Chapter Text
Days gone past since Hinata stopped coming to practice again, the guys feared something was wrong. Kageyama missed setting for Hinata and wanted him to come back, what made things even more suspicious is how Hinata looked; the way Hinata ignored him in class and the way Hinata would run out and hide somewhere during lunch.
“I don’t know why he ignores me?”, Kageyama asks, all of the team was gathered on the roof of the school; discussing about Hinata during lunch, even Takeda had joined them.
“There is something obviously wrong”, Suga stated.
“He passed me the other day”, Tsukishima piped up, everyone looked at him in shock and curiosity.
Flashback
Tsukishima was walking to the bathroom when he came across Hinata walking past him.
“Hinata, are you ok?”, Tsukishima asks, the fact this was unexpected made Hinata stop.
“I’m ok”, Hinata replied letting out a big goofy smile.
“Are you coming back to practice again?”, Tsukishima asks.
“I’ll try, sorry I been caught up with things that keep making me miss practice”, Hinata asnwered while rubbing the back of his head.
“Why, are you ok?”, Tsukishima asks with concern, Hinata panicked about admitting his situation.
“I’m fine I gotta go”, Hinata said as he began walking away from Tsukishima, Tsukishima stood there in disbelief but also worry. tears swell Hinata’s eyes. He missed everyone plus he wanted to tell them to save him from his shitty dad, he wanted Tanaka; Nishinoya and Kageyama to beat his dad up, Suga to give him hugs and kisses which he missed; Kageyama to give him hugs. Hinata went to his usual hiding spot which was far away from everyone on the school grounds and cried.
End of flashback
“So thats what happened”, Tsukishima said, everyone looked at him with worry.
“Guys I know we want to make sure he’s ok but we can’t pressure him in telling us what’s going on”, Ennoshita said; earning a nod from Suga and Takeda.
“I agree, we need to give him some space”, Daichi added on, the team agreed to stop pressuring Hinata on telling them what’s going on with him. Later at the end of the school day Hinata rushed out towards Natsu’s school to collect her and bike home with her. Once they got home; Akari was on the sofa watching the tv and no beer in hand.
“Oh you back”, Akari greeted them from the sofa, first part of the evening went smoothly; no freak outs from Akari. When dinner came around, Akari had a normal portion of food made up of 6 bowls while Hinata; Natsu and their mum had their normal portions made up of 3 bowls. After dinner the tables flipped, Akari got mad about something on the tv so when Hinata came downstairs Akari laid it into him by hitting Hinata.
“It’s your fault that the guy lost”, Akari screamed while hitting Hinata with his fists on the arms and face. After the hitting session, Hinata went up to his room and cried silently.
“Please help me Suga, Kageyama, Daichi”, Hinata sobbed quietly, Hinata picked up a pair of scissors that was next to his bed and placed the sharp side against his skin. He slowly made a horizontal line in his skin, it quickly turned red from when the skin was was damaged and little spots of blood appeared. Hinata did that up his left arm 5 times, he dropped the scissors and realised what he had just done. The guys were gonna kill him for self harming.
“Why am I so fucking stupid”, Hinata yelled under his breath as he cried but he couldn’t help it, he wanted the pain to go away.
“Maybe dying would be better”, Hinata said as tears fell down his face but he remembered Kageyama; Suga; Kenma and everyone else, he couldn’t just leave them behind. So he got into bed and tried to get some sleep. A few days later; Natsu was helping clean up lunch when she accidentally dropped a bowl, Akari lost it and went in for a strike, he hit Natsu 3 times before Hinata stepped in and took them.
“MOVE OUT OF THE WAY CHILD”, Akari roared while landing fists against Hinata’s small body.
“YOU LEAVE HER ALONE”, Hinata shouted while receiving punches to his face arms and body, it went on for a good 5 minutes before Akari finished and disappeared upstairs. Hinata laid there slumped on the Kitchen floor.
“Why would you do that?”, Natsu asks while tears streamed her face.
“Because, I d-didn’t want y-you to get hurt”, Hinata said while coughing up blood in his hands. With Akari upstairs Hinata and Natsu worked on clearing the broken bowl from the floor and some blood that Hinata coughed up and from some of the woundsje had. After 2 weeks of beating; Hinata eventually stopped going to school by choice, Natsu was banned from going to school too as she had learn how to take care of a husband by practicing it on her father. Kageyama took notice of Hinata’s absence and went to find Suga and Daichi 2 days later, Suga and Daichi were chilling at their desks when Kageyama approached them.
“Hey Kageyama”, Suga greeted him, Kageyama grabbed a chair and sat at Daichi’s desk.
“Hinata hasn’t been in class for the last 2 days”, he announced, Suga and Daichi’s faces fell in worry.
“I hope he’s ok”, Suga said quietly.
“I hope so too”, Daichi replied.
“Do you think he’s being abused?”, Kageyama asks randomly, Suga and Daichi prayed that wasn’t the situation.
“I hope not”, Suga replied.
“He did look pretty bad when he turned up for class, I saw him walking through the halls”, Kageyama announced.
“Oh no”, Suga quavered.
“I really wish I can help him”, Kageyama groaned.
“We shouldn’t but into his business but I understand”, Daichi replied, the 3 boys sat in silence until Kageyama interrupted.
“Well I’m gonna head back, see you guys later”, he piped up.
“See you later”, Suga smiled.
Back at Hinata’s home, Hinata looked at himself in the mirror, he had quite a few purple bruises all over his body, he had lost some weight from not eating properly and he had deep bangs under his eyes from the lack of some sleep he got. When Akari was out one night; Hinata snuck downstairs for some more food for Natsu as she still growing so she need it more than him, as he crept into the kitchen to get some cooked rice for her; Akari came home drunk. When he saw Hinata at the fridge which he wasn’t allowed except dinner, Akari went rage mode.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING AT THE FUCKING FRIDGE?”, Akari yelled; he drunkly stormed over to Hinata and began hitting him.
“YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO THE FRIDGE UNLESS AT DINNER”, Akari roared at Hinata; tears streamed down Hinata’s face his mother and Natsu both came down to see the commotion and left horrified as Hinata is being beaten at literally 3 in the morning, the pair quietly went upstairs to avoid making this worse. Finally Akari finished and left Hinata crying on the Kitchen floor. Eventually he got up; treat his injuries and went to his room. He got the knife and slowly dragged it across his skin of his thighs.
“Why am I doing this when I just got beaten up?”, Hinata asks himself, he cleaned the self made cuts up; got into bed and tried to get some sleep.
2 weeks later, Karasuno had a practice match against Nekoma, both teams were so happy to see each other again, hugging and chatting.
“Daichi good to see you”, Kuroo greeted.
“And you too”, Daichi smiled as he shook hands, Kenma and Kuroo looked at the Karasuno boys to find Hinata.
“Hinata still hasn’t come back?”, Kuroo asks, Daichi shook his head.
“He hasn’t, we think he might be being abused”, Daichi said sadly, Kuroo and Kenma swallowed thickly at that statement.
“Hopefully he come back but let’s focus on our game”, Daichi continued, Kuroo nodded and looked at Kenma who eventually nodded. Meanwhile the worst time out of the nearly 2 months had come, Natsu was serving her dad breakfast when her hand slipped and she spilt Akari’s food on him. He shrieked at what just happened and slapped Natsu across the face.
“Oh no I-I’m so s-sorry”, Natsu stammered in fear.
“YOU FUCKING BITCH”, Akari screamed, he stood up and stomped to the cutlery draw and pulled out a large knife, then he turned and charged at Natsu. Hinata with his quick reflexes jumped up and ran between Akari and Natsu. The knife hit hit Hinata in the left arm though it cut him, Hinata managed to avoid it going all the way through. Blood began to pour out of the cut and silent tears fell down his face from the pain.
“ARE YOU INSANE?”, Hinata’s mother yelled as she ran and pushed her husband over. She kicked the blood covered knife that had dropped; away to prevent more stabbings.
“Why go so far?”, Hinata’s mother asks crying.
“Because women got to serve the husbands and get punished if they misbehave, plus children can be a pain in the ass, like you”, Akari replied and punched Hinata’s mother in the face. Hinata gabbed his hoodie being careful of his bleeding wound; wrapped some toilet paper and ran to the school, he needed his teammates he needed saving. Karasuno and Nekoma had just finished their first half, both teams were messing up because of worrying about Hinata, Karasuno barely won by 25-23.
“Man we really need to focus”, Kuroo groaned who was sat on the floor next to Daichi who was having a drink.
“I agree, we need to stop thinking about Hinata and focus on the game”, Daichi replied, Kageyama sat there like a lemon; he had been off his game too, his sets had been off and he failed some of his jump serves.
“Guys”, coach Ukai shouted, everyone looked at him. “I know you guys want him here but we need to focus that’s including you Nekoma”, coach Ukai said, everyone nodded. Suddenly the door opened; everyone turned their heads to see if it might be Hinata, then what everyone had been waiting for. Hinata looking dirty; bruises on his face and blood seeping through the wraps of toilet paper stepped into the gym with shaky legs.
Everyone’s faces turn into horror as they saw Hinata’s appearance, Suga fell to his knees and cried; Kageyama hid in his knees and also cried; the first time he ever felt like that. Kenma latched on the closest person to him which was Fukunage and cried on him; Yamaguchi cried into Tsukishima and Tsukishima looked at Hinata with worry and disbelief, everyone either couldn’t take their eyes off Hinata or cried. Kuroo and Daichi both fought their tears and ran to him.
“Are you ok?”, Kuroo asks, Hinata shook his head.
“Please save me”, Hinata whimpered.
“We will, could you tell us what happened?”, Daichi asks.
“It was my dad, he hurt me, Natsu and my mom, I wanted to come to you but I was afraid that he will hurt me or worse hurt you”, Hinata cried, Daichi and Kuroo both wrapped their arms carefully round the poor boy and hugged him as Hinata cried on their shoulders, they felt so sorry for the poor guy. Coach Ukai had already called the police and paramedics, Takeda went to get the principal and the school counsellor. Daichi got Hinata to sit and Daichi put Hinata to rest against him, Kuroo used spare towels they had to help treat Hinata’s wound.
“Can I take the toilet paper off?”, Kuroo asks, Hinata shook his head.
“Please let Kuroo do it”, Daichi requested, Hinata shook his head.
“I can’t, it hurts so much and the wound”, Hinata protested.
“If you’re worried about me, don’t be it won’t be the first time I’ve seen disgusting stuff”, Kuroo said, he began gently ripping the blood soaked toilet paper apart to remove it. Once Kuroo removed the blood soaked toilet paper, he grimaced at the sight, definitely a vain been cut. Kuroo slowly wrapped a towel round to stop the bleeding, Hinata whimpered in pain and Daichi stroked Hinata’s hair while reassuring him.
“Ssh it’s ok”.
“It’s ok I’m nearly done”, Kuroo also reassured, finally Kuroo had finished wrapped the towel around Hinata’s bleeding arm. Kageyama came over to Hinata and got down on one knee. He opened his arms out for Hinata, Hinata moved over and buried himself into Kageyama with tears beginning to fall down his face again. He was safe; the 2 months of hell had finally come to an end. Kageyama just kept saying sorry over and over again; wishing he intervened sooner.
“Im tired”, Hinata spoke softly.
“You’re not sleeping”, Kageyama demanded.
“I want to”, Hinata protested; Kageyama realised Hinata wanted to sleep because of the amount of blood he lost; the towel had started getting full with blood as a small patch had started to show through; as well as he had been dripping blood. Just then paramedics had arrived and they took Hinata off Kageyama, they took the towel of that was soaked from the blood and put dressings on it, they cut Hinata’s clothes off and began to check Hinata’s vitals and attached stuff to him. Everyone watched the paramedics working on Hinata and taking him to the ambulance, coach Ukai boarded the ambulance with Hinata and raced to the hospital; sirens blaring.
“The place where we stay for training camp is ok with a sudden visit”, Takeda spoke; breaking the silence, he turned to Nekoma and said to them. “And Nekoma you can stay as well”.
“That’s great thank you very much”, coach Nekomata replied with a smile.
“Thank you thats kind of you”, Kuroo also thanked Takeda. Nekoma went with some Karasuno members to buy some socks, toiletries, T-shirts and underwear while the other members went home to pack a bag.