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the earth and the sun (pt. 2)

"Sawamura," Kageyama approached the team's captain nervously.

"Hey, Kageyama. What's up?" He asked, taking a drink from his water bottle and looking at Kageyama expectantly.

"Um, could we talk outside for a second?" he asked timidly.

"Yeah, sure," Daichi looked at him oddly. Kageyama was usually very straightforward, sometimes to the point of unnecessary bluntness. Why was he being so shy?

The two sat on the steps of the gym's side entrance, breathing in the cool air and gazing up at the moon which was half-covered by clouds. It was rare that they spoke without being interrupted by someone else on the team.

Daichi started to speak. "What did y-"

"How did you know you lik- loved Sugawara?" Kageyama stumbled over his words slightly but his characteristic bluntness was back.

Daichi chuckled slightly at this. 

When he was a kid, he'd asked his mother why she wore a ring and what it meant. She said it meant she would love his father forever, so he asked: "What is love?" Now it was his turn, although much sooner than he thought it'd be.

It was Daichi's turn to have the 'what is love' talk.

"Well, I've always admired Suga, as long as I've known him, that is. When I first met him I tried comparing him to other friends I've had. But he's not like anyone I've ever known before." He paused to laugh quietly at the cheesiness of it all. But it was true.

Unlike anyone I've ever known.

He turned to see Kageyama hanging onto his every word and smiled. There was someone in his life that he loved, and Daichi had an idea who it was... At any rate, he was honoured to be the person Kageyama came to for advice.

He glanced back at the moon that cast a luminescent white glow on everything since the clouds had been blown away. And he continued talking.

"It wasn't much to begin with, just some friendly conversation and a few stray smiles in class. We sort of figured out how to communicate with looks that way; Asahi still doesn't get it." Kageyama couldn't help but smile. Daichi looked so happy talking about Suga. He loved him completely and unconditionally, it was obvious.

"I started to notice the little things, like how he always spins his pencil when he's thinking and how his lips press together when he's focused."

How his tongue sticks out of the corner of his mouth when he's focusing. How his eyebrows and nose scrunch up when he's thinking.

"I thought it was a bit silly how his hair stuck up and was longer than most other guys' hair but my siblings always bothered him to let them play with it and he let them," Daichi winced sympathetically. "How he put up with the four of them tugging and braiding his hair, I'll never know."

He shows up to weekend practices with small braids and colourful hair ties that his little sister put in and he didn't have the heart to take out.

"But that wasn't really when I realized I was in love."

"It wasn't?" Kageyama asked. Everyone always said it was the little things that make you fall in love.

Daichi shook his head. "The big kicking moment was when I saw him play in a game. Everyone else was feeling down and he had this impeccable skill to hold them together and cheer them up. I realized I wanted to be more like him, and I wanted to stand next to him. I wanted to be someone he could fall back on when the weight of being the upbeat guy with the skill to enhance his team's performance became too much. I wanted to be the person he could lean on. And watching him made me want to become a better person myself."

Bring out the best in him. Make myself a better person.

Daichi looked back at Kageyama. "Sorry if that's really cheesy," he blushed with embarrassment. "I'm not usually so sappy but sometimes I can't help it."

"No, no, thank you," Kageyama tried to smile to show his sincerity but it came out crooked.

The gesture was endearing in an awkward and uncharacteristically friendly way. Daichi realized the effort he was putting in to be a good teammate. He laughed and patted Kageyama on the shoulder with a grin.

"Whoever's snatched up your heart is very lucky," he said. "And if it's who I think it is I know he'll be very happy when he finds out." Daichi's eyes glittered as if he knew something.

"Oh, uh thank you?" Kageyama blushed and looked away. How did he know it was a guy? Daichi couldn't know, could he?

"Okay, we should get back now, don't you think?" He stood and capped his water bottle. Kageyama nodded and followed him inside. Could Daichi be right? Does Hinata like me back?

His eyes trailed the redhead. Surely not.

But it wouldn't matter in the slightest because Kageyama knew he liked Hinata.

He was like no one else he'd ever met.

His smile made Kageyama's heart beat faster and he often had to fight himself to keep a straight face.

He couldn't help but notice how Hinata chewed his lip when he was thinking and how the corners of his eyes crinkled when he smiled.

Kageyama couldn't help but want to train and play volleyball with him, he couldn't help wanting to help Hinata get stronger.

So he finally stopped resisting it.

He stopped ignoring and denying it.

Kageyama Tobio loved Hinata Shoyo with all his heart and it wouldn't matter if he didn't like him back. Existing near him was enough. 

Like how the Earth would happily orbit the Sun, simply because it got to be close to it.

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