Title: Manly Men
Rating: T
Pairings: Shounen ai.
Disclaimer: I don't own Eyeshield 21.
Summary: Sakuraba asks Shin for a favor regarding Sena…


Manly Men

"Why don't you ask him yourself?"

"It would be too embarrassing. Ne, Shin?"

Here they go again…

Takami rolled his eyes. Sakuraba has been fascinated with the Deimon Devil Bats' secretary ever since he had a talk with Kobayakawa Sena at the hospital. When he learned that Shin often met the boy during his training jogs, he decided to pester their friend for details about Sena's likes and dislikes or if Sena was seeing anyone.

This cannot end well…

As much as Sakuraba was Takami's friend and how he wanted it to be otherwise, he was realistic. He knew that there were few men with same sex preferences and that most men took offense at being asked about such things. He understood why Sakuraba was antsy about asking Kobayakawa directly. The other boy has never shown any inclination to his own sex and Takami had seen Kobayakawa with the female Deimon team manager and he seemed pretty close with the bouncy cheerleader. It was likely that Sakuraba was going to be disappointed.

But manly men do their own courting…and take their lumps… And what could Kobayakawa Sena do to him anyway?

The petite secretary looked and behaved nice enough. Takami was almost sure that he would just brush it off with a "let's just be friends" speech and that will be the end of it.

"All right, I'll ask him."

"Thank you very much."

Ah well, that's done…

"Sakuraba, let's try that particular pass again." Takami said, getting off the bench where he was cooling off from a particularly strenuous run.

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"So what did Sena say?" Sakuraba was fairly bouncing in anticipation.

Takami winced.

Here it goes…

"We're going out on a date this Saturday." Shin said in a stunned tone and the look of someone who didn't quite know what had just happened.

"WHAT?"

Oops. But then again…

Takami suppressed a snicker.

Knowing Shin, he'd probably managed to give the wrong impression…

-The End-