Title: Who's the Fool?
Theme: HiruSena for April fool's Day 2009
Author: Tania Dick
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't have the privilege of owning Eyeshield 21 (that honour belongs to the respective owners). I have simply *cough* "borrowed" the players for the purpose of setting them in unreal situations.....
- Italics - = thoughts
[[words]] = Author's comments within story text
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= and now for the chapter that kept popping up in my head as I was trying for the previous chapter. Did some rearranging and I think this is a slightly better flow of the story :3
= I've been advised that I should stop my *emotion* style of writing so now I'll try to stick to a more literary format (instead of being lazy with email shorthand/fun) :P
= I've also been given the comment that my descriptiveness might be detracting from the story, but the majority of reviews indicated that folks were happy with my verbal pictures - so for now I'll continue as I am; however I'll open it up to comments and see how folks still feel or whether they would rather I cut down on words and leave them to envision the scenarios themselves!
[I blame Tolkien lolz]
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Chapter 9 = Operation: Spy on Eyeshield!
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Passersby gave the strange girl hugging a column outside the theatre a wide berth as they threw curious looks. Said girl had short blue-ish hair and was wearing a figure hugging suit (like a motor cross protective suit) in yellow and black stripes. A yellow puffy bakers cap and yellow backpack topped off the outfit whilst on her feet she wore oddly enough - rollerblades. Shifting blue fashion shades she fidgeted impatiently muttering irritably as she looked at her watch and once again brought up the video camera in her hand ready to film. "Awwwwwe, where are they!"
"We shouldn't have allowed this to happen...Suzuna are you listening to me!" Snapped another person hidden within the shadows of the pillars "and I can't believe you made me wear something like this! We'd blend in far better if we were to wear normal clothes!" A taller older girl stepped out of the shadows revealing herself to be a fetching young lady with chestnut hair cropped short. She was wearing a similar outfit to Suzuna only in a more 'Bonnie and Clyde' style with yellow and black pleather mini skirt in a 'racing checker' pattern and white go-go boots. A pale yellow 60's blouse with a bright yellow neck scarf and yellow fringed suede vest topped with a yellow beret completed the outfit.
"Awe come on Mamo-nee! It's no fun if we don't dress the part!"
"hmmmmm!" Anezaki Mamori doubted that point as she cast dubious looks at the onlookers looking at her and Suzuna (the males having the usual starry eyed expression on their faces that they usually got when they were debating whether they should ask her out).
- I never should have allowed this...it's my fault! And now Sena's in the Claws of That Demon! - eyes closed, Mamori clenched her fists and fought her anger at getting carried away with the one chance at potentially catching the 'Master of Blackmail' at his own game. Academically, she knew this was the most likely method and unfortunately out of the entire school and list of known interactions - Sena had been the one with the highest percentage of having Hiruma's attention turned their way. But emotionally, Sena was still the small boy her heart had gone out to and even though he no longer needed her in quite the same way she still couldn't help looking out for him. Clever Suzuna, using the weakness of every 'open' and 'closet' yaoi fan that ever existed - the chance to dress boys up cutely! She should have never shown the girl her photos of Sena from their younger days when she'd dressed him in all manner of cute articles from cat suits to sailor suits. The chance to dress him in something other than his usual scruffy and comfortably casual attire had been too tempting to resist. And now Sena was at the mercy of that heinous demon!
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"Suzuna we need to pull Sena out of this NOW!"
"What do you expect me to do? We lost them the moment they got into the cab at the school!" the blue haired girl piped up. "Let's face it; in the entire time since I joined up with you guys, I've never located his house or whatever. Finding that part time job of his was sheer dumb luck!"
"...But Suzuna!"
"I'm not too happy about it either!" - I'd have liked to have seen You-nii's torture chambers - Suzuna pouted to herself; envisioning the grisly lair befitting a demon like the Blonde. "Whether we like it or not, we're stuck waiting for them to show up..."
"But what if they don't! What if that..That....That Monster misbehaves himself at wherever he's taken Sena!" Mamori wailed tugging at her hair.
Suzuna shrugged. "There's not a lot we can do but hope" she rolled her eyes at Mamori's excessive mother instincts - Hasn't Sena already proven he doesn't need Mamo-nee's mothering anymore? -
"SUZUNA!!!.....Ooooh! If anything's happened to him I'll never EVER forgive myself...or you either!"
"Whaaaa...but that's unfair! You were the one wanting to make him wear the dr-"
"MAMORI-SWAAAAAAN!!!!!!"
Suzuna hunched over as the last person she needed on a spy mission requiring subtleness appeared to moon like the monkey he was over Mamori.
"Heeeey" the boy known as Monta looked around, "haven't they shown up yet?"
"T^T"
"Calm down Mamo-nee, They'll be here - Come on! We both know Hiruma's too thrifty to throw away the free tickets we had the Monkey hide in his locker during morning practise"
"MUKYAAA - who you calling a Monkey!" Raimon Tarou ranted, eye's bugging out as they usually did at the frequent taunt, "I'll have you know I risked my Life- Max to get those in there without Hiruma-san knowing what I was doing! Scarey-MAX!"
"But where are they?!" Mamori bewailed once again.
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With the plan in operation, various spies around the school (her other compatriots of the Deimon school newspaper) had kept a close eye on the pair as they had left the school. Suzuna had hurriedly changed and bullied Mamori into her outfit as the rest of the club had faded away to their own activities - their parts of the conspiracy; namely collecting the funds and donations needed to get the tickets and clothes for Sena had finished in the previous weeks. It was really quite handy organising a coup d'état when the entire school was backing you (she wasn't sure who the Huh Huh Sankyoudai had requested funds from, but their earnings had mostly paid for Sena's clothes). Suzuna was frankly glad of whoever had made the donation(s) because Sena had been adorable...and they'd have never pulled that off buying standard expensives from Myers and David Jones. She wondered if Sena actually realised he was wearing a small fortune in clothes on his back? (Probably not - he was a guy after all, cute as he was; some things are beyond mere males)
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They'd gotten to the school gates in time to see Hiruma hustle the smaller boy into a cab. Poor Sena, if she hadn't been so determined to catch the demon she'd have felt sorry for the clearly terrified young man. But she was determined and hard to sway once she'd made up her mind! (Plus there was a certain matter of a picture involving her idiot brother...Really, why did she have to clean up after his mistakes anyway?! He wouldn't have been horrified, but her parents would have been - baka Taki ni-san!)
Try as they might they'd lost sight of the cab within the first 5 minutes. - It's really hard to tail a car without being seen; it's not like anything in the movies! - Suzuna reflected. Now they were reduced to waiting at the outside pillars of the cinemas in the hope that You-nii wasn't in the process of skinning the Ace Runningback for the deception. She'd known how hard it was to trick You-nii, what with his information network and such; but she really thought they were close! You-nii had been so surprised (for him at least) when he'd seen Sena all cleaned up and when Mamori had screeched at him (she'd snapped those moments from the hidden security camera's of her own). She'd had to tackle Mamori to the ground to stop her from accosting Hiruma and taking Sena back when they'd enter the cab. She couldn't blame Mamo-nee's concern though, when she thought about it - she was pretty worried about Sena's safety too, but Hiruma was too prudent to damage their chances for the Spring and Fall Tournaments; on that, she was adamant!
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- Nearly 6pm - Suzuna fidgeted again looking at her watch for about the tenth time. Then she signed with relief as a familiar looking cab pulled up. Camera ready she waited. Mamo-nee relaxed beside her and waited to see how badly damaged Sena was before she went in to rescue him and Monta watched in trepidation as well.
The tall blonde stepped out of the cab they were watching with avid intent. Suzuna felt herself and her compatriots draw in a quick breath of surprise at the third year's appearance. Watching through her lens she couldn't stop the flush of blood to her cheeks at the sight of the blonde (and she suspected Mamo-nee was probably suffering the same). Hiruma was undeniably a handsome guy - even if he did hide it by looking like a roguish punk most of the time (the part time job as a Host had proven it...as long as he didn't display the truth of his diabolical personality at least). There were still plenty of females every year that would attempt to provide him with valentine chocolates, but tonight; instead of the usual loud and flashy display the demon was known for - he seemed to be more than toned down. Ears and fangs and piercings aside, Hiruma was simply refined and elegant... and displaying the affluence he no doubly had access too.
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Black silk and silver tones - Hiruma was just plain HOT!! A quick peek at Mamo-nee and the monkey showed them both frozen with shock (and Mamo-nee had a darker tinge to her face that she suspected had nothing to do with embarrassment).
Now the main actor of the play entered the stage - a very pale looking Sena left the cab now and stared as Hiruma actually paid the cab driver! Suzuna made sure to zoom in on the startled visage of the cab driver as well - after all she was a professional!
- Wow...Even the monkey and Mamo-nee look stunned at that! - she thought as she quickly recorded their reactions. Personally, Suzuna was taking everything as a good sign. To all purposes, it looked like You-nii was trying to be less intimidating than usual. He could have been wearing that Jacquard print suit he'd worn in Las Vages for the date and blackmailed the cab driver as per usual. However, it seemed to be having the opposite effect on the little brunette as she zoomed in on Sena's pale face and worried features.
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Suzuna had her own personal agenda for suggesting this particular ploy. She'd suspected for a while that it was highly possible that the Demon Quarterback of Deimon High was gay (most particularly for a particular Brunette)! Given the lengths she was witnessing the demon blonde was undertaking to appear more "normal & not scary" for this 'date' she was more than sure that her suspicions were correct. (She'd kept that part from Mamori of course!) After running into the older boy at one of her favourite yaoi book stores she'd begun to suspect pretty hard and who couldn't resist the adorable brunette? (Certainly Shin, Akaba and Yamato were displaying a more than normal attentiveness to the runningback - though with Shin she couldn't really tell...)
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Suzuna was convinced that the Deimon Quarterback had a crush on the smaller runningback (it was just an adorable pairing!). But she was unsure of the brunette's reaction. This would be the litmus test to determine which way Sena swung! (He'd certainly been more than obtuse during the times she'd flirted with him, she couldn't figure out if he was just shy, unable to recognise flirtation or just thick as a brick... not that she was bothered)
" ....they really look sweet together" - or they would do if Sena didn't look so terrified... -
"DON'T Say that!" Mamori hissed under her breathe at her accomplice
- Eeep! Was that aloud? - "Sorry Mamo-nee! But they really do look sorta good.." Suzuna whispered back.
"Muukyaaaa! Sena really does look good in those clothes...and he matches Hiruma's getup pretty good too..." Monta stated shading his eyes to peer at the pair
"HSSSSSSST!" both the girls shushed him as they all dived behind the pillar as the blonde looked up from looking at his tickets.
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"Not bad" they heard him say as he GENTLY shoved the brunette towards the theatre doors. Bug eyed, they shared the same poleaxe face as the brunette. Suzuna filmed the rapid colour changes crisscrossing their way over Sena's face using the camcorder to get her own thoughts together.
"We should go and retrieve Sena now!" Mamori insisted as she awoke from her stunned state of mind, "before that Demon returns to damage my pore kyodai!"
"We can't do that Mamo-nee! This is the ONLY chance we have and it's working so far!" Suzuna stated, "If we go out now, all the effort will have been wasted."
"I knooooow! But Sena...and that monster.... Monta! What do you think?" She whined turning to the monkeyish boy.
"Ore?!" he replied dumbfounded, pointing to himself before going to a glazed and dreamy idiot face...
Suzuna rolled her eyes at the monkey's obviously crush driven mind, "Ah! They're going in! Mon-Mon make yourself useful and go get us some tickets quickly!"
"Huh? Why me?" the monkey said waking up from his Mamori-dream.
"Onegai Monta!" the older girl pleaded.
".........Omatasei leave it to me!" Suzuna shook her head in despair as the monkey boy left for the foyer with a ridiculous look on his face and pastel spots on his cheeks.
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= once again please memo/note me regarding spell errors/grammar mistakes and any other foul ups so I can correct and improve my writing skills
= I hope I got the right romanji for Monta's acquiesce