Intertwined

Chapter seventeen- A mothers late lullaby

Atsumu's POV:

Yano there's days where I love my job, where I genuinely enjoy getting up in the morning and going to look after the kids. Then there's days where...

"Hiro please stop throwing things at your friends", there's days where I just want to curl into a ball and cry, it may seem dramatic but that's all I want to do right now.

I pick my nephew up and place him away from the other children as he can't be trusted around them right now, I sit him down on the carpet in the reading corner and bend down to meet his eye level.

"Koshiro we do not throw things at our friends", he scowls turning his head away from me, "you need to say sorry to your friends", he shakes his head at me with a scowl still on plastered on his face, he moves into the corner and huddles himself in a ball.

"Fine stay there until you can learn to play with your friends nicely", I stand up and let out deep breath, just count to ten atsumu and breathe.

"You okay in- oh I see, want me to come in to help out?", rub my tired red eyes a bit and turn to kiyoko who's at the door, "no I'm okay, I've only got four so I'll be fine, you get going", I wave my hands at her in a dismissive way, but I begrudgingly stick a smile on my face.

"Atsumu are you okay? I can stay a little longer if-".

"No I'm fine, you've got your girl waitin for ya anyway", I put on my best fake smile, the one that has never failed me, and go over to the side to hanas peg to collect her stuff as kuroo will be here soon to collect her. "Atsumu is something going on? You've just seemed distance lately", I stop at the peg with hanas stuff in my hands, breathe atsumu just breathe, I take a deep breath in and out trying to calm my raising anxiety down.

"Oko I'm fine I promise, just tired that's all", she gave me 'I don't believe you look' which didn't at all help ease the uneasy feeling I had in my belly, it's been there since Saturday night when I left sakusas house, and it's just grew and grew as the week has gone on, it's now Wednesday and I already feel as if I'm about to explode.

I hear her sort of frustratingly huff at her place at the door while I'm putting hanas stuff on ready to go home, meaning she's trying to figure out what's wrong with me, I mean good luck because I don't even know what's wrong, "okay I'll take your word for it, but we're talking tomorrow okay", she said as more of a known fact instead of a question, I just nod my head complying with her order.

*ding dong*

"I'll take hana down, I'm on my way out now anyway, anything I need to let kuroo know about", kiyoko comes over to me and hana who's in my arms as she's not learnt how to walk properly yet, and motions for hana to go into her arms,"no nothing important, just let him know she had a few hours sleep", she nods agreeing and takes hana and her belongings to the door, "see you tomorrow atsumu", I chose to wave them both goodbye while I watch them walk down the stairs.

I walk back into the room and I'm surprised by akihiko waiting for me, I smile down at him and crouch to his level, the twins... well I wouldn't say strangely because it's not the sort of strange that's alarming, but they have been acting different with me, akihiko has been extremely clingy and becomes extremely emotional if I ever leave the room.

Don't get me wrong he was sort of clingy before, but now it's just every time I move away he has to follow me, genki is sort of the same still energetic and cheeky as always, but there's just something different about him he's become much more... I wouldn't say protective but it's like he's guarding me almost, always watching me if I've moved away from him to make sure he knows where I am.

Oikawa thinks it hilarious, keeps saying things like 'the twins are like your mini bodyguards', but sometimes he's not wrong, "what's up hiko?", I didn't even need to ask as I already know what he wants, as on cue he opens his arms to me showing me he wants a cuddle. I sigh loudly at him but pick him up either way, "what am I gonna do with you ay", he says nothing and just sinks deeper into my body, I walk over to the reading corner and sit down next to my nephew who is sporting the stroppiest pout I've ever seen.

"Don't gi'me me that look hiro, ya know what ya did wrong", he sort of grumpily side eyes me, I smile and shake my head at him, it's annoying how much he resembles me and my brother when we was both younger, all except his dark blue eyes which we both presume came from the mother's side.

While I'm having an intense staring contest with hiro, I start to hear little pitter patter of tiny feet, before I could even look to my left I'm being mounted by genki who's climbed his way on to my back, I chuckle a little at genkis unmatchable enthusiasm, he finds somehow a comfortable space on my back and calms himself down.

"Sing mamas song", i furrow my eyes in confusion and turn my head to my left where genkis head is, "mamas song? What songs that genki?", to be honest I sing a lot with them all, so he could be on about any song really, "sing mamas song". I still shake my head in confusion wondering what he means, I try and rack my brain as to what song he means, but I have a feeling i know which one he's talking about.

"What, the lullaby I sang to you when I came over?", he nods his head vigorously at me, I guess that's the one he means, but before I do start to sing I want to know what he means by mamas song, "genki? Why do you call it mamas song", he stares at me blinking slowly looking like he's trying to find the answer himself, "mama sang it to us, she's gone now".

I look down at akihiko with worry in my eyes, what do they mean 'then she left', "what do you by that hiko?", I ask in a sceptical tone.

"She was poorly, uncle omi, uncle mori looks after us now".

And that whole sentence left me in silence, deafening silence. Looking between the twins I now realise why komori or sakusa don't talk about the twins mother, or why the twins have never said anything about her before, I don't like to come to horrible conclusions but... she must have died because of the way akihiko is speaking about her.

And it makes sense now why they call it 'mamas song', she must of sang it for them before she pasted, but I don't know how because there was only one women I knew that hummed that melody, the one in which has stuck in my brain since mine and osamus childhood. But surely she wouldn't be the same person, it can't be.

Mother would of told us if she died, she was a massive part of mine and osamus upbringing, she would of told us right? Right?