"Did it work?"

"It would've if that third year didn't come looking for him"

"Find. Another. Way"

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Hinata had been out in intensive care for three days now. Almost every single team had been asking poor Sugawara and Ukai what happened to him and why he wasn't at the house.

However, the coach and setter had decided that they wouldn't tell anyone because they weren't sure who had poisoned the sunshine in the first place.

What was weird to the duo was when Yua Ito unexpectedly turned up at the hospital. Yua had not been informed of Hinata's state which was instantly strange to them.

So if she didn't know... why would she turn up to the hospital asking for Hinata?

Obviously Ukai was informed before Yua was allowed to visit Hinata because he had been in such a bad condition. Ukai was already suspicious of the girl but decided he would watch her moves instead.

In fact, as of right now Ukai was watching Yua try to interact with the boy. Hinata had an oxygen mask which prevented him from talking and several life support machines hooked to his body.

Yua gently stroked a strand of white hair from Hinata's pale features "hey Shōyō... I really hope you get better" she mumbled caressing his cheek with a gentle thumb.

Hinata looked softly at the girl. Eyes completely hollowed, yet they held so much emotion at the same time. Hinata wanted to scream and thrash around; why was the world so damn cruel to him?

What had he done to deserve such treatment form the universe? Was he that bad of a person?

Life really was a bitch.

Hinata's eyes became clouded and glazed with tears as he thought of his shitty turn of events. What was worse was that no one except Sugawara and Ukai had visited him in the hospital.

Hinata thought that no one cared about him. To be honest, he didn't really understand the concept of being cared for in the first place; so it really wasn't a surprise to him.

The idea of someone caring for him was still such an alien feeling for the teen.

Yua noticed the tears and began to feel incredibly guilty.

The pink haired girl was quick to whip out a tissue from her purse and dab his cheeks with the soft material. Hinata stared comfortingly at the girl; she cared for him?

Now that was something he hadn't experienced.

Hinata viewed Yua as the mother he never had.

He started to become emotionally reliant on Yua. This in itself was one of his many massive mistakes. Hinata faintly smiled at her caring gesture and reached a bony hand towards the girl.

She stared as Hinata placed his skeletal hand upon hers. Yua looked at their hands with wide eyes; she never wanted this.

She never wanted to betray Hinata.

Ukai watched their interactions curiously. It looked as if Hinata really cared for the girl; and she cared for him in return. What confused him even more was the fact Hinata blocked everyone out except for her. Almost as if he was under some sort of manipulation...

'𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑌𝑢𝑎 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎'𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟?'

Ukai pondered the idea as the duo continued making thoughtful gestures towards each other. Upon being stuck in his thoughts, Ukai missed one hell of a statement coming from the girl.

"͟ i͟m͟ s͟o͟ s͟o͟r͟r͟ ͟y s͟h͟ō͟ ͟yō͟ i͟t͟ w͟a͟s͟ m͟ ͟y f͟a͟u͟l͟t͟"͟

The whispered voice only slightly missed Ukai's ear unfortunately.

Yua placed a delicate kiss upon Hianta's hollowed cheek before waving sweetly at the teen and bowing towards Ukai to excuse herself.

Yua took a deep breath as she closed the hospital room door.

She really fucking hated shi Hinata *

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It was afternoon practice at Karasuno and everyone had CONSTANTLY interrogated Sugawara since he was the only one who knew of Hianta's disappearance, except for Ukai of course.

Tanaka, and Nishinoya went up to the silver haired setter and threw them selfs on the ground in a begging position.

"PLEASE TELL US WHERE OUR DEAR SHŌYŌ IS!" they yelled in synchronisation, fake tears pooling from both their eyes.

The third year sighed dramatically and turned to the idiotic duo "last time I'm saying it... NO" Sugawara attempted to keep his cool but ended up shouting the last part of his sentence; ultimately causing everyone's soul to depart their body.

The two momentarily died them recovered swiftly, slightly glaring at their upperclassman. Tanaka began to spike balls to Noya with brute strength, pretty much taking out his anger on the libero who was expertly receiving every one.

Eventually they got tired of this also and Tanaka suddenly stopped. Kageyama looked questionably at the male; wondering why he stopped spiking his setts.

"Did I do something wrong?" The ravenette asked with some difficulty. After all he didn't enjoy admitting he was wrong.

Tanaka didn't answer him and gritted his teeth angrily. He looked down at the floor and suddenly snapped his head in the direction of his short friend "noya come here" Tanaka instructed, marching out of the gym with the smaller following swiftly.

"HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!" Ukai yelled, just as the Gym doors were slammed shut.

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Tanaka and Nishinoya sat behind the Gym on one of the grassy hills. It was a beautifully warm day; however one thing was still missing.

They couldn't have a sunny day without their sunshine.

The taller male turned to the Libero with a slight frown "we're going to follow Ukai tonight and figure out what happened to Hinata" he informed, looking sternly at his best friend.

Noya almost immediately agreed to the idea and sprung up on his feet, hopping around the drill excitedly "SHŌYŌ IM COMING FOR YOU!" Noya yelled happily, pumping a fist into the air.

Tanaka laughed at his actions and smiled warmly "you really like him don't you?"

The Libero stopped at his words and turned back to his best friend "w-what do you mean?" Noya asked, giving himself away by stuttering.

Tanaka raised an eyebrow as if it were obvious "come on bro... how about a bit of friendly competition?" He asked, smirking a little.

Noya sat back down and stared at Tanaka "like what?"

"Let's make Shōyō ours"

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It was now after school and everyone had just finished practice for the day. Ukai excused the boys swiftly since he had 'somewhere do be'

The mischievous duo took this as their chance to follow their Coach.

Sneaking behind him they followed Ukai until they found themselves at a psychiatric ward?

Then suddenly out of nowhere Ukai shipped himself around directly towards where the boys where and absolutely blew a fuze.

Ukai knew they were there all along.

"THIS IS WHERE YOU FUCKERS BELONG!" He screamed, pointing at the psych ward.

* 𝙨𝙝𝙞 - 𝙛𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙟𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.

(𝙗𝙩𝙬 𝙎𝙝𝙞 𝙃𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙃𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙖'𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨'𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙)