Chapter 2 is here! If you wanted to read a whole chapter about being on a plane, then you're in for a treat!

As always, reviews would be great.

Yuya had thought that the ten-hour flight would feel quick, but boy was he wrong. After watching two movies it was starting to get dark outside, and he was trying to get some sleep, but this was pretty much impossible because of what was going on next to him.

Shun had swapped so he could get away from Sora, and had ended up next to Yuri. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, they had begun firing off random facts about raptors and plants, trying to prove that their own favourite life form was more deadly.

Shun had just hit Yuri with, "Peregrine falcons can reach up to 250 miles per hour in a dive!"

And Yuri, not one to give up, had countered with, "Venus fly traps can eat hundreds of flies per day!"

Yuya glanced over into the row on the other side of the aisle. A game of go fish was in full swing. Although maybe letting Yugo play wasn't the best idea.

"Got any nines?"

"Go fish," said Rin. "Yugo, I don't think you understand how this game works. Crow asked me that last turn. You know I haven't got any."

"But I have a nine. I need a pair."

"Don't tell everyone what you have, Yugo!"

The game of go fish had expanded. Shun had left to watch a documentary on carnivorous birds, resulting in the argument with Yuri, but Rin and Yugo had joined up, increasing the number of players to five. This made it extremely difficult for players on the ends of the row (Ruri and Yugo) to interact with the rest of the group.

"Got any kings, Ruri?" asked Rin.

Ruri pouted and handed a King of Spades to Rin. "How are you so good at this game?"

"Rin's good at everything," professed Yugo.

"Thanks, Yugo." Rin gave him a motherly smile.

"Alright," said Ruri. "Umm… Reira, got any twos?

Reira, as he was in the middle of the group could not look at his hand without revealing his cards, but Rin, Ruri and Crow had been pretending not to notice.

Yugo not so much.

"Hey! Reira's got a nine! I need that!"

"You can't look at people's hands, Yugo," scolded Rin. "That's cheating."

"Yeah man, at least play properly," said Crow, sniggering slightly.

"Just ignore him, Reira," said Ruri. "Any twos?"

"Go fish," mumbled Reira.

Sawatari was positive that if he hadn't told Reira about his family's island then he wouldn't be going through this whole ordeal. They had been talking about the Christmas holidays when Reira had made a seemingly innocent comment about how he'd never been to an actual beach (the ones in Miami were all either rocky or covered in horrible black sand) and Sawatari had let slip about his family's private island.

How was he to know the Reiji had been monitoring Reira through Leo Corporation's security system?

But Reiji had heard nevertheless and decided to turn this into an opportunity for one of his 'team-building exercises', deciding to invite all the Lancers on all fully funded trip to his resort.

He didn't, of course, give Sawatari any say in the matter.

His mum was going to kill him when she visited and found the million-dollar property trashed.

His fellow Lancers had gladly accepted the invitation, and he could hardly refuse when everyone else was going.

Sawatari maintained a strong belief that he was the most sensible of his teammates. He was the only one who realised that a trip to an island could only result in disaster. He wouldn't be surprised if Yuri snapped and carded some poor attendant or Kurosaki committed murder because someone had made a move on Ruri.

After Shun swapping seats with him, Sawatari had ended up next to Dennis. Their conversation had admittedly started off well, with a decent debate about the merits of an abyss actor deck, but had since degenerated into a mind-numbing experience that could be described as 'Dennis McField's Broadway experience and why he is the best actor of the generation.'

At least dinner would be coming around soon.

Although, considering the quality of airplane food, that was probably nothing to look forward to.

Yuzu was the type of person who just could not get to sleep on a plane. The constant rumble just prevented her from settling down, and even is she did begin to drift off, inconveniently timed turbulence would jolt her awake again.

Or the captain over the intercom.

Or dinner trolley going past.

Or Yuya's weird action movie's music getting so loud she could hear it through his headphones.

Or—

"Yuzu!" Yuya tapped her on the shoulder. "Dinner's here."

"Would you like chicken, beef or vegetarian?" asked the attendant.

"Uhh… vegetarian, thanks."

The attendant reached under the trolley and placed a plate with some nuts, an apple, a slice of bread and a container covered in alfoil that was presumably the 'vegetarian' on Yuzu's tray table. Peeling off the alfoil, she revealed stir-fry with a few sad pieces of wilted broccoli on the side.

Yuya wasn't having any better luck with his meal. His chicken appeared to be completely raw and therefore inedible, and his rice seemed to be stuck together with glue.

Looking across the aisle, nearly everyone else seemed to be having issues with their meal. The only exception being Yugo. Being from the Commons area of New Domino City, he was used to accepting any food he could get and was wolfing down a pile of green-tinged mashed potato. Rin and Crow, also from the Commons, were eating more slowly, probably wary of food poisoning.

Sawatari was looking absolutely disgusted at his meal, refusing to even touch it and Gong was looking green enough without the horrible smell.

Dennis was warily poking his large slab of beef with a plastic fork, and Sora had ignored the food entirely, delving into the stash of sweets that he kept in his jacket.

Shun had outright refused to take the food, after seeing what Yuzu had been served. Yuri too, had ignored the meal. Yuto and Ruri seemed to be having about one bite each minute. They would take a spoonful of food, grimace, drink a cup of water and repeat.

Credits to Reira, he had actually tried the food, diving right into his children's meal, only to make a face like he'd sucked on a lemon and stop eating. Reiji appeared to be trying to scientifically analyse his meal to figure out if it was safe to eat. He was methodically dissecting his slice of chicken and greens to see if they contained any poisonous chemicals.

Yuzu stared at her broccoli, before grimacing and sticking it in her mouth. She immediately regretted it. The vegetable tasted like an unholy mix of sawdust and glue (she had tasted both).

She didn't get much luck with the rest of her meal either. The apple was completely brown in some areas and her bread was stale. The salted peanuts were a letdown as well; all the salt had collected in the bottom of the bag, making some of the nuts bland and others unbearably salty.

So much for getting a meal.

Serena was currently facing one of the most difficult challenges she had ever had to deal with; the in-flight entertainment system's bowling simulator. It was just so ridiculously difficult that she was gnashing her teeth and swearing under her breath by the second frame. No matter how perfectly she lined up the shot, the ball would always veer off slightly, only giving her a few pins.

It didn't help that the game had no option to turn on bumpers.

It also didn't help that Sora seemed almost godlike at the game and was getting strikes on every bowl.

How was it even fair that he got such high scores and she couldn't even get a spare?

Yugo was getting just as mad at his screen. He had butted in on Reiji teaching Reira how to play chess and had unwisely challenged him to a game.

He was (unsurprisingly) getting crushed. Yugo had nearly all of his pieces taken except a knight, his king and a few pawns, whereas Reiji had only lost a couple of pawns and a bishop.

Even Rin, who had chimed in to try and help her friend, had ended up losing Yugo his queen to a manoeuvre that Reiji called the 'Zwischenzug'.

Yugo was now ignoring her, saying that he was clearly the better chess player, while Rin argued that she had no idea Reiji was going to pull a 'Zwischenzug'.

"You're supposed to know everything, Rin," Yugo complained. "How come you didn't warn me about the Zwisch… thing?"

"I've never heard of a Zwischenzug," protested Rin. "I don't play chess."

Yugo moved his King to take one of Reiji's pawns and was in the middle of his celebration when he was checkmated.

"I can't believe it," he said. "I was going so well."

"You were losing horribly." Yuri leaned over. "Is everyone from Synchro an idiot?"

"Hey!" Crow butted in. "I may be from Commons but I'm no idiot!"

"You kinda are, Crow," called Sora. "I mean; you ate that airplane meal."

"I've never been on a plane before. How was I supposed to know it's disgusting?"

"That meat was green!" laughed Sora. "It was common sense."

Crow looked defeated. "I thought that was seasoning," he mumbled.

"If you get sick, don't let it come anywhere near me," said Yuri, looking faintly disgusted. He edged to the side of his seat to get as far away from Crow as possible.

"I don't think it's me you need to worry about," replied Crow, motioning to Gongenzaka, who was holding his hands over his mouth, eyes wide.

"Should we warn Dennis?" asked Rin, looking worried. Dennis, who was next to Gongenzaka was completely oblivious.

Yuri gave an evil grin. "No. I think a little surprise is just what Dennis needs."

Another round of seat-swapping had occurred, mostly because Shun had wanted to get back to Ruri so he could keep an eye on her, but also because his 'Raptors vs Plants' battle with Yuri had degenerated into the world's loudest smack-talk session. Dennis was pretty sure that everyone on their flight now knew about the time Kurosaki nearly drowned in an inflatable pool.

He was also pretty sure that Reiji was going forcibly land the flight and make Sora to get off (as head of Leo Corporation, he probably could do it) if he didn't stop pestering Reira to watch 50 Shades of Grey on his in-flight entertainment system.

"Come on Reira!" Sora implored. "It's a really funny movie with valuable life lessons!"

"It says that this movie is R-rated. I'm not allowed to watch those movies."

"It's these American rating systems. R stands for… reasonable."

Reira nodded, seeming convinced. "Okay."

"Reira, you can't watch that movie," said Reiji firmly. "Try finding something more suitable."

"It's completely suitable," Sora implored. "Look, Serena's watching it… oh… oh God… I'd forgotten that was in there."

Reira turned to look at Serena's screen, but not before Reiji shoved his scarf in front of his eyes.

"Yeah…" Sora looked guilty. "All right, maybe you shouldn't watch that. How about… ooh, they have Fifty Shades Dar"—

"Shut it, Sora!" said Reiji in a rare outburst.

"Yeah, Sora," Dennis whispered. "I bet he could strangle you with that scarf."

"Fine, fine," conceded Sora, starting to scroll through the available games. "Hey, they have Monopoly! And it's multiplayer! Who's down for a game?"

"I'm down," said Crow from next to Dennis. "Who else have we got?"

"Umm… Yuya! You wanna play Monopoly?" called Sora.

"Sure," Yuya called back. "Just wait a sec…" He began tapping on his screen.

"Hey, can I play?" Ruri asked.

"Of course, Ruri dear," said Dennis charmingly. He gave his thousand mega-watt Broadway smile, but was quickly shut down by Shun's glare.

"Just wait a minute Ruri," Shun warned, in a tone that suggested his sister was about to go skydiving rather than play Monopoly.

"I'll be fine," said Ruri. "It's just Monopoly."

"It's not the Monopoly I'm worried about," said Shun, giving Dennis a death-stare.

After a bit of shuffling around, all the Monopoly players were sitting together. Despite the chaotic first few hours of the flight, everything was relatively peaceful. Reiji was reading a book on modern politics, Reira was watching a suitable cartoon, and everyone else was engaged in some sort of movie.

"Okay, everyone, join Sora's game," said Sora as they rest of the Monopoly group joined up.

"Hang on, why are there six people, only five of us are playing," said Yuya.

"You're right," agreed Dennis, scanning the row. It wasn't hard to find the mysterious sixth Monopoly player.

Yugo was sitting with his face in his hands, giggling uncontrollably. The Monopoly game was being displayed of his screen.

"Yugo, what are you doing?" asked Ruri.

"I wanted to play Monopoly," he giggled.

"You could've just asked," pointed out Yuya.

"It's more fun this way," Yugo laughed.

"Well, the more the merrier, I guess," agreed Dennis. "Hey, who took the hat? I wanted to be the hat."

Yugo chuckled and raised a hand.

"Oh, that's it. I'm always the hat!" Dennis looked stricken

"Now, now, Dennis," said Sora. "We wouldn't want to cause any drama."

"I'm all about drama!"

"Quiet down, Dennis," said Ruri. "We are on a plane."

"She's right," agreed Crow. "What even is this thing?" He was looking at a token of a four-legged animal with a long neck.

"That's a giraffe," Yuya informed him. "Haven't you seen one before?"

"They don't have giraffes in New Domino," he protested.

"They have a few in Maiami's zoo, I think."

"Well, I'll be this giraffe thing," said Crow.

"All right everyone in?" Sora asked. "Let's go."

The game loaded up and Dennis took the first turn. Rolling a three, he immediately purchased one of the brown properties.

"Hah, that all you got?" jibbed Crow. He tapped the button to roll dice and was instantly forced to pay the income tax of $200.

Yugo smirked, but it was wiped off his face when he also landed on the income tax. Immediately, he began banging the roll button to try and get a better number, but the damage was done and Yugo was automatically taxed.

"Yugo just tried to cheat!" said Yuya.

"No I didn't!" protested Yugo. "I was… fixing my screen."

"Sure, sure," said Yuya, taking his turn. He purchased one of the blue properties. "Better than nothing, I guess."

Ruri was up next. She rolled a double five, then rolled again to buy an orange property.

"Those are good!" complained Sora. "How come she got a good one already?"

Dennis sighed. Even by Monopoly's standards, this was going to be a long game.

"No!" yelled Sora as he landed on one of Ruri's orange hotels, seeming to forget he was on an aeroplane. "You cheating scum! You rigged it!"

"Hey, don't call people scum," reminded Yuya. "It's a bad habit."

"I don't care!" whined Sora as money drained out of his bank account. "I swear," he threatened, holding up a plastic spoon. "If I land on the stupid orange again, I'll lobotomise you, Ruri! I'll"—

"You'll do what, exactly?" asked Shun softly, leaning over to Sora.

Sora visibly recoiled. "I… err… nothing. Absolutely nothing."

"That's what I thought." Shun moved slowly away, his eyes locked onto Sora's.

"Hey Sora?" Crow said. "You rolled a double. You get to go again."

"Grr… all right," Sora fumed. He mashed the roll button and got a double one, landing him on Ruri's final, most expensive property.

Yuya, Yugo and Dennis burst out laughing and Crow winced. He'd fallen victim to Ruri's orange and pink setup himself and was on the edge of bankruptcy.

"Noooooo!" Sora slumped in the chair as the final dollars in his account were drained.

"Sora, keep it down!" whispered Dennis. "People are trying to sleep."

Sora looked around. It was indeed dark outside; most of the flight were trying to rest. The area around the Lancers, however, seemed to be completely sleep deprived because of the rowdy Monopoly game.

After a couple of hours, the game was winding down as their flight made its descent into Sydney. Sora and Yugo were out (Yugo had got out when he'd be tricked into paying $800 for Trafalgar Square and hadn't realised his mistake until he was out). Ruri was ruling the game with the orange and purple squares. Her only competition was Dennis, who had set himself up on the brown and blue properties, with one hopeful hotel on Mayfair.

Yuya and Crow were both on the edge of bankruptcy with no stake in the game at all.

"Can we just declare Ruri the winner and finish up?" asked Yuya. "I'm bored of Monopoly."

Dennis' shoulders slumped. He knew he was no match for Ruri. "Fine."

Ruri did a lame little dance in her seat and leaned over to tell Yuto, but was interrupted by a jolt of turbulence as the plane came in to land.

The plane bucked like a horse as it roughly came down on the runway.

Dennis leaned back in his chair. Finally, the flight was over. Soon they would be blissfully on holiday. Soon—

His thoughts were interrupted by a retching noise and Yuri's smug laughter.

Dennis convulsed in his seat. "Oh God, Gong, why now of all times? That's disgusting!"

So, what did you think? Loved it? Hated it?

This entire chapter is almost all based on things that have happened to me on flights (I had a real Monopoly game just like described here). Some of its exaggerated a bit, but in essence most of this stuff really happened!

A reviewer of the last chapter pointed out that I said this story was set in canon but the Yu-boys and Bracelet girls are here. Uhh... no excuse for that. Slipped my mind.

I am trying to use all the characters equally, so if you feel anyone is being neglected or would like to see something about them, please tell me.