Hey all! How are you doing this fine day? Inui was threatening me with his juice unless I wrote something for him, and so this installment of Seigaku's Insanity was born.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inui, or the series that spawned him.
Data
Information. Knowledge. Cold, hard facts. Data.
Inui Sadaharu has devoted his life to the collection and utilization of information, and he's become extremely good at it. It is very rare to see the glasses wearing teen without his notebook and a pen in hand, analyzing and recording anything that catches his scientific eye.
Data is his passion, if he could even feel such a thing; Inui is a scientist.
The roots of his love of information start when he was very young; even he does not know exactly when he first took up pen and notebook with the intention of understanding the world. Most who know him simply assume he was born with it.
Perhaps he was; it may never be known how Inui came to acquire his thirst for knowledge. But even then, as a young boy, seeds of the coldly clinical, almost sadistic person he would become were visible.
One of his first true experiments was with insects; he would pull the wings off of them, and note down how they squirmed. His first data chart was a compilation of how long it took the wingless bugs to die.
Inui's ruthless devotion to data would only grow as he met another like himself; Yanagi Renji, a kindred spirit, and his first real friend.
It would be through Yanagi that Sadaharu would discover tennis as more than just a sport; with their data tennis, they could study people. Sports can do funny things to a person's psyche, and as an opponent, Inui would have a first hand view to study it from. And so, data tennis was born.
The two scientists parted ways, but Inui continued to play his data tennis against anyone he could find. It wasn't perfect, and he hadn't found anyone strong enough to be a true opponent, but Inui persevered.
It wasn't until he came to Seigaku that he began to become strong, because it was at Seigaku that he met his first true opponent, in Tezuka Kunimitsu.
Defeating Tezuka became Inui's biggest goal. And so, the Seigaku tennis team gained another member.
At first, gathering data on Tezuka was the only reason Sadaharu even came to every practice. But then, as more of a habit than anything, he began gathering data on the other team members; first, on those that beat him, then, on everyone.
Finally, all his work came to fruition one day one the court; Inui looked at his opponent, and knew him. Knew exactly what to do to break him. The boy walked away physically whole, but mentally... It was as if Inui had disassembled his psyche and left it laying in bloody shards scattered over the green court.
Years have passed since that day on the court. Opponents have come and gone, bent and broke against the tide that is Seigaku; a tide that grows ever stronger. Inui is part of that tide. He still gathers data off the court, turning his opponents' skill against themselves. He knows them better than they know themselves; his opponents break under the force of their own strength turned back on them.
Inui watches it happen; every crack recorded in meticulous detail in his notebook, everyone broken down from people into numbers. Inui doesn't care that what he writes is the sum of someone's life. To him, it's just data.
And here ends our peek into Inui's mind! I hope you enjoyed it! And for anyone who thinks I made Inui sound too cold and sadistic, I have two words for you: Inui Juice.
Read and review, please!
-Sa'Kage