-Haikyuu! but I don't tell you the love interest.
-After a power surge caused all electricity to go out, criminals from prisons all over the country escaped. The world as you knew it was obliterated. All chance of civilized living was gone. The word...
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chapter sixty two: purpura papilio
When you and Sakusa get back on the bus, though panicked yelling and running around, you hear Kuroo's old radio playing. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To plays as Hinata cries out in pain from Kenma horribly attempting to fix his wounds.
You'd be so nice
You'd be paradise, to come home
to and love
Though part of you wishes to hum the words along with Sinatra, Osamu storms closer to you angrily. "Finally you've come back," he grumbles as he takes your hand. "Hinata needs your help! I was trying to tell you before but you were too damn busy worrying about," he says before looking over at Sakusa in disgust, "other things."
You try to explain everything to him, but he doesn't want to hear it as he pulls you toward Hinata who's crying on the couch.
You'd be so nice by the fire
While the breeze on high, sang a
lullaby
You'd be all that I could desire
Under stars chilled by the winter
"Shit," you murmur when you see Kenma with blood all over his hands. "What's going on?"
"I need gauze," he attempts to explain as he backs away from Hinata. "But we used it all up."
"Okay," you sigh. "Kenma, run inside the store, wash your hands before you touch anything, and pick up some gauze from the pharmacy."
"Got it," he nods as he stands up and runs out of the bus with his two bloody hands. When you turn and watch him leave, you notice Osamu and Sakusa talking quietly near the front by the small table.
You then look back at Hinata and continue your work to fix him up. He finally stops crying and takes a deep breath in to relax.
"Thanks, Y/N," his voice comes out choppy and broken as he relays his gratitude.
"Don't thank me yet. Kenma hasn't come back with the gauze yet."
"What do you think is taking him so long?" Oikawa asks, causing you and Hinata to look over where you see him and Suna watching you both carefully.
"Dunno. Maybe he's having trouble finding some," you shrug.
"Guess that checks out since the two of you took your damn time in there," he then mutters to himself.
"Be thankful we got it for you at all," Suna rolls his eyes before having enough and walking away. But before he gets to the bus entrance, Kenma comes in with another stranger- green-haired and freckles- right behind him.
"Jesus fucking Christ. We're gonna run out of room on this damn thing," Oikawa grumbles again. Those drugs you gave him must've caused him to get a bit loopy.
"Who's that with you?" you whisper to Kenma as he kneels beside you and hands you the gauze.
"I'm sorry I took so long but I think you should talk to him when you get the chance. It'll be worth it, I promise," he tells you, inviting curiosity into your brain before he gets up and walks back to the stranger.
In the corner of your eye you watch Kenma quietly apologize to the group for the outburst and shows the stranger the way off the bus.
"What do you think that's all about?" Hinata whispers to you as you help him sit up.
"I'm not sure," you reply, unraveling the gauze as you ponder that same question over in your head. "But I don't think Kenma would be so cryptic about it if it wasn't important."
"So you think it's serious?" Hinata continues to pry as you wrap the white gauze around him.
"Only one way to find out," you wink at him as you stand up. "Stay here. I'll be right back. If you need anything, don't ask Oikawa. I think the meds are getting to him."
You then walk up to Suna and wrap your arm around his shoulders. "Suna, however, would be happy to wait on you hand and foot until I get back. Right?"
"Seriously?" he groans as the two of you take a few steps toward Hinata.
"Thank you," you hum before patting his shoulder. "I'll be right back."
When you get outside the bus you see Kenma and the stranger talking. "We really need to get the hell out of here before another person shows up. This place must be some kind of hotspot."
"Actually, it's not..." Kenma mumbles to himself.
"What do you mean it's not? First, we run into Sakusa and now this guy just shows up. This place is attracting more and more people and our bus isn't really helping with the whole laying low thing."
"Y/N, please stop talking. Everything is fine," he sighs. "Do you remember how, when Tsukishima was alive, we visited his friend's house nearby where you were staying?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, after he passed and we, uh, buried him... I left a note for his friend in case he ever came back. And, well, he did," he awkwardly explains, not really sure how to compact so much information into a quick sentence.
"So you're telling me that this guy is..."
"Yamaguchi," the stranger introduces himself. "It's nice to meet you, Y/N. Kenma wrote a lot about you in his letters."
"Letters? So there was more than one?" you ask Kenma.
"I wrote him a note talking about our bus situation and told him he could come stay with us if he wanted but then we started this little quest to the airport so I wrote again telling him where we'd be if he wanted to tag along," he continues to inform you.;
"Jesus, Kenma. What if someone else read those letters first, huh? You could have gotten us fucking killed!"
"Relax," he shakes his head. "Nobody would've seen it unless they were planning to do Yamaguchi's laundry for him. I stuffed it inside his pillow. I didn't just leave it out for anyone to find."
After hearing it thoroughly explained, you finally let out a sigh of relief.
"So you're really him, huh?" you ask as you look over toward the tall man with olive green hair.
"It's really me. And you're really you..."
You shrug at his comment, unsure of what that's supposed to mean. It's not like you did anything honor-worthy to receive any praise from him.
"Thank you," he then interrupts your thoughts. "I was really worried about him but I can't be any happier than I am knowing all that Kenma's told me. You made his last days- his last months happy because he had you."
