TeniPuri: (FIC) Field of Dreams Tezuka, Echizen (Gen.)
Title: Field of Dreams
Rating: G
Characters: Tezuka, Echizen.
Summary: Echizen never loses like he should
A/N: This is a little gen drabble that was eating my brain so much that it prevented me from writing raunchy smut for Whisper.
When he Echizen comes into his life, he does so with a flurry of tennis and contradiction. Tezuka immediately sees himself in the boy-the confidence, the will, the talent-but now he wonders if it were wishful thinking.
It's strange, to him, the feeling of wanting someone else's success more than his own, and the will to see it through. It's what Fuji wants for his brother, what Inui wants for Kaidoh, what Oishi and Kikumaru want for each other.
Playing him is nothing like he's imagined. It feels surreal and right and wrong all at the same time, like a dream of a play where nothing is familiar, but the words come regardless.
It's later that Tezuka realises that it isn't himself that he sees in Echizen, but his dreams, unfulfilled. He'll go far, he knows, but the boy can go farther. If only he learns.
Echizen never plays like he should. He plays and wins and forgets the game seconds after it's over or he plays and loses and gains another temporary rival. His wins are as meaningless as the players, nameless in his mind, that he's faced. His losses are a matter of pride and belligerence.
He learns nothing from either but physics and velocity and millions of equations his mind will never register.
Tezuka watches and guides and wishes. It's the last that throws him. He never wishes for anything. He never hopes. He will heal. He will find success. He will bring Seigaku a win at the Nationals. There's never been a question. These are things he knows. But, Echizen makes him wish. Wish he could find the right words. Wish Echizen would learn. Wish Echizen could see beyond the father that blinds him.
Echizen never loses like he should. And Tezuka knows that Echizen's first true win was on a small street court, across from him, his bad arm, after being handed a goal that will one day show him the right path.
Rating: G
Characters: Tezuka, Echizen.
Summary: Echizen never loses like he should
A/N: This is a little gen drabble that was eating my brain so much that it prevented me from writing raunchy smut for Whisper.
When he Echizen comes into his life, he does so with a flurry of tennis and contradiction. Tezuka immediately sees himself in the boy-the confidence, the will, the talent-but now he wonders if it were wishful thinking.
It's strange, to him, the feeling of wanting someone else's success more than his own, and the will to see it through. It's what Fuji wants for his brother, what Inui wants for Kaidoh, what Oishi and Kikumaru want for each other.
Playing him is nothing like he's imagined. It feels surreal and right and wrong all at the same time, like a dream of a play where nothing is familiar, but the words come regardless.
It's later that Tezuka realises that it isn't himself that he sees in Echizen, but his dreams, unfulfilled. He'll go far, he knows, but the boy can go farther. If only he learns.
Echizen never plays like he should. He plays and wins and forgets the game seconds after it's over or he plays and loses and gains another temporary rival. His wins are as meaningless as the players, nameless in his mind, that he's faced. His losses are a matter of pride and belligerence.
He learns nothing from either but physics and velocity and millions of equations his mind will never register.
Tezuka watches and guides and wishes. It's the last that throws him. He never wishes for anything. He never hopes. He will heal. He will find success. He will bring Seigaku a win at the Nationals. There's never been a question. These are things he knows. But, Echizen makes him wish. Wish he could find the right words. Wish Echizen would learn. Wish Echizen could see beyond the father that blinds him.
Echizen never loses like he should. And Tezuka knows that Echizen's first true win was on a small street court, across from him, his bad arm, after being handed a goal that will one day show him the right path.