Lucky In Cards, Unlucky In Love

by Dozen and One Stars

It's the rapid fire, bullet proof broomsticks, curses, and the unspoken agreements that define Hiruma and Mamori's odd relationship at their best, worst and the area inbetween. After all it's just another day in paradise. 100 themes challenge. Oneshots.

4. At First Sight

Chapter Four: At First Sight

Disclaimer: I do not own Eyeshield 21.

Song Playing: Have You Ever Been In Love

Theme 20: Love

The clubhouse was the quietist it had ever been. The only sound was the rhythmic typing of laptop keys as Hiruma worked. Across from him sat the ever dutiful manager, for once not doing anything at all. Just... sitting and staring off into space.

"Hiruma?"

He made a non-committal noise that indicated that he had heard her.

"Do you believe in love at first sight?"

There was a brief almost nonexistent pause in his typing, if she didn't know any better she would swear it hadn't happened at all. "Why? Don't tell me you've gone all wide eyed and girly on me for some school yard idiot."

"No." He was a bit surprised when there was no bite in her tone, no sign of the usual irritation. "I was just wondering. That's all."

The clubhouse was silent once again.

"So do you?"

His reply was short quick and to the point. "Hell no."

"Why not?" Mamori turned her body so she could look at him while they talked.

"That love-at-first-sight crap is just an over marketed love struck teenage girl fantasy." His eyes flickered over whatever he was typing out. "Love, if there is such a damn thing, won't happen just by looking at the person. If anyone feels anything the first time meeting 'the one' it's nothing but suppressed smoldering lust. It's a pure physical attraction that shoots through straight from the brain to groin."

She stared at him for a moment before returning to her earlier activity of staring at the wall.

"Do you?"

She gave him a shrug. "I don't know. I mean the thought of walking into a room and locking eyes with someone and knowing instantly that that's the one. That's the person I'm spending the rest of my life with seems so far fetched. And yet- yet there's something about it. Something about the whole idea of knowing, of feeling that spark it just calls to me." She glanced up at him. "Though I suppose it's rather silly, right?"

He locked eyes with her and for one brief fleeting moment he felt something tighten in his chest. "Not entirely."

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