Photo of a Dead Man
Pacing was detrimentle. He knew this. In fact, he knew this terribly well. If there was one thing he knew in this world, and all his other worldly knowledge left him, it would be that pacing did not achieve anything. Knowledge and acting on said knowledge achieved things.
Certainly not pacing.
Yet in his room he paced, because Yanagi Renji was frustrated. It wasn't often that he allowed himself to be frustrated, yet he knew he was lead by a few more emotions then... well, others. He'd calculated down to the exact second that which the missile he'd thrown at the enemy would strike, and then again to the exact second news would reach the commander.
That time was about ten minutes ago. The enemy should of left by now... Where was his call...
But instead of the buzzing of his phone, he heard the shrill sound of his doorbell, and frowned at the noise, but quickly perked up. The un-prectibleness of visitors such as this was a fun and interesting way to pass the time while he waited for his phone to ring.
"Renji, can you get that, I'm on the phone!" came the annoying voice of his younger sister, useless as Yanagi had already began his way to the front door, opening it and smiling a little at the faces he'd expected to see there.
"Puri, data-master, let is in, it's boiling out there..." Came the first, the white-haired Niou Masaharu pushing his way past Yanagi, looking around the front room and heading further into the house.
The pop of the bubble assuered the identity of his second visitor. "Hey, Renji, aren't you glad Mura-buchou cancelled practice today..." The bubbly Marui Bunta followed Niou, kicking his shoes off before yelling out to Niou to do the same, before getting two shoes thrown at his head.
"We'll find out if it worked today, right sempai?" came the third and last visitor's voice, causing Renji's smile to broaden down at his Kouhai, Kirihara Akaya.
"Yes, Akaya, today we find out if it worked."
Into the house he returned, the cool air replacing the heat from outside, and instructing Kirihara to shut the door behind him as they made their way through the house to Yanagi's room, where Marui and Niou had already stretched out on Yanagi's bed, Marui sprawled across Niou's lap while Niou stroked the bright red hair ontop his head, both just enjoying being inside out of the heat.
"Bunch up, sempai!" Kirihara yelled, jumping on the bed, causing both the trickster and tensai to yell at their kouhai, Yanagi watching tenderly as the three fought until they found a position only the three of them could find comfortable... Yanagi was sure he could see Marui's leg had somehow ended up behind Niou, even though his other leg was sprawled over Kirihara, who was in turn half off the bed, and half clutching onto Niou as if it was for dear life.
And sometimes Yanagi wondered if it was. The relationship the three had was a strange one indeed... but Yanagi knew both Marui and Kirihara were scared of losing their trickster to his gentleman partner.
"So he hasn't called?" Marui was the first to ask, blowing another bubble. (How he hadn't lost his bubblegum in the scuffle was beyond Yanagi.)
"No. He should be contemplating whether or not to contact me by now, and when he's done that, he'll decide which is the best way, and THEN he'll ring."
"That's creepy, sempai... Come lay with us while you wait."
The other two bed inhabitants nodded their aggrement to the idea, but Yanagi didn't feel like complying. Not today. He felt like an outsider today, which didn't normally happen. Yukimura Seiichi's tennis coaching was just so that everyone was made to feel close to everyone, they were all like brothers in a way, which was why Niou, Marui and Kirihara's relationship was not questioned, just thrown off as another part of that brother-hood. Yukimura and Sanada Genichirou sometimes invited Yanagi to stay the night with them, since they knew he was lonely.
But it did seem that brother-hood was falling apart. It wasn't only Yanagi who sought outside affection anymore... Jackal, the only straight one on their team, had found himsef a girl, which they all knew was coming. His uncomfortable-ness with their constant closeness would mean they would soon lose him... His girlfriend would become jealous, and even if he chose the team first, there would always be another girl. It was the reason why Yukimura was so encouraging about inter-team relationships. Outside relationships made things difficult.
But the feud between Niou's two lovers and his partner, Yagyuu Hiroshi was getting long-winded, and Yanagi knew eventually that Niou would have to choose. And the ending result would not be fun.
And that lead to the matter at hand. If his plan was accomplished... He too would be dating an outside source... and then he felt he was screwed.
He nearlly jumped as his phone rang.
"Hello?" he asked, not needing to know who it was...
"Why did you do it?" the sharp voice came from the other end, in the exact tone Yanagi had expected.
"It was for both of our own good."
"I thought your captain didn't approve of your feelings for me. And what would your kouhai think?"
"Akaya?" Yanagi couldn't help but smirk, he'd known about Inui's jealousy of Kirihara for a while, since Inui expected that Kirihara meant the same to him as Kaido meant to Inui.
How wrong he was.
"Why don't you ask him yourself?"
A/N: There it is, and that's all I'm going to write tonight. I'm sorry about spelling errors and such...