Title: Relief
Author: Darkfireblade aka Hellsfirescythe
Prompt: the traveling challenge
Summary: Ando finds some reprieve while on the road.
Notes/Warnings: Spoilers for everything including the third Heroes episode. Some bits of sexuality and some barely-there nudity.
Rating: PG-13

This was ridiculous, exasperating, and utterly boring.

They were lost again. Ando sighed and let the small brochure of a roadmap collapse across his face, frustrated in his attempts to read the tiny print and map keys in the weak silvery light provided by the moon on this overcast night. It figured that being the only competent driver between him and Hiro and also being the only one able to actually read and comprehend an American map was spelling trouble in their travels. Add in the fact that Hiro no longer had any idea of what they were supposed to be doing made this whole trip a recipe for disaster.

Well...almost. A smug grin formed underneath the map's crumpled paper. Laggardly, Ando sat up, letting the map slide off of his face and onto the increasingly sandy floor of the Nissan, as he reached into his pocket for his iPod.

This would make things much better, much more interesting. It would take his mind off of this utter confusion of following Nakamura Hiro half-way around the world, just to save it...Couldn't he have done it back in Japan?

Ando shook away the bothersome thoughts as he switched on the device and scrolled down to his desired videos. Two cycles around the touch-pad, two clicks, and the video started. As always, the

raunchy music sounded fuzzy, the culprit was probably the microphone of the second-rate web-cam, but that wasn't what Ando was paying attention to at all. Eyes glued to the screen, he watched, entranced by the slowly increasing amount of naked skin across a firm planar stomach.

"Oi! Ando! Can I come back in the car now?"

The sound of tapping against glass was slightly ignored, as was Hiro's curious glances and attempts to see what Ando was watching so intently on the iPod. With an irritated grimace, Ando gestured Hiro away, fighting to ignore even more the ever so amused and knowing smile that was beginning to plaster itself all over the smaller man's face.

"Ohhhhh...Ando-kun and stripper-san!"

Hiro's jokering ended as the car door opened suddenly and shunted him off the road and into the sandy surroundings. Just as suddenly the door slammed shut, leaving Ando peacefully un-bothered again, and leaving Hiro outside to re-acquaint himself with the strange place that was America and maybe his powers, Ando so far couldn't tell when Hiro was actually applying his strange powers.

Back to his porn, and Hiro knew that. It was pathetic really, virgins the both of them. Hiro might not mind this being labeled on them, but Ando sure did. Well, not enough to actually do something about it. He'd rather remain a virgin than pay a couple hundred dollars to some professional sex administrator to deflower himself. Ando would rather get himself laid on his own terms, thank you very much.

It wasn't as if he was addicted to it or anything, nor did he do anything as drastic as mastrubating while watching (that was back in his desparate publescent years with cheap censored videos and behind locked doors). Sure it was hot and sure this Niki was very sexy, but...it was just entertaining to watch. Not a funny entertainment, but rather a boredom-relieving, sort of guilty entertainment. Ando wouldn't let himself watch the videos at work if they were anything else.

"But Ando!" came Hiro's voice, slightly muffled by the closed windows of the car. "It's my turn to get to watch something. You've been in there for an hour"

Ando's face dead-panned before rolling down his window. " I've been looking for a way to actually get us to Las Vegas. You're too noisy," he grumbled. "Watch your Final Fantasy later, I've just started." With that, the opening was closed again.

Traveling could be fun and getting lost could be just as useful at times, Ando admitted silently to himself. One just had to know how to entertain oneself.