♡ family/pets // fake dating au ♡

When Hinata walked to the city with Oikawa holding his hand, fingers entwined affectionately, he didn't pay attention to the thumping of his heart when all he could focus on was getting to see the sight of Kageyama's look of defeat. He didn't think about how his palms were sweating nor did he somehow manage to notice the way his cheeks flushed with heat because of the boy by his side.

He simply lead the third-year by the hand, almost skipping to get to their location where Kageyama was waiting to see the result of their bet. And it was good, Hinata had won and he felt giddy, he was ahead of Kageyama now as their scores were 53-52 in Hinata's favour. And it felt great because he could rub it in the younger setters face all he wanted.

So, he managed to ignore the looks that the pair received and he couldn't help thinking it was even better because of Oikawa's reason for agreeing to the deal. It was perfect, killing two birds with one stone and the two were content.

But, without Oikawa knowing, Hinata also used these moments to show off his fake boyfriend, showing all the girls and guy he walked by in the city that he had managed to snag someone as hot as Oikawa. And it was crazy because just a week ago; a few days after they sealed the deal, Oikawa had gotten asked to be a model for a teen magazine on the street. Even if Oikawa loved the look of immense awe on his fake boyfriends face, he had to turn it down because he just wanted to spend time with his fake boyfriend.

And he shouldn't have felt that way but he did.

Skip to a week later, Oikawa was conflicted between wanting to tell Hinata about these fleeting feelings of affection he held towards the smaller boy or keeping them to himself because of the deal.

"Eh? what does she want with captain?"

"Dumbass Hinata, she confessing to him, obviously!"

Kageyama glared at Hinata as if he was stupid (which he was) and Hinata flinched, blushing at the sight because he didn't know whether to keep watching or to give them privacy - he really wanted to keep watching (so he did) and Sugawara approached them to see what the commotion was about,

"Su-Sugawara-senpai!?" Flailing his arms, to block Sugawara's vision from the sight of Daichi being confessed to, he tried to divert the ashen-haired boys' attention and Kageyama stood by with an odd look on his face, "Hinata-kun.. what are you doing?"

"E-Ehh, w-well..."

"Daichi-senpai is being confessed to." Kageyama had no sense of awareness and Hinata looked up at him in shock, his light-brown eyes wide and darting from his senpai and to his partner, "Eh?"

Hinata whisper-shouted, "Bakayama, why would you say that?!" And Kageyama pouted harshly at the sound of being reprimanded by a dumbass like him, "Oi, watch how you talk to me, idiot, dumbass Hinata!"

"Uh, guys..."

"Oi, don't say idiot if you're going to call me a dumbass too!"

"I'll call you what I want, dumbass Hinata, idiot, stupid Hinata!"

"G-Guys.."

"Oh yeah! Well, I bet that language will never get you a girlfriend, Kageyama! No friends, forget that, you won't even be able to get a girlfriend!"

The raven-haired setter sputtered, "Girlfriend!? Who says I want a girlfriend? I bet you can't get one either, you're too stupid!"

"Haah~?!" Hinata neared him, their noses almost touching as Hinata got on his tiptoes, "Of course I can, I have one right now!"

Daichi, now having come towards the commotion completely stopped as he stood by Sugawara. In the midst of their argument, the elder setter had been trying to get their attention but it had been futile but now even he was speechless, "Hinata, you have a girlfriend?!"

The team mom couldn't help feeling pride and yet he just wondered who would be enough to handle someone as bright and enthusiastic as Hinata, "That's right, I have a boyfriend - actually!" Neither of them - not even Hinata - knew he was referring to a boy he had been pining over ever since their first meeting in the practise match they held together.

Hinata grew a smug smile on his face, watching his partner condescendingly as he continued and also managing to dig himself into a deeper hole, "he's totally into me, so~ lovey-dovey, you wouldn't believe it!"

"You're lying!" Kageyama knew he was lying, there was no way someone like that would date Hinata and who the hell would be lovey-dovey with him. And neither Daichi nor Sugawara found themselves wanting to get in between their quarrel because of the sheer amusement they were experiencing, their hands brushing against each others briefly.

"I bet you meat buns for a whole week, I'm not lying!" The haughty grin on his cheeky, shitty face made Kageyama's insides boil and he agreed immediately, "Fine! When I find out you're lying, you have to buy me milk and yoghurt whenever I say so for a whole week."

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

Both of them huffed.

"Daichi, what'd you say to that girl, did you accept her confession?" Even though they were both riled up immensely, they couldn't help being really intrigued, "Wha-?" they saw the worried glance he threw at Sugawara; who had smiled back with a gentle look, "she was asking me a question for maths..?"

Oikawa found himself thinking about that story a lot, especially when he was in bed as he was supposed to be asleep. He couldn't help but feel unimaginably grateful that amidst his angry word-vomit, Hinata spoke of how his nameless lover was incredibly lovey-dovey so he could do anything and just say that it was because of the deal, because they had to make it look real and able to convince others (Kageyama) that they really were dating, even if they weren't.

And so Oikawa walked slightly behind Hinata, squeezing his hand every so often with affection pouring from his heart and the smile couldn't be wiped from his lips no matter how hard he tried. The sun was shining on his and god was on his side as they walked completely natural towards one of the bigger parks in Tokyo to meet Kageyama there because he claimed that he had something to do there anyway.

"Oi, Chibi,"

"Huh?"

Hinata gave him a sideways glance, his hand loosening a little as they walked through the busy streets and yet Oikawa only tightened his hold again to make sure they never separated, "what are you planning to do when we get there?"

Hinata, relaxed and satisfied, looked up at him properly and Oikawa didn't even know how much Hinata had been admiring the sight of his fake boyfriend in that moment that lasted a couple of seconds, "what do you mean..?"

"you said that I'm really lovey-dovey with you, right?" a gleam appeared in his eyes that went unnoticed by the younger boy, "so should we kiss~?"

Neither of them had actually done so but Hinata didn't know if he was ready to do such a thing. Just looking at him, his heart raced and Hinata always deduced that it was because of the fact that he still couldn't believe that Oikawa agreed to fake date him but he was beginning to think it was something else because every night when he got home, he couldn't help remembering the way Oikawa's calloused palms and smooth fingers seemed to fit in his own smaller hand so snug and perfect that he couldn't help think that it shouldn't be fake - they shouldn't be fake.

Just from their hands and the warmth he experienced, Hinata couldn't help thinking that they should probably, maybe try it out for real. But could he really give his first kiss to Oikawa? A boy? The grand king?!

"U-Uh..I-I me- wh-wha~"

He subconsciously backed away, almost as if he thought Oikawa would kiss him right then and there on the street but the boy with the fluffy brown hair chuckled at the flustered boys' expense, finding his reaction too cute for him to be even a little disappointed by the way he reacted.

It was natural, he supposed.

And they weren't actually dating.

"Tooru? You're home?"

His mum and dad came to his room to see the television on, a high school volleyball game playing on the screen and his dad clicked his tongue when Oikawa turned to them with small bags under his eyes, "Iwaizumi-kun's gonna smack you again when he finds out you were up late watching these." He smirked and Oikawa gaped, too physically drained to say anything initially because of how long he had been sitting in the front of the screen, the one that displayed a sweaty, orange-haired boy jumping so high it looked as if he'd take off.

"Hey! Iwa-chan's mean but he cares about me! That's all!" His mum smiled at the sound of his whiny voice, adding onto what his father had said when the male disappeared to go to bed, "well we're the ones that get to hear all your crying about it, aren't we?"

She smiled teasingly but she made no move to leave just as his father did and Oikawa paused the video, it ironically paused on another image of Hinata, "Tooru," she instead, moved off of the side of the door to come closer to him, gaining his undivided attention with her sweet, motherly tone, "one of our neighbours, you know Chiaki-san, right?"

He narrowed his eyes, nodding in affirmation, almost cautiously, "she told me about her niece, she's your age, you know?"

Oikawa almost groaned in annoyance, if it hadn't have been for the tender look in his mothers eyes, "What about her?"

The woman's smile widened, "I saw a picture of her, she's really pretty - I think you'd like her, I told Chiaki-san that you might be up for it-"

"'Kaasan... no.." He almost wept (he might have, mentally) and he rubbed his eyes in exasperation, feeling the weariness come over him like a wave so suddenly after having his eyes attached to the television for so long, "I already have someone, okay?"

His voice turned cold, harsh but his mother didn't seem to notice at all and he stiffened, unable to look at her when he replayed what he had admitted in his head.

'I already have someone, okay?'

Oh jeez, did he have to say something as direct as that? So many other times, he had managed to divert the conversation by reassuring his mother that he was doing fine with only Iwaizumi by his side (no matter how many times his mum said it was different because they were childhood friends) but now, his eyes set on the screen, he scanned the hungry look in Hinata's eyes and he just spoke, without thinking at all.

"What? You do?!" She looked overjoyed, "Oh Tooru, why didn't you tell me? This is great, when can we meet them?"

"Urgh.." he pouted, but looked over at his mum with a shining smile, smug and proud, "Next week, or something - I'll have to let him know."

"Oh this is so exciting, I'm so happy for you, baby."

He nodded, affirming the false information he had given to his kind and sweet mum but he couldn't take his words back, not if he wanted to keep on hearing her blabber on about a stranger that she thought he'd like. Just because he was surrounded by girls didn't mean he was all that interested in them.

"Yeah, thanks 'kaasan."

"Kageyama!"

And Oikawa was knocked from his guilty conscious to see the sight of his kouhai sitting on a bench with a hand wrapped firmly around a carton of milk that he had most likely gotten from a vending machine and his dark blue eyes narrowed on the orange-haired boy who radiated happiness before moving onto himself.

"HAAAH?!"

He jumped from the bench to storm right up to Hinata, grabbing him by the front of his shirt and Oikawa watched with amusement dancing in his eyes, "You're joking! Right?!"

Hinata had gotten the life shaken out of him, Kageyama was relentless in his pulling and pushing of Hinata's shirt, shaking his head and slamming his brain into the sides of the inside of his cranium and he had let go of Oikawa's hand in the midst of it, breathing a sigh of relief as Kageyama stopped, "long time no see, Tobio-chan~"

Tobio's face twisted in disgust, his brow twitching and he mumbled incoherent swears under his breath, letting Hinata fall to the floor just as he reached consciousness, proceeding to dash behind his boyfriend as he swore Kageyama was three seconds from ending his life,

"Oikawa-senpai.. this is a joke, right?"

Hinata glanced up at the boy he used to be scared of, unable to see his expression as he hid behind his back but Oikawa merely reached a hand behind him to hold Hinata reassuringly, his hands grazing his stomach as it moved along his arm to reach his hand and Hinata held a breath when Oikawa grabbed him, pulling him gently around to stand beside him, but he didn't stop there and Hinata watched in both amazement and horror as Oikawa lifted his hand to place it on his lips.

Kageyama watched the entire scene utterly terrified. He didn't know what to make of this, and what's more - he had to buy Hinata meat buns for the rest of the week! He was speechless and even more so when he heard Daichi and Sugawara finally emerging from the supermarket that they had been buying snacks from, "Oh, Hinata's here- wait, is that Oikawa?"

Oikawa had placed the gentlest of kisses upon Hinata's knuckles before he turned at the new voices and they came to a stop beside Kageyama; he flinched when he heard Oikawa's next sentence, "Yahoo~ It's me, Oikawa Tooru, aka chibi-chans amazing boyfriend!" He posed, one hand holding Hinata's and the other raised in front of him in a peace sign as he winked with his tongue slipping out.

Hinata sighed, almost embarrassed and yet he was glad that Oikawa was doing what he had been told to do, indirectly, to make it seem like he was completely into him. He wasn't about to admit to himself that he almost forget that this was all pretend.

"Uh, right, it's good to see you again, I suppose.." Sugawara was all too shocked to say anything else and Daichi simply smiled, father-like and Hinata brightened at the sight of it, "It's good to know you weren't lying then, I guess Kageyama owes you meat buns now, right?" The four of them looked at him, he was seething with rage and he wouldn't admit defeat but he simply nodded.

Hinata was worried about what would happen in volleyball training and now he realised that they couldn't stop the facade until the week was over and Kageyama bought him all the meat buns that he desired, "Y-yeah! Kageyama, you hear t-that!" He was shaking and Oikawa couldn't help smiling, loving the way his kouhai was so angry and upset and also relishing in the sight of Hinata gripping his hand like a lifeline, holding their hands up to his chest and he cuddled them like it was something so precious.

"Y-You gotta bu-buy me al-"

"I know that! Shut up already, dumbass Hinata!"

He screamed and Hinata shut up immediately, shocked and yet he stifled his laughter behind his hand, the one holding another hand tightly in his grasp and Oikawa blushed lightly at the feeling of Hinata's lips brushing the top of his hand but he let it happen with warmth blooming in his chest and a new mission on his mind,

"Ah~ gomen," he spoke loudly, with confidence and sass and Hinata flinched at the sudden voice after having been scolded by an angry raven-haired boy, "Shouyou and I have somewhere else we need to be," he turned to look down at the startled boy, completely aware and yet ignoring the wide-eyed looks he received from the captain and vice-captain of Karasuno, "come on, Shouyou. 'Kaasan said she'd make you tamago kake gohan so let's ge-"

"Ta-tamago kake gohan?! For lunch?!" Hinata couldn't help perking up, his mouth salivating and his eyes brightening and in that moment, nothing looked more delectable then him. Oikawa swooped down in one swift movement and placed his glowing lips upon Hinata's, loving the way he felt Hinata take in a short breath in shock before he pulled back just as fast and he admired his fiery red cheeks, speaking casually as if nothing happened.

But it did, because Oikawa winked cheekily and Hinata wanted to do it again, for longer.

"Yeah, lunch, breakfast, whats the difference? It's still food - we gotta go, alright?"

Daichi flinched and Sugawara stifled a laugh, Kageyama grew as pale as a sheet and neither said anything - only allowing the captain to bid them a quick goodbye, "U-Uh, o-okay..." he was pale as well, "See you soon, Hinata.. O-Oikawa."

Oikawa swivelled around and dragged Hinata behind him, the orange-haired boy having been robbed of his thoughts and ability to speak because of a single, chaste kiss.

During the train ride back to Miyagi from Tokyo, Hinata still hadn't been able to speak and Oikawa seemed way too casual for what had happened earlier. It was the first kiss to be shared between them and it's there and in that exact moment that he decides to do it?! And why wasn't he freaking out like Hinata was, in the train, acting like he was completely okay but he wasn't.

Hinata couldn't stop his mind from rambling, his thoughts kept running away from him and in the end, he had absolutely no idea what to say, how to say it and when he should tell Oikawa that he actually liked the kiss. But that wasn't normal, it wasn't right and he only did that because the situation somehow called for it. Maybe it was all planned in Oikawa's head and perhaps he did that without letting Hinata know because the element of surprise would help in making their relationship seem more real and natural.

Now Hinata's brain was a mushy pile of a Mess™️ and he had no idea how to deal with it because he was sure that Oikawa didn't mean it. Oikawa didn't mean anything behind the kiss and someone known as the grand king had obviously been used to this, used to kissing other girls and dammit Oikawa was probably disgusted by this, he was probably in such a hurry and ready to go back home - able to make such a quick and believable lie - because he wanted to get away from him as quickly as possible.

Hinata sucked in a breath, that had to be it, his shoulders dropped and the train stopped, he looked around and noticed it was their stop.

Hinata faltered when a hand grabbed his, he felt himself become lifeless; mentally drained, as he was slowly pulled up and out of the crowd that crowded around the train stop.

Oikawa hadn't said anything and Hinata was lead to believe that he was simply disgusted, "hey, you're really quiet, it's weird."

He was so painfully casual, blissfully unaware of the mental anguish his own fake boyfriend was going through, "Oh-Uh, sorry!"

Hinata found the familiar streets comforting but the warmth of his hand captured his attention, burning his hearts and overwhelming him like a container being filled to the brim - all until it was too full to stay contained, "I liked the kiss!"

oh...

He wasn't supposed to say that. Shit! He was supposed to keep that to himself and Hinata was supposed to keep the slowly-growing awareness of his crush on his fake boyfriend to himself but he couldn't hold it in any longer after the torture of self-doubt and over-thinking in the train ride that went for so long.

"Uh.."

He didn't dare look at Oikawa. He thought that, but his gaze was locked right on him, light-brown eyes on chocolate ones and he was almost eyeing him down like prey and Oikawa saw that hungry look in his eyes, the one that he found himself falling for all over again. Perhaps it was when he watched him during the practise match, or maybe it was when Hinata begged him to pretend to be his fake boyfriend but Oikawa knew he also wanted to kiss Hinata again because he didn't even know what came over him only moments ago.

He smiled, crookedly, Hinata thought - no, he knew - he was going to call him gross, or laugh at him, or both both at once but the words had already been said and that was it because Oikawa had dropped Hinata's hand from the surprise of being told something as weird as that and that was it for them and nothing would progress between them because jus-

"I did too, Shouyou." He giggled, playful and smug - confident and just like how he was in front of his teammates, it was the same Tooru, smiling and bright in the eyes, "I wanted to kiss you more but I didn't know if you'd like that so I said that we had to go to my house, you're still up for it, right?"

Hinata couldn't speak, his heart was ramming into his chest cavity and oh my god was he going into cardiac arrest?

"I can still ask my 'Kaasan to make tamago kake gohan if you want, you do, right?" he was teasing him, everyone knew how much of a helpless glutton he was and Oikawa was completely okay with that, content with giving Hinata whatever he desired. But he melted, faltering at the sight of tears,

"He-Hey! Shouyou!?"

Hinata's lips trembled and he reached his arms out like a baby wanting to be picked up and Oikawa took note of this right away, slipping into his arms to wrap his strong arms around the smaller boys' slim and lean body as he sniffled and lightly sobbed into his neck, "Tooru, can you pl-please kiss m-"

"Of course."

And he did, he planted his lips on Hinata's after he had pulled back to see Hinata's tearful gaze and flushed cheeks and he just kept pecking his lips, kissing his cheeks and his nose, his forehead and his lips again, melting inside at the sound of gentle sobs turning to laughter, "T-Tooru!" He laughter grew and the both of them smiled, their lips pulled up and yet they were still connected, only to have Oikawa pull away a mere millimetre, nuzzling their noses together so he could hoarsely murmur the most honest heartfelt confession he could,

"be my boyfriend, Shouyou, for real."

Hinata was more than happy to get free meat buns for a week and a new, real boyfriend.

'Okay, so I'm going to pretend to date you
so that it makes my parents happy,
and you'll pretend to date me so that you can win this bet that you're in

...except...I think that I actually kind of like you...' 

AU credit to AUideas on tumblr