Chapter Six
Snooping Around
As Sakura landed she took a look around at her surroundings, taking in all the Regulars, coach Sumire and the spectators.
"Hm… where to start?" Sakura asked herself as she starting walking behind the Regulars taking in all their features. She stopped when she saw Inui scribbling down notes on the bench. 'What the?'
"Hey Kawamura-senpai, what is Inui-senpai doing?" Sakura asked to Taka-san as she stopped to stare.
"Huh? Oh Haruno-san I didn't see you. Well, he's writing down information on these two in case they get the last Regular spot."
"Why?"
"He's the Tennis Data player didn't you know?" Taka-san looked at Sakura now and noticed a glint in her eyes.
"So… does he have information on all of you?" Sakura could already see an opportunity arising.
"Yeah he is always updating it," Momo said as he joined the conversation.
"Is that so?" Sakura trailed off as she thanked them and walked towards Inui.
"I wonder what that was about," Momo said as they both turned away as Ryoma continued looking after the girl with a suspicious look on his face.
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"Hey!! Inui-senpai!!" Sakura called out as she sat down next to him with a smile on her face.
"Haruno-san… can I help you?" Inui covered his book slightly as he turned to Sakura, adjusting his glasses.
"I was just wondering, do you happen to have any information in there about me and my brothers?" Sakura asked, referring to Naruto and Sasuke.
"Yes, what of it?" Inui pulled his precious data book even further away from Sakura as he completely turned to face her this time.
"Just asking. So I am guessing they aren't your only data books right? So how many do you have?" Sakura asked leaning towards him slightly with an angelic look on her face, the complete opposite of her intentions.
"I have one for every Regular including myself, and one for every school we've faced, why?" Inui asked suspiciously.
"Wow, that's impressive," Sakura said completely side stepping the question. "So where are they?"
"I don't know what you want, but I'm not telling you," Inui said finally and turned away slightly to indicate that the conversation was over.
"No need to be so rude, I was just asking," Sakura huffed getting up and walking away. 'Damnit, that doesn't help in the slightest.'
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Sakura walked back over to the group of Regulars to see if she could squeeze the information from them.
"Hey guys, I was just wondering, where does Inui keep all his Data books? I mean, he says he has so many, but he treats them like gold, so like, where would he have them?" Sakura asked subtly inching closer for the answer.
"In his locker of cours–" Momo replied but was cut off by Ryoma as he turned around and asked rudely,
"Why do you want to know?"
"Excuse me? I was just asking," Sakura replied just as rudely, but all the same a little hurt. I mean, he doesn't even know her, and even though she wants to steal… no, borrow, those Data books it doesn't mean he has to be so rude. She walked off as Momo hit Ryoma upside the head,
"Why'd you do that? She was just asking."
'At least one of them is nice,' Sakura thought to herself as she returned to Naruto and Sasuke in the tree.
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When she got up there, she quickly woke Sasuke up and told them what she found,
"Ok, this is a job for you Sasuke. I have found out that Inui, the one with glasses," she added to Naruto's confused look. "He has this collection, I suppose you could call it that, of books on the Data of the Regulars here and around at the other schools. Just imagine what we could do with that information. It would make our job so much easier." She finished in a rush of air as she sucked in more oxygen for her lungs.
"So where are they?" Sasuke asked catching on as Naruto just sat there confused.
"They're in his locker that's all I found out. Echizen knew I was up to something." Sakura replied as Sasuke could feel a plan coming on as well. "What I was thinking is that you could get into the school under the guise of having to go to the toilet, use your Sharingan to look into the lockers for the data books, get them out and get them to Kakashi so he can photocopy them all while the matches take place. If you hurry you may be able to get back while my match is still on so no-one suspects you." When she finished a light came into Naruto's eyes.
"I get it! We're stealing four eyes' Da–" Before he could finish the sentence Sakura quickly slapped her hand over his mouth and gave him the evil eye.
"Don't you dare Uzumaki," Sakura threatened before taking her hand away slowly as Naruto had the decency to look sheepish.
"Sorry Sakura-chan."
"Hey, how's this match going by the way?" Sakura finally noticed that the match was still going on between Tomo and Sakuno.
"Well, its 5 all right now, all that's been happening is that one got a point on their serve and then the other one got a point on their serve and yeah, quite boring actually. A lot of apologies are going round between them."
"Fair enough, ok, good luck Sasuke," Sakura quickly added as she saw Sasuke jump down from the tree.
"Don't need it; I'll be back in no time. If you see that Inui guy get up stall him until I get back."
"Will do," Naruto replied before settling back on his tree and immediately falling asleep.
"Great watchman you are…" Sakura muttered as she focused her attention on the match below.
"GAME SET MATCH, 7-5 RYUUZAKI SAKUNO. 10 MINUTE BREAK UNTIL NEXT MATCH BETWEEN HARUNO SAKURA AND RYUUZAKI SAKUNO ON COURT B." The announcement brought adrenaline to Sakura's blood as she jumped from the tree with her racquet and started stretching.
"Finally, let's get this show on the road."
