The Push and the Pull
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Their worst fights started over the stupidest things. Bickering over little nothings like Kageyama’s poor choice of words or Hinata’s bombastic (and clumsy, admittedly) thought process. Then they would drift gradually through escalation into serious and deep divisions within them. Hurtful things and, sometimes, essential things. Kageyama’s sense of Hinata’s value (or lack thereof). Hinata’s boundless optimism (perhaps bordering on delusion).
Hinata is 16 years old. He bets Kageyama that he's the better kisser ... as one does.
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- Part 1 of The Push and the Pull
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Those few points Hinata scored … they had felt like such an insult at the time, even though he knew they did nothing to change the outcome. Now he wondered… had he gotten what he wanted then—an indestructible team as fast and flying as high as he could set them—they would have left Hinata without hope. Completely destroyed. Then what? Might Hinata have quit the sport completely? Would he have joined Karasuno or would he have picked a school closer to home? How would he be different if Hinata hadn’t been by his side for those three years of high school?
Sometimes Kageyama closes his eyes and tries to imagine that. He always comes to the same conclusion: Hinata wouldn’t quit, he’d show up at Karasuno ten times more annoying and only marginally less talented.
Kageyama is 21. When Hinata shows up at his door out of the blue one night, he thinks about how they used to make out in high school.
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- Part 2 of The Push and the Pull