thinking abt the chapter 399 title “incarnation”, staying on the court the longest, and ultimately the divine weight of the phrase “hinata and kageyama”. +

they didnt know it but they’d both been looking for eachother, trailing their own strings of fate until they intersected perfectly. hinata who just happened to catch tenma playing that day. the random match up between hinata and kitaiichi in that tournament.

tobio who, because of the things we saw in 387, happened to end up at karasuno. kazuyo who happened to choose those specific words to tell him. hell, them being the same age them being japanese (in america they would be in different grades).

these are all things that were outside of their individual control, and yet they were led to eachother, connected by their unique shared nature and philosophy and consequently what they needed the most: eachother.

this match up seems like an extension of that: hinata who joined the bjs bc “they were the strongest team holding tryouts.” tobio who joined the adlers before hinata was even in the picture of the pros.

yet theyre playing against eachother, together, tied to eachother by the same desire theyve always shared. its like that need to stay on the court longer ties them to eachother beating all odds... 365, a sign to them of how their biggest desire could be taken away from them.

399 ch title, “incarnation”, an immaterial being taking physical form, a buddhist term often referring to a divine figure manifesting when needed in the human world. “hinata and kageyama”.

what is their incarnation? it’s eachother, they are eachother’s gift from the divine, physical manifestations of what each needed most from that divine: someone to share their desire, their nature, their heart.

“hinata and kageyama”. not just hinata and kageyama as themselves, but what they represent together: the greatest opponents & the greatest allies because of their divine connection to eachother, their divine need manifesting in eachother, their divine incarnations for the other.