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89. "Just pull the car over!" | nanahiko | wc: ~1.2k
a/n: The car that Nana is driving is a prototype Hercules, but I was actually debating if she should drive the truck that All Might does in the beginning of the series. Stick-shifts. They're apparently very hot to witness in action.
a/n 2: set in a nebulous period during the Nana Lives!AU, right before All Might makes his Japan debut.
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“Don’t look shocked that I can drive, Sorahiko,” Nana scolds, but she gives him a tongue-in-cheek grin as she says it. She settles into the plush leather driver’s seat, stretches her legs and curls her fingers on the steering wheel, and then seems to realize that Sorahiko hasn’t closed her door yet. “Eh? Sorahiko?”
“Huh,” he says distantly.
“Earth to Sorahiko, we’re gonna be late for Toshinori’s plane! I don’t want to leave him stranded at Narita if we get stuck in traffic!”
The magic word is traffic. Sorahiko twitches and shuts her door, then circles the sleek pitch-black automobile to slide into the passenger’s seat. He buckles the seatbelt and inhales the undeniable scent of a new car. How long had Nana been driving this? When would she have found the time to--
He squirms, just slightly, at seeing Nana’s left hand wiggle the gear shift. When the engine purrs to life without issue and Nana eases out of the parking spot and into the streets, Sorahiko finds that his mouth is dry.
“So,” he starts, a little weak, “so the car…?”
Nana is merciful. She answers without prodding him to elaborate: “Testing it out for the Support Tech branch. They’re experimenting with armored super cars, after seeing David Shield’s Allmobile in the States.”
“Tell me this one isn’t named after Toshinori.”
“Haha! Of course not!” she laughs, and slows the car as she turns to the on-ramp, then accelerates to match the oncoming drivers. It’s effortless. It is unbelievably smooth, how Nana changes gears and checks her mirrors before steering into the fast lane. Nana adds, “This is only the prototype, Sorahiko. We’re not supposed to get attached to it yet.”
“Mn.” To distract himself, he investigates the dashboard. The interface is, thank gods, not some digital touch-screen panel. Buttons and dials remain the status quo; Sorahiko punches the switch for air-conditioning and lowers the set temperature. It might just be him, but he is uncomfortably warm under the collar.
“Excited?”
“What?”
“For Toshinori to be coming home,” Nana clarifies, much to Sorahiko’s relief. “Honestly, I’m just relieved for Kotarou. He’s been so sad without his big brother!”
Sad didn’t seem the right word to describe Kotarou’s outright surliness over leaving the States at the end of his elementary school days; the fact that Toshinori got to spend another year had rubbed Kotarou in a similarly wrong, but still different way. He had abandonment issues. Neither Sorahiko nor Nana would ever blame him for it, but at some point--Sorahiko grimaces. They’ll have to talk about that soon.
“It’s not like Toshinori’s staying at home,” he eventually grumbles. “He’s supposed to go apartment hunting, if he hasn’t searched the listings already.”
“But,” she returns, “Kotarou is planning to change schools according to wherever Toshinori chooses to move. Remember?”
“Oh. Yeah, you’re right.”
“Leaving us with some privacy,” Nana says, mild. Absolutely no emphasis on ‘privacy,’ but damn if it doesn’t send a shiver down Sorahiko’s spine anyway. “Ah, this sun--can you pass me my sunglasses?”
Sorahiko obliges. He pops open a compartment, finds the case and flicks it open, and feels another shiver run through him. Mirrored aviators. Discreetly, he checks Nana’s outfit again and has to swallow past his dry throat. Leather jacket. High-collared sleeveless top. Dark denim jeans and the beat-up work boots she never wore to the HPSC building.
“Here,” he says, handing Nana the glasses, wire arms already extended.
“Thanks.”
She slides them on, and the mirrored lenses glint with the sunlight. A few seconds later, Nana curses at the sedan slowing down the fast lane and threads the needle to bypass it. Sorahiko hears the acceleration, brief as it is.
“... So what do you think?”
“Of?”
Nana clicks her tongue. Rather exaggeratedly, she removes one hand from the wheel and leans her other elbow on the armrest, fingers idly caressing the gear shift. “Do you really think you’re subtle? All the gearheads in the Support branch told me that this is a sexy car. I won’t hold it against you.”
It’s hard to tell what’s burning hotter: his face, or the arousal in his core. Sorahiko tries to ignore the discomfort in his jeans. He manages to reply, “You dressed hot too. The glasses are a nice touch.”
She snickers, “Heh, I’ll give you a nice touch…”
“Nana!”
“What?”
“We’re literally on our way to pick up Toshinori! You can’t just--seduce me in a car that he’s going to sit in the backseat of!” he complains, rubbing his neck in an effort to diffuse the blush. “Plus, if this car’s going back to the engineers, then there’s a hundred percent chance that you get cited for misconduct or something.”
“‘Hundred percent’,” she mimics. “‘Misconduct or something.’ Ah, geez, Sorahiko, it’s not like you to think inside the box! Anyways, look at the time!”
Sorahiko does. And then he does a double-take. There’s several hours to Toshinori’s flight landing, and another guaranteed extra hour of Toshinori bumbling his way through customs. The only problem he can see is that there aren’t really spaces on the expressway to park the car. They’d have to turn on the hazard lights, and that would certainly earn them unwanted attention.
“Just have patience,” Nana says, and it’s meant to sound soothing, but now that Sorahiko knows she’s set the scene to deliberately rile him up, he can’t help but rise to the occasion.
“Just pull the car over!” he shoots back. “Anyone asks what’s the problem, just flash your HPSC card, right?”
“You know that’s definitely not how it works.”
“Help,” he says, deadpan, “I’m trapped in a car with a woman who intended for me to find everything sexy except for the fact that we’re picking up our fluff-headed intern from his study abroad.”
“It’s not sounding like you’re getting hot over the important stuff,” she huffs.
“I was,” Sorahiko admits.
“Well, get back to it.”
“‘Just have patience.’”
Nana leans closer to the center console. Her eyes stay on the road, but all of a sudden, Sorahiko thinks that she’s shifted her presence. Less playful, more intent. The tell is in her voice, which has dropped to a lower, more sultry register. She says, “The windows are polarized.”
“Sounds sketchy.”
“This is a government vehicle. No one’s going to pull us over unless I start driving like a maniac.” She licks her lips. “I’m going to park before heading into the airport. It’ll be out of the way. We aren’t going to have sex in the car, but, uh… Nothing stopping me from taking you against the car, you know?”
“Ah,” says Sorahiko faintly, and he fumbles for the lever to lower his seat. He loosens his seatbelt instead of taking it off completely. The air is cool, and his skin is hot, and Sorahiko’s head is spinning with the concept that Nana might have a latent exhibitionist streak. He unbuckles his belt and unbuttons his jeans, and shoves his hand down his pants for some fucking relief.
“Slowly,” she says.
A low hiss escapes him.
“Well, you don’t want to finish before I get my mouth on you, right?”
“Nana,” he replies in a voice so taut, strangers would think it curt instead of sexually-frustrated, “I hate being edged.”
“Ha! I know, I know. It’s a tough balancing act, huh?” Unbidden, Sorahiko scoots the denim layer down and leaves his briefs on; he curls his fingers at the base of his cock, doing his best not to fantasize. “You can hold out. It’ll be less than twenty minutes.”
“Speed up, then.”
She hums in assent.
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How u art so good
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gesture drawing - this isn’t just drawing from life, but it’s learning how to add to it! it’s learning how to exaggerate proportion and movement in order for a piece to feel more lively
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good luck anon!
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