Sly Foxes

Double The Trouble

xxNotesxx

This is a childhood friend AU. 

The first few chapters will be their childhood together, I will get to high school and post-high school years eventually. There will be some real romance eventually. 

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Shouyou

"Shouyou! Why don't you try and talk to those kids over there?" his mother had asked. Normally, for a small five-year-old, going up to random children in the park and asking them if you could join them would not exactly be the ideal situation. However, this was Hinata Shouyou. Shouyou was outgoing, reckless, cheerful. In fact, once he started talking with someone new, the other person did not want the conversation to stop. He had the natural ability to draw someone in, with his signature smile and the way he could always make the other party feel comfortable.

The little Shouyou had made his way to the playground and found himself in the midst of several other people who turned to look his way. The Hinatas were new in the neighborhood and had only recently moved as a result of a certain job transfer. Shouyou took a quick sweep of the playground, seeing that most of the kids were around his age, others looked older.

"What do you want, little Shrimp?" a taller boy with black hair had smirked.

"Yeah, we don't allow little kids over here," another, identical in appearance to the first, had added.

"Little? Like you guys are that much older than me," Shouyou had responded. He was used to this, he was much shorter than the average height for boys his age, and he still very much looked like a baby with his soft appearance and little chubby cheeks.

The twin on the right had smiled again.

"Yeah, we just started the second grade and we don't really allow little toddlers like you to just barge in here."

"Toddler? I'm about to turn six years old next month! I am going to start school here soon, in the first grade! You guys aren't that much older than me!" Hinata had to make this black-haired boy shut his mouth.

"Six? Impossible."

"It's true!"

"Okay, well we don't really know if that's true, but your little legs won't be able to catch up with the rest of us. We are playing Freeze Tag right now. You won't be able to catch up to anybody here," the twin on the right continued.

"Oh yeah and if I can?" Shouyou said firmly.

"I doubt it, but if you can, then, I guess you can play with us more."

Shouyou had just smiled in return. With his appearance, people were always quick to underestimate him. He was clumsy, as shown with the several bruises he has on his legs, but he was also naturally very athletic.

"1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... 10! Ready or not, here I come!"

After Shouyou was done with his countdown and the rest of the kids of the playground made a considerable distance between them and him, the orange-haired child darted off to find his first target.

Atsumu

Atsumu didn't believe that the kid counting in the middle of the playground could have been only a year younger than him, but what shocked him more was he was not kidding when he said he could catch up.

The rules of the game were like any other game of Freeze Tag: if you're tagged then you have to stay still unless a friend tags you again to unfreeze you. Everything within the boundaries of the playground was fair game.