The Fading Sunshine

Chapter 4

When I arrived at school it was time for everyone to eat lunch. Since I didn't have time to pack a lunch I walked to the club room to charge my phone for the remainder of the lunch period.

Soon my phone turned back on and my phone was flooded with missed messages and calls from the team.

"Hey are you gonna be able to make it to practice this morning?" said Suga.

"Get your ass to practice." said Noya.

"Where are you dumbass?" said Kageyama.

I put away the phone and let it charge. They would see me at afternoon practice shortly anyways. I sat around the club room for about 15 more minutes before the bell rung to release everyone to their next class. I only had to go attend my math class before practice.

I struggled to stay focused during class and didn't remember anything I was just "learned".
But the bell rang and I could finally head to volleyball.

When I got to the club room, everyone was already changing. I walked over to my locker and was immediately bombarded with questions.

"Where were you this morning?" asked Noya and Tanaka. "Oh, I slept past my alarm, you know how it is." I said with a quiet laugh.

"Oh that's understandable, but don't let Daichi catch you sleeping in again or he'll make you run a lap every minute your late." Said Tanaka with a look of disgust on his face.

"Yeah you would know all about that, wouldn't you?" Chuckled Noya. "One time he had to run 18 laps, he hasn't been late since."

I laughed nervously, "I'll make sure to be more responsible."

I waited until everyone left before I started changing. I didn't want to risk anyone seeing my cuts and bruises today. I slipped off my school shirt and pulled my long practice shirt out of my bag. I decided to pack the long shirt today to cover my wounds.

Right as I was slipping my long sleeve on I heard someone yell, "HINATA, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!"

**Kageyama's POV

I was in the gym warming up my sets when I realized I had forgotten to put my kneepads on. I ran back up to the club room to get them, but when I opened the door my jaw dropped. I saw Hinata, but his entire back and stomach were covered in black and blue bruises.

"HINATA, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED." He turned and look at me with wide eyes.
"I told you yesterday, I wiped out on my bike." He told me with a seemingly nervous laugh. "Well did you wreck again today, because not all of those were there yesterday." I asked, gawking at his side. "Y-yes actually I did. I should probably start w-watching where i'm going haha."

I looked him up and down, something wasn't right here. I don't know what it was or why he was acting so strange, but there was something he wasn't telling me.

"Yeah, maybe you should be more careful." I said scanning him up and down one last time. "Hurry up and get down to the gym so we can start practice."

"I need to keep an eye on him." I thought quietly to myself. "Somethings wrong with him and I don't know what it is, but I'm going to find out."

Hinata finally got changed and joined the rest of the us down at the gym. We immediately went into combo hitting.

I watched carefully as Hinata went up to hit and noticed he was a tad slower than usual, so I slowed down my sets just enough to give him enough time to do his approach. But he quickly noticed the speed change.