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“Boke, what did you do?” Kageyama asked in an accusatory time.
“I didn’t do anything! What about you?” Hinata said, feeling attacked.
“I didn’t do anything either!” Kageyama said back to him.
“Be quiet!” Suga whisper-yelled. Hinata shut up immediately. “Daichi? Do you know anything?”
“Nothing,” Daichi said. “Alright. I’m going out to see what is happening. If I’m not back in five minutes, get help.”
“Daichi-san, that sounds like a bad idea,” Hinata warned. “What if something does happen to you?” The whole apocalypse scenario kept giving Hinata heart attacks from all the times he had thought someone had died. He’d heard from Kenma that Kuroo had nearly died in a building collapse, but he didn’t know if Kenma was exaggerating or not, considering that at one point Kuroo had stolen Kenma’s phone and written, “i did NOT almost die”.
“It’ll be fine,” Daichi said.
Somehow, Hinata had a feeling it wouldn’t be fine.
~~~
“So… what exactly did you drag us all the way out here for?” Osamu asked, bored.
“Leverage,” Atsumu said.
“That isn’t an answer,” Osamu frowned.
“Look. We want to get into a group, right? And no one is open to the idea of expanding any more, so we need something that will make them want us to join them.” Atsumu explained, messing with the safety on his gun.
“Where the hell did you get that from?” Kita asked, materializing out of nowhere.
“Let’s just leave that as a mystery,” he replied at the same time his twin said, “He stole it from the Tokyo teams.”
Kita stared, then made an annoyed face. “I really can’t leave anyone on this team alone,” he grumbled. Atsumu cocked his gun and aimed it at the building in front of them, targeting one of the windows. Then he fired.
Osamu slapped him. “You can’t just go shooting random buildings!”
“But this isn’t a random building,” Atsumu said, pointing at the words emblazoned on the side of the building.
“Atsumu Miya. This is a terrible idea. Put the gun down. We’re leaving.” Kita said. He turned and walked back towards the bus, followed by Osamu. They were halfway to the bus before Osamu noticed that his twin wasn’t following him.
“Atsumu?”
Bang.
He turned to see Atsumu holding a gun aimed at the Karasuno captain.
~~~
Daichi didn’t know what you were supposed to do when someone pointed a gun at you. Whatever it was, it certainly wasn’t running back inside, but that didn’t stop him from slamming the door so hard the building shook.
“Daichi!” Suga exclaimed, brows creased in worry. “I heard more gunshots, are you ok?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. It’s Inarizaki. And one of them has a gun.” Daichi said. “I think they’re leaving though. The captain was going towards the bus.”
Suga nodded, but still didn’t seem to be any less concerned.
~~~
“Suna. Can we talk?” Osamu asked as he got in the bus. Suna nodded and moved his bag off the seat next to him to free it up. “It’s Atsumu,” he said, glancing to make sure he wasn’t near. “He’s been acting… strange recently, and it’s making me worried.”
Suna blinked. “And? Isn’t he always weird?”
Osamu sighed and whacked his head against the seat. “You know what I mean. Weirder than normal. He was this close-” he nearly pressed his fingers together, “To shooting the Karasuno captain. All because he thought that’d get us into a group.”
“Come on, Samu, you know I wouldn’t do that,” Atsumu appeared as if summoned.
“Right,” Osamu said somewhat skeptically. He wanted to believe that he was telling the truth. He just wasn’t sure if he’d regret it or not. “Ditch the gun.” he said.
“What?”
“You heard me. Ditch the gun.”
Atsumu looked down at it, then cracked open the window of the bus and threw it out. “Fine,” he said. “If it makes you believe I’m not going to run around killing people.”
“See what I mean?” Osamu asked after his twin was out of earshot. “Weirder than normal.”
“It’s probably just stress,” Suna said.
“Yeah,” he said. I hope, he added mentally.
~~~
Ok, so maybe Kenma had been right.
It had been almost a week since the building had collapsed and Kuroo still couldn’t walk normally. He wasn’t going to be the one to admit it though.
“Hey, Kuroo,” Kenma said.
“Mm?” Kuroo glanced over.
“Shoyo said Inarizaki came to their setup, too,” he said. “And apparently one of them had a gun.”
“Great. This is great,” Kuroo said sarcastically. “What am I supposed to do with this information?”
“I don’t know. That’s your job, not mine. All I know is that Inarizaki seems like they’re done playing games. He also said that Date Tech broke off from their group.” Kenma continued. “It’s strange.”
“Strange indeed,” he muttered in reply.
~~~
Osamu was about to ask where Atsumu was before he appeared in front of him.
“Oh, hey, Samu!” Atsumu said merrily.
“Umm… hi,” Osamu said carefully.
“So, how are you?” he asked.
“Good.” he said simply. Against his better judgement, he added, “You?” Considering Atsumu’s strange behavior recently, he didn’t really want to know what unseen force was driving him insane.
“Fine, fine,” he said. He was acting even weirder than before now, and it was starting to creep Osamu out.
He was about to mention it when Atsumu surreptitiously pressed a piece of paper into his hand as he walked away.
Taking the hint, Osamu went over to the corner and unfolded it, using his hands as a shield.
‘I need help. Please. Meet me out back at 11.’