So it's been months of no updates? 😅 I'm very sorry babies, my fledglings. My life just doesn't let me update. Life is hard. Both my slacker life and working life clashing together. I hope you forgive mommy for not updating this early. Mommy doesn't have any inspirations this past few months, leading to hiatus for a while but now I'm back.

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Hinata's POV

WOW. fucking. Wow.

I can't believe I was so rude to him earlier. . . what the fuck have I done? I facepalmed before letting out a sigh of frustration.

Now that I think about it, I was being inconsiderate—after a long time of not seeing each other; he treated me well and even let me stay just for me to do that— how dare I!

I wanna cry—I regret my actions, please God, let Kageyama forget about my rude actions. I hope he forgives me. . . no. . . he's probably not going to talk to me anymore. What should I do? I don't think I deserve forgiveness. . . if he didn't. . . then. . I'm the living proof of "you reap what you sow"

3rd POV

Shouyou kept rolling around his bed looking like a dead man. He's very depressed so don't come at him. He now realizes what he just did and regrets it. He should've thought about it before leaving, now he feels bad for suddenly standing up and dramatically walks out before his brain could even process. He did that as if Kageyama had done something wrong to him— which wasn't the case. It was all his fault for assuming something and didn't even let the guy explain— why would he even explain? He doesn't need to, it's not like they're dating in the first place.

Natsu barges into his room without knocking, welcoming herself in before sitting on the other side of his bed.

"Why the hell are you not knocking again? What if I was naked?" Shouyou rolls his eyes at his impudent little sister.

"Who cares about you being butt naked? You're not my type. You're ugly,"

"Lot of people would kill just to see me shirtless you know, and you seeing me without pants is such a blessing,"

"Nii-chan, you're so gross. You should only show your 'heavenly pillar' to your lover, not to your little sister who has the potential of getting traumatized," rolling her eyes at him.

"Damn. And here I was, thinking if what you said yesterday was a joke, you said I was handsome," he sighs

"Just don't enter my room again without knocking, I don't have reason to lock my door since we are the only ones living here but please, for fuck's sake. Just knock next time," he added.

"Whatever," Natsu tuck her long, curly tangerine hair on her ear before asking,

"Nii-chan, please accompany me to see the volleyball club, they're good! You should see for yourself," her sparkly eyes shine, Shouyou couldn't help but smile, imagining the new generation of the powerhouse Karasuno after their time.

"I probably will,"

"Yay! I'm waiting. Oh, please behave and don't treat me like how you're treating me now. I have the noble image I must maintain." Shouyou look oddly at her before his face crumpling in disbelief.

"Noble? You? An annoying noisy little brat?"

"Fuck off, this is why you are still single. Not only you were annoying, but you're also dense,"

"What's the connection of you being an annoying brat into me having nonexistent love life?—"

"Annoyingly dense, yes they were in the same sentence without 'and' in between. And I'm uncomfortable with it, I may lose face to my cute junior co-manager if you treat me like an annoying kid next door,"

"Well. . . that's—" He sighs, defeated, unable to refute what his sister had just said.

"By the way, Nii-chan, how was your sleepover with Kageyama-san?"

Oh please, reminding him makes him want to bury himself on the ground and never come out, he went too far at what he did. Kageyama must have been confused as to why his attitude suddenly changed for no particular reason and walks out.

"It was awful," Natsu frowned, it was not the answer she was expecting.

"What? I thought you were having fun last night? Considering you enthusiastically messaged me to not search for you the whole night because you're going to sleep over to your precious person?"

Hinata clears his throat.

"Ahem. I did not say that" his face, turning reddish as it reaches his ears.

"You did, you might want to reread your messages,"

"No thanks," he remembers saying that. He didn't put much thought into it, as he didn't expect his sister would tease him about it.

"Did you two fuck?" Shouyou pinches Natsu's side, making her yelp.

"We didn't! You idiot. We only binge-watched movies and ate then sleep. What else could we have done?!"

"Hey, I'm just saying possibilities—"

"How could that be a possibility? Kageyama will kill me if I try making a move on him."

Natsu stares at him for a moment. A short moment of silence. "What?" The confused Shouyou asks as his sister was giving him odd looks again.

"I doubt it, He won't kill you; he's changed,"

Oh trust me, I know. And I was very shocked looking at him in person after a long time, he changed so much. Not only his body looking fine af,  but he's much gentler, Shouyou thought. He buried his face in the pillow, mumbling incoherent words.

"What?" Natsu thought he was talking to her, and urges his brother to say what he's been mumbling.

"I said I suck as a friend, I hurt Kageyama's feelings by walking out without looking back. He must be angry at me. . ."

Natsu's brows furrowed and gave him an odd look, "Hold the fuck up, what happened?"

Shouyou sighed once again before telling him everything that happened, except for his shameless actions last night, he was shocked when he felt his ass getting smacked, making him jolt.

"What the fuck was that for!" Rubbing his stinging ass for a little comfort.

"You should be thinking of what you did, you stupid idiot, I can't believe I had a brother who's as idiotic as you," She snapped, massaging her temple from her growing headache, this was the first time she has ever, ever, angry at her brother.

She couldn't help but feel a little pity for Kageyama, she already knows it even as a kid; the way Kageyama-san would subconsciously follow his nii-san's movements wherever he goes, as well as those sneaky little blushes on his cheeks after he got teased by her brother, he's practically shooting Shouyou hearts with eyes and yet, yet those still got ignored. . .

in other words, Natsu knows what's up, yet here was her stupid brother, not even noticing those obvious hints that Kageyama was giving him. There's always a sexual tension in the air between the both of them every time Kageyama came over, it made Natsu feel like she's third-wheeling every damn time. So all this time, it was just a mutual flirting with a one-sided crush? Holyshit— that hurts.

Does this mean a kid like her from before more sensitive than a teenager like Shouyou? That seems to be the case. She was shocked that no progressed had been made for over a decade or so. What a dumbass.

"What do you mean? Can you enlighten this brother of yours? Why am I an idiot? I know what I did wrong, okay? Still. . . there's no reason for you to smack my ass like that! It wasn't like Kageyama is in love with me and got dumped on the process,"

'Wow, the audacity of this dumbass. . . What use of his intelligence now if he's still this dense?!' Natsu thought angrily

"You damnable grass-headed human who knows nothing but being dense—! What you did was worse than him being dumped!!" She groaned, unable to explain to her blockhead brother what was exactly going on.

'I have no right to tell him about what Kageyama-san felt for him. He should figure it out himself, but at this rate, he's taking Kageyama-san's chances of finding a good lover by leading him on like this! And it's been going on for more than a decade! This fucking shithead! I would've told him if it was up to me, but I don't want Kageyama-san to feel as if I exposed him just for him to get dumped,' which likely would be the case if Shouyou ends up rejecting him.

"Forget it, don't visit volleyball club for now. Fix your mess first before talking to me again, damn it!" She groaned before walking out of the door, slamming it closed.

Shouyou flinched, flabbergasted at what just happened, he didn't know what to say, 'she didn't even tell what the heck I did for her to get suddenly mad— '

'Wait, isn't this what I did to Kageyama too?' Suddenly coming into realization, oh. . . so this is what it felt. . . it would've been worse if Kageyama was the one who did it.

Fuck!

'No visits on volleyball club then, I will go to Kageyama's workplace tomorrow and maybe wait for him to finish, then apologize for what I did. . . Yes! I should do that!' He thought

A few hours later,

Shouyou still couldn't take a nap. He kept thinking of what Natsu said, 'what does she mean by I did worse than dumping Kageyama?'

"AHH SHIT! THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING!" He shouted, kicking his blanket off his bed then spread himself like a starfish, messing his hair— then few sessions of him rolling around the bed as though he was being exorcised, now he looks haggard. Who the hell cares?

A few minutes later of continuous actions, he heard a knock on his door, he stopped what he's doing when he heard his mother's voice,

"Shou, you have a guest; come down first,"

"Yes, mom" And who the hell might this guest be? No-one knows about him being home here because he didn't inform anyone else, bold of them to interrupt my emo sessions,

Rolling his eyes, he got up without even fixing himself to look at least presentable. He's still in his pajamas

Walking to the living room, he can already see the person's back facing him while talking to Natsu, his brows furrowed at the familiar back but shrug it off and comes where they were.

"Oh, nii-san is here!" She smiles at the person before standing up. "I will go now, I still have something else to do, so please let yourself feel at home,"

"A-ah! Yes, thank you. . ."

Shouyou froze, the guy turned at him and. . . Shit, he's the last person he wanted to see right now, he's still not ready yet! For fuck's sake!

His sister sent him a glare before motioning to the couch, opposite of where the guest was sitting. He mentally sighs, he nervously sat down on the couch before taking a look at his guest.

"K-Kageyama. . . haha. . . w-what brings you here?" Averting his gaze somewhere else, there's a pregnant pause between them before Kageyama awkwardly broke the ice.

"I—" he took a deep breath before continuing with a much stable tone "I brought you some takoyaki. . ." he said, handing the Tupperware to Hinata

". . ."

"It's a peace offering, I came here to apologize. . ." Kageyama had his head down, looking at his hands on his lap, not being able to face Shouyou with much courage.

"For what?" This question made him hesitate, before taking another deep breath once again, trying to call his vigorously beating heart that he felt like throwing it up.

"F-For anything that I did wrong. . . I didn't know what I said to make you so upset like that. . . So I'm here to say sorry," it takes every bit of courage for him to hold back his tears from flowing.

When he didn't receive an answer, he lifts his head, his glassy eyes visible. . . But the look on Hinata's was enough to get him confused, why does he seem so shocked?

Now that he got a closer look, Hinata looked stunning in his pajamas with his hair messy—

Kageyama smacked himself in the head mentally for getting distracted. He's supposed to be apologizing, not ogling Hinata; so the best choice he did was to look at his shoes again as if it was the most interesting thing in the world.

"Why are you the one apologizing?"

Eh?

"It should be me for being rude to you! Why— why would you apologize when you did nothing wrong?"

Kageyama's brows furrowed, his expression shows how worried he was, "But you were upset, I didn't know what I did. . . I assumed I said something you didn't like. . This was the only time we get to see each other after so long and I already made you so upset once again. . . I even promised myself not to be rude to you like how I was years ago." Hinata immediately refute what he said

"You didn't— You didn't have to do this, I was at fault. I was thinking of going to your workplace tomorrow and wait for you to finish so that I could apologize, I guess you beat me to it now huh?" Letting out a small chuckle, "I was the one at fault, I knew I shouldn't have done that, I just remembered something I shouldn't have and it made me act recklessly without thinking of what you might feel afterward, I'm so sorry."

Shouyou places the Tupperware on the glass table in front of them before smiling at him reassuringly, Kageyama's stiffened expression relaxed after seeing the reassuring smile,

"So. . . what made you upset earlier this morning wasn't me?" He looks at him expectantly, looking at his cute face made Shouyou felt guilty since his reaction earlier has everything to do with him, but it's unreasonable to blame Kageyama for his own incompetence doesn't it? So he responds softly at him,

"Of course you weren't, you didn't do anything wrong. In fact, you treated me well yesterday until last night and it felt good, so why would I be upset with you?" For some reason, Kageyama's expectant face was replaced by a harsh deep red blush, coloring not only his face but his neck and ears as well.

"O-Oh. . ." hearing that made Shouyou realize what he just said, it sounded so wrong.

"I-I didn't mean it like that! What I'm saying is, you were so kind to even let me sleepover in your apartment and even cook me breakfast, so I'm grateful for that!!" He hurriedly said, his own cheeks being filled with a beautiful rosy pink color.

"I see. . . phew! I really thought I upset you, I was so worried," Kageyama sighed in relief and smiled back at him, blinking twice, his long eyelashes made him look more innocent and gentle. He looked nothing like the old Kageyama that he once knew. He still likes both either way.

They talk few more hours, Shouyou's mom occasionally joining in their conversation while most of the time, fondly looking at them both.

She let the two grown men to talk for themselves, with Kageyama occasionally eating the snacks she made, while Shouyou eating the Takoyaki he cooked. She excused herself with a smile on her face,

"Kageyama! I want to make up for what happened earlier this morning so I'm asking permission from you if I could go visit your workplace, and pick you up?"

"Pick. . . me up? Where are we going?" A rosy color appearing on his cheeks once again, 'A date?!' He thought excitedly, only to disappointed once again

"I wanna hang out with you tomorrow,"

"O-okay," welp, it's still the same. Just a different choice of word, so it's okay, Kageyama thought, then Shouyou flashed him with his sunshine smile that made Kageyama almost go blind at the brightness, oh shit.

"Nice!" Indeed. He felt contented for now, they talk for a few more hours then bid his goodbye from the Hinata household before it went dark, it's a bit dangerous since Hinata lived in the mountain so it's dangerous for him to go home alone at night. He went home feeling light, with a smile on his face, and as for Shouyou, he went to sleep early, and could not wait for tomorrow to come.

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Okay, I know I made a promise back then about updating but I'm sorry about that if I couldn't keep it. Something happened and the draft that was ready to be published was deleted— like, you can imagine how upset I was at that time and felt like I want to cry, this chapter was the redo, but IDK if this was okay for you guys. I hope you enjoyed it though, my baby fledglings!! I just updated, thank you for reading. Those who were tired of waiting, at least thank you for stopping by 😅 it was my fault that you stopped, it took me so long. For my new readers, thank you for your support, pls vote and comment, don't be a silent reader so that I know how you felt about it. Love you guys, see you next chapter!