Chapter 9

"Where are Kaidoh and Inui?" Oishi asked the occupants of the tennis clubhouse.

"Dunno, may be they're both ill." Momo offered.

"No Inui would have called me if he wasn't able to attend. May be they'll be here soon." Oishi reassured himself. Tezuka was about to start the meeting when the door burst open. Inui and Kaidoh came running in and headed start for the nearest bench, both severely out of breath.

"Sorry we only woke up 10 minutes ago, it's a miracle that we're here at all, what with your mother way laying us with food and drink." Kaidoh apologised, not taking any notice of what he was saying, glaring at Inui to emphasis the point about Inui's mother. The room looked shocked at the two boys' catching their breath on the bench.

"What do you mean 'we woke up' and why are you two holding hands?" The entire room, all in one move looked at Inui's and Kaidoh's hands, they both looked as well. They let go immediately. "What the hell is going on between you two?" Eiji asked, unsatisfied that they still hadn't answered his previous questions.

Kaidoh slide to the floor unable to fight or argue he was too exhausted. "I can't be bothered to make excuses, I'm way too tired! Inui and I are dating," He said with his head in his hands, "We spent the day at Inui's because he had a very high fever this morning and I helped him get better. Everyone knows that when you are ill it is very tiring and I didn't sleep too well last night, so we fell asleep, before anyone gets the wrong end of the stick."

The room was silent. Most people were imitating fish, not Fuji though he just smiled as usual, Tezuka had his usual unmoved expression on his face, but to Inui's surprise Ryoma was actually shocked. He himself had been shocked when Kaidoh had revealed their relationship to their team mates, but recovered when he thought how much easier things would be. "You two are d…da…dating? Is that why your tennis has improved, because you 'have someone'?"

"I guess you could say that."

"We should all start dating then may be all of our tennis would improve neh Tezuka." Fuji grinned mischievously. The captain just ignored the tensai and carried on looking at the newly discovered couple.

"So how far have you two got?" Eiji bounced with excitement at Oishi's side.

"Eiji!" Oishi said embarrassed at his double partners' question. At that Eiji jumped onto his partner, wrapping his legs around Oishi's waist and smiled.

"I'm just seeing how far ahead of them we are." He stated innocently. Oishi forgot the room and its occupants and promptly kissed his doubles partner, long and slow. When they finally surfaced everyone in the room was impersonating fish and their attention was now on the golden pair rather than the Snake and Data players.

"So you two are dating as well?" Kaidoh choking on his own shock.

"Of course, you've noticed as well haven't you? As the relationship progresses in tennis doubles you improve, you get to know your partner so well that you can get in their mind and predict their moves."

"Yea, now that you mention it." Inui mussed. Kaidoh nodded as he thought back and realised that Eiji was right.

"How long have you two been dating?"

"16 days. How about you two?" Inui stated automatically.

"8 months. So you two haven't really done much then." Eiji looked a bit dismayed. Kaidoh blushed causing Eiji to giggle.

"Ok let me guess of course you've kissed each other," Kaidoh blush increased slightly, "Good, good, Ok have you spent ages on the sofa kissing with tongues?" Kaidoh's blush became slightly redder, Eiji squealed, "Very, very nice. Have you slept in the same bed as each other, without doing anything?"

"We know the answer to that question from what Kaidoh said in the first place." Ryoma piped in. Eiji turned to find that everyone including Tezuka and Fuji hanging on to every word said between to two newly discovered couples. Eiji smiled at everyone's curiosity and glad to see that he wasn't the only one who wanted to know. He was even glad to see that Oishi was listening intently; he had expected his boyfriend to try and shut him up in one way or another.

"True, Ok now for the good stuff," Kaidoh shuffled uncomfortably and Inui pulled him so that he was sitting on the bench in between his boyfriends legs, with said boyfriends arms around his waist, hugging him tightly. This made Kaidoh fill with confidence. Together we can handle whatever embarrassing question he hurls at us. "Oh kawaii, comfortable now are you Kaidoh?" Eiji asked playfully. Every one prepared themselves for an explosion, but it didn't come.

To their utmost surprise Kaidoh gave Eiji a seductive but mischievous grin and purred out, "Hell yea, carry on with your questions." Eiji was shocked.

"Wow, I had no idea that you could be so…so…so..."

"Hot." Inui finished for the acrobatic player. Eiji just nodded.

"Do your parents know about you two?" Fuji asked quizzing the couple.

"My parents do, they found out this morning, but Kaoru's don't."

"Why not?"

"They're on vacation with my siblings, for the past 2 weeks. They'll be back in two weeks."

"So you're telling me you two have the entire house to your self for two weeks and have for the past two weeks?" Momo looked impressed. "No wonder how far your relationship has come in such a small space of time." There was a mumble of agreement throughout the clubhouse.

"Wait a minute! We haven't established how far their relationship has come! Let me finish asking my questions first!" Eiji demanded from his seat, still with his legs wrapped around his boyfriend. "Ok next question. Have you taken showers together?" Kaidoh nodded. Inui let the boy in his arms answer the question to make him feel more comfortable with the situation and so that as much of their relationship was revealed as the boy wanted. Inui didn't care what people knew about their relationship, but he knew Kaidoh did so he let him talk, without interruption. "Knowing that I can guess that you have been doing some third base things." Another nod. Kaidoh had stopped blushing, something to do with his proximity to his calm and collected boyfriend. Eiji was now very excited and if it hadn't have been for his boyfriend wrapping his arms tightly around the smaller boy Eiji would have hit the ceiling with joy. "Had sex yet?" Eiji said with a very sly look on his face. Kaidoh simply shook his head. "Well you really have done a lot in 2 weeks. Well done. Oh and when you do get to fourth base you have to tell me everything Kaidoh, I'm curious to know what Inui's like." Kaidoh looked at Inui out of the corner of his eye, asking a question and receiving the answer. Eiji looked at him hopefully for the answer.

"Pshhhh." Was all he got. Well at least he had tried and he really had gotten a lot from Kaidoh, a hell of a lot more than he ever expect to extract from either of the pair. The captain butt in before Eiji or anyone else could add anything else.

"Ok. So it appears that we now have two couples within our ranks."

"Three." Momo added and promptly got whacked on the back of his head by Ryoma.

"How many times do I have to tell you we are not a couple…yet. There are a few things we need to sort out before I can even consider that." Momo nodded rubbing the back of his head.

"Hai, hai."

"As I said two couples…" But before he could continue Fuji spoke up.

"Stop blocking out your team from your personal life Tezuka." Everyone starred at their captain and the tensai. "We have three couples within our ranks; it's just that Tezuka just refuses to acknowledge to others that we are dating." Everyone became fish, yet again, Inui and Kaidoh included. Tezuka looked around at his gob smacked team and sighed.

"It appears as though our entire team is dating another member of the team. We are one hell of a weird team. But if everyone is happy and it continues to be advantageous to everyone's tennis, like it appears to be doing, I don't see any problem with it. It appears that Taka-san is the only one who isn't dating another member of the team, well done. Ok it appears as though no-one is going to be able to concentrate today, everyone go home, but I fully expect everyone to give me 200 Monday to make up for today! Dismissed"

Everyone wondered off, talking to their partners about the happening over the last half an hour. Kaidoh and Inui headed for Kaidoh's house, both smiling at what had just happened. This is one hell of a day, the number of people who have found out about us. They all seemed to accept it pretty well, which is very good. I think I'm gonna sleep for a very long time tonight, even longer as I have a feeling that Inui's gonna be sleeping with me.