To Be Brutally Frank With You:

Chapter Two: In which the Rikkai Regulars bruise Sanada's ego, beat up on Jackal and take forever to start playing a game. Oh, and Yukimura terrorizes everyone.

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After leaving Jackal severely traumatized and unconscious, Yukimura turned around and beamed at all of his teammates.

Although they didn't say anything, they all felt a little dizzy by the sheer brilliance of Yukimura's smile.

Oh, wait, they drank an overly potent truth serum didn't they? So, instead…

"Buchou's smile is so… sparkly…" muttered Akaya, dazed.

"Yeah…" agreed the rest of his teammates, equally bedazzled.

Yukimura smirked internally, before declaring to all of them, "Let's get this started. Standing around like this will do none of us any good, which means we won't win Nationals."

Marui was confused, "Nationals is over… We're going to high school next year."

"There's still Nationals in high school. And we're going to win this one. Got that?" said Yukimura in a cheery manner, but they knew better, if they didn't win this time, Yukimura was going to commit mass homicide. Starting with Seigaku, especially that first-year brat. Despite the fact that Echizen was still going to be in junior high. Ignore that fact, because Yukimura is still bitter. Of course, the Regulars were terrified because, being in Yukimura's close range, they might (would definitely) be part of the collateral damage.

So, of course, they nodded.

Yukimura smiled, "So, get a move on it!"

They looked at each other, confused. Sanada stepped up to the plate and asked, "Uh… What are we supposed to be doing?"

Yukimura shook his head, looking disappointed, and although Sanada did nothing to deserve it, Sanada felt ashamed, and said, "I am sorry."

Niou and Yagyuu muttered "Whipped" behind him.

Yanagi snickered, internally.

Marui and Akaya were not as covert; rather, they burst into hysterical laughter.

Yukimura smiled some more, before clearing his throat slightly.

Their attention snapped back to him.

Yukimura paused, for the dramatic effect, before saying, "We're going to play Truth or Dare, of course!"

Akaya yelped, "No! Not again! Not after the last round!"

Yukimura looked sad. But we all know it was an act.

However, Sanada didn't, or maybe he did, but couldn't help himself anyway. So, Sanada yelled at Akaya, "You will listen to Yukimura! Who should be known as the wonderful, the great and the beautiful!"

Sanada froze, his brain processing what he just said.

Yanagi coughed slightly, and said, "Sanada's admission of his adoration of Yukimura aside, let us all play."

Akaya pouted, but he didn't want Yukimura to look sad again. Because he knew that if it progressed, he'd get bitch slapped by Sanada, and if he continued some more, Yukimura himself would punish him. "Yukimura's scary. And Sanada is his bitch," muttered Akaya under his breath. Of course, everyone heard him anyway.

Marui looked confused by Akaya's train of thought, but couldn't help but agree with him.

Sanada was sad, "There went my reputation."

Yagyuu replied, straight off, "What reputation? Everyone knows you're Yukimura's slave."

Sanada felt even sadder. Here were his teammates, who could not lie, and they were killing his ego.

Yukimura was getting irritated by the constant interruptions, and said quietly, "Can we get started? If I'm interrupted one more time…" He trailed off.

Jackal recovered at that particular moment, and looked around, "What's going on?"

Yukimura swiftly chopped him in the neck, causing the bald boy to slump over again.

Niou looked at Yukimura oddly, "What was that for? I thought we were going to find out stuff about everyone? Which includes Jackal."

"He interrupted me."

Marui shuddered slightly, "Buchou, you're doing the demon aura thing again."

True to Marui's word (of course), there was an aura of hellfire and brimstone and promises of eternal damnation emanating off Yukimura.

Niou sighed, melodramatic and said to Sanada, "Go on, bitch boy, go calm down your master."

Sanada was seriously getting depressed, but in a last-ditch effort to regain his pride, he slapped Niou, yelling, "Language Niou! Watch what you say to the Supreme Yukimura!"

Or at least, he tried. Niou ducked, cackling. "Knew you were going to do that. God, Sanada, mix up your repertoire a bit. And confess your love to Yukimura already."

Sanada was extremely depressed now.

Yanagi cut in, "I calculated that there was a 97 percent chance of Sanada's ego getting trampled on… It seems I should have upped the percentage to 99.5 percent…

Yukimura sighed, "Now that Sanada has been sufficiently demoralized, can we get the game started already?"

The doom aura had intensified.

Sanada felt like crying, "Yukimura! How could you do this to me?"

Yukimura shrugged, "Easily."

Yanagi muttered, "Make that 100 percent…"

Yagyuu was getting mildly irritated, "Why is everyone getting all the attention? I never seem to get any attention at all."

Niou smiled mischieviously, "Aww… Yagyuu, I didn't know you felt this way. I could give you all the attention you want… and then some."

Yagyuu looked weirded out, "Does that mean what I think it means?"

"Probably."

"Oh. Sure, whatever, come to my house later."

Yanagi was jotting all of this new information down intently. "If I knew the experiment would be this productive, I would have done this ages ago…"

They all looked at Yanagi weirdly, but Yanagi was in his own little data zone and didn't realize.

Marui coughed, but it sounded oddly like, "-cough- Yanagi's a nerd. –cough-" In fact, the cough did nothing to hide his words at all.

Akaya noticed this and asked, "Why did you cough? It did nothing at all."

"For effect. Sheesh, Akaya! You seriously need a course in my genius skills!"

Yagyuu looked at Marui mildly, "Don't you mean idiocy?"

"Yes. Wait- No!"

Yagyuu smiled at Niou, "I rest my case."

Niou high-fived him.

Marui fumed silently at the background, determined to get back at the Not-So-Gentlemanly-Gentleman.

Wow, it's taking a really long time for them to start a game of Truth or Dare, isn't it?

Yukimura read the above sentence, and agreed, so he said, "All of you, sit down, shut up, and let's get this game started already. Before I butcher all of you in your sleep! And if it isn't done within five seconds, I'm going to start butchering now."

Needless to say, they all sat, terrified, and got ready for the new torture regime to start.

"Someone wake Jackal." Commanded Yukimura.

Marui obeyed by throwing a bucket of ice-cold water on his doubles partner, who still did not wake.

Niou offered his 'help' by tossing Jackal at a tree; he still did not wake (no surprise there).

Yagyuu followed up by shocking the poor abused bald boy with a taser; Jackal still did not wake.

Akaya gladly joined in the fun by poking Jackal incessantly. When that did not work, he went Devil Mode and beat up Jackal some more. Jackal, who now looked very beaten and battered, still did not wake.

Sanada sighed, and started to slap Jackal. Surprisingly enough, this did make Jackal wake! Hallelujah!

When Jackal was fully coherent, he muttered, "What did I do to deserve this?"

Marui was quick to answer, "You're bald, that's what."

"What does my baldness have to do with anything?"

"I don't know, I just get the vibe that your baldness makes you a punching bag."

"…" Jackal was speechless.

And finally, the game of Truth or Dare started with…

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And I leave you off there, because I'm that much of a bastard. =P Or rather, have no idea what to write.

So, if you have any ideas and suggestions, please include them in your review (blatant hint there).

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

I totally love bullying Sanada and Jackal. Muahahahaha!

Fear the crack.

And thank you to Bunnychan360 and Ecstatic Petenshi for telling me about Niou's apparent love of cats. I've fixed it in the first chapter already.

Also, additional thanks to Bunnychan for her lovely ideas.

Much Love,

~FO