Title: Who's the Fool?
Theme: HiruSena for April fool's Day 2009
Author: Tahleena
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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= sorry it's late...does anyone remember what Riku addresses Hiruma as? Or is it just Hiruma-san?
= I needs to stop using such big words TnT...but they're sooo fascinating and emphasising...
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Chapter 11 = Cinema Veiwing
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Edging into the theatre, the spies stuck to back of the room as they looked about to locate the smaller runningback. "There he is!" Suzuna hissed in a whisper, indicating a small silhouette by the middle side aisle.
"That's great! Let's get him and get out of here before HE gets back!" Mamori intoned breathlessly as she prepared to launch herself at her ward. As she and Riku readied themselves they were suddenly engulfed by Monta and Suzuna bodily landing on top of them.
"Wha?!!"
"Hey; Get Off!!"
"MUKYAAA! Look out!!"
"SHHHHHH!!!" Suzuna hurriedly quieted them done, "He's coming"
The tall blonde paused, scanning the back seats before landing heavily in the aisle seat right next to the lithe brunette.
Peering out cautiously from behind the seats they had dived behind they watched the couple.
"Mukyaa unlucky Max, now how do we get Sena away from Hiruma-san?"
"Gun or no Gun, he's not having his way with Sena! This prank is Officially Over!!" The irate Mamori stated, eyes flashing with emotions. Standing up to immediately take Sena away, she found herself once again under the others as they bodily halted her progress towards the pair.
"What are you doing, let go I have to save Sena!"
"Mamo-nee wait! We're so close!"
"Mamori-neesan, wait! If you piss Him off he might hurt Sena!"
Mollified, the older girl ceased her struggles temporarily to listen to the others.
"Mamo-nee, I promise if anything starts to go pear-shaped, we'll dash in and take Sena out! But until then while it still stays 'safe' we can still continue with this prank, pretty please?!!!" implored Suzuna.
"I'm not happy with the situation either Mamori-neesan, but if we go rushing into this we could precipitate an incident and none of us want that to happen to Sena." Stated Riku scratching his forehead agitatedly as he watched Sena stare at the blonde demon (Suzuna mentally filed Riku's sour face away for later investigations).
"Mukyaa, He might just BLOW the entire Cinema apart like BOOM! MAX!"
"HSssssssst!!!" the others hurriedly shushed the monkey-boy as they ducked behind the chairs again.
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Peeking out again (they were in a good position for watching the couple, but not necessarily the movie itself), it didn't look like either of the pair had noticed them hiding in the 5th row behind them.
Suzuna was scribbling away in her journalist notebook and taking photo after flashless photo on her spy camera.
"Maybe we should just watch the movie until they start to leave?" Monta suggested awkwardly to Mamori.
"And let that monster get away with something in the dark! Absolutely not!" she hissed back, her eyes never leaving the couple.
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Riku glanced at the odd pair, marvelling that the demon had actually loosened up enough to act like a (semi-decent) boyfriend by buying movie snacks. It didn't match with the image conjured by Sena's half laughing; half terrified stories of the year before. - Poor Sena...looks like he'll be practicing the 'goldfish' face for a while, tonight -
Edging over to the blue haired girl, he asked, "By the way, which movie are they watching? Not a horror I hope, poor Sena will be needing a change of clothes if that's the case..."
"Huh? Wha? Didn't you find out when you bought the ticket?" a confused Suzuna countered as she was broken from her observational reverie.
"Nah not really, I just asked for the same movie that the 'monkey boy' bought for his group" Riku answered in a half whisper, thumbing in the direction of Monta; who was trying (unsuccessfully) to both appease Mamori and show he was genuinely worried for Sena's welfare.
"Oh!" She giggled "well, it's something Sena suggested - the theory being that explosions will keep You-nii happy and less likely to chew Sena up; some Space age thing... Forge thru the Stars III, I think."
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The sudden quiet from behind her made Suzuna turn around to consider the spikey haired boy beside her. If she was to describe the expression she saw on his face she would have said that it was a mix of both sadness and anger, but it looked like he couldn't decide who he should be angry with...
"Riku?"
"...so Sena just... suggested that movie?" Riku asked in a strangely dead and clipped voice.
"Urr...I guess?"
"What gives...we'd already agreed to watch it next week..." She heard him mutter to himself. Almost immediately she was beset with the memory flash of arguing with Sena about which movie...
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"Anooo...Suzuna? Do...do we really have to see a horror movie?"
"Aiya! Of course you do! That what happens on a date, the girl screams and snuggles up to the boyfriend - and of course you're the girl in this scene!" Suzuna mentioned brightly.
"....but I'm a guy!..." Sena muttered to no one in particular.
" For that night you are!" She countered in a tone that brooked no argument. She turned back to the computer without noticing his look of defeated woe.
"Suzuna, Please if I watch anything scary I'm going to have to...well...if it's too scary...um" the brunette fidgeted in his seat next to her. Looking at him once again, Suzuna caught the slight pink tinge of embarrassment dusting his cheeks as he hunched and squirmed on his seat, hands gripping his knees...
"You get that scared?!" she asked incredulously.
"Well....not always, just... when it's horrifyingly scary!" He answered, shamefaced as he looked at her pleadingly.
"O......Kay then. Well, why don't we look at one of the romantic flicks" She said going back her glowing happy mode as she changed the webpage. After a few moments perusing, "Hey here's one! How about Twilight? It's about Vampires! Their soooo hot! :3"
"...I guess it sounds interesting..." came the non-enthusiastic reply.
Looking at her 'co-conspirator' Suzuna finally noticed the positively hang-dog air he wore as he slouched in his seat.
"Well... what can you watch - without anything awkward happening or nightmares or such?"
"...I ...I ...I ...I like comedies....and action flicks - What about Gold Rush Mountain? It's a western!" Sena suggested. - I'd suggest Brokeback Mountain but that would probably make Sena back out of the Prank; Full-stop - Suzuna thought to herself.
"Would You-nii even watch a western?" She pondered out loud.
"Well...it's got guns in it, hasn't it? ...If I'm going to be stuck with doing this, surely I at least get to watch a movie I can actually enjoy? I was figuring that anything with guns and dynamite and well...anything crazy like that would be something he might actually enjoy...."
"Hmmmm...That might actually work...though if its explosions, then we might have to look at something Space-aged" Suzuna said returning to the computer.
"Space-aged huh? That's right I'm going to be watching Forge Thru the Stars III with Riku the first week of April... (if I'm still alive that is)..."Sena said cheerfully (the last part muttered to himself in a sour tone).
"Ahhh, you'll be fine! You're You-nii's Precious Runningback - He's not going to kill our chances for both seasons trophies by burying you somewhere."
"BURYING!!!! TnT Suzunaaaaa!"
"Daijōbu, daijōbu It's alright/ It's OK "She nonchalantly waved his concerns away without even bothering to look up from the computer screen, "You'll get to hang out with Riku once this is over with, I promise!" - You'll just probably be stuck with horrible chores and pashiri work for the next 3 months or so - she thought to herself, sticking her tongue out. "What are you watching anyway?"
"With Riku? Ah, well it's a bit of a tradition I guess, since we watched the second Forge thru the Stars together before he left and we promised we'd watch the third one togeth-"
"AH! Hey...there's a Forge thru the Stars III, Maybe you should watch that with You-nii! I bet it'll have tons of explosions so that he doesn't explode you!"
" O_o Suzuna!!! Wait! I wasn't suggesting that one, I meant for a show similar to that one! I'm watching that with Ri-"
"Kyaaaa! Dekta!Done it[1] Two tickets booked and ready to go!" She turned to look at Sena, "Eh? Daijōbu desu ka?are you alright?" Sena was wilting on his chair, head bowed and resting on his arms which gripped the table edge in a position of Utter Defeat!
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- Ah! Ooops! - Suzuna stuck her tongue out in embarrassment, the sudden recollection explaining Riku's sudden morose composure. "Ne, Don't be mad at Sena 'kay? Right now he needs all the support he can get and will probably need cheering up once this is over." She said trying to mend the situation and waving her hand in front of her face in a futile attempt to wave Riku's worries away "... and now that I think of it... I might have railroaded Sena on the choice of movie..." she explained, slightly pink in the face.
"..WHAT!" Riku hissed irate and at the same time, trying to keep his voice from being heard.
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All the spies hunkered down in their seats - was Hiruma turning towards them? - No, he was just rolling his shoulders (and using it as an excuse to move his draped arms over the chair backs closer to the tiny runningback!).
"He can't do that!" Mamori hissed in a vehement whisper, Monta holding her back as she tried to separate them. "Shhhhhhh!!" some of the other patrons shushed them into quietness. The sound of the finishing previews filled the theatre as they bowed their apologies to the other movie watchers.
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"I'm sooo sorry!" Suzuna apologised "I was just so determined to get this to work that I wasn't really listening. He was explaining how he was going to watch the movie with you next week, but all I heard was the movie title, so I booked the tickets online. Gomen!! Sorry Suzuna begged, hands praying in front of her face as they knelt behind the theatre chairs.
Riku's face was unreadable as he looked at the girl in front of him, which had basically messed up his play-date with his best friend (granted he'd been hoping to get it to be a proper date but this Prank took that chance away, now didn't it! This explained what Kid-san and the other team members had been whispering and excluding him out from all those weeks before - there was no way that he would have agreed or even let Sena turn up to school today if he'd heard the remotest hint of what was going to happen (this would most likely be the one incident that he wouldn't forgive Kid-san for)).
"!!!!"
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Riku was saved from answering as Sena squealed and he and Monta had to throw themselves bodily on Mamori to stop her from charging up like a maddened rhino and start haranguing Hiruma. Suzuna wasn't any help, leaning forward; she was taking pictures like crazy and writing note after note in her reporter journal. The Blonde had grabbed one of Sena's arms (well, placed his right arm around the brunette's from where it had been resting on the chair back and had simply gripped his shoulder. The left hand, the aisle arm had gone to grab what looked like the popcorn cup sitting in Sena's lap) startling the smaller boy. - ... and why is it in his lap? The heck, are you trying to pull Hiruma?!! - Riku thought sourly as he glared at the back of the taller silhouette. Sena was looking up at the Blonde with wide eyed mortification as he covered his mouth and flushed bright red in the beginning lights of the movie feature.
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"Are you going to behave now?" he whispered to Mamori as her struggles and muffled protests died down. The older girl glared and then nodded in a resigned manner. Gingerly, Riku removed his hand from her mouth ; from when he'd had to stifle her outrage. "I don't like it either, but Sena's going to be horrified and embarrassed as all hell when he finds out we're spying on him!"
"He knows we're following to watch and provide a rescue if he needs it!" Sena's long time protector argued hotly whilst trying to keep her voice down. (Monta wasn't making any additions to the argument, he wore a blissful expression from the floor where he'd landed after diving for Mamori as she'd risen up and was now stuck pretty much underneath his crush with his face almost touching her derriere.)
"Correction, he knows I'm spying on him for visual proof for the article tomorrow." Chimed in Suzuna without looking away from the couple watching the movie (it didn't look like Sena even realised that there was popcorn for him to share - he seemed to be alternating between the movie, you-nii's face and his knees - all with a brilliant vermillion hue adorning his face).
"What does that matter" She countered.
Riku sighed, "How do you think Sena's going to feel when he realises his best friend and childhood protector are watching his first date?" Mamori had the graciousness to look shamed.
"Besides he probably thinks you brought those three goons to assist if things went bad." He continued, speaking to Suzuna
" The Sankyoudai? *Sigh*...I tried getting them to come, but no one really wants to risk tangling with Hiruma if they can help it. Baka-Aniki would help - he's too stupid to think of the danger - but I can't bring him on these sorts of things... He's too noisy and has no clue when it comes to NOT drawing attention."
- And the other people that I could ask to be bodyguards would complicate matters - she thought to herself, mentally bringing up the images of Shin, Yamato and the others on her hidden list of 'Strange interest in Eyeshield 21' and Agon would just Kill You-nii. She wasn't even sure how they'd even gotten funds from Him - Shinryuuji had been easy to ask but she hadn't expected that Agon would have helped in anyway. Then again....if it meant making Hiruma look like an idiot, she supposed even Agon would have been willing to assist…
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= once again please memo/note me regarding spell errors/grammar mistakes and any other foul ups so I can correct and improve my writing skills
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[1] unsure if this is a valid Japanese word - I heard it in Fruits Baskets when Tohru had succeeded in helping with something...