Gentlemanly Niou and Violent Sanada
Sanada wanted to bash his head against a tree, whack himself unconscious and maybe, just maybe, he might be able to get out of this ordeal, away from those annoying little buggers.
"Oi Sanada!"
Sanada inwardly groaned and stopped walking.
"Do you think that we can eat this?"
"No," came the fast reply from the annoyed vice-captain. He didn't even turn his head to look at what the other was referring to.
"Eh…why not?"
"Marui, no," Sanada repeated.
"Marui-senpai, I think we should listen to fukubuchou…"
"Since when do you agree with Sanada?" Marui snapped. Kirihara darted his eyes back and forth. Marui smirked when the younger boy didn't reply.
Sanada rubbed his temples and sighed.
Of all people to be with, it just had to be these two.
One: An immature sugar lover who could only think with his butt, or any other part of his body except for his brain.
Two: A naïve, easily manipulated and tricked off the courts, but turns into a devil on the courts, with a very hot temper to boot.
After running away from the large boulder, the Rikkai regulars had unfortunately gotten separated. The most unfortunate probably had to be Sanada, who was left with two of the infamous troublemaking trio of Rikkai.
'At least Niou isn't here as well,' Sanada thought.
"Sanada!" Marui called out and Sanada twisted his head around. "Look at this! They are having se-"
"Don't say it Marui-senpai!"
"Oh come on, it's just two ladybugs, what's the big deal?"
"JUST DON'T!"
Sanada rubbed the area in between his eyebrows, wondering whether he had gotten wrinkles from frowning too much. Why couldn't he be left with someone more sane? Like Jackal for example. Even better, he could be with Yukimura. Speaking of which…where was Yukimura? Sanada ignored the quarrel between Marui and Kirihara and carried on walking, deep in his own thoughts about the safety of his captain.
.~.
"It seems like we're separated," Yukimura mused, glancing around.
"That seems to be the case Seiichi," Yanagi replied.
"Mm…" They both nodded at each other.
Yanagi bent down and picked up a twig on the soil. Yukimura shifted his weight onto his right leg and looked at the data master.
"Renji, what are you doing?" Yukimura asked, before he lifted up his hand. "Wait, I know, collecting data."
Yanagi observed his captain before replying, "You know me well Seiichi."
'It's all you do after all…' Yukimura thought. "Should we be worried about the rest?"
"Probably," Yanagi said, "But they should be able to take care of themselves."
Yukimura stepped back and leaned against a charred black tree trunk. The two remained silent as Yukimura watched Yanagi 'collect data' on the surroundings. A quiet bunch, these two.
.~.
Poke.
"Stop that Niou-kun," Yagyuu grumbled, visibly annoyed.
Poke.
"Stop what?" Niou said.
Poke.
"Stop poking me."
Poke.
"I'm not."
Poke.
"Yes, you are."
Poke.
"No, I'm not."
Jackal sighed and stepped in between the two, pulling the stick out of the trickster's hand and snapped it into two, before tossing the broken stick behind him.
"What was that for?" Niou asked.
"You were being annoying," Jackal replied. Yagyuu adjusted his glasses and nodded, agreeing with the Brazilian.
"But I need someone to bug!" Niou protested. "Fatty and Brat aren't here, heck, even Sanada isn't here! So the only other person left to disturb is Yagyuu."
Jackal felt hurt that Niou didn't even consider him as a person worthy of annoying, but decided that it was a good thing, as he would be free from any potential headaches. Really, Marui was not the only one who would "unintentionally" insult the Brazilian on the team.
"No, Niou-kun," Yagyuu said, "You don't need someone to bug, you want someone to bug. Need and want have two completely different meanings, Niou-kun. Need is something that is a necessity, something that you require to survive, whereas, want is-"
Niou and Jackal gave the gentleman a blank stare.
"Dude, are you Yanagi now?" Niou asked. "Because that's just creepy, we already have one stalker on our team, we don't need another one."
Yagyuu folded his arms across his chest and tilted his chin slightly upwards. "No. It's just basic knowledge that all gentlemen should have. It's not gentlemanly to misuse words, especially those which are painfully obvious."
"Niou's never a gentleman anyways, Yagyuu," Jackal pointed out. "He's more like…" He waved his hands around in the air, as if trying to conjure a word from thin air.
"I don't know what you are going to say about me, but thank you for pointing that out Jackal," Niou replied, pointing a finger at Yagyuu, and the gentleman blinked.
Jackal gasped and said, "Niou, you just said 'thank you'."
Niou recoiled and his jaw hung open. "Oh Lord, I did? Oh my god, I did."
The trickster let out a scream. "No! Curse you Yagyuu! For infecting me with your "gentlemanliness"."
Yagyuu smirked and responded with, "It's only natural for a gentleman to teach others about the art of gentlemanliness." Yagyuu quickly wiped off the smirk because gentlemen do not smirk.
"No!" Niou let out a cry of terror and shielded his eyes as if someone sprayed pepper spray into them. "My identity! I'm a trickster for God's sake, tricksters are not gentlemanly!"
Let's just say that all Jackal could do was stand there and sigh, while Niou screamed bloody murder.
.~.
Sanada took back his previous thought.
He did not want to bash himself unconscious, and instead, he wanted to bash those two's heads against a tree trunk and watch them bleed as they screamed for mercy-
Stop. Getting too violent there. Calm down.
Sanada shook his head. Violence should never be the answer.
Right…
Let's have a few flashbacks shall we?
Event one: Sanada slapping Kirihara for being late for practice.
Event two: Sanada slapping Marui and Niou for stealing his precious cap.
Event three: Sanada slapping Yagyuu thinking that he was Niou. (The trickster was cunning and made Yagyuu switch places with him when he knew that Sanada was going to go after him, hand ready for some slapping time.)
Event four: Sanada intending to slap Yanagi for losing against Inui, but was stopped by Kirihara.
Event five: Sanada slapping-
Yeah…you get the point.
Sanada certainly cannot be the person to use the phrase, "violence is never the answer".
But Sanada had to do something. His sanity was at stake! (Not that it wasn't always at stake.)
Kirihara had finally dragged Marui away from the two ladybugs, and was now chasing Sanada while yelling at the top of his lungs.
That loud volume in such a dense forest…Sanada was sure that he would go deaf eventually, that is, if he doesn't kill the two before that happens.
'No violent thoughts, Genichirou!' Sanada slapped his cheeks. He would have drifted off into la-la land, but he would be sure to return to reality with his face to a tree trunk, as Yukimura wasn't around to make sure that he wouldn't walk into things while he was in his own little world.
Plus, they really had to find the rest of the team, and Marui and Kirihara were not people he could count on for a game of 'hunting for your teammates' in this forest. So Sanada was on his own, just, with the addition of two annoying, gives-you-headaches-people.
They were like unwanted side dishes.
Kirihara finally caught up to the vice-captain and fell into step with him. Marui was in a way being dragged backwards as Kirihara had his grip on the back of Marui's jacket.
"Akaya, let go of me!"
Kirihara gave it a few thoughts before releasing the older boy. Well, he wasn't going to use up his energy just to drag Marui around, was he? It wasn't as if the other boy didn't have legs of his own.
"Sanada-fukubuchou, what are we doing?" Kirihara asked, swatting an insect away from his face.
"Finding Yukimura and the rest obviously," Sanada replied.
"How are we going to do that?"
"By walking." Sanada wanted to add in a 'duh' at the back, but it was so out of character for him, so he left it out.
"But we could be walking anywhere, what if we get further from them instead?"
"There's no other option but to walk and look for them."
"We can always stay at a spot and wait for them to find us?"
"They might not find us."
"But they might."
Sanada twitched in irritation and replied, "But they might not." Without looking back, Sanada ordered, "Marui, get away from that tree!"
Kirihara learnt that Sanada had eyes on the back of his head.
"But-" Marui complained.
"Stop complaining and keep walking!"
It was silent for a few seconds before Kirihara decided to try his luck again.
"So…fukubuchou, how are we going to find senpai-tachi?"
Sanada's patience finally snapped and he spun around, backhanding Kirihara with so much force that the younger boy stumbled a few steps back. "TARUNDORU! Shut up and keep walking already!"
Unfortunately for Sanada, it was Kirihara. And Kirihara did not know the meaning of the words, 'shut up'. Neither did Marui, but that's another story.
As they continued to trek through the forest, Kirihara bombarded Sanada with the same questions over and over again, only to receive the same reply over and over again, with more anger and impatience in Sanada's tone each time.
Sanada really would have murdered Kirihara by now, but Yukimura wanted everyone to be alive, so he didn't. (Also because he didn't think that he'd be able to go scot-free for murder, and Kirihara was quite a valuable asset to the team.)
So…Kirihara's life was spared, no matter how much he annoyed Sanada.
Sanada mentally sighed and thought, 'Why couldn't there be some aspirins with me right now.'
"Marui, do not attempt to even touch that mushroom!"
Really, why couldn't he be stuck with someone sane?
Like Jackal for example.
.~.
"Seiichi."
The blue haired youth looked up after hearing his name.
"There's acid here," Yanagi said.
Yukimura's eyes widened for a second and he quickly observed the area where he was standing. He sidestepped so that he was at least a metre away from the deadly liquid.
"Why would there be acid…" the data master mused. "In a trail, no less."
"Acid rain?" Yukimura suggested.
"No…the surroundings does not suggest that it's due to acid rain."
Yanagi glanced around before walking forwards, following the trail of acid.
"Renji, where are you going?"
"If we follow the trail, we might be able to find the source."
Yukimura paused mid-step. "Are you sure that you want to find the source of this?" He pointed towards the trail.
Yanagi nodded. "Yes, Seiichi. It's for data purposes. We might get a clue as to where we are."
"We're in a forest," Yukimura said in a deadpan tone.
"Yes, but which part of Tenipuri?"
"Will it help us get out of here if you know where we are?"
Yanagi didn't reply for a few seconds. "Maybe. But it should help increase our chances of surviving as I might know the types of flora and fauna here once I find out where we are."
"That wasn't your main purpose was it?" Yukimura said in a knowing voice.
"No," Yanagi admitted. "I just wanted to collect data. I don't have any data regarding something that could leave a trail of acid behind."
"Ah."
Yukimura didn't stop Yanagi from following the trail, as he too, followed the data master.
There really was no point in having that conversation earlier.
A/N: Revising for Economics - explains Yagyuu's lecture on the difference between need and want.
I've seen two ladybugs doing the deed once - I was immature and laughed while pointing at them like they were exhibitions in a museum. But hey, it's not something you'd see everyday.