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I woke up dazedly with someone’s arms wrapped around my waist. It was Bokuto, my boyfriend, who was staying over at my house so I wouldn’t be alone. My mother and sister went to visit my aunt in Hyogo for the week. I stayed because I had practice.
“Kou,” I whispered while running my hands through his less spiky hair. He grumbled at me and held tighter. “I have to go to practice, I’d love to snuggle more but I’m going to be late!” I whined. He grumbled more. I looked at the time and winced at the teasing I was no doubt going to receive later.
“I’ve already lost the race with Kageyama,” he shot his head up and glared at me like he always does when I mention Kageyama.
“What did I say about mentioning his name when we are naked?” he demanded. I blushed at his morning growl. Wiggling out of his grip, I got dressed for practice because I wouldn’t have time to change. I looked down to see my thighs completely littered in dark purple hickies. Memories flash from last night and I blushed a deep red, I’m sure I look like a tomato. I looked over to my bed to see Koutarou propped up on one elbow, smirking at my expression, he wiggled his eyebrows at me and I turned away. I saw his volleyball leggings/ kneepads and picked them up from my bedroom floor.
“I’m taking these,” I told him. He pouted at me.
“The whole point of me leaving hickies is so that everyone sees that you're mine!” he whined at me. I shot him a look.
“Yeah, but not my team. I’m not out yet. I mean, I know they would accept me, because Suga and Daichi are a thing, but I haven’t got the courage to do it yet,” I explained. His eyes and expression softened before he nodded. I kissed him goodbye after getting dressed and left, biking as fast as I could, but I was still late.
“Hey! Ginger! You’re late, run some laps and get on the court!” Ukai yelled at me, I nodded and gave a swift reply.
“Yes, Coach!,”.
While I ran my 10 punishment laps I was lost in my own thoughts and didn’t see the ball flying towards me at a fast pace until it smacked me in the side of the head. I managed to catch myself from hitting my head by placing my hands on the wall. The team shrieked and ran over. Suga spun me around by my shoulders, he held up two fingers and looked directly into my eyes.
“Hinata, how many fingers am I holding up?” he asked calmly.
“Two,” I answered. He was probably checking to see if I had a concussion. The team, excluding Tsukishima, sighed in relief. Tanaka approached.
“I’m so sorry, Hinata! Please forgive me! I was trying to spike off of the blockers and it hit you in the face!” he pleaded. I smiled at his theatrics and bounced on my heels.
“I’m alright! You know I get hit in the face a lot!” I reassured with a grin. I heard Tsukishima scoff and turned to see him smirking.
“You know that’s not exactly something to be proud of, right?” he teased. I scowled at him and turned my hands to fists.
“Shut up, Stingyshima!” I yelled. A heavy hand clapped on my shoulder and I looked to see Ukai.
“Alright, you’re not usually late, so I’ll let you off with five laps. Just get in there, and don’t be late again!” he pointed to the Red vs Green match going on. I slipped on a green jersey and ran over to stand next to Kageyama, who turned to look at me.
“You were late, Dumbass, so by default I won today. That makes the score 102-101, with me in the lead,” he smirked down at me. I glared at him but didn’t say anything and turned away. After the match we took a quick break and Nishinoya approached me.
“Shouyou, are you trying to look like Bokuto?” he asked with a smile pointing down to the very man's knee pads on my legs. I tried to think of an excuse but decided to roll with it.
“Y-yeah! It’s cool, r-right?” I stuttered out. Nishinoya laughed and ran to Tanaka.
It was after practice in the changing rooms that it all went to shit. I remembered the hickies on my thighs so I didn’t take off the kneepads, earning me some strange looks. I pulled off my shirt and heard Tanaka and Nishinoya laughing so I turned to see what they were laughing at, but it was me! I gave them a questioning look but heard Suga and Daichi begin chuckling as well, so I turned to them. Soon enough the whole team was laughing at something I couldn’t see. Finally, I had enough.
“What!?” I demanded with a frown. Tanaka wiped a tear from his eye, and grabbed me by the shoulders.
“Whoever you are with is reeeeaaalll possessive, Shouyou!” he said with a grin. Nishinoya popped from behind him.
“Yeah! Shouyou, how come you didn’t tell us you had a girlfriend? A kinky one at that!” he laughed, causing Tanaka to join in. I was confused. Girlfriend? What are they talking about? They must have judged my expression, which sent them into another round of laughter.
“They are talking about the word ‘MINE’ written out in hickies on the bottom of your back like a tramp stamp,” Tsukishima deadpanned. I blanked before blushing.
“What!?” I screamed while spinning, trying to get a look at it. Tanaka grabbed my shoulders and held me still and then I heard the shudder of a picture being taken. I spun around and grabbed Tanaka’s phone out of his hands, staring at it intensely. They were right, on the very bottom of my back, right above my waistband was the word ‘MINE’ written out messily in dark purple hickies. My breath hitched, and Tanaka took the phone.
“You seriously didn’t know, Baka?” Kageyama asked. I shook my head quickly. There was a knock at the changing room door and we all looked toward it. Daichi got up and looked at us, but no one had a clue. Daichi opened it enough for him to look through it.
“Bokuto,” he stated in shock. “What are you doing here?” he asked incredulously. He opened the door and let a very familiar spiky grey head in. Koutarou’s eyes searched and quickly found mine. He softly stepped over to me and grabbed my hand and whispered.
“Hey, my train leaves in an hour and I wanted to say goodbye,” he whispered “You can keep the kneepads, I have more,” he kissed the top of my head and let go, walking out. Everyone was dressed by now, except me. I threw on a shirt and ran after him, yelling.
“Hey! What’s with the hickies on my back!? HMmm?” I demanded. He turned back to me confused before his face paled. He quickly ran back to the stairs where the rest of the team was, watching the exchange.
“I totally forgot about that or I would have warned you. I’m so sorry, baby,” he said pulling me into his arms running his hands down my back. He gripped my butt and I froze. Little did I know he made lazer eye contact with the team, mouthing the word, ‘MINE’ over my shoulder. He squeezed me once more and then left, waving goodbye. I smiled after him before turning to my shell shocked team. It was an awkwardly silent minute before Daichi cleared his throat.
“So… you’re dating Bokuto?” he asked and I nodded. He broke out into a huge smile, quickly followed by the other upperclassmen. I was swarmed in a hug by Suga, which was quickly growing.
“Thank you for trusting us, I know that was hard,” Suga whispered to me from the middle of the huddle. Our group hug was interrupted by a snort and we turned to see Ukai grinning from ear to ear, along with Takeda.
“That’s gay,” he smirked, “but then again, so is this,” he said wrapping his arms around Takeda. We all cheered at each other.
While walking to Ukai’s store, Tanaka turned to me and said loudly.
“Huh, didn’t think Bokuto was the possessive jealous type,” he thought aloud. He was quickly joined by Nishinoya.
“Yeah, he seems like such a fun, easy going guy, that you would never think of him like that,” Nishinoya agreed. Tsukishima snorted and the team stopped to look at him.
“Please, if only you saw the way Bokuto looked at Hinata at the last training camp when we were practicing together, you would know. If murder was legal, Haiba Lev would be dead ten times over, just from Bokuto’s glares. Lev hangs off of Hinata like a child when we see him,” he rolled his eyes. “It’s disgusting really,” he mumbled. I smiled at him.
“Nice to know you care, Beanpole,” I teased, which was returned by a glare.
Coming out to the team was received well, like I thought it would be. It just didn’t go the way I thought it would, definitely not with hickies.