AN: So Sanada and Yanagi don't get enough love as a couple so I'm trying to change that! We've all read the stories with Fem!Yukimura and Sanada so I got the idea for a cute little Fem!Yanagi and Sanada pair! Enjoy and tell me what you think!

It was 10:30 at night and Sanada Genichirou stood in his university's sparsely populated Starbucks. As the only other people he could see took their orders and left, he came face to face with his best friend, and Starbucks' night shifter, Yukimura Seiichi. Yukimura grinned at him and slid his student card, paying for the coffee himself despite Sanada's protests. As he made his friend's coffee, he spoke;

"Remember that girl I told you about last week?" Sanada nodded, arms crossed as he leaned against the counter, watching.

"The one who comes in almost every night and studies?" Yukimura hummed, squirting a generous amount of whip cream, also against Sanada's protests, onto the hot beverage. As he handed it to his stoic friend, he jerked his head gently. Sanada shifted his eyes, turning casually, and found a delicate young woman sitting in the farthest corner booth. She was tall for a woman, almost as tall as Sanada himself, and thin, willowy even, with soft-looking brown hair cut at an angle right below her jawline. Her eyes seemed to be closed but she read easily through her notes. He heard a soft chuckle and turned to glare at his blue-haired friend.

"I told you she was pretty. Go sit with her!" Sanada pulled his ever-present cap over his eyes, frowning.

"There are empty seats everywhere. What excuse would I have to sit with a young woman this late at night? I would look like an obvious creep."

"Well sometimes the direct approach is best. Would you rather she catch you being a staring-from-afar creep?"

"She's studying."

"She's always studying and I guarantee she does more than we could even think to. One night won't kill her.

"It's 11o'clock Yukimura. She'll probably be leaving soon."

"She stays till close which, as you know, is 12:30." Sanada growled and Yukimura scowled, crossing his arms in what Sanada called his mother pose.

"Sanada Genichirou, you walk your ass over there right now and talk to that smart, pretty girl or I will and you'll wish you had taken your chance when you get our wedding invitations!" Sanada raised a dark brow, crossing his arms as well, and one hand brought his cooling drink to his lips as he stared his friend down. After a moment, he set his drink down, still watching the bluenette through dark eyes.

"Seiichi…you like men." The bluenette's eyes narrowed and a blue brow twitched as the pair stared off. Finally, Sanada sighed, downing the rest of his luke-warm drink, and threw the cup at his friend before turning and walking slowly towards the booth. On his way, he grabbed two packaged muffins and gave Yukimura his "if-I'm-doing-this-you're-paying-for-it" look, smirking as the other boy huffed and swiped his card again. All too soon he was standing beside the booth. Clearing his throat gently, the brown head lifted and he met the girl's closed eyes. He felt awkward, trapped in a stare he couldn't see.

"I um…ah…" The girl stared for a moment, almost as if she were assessing him, before giving him an encouraging smile. A flush rose to his cheeks and he cleared his throat again.

"Ah…you look…lonely over here. I thought that you would like, um…a snack. Or…some company." He stared at the table and jumped when a warm hand covered his, squeezing and accepting one of the muffins. She nodded to the seat across from her and he sat stiffly. The girl seemed to take him in for a moment before a soft, soothing voice cleared the air.

"Sanada Genichirou-kun, correct?" Sanada jumped and went to speak but lost his voice as he lifted his head and his eyes met the most beautiful, shining chocolate eyes he had ever seen. All he could manage in the moment was a nod.

"Uh…yes. How do you know that?" She smiled again.

"We had English literature and film together last semester. I'm not surprised you don't remember me though. You sat up front and I was in the back." Sanada nodded, wondering how he had never noticed the girl before. He bowed his head to her.

"I'm very sorry. You know my name but my mind has forgotten and cannot place yours." The young woman's soft laugh made the young man smile and lift his head to watch, entranced, as her slim fingers pressed over her lips. She smiled at him, opening those shining eyes again, and spoke;

"Yanagi Renji." Blinking himself out of his stupor, Sanada tilted his head, brows furrowed.

"I'm sorry?"

"My name is Yanagi Renji. Some friends call me Ren. My name is a dedication to my father's late brother, my uncle. I get a lot of looks when people find out I have a man's name." After scanning over her face and how she held herself, Sanada opened his mouth;

"I think it suits you. N-not that you look like a man! Because you…you're very beautiful and I uh…I mean, you're strong I feel and the strength of a man's name suits you!" Sanada ran his palm over his face and pulled his cap over his eyes, flushing bright red at his mess of words. Renji laughed loudly this time and reached across the table to touch his hand gently. He jumped and she gently took his hat with her free hand, placing it on her own head, making her ten times more adorable than he had initially been thinking.

"I believe you're strong too Sanada-kun…and I thank you for your strange compliment. If you wish…you could try again, say…tomorrow night." Blinking away his confusion and brushing his hand nervously over his hair. When her comment registered, he raised his head, voice hopeful.

"You mean try again…as in somewhere other than a Starbucks at 11 o'clock at night?" Renji smiled and nodded as Sanada turned his hand and took her's gently, face serious.

"I would be honored to take such an intelligent, beautiful young woman out." Pink dusted Renji's cheekbones beneath his cap, making her all the more appealing.

"Save your compliments for tomorrow evening Sanada-kun. I'd like to hear them away from this stifling university." Sanada nodded and the pair startled when a throat was cleared beside them. Yukimura smiled at the pair, blue eyes shining as he handed the young woman a slip of paper.

"Unfortunately, it's closing time but that's Gen-chan's number. Give him a text and set up your first date officially!" He grinned at his friend, who had turned a deep red, standing and lurching towards the bluenette who hid away behind their booth.

"Yukimura!"

"Thank you Yukimura-kun. I'll be sure to set it up as soon as I get home."

"Renji-san! Please don't encourage him!" The pair laughed at him together as if they were long lost friends and Sanada finally pushed Yukimura out the door, allowing him to lock it before shoving him towards his apartment, the bluenette laughing all the way. Silently, he pressed a hand on Renji's shoulder, allowing her to lead the way to her own apartment before he let himself go home.

"Thank you Sanada-kun. I-"

"Genichirou." She stopped jingling her keys in the lock.

"What?"

"Call…call me Genichirou." The brunette smiled, clicking the door open and tilting her head shyly.

"Ah. Well…I'll text you tomorrow to set up our date…Genichirou." Sanada's heart skipped a beat and he found himself smiling again, body hot.

"Date?" The brunette nodded, stepping over her threshold and facing him.

"Unless that's not what you'd like to call it." Her voice was soft.

"No! It is!" His eagerness made them both pause before they laughed. Renji brushed a soft kiss over his cheek and Sanada returned to his apartment, a goofy smile on his lips and a good mood around him. It wasn't until he got home that he realized his hat had still been on Renji's head when he left her.