Hi everyone! I'm really sorry it took me so long to write!! But I hope you'll enjoy anyways!

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As it was a perfectly beautiful and sunny day, and five middle school boys had decided to stop by at the ice cream parlor on their way home from school.

It was Yukimura's favorite ice cream parlor, because it was right next to the park. So nobody protested when he'd suggested the team would go, there since this was one of their rare days with no afternoon practice.

It was decided when he had said: "I never got to eat any ice cream while I was in the hospital". Even though he had been back a couple of months by now, everyone got a bit teary-eyed when they heard his words.

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"Thanks Jackal!" Marui said, handing Kirihara the other ice cream while licking his own. Jackal sighed; he was running out of money to spend on those two.

"Now Akaya, put away your gameboy" Yukimura said. He absent-mindedly licked his own ice cream while patting Kirihara on the head.

"This is slacking off. Very tarundoru" Sanada muttered, but not loud enough for anyone to hear. He could be home by now, training or doing his homework or something equally useful.

"Did you say anything, Sanada?" Yukimura said, and wiggled an ice cream in front of his vice-captain. "Here! My treat" he added.

"Don't overdo yourself. You recently got out of the hospital" Sanada said and took a bite. Oh well, slacking off couldn't be a very bad thing if Yukimura was doing it too, right? And he liked the park too.

"Hey! That stupid kouhai's trying to steal my ice cream again!" Marui exclaimed while trying to fend off Kirihara's prying hands.

"Aw Marui-senpai! C'mon, I already finished mine!"

"NO! Akaya, get away" Marui protested, as he hid behind Jackal. "You already finished yours- AHH!!"

Kirihara had leaped forward in an attempt to catch Marui off-guard, but was stopped in mid-air before he could do any damage.

"That's enough Akaya!" Sanada said. He had grabbed the second year by the shirt collar. "I'll buy you another one if you leave your senpai's ice cream alone." With those words, he dragged Kirihara away from the others.

Yukimura chuckled. Then, something caught his eye. A couple in Rikkai's school uniforms were walking by about ten meters into the park.

"Ah… Marui" he said. "Didn't Niou say he had to buy a screwdriver and therefore couldn't join us today?"

"Yeah… think he said so." Pop. "Why?"

Yukimura pointed towards the couple walking in the green park, surrounded by flowers.

"Eeeh?! Isn't that Yagyuu?!" Marui exclaimed. With a girl no less!

"No, it's Niou" Yukimura protested.

"Are you sure?" Jackal said. "It looks like Yagyuu though. You think they've switched places again?"

"Hehe. Maybe Niou's trying to steal Yagyuu's date" Marui snickered.

"Or his fanclub" Jackal added.

"That would actually make sense" Yukimura said, frowning. "Since no girl in her right mind would go on a date with Niou, I mean."

"…" Jackal busied himself with his ice cream.

"…buchou I was joking!" Marui said, grabbing their bags. "H-hey! Where you going?!"

"Let's spy on them" Yukimura said, as he slowly walked towards the park. "I want to know why Niou ditched us for that girl."

--00--

"Buchou let's go back" Marui begged. He was standing on all four behind a bush and he had just felt something crawl up his leg.

Yukimura, who was sitting beside him, signed for him to be quiet. Marui groaned silently.

Niou and the girl were sitting on a park bench a couple of meters away, watching some birds in a pond. The mood was very romantic actually, and the girl laughed at something Niou/Yagyuu said.

"Maybe we should go back" Jackal whispered. He had managed to squat in something that felt very much like mud. "We left Sanada and Kirihara behind."

"At least do something" Marui hissed at Yukimura. "Let's expose Niou's trickery to that girl!" Yeah, something was definitely crawling up his leg!

"Really, Yagyuu-senpai?" the said girl giggled. "Wow, I didn't know that!"

Jackal and Marui groaned behind the bushes.

"Oh! I have to go home now, or my mum will worry!" the girl suddenly said. Marui and Jackal eyed each other; what kind of girl was worried of getting hometoo late at 5:10 in the afternoon?

"Do you want me to walk you home?" Niou/Yagyuu offered, being the gentleman he supposedly was. Yukimura almost face palmed.

"No, it's alright" the girl said, gathering her bag before eyeing Niou/Yagyuu expectantly. Silence filled the park, only interrupted by the chirps from the birds at the pond.

"Well?"

"Well what?" Niou/Yagyuu said.

"Give me a kiss, Yagyuu-senpai!"

"A kiss?!" Marui whispered, staring at Yukimura. "Buchou, now you've got to do something!"

"Kiss?!" Yukimura hissed in a very cat-like way, and Jackal instantly felt like putting a few extra meters between the two of them.

"A KISS?!" Niou/Yagyuu exclaimed, looking aghast. "Eh… uh, but why?"

"Don't you like me, senpai?" the girl said, her lower lip quivering.

"Of course I do!" Niou/Yagyuu protested. "But I uh-" I hate kissing girls who wears lip gloss! "…I've never kissed a girl before."

"Wha?" the girl gasped. "Are you serious?!"

"Do you honestly think I'm the kind of person who would joke about something like that?" Niou/Yagyuu said, giving the girl a hurt look.

"No, no! Of course not!" the girl said. Then she gave him a smug look between thick eye lashes. "But senpai… is it really OK? If I… you know?"

"It's OK" Niou/Yagyuu said, smiling. "I've wanted this ever since I first met you." Yes! Strike-o!!

"Close your eyes" the girl said, pulling at his tie. "And bend down a little."

Marui groaned, and shut his eyes. I can't watch this!

"…Yagyuu-senpai" the girl said after a moment or two. "But you don't smoke, do you? I thought I felt-"

"Thank you, I thought I felt you were very good too" Niou/Yagyuu answered, flashing a disarming grin. The girl giggled.

"NIOU!" Yukimura roared, standing upright. "You SMOKE?!!"

"Buchou! Get back down here!" Jackal said, a little too late.

"AARGH! There's a SNAIL in my pants!!" Marui shrieked, jumping out of the bushes. "GET OFF MY TENSAI!!"

The girl stared at Niou for about a second, opening and closing her mouth several times. Finally, she hit him in the face with her bag, and then left.

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As soon as they had saved Marui from the snail, things calmed down a little. The four boys were sitting on the bench, since Yukimura had declared that he was feeling a bit tired.

And Niou had actually taken the hit quite well, considering the girl had carried a lot of heavy books in her bag. And he hadn't seemed all that surprised at finding his teammates spying on him in the park.

When they'd sat down, Niou had told them that Yagyuu accidentally had given the girl a one-date promise but something had urgently come up.

For whatever the reason, Yagyuu had been afraid that his reputation would take a hit if he ditched the girl on such a short notice. So then, Yagyuu had asked Niou for help. And being the good boy he was, Niou had saved Yagyuu's ass, as he so modestly expressed it.

"Except for the part when she found out I wasn't Yagyuu" Niou added, shooting Yukimura a glace. "That wasn't really part of the plan."

"Twenty laps" Yukimura grunted. Niou almost fell off the bench.

"What?! You can't be serious! What for?!"

"For smoking!" Yukimura said, giving him The Look. "That's not very considerate of you, since we're a team and all. You're a member of the team, and therefore your smoking habits also affect the whole team. We are weakened as we are already!"

"That's just bullshit" Niou protested, making Yukimura quirk an eyebrow. "And I just took one because I was nervous for the date! It helped me relax, that's all. Why'd you follow me anyway?"

Marui and Jackal looked at Yukimura. His face turned slight more red when he answered.

"…I thought you tried to steal Yagyuu's date" he admitted, but he still looked Niou in the eyes.

"You thought I was doing what?!" Niou shouted, getting equally red in the face.

"Let's go back" Jackal muttered, nudging Marui. Neither Yukimura nor Niou seemed to notice they went back.

"I'm hurt!" Niou said, frowning. "You seriously thought I was trying to steal someone else's date? Yagyuu's date?"

"I apologize. I'm really sorry and I don't know why I-"

"Well, you should be!" Niou exclaimed, standing up. "I ain't gonna do those laps assigned to me by a buchou who thinks I'm as low as that."

"You're going to do those laps when we get back to school" Yukimura said in a low voice. "Because that wasn't the only time you've taken a smoke."

"I'll do them tomorrow" Niou said, shrugging. "But only if you apologize to Yagyuu and tell him why that girl's gonna have a fit tomorrow. We have a deal?"

"…Alright."

"Good" Niou, said, reaching out his hand towards Yukimura. "Cuz that was really the only thing I didn't want to do. Now let's go eat some ice cream."

Niou simply bent down and lifted Yukimura up, despite the other's protests.

"NIOU! What the hell are you doing?! Let me down!" Yukimura exclaimed, kicking and hitting the trickster with all his might.

"I'm trying to get us to the ice cream!" Niou said, wincing. "Stop acting like a girl, you can hardly walk in your state anyway!"

Despite having been locked up in the hospital for several months, Yukimura actually did quite well. At least he managed to kick Niou in the groin, making the other double over by reflex. Both boys fell screaming to the ground in a heap.

"That was a really girly shout, buchou" Niou commented, gasping as he tried to breath. "And you've lost weight too! You eat too little!"

"Shut up" Yukimura groaned, trying to move. "I think I've got your hipbone in the stomach!"

"Uh… I really don't wanna break it to you like this but… that's not my hipbone."

"It's not your hipbone!? I-"

Then, Yukimura fell silent. They could hear footsteps getting closer, mixed with their kouhai's shouts of "BUCHOU! Buchoubuchoubuchou!!!"

"…get up Niou" Yukimura said, getting the feeling of impending doom. "Get away from me. NOW!"

"Shit" Niou groaned. "Not again…!"

"OH MY GOD!Niou-senpai what're you doing with Yukimura-buchou??!"

THE END (for this time)