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Daichi was exhausted from the Shiritorizawa game, and maybe that's how it happened. He didn't see the child who was crying on the floor, but he did trip over her, causing her crying to intensify. He quickly scrambled up and turned around, squatting so he'd be at eye level with the crying child when he did a double take. This little girl looked exactly like Hinata.
"Hey, are you okay? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to trip over you. I wasn't paying attention. Please stop crying, sweetie. Can I call you sweetie?" Daichi was rambling now, but he was more alert because this small child obviously needed help from someone.
He sat there with her for a few minutes before she calmed down enough to talk to him. "I'm lost. I was with my mommy, and we were looking for my big brother, but I got lost in all the people and I can't find them. I want my mommy."
She started to tear up again. "Woah, there little one. Don't cry. I'll help you find you mom and big brother, okay? First, tell me your name."
"My mommy and bubby said I shouldn't tell strangers my name."
"That's a good rule. I'll tell you my name, okay? I'm Sawamura Daichi. Can you tell me your name so we can look for your mommy?"
"My name- are you a good guy or a bad guy."
"I-what?" Daichi was utterly confused. "I'm a Sawamura Daichi?"
She giggled. "In school they said that if we are lost there will be people who try to help. Some will be good guys and help you. The others are bad guys who'll try to take you away. Are you a good guy or a bad guy?"
"I'm a good guy." Daichi responded with a smile.
She looked at him. "My name is Natsu."
"Hello, Natsu. Can I carry you so we can look for your family? That way you'll be able to look for their faces instead of wandering around down here."
Natsu hesitated before nodding and held out her arms. Daichi picked her up when he heard his name being yelled. It took a moment for his brain to process the voice.
"Somebody's calling your name, Daichi. Who is it?" Natsu looked around for the source.
"That voice, Natsu, is my friend. His name is Suga. Can he help us?"
Natsu nodded. "If he's a good guy."
"He's a good guy." Daichi put his hand in the air. "Suga! I'm over here."
"Daichi, there you-" Suga looked at the child in Daichi's arms. "She looks like-"
"I know Suga. I tripped over her on accident and learned she was lost. She's looking for her mommy and big brother. Her name is Natsu."
Suga held out a hand for Natsu to shake. "Hello there, my lady, Natsu. May I be of assistance."
Natsu giggled and shook Suga's hand as he dipped into a dramatic bow, like a knight bowing before a princess or queen.
Within the first three minutes of them walking around asking if anybody had lost their child, Natsu had laughed and joked her way into their heart.
Suga turned his head to the side and saw Hinata freaking out by the Help Counter. He tapped Daichi's shoulder and gestured to their small middle blocker who was very close to crying and the woman at the Help Counter seemed like she didn't care.
"Please, my sister is missing! She's four years old! I need help finding her!"
"Kid, you can't make the announcement. You're not the parent and you look like an elementary schooler. Stop lying and stop this prank. Your elementary friends should be satisfied with this prank by now. It's been 30 minutes."
"It's not a prank!" Tears started rolling down his face. "My name is Hinata Shouyou! I am a first year, middle blocker at Karasuno High School! My number on the court is 10! My sister's name is Hinata Natsu! She's four years old, wearing a light orange dress with pink flowers along the bottom to the skirt. She has short bright orange hair, like mine but a little longer, in pigtails! She got separated from me and my mom and we need to find her! Please let me make the announcement."
"Kid, I've told you several times, get lost. Your prank stopped being funny after the first time."
Suga growled. "I'll go get our little crow and deal with that lady for making him cry."
Daichi stopped Suga. "Our Natsu shares a name with Hinata's sister and matches the description he gave the lady. Do you think?"
Suga froze. "Yeah, I think she's Hinata's sister."
The both moved their heads to look at Natsu, but she had fallen asleep on Daichi's shoulder.
"Well," Daichi started. Let's go get Hinata and see of we found his sister. Suga, I'll let you go all mama crow on the lady. I've been recording the encounter because Hinata was close to crying. I'm going to keep recording your reaction."
They approached the short ginger and Daichi adjusted his grip on his phone.
"Hey, Hinata!" Suga called out. "Is everything okay?"
Hinata turned to face Suga and his face lit up when he saw Daichi carrying Natsu, who was sleeping. "YOU FOUND NATSU!" He crushed both of them in a hug.
Suga approached the Help Counter.
"Hello, can I help you, young man?"
"Yes, you can. My name is Sugawara Koshi. I'm on the Karasuno Volleyball Club as a back up setter. My number is 2. I want to know why you laughed off our middle blocker? His name is Hinata Shouyou and he came to this desk, asking and begging you to let him make an announcement BECAUSE HIS FOUR YEAR OLD SISTER HAD GONE MISSING!"
Some heads turned to see the commotion and a few who had been watching the conversation gasped out loud, whispering what had happened to the curious souls who just noticed the encounter.
"Excuse me, I'm not sure what you're talking about. I think you have me mistaken for someone else. Have a good day, young man."
Hinata watched Suga go into a scary and deadly calm mode and point above the counter. "You made a mistake when you laughed Hinata off. You made a bigger mistake by making him cry. Your biggest mistake today, however, will be lying to me. Shall we go get the footage off that security camera and play it out here for everyone to see. I'll even make sure every news station in Japan gets a copy of it. I'm sure that'll make you lose this job and permanently damage your chances of ever getting another job."
"What will you do if you can't get that footage, kid? Tell your story to Japan without any evidence?"
"I never said I'd have no evidence." Daichi looked around to see many people watching and recording the encounter. "My team captain is here, he's been recording the encounter since we noticed Hinata about to cry over here. This is a public forum, which means he has every right to record this encounter. Don't try to tell me otherwise, my parents and eldest brother are lawyers. I know my rights and the law. We have Hinata here, and that footage on the security camera. You can't win this."
"I call your bluff. Nobody has been recording this since before you approached me, and there is no Shouyou Hinata on Karasuno. You and that little kid are doing this for attention."
Hinata heard a faint "uh oh" from Daichi and he quickly gave his phone to Shouyou, and told him to make sure it kept recording, in case somebody wanted to question them on the news. Suga turned beet red and as he continued talking, his voice kept getting louder, and Daichi kept getting more tense, waiting to see if he'd need to go get Suga before he murdered this lady.
"MY UNDERCLASSMEN WAS IN GODDAMNED TEARS ASKING YOU TO LET HIM MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO FIND HIS FOUR YEAR OLD SISTER WHO HAD GONE MISSING! YOU LAUGHED HIM OFF FOR WHAT 30 MINUTES, ACCORDING TO YOUR CONVERSATION WITH HIM EARLIER, AND YOU JUST TOLD HIM TO RUN OFF BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A PRANK. WHAT IF NATSU HAD GOTTEN KIDNAPPED? WHAT IF ME AND THE CAPTAIN HADN'T BEEN THE ONES TO FIND HER? SHE'S FOUR YEARS OLD! AND DO YOU HONESTLY THINK SOMEBODY WOULD SIT AT THE HELP COUNTER FOR 30 MINUTES, TRYING NOT TO CRY OR SOB, FOR A PRANK? WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD MAKE A PRANK ABOUT A MISSING FOUR YEAR OLD? YOU WERE WILLING TO SIT THERE, AS MY TEAMMATE CRIED BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T THINK HIS SISTER HAD GONE MISSING?"
The lady paled behind the desk. "You're blowing this out of proportion, young man."
"BECAUSE GETTING ANGRY ABOUT SOME LADY, WHO THINKS SHE'S FUCKING ENTITLED, MADE MY TEAMMATE CRY AND LAUGHED OFF HIS PLEAS FOR HELP BECAUSE HIS FOUR YEAR OLD SISTER HAD GONE MISSING IS OUT OF PROPORTION, RIGHT? YOU-"
Daichi gave Natsu to Shouyou and moved in, covering Suga's mouth, barely muffling the sound, and everybody could obviously hear the words he was saying.
"Calm down, Koshi. Sugawara calm down, now."
Hinata popped out of the crowd, with a sleeping Natsu and a recording phone, and new tears falling from his eyes.
"Sugawara, please. Please stop, Suga." Hinata chocked out quietly.
Suga calmed down and turned around as Daichi moved his hand, both of them staring in shock as the little sunshine crow started crying harder. Suga wrapped both of them in a hug, muttering "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" to both of them and they sank to the floor, a sobbing mess of two boys and a sleeping Natsu.
"I didn't mean to scare you, Shouyou. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. I didn't want to scare you. I'm sorry I made you cry. Please don't cry, Shouyou."
Daichi gently took his phone from Hinata's hands and sent the clip to some Miyagi news stations, and possibly a couple of news stations in Tokyo. As the three of them went to meet their team at the bus, unaware of what happened. None of the boys mentioned Natsu, or said why Hinata was crying, but the others soon cheered up both Hinata and Suga. When Natsu woke, they all laughed and joked with her too.
That night, Hinata, Daichi, and Suga, were all over the news, and each volleyball team they had were acquainted with were sending out calls and texts to make sure they were all okay. It also seemed it had made the news in Tokyo, because Bokuto and Kuroo gathered their teams in a big group for a chat to check in on the little sunshine siblings and mama crow.