pain.

"...Taking a shortcut..." He said.

He sat up and I stood beside him. "You'll be mistaken for a robber, so please use the front entrance." I explained calmly.

"...'Kay." He replied. "...I've been thinking... about you." He explained to me while still sitting in the same spot, not even turning his head to look at me. "And then when I realized it, I was running here."

'How simple minded.' I thought.

"I... really don't get a lot of things... but there is something I haven't been able to tell you. Can you come with me for a few minutes?" He asked.

And without saying, I just followed him. Eventually we made our way to a little bridge where there was a small were fireflies all around us.

"There are fireflies around here? He asked when we stopped.

"Yup, tons of them this time of year." I answered, leaning on the bars of the bridge.

An awkward silence fell upon us for a moment before Kageyama spoke again. "...You know, I was relieved. When you told me it was all a misunderstanding."

"...Yeah." I said staring at the water.

Kageyama put one of his hands on the bar and continued. "I probably would've worried a lot if you hadn't pretended you had given up on me. I think I would have felt annoyed by you." He explained.

"Y-yeah." I replied, but I really didn't understand why he was telling me all of this.

"And... I think it would have been hard on me, then." I looked over at him and he was staring off into the water. "Is that why you did it?" He asked, and then we both turned to face each other, both with one hand remaining on the bar of the bridge that we stood on.

After a moment of silence I instinctively smiled when I said, "I'm... really bad at lying!" Suddenly Kageyama's hand rested on my head. "Oi! I told you not to-"

"Fierfly." He interrupted me.

"Huh...? Seriously?" I asked while looking up at him.

He suddenly pulled me into his chest by my head, and I didnt resist, i just rested my head there. "...Nope." I heard him take a deep breath. "I love you. This... is what I didn't get to tell you properly earlier."

My eyes went wide in disbelief and I pulled away, but Kageyama grabbed my wrists so I couldn't get away. "Wh-what are you saying?! You said you could never see me like that! You said volleyball was more important!" I yelled at him while blushing profusely.

"I did, but that was then! It's different now! I cleared away a bunch of thoughts, and when I realized it was fine for me to be in love with you, I couldn't stop it! It's not a matter of which one I choose or which is more important, I love volleyball and you! Is that not allowed?" He explained to me.

I felt overwhelmed with feelings and wasn't sure whether to be happy, sad, or angry. "No! I mean, it is allowed..." He let go of me and I looked away, not sure of what to say.

"I... don't understand what you're feeling right now." He began and I looked back up at him. "If you don't love me anymore, that's fine... I mean, it's not fine... but there'd be nothing I could do about it... however, no more forcing yourself, or lying to me, got it?" He said strongly.

I finally got it. But how do I respond? "Ah- y-yeah! I won't lie to you anymore! Right! Umm... okay then..." A small smile came onto my face but slowly faded. "I don't... need to lie to you anymore..." Without realizing it, tears began leaking out of my eyes. 'It just came out, drop by drop...'

Kageyama was quiet, but I was sure that was just because he didn't know what to do. 'I can be in love with him.' I thought. "Kageyama..." I said with an unsteady voice. "me too..."

'I can tell him that I love him.' I moved my hand up to wipe the tear off my face. "I love you! I have, for a long time! I tried not to, I tried to give up on you, but I love you too much! I can't stop it..."

'It all overflowed, and once it started, it didn't stop.' A short silence was brought upon us.

"...So... what am I supposed to be doing right now...?" Kageyama asked me.

While still crying my eyes out, I charged him with open arms, and his opened as well to embrace me. "Kageyama..." I said into his shirt as we hugged. "Kageyama...! I love you... I love you...!" I said with tears still flowing out of my eyes.

We separated from our hug and Kageyama wiped away some of my tears. When I opened my eyes, I noticed our faces were really close and the distance between us closed. We both closed our eyes as we kissed. It was quick. I light peck really, but as soon as we separated from that, our eyes shot open and both of us leapt back, faces extremely red.

Suddenly we started running, not even to anything specific. "W-we just kissed! That was a kiss!" I yelled out.

"Sh-shut up! Don't yell it!" He yelled back.

"Kiss kiss kiss kiss!" I teased.

"Shut up dumbass! Did you not want to?!" He asked.

"I didn't not want to at all! And why are we running, Kageyama?" I asked.

There wasn't an answer, and I just laughed as we continued running. Both of us with a blush on our faces.