Title: Who's the Fool?

Theme: HiruSena for April fool's Day 2009

Author: Tania Dick

Disclaimer: Sadly I don't have the privilege of owning Eyeshield 21 (that honour belongs to the respective owners). I have simply *cough* borrowed* the players for the purpose of setting them in unreal situations..... *read torture*

- Italics - = thoughts

[[words]] = Author's comments

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Chapter 4 = At the Movies

Stepping out the cab Sena eyed the cinema with fearful eyes. He'd tried to engage in some small talk during the cab ride like Suzuna had told him too, but any conversation had died everytime he'd met Hiruma's eyes. Now Sena was completely out of his depth. Things were weird enough with being on a date with a guy, but didn't being at a movie mean that the guy would try to do 'things' to the girl? Poor Sena's mind boggled at the uncomfortable thought of what would happen if Hiruma tried anything like the corny 'yawn and wrap the arms around a shoulder gag' one usually saw in those sappy movies the girls liked to watch. (Since his only friend until high school had been Mamori-neechan, he'd pretty much been dragged to watch a good number of chickflicks against his will.) Not that he thought that Hiruma would actually go anything along the those lines; the demon was more than likely to just plonk Sena on his lap and point a gun at him to make him stay (the very image that flashed through his mind making his face have difficulty decided whether to be beet red again or turn pale in fear).

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Both he and the cabdriver had been shocked when Hiruma had actually paid the fare "Struth, if this is gonna happen every time your cute ass is around, mayhap you orta be a good liddle 'kitty'..." Hiruma's ice sharp glare made the man quickly drive off in a screech of tires before Sena could turn any redder. "Not bad" Hiruma said checking the tickets; we got five minutes before start time - go get some decent seats" after giving Sena a ticket and a little push, he headed over to the snacks bar...Sena stared bug-eyed. - That did not just happen! Did it?!...He's being nice! He didn't even kick me or yell...He isn't really going to buy snacks for us, is he? -

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The absurdity of the situation finally hit him. He was on a DATE with HIRUMA of all people. His First Date was with a Guy! And it was HIRUMA! _! What had he been thinking!!! He should have never agreed to this! The moment Suzuna had outlined her 'Plan'; he should have just walked out the door. He was never going to survive this! If he did, Hiruma was guaranteed to use this little episode to blackmail him to his deathbed! And the weirdest part was that Hiruma wasn't behaving in his 'normal' manner...

If anything, he almost seemed happy! Sena flushed bright red again - how could Hiruma even be okay with dating a guy in the first place, let alone someone like Sena?! There wasn't anything to be gained from dating him; he wasn't rich or had a position that Hiruma could exploit for his own ends (which were the only reasons Sena could think of that Hiruma would have for dating a guy). - Wait! No Way! Hiruma-san can't le-like guys?! Could he? - Sena's beet red colouring was now being replaced with white as Sena paled at the thought. That couldn't be right? Could it?

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During their after practise talks the previous year one of the topics of discussion had been Hiruma's love life - Basically Suzuna had heard some gossip and gotten curious with both Monta and Sena (and eventually the rest of the team) being dragged into the dangerous wild goose chase of following the quarterback around. Needless to say it hadn't been very pleasant, but they had found out that Hiruma had a habit of picking up girls (and older women) for one night stands...turned out he had a part time job at a Host Club as one of the hosts (currently ranked at Number Three). It had been very un-nerving watching people accept Hiruma's 'bishonen happy nice guy face' (the face they'd seen at the school festival when Mamori & Yukimitsu had gone crazy in fact) as his normal state of being...

The following day, they had all found warning notes in their lockers about keeping their mouths shut...

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Sena started to become aware of some of the strange looks he was receiving from the other people walking in the foyer. He had less than three minutes to locate seats in the theatre before Hiruma returned from whatever errand he had decide to complete (Sena's mind shied away from the concept of Hiruma actually playing 'boyfriend' for him - it was too scary). Hurriedly, the petite brunette checked through and selected seats roughly situated in the middle rows. The ones in the centre had already been packed, but some of the ones on the side aisles were still free. Nervously, Sena made sure to take seats with a good view of the screen that wouldn't result in either of them getting a crick in their necks. He hoped that Hiruma wouldn't get too angry with the choice of movie.

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When Suzuna had cornered him to select the online movie tickets, she had been all for a horror movie so that Sena could 'act' scared and snuggle up to Hiruma. Sena had vehemently refused any and all horror movies! In an attempt to select a movie that wouldn't result with Hiruma yelling at him (or doing other things of a violent nature) and allow Sena to walk out of the cinema without wetting himself; he had opted for a recently released Action/Adventure film: GunStar Force III [1] [[in this case think Star Wars meets Cowboy Bebop lols]]. It was a Sci-Fi show Sena had been looking forward to watching at some point and he hoped that there would be enough explosions and violence to keep Hiruma interested (and not decide to enliven the theatre with a few explosions of his own). It was based off of one of the playstation games Sena regularly played on his console and Sena had been faithfully following the series - the second movie having been watched with his childhood friend, Kakitani Riku before he'd had to move away.

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Sena had just barely settled himself into the second seat from the aisle when Hiruma plonked himself down in the adjoining seat right on the aisle, dumped a giant box of popcorn on Sena's lap, stuck a coke in Sena's drink holder, a bottle of water into his own drink holder and grunted slightly as he raised his arms to support the back of his head and crossed his feet on the seats in front. Given his length, it pretty much guaranteed that no one was going to sit in the row in front of them...

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He seemed to be ignoring Sena's wide eyed stare of total shock - for which Sena was extremely thankful. - He really DID get movie snacks! What the hell?! - This wasn't usually the behaviour typically shown by the high schooler. All through the previews he couldn't stop taking quick peeps at the blonde. He was too stunned to notice the ads on the screen. When he wasn't looking at the older boy, he was looking at his knees; his mind awhirl as he tried to puzzle out the odd behaviour of the former quarterback and wondering what Hiruma was likely to do?! (Seeing various couples snuggling in happy togetherness in various theatre corners wasn't helping him calm down either.)

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"HIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!" Sena jumped and squealed before clapping his hands to his mouth, red in embarrassment. "Calm down fucking chibi, movies about to start" Hiruma stated, the green eyes watching him bemusedly. It didn't seem like he was all that bothered at Sena's fright at having his hand touch his shoulder, as he removed a handful of popcorn and started eating as the beginning of the movie rolled.

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Hiruma had been ready for the smaller boy's startledment; his hand ready to stop the popcorn from spilling to the floor when he'd touched the boy's shoulder to try and calm him down. He had felt Sena's burning wide eyed stare as the boy kept sneaking shy glances at him. Of course poor Sena was going to be confused as hell! Why wouldn't he be? Even Hiruma marvelled at the level of patience he was displaying to the fucking kid. - hope the little shit appreciates it. If he doesn't...I'll just have to remind him Kekeke! - At least with the movie starting and Hiruma's light command the little brat wasn't gawking at him anymore. He could practically feel the bewilderment rolling off the kid though. It reminded Hiruma of one time when he'd seen a kitten trying figure out if the damn mutt, Kerberos was friendly or a threat ... and he was having a hard time preventing himself from laughing in the kid's face - it was just too cute.

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Mortified beyond words, Sena unconsciously followed orders and turned back to the screen. His mind in turmoil - I can't believed I just squealed like a stupid little girl _! He wasn't even doing anything...Wait! Why do I sound like I want him to do something?! This is just for the April fool right? It's no big deal... isn't it? - Poor Sena's stomach was in knots trying to figure out his convoluted thoughts.

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At least he no longer had to worry about Hiruma not liking the movie - at intervals when there was violence or an explosion the blonde demon would shout out with an exultant "YAHA! Right down the Fucking line!" or "Fuck! I shoot better than that!" and other exuberant expletives. By the end of the movie Sena had calmed down and was even tentatively enjoying Hiruma's company. It had helped that Hiruma hadn't 'tried' anything during the movie, so Sena was just pretty trying to think of 'the date' as a simple meeting between friends. He'd enjoyed the movie and had relaxed enough so that now; at the movies end as everyone was leaving, he was animatedly chatting away with Hiruma about the plot twists and characters in comparison to the previous movie that he'd watched with Riku. Hiruma meanwhile was waxing lyrical about the weaponry, mechanical designs and SFX. So as they walked back out into the foyer; Sena had at least completed one of Suzuna's objectives, to engage Hiruma in some small talk and conversation. To all appearances, if no one had known better - watching the two, one could have assumed that they were old friends instead of the devil and terrified minion.

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[1] if anyone can think of a better movie name i'm all ears - the previous one was 'Forge thru the Stars III'

working on Chap. 5 but i'll see what the response is first before continuing lolz

edit/update:

Yay! for positive reviews! :)

i'm behind tho, comp decided to die T^T - didn't lose anything, but it's only just come back from the shop today so have to edit and type rest of story lolz