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Hinata ran his hand through the chocolate brown locks. Oikawa rubbed his face on his boyfriend’s chest as they both laid down on Hinata’s bed. “I’m sure he has his reasons, Tooru.” Hinata sighed and the older male grumbled. “To be fair you didn’t tell him that you liked me.”
“That’s different, Shou-chan,” Oikawa mumbled. “we weren’t dating yet.”
“And what if Iwaizumi isn’t dating this person yet.” Hinata raised an eyebrow.
“Shou-chan, can you not be a reasonable person right now.” Oikawa pouted and Hinata rolled his eyes.
“I’m just telling you to give him time.”
“You don’t get it Shou-chan!” Oikawa quickly sat up, “he doesn’t do those kindof things with just anybody and that means there may be a high chance he likes this person and if he does like this person then this will be the first person he has liked in years! Years! He hasn’t dated anybody in years!” Oikawa slumped back down into Hinata’s chest, “I just thought he would tell me about it.”
“He’ll tell you when he’s ready. He could be still trying to sort through his feelings.” Hinata continued to run his hand through Oikawa’s hair.
“Shou-chan! Why do you have to make sense and be right all the time?!” Oikawa grumbled.
“We both know I’m not right all the time,” Hinata lifted Oikawa’s head to face him and quickly pecked his lips, “just fifty-five percent of the time.”
“Feels more like ninety,” Oikawa scoffed and Hinata laughed. Oikawa leant in for a deeper and longer kiss. He broke the kiss with a small laugh and went in for a few more chaste kisses before falling back. “It’s not bad, though,” Oikawa said with soft eyes, “it's just one of the many reasons I lo- “
Hinata phone rang interrupting Oikawa. “Sorry,” Hinata scrambled to get his phone and check the caller-id, “its Jiro.” Hinata showed Oikawa the name plastered over the screen. “Mind if I take it.”
“Sure.” Oikawa flipped out his phone and got settled on the bed. Hinata took his time leaving the room and closing the door behind him before answering the phone.
“Jiro?” Hinata answered.
“Don’t you Jiro me Shouyou! What the hell is this?!” Hinata flinched.
“What?”
“The entire school knows your gay! It’s what everyone’s talking about! How?!”
“Was it a secret before?” Hinata tilted his head. Jiro could almost slap himself silly for his friend’s ignorance. Things have been going well so far. The school was one of the few safe grounds he could be with Hinata and not be afraid of some pervert kidnapping him if he left the boy for a few minutes alone. Forget that now it was about to become a war zone. He didn’t have time to talk to Hinata he needed real help. Without thinking Jiro hung up the phone to go contact someone more reliable in these situations.
“Jiro?” Hinata called unsure if the phone was still connected. “Hello?”
Hinata POV
Something was off. Hinata couldn’t put his finger on it but something was definitely different about school. For starters, Tsukishima and Jiro had their guards up for some strange reason. Jiro was usually a very relaxed person and Tsukishima didn’t really give a damn about his surroundings most of the times so seeing the two so tense was really odd to Hinata. Secondly, it felt like everyone was staring at them. Hinata thought he was just imagining things at one point but he downright knew that people were staring at them. Did he look funny? He dressed how he usually does after he gets off of volleyball practice. Did he do anything? He hasn’t gotten in trouble recently and he can’t remember anything that he could have done to warrant any attention. Yep, nope nothing. It was a pretty normal last week. Hinata thought. Maybe Tsukishima. He was pretty hot but Hinata didn’t feel like that was it. Overall there was something that he was missing, something that he wasn’t seeing. What was it? Hinata was too busy with his thoughts to notice someone approaching their group. It was Jiro’s and Tsukishima’s protective movements that grabbed his attention. Seriously, what was up with these two?
“Hey, Hinata,” Hinata recognised the male as one of his classmates.
“Hey,” Hinata waved back before he could get another word in Tsukishima and Jiro stepped in front of him. Jiro wasn’t freakishly tall like Tsukishima but he still had some height oover the guy so they gave off quite an intimidating presence.
“Ummm,” the guy started, “can I talk to Hinata for a moment?”
“Why?” Jiro questioned while Tsukishima kept a heavy glare on the classmate.
“Just wanted to ask him something,” the classmate flinched back a little.
“What exactly?” Hinata swore that the guy would have fainted from just the heavy atmosphere if he didn’t step in.
“What did you want to ask?” Hinata pushed through his friends and gave his classmate a weary smile.
“Uhhh,” his classmate looked away with a slight blush on his face and dodged his eyes, “there’s been this rumour going around..”
“Rumour?” Was it about him?
“Nothing bad really,” he waved his hands in dismissal, “I just wanted to ask you about it first before jumping to conclusions.”
“Ah, okay.” That was thoughtful. He seemed like a nice guy.
“I guess what I’m trying to ask is,” he hesitated a bit with his words as Hinata waited patiently. The small crow didn’t seem to notice the people in his surroundings listening in. Finally, his classmate seemed to have gathered enough courage and blurted, “Are you gay?!”
Hinata blinked a few times. What? Was that really it? He thought everyone knew…. If he thought about it his teammates did seem a little shocked when he said he was gay. He doesn’t remember telling anyone either but people seemed to have just guessed it anyway so wait..! “Is it possible that no one knew that I was gay?” Hinata blurted.
“You just realised!” Jiro and Tsukishima yelled at him.
“I didn’t know!” Hinata used his hands to shield himself away from his friends.
“You never told anyone!” Jiro countered.
“I just assumed that everyone eventually figured it out like you guys!”
“So then your gay!” his classmate pushed through Tsukishima and Jiro with some other male schoolmates.
“Yeah,” Hinata nodded unaware of what was taking place. People were no longer listening and jumping in to try and talk to Hinata. Jiro and Tsukishima had trouble pulling themselves back to Hinata’s side to help ward off people. It really worried them that the crowd was full of only guys at the moment. Then their blessing in disguise came. A group of girls literally knocked over the boys and excitedly starting squealing.
“Hey, Hinata, do you want to eat lunch with us later?”
“We are going to karaoke later. Want to come?”
“There’s a cake shop that we are going to after school you should come with us!”
Boys. Men. Old Perverts. Those were what Tsukishima and Jiro could deal with. Girls. Girls were an entirely different ball game.
Hinata was the one who had the biggest problem. He had a habit of being shy around girls he just met. The only girls in the school that he was comfortable talking to were Yachi and Kiyoko. There were also a few girls in his class he could make a quick conversation with but the list was still very short. They were lucky that a teacher came by to disperse the crowd and send everyone to classes or who know what might have happened to the middle blocker.
Oikawa POV
“Morning,” Oikawa dragged his feet to the classroom and groaned out.
“What the hell happened to you?!” Hanamaki nearly had a heart attack when he saw Oikawa. His friend looked like he was on his deathbed. Others were looking bewildered at the usual prince-like Oikawa has obviously gone on vacation today. Oikawa didn’t wrong any of their actions. He couldn’t deny how horrible he looked and felt. His hair was a mess, dark bags under his eyes, his body just ached and it felt slightly hotter than it should for February.
“Are you sick?” Iwaizumi asked with rare concern in his voice. He bets that Oikawa overworked himself somehow but couldn’t even find the anger in him to shout much less hit him after seeing how terrible he looks.
“No, I’m fine.” Oikawa said unconvincingly, “Just a really bad day.” Yeah, it was just a bad day. Oikawa kept trying to convince his friends and himself but for some reason, he couldn’t shake this horrible feeling. Like something bad was going to happen. It didn’t make him feel any better that the feeling was somewhat linked to Hinata. He resisted calling him for the entire morning but maybe he should just go ahead. A text would be sufficient. Oikawa agreed with himself. As soon as he reaches his desk he would –bam! Oikawa had to wonder for a moment why his face was on the floor.
“Tooru!” he heard Hanamaki shout as he and Iwaizumi hurried to pick him up.
“You're burning up!” Iwaizumi hissed with his hand on Oikawa’s forehead.
“Am I?” He didn’t really get what Iwaizumi was saying while he watched the world spin. World spinning? He didn’t have time to watch the world spin he had to text Hinata. Oikawa reached out for his desk but Iwaizumi pulled him back. “Oh hell no! You are going to the nurse!” Hanamaki made a silent agreement with Iwaizumi and helped drag Oikawa against his will to class.
Jiro POV
This was definitely new for Jiro. He never thought that he would ever have had the luxury of being surrounded by girls during lunch time. To be fair they were really surrounding Hinata and he just happened to be seated right in front of Hinata’s so he automatically got to eat lunch there with Hinata. Still, he would take what he got. “Ne, Hinata is that your real hair colour?” one of the girls beside Hinata gleamed.
“Oh, yeah.” Hinata twirled one of his strands.
“Seriously! I thought you dyed it,” another girl spoke up, “it looks so pretty.”
“You should see my sister and my mom.” Hinata laughed. The girls were nice company. Hinata got along with them well once he warmed up to them and Jiro didn’t have to worry about Hinata’s innocence once it came to them.
“It’s really soft too,” one of the male classmates snuck up behind Hinata and felt Hinata’s hair.
“Thank you,” Hinata thought nothing of the intrusion in personal space and the giddy smile on the guys face that annoyed Jiro.
“Stay away from him, pervert!” one of the girls swung a solid right hook into his stomach that sent him flying away from Hinata. The other girls huddle around Hinata to form a protection squad. Just another bonus for having girls around.
“We want to talk to Hinata too!” There was a group of guys on the side just waiting for an opportunity to get close to Hinata.
“We aren’t letting him anywhere near you filthy perverts!” They girls huddled closer to Hinata. As usual, Hinata was just as clueless about the situation happening and gave Jiro a puzzled look. Jiro just shrugged his shoulders. It was better to not let Hinata think too much on these things, Still, it was only the first day and there was already this much ruckus. At this rate the school may divide into two and break into war over Hinata. He thought he may be overreacting but looking at the ordeal happening between the girls and boys it may not be so farfetched after all.
“Hinata, don’t be afraid to report them if they do anything weird,” a blonde girl to the left of him told him.
“I don’t know what you mean by weird but they all look like nice people,” Hinata turned towards the guys and did a tiny smile. The noise level in the room doubled after that. Jiro hasn't seen boys cheer so loud over someone who wasn’t a famous idol, actor or model. Kind of made him scared of what Hinata could do if he was serious. Nothing seems to penetrate Hinata as he still remained ignorant to what was going on.
Now that Jiro looked at him, Hinata attention was more focused on his phone than on anyone in the room. Taking few side glances to the mobile placed on his desk. “Is something wrong?” Jiro asked.
Hinata pouted and slumped a little, “He hasn’t messaged me.” The room finally quieted down and both groups were listening in on their conversation. Jiro suddenly had an idea he didn’t know how it would play out but it was worth a shot.
“Your boyfriend,” Jiro said loud enough for the entire room to hear and Hinata nodded absentmindedly.
“He would usually message me once or twice by now.” Hinata stared down at the phone as if expecting to see a notification for a new message anytime soon.
“Hinata!” the girls were the first to react, “You have a boyfriend!”
“Y-yeah,” Hinata jumped back a little at the sudden exclamation.
Jiro looked over to the guys and was quite satisfied to see them torn and heartbroken. “Oh yeah, I remember hearing something like he had a boyfriend.” One of them murmured in defeat. Maybe now they would finally give up. Jiro sighed in relief.
“What is he like?” the girls’ eyes gleamed with wonder.
Hinata hummed for a while and tapped his chin, “Well, he’s kind of a dork.” Hinata did a genuine laugh. Jiro had to pause and replay Hinata’s words in his head a hundred times before it processed. Oikawa Tooru a dork!
“Seriously?”
“Yeah, he’s really into stuff like physics and aliens.” Jiro knew this was probably true but it painted a totally different picture of what he knew. He looked back over to the guys who weren’t looking so heartbroken anymore but rather confident. God dammit Hinata stop giving them hope!
“He sounds pretty nice,” the guys appeared beside Hinata all with smug smiles on their faces. Too late. Jiro sighed. School was going to be hectic from now on.
Meanwhile
“You were burning up just a few minutes ago!” Hanamaki exclaimed when he saw the thermometer, “how did your temperature drop so quickly!”
Oikawa shivered in the nurse's bed. One minute it was hot and now it was frezzing. A sign. A bad omen. He was never a superstitious person but he had this strong feeling that he needed to check up on Hinata. Another cold shiver went down his spine.
“Yep,” the nurse checked Oikawa, “he’s definitely not going anywhere today.