tokio

The week rushed and before they knew it, summer vacation came along. Everyone was in a hurry to get home as soon as possible. They couldn't wait to play against Nekoma after such a long time.

Kageyama, who was waiting for his short friend im front of the classroom, sipped his milk, patiently waiting for the Tangerine to get out. They had volleyball practice after all, so he wasn't really in a hurry.

Finally Hinata stepped out of the stuffy room and dragged Tobio with him, making the setter choke on his milk. "BAKA, don't scare me like this!"

The orange haired boy grinned up at him. „Hurry up Kageyama! We are going to Tokio!" he said excitedly and jumped up and down several times.

The younger boy sighed and followed the middle blocker with some distance. Within the past week Hinata had avoided him, but then suddenly was close to him again. Kageyama was a bit suspicious about that. He didn't know what Hinata wanted to do by being kinda on-off with their friendship - if you could call it a friendship.

Kageyama let out a quiet sigh, tossed the empty milk carton into the next trash can and watched Shōyō. Everything felt like slow motion in that moment. That was the first time Tobio noticed the small dimples on the sides of his wide smile. The way he hop-walked to the exit was joyful and excited. How could it be that he never noticed all of that? Had he been doing this before?

The setter shook off the thoughts and caught up with that child prodigy. „Oi, Hinata! The last one's a big ass loser!" He said to him and started running, after tapping his shoulder lightly.

„You had a head start, that's unfair Bakageyama!"

They arrived at the gym, being completely out of breath. Kageyama might or not might have won the race, it could also be possible that they were equal. Facts are, that Tanaka and Noya laughed at the two of them. In that moment, Daichi-san clapped his hands.

"Go get changed, I want to crop this practice, so that you can pack if you haven't already and eat a proper meal before we drive."

The two nodded and went to the clubroom. There was this weird silence between them again. Kageyama was the first to finish changing and went out again, meeting Sugawara who walked inside. He closed the door between him and wanted to go, but then an interesting conversation started.

What Tobio didn't know: Hinata may or may not have looked after his setter. Of course their senpai noticed.

„Hinata-kun! You should hurry up a bit! You are still in your uniform." He said lightly with a small chuckle which dissolved soon after.

„Hm? Oh..yeah.."

Shōyō was still looking at the door, but looked to the ground again.

„Hinata..is there something bothering you? You know, you can always talk to me!" Kōshi said then and you could hear his smile.

Kageyama just leaned against the door, listening, but he soon heard something moving again. „No..it's nothing, but thank you! I really appreciate that, Suga-senpai!" Hinatas light voice filled the room and Kageyama quickly jogged back to the gym.

So there was something bothering his friend.

He was in thoughts, running the laps Daichi had told them to do and he constantly looked to the ground. Then Sugawara and Hinata joined as well. Kageyama swore himself to find out whatever was bothering the Tangerine, because if he wasn't at his best, their chances of winning would shrink rapidly.

„Osu! We are finished for today! Get home and prepare for the ride to tokio, it's gonna be a while and we'll drive through the night." Coach Ukai explained and did a thumb up.

Everyone dashed to the clubroom and got changed there. Kageyama could now feel Hinatas eyes on his side, so he looked in the corner of his eye.

He straightened his back and looked at Hinata, who now looked away with red cheeks. „Oi, Tangerine. Take a picture, it will last longer" he said and looked straight at him. The other club members laughed at that, but they all had no clue about what was going on inside of Hinatas mind. 

After they finally left the room and went to the gate to get home, the spiker-setter-duo was alone. As always, Kageyama would walk him to the bottom of the hill and say his goodbyes to him.

„K-Kageyama!" the energetic voice of Shōyō filled the silence after they parted. The ravenhaired (crow haired would work too) turned around and looked at him. „Hm?"

„Will you sit next to me during the bus ride?" The spiker asked shyly and his setter just nodded. „Hai, it's always been like that, hasn't it? Why would we change it?" He then asked and put on his creepy, but genuine smile.

By then everything went quiet again.

„See you tonight, boke."

Tobio walked off and Hinata rode his bike over the hill as well, getting home. He did have something on his mind, and it would be embarrassing if anyone noticed already. He still had to figure out though, what he really wanted - or was.

Late night, around 10pm, the whole team got together again. Everyone had a smaller backpack and a bigger sportsbag with them. While Ukai-kun and Takeda-Senpi put those into the trunk, the boys went already inside and took their seats. Like promised (and like they've always done it) Kageyama sat down next to Hinata. Much to the orange haired complaints, he sat at the window, but he didn't say anything. Hinata didn't want to cause trouble just because of some leather seat at this hour.

It was already embarrassing enough, that Kageyama had to help him put his rucksack into the bag space above them, so he just sat down quietly afterwards. They sat there in silence for quite some time. Everything around them was noisy, but not like annoyingly noisy. It was, as if they were in their own little bubble.

Soon, the engine was turned on and the bus started his way to Tokio. Hinata risked a look and watched Kageyama having leaned his head against the window and having black earbuds in, listening to some weird sounding music.

He stared at him, watched every single detail. The way Kageyama scrunched up his nose when a song he didn't like came up or the way his long fingers slid over the screen of his phone.

Suddenly, he felt sleepy from all the glancing. He indeed wanted to talk with Kageyama during the ride, but the practice and the hour just made him sleepy. Without even noticing, he dozed off, gently falling into Kageyama. His bright orange locks rested on the high shoulder of his seat neighbor and his breathing got more silent.

Tobio looked down at his best friend. He sighed and blushed slightly, taking his jacket and put it as a blanket around his shorter friend.

He had to admit, it looked rather cute.

They were sitting in the back so they were really alone and non-bothered. Tobio used the time to check him out.

Hinatas little snores and his chest slowly popping up and down - it just looked cute.

This would be an interesting trip.