Kay, so this is the next chapter. I meant to upload it last night, but I got forced off the computer...

Anyway, a bit of yaoi here, but nothing explicit.

Thanks for reading!

Connect the Dots

Niou and Marui had been best friends for a very long time before their relationship turned to anything distinctly romantic.

This doesn't mean to say though, that the pair had never happened upon any little 'encounters' with the other along their way. That would be almost unimaginable.

Niou being the outrageous trickster he was, and sometime notorious flirt, had rather unsurprisingly stolen more than his fair share of teasing, mocking and 'planned' kisses off the redhead over the years. Generally, these moments were innocent (well, as innocent as the silver-haired trickster ever got), and never went on to anything further.

Generally.

There was, of course, one exception. Admit it; you expected that, after all, there always is.

It was one afternoon; the pair had gone to Niou's deserted house after school and club were over and commenced sitting on the couch, watching mindless reality shows for want of something better to do.

Marui was fuming. The volley specialist had been ranting about his "really, really, super stupid, dumb," loss to Niou's partner, Yagyuu, ever since they'd left practice. The boy was still stressing in paranoia over the supposed disparaging 'look' he'd been given from their ever-smiling Mura-buchou after the failed match.

Niou, on the other hand, really just wanted Marui to shut up.

Ranting on his couch wasn't going to get him anywhere. He was overreacting anyway.

Right when the trickster was about to conclude he simply couldn't think, he had a brainwave. He hadn't had any action in a while, and the redhead on his couch really needed to vent. As the dots were connected, he interrupted the boy's endless mumblings (he really had started to sound like that Ibu guy from Fudomine), via a hand over the boy's mouth. Eyebrows instantly went up.

"Listen," the trickster began, "I'm horny, and you're pissed. I think you know the solution to this one."

A few seconds passed, and raised eyebrows changed to a smirk.

Needless to say, both returned to school the next day in an excellent mood, and determined to never mention that one night again.

At practice that afternoon...

"Mura-buchou!" blurted an energetic green-eyed second year.

"Nyah, Aka-chan, what is it?" Yukimura Seiichi asked calmly, tilting his head just a tad.

"Why are Haru and Maru acting so strange today?" The kouhai questioned.

"What do you mean by strange?" the captain smiled.

"Well, it's just they're both all 'happy happy joy joy' and they're been walking weirdly…"

"Ah, never mind that, those two just had some… fun last night."

Was it OK? Too short? Too random?

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