"The deal is off."

"Huh? What about you're mother? Will you abandon her?!"

"I refuse to hurt Shōyō anymore... he's been though too much"

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The whole gym silenced as Hinata softly landed on his feet with ease. He swept a strand of white hair from his eye sight and fiddled with the chain around his neck; not yet aware of all the eyes on him.

"How was that kagey- uhhh... what's wrong?" Hinata asked concerned, raising an eyebrow at the setter's look of astonishment.

"H-how'd uou do that boke?!" Kageyama yelled, confused as to the sudden boost in technique and power.

Hinata put a finger on his chin and got a sudden idea.

"Steroids"

Hinata joked with a mocking grin. Everyone's mouth flew open, staring at the teen completely dumbfounded.

"JOKE! that was a joke!" Hinata laughed awkwardly, noticing the fuming expression on Ukai's face.

Hinata actually had no idea how he did the move, he hadn't had any steroids... only cocaine, nicotine and some pills who only god knows what they contained.

"Hinata teach me! Please please" Tanaka begged, on his knees and crying fake tears. Hinata flailed his hands around the air "ahh... it was probably just a fluke!" He replied sheepishly as he was showered with compliments.

The rest of practice went smoothly to say the least... well Hinata just kept on getting better and better, everyone was frozen each time he did a spike or expertly received a ball.

Even Hinata himself was dumbfounded.

"That felt good" Hinata whispered to himself, clenching his raw red palm after his tenth spike. Kageyama was panting like a dog to keep up with the No.10's amazing agility and stamina, pushing himself to the max to become equals.

"That's it for today! Go home and get some rest, we've got a practice match against Shiritorizawa tomorrow" Ukai announced out of nowhere.

Everyone's heart dropped "HAAAH?!" They yelled, only just processing the information "you heard me" Ukai grumbled, packing his stuff and going out the door.

Before he closed it, Ukai pointed a finger at both Nishinoya and Tanaka "you to clean up" he stated blandly before slamming the doors shut.

"Well that was interesting..." Sugawara mumbled, a little concerned for his coache's strange behaviour "whatever, he's probably had a bad day" Tsukishima remarked, chucking a ball out of nowhere right on Hinata's head.

The teen fell on his behind with a wince "WHAT WAS THAT FOR TSUKKI?!" Hinata raged, springing off the floor and rubbing his forehead where some reddening had occurred.

"Sorry it was to tempting" the blonde snickered, smirking as he turned away from the fuming spiker. He may have seemed like a dick, but in the spur of the moment, that was the only way he could think of to gain the boy's attention.

Hinata gritted his teeth and lunged for the male, practically jumping higher than Tsukki himself and landing on his shoulders.

Hinata began pulling at the middle blockers hair and glasses, attempting to take them off as Tsukishima desperately tried to claw the dual haired teen of him.

"HA! GOT THEM!" Hinata grinned, leaping of the blonde and putting his glasses on his own face. His surroundings suddenly enlarged as Tsukki sprinted after Hinata who was running away from him with ease; not even going his fastest.

"GIVE THEM BACK SHRIMP!"

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Hinata walked back exhausted with Sugawara. He was not allowed outside without someone else with him, and Ukai left Sugawara in charge of this burden.

Hinata slumped his shoulders as he looked up at the night sky, everything seemed so peaceful and tranquil.

Almost like a dark canvas freckled with a million droplets of pure white paint. It was stunning.

He could only imaging what it would be like to have his old life back once more... smiles, laughter, love, happiness.

It all seemed to foreign to him now.

Hinata averted his eyes from the shining dots to look at Sugawara. His silver hair almost shon in the dimly lit surroundings, making him look ethereal in Hinata's eyes.

Suga turned his head to look at Hinata, he had noticed the feeling of being stared at and raised an eyebrow "you ok Hinata?" He asked softly, his kind smile present as usual.

Hinata stared blankly at the male. His mind foggy as he thought of the way Sugawara acted in front of the team.

Sort of like a mother?

If that were true, Hinata could become reliant on Sugawara instead of Yua for example. Maybe Suga wouldn't betray him. Maybe he was different.

"Hinata?" The third year asked worriedly, placing a concerned hand on the boy's forehead "Geez! You're burning up!" Suga exclaimed, retracting his hand and holding Hinata by the shoulders for support.

"You've got a serious fever, I've gotta get you home" Sugawara stated, attempting to move the glassy eyes teen.

Hinata didn't move at all and simply stared into space, as if he were hypnotised.

Hinata felt as if he wasn't connected to his own body, the feeling of distance from reality and fading memories was drowning him as he continued to stare at nothing.

By now Sugawara was getting worried for Hinata. He tried to move him once more but his body simply moved limply to the side.

Suddenly Suga realised what was happening to Hinata.

'ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙'. *

He concluded that Hinata would be fine after his episode would be over, and picked up the teen bridal style and started to carry him the rest of the way.

Hinata remained glassy eyed and life drained for what felt like hours. The male had started to get extremely tired carrying him all the way and placed him gently down on the floor to rest.

"Oh my Asahi Hinata, your heavier than you look"

Sugawara whispered between deep breathes. He was really tired and his house was considerably closer than Ukai's was...

It wouldn't be so bad for him to stay the night would it?

Suga took one last breath and decided he would simply call Ukai once he got home and tell him Hinata would stay the night.

Smiling to himself with the plan, he plucked the last bits of his endurance and brought Hinata the rest of the way to his home.

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"Hey mum! Sorry I'm late I had to help my friend!"Sugawara shouted to his mother, still carrying Hinata as he closed the front door.

His home was quite small but cosy. He loved it for the memories that he cherished in the household, Suga had an excellent childhood and loved his mother very much.

He would help her whenever possible and always tell her about what he was doing and where.

He felt the need to do this since the lady had anxiety when it came to him, she often had panic attacks when Sugawara simply went to school without saying goodbye.

Many would think of this to be annoying, but the male accepted it since he understood she was just a worried parent.

Sugawara and his mother were very open with their feelings. She knew of him being gay and having a sweet spot for their teem sunshine; and she wanted nothing more for him to be happy.

"That's fine dear!" She shouted back, coming to greet her son mid way cooking dinner.

Upon seeing him carrying Hinata she immediately panicked "oh no! What happened to him?!" The grey haired lady exclaimed, rushing over to the duo.

"He's fine mum, just overworked himself" Suga said sadly, retreating upstairs to his room.

"I'll be down for dinner in a minute!" He yelled before closing his door and very gently laying Hinata on the bed.

He smiled warmly and gently caressed Hinata's cheek with a soft hand.

"I promise I'll look after you Hinata" Sugawara whispered, pressing a kiss on Hinata's forehead.

* 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 - 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨. 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣 '𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚'. 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨, 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙞𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡.

𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙩.