OMG I'm a horrible Rikkai Fan! I actually forgot niou's birthday! AAAAAAGH! and I mainly write Platinum Pair stuff...I'm going to go cry now so I just sorta shot this out, I hope you guys enjoy it! I'll try and have one up tomorrow for Hiyo Piyo-chan! I may or maynot make it OshitarixHiyoshi...I'm not sure. If any of you would prefer him with someone else or to just have something random and stupid tell me like SOON! bye guys!

Darkness darkness everywhere, but not a drop of light. That was Niou's world most of the time, it was everyone's one point in time, but not on their birthday. Even Sanada got a 'I wish you many happy returns of the day' from someone on his, and that's saying something. When Niou really thought about it, or anyone for that matter, he could see that in hindsight he didn't exactly deserve any kind of congratulations from anyone, probably not even from Yukimura certainly not Sanada, or Marui, hell not even Kirihara and Jackal said anything to him. Yagyuu hadn't either, that was the thing that confused Niou the most that Yagyuu hadn't said anything.

That is until he found a note in his locker that said in rather plain handwriting,

"Joyeux anniversaire Niou-kun, je te souhaite beaucoup de retours heureux du jour.

Yagyuu"

Niou had no idea what it said, but he recognized Yagyuu's name at the bottom and assumed the rest. It gave a rather warm and fuzzy feeling on the inside that if anyone ever found out about, he'd have to kill them or somehow find a way to make Sanada slap the shit out of them! Yea that wouldn't work at all.

He would have to figure out a way to repay his dear Hiro-chan later.

So there was his ray of light in this dark day of winter, his Yagyuu, the one that would hopefully be there through thick and thin for at least the duration of high school. If he's damn lucky it will be university as well, but for now high school was fine.

Tucking the note inside his English textbook and walk onward to his next class.

I said it sucked, it's only like two hundred words or so. SERIOUSLY it's the shortest thing I've ever written, my MomoxRyoma ficlet was longer than this! TT^TT that makes me feel bad. OH I have the bleach art book "All Color But The Black" It makes me so freakin happy! -sigh- I'll go now and try and think of something for Hiyoshi...

Your faithful Authoress,

animeo