Another odd pairing! heheh

Pairing: YagyuuXYanagi

Rating: K+

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Today was just another bright day for Yagyuu Hiroshi, it was a perfect Saturday and Yukimura, not Sanada for once, had decided they should practice more since his absence from the team was prolonged for far too long. Rather than just hanging out as a group of friends, they would practice for fun and at least put in some more training for Nationals

Rearranging his bag over his shoulder, Yagyuu calmly made his way to school when he was only a few blocks away he heard a sound, coming from the bushes?

Continue walking Yagyuu ignored the sound when somehow out of nowhere the sound seemed to be following him, getting a bit weary and annoyed, although as a Gentleman he would never show it, decided some time out of his day wouldn't matter much.

"Let's see what's been following me, shall we" fixing his glasses as he bent over to look, for some unknown reason Yagyuu lost his perfect balance and landed on the thing that had first caught his curiosity.

Crap!

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"So…. You landed…on a cat"

"…Yes" sitting with a slight blush in frustration Yagyuu let Yanagi fix his new scratches, due to that dumb cat!

Making his way to school since no one was home at this time of day, Yagyuu wasn't surprised to find Yanagi already there since the two of them were the most of the entire team to arrive early. However much to his discomfort, it had to be Yanagi who saw his face; not that it was much but the Gentleman would have preferred Jackal or Akaya- at least with them he wouldn't look as pathetic as he felt.

Not that Yanagi would ever think that. Still…

"…I would never have thought you'd arrive with scratches like this Yagyuu"

"Neither did I but it happened"

"Heh be thankful it wasn't Niou who saw you like this" a smirk formed on the Master, as he bandaged the largest scratch on the other regulars forehead

"Ow, you're right I should be relived"

Finishing up with his work, Yanagi went and put the first aid box back into the umpire's chair box. Returning to an annoyed looking purple haired friend,

"Stop making that face, you'll ruin that perfect Gentleman façade" smirking at the other teen, who in turn looked up from his seat

"I never knew The Master was so caring"

Returning a smile to the old golf player, Yanagi picked up his racket and made his way towards the other side of the court when the other teammate shortly joined him. Together the two silent tennis players rallied a game until Yanagi abruptly stopped in the middle of the game.

"What is it?"

"I can tell you're not playing me"

"…" letting the sun dance on his glasses, Yagyuu didn't respond

"It's bothering you isn't it" an observation from the ever observant Master

"No" a lie.

"Heh you can't hide Hiroshi, I know you"

"You only know what I've shown you Renji" leaving the ever polite and formal 'kun' out, showing his annoyance in the topic.

"And that I'm sure of, however I still say about 99 percent of my data balances you out quite nicely" knowing the other teen was speaking the truth, Yagyuu didn't bother to hide it any longer.

He let out a heavy sigh, "I can't concentrate…"

"Because of that cat"

"Yes" looking at his fellow teammate the glint of the sun shining on his glasses, a shimmer of dark purple orbs appeared and then in an instant disappeared, just as fast as light brown orbs came to life.

"Then shall we find it?" although they rarely talked much, somehow the two knew the other as if they had been each others shadow forever.

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"Where did you say it was?"

"Near here, behind that bush" pointing with rare dislike in his voice, Yanagi had to admit seeing The Gentleman in this mood was…unnerving but better this than the regular no emotion Yagyuu….of course, who was he to say such a thing.

Cautiously the two teens headed towards the small bushel of greenery, slowly almost 'ninja like' by a certain kouhai of theirs point of view. Gently the glint of glasses and light brown peered over the bushel…..WHEN!

…..they were let down.

"There's nothing here"

"I can see that…." annoyance laced itself with his monotone voice, which for a fraction of a second sounded; not so monotone. Turning his head, purple locks shaking from left to right, Yagyuu kept his eyes out for the yellow and orange demon!

"How about I look over here and you over there" Yanagi spoke up as the two broke up and looked for the cat, soon minutes turned to hours and the morning had gone; come a phone call from one very scary person.

"Umm you see Seiichi…..yes….yes….right….got it….by-"

"What did he say?"

Looking at the other teen for the first time since his one sided 'argument' with their captain

"Not to come back until we found him something"

"That something?"

"Someone by the name of Akayu-chan"

"Who?"

"….I haven't the slightest clue"

"….I see" without showing it, Yagyuu felt surprised at that there was something The Master didn't know but soon guilt for getting the other teen in trouble over powered even that emotion but before he could say anything, the latter spoke up

"It's fine, let's find that cat and be rid of this day"

"Right"

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Soon lunch pasted, afternoon passed going into the evening and still the two tennis players hadn't found the demon cat!

"Maybe it would be best to forget that cat"

"I'm sorry Yanagi-kun, you can go home I've prolonged you for far too long already"

"Like I said Yagyuu, it's fine now that my day has been spent on this cat, I can't leave without seeing it" glancing at the other teen with a smirk, the two were just about to head into another direction up the hill when….

Meow.

"Did you hear that-!"

"Over there!" instantly the two third years ran in the direction they heard a cat, turning this way and that as the meowing got louder until from the shadows of the ally they had entered,

There lay a mother cat and her sleeping kittens.

"Is it?"

"Yes"

"So she was a mother"

"Yes"

"What now?"

"…" taking a step closer Yagyuu calmly approached the mother with a kind face, showing her he meant no harm.

"Yagyuu"

"Look closer Yanagi-kun, there's something around its neck" stepping closer until he too was kneeling in front of the mother cat, to find Yagyuu was right. There was something shiny looking around, hanging on something that looked like a collar?

"What do you think?"

"It's best to return it to it's owner, it has a better chance of surviving with a family"

"My thoughts exactly" with that both twins nodded and as closey as they could with being scared like Yagyuu had before, much to his small paranoia around the same cat, when they saw the tag……

"You've got to be kidding me"

"….damn him"

The cat's name was Akayu-chan.

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Me- hahaha it turned out to be Yuki-buchou's cat! Disclaimer thought! I don't know if Yuki has a cat, and if he does it might not be Akayu which in my head means "baby yuki- yu for short" PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!