ice queen • haikyuu

054 | visiting home

The soulmate duo relaxed against their older sister, their chests swelling with warmth, glad to finally be able to hug the lavender-haired female. They had missed her dearly during her years in America.

Stay, do not leave. In the heart of the morning. Under the sun's refuge. There's nothing sweeter than love, silence and your gaze.

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"So you've decided to join the V League?" Mizuki inquired, sitting on the steps between the two soulmates.

Kageyama nodded.

"You won't be going to university?"

"As if Bakageyama could get in," snorted Hinata, munching on one of the meat buns Mizuki had bought earlier from Keishin's shop. He had been ecstatic to see the lavenderette, giving her the food on the house (Mizuki slipped money in the glass vase beside the door before she left, but shh. Don't tell him that).

Tobio shot the ginger a nasty glare.

"Urusai!"

"Kageyama-kun!" The trio turned to see one of the raven-haired's classmate walk up to him. "We need you back in class!"

Kageyama glanced beside him, and Mizuki smiled. "Go. I'll be here afterwards."

He nodded and left, following after the student.

Mizuki turned to Hinata, seeing him stare at Kageyama's departing figure purposefully.

"I saw that look," she said.

"What look?"

"You know you can't fool me, Shoyou."

He sighed, glancing down at his hands, the brown wrapper scrunched up in his palms. "It's just that...even though I've improved since our first year, I'm still far behind," he admitted, his jaw clenching.

"But isn't that why you're going to Brazil?" she questioned. "To improve?"

"Yeah, I suppose."

Mizuki reached over, drawing the younger male into her embrace. "You'll be fine, Shoyou. Sometimes we need to take risks; otherwise, we won't be able to reach our goals and dreams."

"But how do I know if moving halfway across the world is a bad idea?"

"How do you know if it's a good idea?" she countered.

Hinata shrugged.

"I say you should go. You need to get out of your comfort zone."

"...but I'm scared."

Mizuki smiled sympathetically, laying her head on his, watching the sun shine brilliantly above their heads, cocooning them in a warm embrace. "Dum spiro spero."

"Huh?"

"While I breathe, I hope," she translated. "When you're scared and you feel like the whole world is against you, just repeat that. Dum spiro spero."

"D-Dum spiro spero?"

Mizuki nodded.

"While I breathe, I hope," he repeated, exhaling a deep breath. "While I breathe...I hope."

"That's right."

Darkness cannot be erased by darkness, only by light. Hatred cannot be erased by hatred, but by love. All he needed was her hand that would pull him out of the darkness and into the light.