Chapter Fourteen: Zoom In, Focus Out

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Song Playing: Big Time

Theme 68: Smile

Suzuna never thought all that much about photography. Click a button, a flash of bright light, and you got a picture. To her cameras where associated with little kid's birthday parties and special occasions but that thought process changed the day her parents bought her a digital camera for her birthday.

It had only been a few months since her return home from America when she was presented with the gift. At first she wasn't thrilled. In fact she was down right disappointed as she had been hoping for a new pair of skates. But that was only until she discovered the joy of capturing people unaware on film. It started small at first. A head shot here, a part of someone's arm there before she got used to it. Once she figured out what she was doing there was no stopping her.

Suddenly she was taking pictures of everyone and everything. She took pictures of practices, games, class, downtime, people working and when she discovered that you could get certain affects by pressing certain buttons it was like hell had broken loose and manifested itself as an over energetic teenage girl. She learned very quickly and her shots were becoming better and better.

She was filling scrapbooks full of photos of everyone she knew and a few she didn't. She's captured many interesting moments. Like a shot of Monta mid-summersault after catching a pass. One comical one of Kuirta crushing the three hah brothers and Daikichi to stop them from fight. A serious one of Hiruma typing away at his laptop. There was one with Musashi scratching Cerberus on the head and another with Mamori and Yukimitsu obsessing over a play book. She also had a lot of her brother, whether she had originally intended him to be in the shot or not. Then one night when she was busy sorting through all the shots she had taken and was trying to figure out which ones to keep and which ones to toss she came upon a very strange discovery.

She didn't have a single shot of Hiruma smiling.

And she wasn't talking about one of his manic grins or freaky false happy smile. Those didn't count. She was talking about one of those genuine million dollar smiles that people have when they're truly happy or content. From that moment onward she made it her mission to capture that smile.

If the team thought she was bad before it was nothing compared to what she became. Now it was nothing but flashing lights and her yelling at Hiruma to give her a real smile. Which, of course, annoyed the hell out of him. That in turn made him release his frustration out on the rest of the team. Who then ended up collapsed on the lawn waiting for Mamori to basically drag them into the clubhouse where pitchers of cool water awaited their arrival.

This went on for weeks before Sena had managed to convince the cheerleader to lay off. For the team's well-being. She had reluctantly agreed to stop taking photos of the quarterback and went back to taking random shots of everyone. It was just a few days after she stopped trying to capture his smile that she found herself once again sifting through some old photos.

She was just about to turn in for the night when one particular photo caught her attention. Snatching it up she looked at it closely. There in all its black and white glory was the devil himself wearing a completely content little grin, one that had probably been on his face just long enough for her to capture. It must have been from one of her many little escapades when she simply pointed and shot. Her eyes then followed to where she was looking and her eyes widened in shock. He was staring straight at Mamori, who was completely focused on writing something down and didn't even notice the quarterback.

Suzuna held the once in a lifetime shot up to the light, unable to keep the smug grin of satisfaction from her lips. "Got ya."

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