Title: Such A Dweeb

Author: shimasama

Pairing: Akane Narita and Subaru Yagi

Fandom: Hot Gimmick

Theme: #16 – invincible; unrivaled

Disclaimer: I do not own Hot Gimmick, it belongs to Viz and Miki Aihara.

Note: AU, would take place before the series.

Sweat poured down Subaru's face as he clung to the plastic gun in his hand, his eyes intent on the multicolor screen in front of him. Next to him, a friend from school looked just as nervous, holding a gun himself. It took Subaru no time to reload anymore, just a quick flick of the wrist to point the gun off screen and he was back to shooting enemies as if he had never paused. His friend was not so talented.

There were always perks to being the best.

"Geez, Yagi! Couldn't you take it easy on me?" His friend commented as the top scores came up. GundamOtakuS held the top three ranks on this particular game. Many of the others in the arcade had similar results.

Subaru smiled a little to himself. "You promised you'd get me that limited edition model if I beat you ten times in a row. I take these things seriously." He stuffed his hands in his pockets as they walked out into the frigid night air, leaving the blinking lights of the arcade behind. Outside, a couple was kissing fiendishly beneath a streetlight. Subaru could not help but stare, as his friend continued walking down the street, talking to himself.

"And I really don't think it's fair—Hey! Yagi! You coming or what?" His friend called from down the street, rather loudly. The couple broke apart abruptly at the noise, and Subaru's eyes widened when he recognized the female of the pair as the younger Narita daughter. She looked across the street, straight at him as the lights overhead changed and she and her date walked across the street.

Subaru watched her carefully as she came closer, his friend still calling to him. "Gaming king! Get your butt over here or you're paying for pizza!"

Akane Narita clung tightly to the arm of her date, a high school student by the looks of it. She rolled her eyes at Subaru as she passed him. "You are such a dweeb," she commented in passing, before becoming absorbed in her date once more. Subaru watched her go, gawking.

How was it that in five small words he could go from feeling invincible to feeling like dirt beneath a junior high girl's feet?