Magnets - a Kagehina AU

𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

"I should have just let him fucking beat me."

As I lay in bed, Hinata sleeping peacefully on my chest, I thought a lot about what he had said earlier today.

Shit.

I've never seen him like that before.

I thought that maybe at that point, when he was breaking down in front of me, Hinata was at his lowest. Fuck, I hoped that was his lowest. I also hoped that he would never feel that way again.

But does he... actually feel that way?

I looked at him.

His eyes were closed, mouth opening only to exhale. He was snoring a little.

I wrapped my arms around his small body and thought to myself that I would never, ever let go.

And then, I drifted off to sleep.

...

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

I stretched out my right arm to shut off the alarm clock.

Hinata was still asleep.

He never wakes up to it.

Today was Friday. A couple of days had passed.

I shook Hinata, trying to wake him up.

He had been a lot more cheerful in the past few days. That made me happy.

"Hinata. It's time to get up..."

He shuffled in the bed. "Ughh... five more minutes...?"

His eyes were squinted shut, and his cheeks were a little puffy from having just woken up.

I always loved how cute he looked in the morning.

I kissed his nose, then his lips. That woke him up.

He opened his eyes and stared into mine, grinning from ear to ear.

He hugged me. "Okay, I'm up. Now open the blinds, we're gonna miss it!"

I put him on my lap and lifted the shades, welcoming a bright orange sky.

Hinata stared into the sunrise. He was mesmerized by it. I pulled him a little closer and looked at him, watching the adorable expression on his face.

He glanced at me for a moment. "Why aren't you looking Kageyama-Kun? It's so pretty!"

I kissed him on the cheek. "You're prettier."

Me saying that made him blush. "H-hey!" I smiled at him and kissed him once more on the lips.

He pointed at the window. "Just look."

I followed his orders.

He was right. It was beautiful.

As the honey-yellow sun escaped from underneath the clouds, the entire sky welcomed it.

It was like a moving painting. Something out of a movie.

The sky wasn't blue, nor was it pink.

It was orange. Like marmalade, tangerines, tigers, or carrots. Fire.

Bold and bright. Eager and generous.

Just like Hinata.

I wrapped my arms around him. He was warm.

We weren't even an inch apart. His body was nestled against mine, every part of him inside my grasp.

I didn't need to promise myself I wouldn't let go. I didn't need to promise anything.

Because I already knew.

Fuck, I love you, Hinata.

I could never let you go. Not even if I wanted to.

...

I hopped out of the shower and walked to the sink. I wiped the steamy fog off the mirror.

I could open and see with my left eye now. The bruises were already starting to heal, and it didn't hurt anymore.

Today I'm going back to get my stitches out.

I felt the cut above my left brow.

Huh... I wonder if this'll leave a scar.

Although I wondered, it didn't matter to me. If anything, it was just a reminder of what Hinata and I have been through together.

I had only known him for a bit more than a week, But I felt like I'd known him my entire life. It was strange.

Is that what love is?

I smiled. 

Yeah.

After applying a bandaid, I put on a dark hoodie and jeans. I walked out to Hinata standing over our bed, wearing a light yellow button-down short sleeve that was tucked into light blue jeans, rolled up at the end. He was also wearing a pair of white slip-on vans.

"You look cute today," I said I walked over to him and crouched down to kiss his forehead. I made him blush again.

He smiled at me, grabbed the leave-in conditioner, then motioned for me to sit down.

Once I sat, he rubbed the stuff all over my hair and fluffed it up.

"All done!"

I pulled him down to sit in my lap. He was still holding the bottle. "Kageyama-Kun, we have to go."

I sighed and put my head on his shoulder. "Five more minutes."

He grinned at me. "You're cute too, Kageyama." I felt my cheeks grow warm. He giggled and gave me a kiss.

...

"I'm being so unprofessional." Hinata said, laughing. We had already been at the salon for around two hours when I got bored and put him on my lap.

"You own this place. You can do what you want, remember?"

He sighed. "I guess that's true. Hey, where should we go for lunch? Since we're going to the doctors, I get to leave early today. We have a bunch of time!"

He shifted in my lap. I thought for a moment.

"I don't know... let me look for a place on my phone."

He looked at the screen when I pulled it out. "I forgot it's cracked. Put that away, we'll use mine. I don't want you to get cuts!"

I sighed. "Alright."

I held him as he sat on top of me, concentrating on his phone.

"Hmmm... oh, this place looks good!"

...

Today's Sunday.

I looked up at the ceiling.

A week has passed since I went to the salon with Hinata for the first time.

Hinata changed his work schedule around, so he doesn't work on weekends anymore.

Yesterday we spent the day lounging around, watching Netflix, and making cookies.

Right.

I have to go back to work tomorrow.

I looked over at Hinata. He was snoring again.

Today he was close, but he must have fallen off of me overnight. I adjusted the sheets so they were covering him again.

I was about to get up to make some food, but remembered what he had said to me a while ago.

"I don't care about breakfast! I just wanna wake up with you!"

I watched him as his eyelids flickered.

He's so adorable in his sleep.

I sighed, then moved closer, hugged him, and shut my eyes.