FASH: Alright, I'm back and ready to rock and roll, or something along those lines anyways.

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Sena had woken up that morning fully prepared for the day because even though he was fairly certain that this year he wouldn't be getting any birthday beats, who knew what Hiruma would do during training today? He was a year older now, he'd should be able to handle tougher training, more bullets being shot at him, stuff like that. Oh well, whatever Hiruma did wouldn't kill him... Probably.

He met up with Monta along the way to school and was pleasantly surprised when his friend flamboyantly presented him with a bright green card with the words 'Happy Sixteenth Birthday' written in sparkly yellow letters on the front. He read the standard birthday message inside, with a couple personal touches added by Monta: 'Best Wishes MAX' and the like.

They both made it to school right on time as per usual and made their way to the clubhouse. Sena reached for the handle and pulled it open, only to have Mamori immediately envelope him in a tight, suffocating hug.

"Happy Birthday Sena!" She practically shouted into his ear as she concentrated on squeezing the life out of him.

"Oi, stop your strangling and get back to work fucking manager." Hiruma said as he idly flipped through his book of threats, Mamori huffed indignantly but let Sena go. He almost let out a sigh of relief before he felt a muscled arm curl around his neck, and another one wrapping from the opposite side around his chest.

He turned to look at both of his 'captors', Kuroki was the one with his arm around his neck on the right, Juumonji was the one on his left, and Toganou was standing in front of him, patting Sena's hair in a freakishly gentle way.

"Time for birthday beats." Toganou said in a sing song voice and Sena flinched a bit before Mamori sprung into action, grabbing Toganou by the back of his shirt and pulling him away. "Don't bully Sena!"

"Geez, we were just kidding." Kuroki said as he let go of Sena's neck and Juumonji likewise unwrapped his arm from around Sena's chest and took a small step away, smirking. "We're not that cruel, I don't think he'd be able to stand getting hit by each of us sixteen ti-" "Would you all just shut up and get into your gear!" Hiruma commanded rather than asked, snapping his book of threats shut and standing up, glaring at everyone in the room. "I expect you all to be outside on the field in five minutes, if you're not..." He left the threat hanging as he walked outside, no one would dare to be late anyways.

Practice was pretty much the same as it usually was, which came as a bit of a surprise to Sena since he was so sure that Hiruma force a newer training regimen upon him now that he was sixteen. Not that he was complaining or anything, he just thought it was strange.

'Maybe it's because he always makes me train to the best of my ability anyways, knowing that if I don't go all out the first time he can just shoot at me or send Cerberus after me in order to make me try harder.' Sena let out a sigh of relief when practice ended without any major hitches. 'Safe.'

"Oi Sena, I want to 'chat' with you about something, so don't go running off after you change alright?" Sena tensed a bit. 'Or maybe not.'

It was ten minutes till first period when Sena and Hiruma were finally left alone in the clubhouse, Sena was expecting some sort of outburst about how he hadn't been concentrating enough during practice and nearly died of shock when Hiruma said: "Good work today." without even bothering to look up from his laptop. "I thought that I'd have to whip you into shape more than usual today, I'm pleased that you showed some type of maturity and didn't goof off because today's your birthday."

Was that praise of some sort coming from Hiruma's mouth?

"Hell, I thought that with today being what it is and your daydreaming about your boyfriends you'd be a total wreak today."

Not really.

"Hiruma-san, why do you have to keep on bringing this stuff up? I don't have weird daydreams about dating them or kissing them or anything that some girl would do!" Hiruma cocked an eyebrow at him, clearly not convinced. "Don't you like being kissed by guys?"

Sena rolled his eyes and bit back the rather rude retort forming on his tongue. 'Do you like being kissed by guys Hiruma-san?' "Well, seeing as I never kissed a guy, I wouldn't kn-"

It only lasted a couple seconds at most, their lips hardly touched and it was by far one of the gentlest things Hiruma had ever done to him. The blonde pulled back quickly. "Well?"

"You-You-" "I?" "You just stole my first kiss!" Sena exclaimed, pressing his hands against his mouth and rubbing at his lips until he was sure that there were no traces of Hiruma germs left there.

"Yeah, so, did you like it or not?" "What kind of question is that, you-" "Calm down, only girls get so over excitable about their first kiss, besides, if you really hated it you would have slapped me or something by now." The blonde said, completely calm while Sena was nearly hyperventilating. "Besides, now you have something to compare other kisses with right? Go kiss that damn head cheerleader or something." "Suzuna! I'd never kiss her!" Hiruma grinned. "And why do you suppose that is?" "She's my friend, I couldn't, would never-" "How about the manager, first year students seem to flock around her." "Mamori-neesan is like my sister! My older sister!" "Oh, well you don't really have any other female friends do you? If you did hate the feeling of my lips against yours, and clearly you didn't or else I'm sure you would have stomped out by now, you should probably try and coerce one of them to kiss you and see if you like it." Hiruma threw him a look out of the corner of his eye. "Maybe your bi-sexual and just don't want to admit it." He said before leaving the clubhouse.

Sena swore he heard him humming happily under his breath as he left.

'What do I do, what do I do?!' He didn't not like the kiss, it was just sudden and it was Hiruma and oh God Hiruma had stolen his first kiss like it was the easiest thing in the world to do. He started pacing around the clubhouse, he couldn't go to class when he was so worked up, he still had some time before first period started.

'But I can't kiss Suzuna or Mamori-neesan, that would just be to weird and I'd never have the guts to ask.' He sighed. 'And Suzuna would probably make fun of me.'

He was late for first period that day and had to serve a thirty minute detention at lunch, but that was a far better punishment than having to walk into his classroom blushing and frazzled and more disturbed than he should be after talking to his team captain. The huh huh brother had sent him curious looks that he didn't dare meet incase one of them could read his mind.

He was never going to allow himself to be alone in a room with Hiruma ever again!