Fandom: Eyeshield 21
Pairing: Hiruma/Mamori
Length: One-shot
Author on LJ: memlu / mekosuchinae
Author Website: Fic list at delicious.
Why this must be read:

I've already rec'ed memlu this month, but I love this fic too much to let a little detail like that stop me. While I adore the Hiruma/Mamori pairing, it's hard to move the relationship along without warping them out of character. This fic manages beautifully, and with a wonderful dash of humour.

And, true, Hiruma had immediately responded, "Shut up, fatass," to which Mamori had felt it her moral obligation to respond with, "Do you have to call everyone by degrading names?" and, really, it had all basically come down to "fucking manager" and "stop calling me that!"

Even that, though, had been casual; almost friendly. As if somewhere along the line being called fucking manager by a gun-toting quarterback probably suffering from some advanced form of psychosis was normal.

Fandom: Eyeshield 21
Pairing: Hiruma/Mamori
Length: One-shot
Author on LJ: tokyofish
Author Website: N/A
Why this must be read:

Shock of all shocks, the demon of Deimon High gets love letters from female fans--as Mamori discovers, much to her horror, when she's given the job of replying to them. Poor Mamori's horrified realization about her own feelings is priceless. And the ending is fantastic.

Slowly putting the letters down, she spread them out flat on the table. They were ALL love letters. And what was more, while three of them were from different schools - this she could talk herself into understanding, they were unaware of Hiruma's true personality, the only thing about him that they knew was his ability on the playing field; it was a type of ignorance she could forgive - TWO of them were from DEIMON HIGH. What was more, Mamori knew both of the girls in question - one of them sat one row up and one row over from her in class and the other one was in girl's choir.

Why did she suddenly feel like her faith in humanity had been completely and utterly misplaced?