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Ukai Keshin doesn’t cry often.
He didn’t cry when he lost his first volleyball game, and he didn’t cry when he fell out of a tree and broke his leg.
The kid that he watched grow over the past few months, was gone. One day Hinata was asking for pointers and the next he was gone.
That thought was too much to handle for Keshin, so he was currently drowning his sorrows in a bottle a cheap whiskey.
He let himself look over to the letter his kid had left him. Opening it would make it all too real. Oh so terribly real. Keshin had felt like he was in a nightmare when the boy’s mother had dropped off the pristinely white envelopes, saying that they were for the team.
He made his way over to his desk and sat himself down in the chair. Letting out a harsh sigh, he tore open the letter and began to read.
“ Coach,
I’m sorry I won’t be there for the next game.
I know I’m not going to make it past my first year. I know I’m never going to get the chance to be like the tiny giant. I know you put so much effort into helping me get better, I’m sorry all your hard work is going to waste.
You’re an amazing coach. You made me love volleyball even more.
Even though I won’t be there, please make sure the team plays just as well as they did while I was alive.
Thank you so much,
Hinata Shouyou, Karasuno no. 10 ”
Keshin felt like throwing up. He had never thought about how the kid would never achieve his dreams of being the next tiny giant.
Hinata had such high hopes for his future. Keshin wondered how much it had hurt the kid to have all of that ripped away in an instance.
He hadn’t realized he was crying until he felt Ittetsu hug him from behind.
“ He was supposed to play professionally. He was supposed to go so far. I wish he could’ve grown up with the rest of the kids” Keshin sobbed, voice shaking.
Right then, he promised that he would fulfill Hinata’s request.
Even if Hinata couldn’t be there to see it.