Standing Back Up (Haikyuu Fanfiction)

Chapter 5: A Strange Case

Hinata POV

Mom wasn't home when we got there, so I sent Natsu to her room to play and the three of us sat at the table. Being a good host, even if a reluctant one, I offered them a drink. It was weird to have them here. And I could tell I wasn't the only one who thought this was a little awkward by the look on their faces.

"Thanks for the drinks." Iwazumi said as I set their drinks down in front of them, before settling in my own seat. "Sure." I said and then we sat there in silence.

Before we could finally say anything my phone beeped, I had a message. I knew who it was from already so when I opened my phone to see Daichis name I wasn't surprised. I was just about to click it shut when I got one from Suga. I sighed and closed the phone, everyday I got messages from them.

"Who was that?" Oikawa asked

"It was Daichi and Suga..." they nodded at my response.

Oikawa POV

Hinata's phone buzzed, stopping the awkward silence. When he looked at it, frowning, it buzzed again. Unlike last time I saw him look at a message there was no fear in his eyes, just sadness.

"Who was that?" I asked after he set his phone down, without replying.

He thought for a minute, probably to decide on whether or not to say who messaged him "It was Daichi and Suga..." He said finally.

So Mom and Dad were worried about their littlest bird, how sweet. And at least now we knew that neither of those two were a problem, we could mark them off the list of who might be causing him pain.

"What did they say?" Iwazumi asked, I was shocked he wasn't the type to pry but then again that is what we were doing already.

"They were just asking how I was...." Hinata replied, he looked guilty.

"You didn't reply though." Iwazumi shoots at him, making him look even more guilty.

"Yeah...uh i'm not really wanting to talk with them right now...." It was one of the most truthful answers we've gotten from him, maybe he was letting us in.

"So who had texted you last week then?"

"Last week?" Hinata was confused

"You were standing by your bike and when you read a message you looked scared, who was it from?" Iwa-chan was merciless

"Oh it was a wrong number. Did I really look scared how odd...." Hinata lied, giving a smile and a fake laugh.

Before we could call him out on it Natsu who had apparently been listening in on our conversation, poked her head around the corner. "Last Monday?" She asked like she knew what Iwazumi was talking about. Hinata's eyes went wide, shocked his sister was there.

"Yeah last Monday." I answered, Hinata obviously didn't want the little girl to talk about whatever it was she knew. "Do you know what happened?" I asked her to get up and walk over to her before her brother could.

"Natsu I thought you were playing in your room?" Hinata came over to where I was kneeling next to me in front of his sister.

"You haven't had anyone over in a long time I was curious" Natsu had a sad look on her face. "Are you mad at me?"

"Of course not!" Hinata looked at his sad sister and hugged her "It's okay if you were curious you could have just come and talked to them."

Hinata had obviously forgotten that we were asking him, switching into big brother mode as I liked to call it. He got his sister a juice box and let her sit at the table with us. However as soon as I asked my question he realized his mistake.

"So Natsu what happened on Monday?"

"Why don't we talk about something else." Hinata suggested before she could say anything.

"But we were having such an important conversation." I pouted and then turned back to Natsu smiling.

She only looked at her brother with a question in her eyes, for a small kid she was obviously very smart. "Nothing" was what she replied after she found whatever answer she was looking for, causing me to frown and HInata to smile triumphantly.

Hinata POV

Big Brother: 1 - Grand King: 0

Natsu had decided not to say anything to my relief, the topic then shifted with Natsu leading. She was talking about volleyball, both Oikawa and Iwazumi indulged her. It was nice to see her open up. I was just about to add something when the door opened.

"Mommy!" Natsu lept from her chair running to go meet our mom.

I hadn't noticed it was that late already, looking at the clock it was 5:30. My mom walked in carrying the happy Natsu and took in the guest in front of us, shit. She asked them if they wanted to stay for dinner, saying how Mondays we ordered pizza. Oikawa grinned widely and agreed. They both sent a text to their families saying they were eating here. Then my mom suggested that we go hang out in my room, saying we could play video games or something, and that she would call us when the pizza got here. So reluctantly I lead them to my room. Oikawa walked in last shutting the door before turning and smiling at me.

"Wow Chibi-chan your mom and sister are so nice." Oikawa then looked around my room and promptly sat down on my bed. This isnt weird at all.....

Iwaizumi POV

We had originally planned to go to the cafe and let Hinata get used to us, ask him some tougher questions that we wanted answered and then back off and just hang out. We figured he'd lie to us about most of what was going on, and we were of course right. Until last week we were on enemy teams, we needed to let him get used to us before he would answer all our questions. We hadn't planned on being at his house, meeting his family and then being invited to dinner. But we decided to leap at the offer, and like his mom suggested we ended up playing video games in his room. Well more like him and Oikawa played and I watched, I didn't really like video games. We didn't completely stop asking him questions, every now and then we'd throw one out and get a half truth back. When Hinata got up and left to use the bathroom, Oikawa got up too.

"What are you doing?" I asked looking as he started looking around the room then walked over to Hinata's dresser.

"Snooping" He replied

"I thought you said the goal of today was to get him to trust us, I doubt searching through his draws will do that."

"Yeah that was the goal before we were left alone in his room." Oikawa finished with the dresser, then peeked into the closet. Frowning when he found nothing, he walked over to Hinata's beside table and opened the drawer. His eyebrows knitted together as he pulled out a strange case.