The 'Almighty' King

Reflections of Truth

Hinata's POV
I gasped when I was suddenly pushed forward and I finally realised the surroundings outside the window. We were back at Karasuno. I saw my eyes in the window once again. They were wide. But they held tears. Unspilt but there. My cheeks were red and I looked almost like a frightened girl. Like Natsu when she used to be afraid of the dark.
Even looking at my reflection though I flinched feeling a hand on my shoulder making me let out another sharp gasp. I could see the entire reflection once more and I saw Kageyama's eyes hovering above mine with his hand in my shoulder. His voice was behind me.
"Hinata. Time to go."
Finally I tore my eyes from the reflection in the window and looked to my boyfriend. "R-right..." I mumbled, standing and following him out of the coach after we grabbed our luggage. Coach spoke a few words before he allowed us to return home.

Kageyama and I walked in silence, our companions in their tattoo forms. I could feel the coldness coming from my back. It happened a lot whoever I felt torn or upset by something. It meant Itazura was feeling the way I was feeling. I looked to my feet the entire walk, my hand gripping my back strap. There was a chill in the air which meant it was going to rain fairly soon.

I could see Kageyama's feet in my side vision, but I didn't know what to say. We needed to talk about what happened over the weekend but I had no idea how to bring such a sensitive subject up.
"Hinata." I flinched hearing my name.
"M-mhm?" I hummed in response, not looking up from the ground.
"What's going on with you? You're never this quiet after a camp." Kageyama was right. I hadn't spoke a word throughout the entire walk. We were already a few blocks away from his house. The house I'd be staying in for the last night before I returned home.
Not wanting to lie anymore I finally said something.
"Something.... Tsukkishima said to me one night... keeps bugging me..."
"You listen to that salty bastard?"
"I feel like this time I have to... Because I think this time he may be right..."
"Right about what?"

I stopped walking, gripping my bag strap hard as I grit my teeth and finally looked up to Kageyama who had stopped as well. The sky was dark but the street lamp we stood under was enough light for me to see myself in his eyes. A nervous wreck scared of a rejection.
But I knew I had to speak.

"I-.... I think that... that you..." I bit my lip and hesitated. I don't think I've ever been this scared in my life.
"That I what? Spit it out."
"That you're a yandere-"
I held my breath and squeezed my eyes shut scared of his answer.

"Hah?-"

What?...

Slowly, I opened my eyes, seeing Kageyama stood there with the most confused expression on his face.
"I- uh.. Look... That night you experimented with Little Space... whilst you were asleep... Tsukkishima gave his theory on what might have been wrong with you..."

"And he suggested I killed people who I felt weren't worthy of you?"

"No! Well... kinda... He said you might be boarder line. He said that the way Atsumu interacted with me was what started it. And I almost believed him when he sat with us yesterday morning and you jabbed your seaweed with your fork. I-.... Honestly I got scared... I still am... of you..."

Kageyama was silent after my confession. I didn't want to look at him. Within the silence a few drops of rain started falling - their splashes on the concrete audible.

The rain picked up as the silence grew longer until finally, Kageyama answered me.
"Let's go home. I'll give you my answer there." I looked up at this, seeing his hands in his pockets and his hood up with his back to me, already walking away.

Dumbfounded, I followed, pulling up my hood. I was still scared yet I had no choice but to follow.
At least it felt like that...

Eventually we arrived back at the Kageyama household - void of other life as always as we entered.

We were still silent as we took our shoes and coats off by the door before releasing our companions. Normally the two would frolic away to the kitchen to play and then sleep but this time they stayed put beside their respective owners. The four of us then walked to the living room and Kageyama and I sat on opposite sides of the couch.

Finally after the long silence, Kageyama spoke.
"Tsukkishima wasn't entirely wrong."
I flinched hearing that. I silently begged he wouldn't confess a deep truth.
"But?..." I muttered hoping he'd continue.

"But I'm not a Yandere." My head shot up at that. I could feel my eyes shaking and the tears once again came forth - remaining unspilt but ready.

I watched as Kageyama dropped his gaze from me and looked to his hands before he stood and walked to the window. I was facing it and I watched his face in his reflection. He looked almost scared. His eyes seemed dull or glazed over with something. Almost as if he was blind.

"But he was right about Atsumu." He continued.

"W-what do you mean?..." I muttered, my eyes fixated on Kageyama's reflection.

"I mean, that I feel threatened. So many people have been after you over the years. Kenma, Oikawa, Bokuto - so many that I struggle to name them all. But when Atsumu started too.... I grew protective and scared all at once. What he was doing... finally made what I've been worrying for real."

He admitted and in his reflection, the raindrops of outside dripped - making it look as though Kageyama was crying. I could feel my own real tears pricking my eyes, ready to slip over the edge but I didn't dare speak.

"I realised last year I didn't want to lose you. The thought that I possibly could do so to someone better than me-"

"Atsumu is not better than you!" I suddenly snapped as I stood, the tears finally breaking and falling down my cheeks as I stood - my own reflection now visible in the window.
"No one! Is better than you Tobio. I love you okay and I'll be damned if I lost you to your fears."

I let every emotion I'd been holding out. I walked closer to the window, closer to my setter and stood beside him. Where I am meant to be. And the reflection in the window looked perfect to me. It looked right.

"You are my only setter Tobio I could never replace you. What I see in your reflection right now is myself. I see our wings in that window. Sure they're damaged but you know what? We fixed them. We fixed each other's wounds.

We are the same Tobio. It's clear to me and I'll make it clear to you to. We were made to stay by each other through anything.

Anything at all."