You are a Pirate || Haikyuu

Chapter 13

"I know a few tailed people, but I don't know their names, sorry," Hinata laughs nervously. "Also, why can I breathe under water and why am I half mermaid?!"

Yaku huffs. "Well obviously- Lev, explain to him."

"Um... I don't know either..." Lev trailed off, giving an apologetic smile. "Can you swim, Prince Hinata?"

Hinata shakes his head, and tries to stand up. "Then we'll just have to teach you and get you a tail," Yaku swims over, and steadied him. "Lev, take some of the money in my bag and go to a tail store for him."

"Tail store...?" Hinata holds onto Yaku, in fear that he would fall over.

Before swimming away to the tail store, Lev briefly explains. "A store with tails. It's like humans trying on those things... what are they called again? Clothes? Anyways, gotta go! Bye!"

"Hey, wait! That didn't help-!" Hinata's yells turn to a normal voice. "..At all."

Yaku sighs. "He's an airhead, I wouldn't worry about it. I can teach you on our culture and how to swim, if you so choose."

"Y-You would do that for someone you barely know?"

The short siren hesitated to answer that.

<•Nishinoya Yuu•>

"Yo! Nishinoya!" One of Noya's friends called out to him. "I heard you were going to try to find that treasure."

Noya sat against the pillar that held the treasure. He shakily took breaths as he remembered how he came to be a god. It wasn't pleasant, not at all. Noya wished that he hadn't heard of the treasure in the first place.

"Yeah, I am! Apparently you can become a god if you find it, or you defeat the person guarding it! I'm gonna come back with the treasure and everyone's gonna have to admit that I'm the best," Noya declared, pointing a sword in the direction of where he was going.

His friend laughed. "Mermaids can't become gods!"

"W-Well, I'll at least get legs!"

The god before him wasn't what he was expecting. Noya joked about it being an actual god or something, but it was true. The god's dead corpse that he saw when he first arrived was enough. Noya knew him, and he was horrified to find out that Noya was next.

"Kindaichi?" The small mermaid swam into the cave from the small river that rain in the middle. His friend had legs, and was lying on the floor next to the river. His eyes held no life. Noya gulped, and swam deeper.

The river soon stopped in front of a pillar with something shiny at the top. "Nishinoya Yuu."

Noya didn't want to recall Kindaichi's dead body floating in the area behind him with a serious voice. The way that the blood from the stab wounds in his stomach dripped down in the river.

He screamed, but Kindaichi didn't react. "You are next," was all Kindaichi said before disappearing. Noya screamed again as he felt his scales come off at rapid speed, as if he was shedding his mermaid tail.

Noya subconsciously rubbed at his human legs. "When will this endless torture stop?" He already knew the answer. Never. Not until you succumb to the darkness like Kindaichi.

Kindaichi, with his eyes empty like a soulless shell next to the river. The blood seeping into his clothes, the wounds adorning his skin representing the pain, the pain that's held him back all this time. The pain of darkness, sorrow, regret, and finally, loneliness hanging over him like a cloud. Except, you can't escape the loneliness if it's inside you.

That's something Noya learned a long time ago.

He had thought of Kindaichi's death a lot over the years. Though he supposed he had it better than Kindaichi with Kyoutani befriending him— well sort of. They traded insults a lot, though Noya knew they'd both protect each other if times got rough.

He knew Kyoutani lived with someone else too— his cave connected to their clean actually not creepy for once basement— but whoever it was was just too scared to come down there. He had never met them.

If they lived with Kyoutani, he wouldn't be surprised if they were scary. They probably have an even meaner glare then he did and are enormously tall.

He wasn't looking forward to meeting them. Then again, Kyoutani was just a big softie on the inside, maybe they would be too?

Then again, last time he saw Kyoutani hid eyes looked a little less sharp and his expression a little more in the clouds. He dodged the questions Noya fired at him, but it was an expression that he recognized on humans as love. Something that he would probably never get for he had given up that years ago.

Well, centuries ago. When he gave up his normal mer life to be a guardian deity. Giving up love was probably the best decision he's made. Until now, when Noya realized that Kyoutani's roommate was the person trying to help the people who laid injured all over the beach.

Noya's breathing hitched, and his heartbeat increased. He could feel his soul cry out for the gentle giant. Before this, he had asked Kyoutani about his roommate and all he said was his roommate's name. Asahi. Noya wanted to speak and go up to him, but all words and confidence left him, and he couldn't leave his cave, anyways.

Suddenly, about seven crows squawked in the background, but Noya ignored it.

He watched one of the people wake up and Asahi hide from them. Noya's eyes widened when he realized another mermaid approached the person. Noya's only contact with a fish tail was Oikawa Tooru, and he barely came to visit. He wondered if the new pretty mermaid noticed him or not.

Time flew, and before Noya knew it, the human who approached him had left. "Humans are horrible," he muttered to himself, observing the faces of the people and how they talked. It had been a long time since Noya had saw a huge crowd, and it felt nice to see more than a few people at once.

Asahi still kept himself hidden, and secretly made his way up a hill and out of the guardian deity's sight. Noya quickly retreated into the cave to go greet the gentle giant from the basement of the giant's home that he shared with Kyoutani.

On the way there, doubt ate at him. Would he even like me? Would I outlive him and live in despair, like.. No, I can't think like this. I need to live. If not for myself, then for Kindaichi.

With newfound determination, Noya's pace quickened and a grin formed on his face. Regardless of whatever he was going to decide, he had to see Asahi again. Asahi was cute and he had long ago decided he would not care about gender if he had a chance for love.

He makes it to the end of the tunnel and knocks on the door that leads up to the basement.

Kyoutani opens the door for him. "Sailors on the beach?" He asks, raising a brow. Noya nods, confirming Kyoutani's suspicions.

"Yep, that's why I'm here!" He exclaims, and Kyoutani lets him in. The cave had its loopholes, and this was one of them. "Anyways, have you seen— woah!"

Suddenly, he trips over a shoe or something and falls right into someone's chest. They tumble to the ground, and the someone who broke his fall groaned in pain. Noya opens his eyes and immediately got off of them. "I'm sorry, dude, I didn't see you there!"

Noya sat to the person's right and got a closer look at them. "It's alright," they say, and realization hit the guardian deity. "Are you from the pirate crew?"

It's Asahi!! "No, just an adventurer who lives in the cave nearby," Noya lies, and Kyoutani rolls his eyes. "It's true!"

Kyoutani doesn't say anything, and settles for just helping Asahi up and leaving Noya on the ground. As the guardian deity was about to complain, someone knocked on the door.

"Anyone home? It's Oikawa!"