Fools (KageHina)

F o o l s - III

5 years later.. Present day.

Kageyama woke up at the knocks on his door. He stared at the ceiling of his room, his mind still dazed from sleep. The knock continued, helping Kageyama to focus more.

Then finally, sleep dissipated and Kageyama cursed because apparently, he fell asleep while unpacking on his bed. And guess what? He had a dream about the things he tried so hard to forget for almost five years.

See? This is why he doesn't want to come back.

Because coming home will surely trigger memories to taunt him and he'll be hurt all over again.

Kageyama put his right arm over his face as if trying to hide himself. But from who? From what? Well, who knows? Maybe from all the painful memories that was still chasing him.

It's been five fucking years.

The most rational thing to happen is for Kageyama to move on. So that whenever he thought of the past, he wouldn't be hurt anymore.

But why couldn't he?

Why couldn't he move on? Why couldn't he forget?

He's already too tired of getting hurt.

Were five years still not enough?

"Son, you okay there?"

His father's muffled voice behind his bedroom door snapped him out of his thoughts. His hands reached up to rub his wet eyes. They weren't tears, he thought to himself, they were just wet from sleep. He sat up, "Yeah. I just fell asleep dad."

"I bet you're tired from the trip. It's still early so you can rest for a while. I'll just wake you up later for brunch." His father said then there were footsteps away to his room.

Kageyama arrived in their home town around 4am and now that he's looking at his wrist watch, it's still 5:45am. Kageyama flopped back to his bed, his arms eagle spread on his sides. He wanted to sleep again but was afraid that if he do, he will dream about unwanted memories again.

He came back here for his mom. And he will only think about her.

He instantaneously filed a leave in his work two days ago and rushed to the train station yesterday when he received a call from his dad that his mom was brought to the hospital. He might not have a very close relationship with his mom and dad but they're still his parents - and he cares about them just as much as any son would to his parent.

It's just a good thing that nothing serious happened to his mom.

Mrs. Kageyama was a stubborn old lady, who would have thought that the only thing that could send her to a hospital was over eating?

Kageyama shook his head, an unfamiliar fond smile on his lips. He's on his third year in college when his mom decided to retire from work. Looks like his mom busied herself with eating too much.

Anyways, her doctor said she's okay to be released now but she decided it would be wonderful if Kageyama will be the one to take her home.

And that she's quite enjoying her little vacation in the hospital.

It's actually quite possible that his mom's just faking her sickness - but Kageyama's already here and the least thing that he could do was to be a good son and make up for all those years that he neglected his mom.

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Tobio still fell asleep anyways (this time in a dreamless sleep thank god) and his dad woke him up around 10am and they had brunch together. Then by 11am his dad drove him to the hospital.