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The squeak of sneakers against a gym floor; his eyes squinting to see in the harsh light of the gym; the heavy rise and fall of his chest with his jersey sticking to himself. Hinata stands on the court exhausted and sweat covered, but none of that matters anymore, the grin that splits his face is. He just won the spring tournament after having had faced a bitter defeat in the fall. Not just him though, all of them, Daichi, Sugawara, Tanaka-senpai, Tsukishima, Nishinoya, Ashahi, and especially Kageyama. This is what a real team felt like. It was amazing feeling that triumph of a team, just having teammates to call his friends to begins with.
After losing the fall tournament all of them were back in the school gym practicing, bettering themselves and Hinata had been working the hardest of all. He would stay late each and every practice training to try and further push himself to be a different competitor that what the schools had seen in the fall tournaments. He wants to be more like Tobio; the spectacular skills and precision that the other possesses is something that Hinata has always been jealous of but standing here on the court today he feels like he can finally stand in comparison to the ‘king of the court’
“Karasuno!!” He shouts as he pumps his fist to the air and finding his team mates and the people in the stands following suit with him.
In the next few moments everything goes around him in a blur, well okay not a blur just Hinata wasn’t paying all that much attention to be able to recall what was happening. It’s no secret that Shouyou had a bit of a one-track-mind so with the team winning the competition out of the way there was only one thing left, Kageyama…
After their rivalry had been done Hinata had realized at the end of the fall competition that he had fallen hard for the other male but without the means of getting out his feelings he just continued acting as normal despite the butterflies that always rose to his stomach when the two of them were alone together. Thankfully most of the time they were together was a practice so there was an excuse for the red on his cheeks, but when they were at each other’s houses things were much harder to hide.
Today was different though… Hiding was nowhere on the agenda; he was going to tell Kageyama how he felt. He would have said something earlier but he was always too scared too, so six months ago he vowed to win the spring tournament, but after he also vowed to tell Tobio how he felt. So after the shaking of hands Hinata finds himself saying a fast “congratulations” to his other teammates before rushing out of the gym without another word to anyone.
It would seem rather weird for this to be Hinata’s behavior after something so big but thankfully told Nishinoya to make sure that he could let Daichi know that this wasn’t a big deal that Hinata had just had plans after this. Hinata rushed from the building and getting on his bike already starting to pedal in the direction back towards his house.
As the wind rushes through his hair on the bike ride home he vaguely starts to think that this is going to be a bad idea but knows that he has been preparing for this for a week, just getting ready for the possible rejection because he doesn’t even know if Tobio likes guys. He sighs softly while rolling the bike into the garage before slipping off his shoes and stepping inside his house. With a fast greeting to his parents and saying that they won the game he is already headed up the stairs to his room to get everything together.
Fast forwarding to two hours later Hinata is back on his bike again with a picnic basket and a small pile of rocks with his heart set on getting Kageyama for dinner in the other’s back yard. He pedals as fast as he can to the house knowing that if he goes any slower he’s going to chicken out. Once arriving at the medium sized home Hinata leans his bike against the mailbox before grabbing the pile of rocks and basket and wandering around the house until he finds the familiar ledge of Tobio’s window and sets the basket down to start tossing the small pebbles at the window with them letting out a small clank from hitting the glass.
It takes about five minutes but his breath hitches as he sees the window being pulled open and the raven haired boy leaning out of it. “What are you doing here dumbass and why did you leave so quickly after the tournament was over? I figured you of all people would want to do something stupid all together.” That was the first thing that Kagayama says as he leans out the window and Hinata can’t possibly help the smile that split his face thinking of what’s to come.
“I’ll explain later, just come down here for now. I brought dinner if that helps~” He says as he holds up the basket with a grin before watching the window close again as he knows that Tobio is probably walking through his house already headed outside. He smiles as he sees the other coming over and chuckles when he feels the tallers’ fist shoving him to the side slightly, “and that was for leaving.”
Hinata just rolls his eyes and just begins to lay down the blanket before sitting down on top of it and pulling out sandwiches and two cans of soda to put on the blanket. “Not much but I mean it is still dinner.” He says grinning.
“It’s fine numbskull but can you explain why you didn’t stay after with the rest of us? You left me alone with those idiots and I swear Tanaka-san was about to lose it.” Kageyama says a bit sarcastically and while chuckling.
“Well I mean I needed to go home and get some things done and uh I had to get this ready…” He says rubbing the back of his neck with a light pink tint coming to his cheeks. “Tobio can I tell you something?” He asks and uses Kageyama’s first name to show that he is more serious than normal about this.
“Fine but you better be giving me a better explanation that than because there was no way that this took all of the time that you disappeared.”
Hinata takes a breath trying to force himself to relax before finally being able to talk, “Look… There have been some things that I haven’t been telling you. I promised myself that I would only tell you if we won the spring tournament. So, two years ago when we met I absolutely hated you and I still did when we started going to Karasuno but after playing with you for the fall bracket and just practicing with you we became friends, or at least I think we did. After that though I started noticing stupid little things about you that drove me insane in some of the best of ways so after us losing in the fall I wanted to get to know you better and just become a better player in general, for you… Now that we’ve won though I just wanted to tell you uh that I like you… I know it might be stupid and seriously if you don’t like me back I don’t care just I wa-”
The words that were flowing from his lips were cut off by another pair of lips, Tobio’s to be exact. The few seconds proceeding that moment was everything that he had wanted for the last few months and when the taller male pulls away his cheeks are flushed brightly and he looks up at Kageyama with a sheepish smile, “So was that a yes?” He asks as he rubs the back of his neck nervously.
“Yes you moron, I like you too. Now eat your food before it gets warm.” Kageyama says with one of his rare smiles pulling at his lips. He leans over to peck Hinata’s lips again before sitting back and beginning to unwrap his sandwich.