Disclaimer: I don't own Eyeshield 21
Part 1:
It was a sweltering Friday afternoon, the kind of heat that made your clothes stick closely together to your skin. It is the kind of weather that made people lazy and sleepy, only wanting to get up to turn the air conditioner or fan on full blown. For the students at Deimon Private Senior High School, classes were finally over and they get to leave behind the humid classrooms for their afterschool activities. The Devil Bats American Football team members were all slowly walking to practice, but today, something was different from the normal routine. Their choice of speed was deliberate, not due to the weather, and their loud chatter and enthusiastic gestures were something to marvel over. A few feet away from their club house, they stopped to continue their conversation in peace. They definitely do not want Hiruma, who was already in the house and the only one excluded from their discussion, to hear what they were saying.
"Are you sure that's what you saw, Monta" asked Sena
"Positive. I would even bet the glove Honta-san gave me on it. I saw it right in front of me, Hiruma-san walking closely with another guy."
"How do you know they were not just friends" asked Mamori
"You did not see the looks Hiruma-san were giving him. Hiruma-san kept looking at that guy, checking him over and over with a look that said he wanted to jump him right there and then. Since it was Hiruma-san we're talking about, I wouldn't be surprised if he did just that in the middle of the busy street. I was surprised, though, when I saw Hiruma-san escorted him to the nearby park and left after a brief kiss"
"AHH" squealed Suzuna " You-nii has a boyfriend!"
"Oh" said Jumonji
"My" said Kuroki
"Goodness" said Togano
"AH-HA-HA" said Taki "I always knew that Hiruma-san had a boyfriend"
"Really?" asked Kurita with tears in his eyes " I have known Hiruma for so long, but I didn't even know he was gay. I'm such a bad friend"
"Kuriton, don't worry. My idiot brother is lying. No one here knew anything until today" said Suzuna reassuringly
"What are we going to do now?" sniffled Kurita
"What do you mean, Kurita-san?" asked Sena
"Find out who the boyfriend is, of course" Jumonji answered
"EHH" cried Sena "But..but…Hiruma-san won't tell us"
"That's precisely why, we're going to find out by ourselves" said Kuroki
"Do you remember anything about how he looked like?" asked Musashi to Monta
"Wow, even Musha-syan is interested" said Suzuna
"Well, it was pretty late last night. I was the last one to leave after practice because I fell asleep when taking a shower. I was walking home, thinking about how many bananas I have left in the fridge when I saw a really cute cat walking beside me…."
"We don't need to hear all that all over again. The first time was bad enough. Just answer the question" injected Togano
"Ok, ok. He was really tall like Sakuraba-san kinda tall. He has dark hair and a muscular built. I didn't get to see his face"
"That wasn't really helpful, but at least it narrows things down. How many guys can there be in Japan that is that tall?" said Mamori
"So do we all agree" asked Yukimitsu "that we'll meet again at the end of the week to discuss what we found out about the identity of the mysterious boyfriend? Hopefully by then, we'll have a name and a face"
A chorus of "Yeah" resonated throughout the group. Moments later, they all walked through the club house door to a series of gunshots and an angry captain who was not too enthusiastic about their lateness.
***One week and one day later***
It was Saturday morning when the team, without Hiruma and Sena, met up at the club house. It would have been a nice Saturday morning if they hadn't met before dawn. They had an hour to discuss before Hiruma-san arrives for their morning practice, but all of them regretted their decision to meet so early. Half of the people present were yawning profusely, a quarter of them managed to fall asleep while standing up, and the rest were surprisingly awake. Nevertheless, it was a shame that Hiruma caught them gathering outside yesterday and forcefully pulled them to practice.
"Sena called and said he was running late" said Mamori
"With those legs of his, he'll be here in no time" said Jumonji
"Why don't we start the conversation? We don't have much time and I'll fill Sena in on what he missed" suggested Mamori
"Ok, I'll start. I didn't get much" said Musashi "I asked him if he had a boyfriend. He said no. I threatened him. He still said no"
"You-You—threatened Hiruma-san?" said Monta in shocked. No one had ever threatened Hiruma. He didn't think such a person even existed.
Once the shocked wore off, Monta continued "I didn't any success either. Sena and I followed Hiruma-san everyday for the past week, but he managed to lose the both of us. The only thing we learned about him was that he looked great in bright pink and dressed as a girl. Don't ask how we know that. That experience had scarred me for life" Monta concluded the sentence with a shudder and a haunted look on his face.
"I failed too" said Yukimitsu "I tried to hack into Hiruma-san's laptop hoping to see something, but I couldn't figure out the password. Every time I failed, I got electrocuted. Doesn't my hair look more upright and straight than usually? At least now, my arm hair matched the hair on my head" He said while showing everyone his arm.
"AH-HA-HA" said Taki while twirling "I tried to seduce Hiruma-san with my charms, but he knocked me out and sent me to a mental asylum. The people there were so charmed by me that they wouldn't let me leave"
Suzuna sighed. "What am I going to do with you? It took me forever explaining to the people there that you were not insane. It didn't help that you were twirling around the whole entire time. Now, about You-nii, I snooped around the football teams we knew or have faced against before. None of the ones I went to have been acting weirdly and none of the people who I have interviewed seemed shaken by my questions. The only team I didn't have time to go to was the White Knights, Seibu, and Poseidon. I'm sure You-nii's boyfriend is in one of them!"
"How can you be so sure that Hiruma-san's boyfriend plays football?" asked Monta
" Because You-nii loves American football and devotes all his time to it. Plus, the almost all the people You-nii had interacted with for the past months were people who played football. I just know that it's someone we know and someone who plays football. Call it my female intuition" replied Suzuna.
"I agree with Suzuna-chan. I have the same feeling too" said Mamori "For my part, I have noticed that Hiruma leave shortly after practice every day and in a hurry too so I planted a tracking device on him. It would have worked except that he kept breaking them. I don't know how he does it. I even got one that is titanium coated"
"We thought along the same lines as you" said Jumonji "We set up security cameras in this place, hoping to see a glimpse of the guy"
"But, we saw nothing of interest other than Suzuna-chan making out with that running back from Seibu" said Togano
"W-w-what?" said Suzuna sporting a huge blush on her face
"Haha" said Monta laughing loudly "I didn't expect that, but you guys look good together"
"We also saw Monta making out with that cornerback guy from Shinryuji" said Kuroki
"Haha" said Suzuna this time imitating Monta "I didn't expect that, but you guys look good together"
"I-I-I w-was performing CPR" said Monta in a final attempt to maintain his dignity
"He didn't look passed out" replied Kuroki "On the contrary, he was very much awake and into performing "CPR" for you too"
Monta was rendered speechless and tried his best to keep his blush away.
"Sorry" grunted Komusubi "Uh Um UHH"
"He said he's sorry for missing practice for the past few days. He was in the hospital for a day and then was confined to the bed at home because he got hit by a car. He didn't want to worry anyone so he didn't tell any of us beforehand. He got hit because he was following Hiruma after seeing him walking with another guy. He was pretty sure that it was the boyfriend because the guy matched Monta's description. Komusubi-kun said that he agree with Suzuna-chan because he managed to hear a glimpse of Hiruma and the other guy's conversation. They were talking about Sena. The guy is a rival of Sena's. "Kurita translated
"I also have something similar. I—" said Kurita "Sena!"
Everyone in the room turn to look at Sena standing in the doorway. The hour was more than halfway gone. Nobody had said anything before, but they were all worried about how late Sena was. They were even more worried now, judging by the state Sena was in. He was slightly shaking and shock was clearly written on his face.
"Are you alright, Sena?" asked Mamori
"I-I" said Sena "I know who Hiruma-san's boyfriend is"