Three
They were waiting outside a classroom and people started to exit into the halls ways. Inui grinned.
"If you're setting me up I'm killing you," Kaidoh muttered.
"You have to have other friends than me," protested Inui.
There was a silence between them until someone pounced onto Inui.
"Gotcha!"
"Very funny Yuri! Stop it before you make my kouhai jealous," Inui said. The girl hopped off of the taller boy looking at Kaidoh. So this was Yuri. She had brown hair which Kaidoh guessed was from some highlights added to her hair and the same color of eyes to match with it. She was normal height and seemed to be rather hyper from her first appearance.
"Ooh I didn't know you had a boyfriend Inui-kun," Yuri teased.
Inui and Kaidoh blushed madly and looked away from eachother. Yuri laughed and noticed the sexual tension between the two of them immediately.
"I'm right aren't I?" she prodded on.
"No! Yuri it's nothing like that! This is Kaidoh, he's a classmate of mine back from junior high at Seigaku. We were regulars together on the tennis team," Inui explained quietly pushing his glasses up out of nervousness.
"I see, I see. I'm sorry Kaidoh-kun, I didn't know any better. I'm Sutamori Yuri, nice to meet you," Yuri said with a smile.
"Kaidoh, Kaoru same," Kaidoh said looking away.
"If you need help and this weirdo isn't around allow me to help, I probably can explain things better than he can anyway. Inui-kun has his own language after all," Yuri teased.
Kaidoh blushed a little more and looked at Inui with a slightly sheepish smile.
"He does…but I translate well," he said softly.
Yuri could have squeed right then. She had known Inui for a year; they both played tennis, Inui beat her when they played a match together and basically was Inui's escape route from his annoying roommates. This was one time though that Yuri knew that her friend was in love and maybe even didn't realize it. Inui and this guy had been classmates since junior high and they seemed a little bit too happy to see each other again.
"Kaidoh-kun there's a drink machine downstairs, I'll give you the money but could you get me a drink? I just finished a presentation and I'm dehydrated," Yuri said sweetly before placing change into Kaidoh's hands.
Kaidoh glanced at his senpai as if asking him for help but Inui knew that Yuri would insist.
"Go on, it's just downstairs," Inui comforted. Kaidoh sighed and looked back only once before heading down the hall and down the flight of stairs.
"You're in love with him!" Yuri said as soon as he made it down stairs.
"I am not!" Inui protested blushing furiously.
"Wanna bet? You're as red as a fucking strawberry!" Yuri exclaimed.
"Yuri be quiet!"
"And he likes you too! There's so much sexual tension that eventually you two are going to end up in the same bed," Yuri continued.
"Yuri!" Inui said through gritted.
"Yes Inui-kun?" Yuri asked with a smile.
"Do me a favor as a friend, shut up!" Inui exclaimed blushing even more. God dammit that was bad. He wished he had his old pair of glasses on. That would really help right now.
Yuri cackled and was almost in tears.
"But I'm being serious!" she said.
"I'm just happy he's here okay? Everyone else from Seigaku left town or the country. I'm thrilled that Kaidoh stayed, I don't feel so alone anymore Yuri. That's all," Inui explained.
Yuri smiled and looked at Inui grasping his hand.
"Hey, I haven't seen you this happy in a long time. Not since you beat the crap out of the regulars on the tennis team actually. But that's not the point; I'm glad you're happy. And you better play your role as senpai and protect him. Especially from your god awful roommates if he's going for the regulars spot on the tennis team," she said softly.
Inui sighed, "I'm worried about that actually, but Kaidoh's very good. Probably in three years he'll be the best he's ever been, I predicted it back when we were playing doubles together. He knows about that hypothesis. I have no doubt he'll crush my roommates and maybe even buchou."
"Kinomoto Ayashi-buchou? Psh, it's a wonder you haven't played him yet; he just has connections to where he's gotten out of playing you in the ranking matches," Yuri said as if it was no big deal at all.
"At times I wonder where the hell Tezuka is when I need him," muttered Inui.
"Tezuka?" Yuri asked back away from Inui confused. This guy muttered almost everything that came into his head and sometimes it was even scary.
"Our buchou at Seigaku; he and Ryoma Echizen were the top players there. They were beyond junior high school level players," Inui explained.
Yuri's jaw dropped.
"You were on the same tennis team as the Echizen Ryoma?" she asked.
"Yes," Inui said.
"I hate you," Yuri said.
"You hate who?" Kaidoh asked handing Yuri her can of soda as her returned.
"The sky Kaidoh, she hates the sky. It's cloudy," Inui said.
Yuri giggled.
"Meaning don't worry about it," she said.
Kaidoh nodded finding Yuri and Inui very strange. Was Inui sure that he didn't like Yuri?
"Anyway, I have to make sure the tennis team didn't set fire to the club room. Our captains are hopeless and just have money to even earn their positions," Yuri said with an annoyed sigh.
"Good luck with that," Inui said.
Yuri told them both goodbye and ran down the flight of stairs quickly. She was vice-captain after all.
"Are you sure you don't like her senpai?" Kaidoh asked eyeing Inui suspiciously.
"I'm sure I don't like her. She's not my type anyway… She's just a really good friend who just happens to be a girl," Inui reassured.
"Okay then," Kaidoh said and secretly couldn't help but feel a little relived.
Inui walked Kaidoh around the campus trying to help him find his way around the place while Kaidoh himself tried to memorize pathways they were taking to get to each of everything.
Finally it had gotten dark and Inui walked Kaidoh to his apartment and the stairs.
"Thank you for showing me around Inui-senpai," Kaidoh said.
"It was no problem, there's only a twenty percent chance that you'll get lost tomorrow," Inui pointed out.
Kaidoh hissed. There went Inui with his calculations as always. It was good thing that he hadn't changed completely since Kaidoh last saw him.
"Good night," Kaidoh said unlocking the door.
Inui blinked as if surprised.
"Goodnight Kaidoh; rest well," he said before turning toward the stairway and walking down. He only glanced back once at the apartment before walking off.
(A/N: --goes into a corner and hides before anyone can kill her-)