A Haikyuu! AU

Chapter 1: Kageyama's POV

"Hey, Kageyama!" A bouncing fluff of red hair entered my vision and I knew that Hinata was going to ask me to set for him. I needed to work on my receives, but I knew that I was powerless against his honey puppy-dog eyes. "Can you come set for me? We can work more on our quick!"

 I sighed, wishing I could say no to him. "Ye-" 

Suddenly I was cut off by our captain, Daichi. "Hinata, Kageyama, why don't you two work on receives with each other today? Neither of you excels at those. If you need help I can send Noya over to help you."

Hinata looked defeated but nodded in agreement. I was secretly relieved and mentally thanked Daichi for helping me out there. It seemed like Daichi had done that intentionally though, seeing as how he winked and shooed me off once Hinata had turned around. What was my dad- I mean captain trying to do?

Hinata and I practiced receives for about ten minutes but he seemed really out of it the whole time. I served the ball to him and it hit him square in the face. "Hinata boke! Pay attention! You've been out of it all day."

Hinata's face went red, "shut up bakayama! I am to focused!"

"You're not even close to focused! It's like you're in a different world!" My voice rose and soon our yelling had attracted the attention of our teammates.

"Do it again and I'll prove that I'm focused!" 

"Gu-" Sugawara stepped forward to intervene but was held back by Daichi's firm grip on his shoulder

"They do this all the time. We have to let them figure it out for themselves." Daichi whispered in Sugawara's ear. Sugawara's face turned bright red and he refused to turn around in case Daichi saw. Daichi turned around to the rest of the team, "back to practice guys! Just because Hinata isn't focused doesn't mean that you guys shouldn't be." Daichi then walked over to where Hinata and I were standing. Hinata slowly moved so he was hiding behind me. Daichi crossed his arms and looked at us crossly. "You two need to take care of your problems outside practice. If I hear you arguing again you're going to do dive laps around the gym for the rest of practice!" Daichi continued to give us a stern talking to, which was much worse than if he had just yelled at us.

Hinata's voice shook as he talked and he clenched onto my shirt. "Yes, sir."

I just nodded and waited for our captain to walk away. As soon as he was gone I shook Hinata off me, "g-get off!" I felt my face get hot as he continued to cling onto the hem of my shirt. "h-he's gone. You can get off now."

Hinata unattached himself from me and I breathed a fake sigh of relief. If I was being honest with myself though, I would have done anything to keep him there, with his head curled into the small of my back. Instead, I just made a joke to cover up the fact that he was making me blush, "scared of Daichi, huh?"

Hinata shook his head furiously and pouted. "I am not scared of him! Come on, let's practice receives more."

He was so cute when he pouted like that, I wish he was mine, but there is no way he's gay. I had to get rid of this stupid crush I had on him. I pushed the thoughts out of my mind, "okay, just try to focus this time."

Once practice was over Hinata and I began our walk home, as we normally do but today the walk was different. I couldn't keep my eyes off his bouncing, orange curls. I could hardly pay attention to a word he said to me because I kept remembering his bright smile and how it could light up an entire room. The way he could change the entire atmosphere of a room simply by being there. Everything about him was just perfect. No! I need to stop thinking about him like that. I pinched myself to try and regain my focus.

"Hey, Kags, are you okay? Why'd you pinch yourself? You haven't seemed like yourself since practice."

"Yeah, I'm fine, don't worry about it." Why was he worried about me? Why did he care? 

Hinata's smile turned into a small frown. "If you say so..." 

We got to the point in our walk where we went in opposite directions. Hinata began his walk away and then turned around and grinned at me with a smile brighter than the sun, "see you tomorrow Kageyama!"

I shook my head. "See you tomorrow boke. Don't be late for our morning practice!"

Hinata gave me a thumbs up and I continued my walk home. 

Once I got home I quickly scarfed down my meal and went to my room. I decided to go on my phone instead of doing homework because I could always do the homework later. I went on Instagram and noticed that Hinata had something posted on his private story. I pressed on my screen to see what it was. 

What greeted me:

A black screen with the words, "he's so cute. I wish I had a chance with him,"  written in white text.

I felt my heart clench and hot tears streamed down my face until I could taste their saltiness in my mouth. I silently cried and curled into a ball. My chest hurt. I couldn't take this. What should I do? It felt like my heart had been ripped out of my chest. Of course... of course, I find out he likes guys too by him saying he likes someone else. It was probably Kenma. Fuck, I just want to be with him. This hurts.