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“Do you have your bag?” Kageyama pretended to scroll through a list on his phone while Hinata bounced on the balls of his feet next to him on the platform like an excited school kid.
“Yes.” Hinata wasn’t paying him any attention. He was too busy watching the crowd of other train goers gathering around them. When he got that giddy excited look on his face he still looked like he could be in high school and not like the recent college graduate he was.
“And your pillow?” Kageyama watched as a little scowl crinkled Hinata’s forehead.
“Yes. Clearly.” He raised his pillow and shook it at Kageyama, but he still didn’t look up. Behind them a train came to a stop and the automated instructions were playing as people bustled to and fro.
Kageyama was excited for their trip too, but he couldn’t miss out on a chance to tease Hinata. “Did you turn off all of the lights?”
“Yes.” Hinata sighed. He shuffled from one foot to the other and hoisted his duffle bag higher up on his shoulder. He was getting irritated. It made Kageyama’s mouth twist in an attempt not to smile.
“Made sure your bedroom window was latched?” He kept his voice as even as possible; calm.
“Yes,” This was said with a huff and now Hinata was looking at him, eyebrows raised slightly. Kageyama didn’t keep eye contact, he couldn’t if he wanted to keep a straight face.
“And did you make sure the stove was turned off?” Kageyama tried to hold back a satisfied smirk as Hinata became even more visibly frustrated.
“No. And do you know why? Because neither of us used the stove today. Or yesterday! Or the day before that!” Hinata was scowling at him, his cheeks starting to splotch pink in the center, and Kageyama couldn’t take it. The tiniest little laugh slipped passed his tightly pressed lips. It only took Hinata a moment after that to realize Kageyama had just been giving him a hard time and then he was hitting Kageyama on the arm repeatedly while other train passengers parted around them, some of them staring.
Kageyama was laughing outright before Hinata finally stopped. “You’re such a jerk!”
“Dumbass. You make it so easy.” Hinata huffed at him again, but he was smiling now too and instead of looking all around them he was looking only at Kageyama. It made his chest feel tight, in the best way. Hinata was still shaking his head, but he was no longer distracted or antsy, so Kageyama felt completely justified.
This was all really new, this thing between them. The open way Hinata stared from time to time. The casual way he reached for Kageyama’s hand, like he did now. That it was completely acceptable to lean in against him and breathe in the clean scent of his shampoo. They’d only been on one official date right at the end of term to an Italian restaurant, Capo Pellicano, and they still hadn’t quite gotten past all of their nerves. It was new and good and it made Kageyama smile stupidly for no reason at all except that he was happy.
Both of them were ready to look to the future and everything it could mean for them, and this trip was just the beginning.