Shortfic/Drabble: Round zbwpromptfest - Prompt plagiarism
Title: The proof is in my strength
Rating: PG
Genre: crossover
Characters: Hikaru, vague Akira x Yongha, (+ not quite as vague Sho x Mizuno from whistle)
Summary:
You wouldn't think a go player would be all that great at soccer, but Shindou was an oddball all round, apparently picking up the sport to show up a colleague.
WordCount: 482
Authors Note:
Two prompts:
Whistle/Hikaru no Go: Akira x Ko Yongha, Sho x Mizuno - At the twilight of an autumn day, it rains softly.
Plagiarism.
You wouldn't think a go player would be all that great at soccer, but Shindou was an oddball all round, apparently picking up the sport to show up a colleague.
Shindou had two strengths, as far as Mizuno could see. Good eyes and a fairly decent ability to read people. Mizuno could see how it would be helpful in a board game... Shindou had been just athletic enough, to move his body where he wanted it to be, despite the fact he hadn't been playing for several years.
At first Mizuno had noticed, when coming to visit Sho's team - an amateur mishmash of aspiring athletes and office workers not yet willing to give up the game, joining together for a summer tournament - that there was a mouthy bundle of opinions as the new reserve goal keeper.
On one of their ranking matches when they were running short on players, Shindou had been thrown on the field. If Sho hadn't been on the field, they likely would never have known, but as it was - the results were fantastic news to a team that had been struggling with deadlines.
Shindou's weakness had been that he tended to focus on one person at a time. (Which was why he was the reserve goal keeper - too easily distracted. He could spot a deliberate feint, but when everyone started crowding around the goal, he crumbled.) However, he could read Sho and Sho could instinctively read and lead an entire game.
They didn't even have to talk or actively signal. Sho was the superior player, creating space by being exactly where the opponent didn't want him, or exactly where he could assist a team mate. Shindou... Shindou was like a ghost - turning up exactly where Sho wanted him. For once it was, someone assisting Sho and not the other way around.
Their team climbed up the rankings; Shindou proving further useful when his mouthy opinions were applied to analysing strategy.
Shindou was still a go player, and couldn't make it to every match, but it was clear that he was making a difference... And the scouts must have seen it too, offering a lucrative contract if both Sho and Hikaru would join... Though Sho still got decent individual offers, Mizuno was proud to note. Took them long enough.
Hikaru turned the offer down, citing that he had only joined the summer tournament to prove he wasn't a plagiarist.
Tatsuya and Sho had been baffled over it.
But when they were playing their final match, with the first of the autumn rains gently pouring down, Mizuno in the sidelines proudly supporting his lover...
He heard in softly spoken Korean a bitter conversation, that Mizuno could follow more through angry gestures than the limited vocabulary he had picked up from senbatsu, that hinted of betrayal and rivalry and other deep emotions.
Shindou really was an oddball.
Rating: PG
Genre: crossover
Characters: Hikaru, vague Akira x Yongha, (+ not quite as vague Sho x Mizuno from whistle)
Summary:
You wouldn't think a go player would be all that great at soccer, but Shindou was an oddball all round, apparently picking up the sport to show up a colleague.
WordCount: 482
Authors Note:
Two prompts:
Whistle/Hikaru no Go: Akira x Ko Yongha, Sho x Mizuno - At the twilight of an autumn day, it rains softly.
Plagiarism.
You wouldn't think a go player would be all that great at soccer, but Shindou was an oddball all round, apparently picking up the sport to show up a colleague.
Shindou had two strengths, as far as Mizuno could see. Good eyes and a fairly decent ability to read people. Mizuno could see how it would be helpful in a board game... Shindou had been just athletic enough, to move his body where he wanted it to be, despite the fact he hadn't been playing for several years.
At first Mizuno had noticed, when coming to visit Sho's team - an amateur mishmash of aspiring athletes and office workers not yet willing to give up the game, joining together for a summer tournament - that there was a mouthy bundle of opinions as the new reserve goal keeper.
On one of their ranking matches when they were running short on players, Shindou had been thrown on the field. If Sho hadn't been on the field, they likely would never have known, but as it was - the results were fantastic news to a team that had been struggling with deadlines.
Shindou's weakness had been that he tended to focus on one person at a time. (Which was why he was the reserve goal keeper - too easily distracted. He could spot a deliberate feint, but when everyone started crowding around the goal, he crumbled.) However, he could read Sho and Sho could instinctively read and lead an entire game.
They didn't even have to talk or actively signal. Sho was the superior player, creating space by being exactly where the opponent didn't want him, or exactly where he could assist a team mate. Shindou... Shindou was like a ghost - turning up exactly where Sho wanted him. For once it was, someone assisting Sho and not the other way around.
Their team climbed up the rankings; Shindou proving further useful when his mouthy opinions were applied to analysing strategy.
Shindou was still a go player, and couldn't make it to every match, but it was clear that he was making a difference... And the scouts must have seen it too, offering a lucrative contract if both Sho and Hikaru would join... Though Sho still got decent individual offers, Mizuno was proud to note. Took them long enough.
Hikaru turned the offer down, citing that he had only joined the summer tournament to prove he wasn't a plagiarist.
Tatsuya and Sho had been baffled over it.
But when they were playing their final match, with the first of the autumn rains gently pouring down, Mizuno in the sidelines proudly supporting his lover...
He heard in softly spoken Korean a bitter conversation, that Mizuno could follow more through angry gestures than the limited vocabulary he had picked up from senbatsu, that hinted of betrayal and rivalry and other deep emotions.
Shindou really was an oddball.