tags: Marriage, Marriage Proposal, Post-Canon, Post-Time Skip, Fluff
summary:
Kageyama and Hinata have never really talked about marriage, and they don't need to.
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Kageyama and Hinata have never really talked about marriage - it was never a topic they needed. For them, spending their lives together was a given, and being at each other's side for the rest of time was never something they needed to confirm. They both knew how the other felt, and they never doubted that that was the only hand they'd hold, til death do they part.
In a way, they'd promised to marry each other a long time ago, when they vowed to never stop competing, and racing around the world to be together. That was marriage, no? A promise that can never be broken, a heartfelt oath to love, to always love, to always be themselves, to always be together?
So when Nishinoya mentioned it to them, 30 years after they first met, at a reunion, it seemed slightly strange. Just because no rings tied them together didn't mean they weren't partners for life, or that they weren't soulmates. The truth is, Hinata told him, they never considered marriage, because why would they need to? Their love spoke for itself.
But as Hinata lay awake that night, his lover's quiet snoring making indents in his mind, he couldn't stop thinking about it - he traced the base of his ring finger, wondering how it would feel if something sat there. Wondering how the metal would feel against his skin. Would they wear silver ones, or gold? Diamonds? Inscribed?
"Will you marry me?" he says over breakfast the next morning. Kageyama stays quiet for far too long, and Hinata knows why - he's thinking, that rare process, the same as Hinata did just last night. Were they different people - Sugawara and Daichi, maybe - there wouldn't even have been a pause, because the question was so long awaited, the answer so well known.
"Why?"
"Well, because I want to spend the rest of my life with you."
"That's not what I mean." He pours from a jug into a blue-and-green cup, because he knows without needing to ask that it's Hinata's favourite. "I want to spend my life with you too. You know that, and you have for twenty-five years. Why would I need to go through a ceremony, when I already know what our future looks like?"
"Because… because it'd be official. I'd call you my husband. We'd be- our relationship would be taken seriously."
"Nothing would change, Shoyo."
"It wouldn't need to." He breathes in, for a second questioning his next sentence. "I suppose I just want there to be some official record that we're together. That you're mine, you know? And… and I guess I want to wear rings."
Tobio says nothing, as the rusted, unused gears in his mind try to click into place. "Yes," he concludes, eventually, as he turns around and slides a hot cup of coffee across their dining room table. "I will marry you."
He looks down at his ring finger - something Hinata has touched a thousand times, as they held hands - and imagines Hinata touching it again, as he slides a ring into place. "I really would like that, actually."
I'm working on all my stories for them to be post (the first two or three chapter) during that month
So if you want a
~Hinata who planned her life so good she didn't even think of the last Uchiha going after her and little Sasuke waiting for her ( #consentisimportant)~
~A long journey between Sasuke and Hinata, for them to be friends, to fall in love and after travel the entire world outside of Konoha~
~ A sweet political / clan thing between the Uchiha and the Hyuga where Sasuke and Hinata welcome their children while Itachi and Hana learn to lead the clan ~
~ Hinata journey to accept her weakness and develop her strength, causing her to create new power (avatar-like) while Sasuke use Orochimaru to become stronger and understand the world he lives in while making alliances. Little Hana I is also on a journey to develop her Byakugan ~
~ A political marriage between Itachi and Hinata taking her sister's place. (#lovrlecomeindifferentway) ~
Everything will be on my fanfiction.net account : https://www.fanfiction.net/u/11952698/atalliz
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