Trickster's Choice

Yagyuu should have never cheated on Niou with Hyotei's Oshitari Yuushi. Now Niou is pinned on getting revenge and his plans involve Oshitari's girlfriend Echizen Yukino.

What first starts as a quest for revenge becomes the foundation of new love, yet Echizen Yukino isn't the golden girl everyone thinks she is, and Niou isn't the insensitive trickster he is believed to be, so what will happen when these two strong personalities collide? Nothing good I assure you.

Chapter 1

Niou held back his tears as he watched the love of his life kiss another; Yagyuu Hiroshi pressed Hyotei's Oshitari to the wall kissing him fiercely.

"Yuushi, let's tell them, I'm willing to leave Niou for you," said Yagyuu. "Just give the word and I'll…" Yagyuu would never know how much his words hurt Niou; tears were trickling down both cheeks. Oshitari shock his head.

"I don't want to hurt Yukino, her brother recently went to hospital and I don't want to worry her any further, not yet at least," he replied. "I still care about her as a friend Hiroshi." He called him Hiroshi, how close were they?

"I understand," replied Yagyuu kissing Oshitari on the cheek.

* * *

How could he? Thought Niou. How could Hiroshi do this to me? Wasn't he the gentlemen and Niou the trickster? How did their situations become reverse?

Niou laid on his bed, tears still in his eyes, he was going to get hell from Yukimura and Sanada tomorrow for waging tennis practice but he didn't care, not anymore, he had full intentions of leaving the tennis club.

He hated Yagyuu and yet he loved him still, he hated Oshitari, he loathed him, detested him, he was going to destroy him, humiliate him. Niou had his heart set, he was going to pull the best trick he had ever pulled and destroy Oshitari Yuushi, but first he needed a partner in crime, someone else who'd felt the same way, someone else who was betrayed, Echizen Yukino.

* * *

"Tsuki!" exclaimed Marui skidding across the room to where a black haired female sat. "Teach me English," he asked firmly placing his textbook before her on the table.

Echizen took out her headphones and put aside the book she was reading. "Again? Bunta you need to get yourself a tutor," she replied.

"Why pay someone when you'll do it for free and a lot better at it," explained Marui. "You lived in America for 2 years didn't you? I'll take it as payment for the tennis lessons I'm giving you."

"I feel used," she sighed and shook her head as she looked down at the page of questions he was having trouble with. Echizen and Marui lived near each other, every Sunday they would go to the local tennis club and play several matches or just hit the ball back and forth. They were hardly lessons but Echizen had improved faster than she had when playing in America, occasionally Marui would bring along a friend normally Kuwahara, Yagyuu or Kirihara while Echizen would bring friends from her time in Hyotei elementary school usually Jirou or Mukahi who brought Oshitari.

"Which one?" she asked. He pointed to the very first one. "Match the words to their meanings: wound, upset and damage. This isn't all that hard why don't you just use a dictionary?"

"Jackal's dictionary all isn't that good," replied Marui.

"Is that so," said Echizen. "To wound means to physically hurt them for example cutting them or shooting them. To upset means to verbally hurt them or do something they do not like, like how you always come to me to help you with English-" Marui smiled cheekily. "- and lastly to damage means to ruin or spoil something for example dropping a ceramic bowl and damaging it by chipping it. Is that you need help in?" Marui nodded, he dropped a piece of apple bubblegum wrapped in silver foil on her lap.

"Thanks," he said standing and leaving. Echizen picked up the piece of gum and unwrapped it; placing the piece in her mouth, she tared the silver wrapper into tinny piece. As she chewed her mobile rung, she took it out of her pocket and held it to her ear.

"Hello?" she said in English, a habit she had yet to drop.

"Yukino," said a familiar voice on the other end.

"What's up Yuushi?"

"I'm at the Rikkai front gate, what are you doing right now?"

"Reading, why?"

"Let's go to the movies or something, just us two," offered Oshitari. Echizen smiled.

"Sure, I'll be there in 5 minutes."

* * *

"Yuushi!" exclaimed Echizen running towards Oshitari and throwing her arms around him.

"Hello to you too," chuckled Oshitari hugging her back. The two were introduced by Mukahi a few months prior when he dragged Oshitari with him to their weekly tennis match. The two got along well together rather quickly and started dating soon after.

"Where are we going?" asked Echizen as Oshitari took her hand in his, he showed her two movie tickets to 'Underworld: Rise of the Lycan', it was hardly a movie suitable for dates but he knew she liked the series. "Middle row, and middle seats," she smiled. "Cool."

"I knew you'd like it," replied Oshitari. "But in exchange I get to pick the movie next time." Echizen rolled her eyes; he liked to watch romance movies over violence and actions.

"Which?"

"'The Notebook'," said Oshitari. Echizen balanced what he had done for her and 2 hours in a cinema listening to romantic dribble, Oshitari won, he won, just barely.

"Okay," she said. "Normally shouldn't our positions be reversed? You like the Action and blood while I like the romance and chick flicks? Hell that's why they call them chick flicks."

"We're not normal," replied Oshitari. Echizen felt her face blush as the two walked hand in hand.

Niou watch the two as they walked away, a tennis ball in his hand he threw it up in the air several times and catching it with the same hand.

"Found ya."

N/A: I've noticed many of my stories include Yagyuu, Niou and Marui…but I can't help it, the Platinum pair is awesome and Marui is perfect best friend material!