Soaring beyond his limits-asthmatic hinata story

Chapter 3~The game

-----(timeskip to the Nekoma game, I love this part it's my second favorite I think)

"Common hinata get up and climb out of the bus" tanaka yelled to the sleeping hinata.

"Coming" he grumbled back. When he climbed out he saw the nekoma team and with it, kenma kozume, his newest friend. "KENMA" he yelled.

"Good morning shoyo" kenma replied

"It's the chibi-chan" the tall bed-headed person from before said before turning and introducing himself as captain kuroo to the kurasuno captain. Tanaka was picking a fight and suga and a 3rd year named Yaku were talking about how much of an embarrassment their teammates were while Kenma and Hinata talked. Kageyama looked on jealousy sparking inside him.

"Woah" Hinata said as he walked into the gym "it's huge" he looked around the huge room, his eyes sparkling.

The teams took their places on their respective sides of the net and picked their respective starters:

Nekoma:kuroo, kenma, yaku, inuoka, yamamoto, kai, and fukunaga.

Karasuno: Daichi, hinata, tanaka, kageyama, tsukishima, asahi, and nishinoya.

The teams gave their team speeches, kuroo said loudly and proudly:"We're like the blood in our veins. We must flow without stopping. Keep the oxygen moving and your mind working". Karasuno just yelled and they both took to the court.

"Woah, short" inuoka said gaping at hinata from the other side of the court.

"Hey don't underestimate me" hinata yelled back offended.

"I'm not" he replied back with a smile.

Kageyama glared at them, startling them and they focused back on the game they were about to play. ' underestimate him at least a little bit you brat' kageyama thought to himself.

The whistle sounded and the game had begun.

Nekoma served the ball and it got received by asahi, kageyama set it to Hinata who was already dashing forward and away from the blocks, it hit hinata's hand and slammed across the opposing court scoring a point for his team.

Everyone on the Nekoma team froze before Kenma gave Inuoka instructions on how to deal with hinata's reflexes

Nekoma wins the set 25-22 as inuoka got used to Hinata's speed. Hinata decided he needed to try harder so they could win.

They were half way through the second set when Kenma noticed Hinata coughing in the back half of the court, remembering their first encounter he got slightly worried as he set the ball for one of his teammates to spike. The ball was saved by kurasuno's libero and hinata stopped coughing momentarily to run at full speed and hit the ball that was clearly meant for him. When he landed though he started coughing again. His teammates didn't seem worried though so he must be fine right.

Then shoyo collapsed when he reached the back line. The referee called a time out and everyone was wondering if the shrimp was okay and wondering what was happening, Kenma knew what was happening and this time he knew how to help. He had researched it the night they met incase something happened to his new friend.

Kenma did something nobody on his team had ever known him to do. He yelled. "BACK AWAY FROM SHOYO, GIVE HIM SPACE, YOU" he yelled pointing at kageyama 'SIT HIM UP! WHERE IS HIS BAG!" everyone was confused but ukai pointed to the boys bag, hinata was wracked with wheezes and coughs, then kenma looked at everyone's collective confused faces and wondered: "do you guys really not know whats happening" he whispered, they nodded before he dashed over to the boys bag and pulling out the inhaler he had helped the boy use just a few days before. And ran over to hinata who was barely conscious from his lack of air. He uncapped it and handed it to be boy.

Everyone stood in nervous, terrified silence except for asahi who was crying in the background.

Hinata couldn't hold it up for himself, he was too weak so kenma helped him and repeated the instructions he had read online outloud for movements and in his head for things to help, like a fast paced checklist.

As he was mumbling hinata had regained his ability to breathe, and fallen asleep. Everyone set their eyes on Kenma. "What" he said.

"What just happened" they all asked in unison.

"What does it look just happened! He had an asthma attack! Didn't any of you pay attention in health class!" kenma looked at the terrifying kageyama only to see he wasn't scary anymore but holding hinata with his jacket as a pillow, his face creased with concern. " how could none of you notice, you especially" his voice back to its usual monotone state and pointing at the kurasuno team "this isn't a new thing, i just met him a few days ago he had stopped running and was wheezing just like this in the street, his inhaler in his back pocket which meant he clearly was used to needing it, how just how did none of you know he had asthma it's a big issue when you do sports"

"He never....told us"

"THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME SIGN, SOME RECURRING ACTION IN TIMES OF HIGH EXERCISE" and kenma was back to yelling, he was so angry that the people his new friend trusted had never noticed his pain.

"It must have been those times he said he was going to the bathroom" kageyama said in a low whisper looking down at hinata.

"It must have been, why didn't he just tell us we could have helped" Suga said quietly.

Slowly hinata regained consciousness and his first words were "i'm sorry, i just wanted to keep playing and i couldn't, i'm sorry". Everyone stared at him in shock especially inuouka who just a mere half an hour ago was messing with and joking with this boy who seemed to be an impossible optimist yet now looked like he had lived in a state of denial and depression his whole life.

Daichi and suga ran over to him and started saying there was no reason to be sorry and dotting on him like parents and eventually settled on having him sit on the bench and drink some water for the rest of the practice games.

After the practice games kenma and Hinata exchanged phone numbers and kageyama made a silent decision to learn all there is to know about asthma so he could help like kenma did that day.

A.N: none of this is edited I just have a huge google doc full of a bunch of chapters I wrote at like 3 am a while ago and I'm trying to put up a chapter every now and then since I didn't quite finish it so yeah sorry but its not edited and I probably won't edit it.