Requested by lillyserenitia in my 'request a drabble' post in my livejournal.
I wasn't too fond of writing this, for the simple fact that 500 words is too few to actually explain Tatsuha's motives, so I had to come up with a condensed version.
I don't own Gravitation.
Hiro had never meant to get tangled up in Tatsuha's idiotic scheme.
Hiro didn't even know about Tatsuha's idiotic scheme until it was too late, and he was trying to do everything he could to not let Ayaka know what was happening. He even went as far as kissing her so she couldn't see what was going on (it was their first kiss. The first kiss that he had wanted to get perfect, thank-you very much Tatsuha).
"Hiro," Akaya said, looking away from the menu that he had forced her to look at.
"What is it?" Hiro asked, looking at her. Upon seeing her confused expression, he followed her gaze, only to groan and bury his face in his hands.
There, hanging from the tree in the park across from the restaurant the two of them were staying at was Shuichi. Hanging from a tree. Tangled in what appeared to be an ex-hammock.
Shuichi looked confused and scared, and Tatsuha looked frantic as he tried desperately to untangle him.
"What's going on?" she asked, not taking her eyes away from the two. It appeared that she wasn't the only one, nearly everyone else was staring at the two men as well.
"I ... don't know," Hiro lied, before getting up. "I'm going to see if I can help."
He left her without waiting for a reply.
"Tatsuha," Shuichi whined, trying to untangle himself but only getting himself more tangled.
"Stay still, you idiot," Tatsuha hissed, trying to untangle him.
"You said that Yuki was coming? Where's Yuki?" Shuichi asked, waving his arms.
Hiro walked up to the two of them and glared at Tatsuha, who pointed at him.
"It's his hammock! He can get you out. Stay still!"
"Hiro!" Shuichi cried out, smiling widely. "Tatsuha's gone crazy and trapped me in this thing!" He began trying to get out harder.
Above him, the tree branch snapped and narrowly avoided hitting him over the head as he fell to the ground.
Hiro shot another glare at Tatsuha, and kneeled down to untangle Shuichi, who tackled him as soon as he was set free.
"Oh, thank you Hiro! Who knows what things Tatsuha would've done to me while I was incapable of moving! You saved my life!"
Hiro smiled, nodded, and told him to go wait with Ayaka (and to not touch Hiro's chocolate cake).
"What were you doing?" Hiro asked once Shuichi ran off.
"I was trying to make him comfortable," Tatsuha explained.
"With my hammock?" Hiro said.
"You lent it to me," Tatsuha shrugged, then ran a hand through his hair.
"Not to ... what were you doing, anyway?" Hiro snapped.
"Well, Ryuchi's in New York for a little while again, and..."
Hiro glared at him once more, before heading back to the table where Shuichi was telling Ayaka about his narrow escape from torture and death. And he had eaten Hiro's cake.
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