"Inui...I'm not sure. I mean, I've never..."

Horio paused in what he was doing, turning his head toward the source of the voice.

"It's fine, Eiji. I'll lead you through it."

Horio's eyes grew wider as his body grew stiller.

"But what if someone sees us?"

"There is a 2.7 chance of anyone finding us here."

"But Inui..."

"It'll be fine, Eiji. Trust me."

"Hai, Inui..."

Soft music started playing, and Horio's eyes nearly bulged out of his head. Quiet, murmured words of encouragement floated to his ears, and the need to know what was going on was quickly starting to overpower him.

"Oh, Inui, you're really good!"

Horio gazed around the corner, spotting his senpais with their arms around each other, faces flushed, and promptly fled the club house.

"News! News! Big, big...very, very, VERY big news!" Horio's cry was heard by his fellow first years, who crowded around to hear what he had to say.

"What is it, Horio-kun?"

"I just caught Inui-senpai and Eiji-senpai kissing!"

"What!"

And that's how the rumors started.

"Did you hear? Inui and Kikumaru were caught kissing in the club house."

"Hey, guess what? Sadaharu and Eiji were totally making out in the locker room. We're talking full on groping."

"Yeah, I guess Eiji was giving him head right up against the lockers."

"They were doing it in the showers! What's more, one of the first years caught them!"

"I hear that Echizen found them, and they asked him to join, and he said yes!"

By the time practice started the next day, the word on the courts was that Inui, Eiji, and Echizen were screwing in the shower while Oishi watched. Neither the prodigy nor the fukubuchou were very pleased with the hammering questions they were receiving.

When Inui and Eiji arrived, together, all hell broke loose.

"Oi! Is it true? Is it true?"

The two looked at each other, blinking in confusion (even though no one could tell Inui was doing such a thing).

"Is what true?" Inui asked, warily eyeing the gathered tennis club members.

"That you two and Echizen-kun were doing it in the showers and that Oishi has footage?"

Behold the power of the ever evolving rumor.

Eiji turned an interesting shade of red, probably a shade or two darker than his hair, and was doing a surprisingly accurate imitation of a fish.

Inui's shock was only apparent in the rapid twitching of his eyebrow. "...Run that by me again?"

One of the first years stumbled forward, having been "nudged" and blinked rapidly. "Ano...well...H-Horio-kun said that he saw you two kissing yesterday and---"

A simultaneous "WHAT!" cut him off rather quickly, and all eyes turned on the poor unibrowed first year, who was desperately trying to hide behind Momoshiro.

"Well...you two...yesterday...flushed and...music..."

At this, Inui began laughing, much to everyone's surprise.

"You thought...that...we...oh, God..."

Cue the mass confusion.

"Eiji...tell them, would you?"

Eiji began fidgeting, gazing down at his feet, scuffing them a bit. "Well...it's just...Inui was just teaching me how to waltz."

Horio ran fifty laps without anyone even having to tell him to.