I felt that I was LOOOONNNGGG overdue for an aside. So I present to you, INUI!

I know it's short, but Inui is always short when it comes to explaining things. I'm working on a new chapter for Youthful Monarchy so it may be up this weekened or next week since I have EASTER VACATION, thank goodness I go to a Catholic School.

I've ran the numbers again and again. I've analyzed the charts again and again. Yet, my data seems to have a flaw in it.

There was a 21.2% chance that Tezuka and Echizen-chan would get together after Ryuu showed up. Yet there was only a .009% chance that Tezuka's personality would change.

I wonder sometimes if Renji had taught me data tennis wrong. He always did seem like the back stabbing type. Besides that, the fact is that my data is wrong.

Without my data, I'm not really sure of anything.

Crap, Kaoru must know what I'm thinking of. He's giving me that look. It's indescribable. It's like he knows what I'm thinking. But I can't be sure because I have to look at my data. But I'm not sure of my data.

…My life is so confusing right now…

"Fshuu, Sadaharu," Kaoru said as he sat next to me at my desk.

I was entering data from my notebooks I wrote in that day when he tapped the screen.

"Isn't .04 over ten, .004?"

"Yes it is," I asked, not really sure where he was going with this.

"You put in .0004."

"What?" I looked at the screen before going completely blank.

WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME!?

I couldn't do anything right!

Kaoru took my notebook from my frozen hands and quickly typed everything in, mentally calculating some of the totals.

My limbs were frozen, but my eyes weren't. I quickly scanned the screen and realized that he had made my data completely flawless. I never noticed some of the mistakes I made earlier. I felt like a two year old trying to learn the quadratic formula.

My head began to throb slightly as I tried to comprehend how I failed.

Kaoru looked at me in concern before turning off my monitor and turning on my lamp.

"Maybe you need a nap," He said and poked my arm. I looked up and saw his eyes. I never realized what unique colors they were.

His left eye was a dark forest green, yet his right eye was a dark navy blue.

That was some good data.

Those two colored eyes narrowed. "No more data, you need to rest your eyes." He reached to remove my glasses, but I didn't stop him.

The world became somewhat blurry, but I could still make everything out almost perfectly.

The room became silent before Kaoru pulled my arm gently and led me to the bed.

"I'm not tired Kaoru."

"Yes you are," He whispered and placed a small kiss on my cheek. I turned slightly so that his lips met mine.

"No I'm not."

I felt him, more than saw him, smile against my face as he nuzzled my cheek. I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him closer.

"We'll see about that," He kissed me and led me to the bed once more.

--

I won't lie. The minute my head hit the pillow…I was out like a light.

--

I woke up to the feeling of someone's leg over my own. I looked to side and made out Kaoru's sleeping face. Ah yes, he had stayed the night because I was tutoring him in biology.

How'd he get in my bed?

I reached around him to grab my glasses when my hand touched his hair. I always thought that it was oily or greasy, but it was actually soft and fuzzy.

That was good data.

"No…more…data," Kaoru whispered as he unconsciously snuggled closer. I swear the boy is physic.

I rose and checked the time. It was almost time for practice…oh the dreadful practice.

--

I hate my life. I hate my life. I hate my life. I chanted as I walked home later that day. I swear I hate IT! Stupid, stupid data!

Uh, well, today was eventful if not horrible for me. Ryuu and Tezuka brought out the other's claws and Ryuu finally swung a punch at Tezuka.

I do remember a few days ago that Echizen said she would get Ryuu's balls if he tried anything with Tezuka. And I must say, the tennis racquet to the groin did look awfully painful. I wrote down his reaction, but made no attempt to do any calculations. Even though my fingers were itching for it. That was my life all day! Just writing down what I see, but not the chances of it or something akin to it happening.

My life is like a dark abyss that drowns me further in its own sorrow every day.

Yes, I'm just that depressed.

Uh-oh, Kaoru's hissing at me again.

"Sadaharu…no more data," he hissed.

"WHY!? I need my data!" Kaoru stopped and gave me a weird look. A looked…mad, agitated, jaded, exasperated, pissed off-aded…basically ANGRY.

"Goodbye," He turned around and walked the other way…which was away from his house. Where was he going?

"Where are you going? You live this way."

"I'm going to Akira's house."

"Akira? You mean Fudomine's Kamio?"

"Of course, I always go to my Akira's house."

"'Your' Akira?" My mind was frozen. Was he seeing Kamio behind my back?

His forest green eye glared at me, since it was his left side facing me, "Well, since I'm not your Kaoru…," He left the sentence hanging in midair.

"Of course you are," I said, gee did I sound pathetic.

He snarled at me, he actually snarled! "Say it honestly once you get your priorities straight."

He turned around again and walked back towards the direction we came from.

Did he just give me an ultimatum? I think he did.

--

I sat down at my desk and laid the facts out on the table.

Facts meant notebooks and notebooks meant data.

I ran the calculations through my computer Data Analyzer Program, or DAP, which my father created.

Okay, so according to these, if I only collected data for tennis games, and not things like what their favorite food is, Kaoru would have a 95% chance of coming back.

A box popped up, the second and third calculations had just finished.

My glasses glinted as I looked at the new solutions.

Apparently, the first calculation would only work if I gave willingly gave up on trying to collect as much data as possible, which was .00000001%. And if I somehow beat the odds, the third solution said that my chances of getting with Kaoru again were 100% percent. I decided to find the average for the complete outcome.

48.75% chance, that was my chance for getting Kaoru back.

A bolt of lightning struck outside as the storm rolled in.

You know how in movies, when the person gets a revelation and lightning strikes behind them? That just happened to me. I realized, that my chances were much lower than the calculations. I was using data to find the best way to stop using data.

Oh I pity the fools who haven't given me up for adoption yet.

--

I thought Kaoru was kidding. I thought he was kidding when he said he was going over to Kamio's house.

So, just imagine my shock when I saw the two of them walking from the movie theaters. No, my rational side said, they did nothing. Then why was Kaoru blushing slightly?

That BITCH! He cheated on me!

But technically he broke up with me.

No, the fact is that it wasn't official.

I turned around and walked back to my house. I couldn't let Kaoru see me like this.

Maybe I should've stayed a bit longer. Why? Because I may have missed something very important.

--

"Fshuu, what are you talking about? We went to the movies because we were bored."

"But I saw you blushing when you came out."

I was on the phone with Kaoru, he had called me to ask if I made my mind up.

"That bastard, he had managed to sneak into an R rated movie. That movie should have labeled P for porno, there were so many sex scenes."

"…oh," Gosh did I feel stupid.

"Have you decided yet?"

I stayed silent as I looked around my room before my eyes landed on my notebook.

"Hai, I have."

"And?"

"I'll only use my data for tennis and nothing else. I promise."

I could mentally see Kaoru smiling on the other end.

"Good," I jumped slightly, his voice sounded like it was right next to me.

I turned slightly and saw Kaoru smiling. I cursed the set up of my room, then and there. I was on my bed and my bed was situated so that I couldn't see whoever came in.

"Where were you?"

"Outside of your door," He hung up his cell phone.

"How'd you know what I saw going to say?"

Seriously, what if I had said no?

"You would've still said yes. You may need data, but you want me, right?"

I nodded as he sat in my lap.

"Well, I can make you want me so much, you'll end up needing me more."

My process of thought stopped as he kissed me. Of course, I quickly took control.

I won't tell you what happened after the kiss, this story is rated T, after all.