A/N: Crack pairings are a wonderful thing. This time we've RPed Inui/Yuushi. I'm Inui, my friend is Yuushi. The next chapters will be upped as soon as I'm done editing them X3.

Disclaimer: We don't own Prince of Tennis sadly...wish we did but we don't.

Chapter One

Inui sat by himself on the grass in the spot where he always helped Kaidoh train with his newest juice creation. Of course no one ever wanted to try it. Well, Fuji might want to. One person he'd like to see drink some of his juice would have to be Hiyoshi Wakashi. He didn't like it that the other had Kaidoh all to himself. Kaidoh had even cancelled on him today saying that he was going to be doing something with Hiyoshi. He sighed and leaned back.

Oshitari Yuushi was walking back from McDonalds, where he had been with Gakuto, when he passed by a place he had usually seen a pair of Seigaku students. Today was different. There was only one. The tensai was curious and decided to go investigate. "Inui-kun?"

Inui sat back up when he heard his name being called. He turned towards the direction of the voice. "Oh, hello Oshitari-kun."

"Where's your little protégé?" He made a visor with his hands and searched for the viper-ish boy.

"He's busy today." Inui said simply. He didn't really want to talk about it.

"Hm. Interesting." Yuushi took a seat beside Inui. "So is our Hiyoshi."

Inui sighed. "I believe that's who he's busy with." Inui muttered. He moved the bottle of Inui juice out of the way when Yuushi sat down.

"Ah. Very interesting." Yuushi glanced at Inui's bottle. "Would that be the famous Inui juice?"

Inui lifted up the bottle. "Why yes it is. Of course it won't be of any use today."

"Oh? And why is that? It's a shame to waste it... Not that I'd drink it, but still a shame." This piqued Yuushi's curiosity.

"Well...I was going to use it to test Kaidoh and see how fast he could run a couple of laps." Inui answered.

"But you can't do that now. He's out doing who knows what with Hiyoshi." Oshitari sighed. "Better to have love and lost than to have never have loved at all."

Inui looked at Yuushi. "It has nothing to do with love. Kaidoh is just usually so focused on training. He's being distracted." Inui tried to explain.

Oshitari sighed. Well excuse him for trying to be poetic. "If you've ever had a crush on someone you would know what he is going through. Besides, Hiyoshi is probably helping him train as we speak. He's a dedicated one."

Inui frowned a bit. "I guess so..." He wanted Kaidoh to train with him, not Hiyoshi.

"Well, are you planning to train by yourself out here?" Oshitari thought that was a terribly lonely and boring thing to do.

"Maybe for a little bit." Inui answered. He really didn't want to train by himself, but he couldn't really neglect his training because Kaidoh wasn't with him.

"That must get terrible lonely, how about I join you?" It wouldn't hurt to work off the McDonalds he had just eaten.

"That would be nice, if you don't mind." Inui said. He stood and patted some dirt off of the back of his pants.

As Inui stood up Oshitari got a good view of the other's backside. "Oh no, I don't mind." He stood up and smiled.

"I'll warn you that it's going to be a lot." He said as he picked up the bottle of juice.

"I'll take this as a chance to improve and pass on Seigaku's secrets to my team." Oshitari gave a barely audible laugh.

"What secrets? The one's that say I make up Seigaku's training menu." Inui laughed back. "The training I do isn't the same as the rest of the team."

"Is that so? Well then, we can't let Hyoutei lose to you in training." Oshitari smiled.

"Maybe, though your training probably won't be quite as good as Seigaku's." Inui said, pushing up his glasses.

"Oh, you can't be too sure about something like that, now can you?" Oshitari traded remarks with a glasses fix of his own.

"Well depending on the data I gather, the training will change." Inui explained.

"Hm. I see. Well then, shall we?" Oshitari asked, motioning to the start the training.

Inui nodded before starting the run. He used the same route he usually did with Kaidoh.

Oshitari followed. "So, do you take this route often, Inui-kun?"

Inui nodded. "Yes, all the time."

Oshitari was running out of conversation topics. "Hm... I wonder how our little kohai are doing." He mused.

"I wonder that all the time." Inui said, letting the thought slip out.

"Oh really now?" That was an interesting little tidbit that Oshitari found out.

Inui stopped, realizing what he said. "Um…"

A definitive answer, certainly. "And why would that be?" Oshitari stopped beside him.

"I worry about all of my kohai, not just Kaidoh." Inui said quickly, hoping that it would work.

Oshitari gave a smirk. "Now now, who do you take me for? I know you worry about him the most."

Inui sighed. "I guess you're right." He said after a moment.

Oh, a confession. That was unexpected to the tensai. "Yes. Now... why are you so worried? I'm sure Hiyoshi will take good care of him."

"Well, I wouldn't say that I'm worried..."Inui confessed."It's just that..."

Oshitari leaned in expectantly. "Yes?"

"I guess I'm used to Kaidoh being around." Inui said.

"Oh. That's it?" Oshitari was a bit disappointed. He had expected something more interesting.

Inui nodded, not really wanting to say anything more about it.

Oshitari shrugged. "And you miss him terribly don't you?"

"Yes." Inui answered honestly. There was no use in lying, the other would somehow know.

"How sweet." Oshitari beamed. Ah, to be young and in love.

"I don't see anything sweet about the situation." Inui said.

"Of course you don't. But alas, all is sweet in the eyes of this romantic." Oshitari put the back of his hand against his forehead to punctuate his statement.

Inui sighed. Maybe he shouldn't have invited Yuushi to train with him. He'd never really tried to think of anything in any other way besides data. He didn't really know much about things like romance.

"It seems that even one as smart as you has much to learn." Oshitari sighed.

"Learn?" Inui questioned.

"While you may know the ways of the body, you have much to learn about the ways of the heart." Oshitari explained.

Inui thought for a moment about what the other had said. It was true. His data couldn't tell him at all about what was in a person's heart. "I'll agree with you on that. How does one learn about the ways of the heart?"

"Oh, Inui-kun!" Oshitari took the short-haired boy's hands in his own. "Only by exploration. Shall we indulge ourselves in this journey together?"

Inui stared. "What are you talking about?" What journey?

"What else could I be talking about?" Oshitari was getting carried away. "The journey known as love."

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