1. Beginning.

T: I come baring YnM randomness! Beware the Slash, the massive AU, the abusing of random characters for my own ends and spoiling for everything Devils trill onwards. I own nothing you see here other than plot.

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The supposed ring leader glances at his co-conspirators a moment before shuffling his feet and saying,

"None of this would have happened if things had just gone the way that they were meant to…I mean Bon all but told me that he was gonna ask Tsu to move in with him…"

"I asked for you to start at the beginning Watari." Starting a little for the threat edged in those words the scientist says,

"Yes, yes, of course." Before starting, "It all started with a beautiful glass beaker which I happened upon while visiting Asakusa for the day. It was one of the really old sort constructed out of that sandy glass mix and the instant I saw it I was in love.

"Of course something like that was well out of the reach of my meagre wage packet and I'd have thought it more than little more than idle dream if I hadn't suddenly thought of Wakaba. You see after we finally got 'Him' everyone realised that there was something more in Tsu and Bon's friendship and, once it felt appropriate, Wakaba started to 'cash in' on that fact."

"By which you mean she started taking bets on the amount of time it would take for the pair to 'take the next step', correct?"

"Correct."

"And because you felt that you had an 'inside track' you decided to indulge in a little flutter, yes?"

"That's right!" Watari responds, a bright smile catching his face as he does as such.

"So…"

"So I decided to give Bon the slightest of nudges, you know to completely assure that things would fall in my favour and ended out stumbling on the most unexpected of reunions."

"Which is where we come in," remarks one of the other conspirators as he gestures to the individual sat at his left.

"Then, if you would be so kind as to 'fill in the blanks' Minase-kun."

"An old piece of legislation meant that, after the accident had stolen my life from me and I'd become a Shinigami, I was taken into the employ of the Chinese Division. It was something that irked me a great deal and that I'd thought to fight until I got to know my partner properly."

"My 'history' meant that transferring over to the Japanese division was unthinkable while He lived still and Hiji was very quick to understand that fact…to let go his deepest want for a brief while." Hijiri graces his partner's words with an indulgent smile and then says,

"Kyoto removed that particular barrier and yet we both agreed that we were better biding our time a little longer, in order to allow the scars of that day to heal a little. We eventually submitted the paperwork the day after That Man was finally defeated and made the choice to inform everyone of the move personally rather than waiting even further for the red tape to clear."

"Then the 'reunion' that you saw, Watari…"

"Was that of Bon and Tsubaki-san." The Scientist concludes, before stating, "And until the very moment that I walked through that door I believed that she had 'passed over'. Thus it was more than a little surprising to find her sat in Tsu and Bon's office, chatting happily to Bon."

"By which he means that he fainted," There is a cheeky smile on Tsubaki's lips as she makes the statement and Watari shoots her a displeased glare before he says,

"Anyway, by the time I came to both sets of partner's had converged and the atmosphere in the air told that I didn't have a hope in hell of gaining any return from my bet."

"Which put 'Tari in a bad mood and as bad moods aren't his thing we realised that something was going on, a big something that we'd been cruelly kept out of!"

"So Yuma and I decided that if they weren't going to tell us anything we'd have to go digging and, by the time Hiji and Camille's paperwork came through, we knew everything there was to know about the whole situation." Saya concludes.

"What, precisely, did you do with such knowledge?"

"They shared it with me." Watari responds, before informing him, "Which is where everything started to go wrong."

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He'd spent an hour mixing random chemicals together, ten minutes clearing up the aftermath of such inventiveness and a further hour writing down the experiment for posterity's sake.

He'd then spent a brief minuet absently doodling random things in the margins around those notes before he'd given up and let the melancholy get the better of him.

Which was why he'd failed to notice the twins until the very moment that they'd pulled him into a spine smooching hug and declared,

"Cheer up, 'Tari! Thing's aren't as bad as they seem!"

"Ha! Have you seen Bon today?" He enquires as he struggles free their grip.

"Of course, but he doesn't know what we know!" Saya states, the words a deliberate tease that, in a more rational frame of mind, he'd have ignored completely and yet, with things as they were…

"What do you two know?"

"That Tsubaki and Hijiri are madly in love with one another."

Mind swimming with the puppy dog look that the ex-violinist had been directing at Tsuzuki the last that he had seen him, he asks what seems the obvious question of, "Are you sure?" at which point he is given the dirtiest of looks, before Saya says,

"Camille brought Hiji up so much when we were talking that it was painfully clear that she cares about him. Then I got to talking to one of their old co-workers and they got me second guessing the assumption we've all had about where Hiji's heart lies."

"So we butted heads and eventually agreed that there was only one way that we'd ever be sure….which is where you come in" Yuma remarks as she smiles a truly wicked smile.

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T: For those curious Hiji was in a car accident while on tour in China and the legislation he's on about states that you end out working for the division closest to your dying place. Given Tsubaki died on the water she was probably given a choice and went with the division that was furthest from Muraki. Oh and yes he is the 'He' referred to through out!

Next chapter out next week! Till then R+R