Summary: In which Jun finds out noogies aren't exactly noogies for cats—they're head rubs.

Quirks to know for this chapter: Eijun (partial lion), Kuramochi (partial cheetah and camouflage), Jun (voice projection)

I do not own Daiya no Ace.

Sawamura had managed, yet again, to spoil a new manga volume for Jun. Now the outfielder just sat at his desk, staring up at the loudmouth pitcher. Sawamura rubbed his hand over the back of his head, tail drooping slightly and smiling only slightly. There was a flash of fang that was, typically, meant as a warning from cat quirks, but Jun knew that was just by accident. No, right now Sawamura was too sheepishly apologetic to think about any cat quirk protocol—though Jun himself only knew some because of shoujo manga, Kuramochi, and Sawamura himself.

"They kiss…" Jun said. "They— Sawamura, why! We've been waiting more than a hundred chapters for this, and you not only let it slip that it finally happened, but that she kissed him?"

"Hehe…" The lion's hand twitched, and Jun would bet every shoujo manga he owned that if he'd had any more cat blood in him, Sawamura would have just licked his hand and drawn it over his ear. As it was, the lion's head tilted and his eyes darted to the side.

"Sawamura," Jun groaned.

"I really am sorry, Spitz-senpai…"

Jun jumped out of his chair and wrapped an arm around his kouhai's shoulders.

"For the spoiler!" Jun pushed Sawamura down a bit to get a better angle. "And the nickname!" His fist came up and ground into Sawamura's head. A nice, hard noogie should communicate his feelings just fine, and— Jun blinked down at the lion. Had he just—? Sawamura pushed his head up into Jun's fist, and a loud purr rumbled from his chest.

"Sawamura…" Jun said slowly. He brought his fist to a stop and rested it on the lion's head. "What are you…?" A cackle came from the doorway, and the outfielder looked up into the eyes of the shortstop. "Kuramochi?"

The cheetah cackled again. "Noogies aren't consequences for us cats, Jun-senpai! They're head rubs!"

Jun gaped at Kuramochi, then looked down at Sawamura. The lion's golden eyes shone up at him even as his purr deepened. Head rub, the cheetah had said. Well, that certainly explained why Sawamura had the reaction he did. Jun released his youngest kouhai and turned to the older.

"What are you doing here?" he asked. "You're a second year; this is a third year classroom."

Kuramochi gestured for a moment with one hand, unable to do much more than that as he was bent over his knees and trying to catch his breath from laughing so hard.

"You ok, Mochi-senpai?" Sawamura asked, purr stopping with no head rub to encourage it.

"N-no, Bakamura," Kuramochi giggled. "Oh, man, Jun-senpai, your face was hilarious! But," he straightened and coughed into his fist. "But, I'm here cause I ran into Kanemaru while he was looking for Sawamura. I got recruited to look for him, and figured he might be here since he got that manga yesterday."

"Oh, right," Sawamura mumbled. He twisted his fingers together, and Jun sighed. Honestly.

"I forgive you, Bakamura. Just don't spoil anything that big again, ok?" Sawamura lit up like the Tokyo Tower.

"I won't let you down!"

The bell warning for next period rang. Kuramochi grabbed onto his roommate's sleeve and started hauling him down the hallway.

"Bye, Jun-senpai!" the shortstop hollered.

"Bye, Spitz-senpai!" the pitcher echoed.

"Yeah, yeah," Jun grumbled. He offered a half-hearted kick to his desk and grabbed for the manga. His hand hit an empty desk. He blinked at it for a moment, then bolted down the hallway.

Uncaring of how his quirk might affect other students, he turned it up to full volume to yell, "Sawamura, get back here! You never gave me the manga!"

Class would just have to wait.

I hope you all enjoyed, and please review!

If you're interested in a longer story set in this verse, please check out my story "strike the match (let it all burn)" - it's almost 9k of Eijun, Furuya, Haruichi, and Raichi being held hostage, and the reactions of those around them.

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