The Strongest Decoy

"For a long time now, I have been completely enthralled by the words 'Small Giant'. Even though I didn't know much about the rules of volleyball, I watched that short player's movements as if in a trance. 'It'd be great if I could become like that', I thought." { Hinata Shouyou || Haikyuu!! } Affiliated with Firefly Hearts

[kyoutanichan-blog]

Okay, he hadn’t really meant for it to hit anyone, but now that it did…

He tried to make it look like he hadn’t done it. One hand in his pocket, the other holding all the stress balls, the young man looked around. any- where but directly at the slightly-familiar shorter boy.

[spikingdecoy]

Staring as aggressively as a 162 cm shota nerd can stare.

Now, he isn’t one to jump to conclusions yes he is, and he would really hate to judge someone unfairly but considering there was only one person in the vicinity, this ducky tucking culprit can only have been one person. But said person just so happened to be one Hinata was terrified of. What was a man to do other than stare and growl unsatisfied at the course of events?

[kyoutanichan-blog]

Your welcome package contains 11 and a half stress balls, one rubber ducky, and an onion ring.

He ate the onion ring, chucked the goddamn rubber ducky as far as he possibly could, not caring if it actually hit anyone, and he just. stared at all the goddamn stress balls.

[spikingdecoy]

Tfw you’re suddenly hit in the head with a rubber ducky.

[jellipopi]

whenever hinata enters a new gym

[spikingdecoy]

Alright, volleyball nerd here needs threads, so like this post for a starter. I’m going to be capping at 3, but cast mates can just disregard this cap.

[spikingdecoy]

Cue excited Kenma-has-arrived noises

[nirvshot]

that half eaten banana is going to be aimed at your face if you’re not careful, shrimp. he doesn’t care where it goes, trash can or an orange’s mouth, what’s the difference.

[spikingdecoy]

You better watch out, he has oyster crackers and he’s not afraid to use them! Get down here so he can stuff your mouth full of them.

[spikingdecoy]

Suddenly he isn’t as dissatisfied with his own welcoming present anymore when fellow volleyball nerd Tsukishima got a half-eaten banana.

What do they say? A shitty present for a shithead?

[spikingdecoy]

puke green sweatpants,

“That’s... Kind of gross.” At least no one will notice when he’s feeling motion sick like that.

[spikingdecoy]

A sudden snow storm sweeps over Bunkyo, blanketing the ground with snow. How will you spend your day?

"I'll find someone who wanna play with me and then I'm gonna play snowball matches with them all day and build snowmans and show them my super fast snowball that goes like FUWAAAAH and SWISSSH through the air!!! Else I'm just gonna get Kageyama to do it. Or Tsukishima! I wanna dump snow on that Tsukishima bastard...!"

[spikingdecoy]

... Crap...

Sudden realisation hit the small decoy upon taking a glance at the calendar, a thing he had neglected ever since break started since there wasn't really any need to. On there was a specific event carefully noted down exactly so he wouldn't forget it.

December 22 -- Kageyama's bday

"... Kageyama's gonna kill me..."

[spikingdecoy]

Hello guys, sorry about the inactivity, my motivation to do anything has been horribly unstable lately. I'll be getting back to RPing in one of the next few days on all of my muses - Hinata, Konoha and Owain - but right now I'm ill and barely have the energy to do anything so I'll probably only be up for small RPs. That aside welcome to all the new people!

[demonsetter]

Kageyama just looked at the decoy, his previous smirk wiped off his face to be replaced with annoyance. “…Of course it is in Tokyo! I mean where in Tokyo!” Well, ‘Tokyo’ was about a good of an answer as the setter could give as well. “If you don’t know, just admit that you don’t.” Which, of course in Kageyama’s mind would mean that he won.

[spikingdecoy]

"Geh--" There it was: obnoxious angry Kageyama with his obnoxious angry points of logic that Hinata couldn't retort to no matter how much he wanted. But come on, everyone knew that Tokyo Tower had to be somewhere in Tokyo! As long as they had that much information it was only a matter of time and patience, right?! "Even if I don't, I'll still find it! I'll find it before you do for sure!!"

[narcolepticactor]

Vɪʀᴛᴜᴀʟ ғᴇsᴛɪᴠᴀʟ

[narcolepticactor]

{ ♫ }—; The moment this stranger laid eyes on her, he looked completely shocked. As if he’d never seen an adorable blue haired cyber girl like her. What time period did this kid live in the early seventeen hundreds? Opening her mouth wide and stretching her arms to the side she mimicked his shocked expression. “Eeeeh!? YOU can talk?!” Repeating him word for word, the blue haired cyber girl rolled on her back unable to hold back her laughter. “Haha! You should’ve seen your face, it was priceless!” She said while wiping the tears of laughter from the corner of her eyes. ”Kid, why do you sound so surprised? Of course I can talk! I’m talking to you, aren’t I?” Her voice was energetic and cheerful as usual. Suddenly the girl changed her cheerful expression to a more dramatic, serious one. Ah, yes Ene was a master actress. ”Unless of course… You’re imagining the whole thing! Maybe you’ve suffered a traumatic experience and are slowly loosing you mind-!!” The girl paused between her sentences trying to stop herself from laughing. “Pfft— You must’ve been dropped pretty hard as a kid or something, right?” She teased the other. “Just kidding, just kidding! You’re correct! What a shocker. I CAN talk. Amazing right?” Only speaking to this boy for a few minutes she was already firing shots whenever possible. Ah, poor kid having opened that file. Too late now, no take backs! She’s here to stay.

{ ♫ }—; “Well, you certainly look like a Kid to me! You’re probably the same height as a small to medium sized elementary student.” If she was trying to get this guy to take her to the festival, she definitely wasn’t off to a great start. No matter, she was already having fun with him. “Hey, hey! Tell you what Kid, maybe if you take me to that festival everyone is talking about I’ll call you Hina-whatever it was instead of Kid. Sound like a deal?” Of course, not everything she said could be trusted. This kid looked pretty gullible though.

[spikingdecoy]

If this... girl or whatever she was wanted to make a good first impression, she certainly wasn't doing a good job at it. As much as he found it fascinating that a person could really be inside of his phone - he wasn't near smart enough to even start considering artificial intelligence or a type of highly developed programme - the way she was talking to him was greatly annoying him. He did not particularly being either mocked or mimicked and this blue haired girl was doing both at once. "I... I guess you're talking to me yeah," he admitted, still highly confused as to how it worked as he had never tried talking to someone in such a way. Did this mean that he was also a tiny figure on the other person's screen?! "This is kinda cool!"

The smile that had appeared on his face vanished quickly however as the decoy realised that he had probably been insulted yet again. "Hey! There's nothing wrong with my head!" he argued even though she had already dropped the matter; Hinata wasn't exactly good at just ignoring people who were talking down to him. Well, he at least assumed there was nothing wrong with his head, but admittedly he had taken quite a few serious falls through his years of playing volleyball, so it probably couldn't be entirely assured... "You-you're even smaller than me!" It was silly to argue with a person on a phone display, especially regarding their height, but that thought never even occurred to him. "Beside I'm in high school...! I'm just... a bit... ... short..." The last bit was added with a groan for every word and it was very clear that he didn't want to admit it but had to. But even if she was taunting him Hinata didn't exactly hold her in spite, so it didn't take long before his expression lit up again when she mentioned the festival he had taken interest in himself.

"Eeeh, so you wanna go too?! Sure! Let's go together! I'm sure it's gonna be lots of fun!" Of course it was also a bonus that she would actually be calling him by his name instead of just 'kid', but Hinata honestly had nothing against going with her. It was better than the two idiots he practised volleyball with at least. "Let's go, ehm---- eh... Who are you?"

[toorupng]

[spikingdecoy]

You've Gotta be Kidding! | Tsukishima & Hinata

[cleverblocker]

Tsukishima couldn’t help but smirk at Hinata’s expression. The shrimp was just as easy to rile up as ever. Well, at least Tsukishima would get some form of entertainment out of this arrangement in taunting the orange-haired spiker.

"Ah, a sportsmanship would explain how you got here. A bit surprising given your level of skill I do have to say, but congratulations nonetheless." Tsukishima was certain that he didn’t sound sincere in the slightest, but he really didn’t care. He also knew that Hinata probably surpassed him in value as a player, but teasing the shorter boy about volleyball was a surefire way to get under his skin. (Not that Tsukishima really ever had trouble getting under Hinata’s skin anyways though.)

"Also congratulations on pronouncing the word ‘sportsmanship’. I really didn’t think you could do it, but you pulled through in the end. You truly are an inspiration to us all." The blonde knew he was really being an ass right now, but he refused to let up on the sarcasm. He was really hoping to drive Hinata off, if only for a bit. Tsukishima just wanted some alone time to get over this unpleasant shock and there was no way he was going to leave. He’d been there first, after all.

[spikingdecoy]

Ugh, no matter what he said Tsukishima would find some way to take a poke at him. This was even more horrible than just having to spend time with him occasionally during training - was this the torture he was going to be living with until graduation? Hinata was starting to feel sorry for Yamaguchi for having to stay together with this guy for god knows how many years they had been together. While Yamaguchi also had his moments of being annoying, Hinata quite liked him, and he would definitely have preferred the company of the freckled boy rather than his blonde companion.

Yet again he couldn't even retort. The orange head knew that as a player he still had so much left to learn before he could call himself an amazing player, but he would still fight for it to the bitter end. And no way in hell was he going to let Tsukishima get an advantage over him, even more so since they were playing the same position.

"I know I'm small and... kinda lousy..." he admitted although the latter bit was said in a low murmur because he hated to admit it himself. "But..." He had a promise. A vow with the person he had thought to be an overwhelming and almost unbeatable rival but had somehow turned out to become an ally that he respected and trusted in. "Kageyama promised. As long as he's tossing I'm not gonna lose." It wasn't entirely true and he already knew that; even with Kageyama's tosses they had still lost to Seijou, they had lost to Nekoma, to Fukurodani, heck, the whole training camp in Tokyo had been nothing but a huge losing streak. But that was exactly why they had to become better and evolve. The both of them. All of them.

Of course he wasn't going to be let go just so easily: Tsukishima was already ready with the next snide remark, having absolutely no mercy on the small teen. Hinata however was for a moment just relieved that the other hadn't heard his inner musings because getting such a word wrong was going to be so embarrassing. He would rather not give Tsukishima more material to work with than necessary. "'course I can! I'm not that stupid!" he retorted irritatedly. If only it wasn't so hard to just back down and walk away when someone was being purposely annoying.

[spikingdecoy]

What was your muse's wish for Tanabata? What other wishes were they considering making?

Making a wish for tanabata had been a very hard task for the small sportsman; he had a lot of things that he wished for either for practical reasons or because of his desires. 'I wanna be two metres tall!' was one that he had very much considered, but at the same time it had quickly been shot down again. Hinata was not exactly what one would call an astounding player and so it wouldn't give him much merit even if he did grow so much in such a short time. Plus the satisfaction he got from overwhelming much taller and stronger enemies despite his short frame was quite addictive.

'I hope Tsukishima's gonna turn into a frog' was also a very tempting one, but alas. While he had very huge issues with his team mate's personality, Hinata would never deny the other's worth as an ally. So that whole frog business had been a no-go as well.

"I want an Olympic gold," he declared his eventual wish with no hesitation at all. It was almost outrageous to expect so much of himself and not even have a moment of doubt towards it either, but Hinata was very steadfast on this one. He played to win. And he was going to keep on winning until he had emerged victorious from every single court. That was all there was to it. He knew that he couldn't rely on wishful praying to the gods, and he didn't expect it to come falling down from the sky just like that; Hinata knew very well that for this particular wish all he could rely on was his own body and the training he exposed it to, because that was everything he needed. He wasn't going to rely on any gods above: Hinata Shouyou was going to make sure that his wish came true with his own strength.

[spikingdecoy]

You've Gotta be Kidding! | Tsukishima & Hinata

[cleverblocker]

Watching Hinata’s ever-so-graceful entrance into the room, Tsukishima idly thought that he hadn’t changed much. Though, he supposed that he hadn’t really been out of the hyperactive orange-head’s presence for that long… unfortunately. Ugh. Tsukishima had been looking forward to being out of the exhausting (and irritating) atmosphere that Hinata created with his limitless energy and enthusiasm.

Actually, this situation was even worse than just being on the same volleyball team as him, because now he’d have to live with him! Fantastic. The other boy hadn’t even been in the room for a minute before he began polluting the peaceful air with his grating voice. Tsukishima winced at the volume. He supposed that his wish for Hinata to have developed an indoor voice had been quite a long shot anyways… 

"I’m here because this is my room," the blonde replied coolly. "You think I would go through the trouble of kicking someone out of this room to be your roommate?" Tsukishima scoffed. "Don’t flatter yourself."

"And actually… I could actually ask you the same thing. Why are you here? Or rather, how? You do know that this school has a special requirement  called a ‘having a brain’ that I’m quite positive you don’t fulfill.”

[spikingdecoy]

With every single word the tall blonde uttered Hinata only got more and more annoyed. That obnoxious personality of his hadn't changed in the least, and unlike Tsukishima's sugar-coated smirk, the decoy's expression was one that very clearly showed how displeased he was with the situation. There was no denying that his team mate was a fantastic asset to have on the court, but as a person he was rotten to the core and Hinata always preferred to have as little to do with him as possible.

So why had it ended up like this? Why did he have to live with that guy? If there was any good in the world it would have prevented a situation like this from happening. But no matter how much he wished for it, it didn't change in the slightest, and Hinata groaned at the prospect of his upcoming school life. Well, as long as he had volleyball to keep himself occupied with he'd survive. Probably.

"Ugh... Of course I didn't think that...!" Well, maybe a bit. But Tsukishima had an annoyingly good point, because it was clear to anyone that neither of the two wished for this to have happened. There was no way the other would have willingly initiated it.

It was even more irritating that he couldn't even speak back to Tsukishima's insults, because the other was right. It was no secret that Hinata wasn't exactly what one might consider the sharpest kid around here and there was absolutely no way he would be able to make it through ordinary means, but that bastard didn't have to put it so bluntly. "I know I'm not as smart as you, but I still have a brain, idiot." He was pretty sure about that at least... "I'm here on a sports... sportsman..." Sportsmanboat? Ah no, wait. "Sportsmanship!"