[Fic] Gokusen 2. Ryu. G. The Chill
Title: The Chill
Author: monitorscreen
Fandom: Gokusen 2
Character: Odagiri Ryu
Rating: G
Word count: 281 (50 quoted)
Disclaimer: Gokusen 2 is the creation of Nippon Television, Gokusen that of Morimoto Kozueko; neither is mine.
Summary: Snow in Japan had nothing on snow in North America.
Author's notes: Fic #14 for fic_on_demand's Fic a Day June Challenge. Request: Incorporate a Chinese poem by xelloss_poo. Poem used: Sent North on a Rainy Night by Li Shangyin.
The Chill
by monitor screen
Gosh, it was not like he had never seen snow before - Ryu had had his fair share of snowball fights, what with Hayato getting excitable every time white had covered the ground. The weather should not faze him this much.
But snow in Japan had nothing on snow in North America. And by god, was Ryu freezing in his dorm in the desolate campus. He would like to see Hayato pick a game in this blizzard. Ryu did not even know where all the snow could have come from; the storm had been going on for hours.
He curled tighter under his blanket, and tried to focus on his literature readings... Wasn't it enough that it was a raging hurricane outside? Did he have to read about storms too? Their professor sure had a sadistic streak.
Granted, on the paper it was only a rainstorm, and it said nothing of freezing temperatures. But the forlorn atmosphere more than made up for it:
You ask me what time I'll return, but I cannot give a time,
The rain in the hills of Ba at night overflows the autumn pools.
When can we trim the candle together by the western window,
And talk together of the rain in the hills of Ba at night?
It annoyed Ryu that the words had ringed a bell. It annoyed him even more that he had automatically slotted himself into the situation, already thinking about how to describe this snow to that baka. He was not poetic or something.
But yes, one day he would have Hayato know of storms like this. And stuff a snowball down the baka's shirt while he was at it, too.
Comments and critiques welcomed.
Author: monitorscreen
Fandom: Gokusen 2
Character: Odagiri Ryu
Rating: G
Word count: 281 (50 quoted)
Disclaimer: Gokusen 2 is the creation of Nippon Television, Gokusen that of Morimoto Kozueko; neither is mine.
Summary: Snow in Japan had nothing on snow in North America.
Author's notes: Fic #14 for fic_on_demand's Fic a Day June Challenge. Request: Incorporate a Chinese poem by xelloss_poo. Poem used: Sent North on a Rainy Night by Li Shangyin.
The Chill
by monitor screen
Gosh, it was not like he had never seen snow before - Ryu had had his fair share of snowball fights, what with Hayato getting excitable every time white had covered the ground. The weather should not faze him this much.
But snow in Japan had nothing on snow in North America. And by god, was Ryu freezing in his dorm in the desolate campus. He would like to see Hayato pick a game in this blizzard. Ryu did not even know where all the snow could have come from; the storm had been going on for hours.
He curled tighter under his blanket, and tried to focus on his literature readings... Wasn't it enough that it was a raging hurricane outside? Did he have to read about storms too? Their professor sure had a sadistic streak.
Granted, on the paper it was only a rainstorm, and it said nothing of freezing temperatures. But the forlorn atmosphere more than made up for it:
You ask me what time I'll return, but I cannot give a time,
The rain in the hills of Ba at night overflows the autumn pools.
When can we trim the candle together by the western window,
And talk together of the rain in the hills of Ba at night?
It annoyed Ryu that the words had ringed a bell. It annoyed him even more that he had automatically slotted himself into the situation, already thinking about how to describe this snow to that baka. He was not poetic or something.
But yes, one day he would have Hayato know of storms like this. And stuff a snowball down the baka's shirt while he was at it, too.
Comments and critiques welcomed.