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For your Summer Internship with your local University, you landed a Student Medic position for MSBY the professional volleyball team. Interning with a professional team is EVERY Kinesiology majors dream, since it leads to endless possibilities to work for the organization or other profounding ones. Getting into the intership program is difficlut to apply, let alone have a spot in. However it was coming true and you started Monday morning, at 10 am sharp you would have to be at the stadium practice is held and get yourself situated.
Monday 9:50 am
As soon as you reached the main entrance of the auditorium, you checked into the help desk station which directed you to the floor and room you had to report to for your day as a Student Medic Intern. Taking one of the nearby elevator's which was a few 10 feet away, you noticed the back a tall guy wearing a baseball hat, jeans, a blue jacket entering the elevator. Despite the guy looking straight down at his phone, you yelled at him hoping to catch his attention:
"HEY HOLD THE DOORS! WAIT!!"
The guy surprisingly stretched his arm out preventing the doors from closing and long enough for you to get inside. Catching your breath for a brief second, you let out a hard exhale looking down at the buttons for a second until he broke your concentration saying :
"What floor" he asked you softly, looking at your direction.
"Level 6 please. Thank you." you replied back, not making eye contact with him, you threw your backpack off your shoulder, searching for you notepad to pull out.
The guy, still looking at you, giving you a small smile you have yet to noticed, he asks curiously:
"The Medical Floor is where you're going? Are you a new Medic for the MSBY team?"
Finally loooking up at the guy, your eyes finally catching his. You could not help but feel a sudden burst of butterflies fleet inside of your stomach. This guy had tangerine hair, glistening brown eyes, and sported the cutest smile you'd ever seen on any male. Stubling a bit over your words, trying to not sound ridiculous you replied to him:
"Y-Yeah. Well technically I'm interning as a Medic. I'm still a college student but since I graduate later this year, I wanted to intern here for experience."
He watched you closely as you spoke about your reason being there, which made you more nervous until you heard the elevator reached a level floor.
The elevator doors opened, he walked out nodding towards you before saying:
"Well I wish you the best of luck on your first day, I'm sure you're going to love it here. I'm Hinata Shouyou, it was really great meeting you are?"
Watching the doors began to close you smiled at him and yelled out "Y/N" hoping he heard you say your name before the doors closed entirely and continued to direct you up to your floor.
Reaching level 6 you found the room you needed to report to for training, inside the room was decorated and organized like an actual medical room you practice for class in. The room had a human sized skeleton, medical beds, scales, IV stations, medical drawers, therapy section, posters of stretching and other medical related information, etc. You smiled to yourself at the view. A sudden wave of pure accomplishment and joy flooded inside of you felt like an actual intern. You even received your own travel medical bag for equipment, uniform plus jacket, and MSBY themed; clip boards, pens, sticky notes, note pads, mechanical pencils. You, the other interns and your instructors spent the whole first day and 1st week going over medical procedures, techniques, and working in a high end organization. Unfortunately in the week of learning your basic's you never bumped into Hinata again.
The one fleeting moment you talked to him could not possibly be your last. You had to seem him again, so he could know all the amazing things you have learned and received since you started your internship. It was a feeling you couldn't help but discuss, let alone have since you barely knew the guy, but something about him just made you know he would be interested and would listen to you like he did in the elevator. The only problem was you had no idea where to begin to find him. He clearly wasn't an intern as a Student Medic. Maybe he was interning for something else such as Media, or Technical; he seemed like the type to work on the Technical side of the auditorium. Starting your second week, inside the medical room you thought deeply into your ideas, you remembered your last phone call with your mom talking about him and where he could possible be, she made a joke to you saying:
"Maybe he's a player for the team! Imagine if you dated him, you'd be with a professional athelete!"
Letting out a soft scoff at her silly comment, you soft told yourself:
"meeting a player by chance would only happen out of pure luck... let alone having one be interested in me would also be out of pure luck. I know the players of MSBY like the back of my hand. I don't think -"
Before you could finish your sentence, you hear someone knocking on the door. Opening the door you see 2 MSBY players, one was injured and being held up by the support of his team mate. The injured player was Hinata who smiled at you sheepishly, sweetly saying to you:
"Hey Y/N. Long time no see, think you could help me out today?"
Taking a subtle step back you readdress your attention from Hinata to Atsumu Miya. The one holding him upward;
"Come in, and set him down at one of the beds. Could you uh tell me what is wrong with him and what exactly happened for our medical records."
Stepping a side to let Atsumu enter the room with Hinata, he lead him to the nearby bed you instructed him to place him on. Once Hinata was secured on the bed, setting his legs up getting comfortable. Atsumu moved away from Hinata going over to where you, explaining:
"Well as you know today is another practice day for our team, we were practicing our famous quick attack on the court. As I set the ball up for Hinata to fly and hit it down, he flew beautifully as usual but his landing today was off. I think he landed wrong and may have twisted his anckle in the process since he was on the floor in second screaming in pain".
Whilst Atsumu gave perfect exact details of the accident, you took note of everything for the medical record your superior would have to see and legalize once they were back in the facility. And just in case you needed extra infromation to document Atsumu left you both of his business and personal contact information.
"We appreciate your cooperation here in the office today Mr. Miya. We will keep coach updated on his injury and precautions Hinata Shouyou will need to be taking in order to heal properly and return to practice. You may return back to your practice, we got it from here." You say to him confidently and as assuring as possible.
Atsumu then smiled at you, studying you once up and down before replying "Please call me Atsumu. And I am sure you will take good care of my boy, just be ware he has a small crush on you."
he says quietly to you before leaving the office, shutting the door behind him. Withing seconds you began to bite down on your tongue hard to control your inner emotions who were screaming at you from the sudden news of Hinata feeling the same way you felt since you first met him. Once you felt okay, you cleared your throat once to yourself and made your way to Hinata to examine his injury.
Pulling up a rolling chair next to Hinata's bed you ask:
"Could you tell me which foot you feel pain in, what type of injury you think it is and explain from your point of view what exactly happened".Hinata pointed to his right leg which was starting to swell up a bit, you quickly put on your medical gloves and began to undo his shoe and adjust his socks to check the ankle. In that process Hinata began to tell his story:
"Atsumu and I were practicing our regular quick attack during practice. And while I jump fast and really high to hit the ball down the other side of the net, coming back down I landed first with my right foot I kind of lost my balance and felt the twist. So I think it is prained”.Continuing the physical exam, you gently began to press down a bit on his ankle to feel the pressure points of the injury. Using two fingers for the examination, you heard Hinata let out very soft subtle groans of pain. Taking note of his side of the accident, documenting the examination, you looked up at Hinata:
"Do you mind if I take your sock off so we can start icing it down and proceed any further?"Hinata smiled sweetly at you, nodding his head a bit replying: "go ahead I trust you".
Pulling out a nearby ice bag, and clear wrap, you gently lifted the injured foot, placing a few pillows under his leg to elevate it enough for you to wrap the ice pack around the ankle.
While wrapping the ice pack around the ankle, Hinata looked down at you. Readjusting himself on the bed, he sat upward then leaned over a but to talk to you more while you did your best to remain focused and professional.
"How do you like your internship so far? Is it everything you hoped for?" he asks you softly while trying to get a glimpse of your eyes.
Before you could begin to explain how true his statement was, you decided to be a but snarky and replied with: "How do you like being Wing Spiker for MSBY? Hinata Shouyou"
You looked up at him making serious eye contact about the situation which made him start to laugh at you a little bit. Hinata moved one of his hands to your face, gently putting it under your chin to keep your gaze up to him.
"Is someone a little grumpy she had no idea I am a player for MSBY? I'm sorry pretty girl, you should've asked me in the elevator the first time we met."
Jerking your head back a bit, turning your head and shutting your eyes you replied back to Hinata:
"Okay you got me there but I haven't seen you in nearly 2 weeks now and suddenly you come in here in a MSBY uniform. It's a bit much to wrap my mind around that idea, especially when I am a fan of the team, I somehow still couldn't see you were the same Shouyou I cheer for."
Hinata felt his cheeks blush up a bit from the sudden confession of how Y/N was a fan of not only the MSBY team but him as well.
"My apolgies Y/N. Maybe I can make it up to you with after practice. A fun little lunch date, just us two. Today. My treat, and you can ask me anything you like as long as I can do the same. What do you say?"
Hinata crocked his head a bit waiting for your reply, and deep down hoping to hear you say yes.Shifting your head and eyes back to Hinata, you gave him a tiny smile then got up from your seat towards a nearby closet which contained a few pairs of crutches. As you grabbed a pair, you went over to Hinata handed them to him:
"take these please and give this note to your coach. It states you should be out of practice for about 2 weeks to allow your injury to heal properly. Once the 2 weeks are up, you may either come back here or go to your professional physician to be cleared to play. Now go home to rest for the rest of the day."Y/N then started to rearrange the office, putting everything back into place and gathering all the documents recorded for Hinata's visit.
Hinata then got up from the bed with his crutches, gaining his balance on the ground, emotionally he started to feel a bit defeated from you not answering his question, but Hinata never was one to give up easily. Before exiting the facility, Hinata moved over to where you were. Standing behind you, you began feeling Hinata's presence build up against your back. Your knees suddenly feeling weak from his presence, your stomach filled with butterflies, as you tried to keep yourself calm in your current situation the next thing you felt was Hinata rest his chin against your left shoulder. Tilting his face close to your ear his whispered:
"wait for me at the back of the stadium. I will be wearing the same baseball hat from last week."
He then stood up straight, smiling at the risk he took before turning himself around with the crutches to exit the room.
The second Hinata left you let out a huge sigh of relief. Gripping onto the right side of your chest as you felt your heart pulsing fast. This sudden new feeling was evidence you were interested in Hinata in a romantic sense, which ultimately scared you. Having little to no experience in this area, had your mind being filled with a million questions of what to do next, and if you should meet up with him later on.
Unfortunately your thoughts were interrupted when one of your fellow student interns walked into the office. She shut the door behind you, then quickly moved closer to you, whispering in a low tone:
"Did I just see Hinata Shouyou leave the office in crutches what happened!?"
After you filled her in on the details of Hinata's injury, she helped you insert the day's paperwork into the system to verify the day's visits and to be a secondary witness of the day's visitors for insurance purposes. When you both began to lock up the office for the day and took an elevator together, you could not help but wonder what her stance would be if she was the intern who was starting to have romantic feelings for a professional athlete.
"For me, if we did not have to sign so many contracts for the company alone in our medical expertise, I would date many athletes without hesitation"
She says confidently to you as you stood side by side each other going down to the lobby together. A look of confusion grew onto your face as you recall the piles of paperwork you recently like nearly 2 weeks ago regarding your internship and overall employment with the MSBY organization.
Looking over to your fellow intern you hesitantly ask:
"Do you think the documents we signed covered those types of relationships within the organization or maybe we may have to some day sign such documents if anyone does get involve with an athlete?"
The other intern shrugged her shoulders while she starred at the elevator doors open once the elevator stopped at the lobby floor, exiting first, she turned herself over to look at you and held oneside of the automatic doors from shutting:
"I am not sure how paperwork would be done in those regards. I feel as if when the athlete and the other person from the organization feel confident enough to have their relationship public, they both would need to address the situation with the organization to protect everyone involved. Why do you ask? Are you thinking to hopefully land a MSBY volleyball hottie?"
Rolling your eyes at your fellow intern, you exited the elevator door facing your back towards her then shouting back "Maybe!" As you both departed ways, you decided this one time meet up with Hinata would be okay to do. It would ultimately give you an idea how compatible or not you both are together, then make you decide if you want to take things further or not.
1st Lunch Date.
Hinata decided to take you out to one of his favorite Ramen restuarants in the area. While you both sat across from one another in a small 2 person table, he asked you many questions about your favorite hobbies, music, movies, why you got into kinesiology and picked your brain to understand you in a personal leve. While you returned the same interest with him about his life growing up, how he discovered his passion for volleyball, his favorite competetors, the experience made you realize the chemistry you bother were starting to feel more intensely, was enought evidence for you to admit for yourself, something serious and wonderful could happen between you both.
As your mind filled again with many thoughts, you decided the best thing for you in this current moment was to run. You first would start your plan by looking at your phone to check the time, realize you are late to an important meet up you had with a close friend and must go immeditately without any confirmation of a second date. Of course you would run the chances of seeming very insensitive towards his feelings, and ruin something good. Or, this will work out becasue he only viewed you as a freind so no hard feelings would get in the way. Gaining confident to execute your plans, you began to lift your phone up to view the screen saying:
"Wow, it's 6:30 already. I should go, I need to uh, see one of my friends about this personal situation she's been going through. Thank you for lunc it was really great here, but I should be taking off-"
Getting up from your seat, Hinata grabs a hold of your wrist of the same hand containg your phone. Looking up at you from his seat, Hinata calmly darted his eyes upward to look deep into yours to your seat within seconds telling you:
"sit back down for me".
Sighing in defeat, you had no choice but to sit back down and lowered your head from looking at his possibly disappointed face. Hinata the moved his right hand under your chin to life your head up. He wanted to look at you with his amazing smile you noticed and admired the first time you met. The same hand under your chin then went to the side of your face to a loose piece of hair he gently tucked behind your ear. Hinata moved his hand away gently, resting it back on the table, where he gave you a small shrugg while starring at your face asking:
"Do you really think I would let you go that easily? I thought we were having a really great time this evening with our honest dicussions about ouselves. And correct me if I am wrong, but I could have sworn we also had a lot of romantic chemistry together yet you wanted to throw that away wiht a small useless excuse. What happened? Did I do something wrong?"
Letting out a soft exhale to calm the sudden burst of nerves which wanted to take control of your entire thoughts and subconscious. You reached over the tabe with your hands to grab a hold of Hinata's/ Looking at your suddenly bold move, he was in no position to decline your bravery. Holding your hands back as well, he interlocked your fingers with his, providing you a sudden form of comfort to talk to him about what was indeed on your mind about everything you have been considering up until now.
"Okay the truth is, yes, you are right. That act right now, was bad on my part. I fully own up to my mistake, taking full responsibility but I only did it because in truth, I am scared about this. You know. Us. I have very little experience in relationships, for days now I did not think I see you again, but then I do and I feel things. Not normal things I would if I see a friend or relative. I understand my feelings seeing you again were romantic this time, and now we are here at a restaurant having a great time together. I have loved every second of this. yet I am terrified of what this could lead to, and I am worried about my internship being compromised if we decided to date because I love what I have been doing, I love everything I have been learning. I can not handle my internship being compromised by a relationship with one of the best MSBY volleyball players ever and- and-"
Before you could continue to ramble on, Hinata moved his seat closer to yours. Grasping your face into both of his hands, he makes your head turn to look straight at him. Within seconds, Hinata pressed his lips against yours as you both kissed in the Ramen Restaurant. Gently Pulling away to view your face from his sudden act of affection, your eye pupils grew big from the sight of him. Making your face blush entirely and leaving you no choice but to shut your eyes to avoid his gaze.
Once the sudden kiss naturally ended, Hinata pulled away to look at you with the kindest facial expression. Seeing your eyes were still closed, he reached for your face with a single hand by tapping the tip of your nose then stroking some of your hair behind your ear to get your attention.
"You can open your eyes now, you know? The worse part is over!”
Slowly opening up one eye at a time, seeing Hinata’s kind look at you cause you to gently hit his shoulder playfully. Making you both giggle at his remark.
“I never said it was bad!” You say assuringly to him
”So it was just as good for you too!? Good to know I’m making you reconsider leaving our first date.”
Before you could respond to his last comment, Hinata got up from his seat, made a quick stretch for himself. Grabbing his crutches he held out his left hand for you to grab.
"Come on, let me drive you home before it gets dark for the both of us. You can tell me more about your life and maybe show me where you live so I could drive you home from practice and games from now on. Since I believe we are going to continue seeing each other right?”
Usually when most guys came off too strong about seemingly being inclusive with you, it has alwasy been a turn off. However since you have been getting to know Hinata outside from being the player you have praised many times on your TV set, your feelings for him versus other men are very different. You had no reaction to protest his bold assumption and next thing you know, you’re back in his car. Holding his hand on the way to your house and kissing him goodbye until you see him again tomorrow morning.
Short time skip:
Hinata’s ankle heals in 2 week’s with therapy inside the medical facility hwent back to practice fully recovered. The first game of the season is finally here and Y/N will get to watch Hinata play in person while also being on standby for any injured players during the game.
On your way to the first MSBY game of the professional volleyball season, Hinata was driving you and himself to the stadium. You both equally ecstatic for the game, the whole ride there you talked about past game experiences as either the player or watcher, shared small traditions for every game, and ultimately could not wait to see how the first game will go.
“You know Y/N, I have appreciated everything the MSBY organization puts into hyping the game, and the fans who always come out to al the games to cheer for us. But I think, this first game will top everything, want to know why?” Hinata asks while you both wait at the last red light before entering the stadium.Glancing over at Hinata from the passenger side, you gave Hinata a smile then shrugged your shoulders a bit. You had an idea on what he was hinting at but you wanted to hear from his mouth what he was thinking:
"Tell me”
Glancing over back a you, Hinata used a hand to stroke your check once before leaning in to peck it quickly,
"having you on the sidelines to cheer me on, as my girlfriend and healer makes today’s first game of the season the best one ever.”
"You are so corny Shouyou! But god, do I love it!”
You replied back to him as you leaned in to kiss his cheek, leaving a kiss mark from your pink lipstick. Hinata’s face turned a bright rosy red color within second, whilst finally pulling up to the back of the stadium where he occupancies you to the Medical Office then went to the men’s locker room to get ready for his game.
Courtside Action.
The MSBY Volleyball team played their heart out for the entire 2 rounds of the game. Hinata and Atsumu’s famous quick attack combo’s helped determined most of the points of the nights game which made both their teammates and the fans high on excitement. Every time Hinata scored, he looked over at the medical station you stood by and blew you a kiss. You’d use a hand to pretend to catch the kisses he blew then saved it in your jean pocket. Making you both giggle.
After the game ended, and MSBY secured their first win of the new volleyball season in the bag. You and your fellow interns wrapped up the medical location on the court, placing all your equipment back in the office. As you were the last person to ick up the office, Hinata was outside the door waiting for you with a set of flowers in hand and a small goodie bag.
Surprised by the random gift he brought, you accepted them happily asking:
”what’s all of this for!?”“For being my biggest supporter! I know it’s only the first game of the season and we still have a long way to go but I want to thank you for healing me when I needed it, getting to know me outside of the court, and for being another great person who came into my life! I love you Y/N”.
Hinata suddenly pulled you into him, holding you close to his body and kissed you deeply.Dropping your good bag to the ground wrapping your arms around him, you kissed him back with the same amount of passion. Knowing deep down, this was the happiest you have ever been.