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one — introductions
Hinata believes that first impressions are pretty important—that’s why he dislikes Kageyama almost as soon as the boy talks.
He seems cocky, arrogant and just like a complete jerk but Hinata decides that no, he shouldn’t just judge people like that straight away—but he wasn’t far off the mark though because within minutes, Kageyama is yelling commands at his teammates and isn’t he supposed to respect his teammates? Hinata respects his, his teammates respect him back and well.. that seems to be the case with other teams too so what’s the difference between Kageyama and his team? He can’t really work it out, he doesn’t know any of them well enough to be able to know why they’re all acting the way they are.
By the end of it, Hinata still decides he dislikes Kageyama when they’re in middle school.
He meets Kageyama again when they’re in high school and it feels like they have another introduction—but they don’t—you only ever get one introduction, really—it feels like they have multiple introductions because they really never seem to get one down correctly.
Hinata feels like every single day brings a new introduction for the two of them and it’s weird.
(He doesn’t really mind at all though.)
(Kageyama hopes to leave bad first impressions, Kageyama likes to leave bad impressions (well, to some extent, he supposes)—he doesn’t care about others unless they’re going to help him win, people that aren’t going to help him win are irrelevant, he decides, so why should he care about first impressions? Why should he care about what others think of him if they’re not going to be any use to him?
He automatically takes a disliking to Hinata Shouyou as soon as he spots him—taking on more than he can chew, trying to act all confident when really he can see the short boy practically trembling, having so much talent but not putting it to use, it’s all bothersome to Kageyama—it’s ridiculous, he thinks, the idiotic boy looks absolutely ridiculous.
But for some reason that’s completely beyond him, he hopes he gets to meet the short energetic boy another time.
And he does, he does, he does. He meets Hinata for awhile after that—he meets Hinata in dreams where he wakes up and wonders why he was thinking of the idiot that he had seen three weeks ago, he sees Hinata in people he walks by on the street and looks twice at just to make sure it’s not him and really, he doesn’t know why he’s looking for the energetic boy because he knows even if he sees him, he won’t do anything, but he is looking for him in the crowds and he can’t help it.
He’s glad when he properly meets him again to say the least.)