The pairing has been decided! It will be Hiruma/Sena/Agon! Let's see who gets Sena in the end! Plus one-sided everything else, to make the rest of you happy...

This update is a little bit late because I caught the flu twice and then I actually caught the swine flu and had to catch up with my homework.

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Chapter 7- A Hero at a Critical Time

After Hiruma threw the helmet into her arms so recklessly, he told her to run around the school as fast as she could or else, followed by his creepy laugh. Of course as soon as Hiruma rushed to the group and said: "A hero will come at this critical moment." Sena dashed around the school with all her strength and arrived seconds later to the chorus of surprised noises when they saw him, one of them remarked: "He's so fast!"

As Sena looked up through the eyeshield, she had never looked more heroic in her life but in her head she was thinking, a small tiny thought: 'Reserve a hospital room...'

Juumonji stared at Sena/Eyeshield 21 for a moment; he squinted and rubbed his eyes. "Is it just me? Or does he look like a girl?" Toganou and Kuroki stared at a sceptically and rolled their eyes.

Then as Sena quickly became the centre of attention, everyone began to question 'his' identity and 'his' coloured visor. Sena blushed profusely as she got tackled down with questions. Hiruma handed a forged form to the referee, allowing Sena to keep her eyeshield on.

"Have you become motivated?! Sena-kun-" Kurita ran towards her only to be electrocuted by Hiruma (perhaps by a taser) who grabbed him and started rubbing him against the ground. Hiruma seemed furious, for some reason as if Kurita just answered the most obvious question wrong.

"What's wrong with your back, does it itch?" Hiruma asked smoothly. "Then use the ground to scratch it!"

Then he pulled Kurita away and kicked him: "You fucking fat-ass! What are we going to do if the others find out?! Ishimaru came only because of those scouts!" Then he pointed rudely at Shin who already had his eyes intently on Eyeshield 21/Sena, his childhood friend. "I don't want to give any information about Sena if I can help it. But-" A dangerous glint appeared in his eyes and Sena swore she saw a light bulb go off on top of Hiruma's head.

Hiruma chuckled and place his hands on his hips: "Kekeke, I'll get rid of Sakuraba, using a simple missile." Sena immediately thought of a gun, but Hiruma only walked over to the cheerleaders and pointed to Sakuraba.

It was a missile indeed.

Girls all rushed over to him, and in response Sakuraba handed the camera quickly to Shin and ran off. To top it all off, Shin, the moment he touched it, broke it in half and stared at it for three seconds before he ran after Sakuraba at full force and grabbed him and ran off too.

"Somehow Shin disappeared too!" Hiruma cackled, a grin on his face.

Then the game began once again and once they huddled, Hiruma separated him and Sena away from the group.

"Kekeke, fucking pipsqueak, run to your heart's content. It will begin with a kick-off, I catch it and toss it to you, and then you run off to the goal in the nine seconds we have left, simple, isn't it?" Hiruma explained the plan in one breath and Sena nodded to every word. Then as Hiruma walked away to rejoin the group, Sena grabbed his sleeve.

"T-They're not going to tackle me, are they?" Sena's voice shook violently but in response Hiruma just rolled his eyes.

"Che, fucking chibi, you're too damn quick for them anyway, and you won't get fucking hurt, because that's what the fucking fatty is for- and remember, even I am fucking defending you." Hiruma cackled and Sena just stared at him, eyes wide, although the visor prevented Hiruma from seeing those large eyes of hers.

Sena smiled an all-knowing smile when Hiruma walked away.

Somehow, despite Hiruma being known as a devil, his presence is very comforting.

Hiruma froze suddenly and turned around, "Oh yeah, hold down the fucking field with your run." Sena blinked, surprised by his words and then joined him in field.

As soon as the game began once again Hiruma dashed to where they kicked the ball and as soon as all the players tried to pummel him, Hiruma caught the ball and tossed it smoothly to Sena.

As soon as Sena's hands touched the ball, it was as if sirens went off.

She ran.

The wrong way, in the beginning, she figured it out when Hiruma shouted: "Wrong way!" She slipped when she tried to brake, but inside the dust that she had brought up, she regained footing. She rapidly changed her courses, when everyone had their guards down, thinking they had lost. The Koigahama Cupids' captain was the most relaxed, mumbling to himself- until Sena ran through the dust.

Her sudden appearance even shocked Hiruma, who had grabbed a gun out, ready to shoot Sena for her failure. With one rapid motion, he threw the gun back into his bag and got ready to defend Sena.

As soon as Sena saw the goalpost, she saw them.

Eleven people- no, obstacles.

As she ran, it was as if she saw paths, those tiny spaces she could squeeze through became obvious to her. She passed four easily, and that number soon grew to seven...

Then, when the captain ordered them to take Sena down, she realized the space was too tight and she could never squeeze through it. She made a shocked intake of breath and debated what to do before she collided with those people. As the time slowly shrank to zero seconds, she knew she couldn't afford to be taken down.

Then, a familiar blur of the number one passed by her... Hiruma?

Hiruma and Kurita went into a head on clash with the other players, opening a gap wide enough for Sena to run through- which Sena did, inevitably since that was the only thing left to do.

Nobody was left on field.

No one can stop her.

"TOUCHDOWN!!"

The announcer called out those words that Sena yearned to hear and she smiled widely as Hiruma set off fireworks- yes, fireworks. Kurita simply cheered happily about their first win. Then Sena slipped in the mud-

Sena slipped in the mud.

"W-Why is this the only muddy place?" Sena whispered weakly when a hand reached out for her. Juumonji.

"Yo, nice running." Juumonji smirked when Sena took his hand. "You really a guy?"

Juumonji pulled her up and Sena quickly nodded, wondering how she should speak to make herself sound like a 'man'. But she turned around only to see what she could only describe as a 'mob' running towards her, all of them offering a club for her to join. Even the calm unnoticeable Ishimaru begged for her to join the track team.

She pulled away from Juumonji and Hiruma commanded Kurita to block them and Sena landed on the ground away from them and Hiruma leaned over her.

"Kekeke, if they find out your real identity, it will be a kidnapping battle, wouldn't it?" Hiruma commented, eyes still on the mob. "A tiring high school life of constantly being used, with no leisure nr break- Well, I guess there are perks to that too." Hiruma chuckled and Sena imagined it- although all of them captains somehow turned out to be Hiruma.

But then, another thing happened.

"Che, damn it, a troublesome person is here." Hiruma rolled his eyes and Sena realized that Mamori was talking to Ishimaru... She could imagine how the conversation went. Mamori probably asked 'where's Sena?' and Ishimaru would've said something like: 'Hiruma kicked his ass.'

"Hurry up and get to the back, fucking chibi!" Hiruma shoved Sena in the direction and she dashed around quickly. Once she got there, she flung the helmet far away into a bush and quickly undressed from her football equipment until she was standing in her drenched clothing and collapsed into the bush.

Mamori arrived at the scene seconds later.

For some reason Mamori started crying, Sena had no idea why. Then she pulled Sena up into her motherly arms and said: "I'm sorry, it's all because I told you to join a club." Sena really began to wonder how she looked when she collapsed into the bush. "You did your best! I'm sorry!" She placed her head right into her chest and Sena made a weak 'ouch' in response.

Then Mamori let go and turned around furiously to face Hiruma.

Sena tried to tell Mamori the truth but even she could not face Mamori when she was mad.

"Hiruma-kun!" Mamori called out, and Hiruma turned around coolly, not fazed at all.

"M-Mamori-neechan..." Sena poked her lightly on the shoulder and immediately Mamori's personality took a one-eighty turn.

"Yes, Sena-kun?" She turned around, smiling dumbly.

"H-Hiruma-san didn't do a-anything at all, actually." Sena's voice shook, as if she was scared Mamori will explode at those words but Mamori just frowned.

"You don't need to lie to me, I know the truth."

Sena sighed.

It had always been like this, when she was a child, if it wasn't Mamori-neechan that she hid behind, it was Shin or Riku. In truth, she was tired of hiding behind anyone; she wanted to stand where she is, not hiding behind anyone.

She took a deep breath, tilted her head to the side and said: "I-I'm not lying?" She was questioning her own words after what she has been through this day. Mamori turned around from the speech that she had already given Hiruma. "Sure you are not." Mamori ignored whatever Sena tried to say (like all good mothers should...) and started saying: "If you don't stop bullying Sena then I will-"

Hiruma grabbed his blackmail book, smirking: "You'll what?"

"I'll get you banned from the tournament."

At those words Hiruma put his blackmail book back. Mamori looked away, as if she also didn't want to do this. Sena ran a hand through her bangs and stared at the two of them, who seemed to have a conversation even though no words were said.

Then Mamori grabbed Sena's hand: "Come on Sena; let's go find a better club for you."

Hiruma rolled his eyes, as if he knew exactly what was going to occur next, and indeed he knew.

Sena took back her hand quickly. "Umm, Mamori-neechan, I would like to, p-perhaps, stay in the American Football club?" She smiled widely.

Mamori raised an eyebrow in surprise. Her jaw dropped as if she was about to say something and then closed again. Then Hiruma smirked and said: "Kekeke, remember, you already promised you'd work as manager for us." Mamori sighed and put the back of her hand on her forehead.

"Fine fine, whatever you want, Sena-kun, just promise me that if that..." Mamori stared long and hard at Hiruma. "That devil ever does anything to you, you tell me."

Then Sena realized something when she stared at the tournament schedule: "Umm, our next opponent is the Oujou White Knights."

Kurita's jaw dropped and Hiruma didn't give a crap, he just picked up his bag of firearms and shrugged.

On the train back to Deimon High, Kurita shuddered badly. "T-The Oujou W-White Knights..."

Hiruma just looked disappointed, as if Kurita was a complete girl in this situation and he said: "Che, this year we're getting fucking revenge for last year's 99-0. This year, we have Eyeshield 21." Hiruma grinned and Sena winced, although Mamori was too busy looking through files to see that.

When someone asked: "Where's that Eyeshield 21 guy? I need him in the Earth club!" Hiruma cackled and said: "Who knows?"

Then Hiruma began 'bluffing' (in Sena's opinion, he was just lying): "Kekeke, after finishing the basic training at the distinguished school Retsukafu PE school in Russia... he went to Notre Dame College to study American Football, every match he would get a hundred points." Everyone 'woah'-ed and Sena just sighed.

The real Eyeshield 21 might have done all of those things, but Sena, for one, had not done any of those. Then Hiruma added: "If they score ninety-nine points, we'll score a hundred. In American Football, offense is important."

Then Hiruma raised his muscular hand and grinned widely: "I'll open up a route for a run on, and then Eyeshield 21 will take the rest. This hand will earn us a hundred points." Sena gulped and clenched her firsts together tightly. It was her responsibility to at least try to win. She knew that well.

When Mamori had finished organizing some files (who knows what they are?) she whispered to Sena: "Umm, Sena-kun, tomorrow morning, do you want to help me clean up the clubhouse?" Sena smiled and nodded, and then she whispered back. "Mamori-neechan, what do I do about the 'date' tomorrow?"

Mamori frowned, remembering everything Sena told her. She then whispered back: "Well, it's not like you can cancel, maybe you should go on it and see if he is 'the one'." Mamori had no idea what kind of a person Agon was. Sena blushed at those words and just shook her head like a child.

Hiruma was unpleased with all the whispering among the two of them and the bubble gum he was chewing popped.

No one knew exactly how bad the next day was going to go.

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I finally updated! Hope you enjoyed!