Chapter 21

Inui was still lying shocked on the floor as his boyfriend excused himself, to go the bathroom. He gathered himself and his escaped glasses and got up, trying to regain some dignity. The room was still silent, no-one wanted to say anything.

"Sorry about that Sensei, seems as though my big mouth and lack of sensitivity have gotten me into trouble again." Inui admitted feeling very stupid.

"Err…well… yes. We can all upset our partners from time to time."

"Would you mind if I go after him? I think we need to have a personal conversation."

"Of course, but don't take too long, no longer than 30 minutes. Understood?"

"Hai, thank you sensei!" With that Inui quickly walked out of the class room and headed for the nearest toilets. When he arrived outside of the door Inui took a deep breath and entered. "Kaoru! I'm so sorry you know my big mouth can run away with me some times." But there was no reply. He ventured further in and found there was no-one in the toilets. Where has he gone? 60 possibility he's in another toilet, 35 possibility he's wondering around the school and 5 possibility he's left school grounds. Based on his calculations he tried all of the other toilets in the school, continuing to come upon empty toilet after another. He was really beginning to panic. Where could he have gone?! He hadn't run across Kaidoh wondering corridors either, which left only one option. Kaidoh Kaoru had left school grounds and had once again defied Inui's calculations.

Inui was not really starting to worry. Where could he have gone? For a walk to clear his head? Back to my house to sulk? Or has he gone back to his house because he's had enough of my big mouth?! I need to find him and fast! He ran back to his class room. "Sensei, Kaoru has left the school grounds, he's not in any of the toilets and I can't find him anywhere. What am I going to do? What if he's had enough of me and gone back to his parents house… and never wants to see me ever again… and what if he starts ignoring me or hating me. What am I going to do, Oh my God, Oh my God!" Everyone watched in shock as the data player worked himself up, more and more, until he was nothing but mess. All because his boyfriend had gone missing. Fuji was the only one smiling, eyes open a slighter, this is interesting. Kaidoh does have a lot of power over Inui, next time I see him I think I'll congratulate him. May be he'll give me some tips that I can use on our stoic captain. Not that I need any, I can have then all worshipping me in a split second if I wanted to. Fuji smiled even bigger as his mind continued its train of thought.

In the mean time, Aoe-sensei had gotten to the mess of a data player and had successfully stopped him from becoming hysterical. "Inui, where would Kaidoh-kun have gone?"

"49 possibility he's gone to the sports shop, 25 possibility he's gone to my house, 15 possibility he's just wondering around and… and 11 possibility he's gone to his house." He finished quietly.

"How likely is it that he's going to come back?"

"96. But he's always defying my calculations; with him it's hard to be sure."

"In that case, we will all stay here and continue our lesson. If Kaidoh does not come back after 2 hours then we will all go and look for him. Until then will everybody please focus on the lesson at hand." It took a full 2 minutes before anyone moved. The team sat themselves down in their seats, sitting noticeably closer to their partners, as if not wanting to lose them as well. They had all seen how even a simple phrase, used inappropriately could cause havoc and no body was willing to test their relationships. At least not yet.

Inui sat in his seat, alone, staring out of the window, pray to whatever power was up there, that Kaidoh would walk into sight and relieve his heart of the pain it felt. How could he have been so stupid? He knew how private Kaidoh like his matters to be and how shy he was. Why did he think that Kaidoh wouldn't mind if he shared an intimate fact about their relationship with their team mates? He wanted to run around all of the street in the whole of Japan and try and find his beloved, but he knew that the sensei was right, Kaidoh was most likely to return and he had no doubt that when he did he had some groveling to do.