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.....

- Italics - = thoughts

[[words]] = Author's comments within story text

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= I've been advised that I should stop my *emotion* style of writing so now I'll try to stick to a more literary format (instead of being lazy with email shorthand/fun) :P

= I've also been given the comment that my descriptiveness might be detracting from the story, but the majority of reviews indicated that folks were happy with my verbal pictures - so for now I'll continue as I am; however I'll open it up to comments and see how folks still feel or whether they would rather I cut down on words and leave them to envision the scenarios themselves!

[I blame Tolkien lolz]

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Chapter 10 = Enter the Spies

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"Moe! Suzuna we really need to get Sena out of this Now!" Mamori agonised, "I just have a really bad feeling about this!"

"Of course you do Mamo-nee, it is You-nii after all...and your Sena-kun. So you're bound to be apprehensive." The blue haired girl mentioned nonchalantly; far more intent on looking out for the returning monkey and tickets.

"Sena?" and unfamiliar voice broke in, "is he here then?"

"Eh?!"

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Turning both girls were confronted with the short fluffy haired runningback of the Seibu Gunmans.

"Rikkun!!" Mamori cried out in recognition. "What are you doing here?"

"Tetsuma's gotten lost again, so me and Kid-san are looking for him. Where's Sena?" Riku asked as he looked about.

Both girls sweatdropped and looked awkward as they debated to best way to explain the situation to Sena's second oldest friend.

"Weeeelll....."

"You see.... um..."

Riku stood there waiting...somehow he had the feeling he wasn't going to like what he was about to hear.

"...It's like this!" Suzuna eventually sighed and proceeded to fill the white haired boy in on the events at hand.

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"...and now we're just waiting on the Monkey to return with tickets for us to follow them into the theatre." Suzuna finished.

Riku stood and blinked. "So....basically you just handed Sena's First over to Hiruma - just like that"

"Eh!" both girls stared at silver haired high schooler as they processed his words.

Suzuna's antenna popped up as she edged closer to the other boy," so this is seriously Sena's First?! Honest?! Wah! Soooo cute!" her pen and paper ready for her reporter mode.

Riku stared.

"So Sena's never been with anyone...Ever?!...that would soooo explain why he doesn't register when I nuzzle him!" Riku gave a barely imperceptible twitch and began to edge away slightly.

"Cum on! Cum on! Spill already, gimme the goods on Sena's failed dating attempts? You're his best friend so you would know...wouldn't you.....erk?" Suzuna paused and began sweating as she finally realised the darkened miasma resonating and growing behind her. She turned...

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"SUUUUUUUZUUUUUUUUUNAAAAAAA!!!" the giant monster known as an infuriated Mamori-neechan loomed up to fill the smaller girl's vision. "Eh! Eh...Eheheheheh...Mamo-nee.......wat up?" Suzuna half heartedly tried to lighten the situation, eyes bugging out as her instincts told her that she was in VERY big trouble.

"We need to get Sena away from that Monster NOW! I am most certainly NOT letting him get away with my Seka-kun's FIRST!" Mamori ground out through her teeth as she shook the younger girl violently.

"Ther-eh-eeh-eh-eeh-ere's not a l-oh-oh-oh-ot we ca-ah-ah-an do now-ow-ow." Suzuna managed to get out despite the shaking.

"Ooooooh! I knew this was a bad idea, why'd I ever let you talk me into this! Moe! My poor Sena-kun! I can't believe I was stupid enough to forget that this would be his First! And with THAT PERSON of all people!" Mamori bemoaned letting go of the smaller girl; only to bite and gnaw on her beret in frustration. Riku watched with a comical look on his face as Mamori's crazy Yankee act again. He turned to Suzuna who was rubbing her throat and watching Mamori carefully, ready to dodge again. "What on earth did you do to get her to agree to something this crazy?!"

"Look, even you can't fault us for wanting to catch You-nii in an April Fool rite?" Suzuna managed to croak out.

"Not really, but why Sena?" he asked, watching as Mamori continued to wail and carry on, mutilating her beret - who on earth told her to wear Yellow?! It really doesn't work with her... -

"Yuki-kun and Mamo-nee both did the maths and Sena's name was the one that came up.....all five times" she replied, finally able to talk in a normal voice.

"You ran Math-model-stat-things five times and it came up with Sena's name all five times?!" Riku asked incredulously.

"Un!" Suzuna nodded.

"But how did you get Mamori-neechan to go along with it?" He still couldn't fathom how Mamori of all people would just hand over something as important as Sena's First Date to someone like Hiruma.

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"Weeeeeeell.....", Suzuna hesitated, wondering how she was going to explain this phenomenon to the boy without freaking him out; though... "you know how adorable Sena is rite? I mean, even tho you're a guy and all, even you can tell that he's someone that would make girls go all 'Haaahnyahh!' over rite?"

"....I...think so..." Riku paused in his watching of Mamori's panicked flailing to turn his attention to the blue haired girl by his side - Hanyah? WTH is that?! - but he sort of got the gist of it, cause Sena was ... well... adorable with bit soft eyes and that face that was ALWAYS ready to cry at the smallest thing...

"Well, you see.... when a girl finds that particular type of adorable... she kinda wants to ...'dress them up'!"Suzuna stated with a cheeky glint. "It's just too adorable... and the more that they don't want to wear the stuff; the cuter it is....yah!"

- She is way too happy over that statement... -

"Ho?" was Riku's reply as he turned his thoughts over.

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Once when he and Sena had been small, there had been one week where Sena had started to avoid him and wouldn't face him. Sena wasn't all the fast yet so it hadn't been too hard to corner him when he ran away. However, whenever he'd tried to ask what was wrong, the smaller boy had always burst into tears. He'd given up questioning, and had just worked on making him smile again. He'd been away visiting family the weekend prior.

He hadn't found out what the problem had been till the third of that week when he'd visited Mamori-neesan and found her photo album on the floor of her bedroom with all these pictures of Sena in the most Ridiculous (and quaintly adorable) outfits - from sailor suits to cat suits.

Mamori's art may have left something to be desired, but her skill with the needle was unparalleled.

Sena had walked in a few minutes after and had promptly torn the album from hands only to crouch in the corner of the room hugging the photographs tightly to him to prevent him from seeing anymore - his face glowing from all the blood flushing his cheeks.

It had taken a while to coax the small boy out of his embarrassment, but he'd eventually gotten him laughing at the outfits. Sena had remained embarrassed, but not as ashamed as he had been before.

Riku had felt quite smug... until Mamori had found them looking through the album and he'd had a tough time trying to 'practice what he preached' when Mamori had then insisted on dragging them all into costumes for a photo shoot...but he wasn't about to give Suzuna (and by default the Demon Quarterback) those details.

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Suzuna was watching the sliver haired boy process the information; she was slightly confused as to why he was taking such a personal interest in Sena's First Date. Granted he was Sena's 'big brother' but still his reactions were a little too 'involved' to be just that of an indignant brother, unless....

"I'm surprised that Mamori-neesan was willing to 'sell out' Sena just to put him in some nicer clothes - granted he probably does need them but still..." Riku finally said taking his hands out of his pockets to hold them out in resignation, shaking his head in disappointment.

"It wasn't like that!" Mamori broke in, "Besides...Suzuna was going to stick him in a mini skirt!"

Riku dropped his hands and sweatdropped in disbelief, his jaw hanging.

"Oh I like that! You were the one that was going to stick him in that retarded frilly colonial era walking dress with the Sheppard's crook and Bo-peep bonnet!" Suzuna countered.

As the girl's bickered, Riku felt his mind drift to the adorable image of Sena in one of dresses and those ridiculous petticoats and pantaloons from that Shirley Temple movie they'd had to watch with Mamori-neesan - wat was it called again... 'The Little Colonel'? -

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"Ehhhh...it's Riku from the Gunmans!...MUUKKYAA! Unlucky Max! You need to be more careful Riku-san! The Air-cons here really dry you out if you're not careful!" Riku jumped in startledment and hurriedly wiped the blood from his nose as unobtrusively as possible. Looking up he found Suzuna looking at him with a knowing smile, that weird antenna of hers' jabbing and wiggling at him...

"- __- "He gave her a dead stare, hiding the smouldering anger he felt at being caught out.

- Hnn hmmm! - Suzuna mused internally. This was the answer to her question; quite simple really and proved that sometimes the answers you were looking for were right in front of your face. Riku had slightly more than his 'Onii-chan' interest in Sena...it also meant she had another name for her secret (steadily growing) list of guys that were more than 'interested as friends' with the tiny runningback.

"Mamori-san! I got the tickets for you!" the monkey boy said with an unnecessary and over-elaborate bow as he handed them over to the older girl. "Ah....arigatou Monta-kun" Mamori said with a sweatdrop. "Suzuna shall we head in now? The previews are probably just starting and we need to get in there and get Sena out before HE comes back!"

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"Oi oi...Riku did you find him yet?....Oiya...it's the Deimon girls..."

"KID-San!" they all cried out together.

"Yo" the tall and lanky Quarterback of the Seibu Wild Gunmans replied. "So, no luck with Tetsuma?" He asked his Kyoudai.

"Ah....Gomen...something came up.." Riku said, not able to face his Sempai

"Omedetō on your recovery Kid-san!" Mamori said with a genuine smile, the others agreeing and nodding their heads.

"Ah..I'd better continue with the search for Tetsuma...good luck with your rescue..." Riku said with a strained smile as he joined his sempai's side.

Kid-san pushed his old cowboy hat back and scratch his head with a confused look at his smaller underclassman as they walked back towards the streets. - ...ah! It must be about THAT attempt... - His emotionless face slowly became an understanding smile as he looked at the dejected boy, "Shoo off and go help with your rescue... though I have my doubts if they've already moved to this stage. But I guess some people can't help but try even though it was unlikely to work.... Go keep an eye on your small friend, it's not the first time I've looked for Tetsuma on my own, and I didn't ask for your help in the beginning anyway..."

"Kid-san...."

"Mah...I already put my donation in for the attempt, but I didn't really think they were going to be able to get anyone near him in the first place....so they're using Eyeshield?"

RIku nodded, nervously chewing his lip as he looked back at the group that were beginning to move from the theatre lobby to the ushers.

"Mah...what a mess...good luck in stopping the runaway train" Kid-san headed off to look for Tetsuma without looking back, an arm rising to give a lazy backhanded wave as he slouched off.

"Sempai!" Riku bowed and raised his head looking at his Sempai with admiration for his understanding.

It was only the work of a few moments before Riku was joining the group with his own ticket held in his hot little hand. - Sena! Hang in there...we'll think of something to get you out before this gets carried away! -

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