Kotetsu let out a sigh and sat on his couch flipping through TV channels. Their first week out had been a total bust and it was entirely his fault, he kept making mistakes after mistake because he couldn't keep a clear head. Barnaby was back to avoiding him too. He needed to shake these feelings, or at least find a better outlet than pining from afar.

He stopped flipping through channels when he saw golden hair and glasses, was Barnaby on TV? He started paying attention and realised it was a movie, and the woman on the screen was an actress who was playing a femme fatale in a crime drama. Her hair was golden and curled, her jawline was smooth and her chin jutted out just a bit, her eyes were a pale green, maybe even blue, her lips were dark red with the thick layer of lipstick they had put on her.

Kotetsu watched more of the movie; she wasn't a bad actor actually. Her voice was sultry and she delivered her lines with a lot of emotion. As he watched an idea dawned on him. This lady was beautiful, and gorgeous, and honestly he was a little turned on watching her during the sex scene. He could just redirect his sexual feelings onto someone else!

He grinned to himself as he paid better attention to her. She had nice wide hips and a tiny waist, her legs were shapely, and she knew how to walk in those heels she was wearing. He tried to picture her naked like she had been a few minutes ago. Her back was well toned top, her hair falling onto her shoulders while she pressed herself into the unknowing man below her, he would later realise she had used him for her own gains.

He shook his head trying to get the movie plot out of his head; he wanted to just think about her. He rubbed himself through his pants as he watched, she was currently running away from the protagonist, a briefcase full of diamonds in her hand, those shapely legs working overtime to run in heels. He felt himself growing hard thinking about those legs wrapped around him.

He undid his pants and started masturbating while watching her on the screen. He imagined feeling her soft milky skin under his fingers, delicate and smooth. Her ass was probably nice and soft and bouncy, just like her boobs, god he missed Tomoe's boobs. He kept running his hand up and down his shaft as he imagined sucking on her neck and trailing kisses down to her nice full breasts.

He kept pumping his hand as he thought about climbing on top of her and pressing himself into her, her folds pulling him into her and clenching down when he found that perfect spot.

He quickened his pace and finished off with a quick climax, back arching slightly as he came into his other hand. He took a few short breaths and then relaxed back into the couch, hand full of cum.

Well, that had worked! He could just start finding someone else to be attracted to! He got up to go wash his hands, he could do this! He would just redirect all of his pent up sexual frustration onto this beautiful lady he would never meet.

The next day they were called out to do another promotion. They were to help out at an old folks home. He was fine with helping out at these types of events, it may be a little weird going to an old folks home if he was in the First League but the Second League was more about helping people on a smaller scale and he actually really enjoyed it.

They didn't have to wear their Hero suits for this event which was nice, all he had to wear was his domino mask. The other Second League members also came in civilian clothes but kept their masks on as well. Only Barnaby was unmasked (even though everyone knew his identity he felt naked in public events without his mask).

They were to help during the exercise event; each Hero had a person to work with. Kotetsu got a sweet old lady that reminded him a bit of his mom. He was to help her with her stretches.

"Alright Maggie, we are going to do a shoulder pull next," he said as he placed his hands on her shoulders and helped pull her arms backwards, then helped her lift each arm upward.

"Oh, thank you dear, we love when you young folks come and visit, you should come more often," she said as he bent her other arm up over her head.

"Well, if we get assigned another promotional event I'll let them know you said that," he said with a smile as he helped her cross her arms in the front.

The day was going smoothly; the other Heroes were all helping out their own individual person.

Next they were to hand out snacks and drinks before an afternoon movie and then they were done, easy!

He and Barnaby were set to hand out drinks at one table and Sumo and Violet were to hand out snacks at the table beside. Bombeman and Chop were helping on the other side getting people seated.

Kotetsu reached for a drink to hand to a guest at the same time Barnaby did. Their hands bumped but this time Kotetsu had been ready for it. He wouldn't flinch away from Barnaby any more, they needed to get back into the rhythm of things and that meant acting normal, and he wouldn't normally pull away from Bunny.

Barnaby on the other hand did pull back, and with such commotion that Kotetsu ended up getting actually pushed somehow into the table, he tried to brace himself against it, didn't realise it was collapsible in the centre and the whole thing tipped in towards itself. Kotetsu tried to stop it from collapsing which just caused it to turn over and dump on the ground. This all happened in about half a second of flailing.

"Mr. Tiger are you alright?" Violet said as she ran over.

Kotetsu stood there dumbfounded. How had this happened? Why was it always him making a mess, he wasn't even the one to freak out! This was all Barnaby's fault! He turned to look at his partner who looked pale and uneasy. He couldn't even get mad at him when he looked like that.

"Yes, I'm fine, silly me butter fingers you know, can't be called the crusher for justice without some kind of collateral damage." He joked while he walked around the mess to help clean up. Barnaby finally snapped out of it and came around to help as well, giving him a wide berth as usual. That was it, this was the last straw, they needed to talk.

He would explain to Barnaby that he didn't really have those feelings for him, and that there was no need to worry! And that they should go back to being partners and act normal around each other, that he wouldn't make any moves or anything on him. Ya, then Barnaby would stop being so nervous around him! It was a perfect plan.