Title: Tsumasaki
Author: shimasama
Pairing: Akane Narita and Subaru Yagi
Fandom: Hot Gimmick
Theme: #12 - in a good mood
Disclaimer: I don't Hot Gimmick. It belongs to Viz and Miki Aihara.
Author's Note: This fic was inspired by Oreskaband's performance at Anime Expo, and their song Tsumasaki, ending to Bleach.
He has never seen her like this before. He knows he convinced her to come under false pretenses--but to see her open up so much, sway her body back and forth as her hair falls about her shoulders--it's all new sights to Subaru, and he enjoys them immensely.
As they walk through the convention hall, Subaru feels he made a drastic mistake in bringing her. The people dressed in fantastic costumes carrying large swords were obviously going to scare her--and he curses himself for not thinking of that earlier. They walk underneath beating sun and Akane looks about them in wonder, sometimes with a raised eyebrow as she sees another man in a schoolgirl outfit. Subaru blushes at every questioning look her receives, but continues to lead her towards the arena. At least in the darkness he won't be able to see her staring at him as if he's grown a second head. Or perhaps a third. At least under the mask of thousands of screaming otaku she won't be able to ask him what they're doing there.
It's amazing to see Akane standing, bopping her head to the music being played live on the stage in front of them. He was too late for premium seats, so they sit in the balcony quite far from the stage, but she doesn't seem to care. The two projection screens give them a good enough view of the band members' faces and Akane doesn't keep her eyes open long enough to care. Her lids slide closed as she gets completely involved in the music, and Subaru watches, amazed. The six high school girls from Osaka are dancing around the stage and encouraging the crowd to get up out of their seats to do so as well. They need not convince most likely the only non-otaku in the crowd--she's been dancing since their first chord.
And at the end of the night, when he turns on the radio only to hear one of the band's songs blasting through his decrepit car speakers, she squeals and clutches onto his arm. "We saw them! Live!" And he can't believe this is the same girl that called him a dweeb for watching anime at all hours of the night. Of course, she didn't really get into the anime part of the day, but when it came to the music--their rhythms seemed to match.
Subaru has to clench his hands on the steering wheel in order to keep from driving them into a sign post when she leans over and kisses him on the cheek. "Thanks for sharing this with me. I had way more fun than I thought I would." He glanced over at her as she tapped her fingers to the finishing beats of one of Oreskaband's songs, laughing to himself. She was enjoying something he enjoyed, and it made him glow. It filled him with a brightness he hadn't felt in a long time.
It helped that the song she was singing was also the eleventh opening to Bleach. An anime. But he wasn't about to tell her that.