Third Person Point of View, A HiruMamo Fanfic
Hiruma Youichi was the incarnation of the devil, while Anezaki Mamori was the embodiment of the angel. Due to their differences, people believed the two of them wouldn’t even want to get ten meters near each other.
The Deimon Devil Bats team believed it too once upon a time. However, seeing the two’s interactions over time made them not so sure anymore. They started pondering: were they actually dating?
Part III: Takekura Gen/Musashi’s point of view
Musashi could make a long list of adjectives that could be applied to describe Hiruma. Devilishly smart, cunning, ambitious, and so on. Most people would probably say he was evil and cunning, not that he would argue with them, but every single soul who had the luck (or bad luck?) of meeting Hiruma would agree that there was no way to tell what his friend was thinking or what he would do next.
To put it in simple terms, his friend was unpredictable.
That was exactly why Musashi found it odd that Hiruma had fallen into a perfect, albeit slightly peculiar, rhythm with Mamori. As far as Musashi knew, Mamori had become the club’s manager only for a few months, and in the first few weeks, all they did was get into arguments. Only God (and them) knew what happened to make them become this familiar with each other after those weeks.
Another thing Musashi found odd (and slightly amusing) was that Hiruma seemed to love teasing their manager. He would seize every chance he could get to annoy the hell out of her.
This afternoon, it seemed, was one of the times where Hiruma was in the mood for some light bickering with her.
“How long do you plan to eat without permission, fucking manager?”
Mamori jerked. With cheeks redden and crumbs stuck on her lips, she slowly turned her head to Hiruma. The evidence of her crime (a box of pretzel) she still held with one of her hands.
“Je-jeez, you’re talking like that again. I don’t need permission from you to eat! Besides, I did my job measuring your speed properly.”
Hiruma cackled. Musashi’s eyes might be playing tricks on him, but he was quite sure he saw a mischievous and amused glint in his friend’s eyes. He seemed to enjoy every second of it. “Still, you’re the greedy manager who likes to steal food to eat!”
Her brows furrowed slightly at that. Defensively she replied, “Whe-when did I steal food? I don’t remember!”
Hiruma continued to cackle, but he left the embarrassed manager alone after that.
This scene, with the exact same topic, took place almost every single day to the point he could even tell everyone on the team about even the smallest detail of it with eyes closed.
Hiruma would squeeze some time from their daily practice to tease her about eating and the way she ate stealthily, and then she would defensively reply to his teasing.
Hiruma teasing people wasn’t odd. He teased Kurita almost regularly, after all. What fascinated Musashi about this was the fact that he teased a girl, and that he did it on a daily basis.
He had never even seen Hiruma talked so happily to girls before. Honestly, he even thought his friend was asexual since he never showed any interest in both boys and girls. Since the day they started hanging out with each other, he had set his eyes on victory only.
Several hours later, when it was already late in the evening, Deimon Devil Bat’s practice ended. After putting their practice equipment back into place, the team changed back into their school uniform, and one by one began going home until he, Hiruma, and Mamori were left. If he wasn’t mistaken, the captain and the manager stayed late to devise a new suitable strategy for their upcoming match with Shinryuuji Naga.
When he got out of the locker room, however, he only saw Mamori in the club room. “Where is Hiruma?”
Mamori snapped her head to him. With a small smile, she replied, “Good work for today, Musashi-kun! Hiruma-kun said he is going to the convenience store for a bit. It seems he runs out of sugar-free gum.”
He nodded. The club room fell into a comfortable silence. He wasn’t a talkative person in the first place, and she didn’t seem to mind since she needed to concentrate on the data laid out at the table in front of her.
He was buttoning up the last button of his shirt when the club room’s door slid open. At the next moment, Hiruma came in with a plastic bag on one hand. He closed the door the same way he opened it, with his foot.
“Fucking manager, catch.”
Before he finished saying it, he already tossed a small box toward Mamori. Fortunately, she successfully caught the box even though she fumbled with it at first.
It took a couple of seconds for her to notice the word “Kariya Creampuff” on one side of the box. When she did, a smile bloomed on her face. “Thank you, Hiruma-kun.”
“Yeah,” Hiruma replied nonchalantly. “Are you done arranging the data as I asked?”
Hiruma slid to the seat next to her, and they began reviewing the data together. They were so engrossed in their discussion to the point it made him feel like a mere dot on the background.
He smiled at the sight, though.
That was another one of their routines. Even though Hiruma teased her a lot about eating, he always bought her favorite snacks, like creampuffs, when he went out to the convenience store.
And then, there was this change in his manner of speaking to her when they were alone. Well, they weren’t alone at the moment since he was there, but he wasn’t the type to pry into other people’s business (unlike some of their teammates) even if he noticed such details, so maybe that was why Hiruma didn’t mind his presence.
There was still a little teasing here and there when they were alone (or when there were only the three of them). However, Hiruma would make no snide remarks, nor were there any mocking sarcasm in his words.
Musashi never thought there would come a day when he thought Hiruma was cute, but today was that day. He wouldn’t say it in Hiruma’s face, of course, but he thought his friend almost seemed like a grade-schooler who teased his crush endlessly but still cared for her in the end.
Now that he thought about it that way, he wondered if his friend did have a crush on the manager and whether the two of them were dating.
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