DEVIL'S BRIDE

Drabble set featuring the start, the end, the ups and the downs of Youichi Hiruma's attempts and success of courting (re: blackmailing) Primrose Dorea Potter into being his girlfriend.

I do not own Eyeshield 21, if I did... the games would be more interesting! There's only so many times I can see the same formula of a match before it gets old. Also, there would be more character exploration.

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Realisation

Twenty minutes, forty minions, thirty phone calls, and five minutes of running he finally managed to track her down.

She was in the park, sat on one of the damp picnic benches, dressed that same old off-white sundress with lace accents and black leggings as she had when he dragged her to Maou for the first time, her wet hair was pulled back in a loose braid which she fiddled with as she read through the books laid out in front of her. As he got closer, he realised they were childrens books about reading and writing and counting. She had an English to Japanese dictionary to her left and a Japanese phrase book on her right, she was using the stub of some garishly coloured pencil to make notes as she steadily worked through the childrens book.

He cursed under his breath when he spotted her shiver, bare shoulders covered with goose-flesh as a cold breeze swept past them. He glanced upward and grimaced at the dark clouds overhead, it was going to start raining soon.

"The hell do you think you're doing, fucking Cat?" he snarled grabbing her arm, perhaps a little harder than he should have, and hauled her up to her feet.

The girl yelped and spluttered, trying to pull away before she realised who it was, "You – What the fuck you goddamn pest?! What do you want now?" she demanded, baring her teeth at him, "I thought I made it clear I wanted nothing to do with you!"

He scoffed and shrugged out of his blazer, roughly shoving it at her, "Bitch all you like at me later. You're coming with me."

"Are you fucking insane?! I'm not going anywhere with you!" she shrieked.

Hiruma scoffed and began to gather up her books, "If you want to sleep in an actual fucking bed, then yeah, you are!" he retorted hauling the bag onto his shoulder before dragging her out of the park.

"What?!"

"Musashi saw your dumbass sleeping rough, fucking Cat," he spat marching her through the streets, she made a furious sound in response to his words and he grunted tightening his grip when she tried to yank away again. "Fucking Hotel Owner owes me a favour. He's got a room in permanent reserve for me, you're staying there where you won't catch your death of cold!"

"What does it matter to you if I do, huh? Fuck off! I don't need your fucking pity!" the girl snarled trying to yank her arms away, he was probably going to give her bruises with the way she was thrashing around, but he wasn't about to let go.

"It ain't fuckin' pity," he grunted shortly. "And surprising as it fucking is, it matters to me because I happen to actually give a shit."

And wasn't that a fucking pain in the ass?

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Sorry for the huge delay in chapters, I just haven't been in a very Eyeshield mood lately.

Also, it's my birthday today, so I figured I would upload this, another chapter of Storming Skies, and two new stories, one called The Hand You're Dealt, a Katekyo Hitman REBORN centric story with a OFC in Gokudera's body, handles Transphobia issues and what not, so it isn't a comedy play going 'hurr hurr lets gender swap and have some crack in there'. The other is called House of Cards, a Sword Art Online/Katekyo Hitman REBORN fic where Tsuna ends up in the SAO incident before Reborn's arrival when he's ten. It'll feature character-development for Nana, hopefully realistic character-development for Tsuna (I'm not good at writing wishywashy characters, but I am trying), he won't be meeting his Guardians on the inside, no other KHR characters are involved in the SAO incident beyond what's happening with Nana outside the game. It's a Gen fic, so no pairing for Tsuna, but I'll be sticking with canon SAO pairings, so Kirito/Asuna. And I might see myself throwing something in Nana's direction depending on how things work out.

Check 'em out if you like the sound of it 8DD