Yukimura VS Yanagi

Yanagi pushed a few leaves away and poked his head through the gap.

Within the next second, the data master had his head pulled back, leaves arranged neatly back into their original position, and was speed walking back the way they came from.

"Renji?" Yukimura asked, staring at the back of his friend.

Yukimura glanced towards the leaves, and back at Yanagi, who was by the way, getting smaller and smaller as he got further away.

Deciding not to take any chances (even though he was the one who kept telling Kirihara, "life is full of risks"), Yukimura turned his back onto whatever made Yanagi run off like that.

How ironic, Yukimura Seiichi.

.~.

"Fuck, bloody hell, son of a bitch, fuck…" Niou chanted under his breath, as he followed the other two like a zombie.

Unable to bear overwhelming amount of cuss words that escaped from the trickster's mouth, Jackal turned around and asked, "Niou, why are you swearing so much? At what are you even swearing at?"

"I need to expel the disease called 'gentlemanliness' that Yagyuu had injected into my system," hissed the trickster in reply.

"And the way to do that is by swearing?"

Niou gave the Brazilian a look as if to say, 'No shit. How else am I meant to get rid of that damned disease?' before he continued his swearing marathon.

Jackal made a surrendering gesture with his arms and shrugged, "Just asking."

Then, he turned to Yagyuu who doesn't seem the least affected by the constant swearing around them.

"How are you not affected? Aren't gentlemen like, against swearing?"

Jackal raised an eyebrow when the gentleman didn't reply. Stepping in front of Yagyuu, Jackal waved his right hand directly in front of the other's face (like an inch away).

"What's the matter, Jackal-kun?" Yagyuu asked, furrowing his eyebrows at the close distance between his face and Jackal's palm.

Jackal sweat dropped and asked, "Were you even listening to me?"

But the gentleman didn't reply, yet again. Why? Because a certain word coming out of Niou's mouth floated into Yagyuu's ear and the gentleman had blocked out one of his senses.

His sense of hearing.

So basically, all this while, Yagyuu had been walking without being able to hear a single thing.

Jackal slapped his forehead with his palm.

And he had thought that Yagyuu was somewhat normal and sane, despite him being so obsessed about being a gentleman.

Guess not.

Yagyuu had definitely skyrocketed his way up to the top of Jackal's list of crazy people in Rikkai, which consisted of all the regulars, besides Jackal himself, and Yukimura. There is no way one would be able to live should they ever call Yukimura crazy, and Jackal valued his life, thank you very much.

.~.

"Hey, isn't this where we started?" Marui pointed out.

Sanada looked right, left, up and down, before slapping himself in the face.

They were, like Marui had pointed out, indeed where they had originally started.

By started, I don't mean, where they started after being separated from the other regulars.

But instead, I mean, that they were back where they first woke up after being drugged. Yeah that place. The place where they were a human pile, the place where Kirihara pulled a bunch of Marui's hair, the place where Jackal nearly died from the heavy weight on his body, the place where Yagyuu discovered his glasses in the mud, the place where Yanagi was staring intensely at a rainbow coloured flower…and so on.

Yes, that place.

"Sanada-fukubuchou, we had just walked around in a circle didn't we?"

Yes, they did. Not that Sanada was going to say anything about it.

"Let's keep going."

"Oi, Sanada, are we going to go a different route, or are we going to take that path that my awesome, pure genius plan found?"

"What path?" Kirihara muttered.

"Different route," Sanada immediately rejected Marui's suggestion of taking that narrow path which he had traumas from. (All to do with that chain message game they played, remember?)

Sanada randomly selected a direction to head towards and started walking again, Kirihara and Marui trailing behind him.

Step. Step. Step. Step. Bam!

Sanada crashed into something. Or more specifically, someone.

"Renji…" Sanada growled, rubbing his nose with one hand, while using the other to adjust his cap.

"Ah, Yanagi," Marui said. "Where were you?"

"Genichirou, were you heading this way? If so, I advise you to turn around immediately." The data master brushed dust off his clothes, fixing them, completely ignoring Marui's question.

"Why?" Kirihara asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Renji!" they heard a familiar voice ring out.

"Is that Yukimura?" Marui asked, pointing behind Yanagi, at a blurred yellow figure a distance away.

"Yanagi-senpai, are you running away from buchou?"

Sanada pushed past Yanagi and jogged over to presuming, Yukimura's location.

"Genichirou!" Yanagi called, but the one called the Emperor ignored him.

"Yanagi-senpai, why are you running away from buchou?"

Yanagi faced Kirihara with a blank face, as if Kirihara's statement was something so ridiculously unheard of. "Who said that I was running away from Seiichi?"

Kirihara tilted his head to the side and pointed, "Because you told fukubuchou to turn around, and buchou's behind you…so…I thought that you were running away from buchou. Am I wrong?"

Yanagi sighed and shook his head. 'What foolishness…these people without data.'

Of course, he thought that, he didn't say that out loud. Geez. Data masters are experts at knowing what to say, and what not to say.

Um…I highly doubt that. But let's not go into that for now.

"I'm assuming that you have no idea where Jackal, Niou and Yagyuu are," Yanagi commented, looking at the two standing in front of him. Because, obviously, Jackal, Niou and Yagyuu were not present.

"Nope," Marui popped the 'p', placing his hands behind his head, assuming the posture of 'I absolutely don't care what-so-ever'.

"Hm…Jackal and Yagyuu's with Niou…so I doubt that they would get into trouble," Yanagi mused.

"Are you worried? Why?"

Yanagi opened his mouth to reply, but he was cut off by Yukimura who called his name in an annoyed tone.

"You could have waited for me," the captain huffed.

"Oh, sorry Seiichi," Yanagi apologised.

"What did you see anyway?" Yukimura asked, fixing his headband, that was slipping off.

"I was just getting to that, Seiichi." Yanagi cleared his throat.

"Oh, wow, sorry for interrupting."

"Sarcasm is unneeded Seiichi."

"Just answer the question…"

"Fine." Yanagi cleared his throat again, for dramatic effect. "What I saw defied all of my data. It just goes against it completely."

"…"

"And?"

"Never in my life, have I ever thought that something like that could exist!"

"You were the one who said that dragons could exist," Sanada pointed out.

"Because dragons are cool, obviously!" Marui exclaimed.

"Let's get back to the topic shall we?" Yukimura brushed those two's comments off.

"Yeah, Yanagi-senpai, don't beat around the bush, it's annoying."

Yanagi looked slightly offended for a second.

"A fairy."

"Huh?" the others asked in confusion.

"I saw a fairy."

"…"

"A fairy?" Kirihara tilted his head to the side.

"You mean like the ones that flutter around flowers, dancing and glittering and all that shiny crap?" asked Marui.

"...yes and no," Yanagi replied.

"Yes to a fairy and no to what Marui described fairies to be?" Yukimura asked to be sure.

"Yes."

"How can there be a fairy in the first place?" huffed Sanada, nearly rolling his eyes.

"I saw it with my own two eyes Genichirou."

"Can you even see?" Kirihara pointed at the data master.

A vein popped slightly and Yanagi punched Kirihara on the head.

"OW!"

"My vision is perfectly fine Akaya."

"Are you sur-"

"ANYWAYS...back to the topic." Marui made a gesture with his hands. "What about the fairy?"

"What about what fairy?" Yanagi asked.

"The fairy that you said you saw, duh." Marui rolled his eyes and placed his hands behind his head. "Because you wouldn't be running away like a wimp after seeing a tiny ass fairy. Like seriously."

"It was no small fairy Marui."

That made the rest of them raise an eyebrow.

"Oh, what, so you're saying that it's the size of a skyscraper? 'Cause if it is, I'm pretty darn sure that we would be able to see it right now," drawled Marui.

"You guys are being so sarcastic today." Yanagi shook his head.

Kirihara shrugged. "The situation calls for sarcasm."

Yukimura nodded, smiling. "Akaya knows his stuff." The two of them fist bumped.

"It was me though…" whined Marui in the background, upset that he was not acknowledged for his awesomeness.

Sanada cleared his throat. "Can we just get back to that fairy Renji was about to describe to us? Even though I'm pretty sure fairies don't even exist."

'I'm so glad my teammates trust me.' Yanagi rolled his eyes under his eyelids – if one could even achieve such a motion. "I didn't really get a good look at it, but from what I deduce, it is approximately 2.1342384 metres tall."

Kirihara had a blank look and stared at the empty space above the data master's head, muttering incomprehensible words under his breath. Yukimura looked at the younger boy and directed his gaze towards Yanagi.

"Renji, I think you might need to show Akaya what you mean by 2.134-something metres."

"2.1342384 metres," Yanagi reminded, only to receive a glare from the Child of God.

"Niou's right, you really are an idiot Bakaya," Marui commented. Fortunately for the red head, Kirihara was still in a daze and did not hear his comment, or Marui would probably have one or two broken ribs by now. Niou saying that was one thing, but Marui saying that he was dumb was a whole different story – because Niou at least, had some brains.

"You're as confused as Akaya is, Marui," commented Yukimura knowingly.

Yanagi shook his head and sighed. Honestly, these people without data are so foolish. He pulled Sanada, who was standing solemnly behind Yukimura, by the arm and hovered his hand over the vice-captain's head. "That, would be 2.1342384 metres tall."

"Ooooohh," voiced Marui and Akaya in amazement. "How do you do that without a ruler, or some sort of measuring device?"

Yanagi suppressed a smile, but one could practically see his ego seeping through his façade. "Data is the answer to everything."

"Hey Yanagi, you should teach me some of this data crap!" Marui's eyes twinkled, as if star-struck. "I would be able to pass Maths with flying colours and shove Niou's big fat ass into the mud!"

"What does Niou-senpai's butt got to do with this?" Akaya muttered to nobody in particular.

"Oh? You've finally came to realise the wonders of data, Marui – it's data, not crap," Yanagi corrected. He was proud that someone, other than Inui, was interested in being his disciple. "First, to became a user of the almighty data, you have to-"

"Stop!" Yukimura interrupted, popping the 'p'. "You've seemed to have made a mistake. I'm the almighty one here Renji."

"Oh?" Yanagi focused his attention onto the Child of God, as if ready to start a debating competition about who was the real 'almighty' one.

"Of course." Yukimura ran his fingers through his blue hair, smugness written all over his face. "Why do you think people call me the Child of God?"

"You've pointed out something very important Seiichi. However, you've seemed to have forgotten that your title is simply the Child of God, not God himself. Data is the almighty one, equivalent to God himself. You're simply the child of the almighty powers."

"My my Renji-"

"I'm afraid that that's the-"

What was wrong with his teammates? Sanada backed away and shook his head, hoping that whatever was the cause for his teammates' strange behaviour was not contagious. Ignoring their retreated vice-captain, Akaya and Marui glanced back and forth between Yukimura and Yanagi, casting bets between each other as to who would emerge victorious in their debating competition.

So…what is the story behind the 2.1342384 metres tall fairy?

"Data is-"

"What foolishness!"

"Yukimura-buchou is going to win this, I bet you all my stones for it!"

"Yanagi still has a chance to fight back!"

Seems like we have to wait a while more to find out!

.~.

Meanwhile, with Sanada.

Buzz! Slap!

Sanada sighed for the 100th time that day, wiping blood off his palm after he slapped a mosquito dead. He took a quick look at his teammates and tugged his cap down, shielding his eyes.

This would probably be a long wait…

A/N: Comments, critiques, alerts are greatly appreciated.