"Hey we're home!" Ukai yells twenty minutes later as he's opening the door and taking his shoes off, walking into the lounge room.
"How'd it go?" he questions. Seeing the couch empty, he figures that he must've woken up. "Yeah, not too bad, he's a little upset with you though," Shimada answers, getting up and making his way toward the front door, with Takinoue behind him. "What? What do you mean? Why?" Shimada gives a shrug after putting his shoes on.
"Not sure. Didn't really say," he lies, now closing the door.
The two just look at each other before heading over to Kageyama's room, knowing that's where he would be. Keishin knocks on the door, there was no answer. So, he knocks again, "Tobio? Can you open up?"
He tries the doorknob and finds it unlocked. Takeda stops him from opening the door further and walking.
"Let me go in if he's mad at you, it might be easier to talk to him and for him to listen. Knowing that he's right, Ukai lets him go in instead.
Walking in the room, Takeda finds Kageyama on the floor. Desperately scratching at his back. Rushing over to him, he grabs his hands, trying to stop him from scratching anymore. As expected, he tries to fight it.
"Tobio, Tobio it's okay. You're okay." He says over the thrashing. Kageyama shakes his head. "Keishin! Grab me the first aid kit!" He yells with a tight grip on the kids' wrists.
Worried, Ukai enters the room. "Jesus fucking Christ," he says under his breath. "Yes! That's why I need the first aid kit!" he answers in a snappy tone.
Hurrying off, he comes back several seconds later with the kit in his hands. Entering the room, he finds that Takeda has managed to calm Kageyama down. Then lifts up his shirt, exposing his slightly bloody and red back.
"Can you get out the bandages?" Kageyama shakes his head. "Tobio your back needs-"
"Ice,"
"What?"
"Ice! Get me ice. I'm itchy. I'm itchy. I'm itchy. Get me ice. I need ice." Setting the first aid kit down, Ukai leaves to go and get him several ice packs out of the freezer.
Once given to him, he stuffs them under his shirt and onto his bare back, lying down on the mattress, now looking content.
Then, without moving too much, picks up one of the pillows and throws it toward his coach.
Annoyed, he sits back up. You promised. He taps on the board multiple times out of annoyance. You said you wouldn't tell anyone.
He seems annoyed, but rather than the usual glare and whatnot, he's looking into his lap and fidgeting, as if he's pretending to be mad, covering up the emotion he's actually feeling: scared.
Takeda decides to leave, giving them a bit of privacy to talk in peace.
Keishin sits down at the edge of the bed. "I know you're not mad," he starts off with, Kageyama looks up with a scowl, "Okay, maybe a little mad. You know it's okay to be scared, right?" He looks up again, shaking his head.
"No," he says quietly, staring at the wall. "You don't have to feel okay all the time either." coach adds. "You don't get it," Tobio says in the same quiet voice. "I have lived in fear since I was five years old," Maybe if he stays quiet Kageyama will finish what he's saying.
"Do you know what that's like? To not know a day of peace? And just when things were finally starting to feel normal, just as I had almost gotten that ugly monster out...it happens again." he goes quiet again.
Keishin is still left with questions, though knows he's not going to get any answers until Kageyama is ready to continue talking about it.
"You're right, I'm sorry. It was wrong of me to go and show someone else, you're scars. I was trying to see if they knew anything, even so, it was wrong and I'm sorry."
Kageyama nods and leans against him, lightly rubbing at his forearm. "Do you think we can put those bandages on you now?" No. "Why not?" Still itchy.
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The Silence Is Loud
Fanfiction*This work is also being rewritten and edited by me, EeryCurlew53, on ao3* Tobio Kageyama mysteriously disappeared. he's found months later in the forest. He hasn't said much since then. Not to his teammates. Not to his friends. And not to any of th...
