Skater Boy | h.harem

【26】

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(A/n: I'm off my short break guys! Sorry to keep you waiting so long, ahaha~~)

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"Um... Iwaizumi-Senpai?" Hinata voiced quietly, gripping onto his small backpack that he held close to his chest. "What is it? Are you uncomfortable?"

Oikawa, who was walking beside the two, continued staring at Shouyou as they walked through town, earning stares of curiosity and awe. "Not, er, Not exactly, but, um, people are... kind of... staring..."

Not exactly bothered by the stairs, Iwaizumi shrugged it off. "Do you want me to carry you a different way? I figured this would be more comfortable than last time." Yes, Iwaizumi was carrying him again, and yes, Oikawa was still pouting.

To add to the embarrassment, he was carrying bridal style without a care in the world. If you looked close enough, you could see little flowers of happiness bouncing off of him. Hinata sighed. "You've been carrying me for fifteen minutes- Aren't I heavy?"

A chuckle vibrated against Shouyou's ear. "You? Heavy? It feels like I'm carrying a toddler." Well, that hurt. Huffing, the ginger crossed his arms and kicked his feet a little. "I want down," he grumbled, thankful that they had reached a more secluded street.

"Yeah, put him down! It's my turn to hold him!" The brunet stood in front of Iwaizumi and held his arms out, stopping him from walking any further. "We're almost there anyway. There's no point," argued the black-haired male, tightening his grip on Shouyou's legs.

This drew a hum out of Hinata, who tried to pull his hand off of his legs. "Hinata, you're pretty sensitive, aren't you?" Oikawa pinched at Shouyou's cheek, who groaned in embarrassment. "I'm not that sensitive! It just feels weird!"

Oikawa swept Shouyou out of Iwaizumi's arms and into his own, ignoring the harsh slap from his friend. "Seriously!? Please, let me walk on my own!"

They did, eventually, let Shouyou walk on his own, but their new discovery stayed in their minds.

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"So, you're planning on going to court? When?" Continuing his jotting in his journal, Shouyou took a sip of his milkshake before licking his lips and answering, his eyes still glued onto the paper before him.

"If all goes to plan, it'll be by the end of the school year- the end of the summer at most." Oikawa bit into one of his fries and leaned over the ginger's shoulder to scope out his writing, which was, surprisingly, pretty neat.

"How come?" At the simple question, Hinata placed his pencil down and slid his journal across the table for Iwaizumi to read.

"'Plan to get Natsu back'," Iwaizumi read aloud, skimming over some of the information below. "Is she... your ex or something?" Hesitantly asked Oikawa, suddenly feeling his appetite vanish. Shouyou laughed.

"Of course not; She's my little sister!" Another sip of his milkshake was slurped into his small mouth before he continued. "I'm going to sue my mother and force her to sign over custody of Natsu to me, and I have the perfect plan to do it!"

A determined smile spread over Shouyou's face as he slid his journal back over to him. Flipping a couple of pages and presenting a messy, comic-like sketch of his plan to them. At the end of the panel, Natsu and Shouyou were holding hands with all of his friends in the background.

A fond look spread over the ginger's face. "I'm going to change everything for her, and make sure she has the best life anyone can ever have." The two teammates exchanged glances with each other before chuckling.

Oikawa threw an arm around Shouyou's back and pulled him into his side, while Iwaizumi slid into the seat beside him and ruffled up his orange hair. "I think you're more than enough right now, Shouyou~"

Bright, caramel eyes shimmered at the affection, and, feeling his eyes begin to tear up, he closed them and leaned into the touches, grinning happily.

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Oikawa and Iwaizumi helped Shouyou out with his plans by offering suggestions for him. What confused them, though, was that most of everything he had written was things he found wrong with himself.

Falling asleep with the lights on, yelling at the TV remote when it wouldn't work, and, the one that hurt them the most, crying in front of Natsu. These were only a few of the two pages (and continuing) of flaws that Hinata had somehow found in himself.

The little things that made him, him were seen as things that needed to be fixed in order for him to have his little sister back. It was devastating, and they had no idea how to help him.

Just as the sun began turning the sky into a mixture of pinks, oranges, and yellows, they decided it was time to leave the restaurant and head back to the school before their curfew arrived.

Placing Shouyou's journal into his backpack, Iwaizumi slip his arms through the straps and helped pull the sleeping ginger onto Oikawa's back.

"In my opinion, I don't think he has any flaws. I think he's the most perfect human on earth," muttered the brunet, staring at the ground with a look of sympathy. He had some experience with not feeling like enough.

Feeling like everything you did, how you look- everything is wrong. Nothing seems to be enough. "I want to help him... somehow," inaudibly answered Iwaizumi, fiddling with the straps of the backpack for no particular reason.

On Oikawa's back, Shouyou's body began trembling softly. It was beginning to get cold, after all. "Let's hurry. I don't want him to freeze," the black-haired male stated, taking his jacket off and throwing it over the ginger's shoulders.

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When they arrived at the classroom Karasuno was staying in, they were instantly bombarded with glares, shouting, and cries from the little ginger's teammates. "Shh~!" The brunet hissed, placing a finger to his lips.

Iwaizumi pointed to the sleeping Shouyou resting on Oikawa's back, and everyone instantly shut up. "His futon's over here," stated Sugawara, pointing to an empty futon that sat in between Yamaguchi's and Tsukishima's.

Wordlessly, Oikawa placed his small body down and pulled a blanket over him. Smirking, he held Iwaizumi's jacket out to the black-haired male, almost in a mocking manner.

A growing Iwaizumi took it, then they were on their way back to their room.

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