Inui looked at the numbers wavering on the page in front of him. He was fairly certain they weren't actually moving, but it was difficult to confirm when every attempt to squint at the page added to the tight band that was already pounding behind his eyes. He didn't think the issues was with his glasses--he had updated his lenses less than three months earlier--which meant his current headache was most likely due to stress. It was stupid really that his body's reaction to stress only made it more difficult to resolve the source of said stress in the first place.
"Inui-senpai?" Kaidou asked.
"Not now, Kaidou," he replied, trying to decide if there was in fact a 33 on the page, or if he was seeing double again. He rubbed his eyes and heard the sudden clatter of a chair being dragged closer.
"Studying too much, senpai," Kaidou said as he dug a thumb into the back of Inui's neck. The pressure sent a jolt right down to the ends of his fingertips, and okay, maybe he was a little more tense than he cared to let on.
15 percent, his brain supplied as Kaidou's fingers worked their way across the base of his skull. Kaidou's finger strength had increased 15% compared to when he had first introduced the new training regimen some three months earlier. More than he had expected, and results he was happy with.
He winced when Kaidou pressed into his temples and noted that 15% was perhaps a bit too much of increase for the sensitive pressure points there.
"Sorry," Kaidou muttered, easing back a bit--11% to be precise.
He closed his eyes out of reflex when Kaidou removed his glasses and set them aside. Without them, there was nothing to distract him from how close Kaidou's hands were to him as he worked his way over to the pressure points on the bridge of his nose. They smelled warm, he thought, if warm was a smell. They were warm--2.5°C warmer than normal. He filed that piece of information away to consider later.
By the time Kaidou finally moved his hands away and asked, "Better, senpai?" he could no longer feel his heartbeat behind his eyes, and when he put on his glasses and risked looking down at his notes again, the numbers stayed firmly in their places.
"Much. Thank you, Kaidou," he said.
"Don't mind," Kaidou mumbled. Time to look away, 0.36 seconds faster than expected. Speech 22% faster than usual his brain supplied, and he filed that away for further analysis as well.
Prince of Tennis, Inui/Kaidou, G
"Inui-senpai?" Kaidou asked.
"Not now, Kaidou," he replied, trying to decide if there was in fact a 33 on the page, or if he was seeing double again. He rubbed his eyes and heard the sudden clatter of a chair being dragged closer.
"Studying too much, senpai," Kaidou said as he dug a thumb into the back of Inui's neck. The pressure sent a jolt right down to the ends of his fingertips, and okay, maybe he was a little more tense than he cared to let on.
15 percent, his brain supplied as Kaidou's fingers worked their way across the base of his skull. Kaidou's finger strength had increased 15% compared to when he had first introduced the new training regimen some three months earlier. More than he had expected, and results he was happy with.
He winced when Kaidou pressed into his temples and noted that 15% was perhaps a bit too much of increase for the sensitive pressure points there.
"Sorry," Kaidou muttered, easing back a bit--11% to be precise.
He closed his eyes out of reflex when Kaidou removed his glasses and set them aside. Without them, there was nothing to distract him from how close Kaidou's hands were to him as he worked his way over to the pressure points on the bridge of his nose. They smelled warm, he thought, if warm was a smell. They were warm--2.5°C warmer than normal. He filed that piece of information away to consider later.
By the time Kaidou finally moved his hands away and asked, "Better, senpai?" he could no longer feel his heartbeat behind his eyes, and when he put on his glasses and risked looking down at his notes again, the numbers stayed firmly in their places.
"Much. Thank you, Kaidou," he said.
"Don't mind," Kaidou mumbled. Time to look away, 0.36 seconds faster than expected. Speech 22% faster than usual his brain supplied, and he filed that away for further analysis as well.