A/N: Thank you to all you beautiful people who reviewed! I love you all SO MUCH!

...So I got a beta, XxBloodandButterfliesxX who can give the most amazing ideas even in such plotless stories. She has beta-ed this chapter. XP

The following week, Sanada came to school hatless and slapless.

Kirihara poked Sanada. "Why does your head look so weird?"

"His hat is gone, dummy." Said Marui, chewing a donut.

"You mean the little black thing he calls a hat?"

"Yeah. That."

"Yukimura made me do it." Grumbled Sanada.

"You mean the beautiful fairy you call Yukimura?" Kirihara asked innocently.

"..."

"Why are you slapping yourself, fuka-buchou?"

"He's facepalming, Akaya." Marui said, rolling his eyes.

"He's not allowed to slap anyone, right?"

"Yes. Marui answered with an exasperated sigh, but Kirihara was already running to Yukimura.

"Buchou! Sanada is slapping himself! He's not allowed to do that!"

Yukimura gave Kirihara a pat on the head and walked up to Sanada.

"Genchiro, I know it is hard for you to restrain from slapping, but even still-you're not allowed to slap yourself either."

"I'm just facepalming!"

Yukimura's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "You know what a facepalm is?"

Sanada grumbled. "I'm not that old fashioned."

Yaguu now walked on scene, book in hand.

"Hello everyone. What's wrong with Akaya?" He asked, staring at Kirihara run around Jackal continuously.

"He's being normal." Answered Marui, as Kirihara tripped and fell.

Sanada pinched the bridge of his nose, already feeling a headache come on. Due to habit, he reached up to adjust his non-existing hat, only to feel empty air. He quickly dropped his hand as Niou stared.

The bell suddenly rang, signaling students to get to class.

Xxx

As Sanada sat in class, he smiled to himself. He had only one little slip up about his hat. It was going to be fine.

It was going to be fine.

.

.

.

How wrong he was.

By the end of the day, Sanada's hands were shaking in the need to rush at soft cheek flesh-in other words-to slap.

His lungs also felt oddly stiff, as he hadn't been allowed to use his reserve of air used for chasing silver haired tricksters around while yelling and screaming after them, and in the end, yelling his battle cry as he slapped them.

But more than that, he felt a terrible ache in his heart for his hat. That hat had been through everything with him-literally everything.

Kirihara and Marui who were just passing by stared at the trembling mess that was Sanada.

Kirihara skipped up to Sanada, and stared at him.

"Fuka-buchou, why are you vibrating?"

"..."

"Fuka-buchou! Fuka-buchou! Stop slapping yourself."

"It's called facepalmng " Marui said, once again correcting Kirihara.

"Now we're going to be late for tennis practice. Let Sanada tremble in peace."

"Okay!" Kirihara yelled cheerily, already running to Jackal and doing laps around him. Jackal didn't dare move, for the fear of Kirihara tripping and falling (again).

I'm not going to move. I'm not going to move. Jackal thought furiously to himself.

Oh wait, I need to sneeze. But I'm not going to move. But sneezing requires moving. Okay, okay...I got this.

But Jackal was sadly mistaken, because he still sneezed. "HAAAAACHOOOOOOOO!"

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Shrieked Kirihara as he tripped and fell.

Yukimura appeared beside him in a flash. "Jackal will be punished, don't worry Akaya."

Jackal started to protest. "But-but, it was a SNEEZE."

"What have I told you about sneezing, Jackal?" Yukimura asked, smiling at him.

"To not sneeze in the presence of Akaya..."

"Correct. Now shoo." Yukimura laughed lightly as he watched Jackal scuttle away in fear, then saw Sanada.

"So, Gen. Can't even make it past the first day?" Yukimura patted Sanada's arm sympathetically.

"It's okay. You can have your slapping privileges back. Your hat is in the tennis change room."

Yukimura looked at Kirihara. "You understand what a New Year's Resolution is?"

Kirihara nodded in excitement. "It's when you order Sanada to not wear his hat and to not slap people!"

Yukimura smiled. "That's my boy."

~MEANWHILE~

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY HAT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

This could be heard throughout the school. The cause of this? Sanada's hat was in little strips of fabric, courtesy of Niou.

The next unmistakable sound of slaps rang throughout the school as Sanada vented his anger on anyone who was too slow in leaving the school.

A/N: HAPPY NEW 2014 EVERYONE!8D