A Field of Dandelions (KageHina)

14: coincidence? or fate?

"Kageyama! Look how pretty this butterfly is!" Hinata joyously beamed, holding up an orange, monarch butterfly that was perching in his finger. It was a butterfly with wings that have a color of orange fading into yellow. It was lightly fluttering its wings, but not flying off of Shoyo's fingers.

"Yeah, it's pretty." Kageyama softly smiled, looking at Hinata who was admiring the butterfly. His eyes never even drifted onto the butterfly.

They both watched as the beautiful monarch butterfly flapped its wings, flying up into the clouds. Shoyo gave it a small wave like the butterfly knew what a wave meant.
This was slightly amusing to Kageyama.

"You know the butterfly doesn't know what a wave means, right you moron?" Kageyama scoffed, watching as Hinata trotted over to him after letting the butterfly fly away. Shoyo just stuck his tongue out towards Tobio, not caring that the butterfly didn't know what a 'wave' meant.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Hinata flipped his hands, like he was shooing Kageyama's negativity away. "Anyways, come with me a little further!" He brightly smiled, grabbing Tobio by the wrist again to drag him off to somewhere else.

Before Kageyama had time to react, he realized he was running through the fields of dandelions with Hinata again. He couldn't even complain. All he could do was smile on how happy the smaller boy was. But the thought of being here before was still tugging deep within his mind. But he couldn't place his finger on when.

As they ran further into the fields, not even being able to see the pavement anymore, they ended up at a gorgeous pond. It was glistening under the sunlight, and there were beautiful koi fishes swimming inside the waters. The flowers around it had bursts of bright colors, varying from scarlet red all the way to a violet purple. It was like a rainbow was growing from the ground.

"Woah..." Kageyama's mouth was gaped open as he was astonished with what he saw in front of him. He's never seen any type of nature this beautiful before.

"I spotted it from where we were standing! Plus, it feels like I've seen it before even though I've never been here." Shoyo told Kageyama, bending down to stick his fingers into the koi pond. As the smaller boy tried to avoid his fingers getting sucked on by the fish, a very vivid memory occurred inside of Tobio's mind. It somehow felt like deja vu.

11 years ago...

One day, there were two boys, both 5 years of age.
One of them had just been diagnosed with an illness, and the other one found out devastating news about their grandfather. To no surprise, those two boys were actually...

Kageyama and Hinata.

Tobio just found out that his grandfather was to be hospitalized because his health was declining. What he didn't know was that both he AND Hinata was running away from the same hospital but for different reasons.
Kageyama was running because he didn't want to accept the news that his grandfather might die, as Shoyo was running because he didn't want to be hospitalized for a bunch of unknown illnesses, and from the fact that he could potentially die at 5 years old.

Somehow, maybe out of coincidence...or fate, those two boys ended up in the same dandelion field.

Kageyama was hysterically crying near a koi pond, while Hinata was at the opposite end of the field. But the shorter boy could hear the faint sounds of someone sniffling so, he decided to go and investigate it.

And while Tobio was sobbing into his hands, a short, orange haired boy came up to him with a bright yellow dandelion in hand. Hinata had just smiled and given him that dandelion, and ran off into the distance, not saying anything else.

The small boy had disappeared like the wind.
As if he was never there in the first place.
Like a guardian angel.

Not having to say anything, Shoyo subconsciously made the young Kageyama smile. The dark haired boy's tears just stopped. It was like the flower Hinata gave him took all the pain and angst away.

Call it coincidence.
Call it fate.

But those two boys didn't meet during their junior high volleyball game.

They met in the field of dandelions.
The field that they're both at right now.

11 years later.

'So that was you...' Kageyama stood there in disbelief, looking at the boy still playing with the water.
Except he could see a 5 year old Shoyo right next to the 16 year old Shoyo.

And for an unknown reason, he could feel his heart aching.

END