4 arrival at nekoma
The last hour of driving to the High School went by pretty quickly. Kageyama had continued to listen to music and Hinata was distracted by talking to Yachi-chan. He still hadn't seen the picture.
Soon they saw the huge school building. It was quite simple, similar to Karasuno, but more city-ish.
Hinata was the first to jump out of the bus, running towards the other Volleyballers.
„Oii Kenma!!" He shouted excitedly and jumped up, pulling the boy in a soft hug afterwards. „Shōyō, nice to see you." Kenma answered in his calm, low voice.
He put away his Nintendo and smiled at him.
„Oho, City Boys." Tanaka greeted them loudly and walked up to Taketora to fist-bump him.
Daichi greeted Kuroo as well and then the whole team greeted each other.
Ukai, Takeda and Nekomata went to Nekomatas office to plan the upcoming week.
Nekoma was assigned to show them their bedrooms and Hinata always stuck with that blonde setter. Kageyama was obviously bothered by that. Not only that he was a setter, no, because Hinata stayed with him, talking about some odd video-game that came out last week. Not that they already have phone calls almost every night.
„Tsz." was the only comment Tobio made, as he watched them and then looked at a vending machine filled with different kinds of drinks. He would definitely buy some strawberry milk for himself and maybe even one for Hinata...
„Is something bothering you, King?" Tsukishima asked with an undefinable smirk. The setter stayed quiet at that. „Well Well, your highness, I will now leave to my bedroom..oh right, our bedroom."
He was right. They indeed shared a bedroom. It was for the whole team though. They finally arrived there and Kuroo pulled the door to the side.
„Voila. The futons are already spread out. You can leave them here for the whole week, this is meant to be a bedroom only, so just put your stuff somewhere comfy and come to the gym." he explained and leaned to the door, watching everyone drop off their bags.
„We'll be there." He said and went to the gym, pulling Kenma after him who was playing Animal Crossing again.
Kageyama sighed and threw his bag on the Futon in the corner right next to a window and turned around again. „Tangerine! I won't be last at the gym!" He said and waited until an encouraged orange haired middle blocker was next to him, then they started racing to Nekomas huge gym.
„It smells like sweat and victory! I won't lose against you, Nekoma!"
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After their first practice match with Nekoma winning 25:20 and 25:23 everyone is sitting outside on the grass with their water bottles.
And again, Hinata stayed with Kenma at the bottom of a smaller hill giggling and beaming.
Nekomas setter didn't seem to mind since they were like best friends anyways, so he just answered in a deep voice and sipped his water. And soon all Kageyama could see were a blushing Kenma, then a smiling one - something that happened rarely or never.
After practice everyone met up on these hills again. Kenma was playing his video game and Kuroo watched in case he had to take away his console to get him eat. Tsukishima was standing in a corner talking to Yamaguchi. Asahi, Suga and Daichi were standing with other third years from different teams and the rest was just spread around all over the place enjoying their time off.
Hinata was jumping between several groups, joyful and energetic as always. Kageyama felt warm and tended to smile when his orange haired idiot was around him. He even naturally smiled.
„Kageyama! Toss to me! Toss to me!"
„Baka, we just played four sets! Let's get food first."
That's what made Hinata smile more. He just loved food and if it was after a hard bunch of trainings matches it tasted even better. Kageyama followed him to the mensa where they already saw the managers putting hot and steamy food on plates, before loudly calling the boys and coaches.
Since the two of them were already there they got the best seat right in front of a plate with meat piled up. Everyone was drooling over the food like wild animals and the managers were comforting a terrified Yachi, while ignoring the heart-eyed looks of the boys.
But in all that chaos, Kageyama was in his own little bubble, pushing nicely sliced meat in his mouth and listen to his loud orange haired idiot. Hinata was HIS idiot, no one would doubt that, but since they had arrived, Bokuto, Kuroo and Kenma were all over him. Much to his dislike, Shoyou seemed to enjoy being with them and distanced more from him.
He was mentally absent the whole time, that he almost choked on his food when Sugawara tapped his shoulder lightly. He blushed and thankfully took the water Akaashi handed him while looking up at his Senpai.
„Mada Mada, Kageyama." He chuckled lighlty and smiled. „Can you come to the gym later on? I wanted to practice the two-setter technique" He then explained with the brightest smile.
Tobio was sure it wasn't EVERYTHING about the technique, but he went on with it. „Sure. I'll finish, let my belly rest a while and then come over to practice."
Daichi had watched the scenario. He knew exactly why Koshi wanted to "practice" with the younger setter. They needed to talk- well Kageyama needs a talk and Koshi is willing to do it as he is the Mom who takes care of his children.
Kageyama was absent the whole time, but his face lit up everytime his little spiker was beaming all the bad moods away. Hinata was the one to make him smile, and no one could doubt that.
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Half an hour later, Kageyama found himself in the gym they had practiced earlier in. Sugawara was already waiting for him, setting a volleyball against one of the walls.
„Osu! Sorry that it took me so long! Bokuto and Kuroo were trying to get me to tell something about Oikawa."
Koshi caught the ball and turned around with the bright grin he'd always had on his face.
„It's alright! I knew you'd be coming some time." The vice captain answered and tossed the ball to his Kōhai.
Sugawara gave him tips about setting, Kageyama gave him tips about a good jump serve and after two hours of hard extra training, Sugawara finally did what he planned on doing the whole time.
„Tobio, you like Hinata, don't you?"
The raven haired boy snapped around, eyes wide and full of fear. He probably had never thought of being confronted like that, ever.
„W-what?! Why would you assume that? No...no I don't like him...not that way I mean!"
He tried to talk himself out of the situation, but it didn't really work. It all ended up with the main-setter chuckling again.
„You know, I get what you're feeling. Chaos, stormy. Your feelings are a mess. Part of yourself want to grab him by his collar and press your lips on his, the other part doesn't want to ruin everything you've built up till now. In one moment you're mad at him for being so damn cute and in the other one you just want to punch yourself for being such an emotional wreck."
Suga sat down on the ground, softly bouncing the ball in between the gap of his legs. The words left his words as if he had just gotten over these feelings himself.
Kageyama was stunned at how similar, no, how exact this situation described him and his feelings. He just nodded and looked out of the gym door which was open widely. On the small hill in front of it he saw the silhouette of Hinatas fluffy hair in between the tall figure of Lev and the silhouette off Kenma. They were watching the stars and the moon.
„Tell him before it's too late. You'll regret it."
And with these words the boy with the slight silver hair got up and walked off as if nothing happened.
Tell him before it's too late.
These words stuck on the youngest Karasuno boy's mind and he took a conclusion:
He'd tell him.
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