A/N: I wasn't sure what kind of reception this story would get and I am pleased to know that everyone likes the story and several people have been wondering the same thing. Why didn't he ever say no? FS'Briseis requested a chapter that showed why he might not be able to say no, so I will be writing a chapter that might give the reason on why he can't say no… well until now. In this chapter you will learn what finally caused him to break, and I really think he had just cause. I hope you get a good laugh and enjoy!

Chapter 2 – Intervention

Never in the history of the world had something such as this ever happened. Never had anyone ever told Yukimura no and never had Jackal ever uttered that word with such passion and actually meant it. This day was one for the history books, and if anyone was sure of one thing… Yanagi was recording everything for posterity's sake (hey, someone needed to keep record of all of this and who better than someone who records everything anyway. Everyone else was in too much shock to do anything but stand there and gape with their mouths hanging to the ground as ants walked in and grabbed the last bits of crumbs from their lunches).

Looking around him, Yukimura knew he had to take quick control of the situation before everything got out of hand and tennis practice was done for the rest of the afternoon… not that it already wasn't, but he felt like he could at least salvage the first years and the non-regulars. Without raising his voice, his soft melodic voice carried on the wind, "Everyone that isn't a regular, give me 25 laps… now!"

No one questioned anything or hesitated. Yukimura was one person they never wanted to cross or piss off because that could mean a punishment worse than death. They had heard of people making him mad and then never being heard from again, either that or they were tortured to the point they were never the same again. Now these were just rumors mind you and you never know what was actually true and what was false, but with rumors… there was always a part that was true, but which part? No one wanted to find out, and thus the tennis players didn't take any chances. Plus, if the bluenette didn't get them, Sanada would and no one wanted to be on the wrong end of a torundoru.

Once the non-regulars were gone, Yukimura called all of the regulars in front of him; however, one was still cowering in the corner crying about how Jackal was going to burn his flesh off. Looking over his shoulder, the bluenette muttered, "Just leave him where he is. He is probably causing less trouble there than he is anywhere else." He faced his tennis players and marched in front of them before stopping in front of a certain redhead, "Marui Bunta, do you want to tell me what happened today?"

"I just asked Jackal to do me a favor… or two," Marui replied.

"Why don't you tell me exactly what you asked him to do in detail? I want to know everything you asked him to do all day. Every item, regardless how inconsequential you think it is," Yukimura smiled sweetly, but that smile was anything but sweet. It clearly said, "Do as I tell you and we will see how long you live afterwards. If you piss me off, you will die."

Swallowing hard, Marui nodded and began his tale, "Well this morning we met up like we always do in order to walk to school together. I forgot my wallet, so I asked Jackal to buy me a cream puff for breakfast."

"Didn't your mom make you breakfast?" Niou interrupted.

"Well, yah, but I was still hungry and wanted something sweet," Marui answered with a grin.

Sanada could already feel the urge to slap someone and felt quite proud of himself that he had held back so far. "Continue," he snapped.

Marui sighed and continued, "He didn't want to, but I finally goaded him into it like I usually do. Then we met up with Akaya and Jackal had to buy one for him as well. So then we came to school. Well during lunch we found out that Akaya was invited to a birthday party, and you have told us that he isn't allowed to go to those things unsupervised so I told Jackal he would have to supervise the party. Then I found out that I was set up on a blind date and I convinced him to go in my place. Then Akaya was asked out by a girl and I told Jackal he would need to supervise that date and pay since Akaya would probably not have any money…" (I will cut it short to save time and my fingers). The more he spouted off, the more Yukimura and Sanada were surprised their defense specialist hadn't lost it sooner.

"So what happened during practice?" Yanagi inquired pencil poised at the ready to scribble the tensai's answer.

To his credit Bunta actually turned red and looked slightly embarrassed by what happened and hesitated telling the others what he did. He wasn't sure if this was something that he should share with anyone else.

"I suggest that you tell us what you asked him to do that sent him over the edge," Yukimura's grin increased in size and seemed to become more threatening if that was possible.

Mumbling something under his breath, Marui explained what happened. Unfortunately, no one could understand him.

"Torundoru!" Sanada yelled pushed to his limit as he slapped the redheaded tennis regular.

"Genichiro, calm down," Yukimura spoke gently and crouched down next to where Marui landed on the ground and told him, "I suggest you try that again, but this time in a clear and concise manner."

"My aunt is the one that set me up on the blind date and I told him he needed to dress up as a girl and pretend to be my girlfriend, in a dress, and come to my house when she would be there this weekend. If she thought I had a girlfriend, she would stop fixing me up on stupid blind dates and he wouldn't have to go on any more blind dates for me," Marui answered.

Blinking, the bluenette muttered, "I see." He stood up and looked at his other players, "Did anyone else ask Jackal to do anything for them?"

Kirihara finally came out of his corner and ran up to his beloved buchou with a big smile on his face, "I did Mura-buchou! I asked him to take me for ramen after practice today!"

"I see. Anyone else?" The buchou looked around the group not sure what he would find and slightly afraid to hear any more, and relieved to see everyone else shaking their heads negatively. He looked to his two closest friends and seemed to silently communicate with them before turning back towards the others, "Everyone to the locker room. We are going to have an intervention."

"Shouldn't Jackal be here in order to have an intervention?" Marui inquired.

"What's an intervention?" Kirihara asked innocently.

Putting his hand on the young ace's shoulder, Yukimura told him, "You'll find out after we get to the locker room. It's special. I promise."

"Okay!" The second year yelled and raced to the locker room anxious to get started (oh if he only knew what awaited him).

"Yukimura, shouldn't we have Jackal…?" Marui tried again.

The bluenette fixed his self-proclaimed tensai with a hard stare complete with a pretty smile (really only two people could pull this off and they were both sadists: Yukimura and Fuji), and questioned, "What makes you think the intervention is for him? Now, let's get to the locker room."

"What about the other members?" Yagyuu pointed to the people that were currently running.

"Genichiro, would you dismiss them for the day and then join us? We'll be in the office with the door closed so that we aren't disturbed," Yukimura snickered causing everyone's hair on the back of their neck to stand on end (Sanada and Yanagi wouldn't admit it, but theirs did as well). The Rikkai Dai buchou was the last person in the office, besides Sanada, and he closed the door behind him. The bang of the door sounded like a finality to someone's life and everyone wondered if this was the end or an intervention.

Yanagi was stepped up to his friend and asked, "Are we going to wait for Genichiro or will we start before he arrives?"

"Oh, I think we can wait and allow everyone here to ponder what is coming," the bluenette giggled.

Everyone in the room (besides Yanagi and Kirihara) sweat dropped. This did not bode well. Sanada arrived a few minutes later and it was time to begin.

"The reason we are having an intervention is because certain members of this tennis team have been taking advantage of Jackal and have finally caused him to have him to have a psychotic break. There is no other explanation for the way he acted towards me earlier or the way he left the tennis courts. Thus we have decided before we can deal with him, we need to make sure this never happens again… or decreases in frequency," Yukimura announced. He knew he couldn't completely stop it. His tennis team was beyond crazy and there was no way to completely stop his members from wreaking havoc on another's life. The best he could do was to improve the situation. He might be called the child of God, but he wasn't a God by any stretch of the imagination.

"Mura-buchou, what's an intervention? You said it would be fun," Kirihara interrupted raising his hand.

Nodding, the bluenette looked to this person on his right, "Renji."

Yanagi started quoting the definition of an intervention (and yes, he was probably confusion the tennis ace), "The act or fact of intervening. Interposition or interference of one state in the affairs of another. From Latin…" (Definition taken from dictionary dot com)

"I believe that is enough. Thank you, Renji. Basically it means we are going to have a discussion and attempt to break your bad habits," Yukimura grinned.

"Whose?" Kirihara and Marui asked.

"The two who asked that stupid question. Puri," Niou sniggered.

The two targets were still confused, "Eh?"

Yagyuu couldn't stop himself from face palming, "You really don't get it?"

"What are you talking about Yagyuu-senpai?" The second year questioned causing several in the room to deadpan.

Chuckling, Yukimura spoke up, "Let's try this… What would you do if I kept asking you for money every day and you never paid me back, or if I made you take me out to eat all the time, or to the arcade?"

Kirihara thought about it for a moment before he asked, "I pay?"

"Yes," the bluenette answered.

Frowning, the ace shouted, "That isn't fair Mura-buchou!"

"What about making you take me everywhere?"

"That isn't fair either! I wouldn't get to play my video games or get to watch my TV shows!" Kirihara griped.

Turning his smiling face on Marui, Yukimura addressed the tensai, "What about you Marui? If Jackal had asked you to do everything you asked him to do today, would you have done it?"

The redhead sat there for a minute before replying, "Probably not, but this is Jackal; he has never said no before!"

"Think about it. You keep demanding and give nothing back and eventually he is going to lose it. Unfortunately for him, it happened during tennis practice. As for someone to pretend to be your girlfriend, wouldn't Akaya look cute dressed up as a girl? I also think you will need to be the one to watch him during his date and chaperone the birthday party. You two will also be cleaning the locker room top to bottom with a toothbrush for disrupting practice," Yukimura dished out his punishment with the biggest smile on his face.

"Me too Mura-buchou?" Kirihara asked attempting to look as innocent and childlike as possible in order to get out of his punishment. He would deal with having to dress as a girl later.

Walking over to the youngest regular, the bluenette threw his arm around the ace's shoulders and said, "If you intend to be buchou next year, you have to start taking responsibility for your actions now. So yes, you are not getting out of this and will endure your punishment. You two have pushed Jackal to his limits and it is a wonder he held out as long as he did."

"Mura-buchou?"

"Yes, Akaya?"

"I hate interventions!" Kirihara proclaimed knowing he wouldn't be able to get out of anything. He would indeed have to dress like a girl and he would be helping to clean the stinky locker room with nothing but a toothbrush. He didn't just hate interventions… he detested them.

Yukimura laughed, "I don't know, I quite like them myself. Your cleaning duties will start tomorrow and you will be cleaning during practice for the remainder of the week."

Kirihara's eyes bugged out. Did he just hear his buchou correctly? It was Monday; which meant he would not get to participate in tennis practice for four whole days. This wasn't punishment, this was torture.

"What about Jackal?" Marui inquired. If he was going to be punished for asking for some simple favors… and granted he may have gone too far, but at least he didn't leave practice in a huff.

"Don't worry about him. I will handle him personally," Yukimura smiled at the redhead, "You just remember what happened here today. I would be careful about what you ask for in the future. Don't you think?"

The smile told Marui that if he didn't agree he would die a slow and agonizing death, "Yes, I think I've learned a very important lesson today. Thank you. Can we go now?"

"Of course," Yukimura allowed everyone to leave, but no one was safe from the fear and nightmares he instilled in them. He hadn't acquired the title of sadist for nothing.

When almost everyone was gone, only the three demons remained in the office. "Do you think they really learned their lesson?" Sanada asked.

"They have until the next time," the bluenette giggled.

"There is an 84.78% chance of this occurrence repeating in the future," Yanagi stated plainly.

Grinning broadly, Yukimura told his friends, "If it does, then we will just have to teach them another lesson, now won't we?"

Yanagi and Sanada outwardly showed no sign of reacting to Yukimura's words, but inwardly, they were chilled to the bone. There were times their best friend could even scare them.