Author's Note: When I first wrote these, I had no idea they were going to be so popular…. Togano is one of the Huh Brothers.
Summary: Togano successfully recruits the help of the Devil….
A New Understanding
By: Bar-Ohki
Togano Shozo was well known for reading manga, sleeping in class, and playing on the Devil Bats line. He was a delinquent-turned-sportsman and a faithful friend to his long-time pals Juumonji Kazuki and Kuroki Koji. Today was a particularly strange day for the three friends, for a start Juumonji had been forced to serve a detention with the music teacher for 'being unable to sing appropriate lyrics'. Togano had to hang back for a minute to ask Kobayakawa Sena, the Devi Bat's runningback, if he knew when practice would end that day. Kobayakawa answered something on the lines of 'whenever Hiruma wants it to be over'. And Kuroki found himself receiving a love confession from a girl he had never seen before.
Togano had watched the confession from afar. He sensed something a miss with this girl confessing her love to Kuroki, but could not put his finger on it.
"Hey Kuroki, do you know that girl?" Togano asked his friend. He got a head shake in response.
"I don't know what to do about this…." Kuroki admitted. Togano thought for a minute, there was only one person he knew that would know everything about that strange girl and her past.
"Give me that letter, I'll go find out what's with that girl." Togano snatched the letter from Kuroki's hand before he could protest.
"Huh?" Kuroki was confused by his friend's behavior.
"Don't worry, this'll be quick." Togano assured his friend and began to run while he still had the courage to confront the local blackmailing king about the strange girl.
It wasn't hard to find Hiruma Youichi, all you had to do was follow the source of the gun shot sounds. Hiruma was on the roof sniping other students from the roof (with rubber bullets, of course).
"Hiruma-sempai?" Togano couldn't help but to wonder why in the seven rings of hell Hiruma was sniping people, it didn't seem all that much like him.
"Fucking glasses, what the hell do you want?" Hiruma gave him a look that said 'I'm busy, go away'.
"There's someone I need to do a background check on." Togano explained. Hiruma's eyebrows rose in mild curiosity.
"Ke ke ke! You want to have a look in my book, don't you fucking brother?" Hiruma knew exactly what Togano wanted (but Togano was a fairly predictable person, so it wasn't that hard to figure out).
"It's some strange chick that just confessed her love to Kuroki." Togano tried to justify his need before Hiruma decided to charge an arm and a leg. "I don't know her, but something about her is off."
Hiruma's expression grew a bit more serious. "What's her name?"
Togano pulled out the love letter and read it. "Yuki Miaka." Hiruma pulled out his black threat notebook and began flipping through the pages. Once he got towards the end he stopped.
"Here." Hiruma handed Togano the open threat notebook. Togano took it and began to read the entry. Apparently Yuki was known for selecting boyfriends so that she could steal all their money, make them lose credit with their friends, and then dump them when the boy no longer had anything to give. Also the girl was well known for sleeping around while dating.
"What a leech!" Togano hissed, extremely pissed.
"Ke ke ke. I never thought I'd meet someone with the balls to try and mess with my football team." Hiruma's eyes sparkled with ill-intent. "This will be a lot of fun."
"…You're going to do something really horrible to this girl, aren't you?" Togano observed.
"What makes you think that?" Hiruma was surrounded by a particularly evil aura (it had little vampire bats in it).
"Because I'd like to help if you were." Togano answered, shutting the threat notebook.
"Then start by telling Kuroki he should go out with her…" Hiruma began ominously.
Several weeks later Yuki was arrested by the police for fraud, identity thief (appearently the real Yuki Miaka was a nice girl who attended a school in a different part of town), and stealing.
Togano decided, as he watched the fake Yuki get shoved into the cop car, that Hiruma was a good person. Hiruma never once asked Togano for a price, nor did he order Togano to do any of the suggestions during their cooperation work to get this Yuki behind bars. Hiruma might portray being a devilish man most of the time, but when it came down to it, he was on his teammates' side every time.
"Here." Hiruma said, handing him an envelope.
"Huh?" Togano took it, confused.
"I don't need blackmail on comrades." Hiruma told him and walked off. Togano opened the envelope to see the negatives to the pictures that Hiruma had used to threaten himself and his other two friends earlier into joining the football club.
"No, you don't." Togano agreed, even though Hiruma had left. "We'd just do any favor you asked."
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