FASH: In the English version for Eyeshield 21 Shin's voice actor is the same person who does Alucard in Hellsing! Oh my God! Everyone else is kind of medocre/iffy and they don't pronounce some names right but Shin makes it worth it! Makes me wanna write a fic where Shin is a vampire. Awesomely epic!

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Sena pouted a bit as he got ready for school the next morning. Apparently his mother was expecting him to cave into her will because not even five minutes after he agreed she had set something up.

With a girl.

Sena was going to be playing with a girl. Mamori was one thing, they'd known each other since before they could remember, but Sena didn't want to be stuck playing with dolls or whatever it was girls did when they were around his age. Because apparently Sena had been deemed too 'frail' to play with other boys his age.

But with any luck she'd be a tomboy, or would want to play at the park. In the worst case scenario he might get stuck playing house or having a fake tea party with stuffed animals for a couple hours.

So he rushed home from school as he had a couple times before, he would probably have to do it all the time now too, unless he wanted to get cornered by his agitated tormentors once again and next time there was no telling what their little 'talk' might escalate to.

"I'm sure you'll like her, Sawai Juri is such a sweet girl, she has such an interesting style too, I'm sure you'll get along well." His mother assured him as they made the long trek over to the area where this 'Juri' girl lived.

"She's even got a nickname, all her friends call her 'Julie' isn't that just adorable?" Sena nodded, feigning interest for his mother's sake.

'Please don't be a girly girl, please don't be a girly girl, please don't be a girly girl...'He repeated his mantra as he walked up the steps towards Juri's house and was practically shoved inside by his mother only seconds after knocking, nearly colliding with a girl with light greenish blue hair.

"Ah, sorry." Sena said out of reflex, peering at the girl curiously. She had hoop earrings, elbow length gloves and bell bottomed pants on. 'I guess this is what mom meant when she said Sawai-san had an interesting style.'

"Oh, you must be Sena then, come on!" She grabbed his hand and dragged him up the stairs, Sena could barely hear his mother call out 'have fun', before he was dragged into what he could only assume was Juri's bedroom.

She let go of his hand and went towards her vanity mirror in search of something which gave Sena some time to look around. He let out an inward sigh of relief when he saw that it wasn't completely pink.

"We're going to have lots of fun today Sena, I've never had a younger sibling before, but I've always, always wanted to try this."

Juri turned around and Sena took a cautious step back.

Were those cosmetics in her hands?

"Sawai-san." "Oh, you don't have to call me that, you can call me Julie-neechan." "Okay, J-Julie-neechan." Sena took another small step back as Juri's smile widened. "What exactly are we doing today?"

"We're going to play dress up of course, I know I'm a little old for this sort of thing, but I never got to do it and I've always wanted to. Don't worry, it'll be fun."

Darn it, if Sena ran away Juri would be sad and his mother would probably be angry with him. So with a heavy sigh he resigned himself to his fate, which was something he seemed to be doing a lot lately.

First came the blush, Juri said that his skin was an even enough tone and was without any 'blemishes', whatever thought were, so she wouldn't have to put any 'foundation' on. Then came the eyeshadow, she close a light, glittery green for that. 'It could be worse.' He assured himself while she applied it. 'It could have been pink.'

Next came the mascara, Sena was in the bad habit of blinking and flinching whenever something came that close to his eye and it took Juri a solid ten minutes to finish with that.

Lastly came the lipstick, which was a really pale pink, but it was pink none the less and Sena had never felt less manly in his life, and he had never felt manly in the first place.

"Alright, you're so cute!" Juri cooed over him and Sena managed to pull his lips into a very fake smile. "Thanks Juri, I mean, Julie-neechan. Is that everything?"

Juri gave him a look that clearly said: 'are you kidding' and indeed the next words out of her mouth were: "Are you kidding, we're not even half done yet." She went to her vanity mirror to grab a brush and began running it through Sena's hair.

"Your hair is pretty short, I'm not sure how much I can do with it. Hmm..." She tugged the brush harshly when she felt a knot and Sena winced. "Ow." "I could give you a hair-band, or maybe a couple of clips? You're hair is pretty spiky though so unless I can manage to keep it down it won't look very feminine."

Sena kindly withheld the fact that he didn't want to look feminine in the first place as Juri went over to her vanity mirror, again, in search of something.

"Hmmm." Sena could see from her reflection that she was pursing her lips and glaring at the objects in sight.

'Maybe that means she doesn't have what she needs and she'll just stop now?'

Juri suddenly smiled and snapped her fingers. "I got it, mom has some stuff for her hair in the bathroom. I'm sure she won't mind if I borrowed some."

'I think she'll mind! I think she'll mind very much, it's better to be safe then sorry you know.' Sena inwardly complained as Juri practically skipped out the door and down the hallway.

'My life has reached an all time low.' Sena pouted and shyly looked at his reflection in the mirror. He looked like a girl, he actually looked like a girl. Maybe it was because Juri had already reached an age where she knew that more make-up didn't mean you looked better and she had actually applied a subtle amount as opposed to what younger girls seemed to apply. Or maybe it was just because Sena's face wasn't particularly boyish to begin with.

Sena, for the sake of his practically non-existent pride, told himself that it was the former.

"Alright, I'm back!" Juri announced as she re-entered the room, furiously shaking a bottle of something Sena wished to never know the contents of as she crept up behind him.

"Alright, let's do your hair." Sena closed his eyes and willed it to be over soon.

He could feel something being spread into his hair by Juri, then the brush was combing through his hair yet again and then there was a couple of tugs and snapping sounds from the area above his ears.

"There we go. Kyaa, you're so cute!" Juri threw her arms around his neck and Sena slowly opened one eye to glance at himself in the mirror. "I'm really good at this stuff!"

His once spiky hair was now miraculously straight and there were dark green clips keeping his hair behind his ears.

'I look even more girly... How is that even possible?'

"And now for the clothes!"

Oh, oh noooo. That was where Sena drew the line!

"Julie-neechan, I don't want to wear girly clothes." Sena glared up at her as best as he could, of course Juri couldn't really take that look seriously, really it only made him look cuter.

"Aw, please? Just one outfit? I have something from two years ago that I'm sure will fit you, it's not frilly or lacy, just a normal sun-dress. And it's green so it'll go with everything else perfectly!" Juri moved in front of him and widened her eyes in a good imitation of puppy-dog eyes.

"Please? You won't make Julie-neechan sad will you? If you do this for Julie-neechan she'll never make you do it again, I just want to do it once and then we can go play in the park or something." Her eyes widened even more and her lower lip started to tremble.

'Don't give in, don't look her in the eyes...'

"I-I really don't want to-" "Please? Pleeease?" oh God it looked like she was going to cry any moment now and if Sena's mom ever found out that he'd made a girl cry, well, there goes his allowance.

"Fine, fine, I'll do it." 'Let's just get this over with.'

Juri dug through her closet for the article of clothing and upon finding it held it up to Sena for further inspection.

"It'll look so good on you!" She said as she handed it over to him. "You can change into it now, call me back into the room when you're done or if you need any help with the zipper!" There was a definite cheeky tone to her voice as she left the room.

Sena held up the sun-dress with a sigh. 'I could be worse, it could be worse, it could be pink and frilly and short. I might wear this dress, but I'll never wear one that's pink, frilly and short.' (coughliescough)

He slipped out of his clothes and pulled the dress on over his head, managing to do up the zipper in the back without much trouble.

"I'm finished Julie-neechan." He called out reluctantly, eyebrows shooting up when she practically burst through the door with a very satisfied smile on her face.

"Aw, you're so adorable! You could pass off as my little sister or something." She grabbed his hand. "Alright, let's go to the park." "You-you're not letting me change first?" Sena asked, the pitch of his voice going higher with a hint of hysteria. "Nope, half the fun is to see how many people are going to think you're my little sister!"

And so he was dragged through the streets, crowded streets, to the park. 'At least this isn't my neighborhood, no one should recognize me.'

"Oi, Julie! Wait up!" Sena turned to look at a boy with dark purple, spiky hair following after them. "Julie-neechan, who's that?"

"That's Kotarou, whom with I have a non-desirable but unavoidable relationship." Sena pursed his lips together as he tried to figured out what exactly she meant, luckily she seemed to sense his confusion and expanded upon her explanation. "We're childhood friends, our parents were friends so we always played together when we were kids."

'Ah, so it's like me and Mamori-neechan then.' He turned to look at Kotarou again, he'd almost caught up with them.

"Julie, stop ignoring me damn it!" Kotarou demanded as he came up beside her, pulling out a comb and running it through his hair distractedly, raising one eyebrow when he caught sight of Sena.

"Who's that? One of your cousins or something?" The question seemed to put Juri in a good mood and without any reservations she grabbed Sena by the shoulders and turned him to be face to, well, chest, with Kotarou.

"This is Kobayakawa Sena." "Sena?" Koraou paused him combing for a moment. "That doesn't sound like a girl's name..." Kotarou's eyes slowly moved from Sena to take in Juri's overly excited expression before recoiling in shock.

"Julie, you did that girly dress up thing didn't you?! I can't believe you'd do something like that to a kid, what is he, twelve? This could screw with his mind for life! Not smart!" Unheeding of the stares he was getting Koatrou quickly wrenched Sena out of Juri's grip.

"Don't worry kid, I'll keep her and her twisted ideas away from you." Kotarou said cooly, combing his hair once again.

"Kotarou, he agreed to it! It's not like I forced him to!" "You probably just blackmailed him into doing it or something!" "Did not!" Did too!" "Did not!"

At this point Kotarou had stopped the verbal argument and had instead started spitting at Juri.

"Kotarou, that's disgusting! Don't do that!"

Sena, from the relative safety behind Kotarou, watched with something akin to awe.

'They're not like me and Mamori-neechan at all.'