What are the odds

29

The days passed in the hospital slowly, and yet it felt like they had only just been rescued. Hinata refused to leave Kageyama's side for more than however long it took the boy to go to the bathroom and the Hospital staff were forced to comply. They had tried to force them into their own beds the second night but that only resulted in surprising tears from the shorter boy and angry glares from the taller one. In the end, Hinata had managed to sneak into Kageyama's bed and the staff were forced to give up.

Hinata hid from the world most of the time. When Kageyama tried to sit up and socialise, Hinata would maneuver himself to be sitting behind the taller boy, arms and legs wrapped around him like a koala on its mother's back. This was exactly how the two were positioned when Natsu came running in.

"Sho-chan!" The small girl squeals earning coos from her brother's teammates. Her mother was following hot on her tail, cheeks flushed from the effort.

Hinata looked up from where his face was hidden in the back of Kageyama's shirt, his lips splitting into a large grin.

On the other side of the room, Suga smiled. He'd missed seeing his small Kouhi's sunshine-like expressions.

Natsu was happily lifted up onto the bed and into Kageyama's lap as the two boys were pulled into a crushing hug by the two Hinata women.

The young setter found himself trapped between two over-energetic, talkative orange-haired kids as they happily conversed about the movies Natsu had watched, and the books Hinata HAD to read to her now that he was back. Hinata's mother gave him a sympathetic look but at that moment, Kageyama couldn't think of a single place he'd rather be.

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Daichi was happily lazing next to Suga's bed as the other boy gently trailed his hands over his now bald head, carefully avoiding the bandage that hid where the surgeons had cut him open. It was nice and relaxing, until the door all but slammed open and Kuroo sashayed in dramatically.

His dramatic entrance was mellowed out slightly as kenma's small hand was fisted in the back of his captain's jacket. The shorter boy didn't even look up from the phone held in his free hand to roll his eyes dramatically at his friend's antics.

Bokuto and Akaashi followed not far behind them, entering in a much more calm manner.

"Daichi, I'm loving the new look," Kuroo says gesturing to his own wild hair with a snicker. Daichi sends him a glare while Suga just chuckles.

Akaashi follows Kuroo over to the third years while the other two make their way to Hinata and Kageyama. Hinata happily gives them his winning smile and makes conversation with Bokuto while Kenma pulls out one of his games, sitting forward and leaning on the bed so that his hands were resting against Hinata's ankles beneath the sheets.

Kuroo and Daichi manage to bicker for an entire hour while Suga and Akaashi sit together gossiping quietly about their teammates.

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Shimada Makoto came for a while to bring Yamaguchi some chocolates and 'get well soon,' balloons.

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Nishinoya's grandfather is not surprised to see his small grandson happily chatting away as if there's no tomorrow. He was however surprised to see him doing so while a much larger man was curled sleepily in his lap.

His eyebrows climbed almost up to his receding hairline when the older boy, Azumane Asahi, was introduced to him as "My boyfriend," by an uncharacteristically nervous libro.

Asahi had floundered around for a moment, cheeks flushed pink at the position they were in. "It's nice to meet you Nishinoya-san," The ace says standing up to bow to the man but unable to hide how much his nerves were making him shake.

Nishinoya Mineo smiles a smile so much like his grandsons before pulling the tall boy into a hug. "It's nice to finally meet you to Azumane-Kun,"

Yu isn't surprised at all when not half an hour later, his grandfather and his boyfriend were hunched over a Sudoku game bonding over the 'old man games' as Noya liked to call them.

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Hinata had finally left Kageyama's side for a little while, going to sit with the other first years while the setter got his wrist re-examined by the doctor.

Kageyama felt odd without the almost overwhelming warmth that Hinata's presence brought to him. It took him a total of ten minutes to decide he didn't like it. He was trying to politely hurry the doctor along -the politeness clearly not working judging by Daichi's scolding expression- when the door burst open, not unlike how it had at Kuroo's entrance.

"Tobio-chan! your wrist! Doc will he ever play volleyball again?" Oikawa exclaims dramatically as his eyes land on his former protege. He sounded surprisingly sincere under all the dramatics. "Mr refreshing, Sawamura," He greats the rooms other occupants briefly.

"Yes of course he'll play again," The doctor says causing the Aoba Johsai captain to let out a relieved sigh. "It's just a sprain, he's just got to let it rest," She says giving the boys a pointed look before leaving the room.

"What are you doing here?" Kageyama asks only then noticing that Oikawa wasn't the only one who'd entered the room. Iwaizumi was standing directly behind him, arms crossed but a look of concern on his face while Kinimi and Kindaichi stand quietly behind the two older boys.

"Are you really okay Kageyama?" Kindaichi asks as if his presence alone wasn't shocking enough to the setter.

Kageyama nods in response earning a simple and decisive "Good," from Kinimi, "Oikawa, we're going to head off, we've got other things to do today,"

Iwaizumi was the only one who noticed the relieved slump of their shoulders, Kageyama just looked at them confused as to why they'd visited at all. "You gave us quite the scare Kageyama-Kun," Iwaizumi tells the boy and Oikawa nods in agreement, face turning momentarily uncharacteristically serious. "You even had this idiot promising the gods that he'll teach you anything you want if you come out of this alive,"

Oikawa flushes a deep red but doesn't deny his friend's claims.

"Really?" Kageyama asks eyes wide with awe not unlike when he'd first played on the team with the older boy.

"Even that super cool WHOOSH BAM serve?" Hinata's excited voice rings out from the doorway. "Oh great king you have to teach him that one! then we'll truly be unstoppable!" the small ball of energy bounds into the room planting himself right in Kageyama's lap facing the two Seijoh third years.

"Chibi-chan!" Oikawa says excitedly, revelling in the praise.

Oikawa and Iwaizumi don't stay for too much longer but when they do leave, it's with the promise to meet up with both Kageyama and Hinata -who Oikawa couldn't help but grow fonder of with every compliment and look of awe- to practice volleyball once they were all healed up.

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"Do you think you'll be able to learn Oikawa's crazy serve? I mean, it looks super hard," Hinata asks partially teasing as he lay on his side facing Kageyama, their breaths mingling in the almost non-existent space between them.

"Idiot Hinata, of course, I can," the taller boy says lifting his hand up to the orange hair to pull at it in revenge only to pull his wrist back to his chest in pain. Hinata gently grabs his partners injured wrist and pulls it towards him, pressing his lips softly to the bandage. "i-idiot what are you doing,"

"My mum kisses me to make my scrapes and cuts feel better, I'm helping to make your wrist feel better," The boy says with a smile that is radiant even in the darkened room. Kageyama turns to his pillow in an attempt to hide his blush despite how hard it would be to see in the dark.

"idiot... thanks,"

"G'night Kageyama,"