Psidai - Observation
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tanithryudoTitle: Observation
Series: Psidai AU, part 2 of the InuKai sequence.
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Rating: G
Word Count: 1721
Pairings: Inui/Kaidoh
Summary: Kaidoh is stalked by mice and men. Inui miscalculates.
Timeline: Takes place sometime soon after Hypothesis, in Inui's third year and Kaidoh's second year of junior high.
Disclaimer: Prince of Tennis and all associated characters belong to Konomi-sensei, not me. Also, no animals were harmed in the making of this fanfic.
Observation
Ever since having been hit in the head with a fast-flying tennis ball, Kaidoh had noticed a curious increase in his attunement with animals. He wasn’t sure he was about to believe the story his senpai-tachi told him about how he had supposedly gotten amnesia and turned into a cat, but he couldn’t ignore his own senses. He figured it must be all that baka Momoshiro’s fault somehow.
So when he began to come across common neighborhood animals during his daily runs, he wasn’t surprised at first.
But then he began to notice the rather agitated and ruffled state of most of the creatures were in, not to mention the disgruntled moods, as if they’d been forced into some position against their will. Once, he’d even come across Echizen’s cat on the other side of the district. When he brought it back to the first year, Echizen had been surprisingly agitated, muttering something under his breath about insane senpai-tachi kidnapping his cat.
It was then that Kaidoh felt his instincts twitch, telling him that something was going on, and that a certain someone was probably behind it.
As he turned to leave Echizen’s house, Kaidoh firmly pushed the errant feeling out of his head. It made no sense, after all. What point would there be for anyone to keep dropping animals into his jogging path? Echizen must have been talking about him, the ungrateful brat.
A day later, the first rabbit, complete with a collar of its owner’s address, was found lounging directly in his path. Then there was a turtle... then a hamster... a box of ducklings... a tanuki... When he found a garden snake napping in his tennis bag after practice one day, Kaidoh finally had to admit to himself that something was definitely up. He had a nagging suspicion on who was behind the incidents as well, but it certainly wouldn’t behoove him to accuse a senpai with no proof. Besides, it wasn’t as if what was happening was something harmful to himself or others or the animals themselves. The mild annoyance simply wasn’t something for him to get worked up over yet, he decided.
The day after that, Kaidoh was in the middle of an English test when he suddenly felt something brush against his feet. And then a female scream pierced the quiet of the room.
“A MOUSE! A MOUSE! EEEEEKK!”
Immediately, the scream was joined by several others as all of the girls in the classroom simultaneously leaped from their seats, half trying to run out of the room and the other half cowering on top of their chairs or desks.
Kaidoh cringed at the racket, his pencil snapping in half. As he did so, he looked down and saw that there was indeed a small white ball of fur huddled up against his feet. Hissing in resignation, since even the teacher had jumped up onto her desk upon catching sight of the innocuous creature, Kaidoh reached down and picked up the mouse. The little thing, quivering and squeaking with fear, immediately calmed down in his hands. He recognized it as one of the mice that was kept in the science lab by the tiny tag attached to its ear.
Standing up from his seat, Kaidoh suddenly caught a glint of light outside the window he sat next to from the edge of his vision. He glanced out, but could see nothing except the tall tree that stood a little distance away. Dismissing the glint as a trick of the light, Kaidoh turned and bowed to his teacher, and asked to be excused to take the mouse back to the science lab. His teacher most enthusiastically agreed, immediately dismissing him.
Walking down the corridor, Kaidoh heard a loud commotion coming from the classroom next door. As he passed by, he could hear Momoshiro’s loud voice raised above the screaming of girls, telling everyone not to worry, as he will most definitely catch the mouse... if only the little damn thing would stop moving.
Before he realized what he was doing, Kaidoh reached over and slid the door to room 2-8 open. Immediately, a puff of white fur shot out of the room to cower behind his feet. He promptly picked it up, where it too calmed down to snuggle beside the other mouse in his arms.
“Oi, Mamushi! That was my mouse!” came the irritating loud yell from in the room.
Kaidoh hissed. “Che, baka,” was all he said as he slid the door shut right in the moron’s face, hearing the satisfied thud of the baka's impact with the door behind him as he walked away.
Walking on past the third year classrooms, Kaidoh wasn’t surprised to sight another mouse squeezing out from under a hole in the door to room 3-6. He stopped to pick it up, hearing two familiar raised voices from inside the room aside from the typical screaming and carrying-on.
“Nya! You catch it, Fuji! You’re the tensai!”
“But Eiji, it would be much easier for you to catch it! Think of it as reflex training!”
Sensing that there were no more mice in the room, Kaidoh could only assume that the creature they were arguing over was the one he had just picked up. Wondering at the squeamishness of his senpai-tachi, but not stupid enough to get involved in their argument, Kaidoh simply turned and moved on. He tried to remember just how many mice there had been in the lab. At this rate, he was likely to come across them all before he got to the lab.
Then his thoughts were interrupted as he passed room 3-2, when the door suddenly opened in front of him and he nearly walked right into Oishi. The tennis club fukubuchou had caught another mouse, and was holding its squirming form by the tip of its tail, as far away from himself as he could.
“Ah, Kaidoh!” Oishi had caught himself and the door with his other hand before a collision could take place.
“Oishi-senpai.” Kaidoh was staring at the squirming mouse. “You’ll damage it if you hold it like that!”
Oishi then noticed the three mice that Kaidoh was already carrying. “Oh, you already caught so many! They’re so calm with you carrying them.”
“Hai, animals like me,” Kaidoh reminded his senior. “I caught one in my room and found two more on my way to the science lab.” He eyed the mouse in Oishi’s hand again. “I can take that one too, Oishi-senpai.”
“Aa. I forgot about your psi-affinity.” Oishi smiled in relief and handed the mouse over. “I suppose it’s best this way. Well, then I’ll leave it up to you, Kaidoh.” With that, he returned to his room.
Just as the door to room 3-2 closed, the door to room 3-1 opened. Kaidoh looked around and saw his stoic buchou leaving the room. He promptly walked up to Tezuka and said respectfully, “Tezuka-buchou, I need to ask Inui-senpai for the keys to the science lab for these mice.”
Tezuka spared a glance at the mice in Kaidoh’s arms. “Inui’s not in class today,” he said disapprovingly. “Sensei gave me the keys to the lab.” With that, he held up his hand and Kaidoh wasn’t surprised at all to see him holding yet another mouse. At least Tezuka wasn’t holding it by the tail, though he knew the mouse wasn’t comfortable being seized in that tight grip.
Quietly, Kaidoh followed his buchou to the science lab, where they returned the escaped mice to their proper cage. As Tezuka locked the cage, Kaidoh contemplated his certainty that someone must have opened the cage on purpose… and he was almost sure he knew who did it… or did he?
The rest of the day went by in a blur, and by the time he began his afternoon jog, Kaidoh’s mind was still in confusion. But he was abruptly brought out of his reverie by a loud call of distress. The sound didn’t come from any human source, but from a group of fledgling birds calling piteously from a half-upended nest on the ground.
Kaidoh immediately left his jogging route and crouched down by the fledglings, whose cries calmed down significantly with his presence. He noted with some relief that none of them seemed to be harmed, only shocked at their sudden situation. Carefully gathering up the fledglings and the remnants of the nest, Kaidoh looked around and wondered which tree they had fallen from. Come to think of it, with the height of all the trees in the area, it seemed highly unlikely that the nest could have fallen naturally without hurting any of the birds in it…
“Caw! Caw! Caw!”
The loud bird cry caused Kaidoh to look up to see a pair of black crows dive-bombing into the leaf-hidden branches of a nearby tree.
*Creeeaaak*
*CRASH!*
Suddenly, a large and decidedly non-avian form fell from the branches of the tree to land in the bushes below.
“Ite-ite-ite.”
“Inui-senpai?” Kaidoh stared at the fallen form suspiciously. But before he could say anything else, the pair of crows from before suddenly swooped out of the air to resume attacking Inui’s head.
Kaidoh stared at the birds, then at the nest of similar blackish-looking fledglings in his arms. Slowly, he turned his face up to stare at his senpai, his eyes dark with anger. “Y-you… you did this! How could you?!” Kaidoh didn’t care what insane data his senpai was gathering this time. It was simply irresponsible to use and endanger infant animals this way!
“Ah… I… well, technically…” Inui was stuttering even as he tried vainly to fend of the pair of attacking crows. He mumbled something about animals and data.
But Kaidoh wasn’t done questioning. “…And the mice at school today! That was you too, wasn’t it?! And all the other animals! What do you think you're doing?!” His free hand clenched so tightly by his side that his knuckles turned white.
Inui adjusted his glassed and attempted to look respectable despite being tag-teamed by a pair of angry birds. “Hi-mi-tsu.” His glasses glinted under the light.
The evasion merely infuriated Kaidoh’s already ignited temper even further.
“Baka senpai!”
Kaidoh’s fist made a sudden connection with Inui’s head. Whirling around, the younger boy stomped indignantly away, leaving the pair of crows to continue diving at his beleaguered senpai.
~* Owari *~
Notes: Dangit, I'd only intended to write down the outline of this fic after going over it with cashew tonight. But somehow I ended up writing the whole thing. Oh well. This is a rough draft though, so forgive (and tell me of) any spelling or grammar mistakes.
Also, I know that supposedly Inui is in room 3-11. This makes no sense to me, given his brains and the ranking of class populations. So I'm sticking him in 3-1 with Tezuka instead.
And before![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
ossian asks...
Senpai-tachi = Plural form of senpai
Tanuki = Racoon
Mamushi = Viper (Kaidoh's nickname)
Buchou = Captain of the team and the president of the club.
Fukubuchou = Vice captain/president
Ite = Ouch
Himitsu = Secret
Series: Psidai AU, part 2 of the InuKai sequence.
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Rating: G
Word Count: 1721
Pairings: Inui/Kaidoh
Summary: Kaidoh is stalked by mice and men. Inui miscalculates.
Timeline: Takes place sometime soon after Hypothesis, in Inui's third year and Kaidoh's second year of junior high.
Disclaimer: Prince of Tennis and all associated characters belong to Konomi-sensei, not me. Also, no animals were harmed in the making of this fanfic.
Ever since having been hit in the head with a fast-flying tennis ball, Kaidoh had noticed a curious increase in his attunement with animals. He wasn’t sure he was about to believe the story his senpai-tachi told him about how he had supposedly gotten amnesia and turned into a cat, but he couldn’t ignore his own senses. He figured it must be all that baka Momoshiro’s fault somehow.
So when he began to come across common neighborhood animals during his daily runs, he wasn’t surprised at first.
But then he began to notice the rather agitated and ruffled state of most of the creatures were in, not to mention the disgruntled moods, as if they’d been forced into some position against their will. Once, he’d even come across Echizen’s cat on the other side of the district. When he brought it back to the first year, Echizen had been surprisingly agitated, muttering something under his breath about insane senpai-tachi kidnapping his cat.
It was then that Kaidoh felt his instincts twitch, telling him that something was going on, and that a certain someone was probably behind it.
As he turned to leave Echizen’s house, Kaidoh firmly pushed the errant feeling out of his head. It made no sense, after all. What point would there be for anyone to keep dropping animals into his jogging path? Echizen must have been talking about him, the ungrateful brat.
A day later, the first rabbit, complete with a collar of its owner’s address, was found lounging directly in his path. Then there was a turtle... then a hamster... a box of ducklings... a tanuki... When he found a garden snake napping in his tennis bag after practice one day, Kaidoh finally had to admit to himself that something was definitely up. He had a nagging suspicion on who was behind the incidents as well, but it certainly wouldn’t behoove him to accuse a senpai with no proof. Besides, it wasn’t as if what was happening was something harmful to himself or others or the animals themselves. The mild annoyance simply wasn’t something for him to get worked up over yet, he decided.
The day after that, Kaidoh was in the middle of an English test when he suddenly felt something brush against his feet. And then a female scream pierced the quiet of the room.
“A MOUSE! A MOUSE! EEEEEKK!”
Immediately, the scream was joined by several others as all of the girls in the classroom simultaneously leaped from their seats, half trying to run out of the room and the other half cowering on top of their chairs or desks.
Kaidoh cringed at the racket, his pencil snapping in half. As he did so, he looked down and saw that there was indeed a small white ball of fur huddled up against his feet. Hissing in resignation, since even the teacher had jumped up onto her desk upon catching sight of the innocuous creature, Kaidoh reached down and picked up the mouse. The little thing, quivering and squeaking with fear, immediately calmed down in his hands. He recognized it as one of the mice that was kept in the science lab by the tiny tag attached to its ear.
Standing up from his seat, Kaidoh suddenly caught a glint of light outside the window he sat next to from the edge of his vision. He glanced out, but could see nothing except the tall tree that stood a little distance away. Dismissing the glint as a trick of the light, Kaidoh turned and bowed to his teacher, and asked to be excused to take the mouse back to the science lab. His teacher most enthusiastically agreed, immediately dismissing him.
Walking down the corridor, Kaidoh heard a loud commotion coming from the classroom next door. As he passed by, he could hear Momoshiro’s loud voice raised above the screaming of girls, telling everyone not to worry, as he will most definitely catch the mouse... if only the little damn thing would stop moving.
Before he realized what he was doing, Kaidoh reached over and slid the door to room 2-8 open. Immediately, a puff of white fur shot out of the room to cower behind his feet. He promptly picked it up, where it too calmed down to snuggle beside the other mouse in his arms.
“Oi, Mamushi! That was my mouse!” came the irritating loud yell from in the room.
Kaidoh hissed. “Che, baka,” was all he said as he slid the door shut right in the moron’s face, hearing the satisfied thud of the baka's impact with the door behind him as he walked away.
Walking on past the third year classrooms, Kaidoh wasn’t surprised to sight another mouse squeezing out from under a hole in the door to room 3-6. He stopped to pick it up, hearing two familiar raised voices from inside the room aside from the typical screaming and carrying-on.
“Nya! You catch it, Fuji! You’re the tensai!”
“But Eiji, it would be much easier for you to catch it! Think of it as reflex training!”
Sensing that there were no more mice in the room, Kaidoh could only assume that the creature they were arguing over was the one he had just picked up. Wondering at the squeamishness of his senpai-tachi, but not stupid enough to get involved in their argument, Kaidoh simply turned and moved on. He tried to remember just how many mice there had been in the lab. At this rate, he was likely to come across them all before he got to the lab.
Then his thoughts were interrupted as he passed room 3-2, when the door suddenly opened in front of him and he nearly walked right into Oishi. The tennis club fukubuchou had caught another mouse, and was holding its squirming form by the tip of its tail, as far away from himself as he could.
“Ah, Kaidoh!” Oishi had caught himself and the door with his other hand before a collision could take place.
“Oishi-senpai.” Kaidoh was staring at the squirming mouse. “You’ll damage it if you hold it like that!”
Oishi then noticed the three mice that Kaidoh was already carrying. “Oh, you already caught so many! They’re so calm with you carrying them.”
“Hai, animals like me,” Kaidoh reminded his senior. “I caught one in my room and found two more on my way to the science lab.” He eyed the mouse in Oishi’s hand again. “I can take that one too, Oishi-senpai.”
“Aa. I forgot about your psi-affinity.” Oishi smiled in relief and handed the mouse over. “I suppose it’s best this way. Well, then I’ll leave it up to you, Kaidoh.” With that, he returned to his room.
Just as the door to room 3-2 closed, the door to room 3-1 opened. Kaidoh looked around and saw his stoic buchou leaving the room. He promptly walked up to Tezuka and said respectfully, “Tezuka-buchou, I need to ask Inui-senpai for the keys to the science lab for these mice.”
Tezuka spared a glance at the mice in Kaidoh’s arms. “Inui’s not in class today,” he said disapprovingly. “Sensei gave me the keys to the lab.” With that, he held up his hand and Kaidoh wasn’t surprised at all to see him holding yet another mouse. At least Tezuka wasn’t holding it by the tail, though he knew the mouse wasn’t comfortable being seized in that tight grip.
Quietly, Kaidoh followed his buchou to the science lab, where they returned the escaped mice to their proper cage. As Tezuka locked the cage, Kaidoh contemplated his certainty that someone must have opened the cage on purpose… and he was almost sure he knew who did it… or did he?
The rest of the day went by in a blur, and by the time he began his afternoon jog, Kaidoh’s mind was still in confusion. But he was abruptly brought out of his reverie by a loud call of distress. The sound didn’t come from any human source, but from a group of fledgling birds calling piteously from a half-upended nest on the ground.
Kaidoh immediately left his jogging route and crouched down by the fledglings, whose cries calmed down significantly with his presence. He noted with some relief that none of them seemed to be harmed, only shocked at their sudden situation. Carefully gathering up the fledglings and the remnants of the nest, Kaidoh looked around and wondered which tree they had fallen from. Come to think of it, with the height of all the trees in the area, it seemed highly unlikely that the nest could have fallen naturally without hurting any of the birds in it…
“Caw! Caw! Caw!”
The loud bird cry caused Kaidoh to look up to see a pair of black crows dive-bombing into the leaf-hidden branches of a nearby tree.
*Creeeaaak*
*CRASH!*
Suddenly, a large and decidedly non-avian form fell from the branches of the tree to land in the bushes below.
“Ite-ite-ite.”
“Inui-senpai?” Kaidoh stared at the fallen form suspiciously. But before he could say anything else, the pair of crows from before suddenly swooped out of the air to resume attacking Inui’s head.
Kaidoh stared at the birds, then at the nest of similar blackish-looking fledglings in his arms. Slowly, he turned his face up to stare at his senpai, his eyes dark with anger. “Y-you… you did this! How could you?!” Kaidoh didn’t care what insane data his senpai was gathering this time. It was simply irresponsible to use and endanger infant animals this way!
“Ah… I… well, technically…” Inui was stuttering even as he tried vainly to fend of the pair of attacking crows. He mumbled something about animals and data.
But Kaidoh wasn’t done questioning. “…And the mice at school today! That was you too, wasn’t it?! And all the other animals! What do you think you're doing?!” His free hand clenched so tightly by his side that his knuckles turned white.
Inui adjusted his glassed and attempted to look respectable despite being tag-teamed by a pair of angry birds. “Hi-mi-tsu.” His glasses glinted under the light.
The evasion merely infuriated Kaidoh’s already ignited temper even further.
“Baka senpai!”
Kaidoh’s fist made a sudden connection with Inui’s head. Whirling around, the younger boy stomped indignantly away, leaving the pair of crows to continue diving at his beleaguered senpai.
Notes: Dangit, I'd only intended to write down the outline of this fic after going over it with cashew tonight. But somehow I ended up writing the whole thing. Oh well. This is a rough draft though, so forgive (and tell me of) any spelling or grammar mistakes.
Also, I know that supposedly Inui is in room 3-11. This makes no sense to me, given his brains and the ranking of class populations. So I'm sticking him in 3-1 with Tezuka instead.
And before
ossian asks...Senpai-tachi = Plural form of senpai
Tanuki = Racoon
Mamushi = Viper (Kaidoh's nickname)
Buchou = Captain of the team and the president of the club.
Fukubuchou = Vice captain/president
Ite = Ouch
Himitsu = Secret
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Date: 2010-09-16 09:24 am (UTC)