Sick Days

-BluAyu

(A/N: Finally! It's out! The fic I've been talking about for months is finally out! -rejoices- XD My first Inu/Kai centric fic so be nice! And sorry it took me so long..my floppy disk wanted to be evil! Enjoy!)

Disclaimer: The Prince of Tennis doesn't belong to me sadly… I can always wish though...

Day One

Kaidoh had been feeling actually pretty good when he headed to school this morning. Nothing was wrong with him and he was able to maintain his routine of doing his daily run in the morning and then heading to school for morning tennis practice. The only thing that had got him feeling crappy that day was actually Momoshiro with his snide remarks. But Kaidoh would just hold back the punches he wanted to blow at the violet eyed idiot and hiss. Because god dammit Kaoru Kaidoh wasn't going to let him ruin a perfectly nice easy going day!

Evening practice also went well. It was Wednesday meaning it was the middle of the week meaning that all they really had to do was sit around and watching the non-regular members of the team play and maybe play with them as well. It was a breeze, easy stuff. An easy going half a day of school since they usually got out at three o'clock instead of five o'clock on a Wednesday because of staff meetings and other stuff. Tennis practice would end at five o'clock instead of seven; meaning Kaidoh might be able to rest for awhile and maybe not be so exhausted doing homework.

"It seems like we're playing doubles today," said a voice behind him. A hand was placed on Kaidoh's shoulder and he flinched at the physical contact. Behind him was Inui Sadaharu, he was a year older than him but was as close to a friend as Kaidoh got. Inui was grinning happily at him, and Kaidoh was taking it that Inui also had an easy going day as well.

"Hai Inui-senpai," Kaidoh replied moving away.

"Momoshiro and Ryoma are also free from playing our original members. So that's who we're left playing with," explained Inui.

"Fsshu, less trouble that way too. I don't like holding back when I play against non-regulars," responded Kaidoh taking out his dark blue racket.

That was true. It meant he couldn't play as hard as he usually would because it'd only be fair to give the person he was playing a fair handicap.

"Momoshiro's smash has gotten stronger by twenty three percent. And Echizen has been practicing playing doubles with him to be don't be surprised if they're more sync than usual," noted Inui scribbling something down in his notebook.

"It's about damn time they've learnt how to work together," Kaidoh muttered under his breath waiting for his senpai to finish up on whatever he was writing.

Inui just chuckled. Kaidoh was having a good day by the way he was talking. It'd be a good day to maybe take his kouhai out to eat somewhere or something after practice. It'd only be right of course; that is if they won this match against Echizen and Momoshiro…

All four of the Seigaku regulars walked out onto the court. Kaidoh and Inui on one side and Momoshiro and Ryoma on the other side. Echizen pair first to serve.

Ryoma threw the lime green ball up in the air and served using his right hand. The ball bounced up Inui quickly returned it. Momoshiro dived for it and a caught it but Kaidoh was already at the net and had found an opening at the court that wasn't guarded.

"15-0!"

Ryoma smirked and called over to Momoshiro to obviously talk about their next attack plan on

Seigaku's 'Data Pair' as Inui and Kaidoh were called when they played doubles. Inui and Kaidoh didn't need any planning before a tennis match or during a tennis match, they could read eachother with just a glance. That's how much they had been practicing together. That's how well they had figured eachother's personality out.

In the end Inui and Kaidoh were victorious by a nice score of 6-3.

"So much for being sync," said Kaidoh.

"What did you say Mamushi!" shouted out Momoshiro.

"You're wasting your time playing doubles. You and the brat have too many open spaces that aren't covered on the court. You still have a ways to go," said Kaidoh.

Ryoma flinched as his quote was used. Both Momoshiro and Ryoma looked at Inui and Kaidoh annoyedly but walked away muttering something about revenge.

"I've never known you to be a critique," said Inui picking up his notebook again.

Kaidoh rolled his hazel eyes as they went into the locker room to change back into their school uniforms and out of their tennis clothes.

"I was only telling the truth," he said.

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Everyone else was released from practice allowing everyone who had finished their tennis matches and running for the day to exit the school grounds. Kaidoh decided he was going to lessen his swings today, maybe do seven laps instead of ten laps around the park, go home and eat dinner, do some homework that was needing to get finished, do his night training (which ended up being lifting weights), and the finally he was going to head to bed.

That was until he found that someone grabbed his hand. He whirled around to see who it was who had touched him and it ended up being his senpai. Kaidoh blushed and hissed as he looked at the hand that had enclosed around his.

"Kaidoh, I was thinking you should take the day off today," said Inui.

Kaidoh blinked a little confused? Did his senpai just say take the day off?

"Why?"

"I wanted to take you somewhere to eat. It's not often you're this way so I was thinking about adding on to the occasion," Inui explained placing his green notebook into his tennis bag. Had the world ended? Inui had just placed his notebook away… Of course Kaidoh was wondering if it would come back during this...da—NO! He was not thinking about that one day when that vague phone call happened in the middle of a certain street near a construction site! Just no! He and Inui were just 'hanging out' like normal teenaged boys do! This was not a…..you-know-what!

Blush.

"A-alright Inui-senpai," Kaidoh stuttered out.

"Alright then, I'm glad you've cared to join me. I promise it'll be worth your time away from your training," said Inui.

"Ano…Inui-senpai?" asked Kaidoh hesitantly.

"Hm?"

"Fssshu….you can let go of my hand now."