FASH: I just thought that this would amuse someone other than me, so here's another random idea being thrown your way. And for anyone who's interested, Play Date 102 will be finished by tomorrow.

Disclaimer: I'm just a poor student who owns nothing, don't sue me.

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"Hiruma-san, can I ask you a favour?" Sena asked in what he hoped was a steady voice, as if asking Hiruma for something was an every-day occurrence for him. He didn't want to sound afraid, because that might prompt Hiruma to look up at him, and he couldn't ask what he wanted to if Hiruma was actually looking at him.

Thankfully Hiruma's eyes didn't stray from his laptop's screen.

"Sure, knock yourself out." The seated blonde responded nonchalantly, and Sena, who had been practising what to say and how to say it in his mirror for the past week, took a deep breath and tried to let his request out naturally.

"I want you to teach me how to be like you."

Hiruma stiffened and stopped typing, and although the sudden silence of the clubhouse was unnerving Sena didn't allow his determination to waver.

"Like me... How?" Hiruma asked slowly, as though he were mentally adding up the different characteristic Sena may have wanted to mimic.

"Like when you intimidate people." Sena supplied and Hiruma rose an eyebrow.

"Impossible." He stated and Sena frowned, he hadn't expected it would be easy for him to take after Hiruma in that aspect, but nothing was impossible, right?

"Why is it impossible?"

"Why do you even want to learn how to intimidate people anyways?" Hiruma countered as he turned back to his laptop, his interest in the subject beginning to wane.

"Well, when we're in America with everyone else on Team Japan, we'll have a lot of other national teams around us. I figured the best way to be unafraid of them would be to know how to intimidate them." Sena responded, twiddling his thumbs anxiously. "Also, next year when you're in third year someone's going to have to keep up the Spartan-style training."

"Oh?" Hiruma cocked an eyebrow, sounding more amused than intrigued. "And you think you can handle that?"

"Can't you just give me some tips or-"

"I already told you, it's impossible."

"Then please tell me why it is impossible Hiruma-san." Sena nearly whined and with a sigh Hiruma closed his laptop and set it aside, turning to Sena grimly.

"Are you sure you want to know? I won't pull any punches."

"Of course I want to know, I can handle anything you tell me." Sena replied, sounding a little more confident then he felt.

"Very well. It is simply impossible for you to mimic my intimidation tactics, not only because good teams on a national level shouldn't be shaken by any tactics I would use, not to say that some teams probably would crumble to them anyways." Hiruma allowed himself an evil smile before continuing. "But your mannerisms, tact, consideration, voice, physical appearance, movement patterns and multiple other things about you would make such tactics useless, even against someone who didn't know what a nice kid you actually are."

"B-But, what does my voice and appearance have anything to do with this?" Sena asked unsteadily.

"You sound like a nice kid, you look like a nice kid. Even if you tried to use my intimidation tactics on people, they'd just assume you were a nice kid fooling around. That's why it's impossible."

Sena slumped over. "Then... There's really no way for me to intimidate people?"

"Oh, I didn't say that." Hiruma answered with a wide smirk. "I only said that it wouldn't work if you used my methods."

Sena peered over at Hiruma curiously. "I don't understand."

"Of course you don't. That's why you came to me, so I could show you your untapped potential for being intimidating." Hiruma nodded to himself sagely. "The thing is, I'm more obvious with my intimidation. People can tell I'm a scary guy just by looking at me."

"And people can tell I'm a nice kid." Sena replied with a pout.

"Exactly. That's why, as opposed to my 'obvious type', your intimidation methods should be 'psycho type'."

Sena blinked, very slowly, as he took in what Hiruma had said. "Psycho?"

"You are the kid in the horror movie that everyone wants to look out for and protect, but really you're the one taking everybody out. That's the way you need to intimidate people. You look like you could get away with murder, so make people think that that's what you're going for."

"So..." Sena clasped his hands together and tilted his head to the side. "I need to act like someone who wants to get away with murder... How do I do that, exactly?"

"Smile wide, look up at people though half closed eyes, possibly giggle a bit. Just look as innocent as possible while threatening to do something wickedly malicious."

Sena tapped his fingers against his lips in thought. "Are you really sure that's all there is to it? It sounds like it would be easy."

"It's only easy for people like you to pull off. People allow you to get close to them without feeling threatened or guarding themselves, think of it as an infiltration, like you're a spy." Hiruma steeped his hands together and grinned, apparently this topic was very amusing to him. "Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"Well..." Sena sat down beside Hiruma, carefully casting a glance around in case any of their team mates suddenly decided to burst in from out of nowhere. "What sort of things should I say? When I try and intimidate them, I mean. I don't really know stuff like that."

Hiruma's grin widened and his eyes flashed in clear hilarity.

"Listen up and listen good, these are the sorts of things you should practice saying at home in front of a mirror."

Sena nodded, wide eyed and completely trusting, leaving no doubt in Hiruma's mind that after their little talk Sena would be practising certain lines in front of his bedroom mirror.

It sort of made him wish he had bugged Sena's house, but he supposed he'd make due.

Something told him that Sena would be trying this out in public soon enough.