ICT One Shots- Friendship and Brotherhood

To our Bittu and His Chittu

MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya were two opposite personalities, but as they say opposites attract, it's probably true. To the bond we never saw that coming, here is a mahi-hardik fanfic.

Hardik was looking at a photo album
sitting lazily on the chair in his balcony on a winter afternoon. It was an album where he had collected all his memories since his debut to till now. Natasha came and sat besides him on the other chair.

"You were too lean back then, wow" Natasha said looking at one of the pictures, hardik was appealing for a wicket and he looked way too thin.

"Yeah, he looks like a different guy altogether, look at this picture" Hardik agreed laughing.

"You are looking at him like you've got a crush on him" Natasha said chuckling looking at one picture.

Hardik stared at the picture, it was from his debut match, MS was telling the bowler something and he was just looking (read: staring) at him from a distance. "You admire him, don't you? " Natasha asked seeing him staring fondly at the picture.

"I do. He is a man who should be treasured." Natasha could see the admiration in his eyes, he didn't need to tell her that, she just smiled at him, she was glad her husband got someone like MS in his life.

"You know what Nats, jab mai team mein pehli baar gya tha toh virat, rohit, jaddu, bhuvi everybody had a very good bonding with Mahi bhai, he was an elder brother to all of them,especially virat,he was so comfortable with him like they were family... secretly I also wished that I get this close to him, not because he was the captain but just because of the person he was... " Hardik told his wife.

"Haan par I remember I was a little intimidated to talk to him shuru mein, kyunki boht smart the wo, hamesha samajh jaate the mera koi bhi plan toh thoda dar lagta tha unse.. Baki aisa kisi ke sath nhi hua, virat ke sath kaafi sahi banti thi log kehte hain darawna hai wo lekin nahi boht sahi banda hai" Hardik told remembering his debut days.

He remembered his first interaction with mahi bhai, which was nothing sort of embarrassing.

Flashback:

December, 2015
India tour of Australia

Hardik was making his debut in the t20i series, before that the team was playing a 5 match odi series, so he had flown their with the whole team but now he was bored. The team was busy preparing for the odis and most of the guys except him were playing both odis and t20is, he was sulking alone. He had come to Australia for the first time and he wanted to explore the country but how could he, when the team is busy.

So he searched for some places where he could have fun, luckily he found a place. It was a beachside area, with a chain of good restaurants and party clubs. So he collected all the information he wanted and started to get ready for the night.

Rohit barged in Hardik's room looking for a charger for his iPad, he had lost his own somewhere.

"Oy kaha ke liye taiyaar ho rha hai bey tu? " Rohit asked seeing him all ready for some party or something like that. He was wearing a loose black shimmery suit, a pair of large square goggles with big golden frame and a silver chain.

"Kuchh khas nhi, bas idhar hi ghoomne ja rha hoon" Hardik casually replied combing his hair.

"Mahi bhai se puchha tune? " Rohit asked.

"No" Hardik frowned, was he supposed to take the captain's permission before going out somewhere? "Puchhna tha kya ? "

"No, not compulsory as such par ek baar inform toh kar dena, he doesn't sleep before any of us doesn't come back" Rohit told him "Aur kal early morning practice session bhi hai, kaise pohonchega ?"