I'm sorry for updating so late. I've been busy. Sorry, for my spelling mistakes and so on. I don't have a beta. I know this chapter is small, but the end is nearing, and I hope this is a little build up to the big finally. Thanks for reading everyone!

Chapter 14: Yanagi-senpai-sensei

Yanagi was looking at him very seriously, or he had his head facing Akaya. It was hard to tell if his senpai was actually looking at him considering he always had his eyes closed. Not that Akaya had anything special against Yanagi. He loved his senpai like a kohai should love his senpai.

"Pay attention," his senpai said.

They were sitting in the Rikkaidai club house. Akaya was sitting behind a desk, they had found by the school's dumpster, while Yanagi was writing up English words at the blackboard. So, yes, Yanagi was helping him study for the time he would grow back to normal. That depended on creepy glasses guy, Inui… inuit?, whatever. But, the guy kept procrastinating, and avoided making the damn antidote all together.

"Now, if my data is correct, which it is, you should have learned this already," Yanagi said and pointed to the letters. If you could call them letters. How could people read crap like that? Okay, so maybe in his mind he was being a bit mean on the western language and all, but they had been on this for ten minutes, and Akaya had only so much patients.

"Yanagi-senpai," Akaya whined and pouted, but Yanagi's blindness made him ignore the adorable pout Akaya thought he had perfected. He stared at the letters on the blackboard, yeah, so he knew how to pronounce them like, that word which meant… uh, something in his language.

"I want you to read each word and explain what they are," Yanagi said and pointed to the word with the most letters.

"Corro… corop… corpt," Akaya stuttered and scowled at the letters. He knew how to read the word in his mind, why didn't his mouth cooperate?

"Corruption," Yanagi said like the genius he was.

"Corruption," Akaya tried. Yeah, that was easy, he knew that word.

There was a knock at the door and a silver or gray, Akaya did not care but all he knew was that this person was his lord and savior, hair smirked at them. "Puri."

"Niou-senpai!" Akaya said smiling.

"I propose that we continue with this after a short break," Yanagi said calmly even if he sounded pretty annoyed. The small curly haired boy smiled brightly at Niou who went up to him and ruffled his hair.

"I'm not here to save you young apprentice, I'm here to watch, puri," Niou said and continued to ruffle the curls as the other boy tried to get him to stop.

"You're my least favorite senpai!" Akaya whined and grabbed after Niou's wrist.

"You're my least favorite kohai," Niou replied dryly.

"You can't say that," Akaya spit back. He felt kind of hurt by the offhand comment. An accidental shaky breath left his mouth.

"Oi, don't start crying," Niou replied, sounding half panicked. Akaya couldn't tell from under the hand that had destroyed the hairstyle he had tried to pull off this morning. It had ended up looking normal, but still, his try had been messed up.

"I'm not crying," he replied annoyed.

"And I'm not the best player on our team," Niou said and lifted Akaya up by holding him under his arms.

"You're not and let me down you- you!" Akaya struggled and tried to kick Niou in the stomach. He looked wildly around for help. Yanagi was on the phone. Why was he on the phone? What kind or reckless senpai was on the phone will some mad man was kidnapping his kohai? Yanagi! "Oi, Yanagi-senpai!"

Yanagi looked over at them and shrugged. HE SHRUGGED. That wasn't Yanagi behavior. That was Marui behavior at best. Marui-senpai had ruined his senpai. He would get revenge.

Niou carried him out to the court where everyone else were practicing their swings. He took his arm and maneuvered Akaya to sit on his back.

"I planned on watching you suffer, but I have an idea," Niou said and walked casually passed some freshmen who were starring wide eyed at the scene.

"An idea?" Akaya asked, and stopped struggling.

"You want to get back to normal, am I right, yes I am."

"Of course I want to," Akaya said and scowled suspiciously. What was his senpai's game?

"Well…" Niou carried him towards the school gate. "We're going to."

"How?"

"We're going to go to Seigaku and challenge that Inui guy to a duel."

"To the death?"

"Wh… yes to the death."

"Like, right now?"

"I mean… pupina… I'll have to talk to Sanada first."