Part-Time Lover [NoyaHina]

Chapter ten 「10 課」

Today was finally the day of the training camp. Hinata had been to many different camps including the one at Nekoma and the one he may or may not have snuck into previously.

Hinata's mother had to drag him to the kitchen to eat his breakfast or he would have scrambled out the door without his bags and with an empty stomach.

"Why don't you ever get this excited to babysit Natsu?" His mother asked rhetorically as she served him a bowl of Jasmine rice with a fried egg. Sat down next to it was an arrangement of steamed vegetables and some sliced apple. Hinata almost vacuumed his breakfast down, shoving crunchy fruit and soft beans in his mouth. The apple was sweet; paired with the savoury vegetables it left a weird after taste.

"Now, don't cause anymore trouble at school. Sensei Takeda told me about the window."

Hinata paused. "It was...an..affciden-t!" He protested with a mouth full of food before swallowing hard. His mother tutted. "At least your coach is making you do work, it'll make you stronger." Hinata didn't know if that was a good thing in her books, but he wasn't grounded yet. This was obviously a win.

He ate as fast as humanly possible before staring at his mother, indicating he had finished.

"Alright, alright. You can go now." His mother laughed gently, giving into his enthusiasm as she cleaned up his plates. She walked off and dropped the plates into the kitchen before going back to feeding Natsu. "Natsu, you need to eat your beans!" His mother was armed with a plate of beans to his little sister's horror.

The boy wasn't even at the table for ten minutes before he rushed out the door, stumbling everywhere with his bag and bike in hand.

This morning was bitterly cold, the wind felt harsh and dry; void of the cool breeze that Hinata had only just adjusted to. Winter had come running around the corner and slapped him in the face with its icy breath. It didn't quell his excitement though, Hinata felt like he could jump out of his skin in excitement. The sun had only just risen; hints of blues and oranges still lingered, consumed by the glow of morning sky.

The cold didn't bother the boy though, he was bundled up with the jackets his mother struggled to get him to wear. Hinata remembered the terrorising look in her eyes when he tried to leave in a t-shirt.

He adjusted his earmuffs under his helmet, tightening the safety straps. It was time once again for his daily battle, the massive hill. At least it wasn't raining this time, he thought.

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When he reached the school grounds; almost everyone had arrived and was occupied with collecting equipment. Hinata looked around and saw Kageyama carrying out the barbeque from the shed with Tsukishima, they looked like they were already bickering, but he didn't hear what about.

The spiker went to lock his bike up in his usual spot. He peeled off his winter coat because it already making his body feel like a sauna.

"Oi, Hinata come grab the gas canister for the barbecues!" Coach Ukai's voice hollered out from inside the dark, dusty supply shed. Hinata dropped his bags by a bench and went to help.

The tall, rough looking blonde handed him a grey tank of gas. It was large and heavy. It had a sizable dent in the side that made Hinata nervous. He dragged out the tank before being told not to in case it exploded on him. The boy wasn't sure if Ukai was being serious or not, he started sweating bullets. He managed to carry the canister graceless to the grassy area near the gym where Kageyama and the salt stick Tsukishima were figuring out how to attach the gas tube.

Kageyama slapped the lid of the old, dingy barbeque. The dust went up in the air, the setter wiped his hands on his shirt in disgust before coughing.