Title: Hyperactive
Author: jtptan
Pairing: Hiruma/Sena
Fandom: Eyeshield 21
Theme: 23. candy for the lj 30kisses community. Also posted to esyaoi
Warnings: um.. cuss words? Slash.
Disclaimer: Eyeshield 21 isn't mine, LJ isn't mine, and a lot of other things aren't mine. Words aren't mine... the order of them here though, is.
Notes: Credit to bluephlox for the idea of Hiruma getting a sugar high from sweets as the reason he doesn't eat them. This is vaguely Valentine's Day inspired.
It is before class. Hiruma is working on his laptop.
"Ano... Hi- Hiruma-san?"
Hiruma glances up from his laptop at the runningback trying to claim his attention. "What?" he asks, blowing a bubble at Sena with his gum. Sena shifts his weight from side to side, nervous. It's his first time trying to do something like this, after all. Hiruma watches him open his mouth to speak, blush, and then look away.
"Nothing." With that, Sena disappears. Hiruma couldn't keep up with him, so doesn't bother, and goes back to work, ignoring the sappy music some fucking idiot has just put on the speakers.
Morning break. Hiruma is cleaning his guns in the club room, when Sena pops up again. Sena is put off by Hiruma ignoring his entrance, but opens his mouth to speak anyway. When Hiruma lifts one weapon to peer down the barrel, Sena looses his nerve and darts off again.
At lunch break, Hiruma is waiting for him. Sena enters the clubroom, only to find it empty, and the lights off. He walks forward a bit, just to see if there are any clues to where everybody is, when the door slams and the lights turn on.
Sena turns around, knowing exactly what he's going to see. Or not. Hiruma practically pounces on the brunette, and Sena stops worrying about anything until the bell for end-of-break sounds and he has to run his fastest to get to class on time.
Lunch was nice, but Sena still hasn't sccomplished his mission. He suspects Hiruma might be purposely making this hard for him, then blushes. That's not what I meant, he tells himself.
Monta passes him a note in class, asking if he's feeling alright. Sena slips the note in his pocket, and touches the packet waiting there as he does. It makes him feel nervous, but he still catches Monta's eye and smiles. Monta flashes him a thumbs up.
Before practice, Sena finds Hiruma out on the field.
"Hiruma-san..."
"We don't have time right now, fucking chibi, practice is about to start." Hiruma grins when he sees Sena's face turn red.
"Ahh... no Hiruma-san, that's not it. I... I ahh..." he takes a deep breath and forces it out in one breath. "ImadeyouthishereyougoIhopeyoulikeit!" Looking down, Sena shoves forward the little package he spent the weekend creating, and feels it plucked out of his hands.
Hiruma is holding the package with the tips of his fingers, examining it closely, as if it might explode or catch fire if he's not careful. Slowly, slowly, he opened the drawstrings of the little back and dumps the contents onto one open hand. The extended silence weighs heavily on Sena, as he waits, still with his head bowed, for Hiruma's reaction. "Chocolates? Tch. You eat them. I don't eat sugar." He shoves them back into Sena's startled hands.
Sena's head jerks up and his eyes widen. "I thought - Hiruma-san is always chewing gum, so I thought you would like-"
Hiruma rolls his eyes and pulls the wrapper for his gum out of a pocket and shoves it in Sena's face. "Wrigley's Sugar-free Double-mint gum," Sena reads. "I don't- OH! Hiruma-san! I'm so sorry! I thought, I really thought that you'd be happy and I just wanted to do something to make you feel good before out next game and-"
"Shut up, fucking boyfriend."
This stops Sena right in his tracks. Hiruma's never called him that before. The quarterback is looking away, watching Kurita and the defensive line start their training at the other end of the field. "Hand them over," he orders, reaching out a hand, but still looking away. Sena silently puts the chocolates back in the taller boy's hand. Hiruma pops them all into his mouth, chews and swallows, after muttering something resembling 'in for a penny in for a pound'. Sena's smile is worth it, not that he'd ever tell the brunette that. "Now get training." When Sena turns to go, he finds himself kicked in the rear.
Practice that day is very strange. Sena doesn't stop grinning and just keeps running laps in circles, and Hiruma - well Hiruma is downright bubbly, a girlish, hyperactive way. The Ha-Ha brothers have to stop doing their schtick after about 20 minutes for their throats going raw, and Monta leaves practice early, scared of this new, crazy Hiruma.
Musashi and Kurita keep a close eye on Hiruma. The last time he got on a sugar high things got ugly when he fell into the following sugar low. The second Hiruma starts to seem less hyper, Musashi whips out a tranquilzer gun after Kurita has snuck up behind the quarterback, proving just how out of sorts he is. Hiruma wakes up the next morning with a pounding headache, and vows that the next time Sena pulls the puppy-eyes on him, he'll just fuck him silly.