Title: Just A Hint
Author: shimasama
Pairing: Akane Narita and Subaru Yagi
Fandom: Hot Gimmick
Theme: #28 – Wada Calcium CD3
Disclaimer: I do not own Hot Gimmick. It belongs to Viz and Miki Aihara.
Subaru was on his computer an average of eight hours a day, not counting the occasional computer lab excursion during school. He was a video game geek at heart, but with the internet expanding as fast as it did—and with a sister who happened to have about eight favorite TV shows—Subaru couldn't keep himself from getting online as often as possible.
Which, to say the least, angered his parents, friends, and new girlfriend.
His parents wanted him to go outside, hang out with his friends—anything to get his noise-canceling headphones off for a moment or two. His friends wanted generally the same thing—they really wanted to hang out, possibly do an informal game tournament among friends, and maybe catch that new Transformers movie or something.
And his girlfriend really wanted him to stop checking his email when she was over.
She wanted to go out on dates without him checking his cell phone—which, thanks to his slightly higher grades in school, had working internet access—every five seconds.
It didn't help that his room had no windows. Akane had come to thinking of her boyfriend as a vampire minus the hot. He wasn't really cute when sickly pale due to lack of sun exposure. Nor when he was ignoring her completely when she was standing at his doorway.
She figured out, about two weeks into dating the spiky-haired otaku, a way to give him a hint. She giggled at her own cleverness as she place the little medicine bottles in a pyramid in front of Subaru's computer monitor. He was sleeping just feet from her, but she could tell from his pleased expression that he was completely out, and probably would be for the next few hours. She snuck out as quietly as she had come in, high-fiving Asahi on her way out of the apartment.
When Subaru woke up his room was silent. That enough woke him up more completely—the familiar whirring of his computer fans was not filling his ears. He looked over at his desk, a mess of cheat codes and ramune, only to not see his monitor. Instead, a pyramid-shaped pile of calcium pill bottles stared back at him. He rubbed his eyes, as if trying to wake up from this strange dream. He tugged his lanky body up from his bed, crossing quickly to his desk. He grabbed a bottle in his hand and looked at the label, blinking a few times to see it clearly.
"For lack of sun—" He read aloud, and then stopped, the gears in his brain finally clicking to life. He smiled, a small smile, placing the bottle back onto the top of the pyramid that hid his monitor. Next to the pile was a bottle of sunscreen, and a little note in Akane's familiar handwriting: "Just in case."
He sighed, running a hand through his messy spikes, before walking out of his bedroom and into the living room of his family's apartment.
And there was Akane, sprawled out on the couch, a pillow in her arms and a bowl of popcorn at her side. She looked up as he walked in and smirked. "Get the hint?"
He blushed a little, crossing to her and wrestling a spot on the couch she had otherwise claimed. "Yeah. Thanks." He leaned over to grab some popcorn, and as he did Akane leaned up and planted a kiss on his cheek. He blushed a deeper crimson and sat up straight. "I think I'll get some breakfast." He got up quickly and rushed into the kitchen, hiding his own embarrassment.
Subaru heard Akane giggling into the pillow.