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Kiyoomi didn't want to agree, he really didn't. But the second he saw Miya Atsumu do 10 consecutive backflips in a row, he knew there was something going on and he could tell Motoya saw it too.
It was supposed to be a regular day at practice for the MSBY black jackals, but today just so happens to be a holiday so its not compulsory to come for training.
But of course there were a few people that decided to come anyways since the olympics will be happening soon.
That said, it means they are ignoring the strict warning from Iwaizumi Hajime, the athletic trainer of the Japanese national team.
He strictly ordered that all the players who were chosen to play in the Olympics must take the day off.
Only idiots would ignore that.
Kiyoomi just happened to be one of those idiots.
It all started when Bokuto and Hinata were having a competition with each other in backflips(dont ask how or why, Kiyoomi really doesn't know).
Kageyama, who was forced to tag along to their practice,(is that allowed? Kiyoomi doesn't know either) was left to be the referee but when it reached a tie, Miya decided now was the best time to show his secret gymnastic skills.
Picking up his jaw that was left on the floor, Kiyoomi looks at the piece of paper in his hand that was quickly passed to him by his cousin(who for some reason, is also here).
Big bold letters in messy hand writing are sprawled all across the page. "Plz i know sumthin is off trust me lets jnverstigate plzz... " he mutters out the barely comprehensible words, completely baffled at what he's reading. Yet, he finds himself hesitating to decline. After all, there's no way a normal human being can do all that without breaking a sweat, can u blame him for being curious on what exactly Motoya wants to investigate?
'Fine' he swiftly writes down below the plead on the paper and hands it back to motoya.
He saw Motoya silently celebrating so he decides to take a good look at his surroundings.
In the corner of his eye, he sees Miya surrounded by Hinata and Bokuto while getting praises left and right, a proud smirk plastered onto his face.
Almost like he somehow sensed that Kiyoomi was looking, he turned his head and they make eye contact.
Kiyoomi immediately recognized the glint in his eyes and the way Miya nudged his chin towards kiyoomi, lets him realize one thing.
He's asking for a challenge.
'fine then.' Kiyoomi thought. He'll give him a challenge.
Kiyoomi lifts up a singular eyebrow while slightly tilting his head mockingly. "Miya, how is it you could do 10 backflips, yet you cannot do a proper set 2 rounds ago?"
"Really now, omikun? That set was perfect and ya know it! We can tell yer just jealous. " Miya immediately started taunting back. "Right shoukun? "He quickly nudges Hinata in the shoulder.
"Uhhhh.. Well.. "Hinata hesitates.
"Cant believe u are that unsure in yourself u gotta ask other people for conformation. " Kiyoomi quickly butts in before hinata could say anything.
"Oh yea? Stop tryna pick a fight and change the subject.I doubt ya can do 10 frickin' pushups. " Miya sneers at him
Hinata and Bokuto quickly retreats away from the area as Kiyoomi and Miya immediately starts their usual banter. Hinata turns to Motoya pleadingly, giving the silent message to please stop them before it gets violent.
"Grow up would ya? "
"You really have the audacity to say that..? "
"Kiyo! " Motoya quickly interrupts their argument and pulls Kiyoomi aside. "I think we should really go now, its getting late and we still have to discuss about our little 'project'..." He pauses to look at Kiyoomi with a devious smile and quickly turns at back to Miya. "Bye Atsumu! See you tomorrow!! " he waves enthusiastically to Miya and mutters under his breath "if Iwaizumi doesn't find out.. ".
Miya heard anyways and gave his usual loud boasting laugh. Kiyoomi immediately sighs and lets himself get dragged away by Motoya, not before looking around their nearly empty gym still accompanied by Kageyama, Hinata, Bokuto, and Miya himself.
He looks at miya one more time before turning around.
"Goodbye Omikun!! " he heard Miya say in a mockingly sweet tone.
"bye Miya."
On the walk back to their temporarily shared apartment, Motoya immediately nudges Kiyoomi with his elbow.
"So.....What did u get from that argument?"Motoya grins.
"I probably would have gotten more information if u didnt drag me away. " Kiyoomi replies deadpan.
"Oh please, we both know the argument is basically over when you two just start throwing unnecessary insults at each other." Motoya laughs out.
"Whatever." He pauses. "What did you get from that argument?' Kiyoomi refutes. 'You are the reporter anyways" he makes sure to add.
There's not a single person in Japan who hasn't heard of Komori Motoya, a highly regarded news reporter and professional volleyball player. All the crimes and newest gossip are immediately sent to his office, it doesn't matter what type of news it is—he will cover it. A local idol group is rumoured to be going through a dispute and might disband? A woman recently tragically died from a local supervillain? He keeps them all on several different channels, as long as you on your TV or look outside, you will see him. Everywhere.
Kiyoomi once asked him how does he juggle all his work along with volleyball practice, all he got in response was 'how do you juggle all your hero work and volleyball, huh?" Kiyoomi didn't ask again.
A common trait that Kiyoomi and Motoya both share together is that they can find out what a persons intentions are just by hearing their tone or seeing their subtle movements. He has been offered many positions as a detective, his passion for volleyball is a very big factor on why he hasn't taken that route in career. His double jobs has given him many loyal fans for his plays and blogs.
When they were children Motoya regularly visited Kiyoomi's house to keep him company, bored out their minds, they created a guessing game. The guessing game slowly transitioned into a habit. Growing up in a rich household means the stuff coming out of peoples mouth most of the time is straight up bullshit.
"I'm busy with work. Don't disturb me. "
"Your aunt is a bitch that can't do anything right. "
"Don't tell her I said this but.. "
God, Kiyoomi hated them.
It started when Motoya overheard his other cousin's mom's aunt talking about her cousins son who is apparently dating a delinquent. Motoya wasted no time to rush into Kiyoomi's room. "Kiyo! Guess what I heard from aunt Riko!.." Motoya eagerly told his cousin everything he heard.
"..hell like that's real."
"It might be!"
"keyword. 'might'."
"fine let's bet on it"
Soon enough, Motoya and Kiyoomi figured how to adapt by making a system of figuring out if someone is telling the truth, involving one of them making conversation while the other makes the verdict.
Even after moving out of their family home, they still implement their 'guessing game' in their regular life.
Force of habit perhaps.
"Nah, i wanna hear your theories first. " Motoya grins.
"He was acting pretty normal to me, he acted defensive but he acts defensive for most things. "
"Like his hair? "
"Yes."
"Alright, well there is something else tho"
"What? "
"After he got defensive, he immediately asked for validation from Shouyou. "
"...he normally doesn't do that very early on unless he's nervous. "
"Exactly! "
"Why are you making that face? "
"What face? "
"... "
"What face?? "
"The one that says you have a stupid idea. "
"I don't! "
"What are we trying to find anyways? "
"I-I mean we need to see if he is-" Motoya quickly gets interrupted by the sound of a woman screaming from inside the building.
Kiyoomi was so distracted by their conversation he didn't even notice they reached home.
He quickly takes a look around them and sees several broken windows, thank god the crime was not on his floor or else his night would probably be completely ruined trying to avoid glass on the floor. It's completely unsafe and especially unsanitary if someone were to get cut by it.
" Kiyo.. " motoya immediately gives Kiyoomi a look and Kiyoomi quickly replies with a swift nod. He puts on an earpiece and a mask while quickly stripping his clothes off, revealing a suit.
He jumps into action and quickly enters the building through the window.
As Kiyoomi enters the scene, he smells blood.
The whole area was a mess. The blood has already started staining the floor while glass shards were everywhere. They were still shouting and screaming, it was so noisy Kiyoomi couldn't understand a thing.
He sees a trembling girl on the floor, who's maybe in her 20s. She is trying but failing to cover her mouth. Her blonde hair was in a messed up loose ponytail, blood staining her blue dress. She looks a little familiar..
Kiyoomi assumes shes the one who screamed, he looks around more, and next to her is an extremely big man, probably weighing around 180 kg, who is currently convulsing with a katana straight into his stomach.
ouch.
Kiyoomi immediately snaps in alert as his eyes follow the sight of the katana. He sees a figure in a red and black suit, holding the katana.
For a second, everything just stops. The girl who was screaming seems to register the new presence and immediately halts to look at Kiyoomi. At the same time, the big mans eyes slowly went from the figure to Kiyoomi himself. While the figure stopped shouting at the big man, seeming to realize how the room suddenly went quiet.
A beat of silence passed.
"So....uhh-" the figure started.
That seemed to snap the girl out of it, who starts sputtering "y-y-you arent spiderman... " she points her trembling finger at the figure. "W-Who are you!??? " she practically screeches.
Kiyoomi grimaces at the sudden loud volume and realized what exactly she just said.
"Wait what." He whips his head towards the figure. Just to see the figure standing there looking like he got caught stealing candy from a baby.
"Oopsie"
The figure quickly pulls the katana out the big man and gives him a big shove to the floor, he quickly started preparing to jump out the window behind him, perhaps to make a quick escape, but not before quickly taking a picture of the man on the floor.
But before Kiyoomi could do anything, the man has already escaped.
"Check up on the girl! " a familiar voice crackles from the earpiece he put on earlier.
Kiyoomi quickly puts the impersonator issue aside and rushes to the girls side to check her pulse. He normally hates touching strangers, the strong awareness of transferring sweat and bacteria to one another makes him want to gag, but he realized its not as bad with the suit.
He examines her more and she is basically trembling in fear, her face is pale, her eyes are basically bulging out of her eye sockets while looking at the body beside her. Kiyoomi quickly realized what she was looking at and covered her eyes with his hands awkwardly while he checks for more injuries.
"Are you ok? Does anything hurt? "
"No.. " Kiyoomi can tell that shes trying to hide the tremor in her voice but its really not working, he's just hoping she doesn't start tearing up.
"Can u tell me what happened? " Kiyoomi questions her.
"Uh.. Well.. I.. I just wanted to g-get back to my room.. A-and that man came out of no where and p-pointed a gun at me.. " she stumbles over her words. "I-i didn't know what to do.. I was preparing to beg for my life, but then i saw that guy i-in the suit.. "She continued. " i-im not sure how but, I mistook him as you.. A-and he said he w-was you! "Her voice progressively gets louder each word. " until he stabbed the man w-with the sword thingy.. "Her voice faltered as tears start filling her eyes.
Crap. That's not good.
The gods must have heard Kiyoomi's pleads for mercy as Motoya, who was listening to the whole thing through the earpiece has made it up stairs panting. It seems like he has heard the emotional distress in her voice and decided to spare Kiyoomi from the pain of trying to comfort her.
Not that Kiyoomi doesn't want to, its just that there is a pattern he started to realize. Which is whenever he tries to comfort someone, it somehow makes them feels even worse.
Motoya shuffles through the broken glass on the floor and crouches next to girl that was leaning against the wall now, hyperventilating with her eyes shut tight."Ok miss, i would need you to breathe please." Motoya tells her gently. She seems to try to comply as her breathing gets a bit slower while shes slowly nodding at him. "What's your name? " Motoya asks her while he calls the police. The girl slowly opens her eyes. "Y-Yachi.. " she managed to croak out.
Ah, she's Hinata's friend.
"Okay Yachi. Don't worry, the police would be on their way soon. " Motoya slowly stands up to put the phone to his ear.
'911, how may i help?'
"Hi, I think there was a villain case on Apāto complex 11/6G."
'Ok sir stay where you are. Can u explain what happened? '
"Uh so i heard a loud scream on my way home and i wanted to check it out, there's a woman who was the victim and witness of the entire event. You guys will probably need to give her a proper checkup on her mental stability. " The words come out of his mouth smoothly while he gives Yachi a sheepish smile.
'Ok sir, can u tell me what floor you guys are currently on? Do you live on this floor? '
"Ah we are on floor 3. And no, it's actually my cousin that lives here.. He lives on the 5th floor by the way, I'm just staying in Osaka for my small break. "
'Alright. May i know if the villain is still there or if there is a superhero near you currently?'
"The villain is uh-' Motoya pauses to take a good look at the body on the floor. '-dead. " He turns to look at Kiyoomi before saying "but I have spiderman right next to me!"
During a school training camp when Kiyoomi was a 2nd year in high school, he was accidentally bitten by a radioactive spider, giving him powers that he didn't know how to use.
After realizing his new found powers, he decided to keep it a secret....until his older brother died.
His parents never cared about him or his siblings. His 2 older siblings basically raised him from young, never blaming him for his hatred of germs or crowds. Motoya's family lives in the mansion next to the Sakusa residence, he usually visited Kiyoomi everyday to keep him company when his siblings have to go to business meetings or so.
When Kiyoomi was in his 3rd grade of highschool, he decided to follow his older brother to a meeting. On the way home, there was a robber mugging a store.
"Brother I think that guy has a gun-" Kiyoomi's face turned pale.
"Hey Kiyo? "
"Yes? "
"I want you to stay here and call the cops. " His brother grabbed onto his shoulders with a serious look before releasing him and running towards the robbery.
"Wait, where are you going?? "Kiyoomi asks, slightly in a panic.
"Stay there! " His brother calls out to him once again.
His older brother immediately went to stop the robber and ended up getting shot right before Kiyoomi could save him.
Kiyoomi was furious and tried to chase down the murderer, revealing his powers to his brother. But before he could do anything, he heard his brothers final words. "With great power, comes with great responsibility. " and so Kiyoomi let the robber go.
After graduation, Kiyoomi moved to Osaka to pursue volleyball. When Motoya was helping Kiyoomi move into his new apartment, he found out about Kiyoomi's powers on accident when Kiyoomi crawled on the wall to avoid a roach on the floor.
"Hey Kiyo I got the wipes-" Motoya cuts himself off, his jaw flying wide open after looking up.
"Motoya you better close your mouth, there's a roach somewhere around. " Kiyoomi replies cautiously, somehow forgetting he's on the wall.
Motoya and Kiyoomi found it best to continue keeping it a secret while using his powers for good. And so from then on, Kiyoomi has become Osaka's one and only spider man.
'Sir i would like u to hand the phone to the victim. '
"Yeah, sure. "
Motoya hands Yachi the phone while Yachi slowly starts explaining what happened again to the police with Motoyas assistance.
Kiyoomi decides to take a good look around the crime scene.
The crime happened in the hallway of the third floor. At the end of the hallway there is a window area, 2 windows are on each side of the 2 walls and there's one open window at the very end the hallway. 1 of the 4 windows are broken, next to the window still has the body. There are more broken windows down the hallway, It also seems like the figure jumped out from the one at the end of the hallway to escape. Did he also enter from it? Or did he enter from the broken window? At that point, Kiyoomi is thoroughly confused. Why did he agree with Yachi that he was spiderman? Who is he? Why did he take the picture of the man?
..Did he really break the window to have a flashy entrance just to leave from the open window?..