Wait- when was Osamu added?
Oikawa woke up the next morning all curled up under his desk, neck aching like hell. His heart didn’t feel light but it felt easier to breathe which was good, he smiled softly then broke out in a fit of giggles, tonight he would go get roaring drunk with the other captains which was great! He wouldn’t be at practice so he only had to see Iwaizumi during morning practice and since he had to leave before after school practice to get on the right train, that’s good. What was this between them? Oikawa didn’t know but what he did know was that deep down he couldn’t bear the thought of losing Iwaizumi even if it meant he would suffer in silence.
He reached for his phone. Opened up WhatsApp. Started to type. He dropped his phone. What was he doing?
He got dressed, not bothering to do his hair at all which for once was a shock. He threw his untouched homework into his bag, shoved his crinkled sports clothes into his bag and trudged out his bedroom, for once having not done his stretches. Was it dumb that he didn’t do his stretches? Yes, it meant his knee was stiff and groany like an old printing press. He slammed open his front door and stormed down the street, usually he would run to school but fuck that, he would usually run to school but honestly he couldn’t be bothered, he’d rather just walk and turn up late instead. The truth was that his actual home was located near Sanriku Fukkō National Park, that’s where the main family house was, it was a pit of writhing, angered snakes who seemed to display no sense of guilt or sympathy, luckily for him he had grown up having to be merciless and so he had no qualms about adapting to their behaviour. His current home? On the mountain Taihaku near the Kifune shrine. He didn’t believe in Buddha, in actual fact he didn’t really believe in any form of God or Gods but if he had to choose a religion he would always lean towards the Shinto gods, especially Ryūjin, he felt like he could relate to the god on a personal level due to him spending most of his life in the water but then again maybe he was just desperate for companionship. Iwaizumi lived near him, down at the
Oikawa paused and stared at his bike, would he need it? Probably, school would take almost two hours to walk to so he would definitely miss practice but with his bike it would take a maximum of an hour and a half unless his knee decided to die and then it would take as long as it would take for his knee to properly heal but whatever, wasn’t his problem, if it didn’t kill him then meh.
The time it took to get from his home to Iwakasa Inari Daimyojin was forty five minutes by bike and honestly he would rather go to the shrine than school. No one was ever really there and it was always overgrown, for some reason this fact offended him, how could the humans forget a shrine? A place of worship and respect? For humans to do that must mean they had forgotten about the local god and that meant the god would still be alive but they would not be truly alive.
He first stopped off at the Kifune shrine, it was a small shrine at the summit on the mountain and he had a beautiful view over Sendai, framed by the burning red of the autumn leaves. He pulled out some sake, dried meat and some onigiri from his bag, gently unwrapping the meat and the onigiri that he had packed the the previous night before his subsequent breakdown. It was Friday and he wouldn’t be able to give offerings to the gods until Monday but on Tuesday morning they were leaving for that training camp and so he decided to bring some of the best offerings he could think of! Maybe they could stop at a Ryūjin shrine so he could pay respects to his old friend.
He sat down next to the shrine, making sure he didn’t sit on the path or anything of importance. He was once celebrated as a god so he knew what it was like for all those to forget you, it was like loosing your human mind, it tears even the most intelligent of gods apart but it wouldn’t kill you...it never would.
“Oh ho ho you come visit my brothers shrine before mine?”
He hears a smug but silky voice laugh from his left. He turned to face the person...no, God who stood at the tree line.
“There is no shrine for you in Miyagi.”
He grunted, staring at the dragon whose smug grin turned to a fake pout, blue eyes sparkling with amusement.
“Oh how you wound me! You know you could just make one right? Just take a photo of beautiful old me, slap it up on every wall, get lots of good alcohol and sexy food then simply appraise me and see me as your only god, THE only god.”
Ryujin chortled, coming to stand right infront of Oikawa, tail wagging back and forth. His tail was incredibly long, it curled and whipped around like a vine as if he was the personification of nature itself.
“Why are you here Ryujin?”
Oikawa turned his gaze away from the man, looking down at his phone which was buzzing like crazy.
Litten: Mattsun looks like the type of guy who would use a ouija board to contact the dead hooker he saw on the news
Babayaga: that was one fucking time
Babayaga: stop exposing me
Boba: headteachers always look like lesbians
TuTuyama: the head mistress is your mum…
Boba: Mum?!?!
Boba: no it can’t be
Asahesus: haveyouacceptedJesusasyourpersonalsaviour?
NOya: I-
Sangwoah: just fill @NOya ‘s hole, hole filler
HoeHoe: one time I had a dream I was in class and the teacher was so pissed off at us she said “just turn to page whatever” then walked out of class lol
Asahesus: JAJZJJAJZJAJAJSJ A TSUMU
WhoWho: Bokuto-san
WhoWho: that happened in real life
Ohsamew: @SangWoah I hope to god you’re adopted
SangWoah: ahxujahxhahahahaha :)
Salmon: one Time we had a project in English about how history affected literature by black peoples so Mattsun went to the librarian and asked “do you have any books written by black peoples?” And the librarian just went “yeh” in the deepest voice
SangWoah: one time Samu was crying to our mum and our mum said “everything is fine, why are you still crying?” Really softly and his response was “because these pajamas are gay.”
Litten: one time Lev was trying to get the rest of the team to run with him during a particularly cold and icy morning and his song to cheer us up was “you wanna be an Air Force ranger, you wanna live a life of danger, you don’t wanna be raped by strangers”
Ohsangew: well one time Tsumu got home and asked our foster mother what was wrong and she said “come rub my nipples” and his response was “excuse me?”
Fuckoff: I-
Litten: @SangWoah you okay dude?
SangWoah: yeah lol
SangWoah: we haven’t lived with that couple in a while
Litten changed Ohsamew to Osamove
Osamove: yh we got out of that house on account of sexual abuse lol
SangWoah: ah memories
Minecraftfox: are you okay Atsumu, Osamu?
SangWoah: yeah
Osamove: yeah we got rid of the danger
Litten: you killed someone-
Godzillasimp: I-
Babayaga: one time Oikawa was pretending to be okay and Iwa said “my bs detector is going ding!”
Babayaga: Oikawa then said “what do you mean Hajime? Everything is going fine.”
Babayaga: then Iwa said “I can read, not well but I can read and those letters”
Babayaga: “are”
Babayaga: “backwards”
Babayaga: and his girlfriend gasped all dramatically
Asahesus: the internet was a blessing by the lord Jesus to spread gods words all over the world but pedophiles and Muslims and used it to seduce children like yourself
NOya: oml
Litten: go blow up an abortion clinic or something Asahi
Fuckoff: I just found a cave with the name “Remember, remember, the Fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot”
Which is kinda funky
Litten: people go in there by they didn’t come out, not unlike your sister @HoeHoe
HoeHoe: hey man let’s got of the sisters, especially since I just got off of yours
Fuckoff: ehehe I like his sister, she’s one hot jewel
Minecraftfox: I know that you’re gay…
You’remydad: Jesus fuck
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Hinata had gone home after finishing his bottle of alcohol, he sighed and slid the fusuma shut behind him, placing his shoes down softly in the genkan, groaning as he stood up straight, his knees were aching, this human body was not made to contain a Titan.
“Can you shut the Amados please? I’ve heard there is going to be a lot of rain tonight! And bring your sister in, she is still playing outside.”
His mother’s handwriting was rushed which probably meant she would!’t be back. He let out a loud hum of conformation and walked through the ima and out onto the engawa. He walked around the house and started shutting the amados from the inside, making sure that their cats weren’t locked outside.
“Natsu!”
He called out into the dark, he felt his eyes shift, he could see much easier in the dark now. Instinctively his tongue flicked out, he could taste her but it was stale so she was probably already inside. He sighed and kept on shutting the shutters, making sure they were locked into place. He went upstairs and made sure each window had its amado shut, the last thing he needed was to patch up the windows because his mother didn’t have enough time.
“Onii-chan!”
He felt a small body collide with his leg, two arms wrapped around his waist.
“Natsu!”
He grinned, ruffling her curls which made the young girl half squeal half groan in a mix of sleepy delight. He reached down and scooped her up in his arms.
“Where were you onii-chan?”
She mumbled, he ignored the way drool seeped through his t-shirt and onto his skin, it made his skin crawl but whatever.
“I just wanted a bit of free time so I went out for a bit. I’m sorry if I worried you baby.”
He pressed a kiss to her hair, sliding her fusuma open with his foot, mentally thanking the girl for not closing it properly when she wandered out.
“Mhm, mama was busy so I had to get dress mself.”
She mumbled, gripping his t-shirt as she drifted to sleep. He knelt down and placed her gently on her futon, he tried to pry his top from her tight fist but he had no such luck so instead he slipped the t-shirt off and gently placed it next to her, cooing as she pulled it closed and held it like a teddy bear. He really was blessed with the sweetest little sister!
“Night Natsu, love you!”
He pressed a kiss to her forehead and shut the fusuma behind him. He traced his fingers over the scarring across his chin, cheekbones and forehead, he ran his tongue flatly against the back of his labaret, sighing sadly at how dull his fangs felt in this form, sure his teeth were sharper than most humans but they were so dull compared to his old fangs that sliced through even the toughest flesh like butter.
He walked into his bedroom and opened his window, staring into the blackness of the forest, the only downside of living in the wild? You could never tell what was lurking in those pitch black shadows. A sound of a baby crying crackled through the night, shattering the fake facade of stillness throughout the trees, he grinned a sick grin, eyes glinting dangerously as the crying got louder and louder until the thing was at the edge of the tree line, he knew the thing was looking at him, he could feel it in his bones.
He let his tongue elongate and become forked, his teeth fell out and long fangs dripping with poison grew in their place, his eyes glowed a deep toxic green and feathers sprouted around his face, nails fell out and claws ripped into the wood, skin literally tore and fell away, showing blood stained feathers beneath. The thing stopped crying and Quetzalcoatlus could feel it leave.
Hinata trudged to practice, yes he trudged because his bike was out of commission since there was too much debree on the roads for him to ride with Natsu safely so he had carried her and their bags down the hill and to her primary school where he dropped her off and headed to Karasuno only to remember he hadn’t brought his gym clothes with him so he half flew half run back up the hill (half flew because he had to make sure no humans saw him) then grabbed his gym bag then went back down the hill and was now dragging himself towards the gym where he could hear balls slapping wooden flooring.
Hinata was tired, he had forgotten to take out his piercings and his body hurt from his half transformation the night before plus Yachi had been sick and Kiyoko was on a trip with her history class for the week so Yachi’s friend offered to help out except she had the biggest obsession with Kageyama and so she hated him and had been making his life hell to the point where even Tsukishima took on some of the jobs she dumped on him like setting up himself then putting everything away or cleaning the gym by himself before and after each practice. Worst of all he knew for a fact he had forgotten to slap some Make-up on his face so his stupid scars were on full display which means he had to wear a mask and hope his hair covered his forehead, he didn’t want to sit out during practice but until he could borrow some makeup off of someone he was stuffed.
He pressed his forehead to the wall of the gym, groaning in a mix of annoyance and laziness. The cold rain water felt nice against his brow, he rubbed his cheeks against it as well, loving the way the cold water cooled down his burning head.
“Pfft, what are you doing Shouyo?”
A loud voice full of happiness sparked in the cold post storm air.
“Mmmm Noya-saaaaaaaaaaan!”
He groaned, slumping forward, padding towards the boy then slumping over the second year.
“Wha? What happened to you Shouyo? Where is the sunny excitable boy we know?”
Noya slapped his back but didn’t shove him off.
“Mngh I left my gym stuff in my house but when I realised it was when I dropped Natsu off so I had to run back up the hill because I couldn’t take my bike with me.”
He huffed, slowly walking behind Noya.
“Wow, sucks to be you huh?”
Noya laughed again and opened the door, the team turned to greet him but quickly quietened down when they saw Hinata, the air became thick with emotion.
Hinata looked up, blearily looking around the room, Kageyama stood next to Yue, Yachi’s friend. She was clinging to his arm and in all honesty Hinata didn’t care, sure, he was supposed to be dating Kageyama but...well he didn’t know, it was like he couldn’t process the emotions.
“Sorry I’m late everyone! I left my bag at home!”
He beamed, gesturing the his gym bag that hung at his side but no one reacted. It was only now he noticed that everyone was glaring at him, he stiffened, he felt his flight or fight instincts kick in.
“What’s up?”
He tilted his head to the side, hoping the scars on his face weren’t too obvious and that they wouldn’t bring up the piercings, he wasn’t sure how he would explain them.
“How dare you show up here?”
Sugawara’s words cut through the air like a mace. A siren whirred in his head, what the fuck was going on? He looked across the rest of the team, they all looked at him in a similar way.
“What do you mean Suga-san? This is my club after all!”
He grinned, teeth looking unnaturally sharp, he knew his smile didn’t reach his eyes, he could tell by the way Yamaguchi shuddered under his gaze.
“You know exactly what I’m talking about! Who do you think you are? Thinking you can just show up like this after what you’ve done?”
Sugawara was really angry; Hinata had never seen him like that. He stared at the older boy, molton brown eyes now hollow. He let the smile drop from his face; he looked fucking pissed.
“I-I don’t know what you’re talking a-about! Can y-you just tell me?”
He begged but his face didn’t match his tone of voice, his eyes looked hollow and the worried expression he wore took awhile to make its way onto his face.
“You slapped Yue is what you did Hinata! Are you that jealous she is getting Kageyama’s attention instead of you?”
The grey haired male snaps sharply. Hinata snorted, a wild look crawling into his eyes.
“Oh? Did I? When did I do this?”
He covered his mouth, hiding his massive grin but most importantly he was swallowing the blood from his tongue which was splitting. He felt his teeth ache as they grew longer and sharper, he felt his scalp itch as feathers slowly started to grow in his bushy red hair.
“After school!”
Sugawara was fuming, he could practically see the steam rising from his ears. The rest of the team stayed silent but they were all heavily glaring at him.
“After school? You mean after school when I was at Natsu’s play after school? After school when I left early to cycle to Natsu’s School after school? After school when I wasn’t on the fucking campus?”
He felt the anger in him settle, something else washed over him, it made his throat sting like when you want to cry except he didn’t want to cry this time.
“Stop lying!”
Asahi’s words hurt more than Suga’s. Maybe it was the height, maybe it was the deep voice, maybe it was the fact that Nishinoya was clinging to him like Natsu usually did when their father got out of hand, maybe that’s what caused him to shake in fear.
“Shut up.”
He whispered, hand moving to cover his eyes to stop himself from crying.
“Don’t speak to Asahi like that! He is a third year and deserves respect!”
Daichi’s booming voice echoed around the gym. Hinata’s shaking got worse, he felt his heart hammer in his chest.
“Shut up.”
He spoke louder but still not what would be considered a normal volume.
“Don’t you fucking dare tell him to shut up!”
Ennoshita’s words felt like they were copy and pasted from a script his dad read from every night when he was drunk.
“Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up!”
Hinata shouted. He pressed the heels of both hands into his eyes while keeping the brown orbs scrunched shut.
“God you’re so fucking annoying! Just piss off already! We don’t want you here if you’re gonna talk shit!”
Kageyama snapped, glaring daggers into Hinata’s arms were shaking too much for it to be anger, no, his whole body was. Noya noticed the way the redhead was hyperventilating, he started panicking, looking around the room for someone who didn’t look like they wanted to commit murder. The shouting voices of the team who all were spitting words of poison were too much for Hinata, it was like his father all over again but this time with his friends...with people he thought he could trust.
“Shut the fuck up everyone!”
Noya snarled, eyes glaring daggers into everyone par Tsukishima who wasn’t doing anything, who hadn’t said anything, who in actual fact looked shocked to hear Hinata had apparently hit Yue.
The team’s mouths clicked shut as everyone realised something was wrong. Noya gently placed his hand on Hinata’s shoulders, chewing on his lip nervously.
“You gotta breathe, deep breaths yeah Shouyo? You’re safe. You’re fine.”