Five

Inui entered his dorm feeling uneasy for some reason. It seemed like he and Kaidoh had faced the past too soon. But it was Kaidoh who had requested to train for tennis in the first place. It left the data genius feeling confused and it took a lot to make him confused. He sat down at his computer desk and typed up some new data as back-up just incase something happened to his notebooks that were lined up on the shelf beside him.

The door burst open with Kazuki and Toshi coming out from a night outing probably around eleven or so. They were laughing and holding onto eachother since both of them were drunk. Inui sighed and shut down his files and saved them on a disk before hiding them away and heading to bed knowing that Kazuki and Toshi would either be violent or very…and strangely enough loving towards eachother through out the night.

His roommate and his friend were very strange. Inui decided to try to think about other things than his dysfunctional roommate. Like Kaidoh and about how he'd win a regulars spot without even trying; and how they might be able to play doubles again. He smiled and snuggled into the covers a little more before falling asleep.

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Kaidoh was purely frustrated. For no reason. He got home quickly and instantly started cooking to calm his nerves down. He ended up almost burning himself in the process. He hissed in annoyance was finally finished preparing his meal before sitting down to eat. He had to eat cheap due to the rent of his apartment on the roof, but he decided that he would live. This was such a small place that his parents got him, a little bigger than the size of his room back home. He had no kitchen table but a makeshift foldout table that would also be his study desk as well as his kitchen table.

Kaidoh sighed, washed up for the night after he finished his dinner; and flopped onto his bed closing his eyes. He kept wondering about his senpai; how much had he changed? How good was he in tennis? Had he…had he missed him? Kaidoh blushed and buried his face into the pillows. Ah he was an idiot to think such stupid things!

Inui-senpai wasn't one to miss anyone! He'd just be surprised or happy to see someone he knew; nothing more! Kaidoh had to admit though; he missed Inui. Tennis hadn't been any fun without him oddly enough. Tennis felt strangely empty without hearing calculations and percentages mumbled behind him or the scratch of a pen moving across the lined pages of a notebook to annoy him. Even something as annoying as that he missed.

Kaidoh had really missed Inui-senpai..

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Kaidoh was out of class early and decided to wait for Inui to get out of his classes until he was clung onto from behind. Kaidoh blinked and looked behind him to find Yuri grinning widely.

"Long time no see Kaidoh!"

"S-Sutamori-senpai!" Kaidoh stuttered out with a hiss a little shaken that he had just been pounced on.

"If you're waiting for Inui then he won't be out of his classes for a while," Yuri pointed out.

"Oh?"

"Yeah, let me take you out somewhere until his classes are done," Yuri said grabbing Kaidoh's hand leading

"Sutamori-senpai!" Kaidoh protested.

"Ah Kaidoh you're so formal, at least call me Yuri-senpai, calling me Sutamori makes me sound old already!" Yuri exclaimed.

"Yuri-senpai, I could have waited!"

Yuri laughed.

"Ah so you cling onto Inui huh?" she teased.

Kaidoh blushed furiously.

"I do not!" he snapped.

"Oh really? Who else have you hung out with other than him?" Yuri asked with a smirk.

Kaidoh couldn't answer that one because he had been caught in that one. Yuri was right, he did sort of cling onto Inui.

"Don't worry, I'll bring you back to your beloved Inui-senpai when his classes end," Yuri assured.

"Fssshuu you're crazy," Kaidoh muttered as they walked down the sidewalk.

"Then you'll have to put up with me. Now it's time for me to ask questions!" Yuri exclaimed.

"Questions?" Kaidoh asked glancing at the weird girl walking beside him. Inui had very strange friends…

"Yep! Like how did you and Inui hook up?" Yuri asked.

Kaidoh blushed.

"We're not like that at all Yuri-senpai! He's just my teammate…and maybe even my friend… We met at Seigaku; we were both on the tennis team," he answered.

"I see, I see," Yuri muttered.

"What about you? How did you meet Inui-senpai?" Kaidoh shot back.

"Well he was in my physics class and we partnered up. I figured out that we both played tennis and we just had a lot of common interests. So we're really good friends and sometimes even a little weird at that. I can actually drink his Inui Juice without gagging...he showed me the trick about actually showed me how to swallow it," Yuri explained.

Kaidoh couldn't help but feel a little jealous… Inui told this girl how to swallow down Inui Juice and survive through it and didn't even tell him? Pout!

Yuri laughed. He could tell that Kaidoh was already jealous…maybe Kaidoh did have feelings for Inui too. Both boys were clueless, and Yuri being the crazy chick who was in love with love decided that it was time to make the two realize it even though it might take a while.

"You hold your breath and don't even let the liquid touch your tongue… You just swallow it down and hope to god that you don't throw up. If you're used to eating spicy stuff then you can handle it. The only time it doesn't work is when you have Aozu because it sort of makes you throat somehow have a gagging reflex," Yuri continued.

So that's how Fuji did it. He didn't taste it; he swallowed it. That's probably how he ate food too. He didn't taste it he'd chew and swallow while normal people actually wanted to taste their food.

"Inui seems really happy that you're here," Yuri said trying to get Kaidoh to talk.

"He does?" Kaidoh asked.

"Yeah, he looks happier than he's ever been," Yuri answered.

Kaidoh blushed "I didn't notice…"

"Yeah, don't think too much on it or he'll realize it and will try to act normal," said Yuri almost jokingly.

Kaidoh gave a half smile and agreed, if this was a happy Inui he liked it. He then thought that Inui might have actually missed him.

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As soon as he got out of his classes he was greeted by a very hyper Yuri and a shy and quiet Kaidoh who gave a sheepish smile.

"I see that Yuri dragged you along her rambling route…" Inui said.

Kaidoh nodded.

"Why must you call walking with me a rambling route?" Yuri asked with a pout.

"Because every time you take walks you end up asking a bunch of questions and getting answers oddly enough. And then you ramble on about your daily life and events…or gossip about someone else," Inui pointed out taking out his green notebook to add data into it.

"If you hadn't realized Inui, I'm female…females do that sort of thing," Yuri said.

"Yeah, sure…like I really thought you were a boy," Inui said sarcastically. Kaidoh stifled a laugh that turned into a laugh/hiss.

Yuri decided to get her revenge, "Maybe so but Kaidoh listened awfully well. And he answered a lot of my questions; he might have even told me things you didn't know about.. Who has the 'ii data' now Inui?"

Inui's eyes went wide behind his frameless glasses as he looked over to a furiously blushing Kaidoh… Did Yuri really get some unsolved information out of Kaidoh? Inui really had underestimated Yuri and what she was capable of. What all did Kaidoh tell her? He didn't dare prod.

"I'll leave you two to talk things out. Come see me again Kaidoh! You're very fun to talk to!" Yuri called out before disappearing. Again. Leaving both Inui and Kaidoh in awkward silence.

"You have weird friends Inui-senpai," Kaidoh said as they headed down to tennis practice.

"Ah, sorry.. Was she really hyper around you?" Inui asked.

Kaidoh nodded.

"The female species tend to be that way; especially around males. I'll have to keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't do anything out of proportion," Inui said his fingers going up to his face to adjust his glasses.

"I'm not interested if she likes me in that way," Kaidoh snapped with a hiss. Inui smiled and felt a little happy about that oddly enough. Yuri was getting to him dammit… What in the world was that girl up to?

(A/N: Too much Yuri and not enough Inui/Kaidoh action. I'm sorry. I'll hopefully make up for that! XD And sorry for the delays!! I'm so going to have to play catch-up!!!!)