Fairytale Romance
Title: Fairytale Romance
Theme: #9 Water
Pairing/Characters: Oshitari Yuushi X Ryuuzaki Sakuno
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis or any of its characters
Fairytale Romance
A ray of light peeked out from the grey clouds, slowly diminishing to a fluffy white. Drops of rainwater glistened on the products of nature, accentuating their natural charm. Birds left their hiding places and began to hum a cheerful tune. Colourful umbrellas were put away and people basked under the sunlight.
Sunshine after the rain. Humid yet pleasantly warm. Misty yet brilliantly shining. Humans love it, attributing it to the first view of sunshine after the presence of a gloomy sky. However, Oshitari reflected, it may be also due to its positive connotations, like the re-emergence of light after the long reign of darkness.
Oshitari gave a chuckle, seeing the resemblance of the scene in his eyes to that of a romantic love story. He had seen countless romance movies, and this setting was definitely reminiscent of some. Two lovers, searching for each other frantically in the rain, pass each other as they run in different directions, yet not realising their love was really at the other side of the road. When they feel that all hope is lost and walk away dejectedly, the rain stops, and then in front of them stands the person they are looking for.
In many cases, Oshitari would picture himself as the male lead in the movie. Somehow or other, he just could not help but fall in love with the lead actress. He loves her so much that he is willing to give up anything for her, even though many trials and tribulations came their way. Being a rational person however, he knew most of these stories were just fragments of the imagination of the creator. Perhaps it was the beauty of the stories which drew him into them, and inspired a little fantasy within him someday it would just happen. Maybe not on him, probably on people close to him. But he definitely preferred to be destiny’s test subject, if it happened to come knocking on his door.
Destiny, coincidentally, decided to thrust Oshitari into a role in a real-life love story. He often wondered if his thoughts would come true or if he had latent psychic powers. If he really possessed them, he was definitely not ready and most unwilling to play his role.
The ability to conceal his emotions greatly helped Oshitari to tide over one of his most difficult moments to date. When he realised what his role was, he was truly apprehensive. Plus, there was lots of space for growth for his character. He could choose to become the main antagonist, or the kind but heartbroken man silently watching his love in the hands of another man and wishing them all the best.
The object of his affection? Ryuuzaki Sakuno.
Oshitari Yuushi was totally dumbfounded when he understood that the heartbeat he held for the petite girl was love. She was vastly different from the women he liked, or thought he liked. Women with shapely, long legs were favoured by him, but Sakuno had none of these attributes. She was small in stature and rather short and her lower limbs were more thin than shapely. Attraction, he reasoned then, had a much deeper meaning than shown on the surface.
The girls Oshitari had dated before were probably just covers for his true feelings. All of his past relationships lasted for only a while and he forgot about them soon after. However, the image of Sakuno was printed in his mind and that was all he saw, day in day out. She was not someone who would vanish from his memory just like that, even if he willed himself to.
There were many times Oshitari battled being the antagonist, or the silent protector. After all, he knew Sakuno’s heart was not with him.
It was with someone else.
Someone else, not him.
Being the antagonist was probably the best solution, Oshitari thought. With his abilities, he would probably have gotten his way. However, even if he was able to bind her physically, her heart would never be with him. Also, she would see his ugly side if she came to the realisation one day and her heart would be under many more locks, totally impenetrable to him. To him, it was something crueler than playing the invisible man, the admirer in the shadows where his emotions would forever be buried deep within his heart. He would most likely have to be content with her sweet smiles, although he knew her sweetest ones would be for that special person in her heart.
Oshitari grieved the loss of his fairytale romance, not explicitly of course. Observant ones may have noticed the softening of his gaze whenever it was on Sakuno, but no one could truly read the mind of Oshitari Yuushi, once hailed as the prodigy of Hyotei.
“So it’s the end for me?” Yuushi let out, his eyes tracing the drops of water which lay stationary outside his window. Some managed to move downwards, with the help of another drop or purely through the effect of gravity. For now, they could represent those silent tears of his, or the flow of blood from the hidden wound of his left chest, caused by an invisible dagger.
This was not the ending Oshitari would like, or wished it would be. Heartbreak was never a favourable ending for a storybook love. All the movies he had watched, all of them ended beautifully. Regrets were laden here and there, but overall, it was an ending many hoped it would be. However, it was untrue in his case. What he received from his love was not happiness, but pain, and more pain. Seeing her love another when you hoped you were the one. Wishing her all the best and cheering her on protecting her love when you had no intention to. Hearing her tell you all her happy times with him and having the faked smile on your face when you are actually hurting inside. It was hardly the fairytale romance he knew so much about.
No. Wait.
He laughed bitterly.
It was a fairytale romance.
It had been all along.
Just that…
It wasn’t his.
Theme: #9 Water
Pairing/Characters: Oshitari Yuushi X Ryuuzaki Sakuno
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis or any of its characters
Fairytale Romance
A ray of light peeked out from the grey clouds, slowly diminishing to a fluffy white. Drops of rainwater glistened on the products of nature, accentuating their natural charm. Birds left their hiding places and began to hum a cheerful tune. Colourful umbrellas were put away and people basked under the sunlight.
Sunshine after the rain. Humid yet pleasantly warm. Misty yet brilliantly shining. Humans love it, attributing it to the first view of sunshine after the presence of a gloomy sky. However, Oshitari reflected, it may be also due to its positive connotations, like the re-emergence of light after the long reign of darkness.
Oshitari gave a chuckle, seeing the resemblance of the scene in his eyes to that of a romantic love story. He had seen countless romance movies, and this setting was definitely reminiscent of some. Two lovers, searching for each other frantically in the rain, pass each other as they run in different directions, yet not realising their love was really at the other side of the road. When they feel that all hope is lost and walk away dejectedly, the rain stops, and then in front of them stands the person they are looking for.
In many cases, Oshitari would picture himself as the male lead in the movie. Somehow or other, he just could not help but fall in love with the lead actress. He loves her so much that he is willing to give up anything for her, even though many trials and tribulations came their way. Being a rational person however, he knew most of these stories were just fragments of the imagination of the creator. Perhaps it was the beauty of the stories which drew him into them, and inspired a little fantasy within him someday it would just happen. Maybe not on him, probably on people close to him. But he definitely preferred to be destiny’s test subject, if it happened to come knocking on his door.
Destiny, coincidentally, decided to thrust Oshitari into a role in a real-life love story. He often wondered if his thoughts would come true or if he had latent psychic powers. If he really possessed them, he was definitely not ready and most unwilling to play his role.
The ability to conceal his emotions greatly helped Oshitari to tide over one of his most difficult moments to date. When he realised what his role was, he was truly apprehensive. Plus, there was lots of space for growth for his character. He could choose to become the main antagonist, or the kind but heartbroken man silently watching his love in the hands of another man and wishing them all the best.
The object of his affection? Ryuuzaki Sakuno.
Oshitari Yuushi was totally dumbfounded when he understood that the heartbeat he held for the petite girl was love. She was vastly different from the women he liked, or thought he liked. Women with shapely, long legs were favoured by him, but Sakuno had none of these attributes. She was small in stature and rather short and her lower limbs were more thin than shapely. Attraction, he reasoned then, had a much deeper meaning than shown on the surface.
The girls Oshitari had dated before were probably just covers for his true feelings. All of his past relationships lasted for only a while and he forgot about them soon after. However, the image of Sakuno was printed in his mind and that was all he saw, day in day out. She was not someone who would vanish from his memory just like that, even if he willed himself to.
There were many times Oshitari battled being the antagonist, or the silent protector. After all, he knew Sakuno’s heart was not with him.
It was with someone else.
Someone else, not him.
Being the antagonist was probably the best solution, Oshitari thought. With his abilities, he would probably have gotten his way. However, even if he was able to bind her physically, her heart would never be with him. Also, she would see his ugly side if she came to the realisation one day and her heart would be under many more locks, totally impenetrable to him. To him, it was something crueler than playing the invisible man, the admirer in the shadows where his emotions would forever be buried deep within his heart. He would most likely have to be content with her sweet smiles, although he knew her sweetest ones would be for that special person in her heart.
Oshitari grieved the loss of his fairytale romance, not explicitly of course. Observant ones may have noticed the softening of his gaze whenever it was on Sakuno, but no one could truly read the mind of Oshitari Yuushi, once hailed as the prodigy of Hyotei.
“So it’s the end for me?” Yuushi let out, his eyes tracing the drops of water which lay stationary outside his window. Some managed to move downwards, with the help of another drop or purely through the effect of gravity. For now, they could represent those silent tears of his, or the flow of blood from the hidden wound of his left chest, caused by an invisible dagger.
This was not the ending Oshitari would like, or wished it would be. Heartbreak was never a favourable ending for a storybook love. All the movies he had watched, all of them ended beautifully. Regrets were laden here and there, but overall, it was an ending many hoped it would be. However, it was untrue in his case. What he received from his love was not happiness, but pain, and more pain. Seeing her love another when you hoped you were the one. Wishing her all the best and cheering her on protecting her love when you had no intention to. Hearing her tell you all her happy times with him and having the faked smile on your face when you are actually hurting inside. It was hardly the fairytale romance he knew so much about.
No. Wait.
He laughed bitterly.
It was a fairytale romance.
It had been all along.
Just that…
It wasn’t his.