Suna was nervous as hell. She didn't know what on earth to expect, and she was so afraid she was trembling. She couldn't quite figure out what she was afraid of, but whatever it was, was eating at her. Perhaps she was afraid she'd lose. But then..why should she be, she already knew she'd lose the tennis match anyway. Or perhaps she was afraid of what Inui's reaction would be after he saw how horribly she played. Would he laugh? Would he think she was stupid, or not even good enough to talk to?

'My goodness, Suna, get a grip. It's just a tennis match, nothing big,' she told herself. 'Besides, if he laughs at me, why should I care?..'

Deep down, Kabibito knew it mattered more to her than anything. All her life, she never was really accepted. So, today, it was like her one chance to prove that she was good enough for somebody. She knew she shouldn't care, she didn't even want to care..but..she did. Kabibito looked nervously at the time, and realized that Inui would probably be there soon. She plopped down on the soft grass underneath her, and pulled a book from the blue bag she was carrying. She figured that maybe if she read while waiting on Inui, it might calm her a little.

She was just beginning to get absorbed in her book when she heard a voice say, "Ii data." Just as Inui predicted, the girl squeaked and jumped.

"Why do you have to be so damn sneaky!" Suna yelled, trying to gain her composure.

"What, don't you enjoy it?" Inui teased.

She huffed, brushing herself off. "Not particulary."

"Ii data." Inui grinned.

Kabibito scowled. "Is that all you ever think about, data I mean?"

While writing everything down, Inui shook his head. "It's not all I think about. I think about how fun it'd be to torture newly found victims with my juices, too." He laughed sadistically.

This time, it was Kabibito's turn to smile. "Ii data," she said, smirking.

Inui looked up from his notebook, shocked. Then, he raised an eyebrow. "Hmm..you certainly ARE full of surprises. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that was an attempt to flirt with me." Inui noted that after he said that she blushed a deep crimson.

The young girl mumbled something that sounded vaguely like "Wasn't trying to flirt," then picked up her tennis racquet. "I thought we were here to play tennis?"

Inui nodded, digging in his bag for his own tennis racquet. "I also thought it an excellent opportunity to collect more data on you. Seems I was right," he replied, smiling at her in a way that would terrify most people.

Suna swallowed hard. "My t-tennis s-skills aren't very good," she stuttered. "Please don't laugh..."

Inui narrowed his eyes, looking up. "What makes you think I would laugh?"

Her heard a little gasp from her, as if what he said was totally shocking. "You mean you won't?" she asked quietly.

Inui was, for once, totally stumped at why that would shock her. He scrunched up his face, and shook his head. "I won't." Inui didn't fail to notice the faint smile on he face. He smirked, pulled out his green notebook again, and wrote more data down. After he was finished, he picked up a tennis ball. "Now, let's play. I'll serve first."

Suna was really struggling to keep up with Inui's fast moves. Every now and then she would score a point, but he was winning by a mile. She scrunched up her eyebrows in concentration, and hit the ball that was coming towards her. The shot wasn't very strong, and Inui hit it with ease. As he observed her playing, he noticed something. Kabibito was hesistating to hit the ball, and at first, he didn't know why. He suspecting she was afraid of the ball, as most girls were. But then, when her sleeve slid farther up her arm, a huge black and blue bruise was visible. Inui narrowed his eyes when he saw this. The first time they had met a smaller bruise was on her other arm. To Inui, something about that just wasn't right.

The match was over, and Inui had won by six points. Kabibito squinted and wiped her sweaty face off with a towel she had brought. It was lucky she had brought it too, she never realized how exhilarating tennis could be! She dug farther into her bag, finding a water bottle that was, unfortunately, full of hot water. All the ice had melted due to the sweltering heat.

"You weren't as bad as you made yourself out to be," Inui stated, leaning down to sit beside her.

"Arigatou," she said without much thought, taking a sip from her water bottle.

"While we were playing, I noticed something. You have a bruise on your arm, that's why you were hesistating to hit the ball, correct?"

Suna froze mid-way in taking another drink. "Bruise? What bruise?" she said quickly.

Inui frowned, and started to grab her arm to show her when she jerked away.

"You need to get new glasses, 'cause there isn't a bruise on my arm!"

Inui was speechless. It wasn't because of shock, more like confusion. He had seen that bruise with his own eyes, and knew very well that there was nothing wrong with his glasses. What was the big deal? It was just a bruise!

After seeing the look on his face, Suna swallowed. "Gomen," she said apologetically. "I..over-reacted. Um, I tripped the other day, that's where the bruise came from. No big deal," she replied, shrugging.

Now, even the most foolish of people would be able to tell she was lying. She was a horrible liar.

'Ii data,' Inui said mentally. He would have to remember to add that small detail to his data collection later. But for now, he had to figure out why she had to lie over something as small as a bruise. He decided that she would tell him no information about this and he would have to figure it out on his own, so he changed the subject.

"Suna, where do you live?"

Suna gaped at him and exclaimed, "That's private info!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Well, if you don't tell me I'll still figure it out sooner or later," Inui commented with a very sadistic grin.

Kabibito sighed and answered, "Well, you'll have to figure it out later, 'cause I'm not telling you!"

Inui's smile grew wider. "Ii data."

Kabibito resisted the urge to roll her eyes. She sighed once more, and layed down in the amazingly soft grass. She stared up at the beautiful sky and breathed in the fresh air. "It's so peaceful out here, you know? I wish it'd always be like this."

Inui watched the youthful girl yawn and smile softly. She looked so serene, and content.. Inui was surprised to find that he himself felt content just by looking at her. "So you like nature. Ii data." Inui was expecting her to roll her eyes, sigh, or maybe even throw something at him, but she surprised him by saying, "Of course. It's so calm. So lovely. You'd never know just by looking at the world just how dark and bad it could be..."

It was Inui's turn to frown. "Who said the world was dark and bad?"

She turned her head to look at him. "Well, don't you think so?"

"Not everything in the world is bad."

A faint smile tugged at Kabibito's lips. "I guess not. " She turned her head to stare back at the heavenly sky.

It was silent for a moment, and Inui couldn't help but wonder what Kabibito had by the world being 'dark and bad'. He had began to space out while pondering this question, until he was snapped out of his thoughts when Kabibito asked, "Inui, do you have a girlfriend?"

This question stunned Inui slightly, and he laughed. "Girlfriend? No. Why?"

"Just wondering. Ever had one?"

Inui twisted his face as he thought about it. No, he'd never had one, not that he could recall. "I don't think so."

Suna's olive eyes met his and she responded, "Oh."

There was silence once more, before Inui blurted out, "Do you have a boyfriend?"

Kabibito laughed a little, a sound that could be described as glass hitting glass. "No, I've never had one, either."

Once more, Inui whipped out his green notebook to wrote this information down. For the third time, a peaceful, not awkward, silence set in.

Kabibito sat up excitedly when a bird began to sang in the tree nearby. "I love birds," she gushed, smiling brightly up at it as it sang. "They're so beautiful. And oh, how I envy them! They have wings, and can fly..."

Inui was steadily writing everything she said down while watching her stare lovingly at the bird.

"When I was about five, I noticed that if you put a "T" on Kabibito, and changed my name to "Kaze" it'd be Kaze Tabibito..."

"Kaze Tabibito?"

"Yes," she said, nodding. "Wind traveller..like the birds..." She suddenly began to laugh. "I don't know what that has to do with anything, and I've still no idea why I'm telling you this, but.. I wish I was a bird, then I could have wings, and fly away and be free."

Inui paused from his writing when she said this to look up at her. "But you are free."

Suna suddenly became flustered, and said quickly, "I mean free to..free to..never mind." She took her eyes away from the bird to stare once more at the purple sky.

"Oh no!" She gasped suddenly. "It must be getting really late! Gomen, I have to go! I-I hope he's not mad at me.." She quickly shoved everything in her bag and slung it over her shoulder. "Bye, Inui, see you later!"

Inui's face was blank as he watched her rush off. His mind was busy puzzling over who she meant exactly when she said, "I hope he's not mad." Kabibito was certainly an enigma, if anything.

A/N: Kaze Tabibito roughly means "Wind Traveller" just in case you didn't understand. D Hope you liked it. Thanks for the reviews.