Counting by Two's

Summary: Yuuta hated her, he hated Shuusuke even more for taking her, but what could he do? She had feelings for his older brother...why would she ever want him? He was just a shadow, after all. "Yuuta...can't I have you both?"

Anime/Manga: InuYasha/Prince of Tennis

Pairing: Yuuta/Kagome/Shuusuke

Rated: M for Mature Content

Genre: Romance/Drama

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Kagome glanced over her brothers' shoulder, listening to the phone against her ear ring a few times before hanging up and continuing with watching her brother take out the zombies on the TV screen. "What are you playing?"

"Left for Dead."

"...one or two?"

"I only own the first one," Souta shot at the large Tank heading his way, switching quickly to his grenade launcher before continuing with the lesser zombies running towards him, twin hand guns took care of them easily enough as he made his way to the safe house with the three other characters following behind his character.

"You should play the second one, it's better...more fun." Kagome smiled as he paused his game an turned a frown onto her.

"You've played Left for Dead two? Why didn't you get it for me?!"

"You have an allowance, don't you?" Kagome felt the phone in her hand vibrate and answered without looking as she lifted it to her ear. "Hey!"

"Sorry about that, practice just let out."

"No problem, I should apologize. I missed your call first. So what's up?"

"I wanted to know if you had any plans today."

"Not really, I mean, I'm just sitting around the house watching Souta get killed by swarms of Zombies."

"Am not, Kagome! I happen to be winning!"

"Saa~..."

Kagome smiled and turned away from her brother and his game, leaning against the back of the couch as she turned her attention back to the call. "What did you want to do?"

"I was thinking we could grab a bite and go play pool, I know Yuuta's been wanting to hangout too, and I was already planning to go with a few friends if that's alright with you."

"Yeah! That sounds like fun! I'll grab my wallet and meet you. Where are we grabbing food?" She inquired as she grabbed her wallet and purse from the hall closet.

"The burger shack or Taka's dad's sushi."

"Sushi!"

"Sounds good, I'll meet you there, let me just call Yuuta and see what his schedule is for today."

"Got it, I'll see you there! Ja~!"

"Ja~"

Kagome hung up and pulled on her shoes, "Souta, let mom know I'll be home late."

"Right, you're with your boyfriend."

Kagome rolled her eyes, but with a smile, replied, "You can tell her that," then quickly left him staring after her in surprise.

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"So why couldn't Yuuta be here?" Kagome asked as she and Shuusuke walked away from the Sushi place where Takashi's dad worked. "I thought he wanted to come out with us."

"Oh, he does, trust me, but Mizuki, his captain, wouldn't let him out of practice for a game of pool."

"I see," Kagome took a bite of her rice, walking alongside her friend as they came up to the bowling alley where the rest of the Tennis Regulars of Seigaku were gathered, including some of the first years and the coach.

"Ah...Fujiko!"

"Morning," Shuusuke smiled, waving a hand to a hyperactive redhead who was grinning his way.

Kagome glanced up as she closed her mouth over the chopsticks she was holding, eating the rice, she closed the lid of the take out container and stuck the chopsticks in her side pouch on her purse. "Who are your friends?" Kagome asked after wallowing the bite.

"Eiji is the one who just called me by name. Next to him on the left is Takashi, you know his dad pretty well already, and I think you've seen him a few times as well."

"Yeah," Kagome recalled the timid teen.

"On Eiji's right, you have Ryoma who-"

"Who was playing against Tomoya and Kimiyoshi with his friend," she pointed at the taller one beside Ryoma.

"Momoshiro, the one you are pointing at."

"I don't know the people she's talking about."

"At the street courts, you played them, a doubles round I believe. I was walking by when I saw two of my schools tennis players going up against Seigaku Regulars. It was interesting, and funny...more so to watch. You two...aren't the greatest doubles pair..." she smiled.

"Thankfully they aren't Seigaku's only doubles pair." Eiji laughed.

"Oh," Shuusuke smiled, "the rest, in order after Momoshiro, you have Oishi, and Kaidou, then Inui. Over here, this is Coach Ryuzaki, and then these three are friends of Ryoma's, Katsuo, Katou, and Horio." He held a hand out and Kagome took it with a smile as he pulled her in front of him with a smile, "everyone, this is Kagome, she will be joining us today if that's okay with all of you."

"Ehh?!" Momoshiro and Eiji looked between one another before turning to Shuusuke. Momoshiro was the one to say something, "isn't that a bit bold of you? Using a Recreational Day for a date?"

Kagome raised a brow and turned her head towards Shuusuke who didn't falter with his smile.

"Would you like to take that one?" Shuusuke asked curiously.

Shaking her head, Kagome smiled, "you're doing so well already, I'll leave it to you."

"If you insist," Shuusuke turned back to Momoshiro and shook his head, "Kagome and I decided that by coming here together, well into the night we would have a reason to spend more time with one another and maybe even take our dating to the next step."

Kagome remained silent as he said all this with a straight face, no one said anything and just stared in surprise, though with a few blushed faces among the masses.

"How was that?"

"...not necessarily where I would have taken it, but I guess it's okay. Now, tell them the truth."

He laughed, "we aren't dating...Kagome is a childhood friend of mine, and Yuuta's."

"As of recently, I'm starting to feel like Shuusuke likes me more, I haven't seen Yuuta is what feels like ages." Kagome muttered. "Oh...are we going to go play?" She asked, noting that they were all just standing around.

"That's right, lets go."

Kagome watched as everyone made to go in different directions.

"Fujiko? Aren't we bowling?"

He shook his head, "no, Billiards."

"..." Kagome ran to catch up with Shuusuke as everyone followed them inside the Billiards hall. 'This is going to be fun!'

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Me: Here is chapter one, I was letting my mom pick stories for me to update. It played out like this...

Akuma: What should I update?

Mom: Prince of Tennis

Akuma: Yeah...that narrowed my choices down none. Oooh, how about you pick!

Mom: Do I have to?

Akuma: It would be appreciated, and I'll be quiet faster should you choose to assist me.

Mom: (closes the book she's reading) what do I need to do?

Akuma: Alright! So we chose Prince of Tennis/InuYasha!

Mom: Mmhm...

Akuma: Now pick a letter, A through Z!

Mom: …C...

Akuma: (nods silently, looking over all summaries written and not written, for titles starting with 'C') interestingly enough...I have none that are already started with a title starting with the letter 'C'. So…pick between these three titles, (reads off the only titles starting with C's that I have hidden in my PoT/IY Archive) and pick between 1, 2, 3...the number corresponding with the titles I just gave you.

Mom: ...1...

Akuma: ...you're a pervert...choosing a threesome.

Mom: How was I supposed to know! / Besides, it's no good changing my answer anyways, who knows what I could choose next! It may be worse!

Akuma: (Looks over the summaries to the other two titles and laughs) they were.

END SEQUENCE~!

Me: Review and let me know what you guys think of this new story, nyan~!