Tezuka Kunimitsu/ Fuji Syuusuke (Prince of Tennis)
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Tezuka Kunimitsu <3 Fuji Syuusuke
Rating: PG-13 (mentions of adult situations)
Theme Set: Beta
Nota Bene: In this fiction, Fuji is Christian, Tezuka's parents are traditional and very strict, and he's an only child. Just so you know.
#01 - Walking
Fuji walks with easy steps, across his side of the court, while his opponent pants and trips after the ball, exhausted.
#02 - Waltz
Tezuka and Fuji, Inui notes down in another notebook, dance an obscure form of waltz, their bodies moving in the same direction, with the similar grace, but never actually touching.
#03 - Wishes
Fuji knows it's pagan to wish, but he tosses in his yen coin anyway, when he could've put it in the offertory basket.
#04 - Wonder
Tezuka watches Fuji wish, but he doesn't wonder what for.
#05 - Worry
Fuji worries sometimes, when Tezuka is late, that Tezuka has found someone less complicated and more alive, but when he feels Tezuka lace their fingers together, muttering about some trivial train breakdown, he stops.
#06 - Whimsy
Tezuka lets himself be tugged into this puddle and that puddle while listening to Fuji jabber about making rainbows.
#07 - Waste/Wasteland
Fuji smiles and doesn't say anything when Atobe comments that he is wasting his love on a person too cold to return it; they both know that Tezuka is different when he's around Fuji.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
Tezuka doesn't bat an eye when Fuji holds up the bottles and proposes a little toast in honor of their first year; he tries not to think that they're not supposed to know how sex and alcohol feel.
#09 - War
Fuji declares a subtly fatal war on anyone who hurts the people he cares so much for; sometimes even on himself, in Yuuta's case.
#10 - Weddings
Tezuka likes the simple hope and love that weddings have; he feels slightly bothered that this is something he will never have with Fuji: simplicity.
#11 - Birthday
Fuji's birthday comes only once every four years, so Tezuka tries to make every birthday brighter and more memorable than the last.
#12 - Blessing
Tezuka's parents are silent when they spot their son in the crowd, his arm around a smaller figure, their backs turned, heads bent together; this is a relationship that will never receive their blessing.
#13 - Bias
Fuji doesn't pay attention when Echizen comments that Fuji seems to have an easier time of it than any other Regular; the whole team knows Tezuka always plays fair.
#14 - Burning
Tezuka feels sometimes that he burns when he's with Fuji; not the quick spark like when he swallows wasabi, no, it is a slow smoldering ember fanned by their desire.
#15 - Breathing
Fuji counts his breaths when he is with Tezuka; the other boy has a way of making him feel breathless.
#16 - Breaking
Tezuka doesn't break things when he's angry, he's not the type to throw tantrums; Fuji is.
#17 - Belief
Fuji is Christian, meaning that in his belief system, people in love like he and Tezuka are in love are taboo and against natural law.
#18 - Balloon
Tezuka dreams of Fuji landing on his German welcome mat, clutching a bunch of balloons, saying "They're the prettiest way of travel!"
#19 - Balcony
Fuji leans on the balcony, calling, endlessly searching for his Romeo.
#20 - Bane
Tezuka tries not to listen as his mother wails that he is the bane of her existence; he thinks instead of Fuji against pale silk sheets, beckoning.
#21 - Quiet
Fuji enjoys the quiet of his soul when they are together; he never seems to find it anywhere else.
#22 - Quirks
Tezuka appreciates Fuji's little quirks: his love for spicy things, his "harmless" tricks that drive everyone mad, the way he blows against Tezuka's neck when they lie spent in bed.
#23 - Question
Fuji looks at Kikumaru, pondering his deceptively simple question of "Do you love him?", and he decides to answer, "Do tennis balls bounce?".
#24 - Quarrel
Tezuka and Fuji, Inui notes down in the other notebook, quarrel with silence and quiet murmurs in the locker room, with euphemisms masking the barbs they fling at each other, immature teenagers once more.
#25 - Quitting
Fuji does not comprehend when Tezuka tells him that he will no longer play tennis, that the stress is too much for his arm, his shoulder, his life; the Tezuka Fuji fell in love with was never a quitter.
#26 - Jump
Tezuka is a calculated risk-taker, he never jumps without checking the consequences of this action; he never checked the consequences of falling in love with Fuji, because Fuji is someone you could never get accurate data from.
#27 - Jester
Fuji is (Queen) Consort, Tezuka is King, Echizen is Prince (Heir Apparent); in this court Kikumaru is either petulant princess or court jester, a position he shares with Momoshiro, and only occasionally with Fuji.
#28 - Jousting
Tezuka likens tennis to the knightly sport of jousting in the fact that it requires speed and precision in all aspects; he must unseat his opponent while he holds the reins of the game in his left hand.
#29 - Jewel
Fuji opens an eye under his curtain of light hair and the tent of blankets, and watches Tezuka meticulously button up his uniform; when the sun hits his eye he blinks, and Tezuka thinks of sapphires winking.
#30 - Just
Tezuka, like life, Fuji thinks, is very just and very fair; if only they both could be biased, favoring him.
#31 - Smirk
Fuji is often accused of smirking, when all he is doing is showing the world this absolute happiness he has when he is with Tezuka.
#32 - Sorrow
Tezuka feels nothing but a dull pounding in his chest when his flight to Germany is called.
#33 - Stupidity
Fuji sometimes feels like smacking Tezuka upside the head, if only for the boy's sheer cluelessness.
#34 - Serenade
Tezuka blinked, his teacher blinked, his classmates blinked as Fuji strolled in five minutes before break wearing a sombrero and a matching bolero, strumming a Spanish guitar.
#35 - Sarcasm
Fuji's tongue is heavy with little threats and barbs that nevertheless sound pleasant to the ears; however, Tezuka considers it his duty to shut Fuji up as much as his breath allows him.
#36 - Sordid
Tezuka tries not to blush as Inui recounts the popular gossip concerning him and Fuji; the captain's never had the stomach for scandal.
#37 - Soliloquy
Fuji could go on like this for hours, if Kikumaru hadn't reminded him that Tezuka would only be gone for twenty-four.
#38 - Sojourn
Tezuka sometimes expects to open the door to find Fuji there, nose slightly red from the cold and blowing on his fingers, waiting patiently for Tezuka to warm him up.
#39 - Share
Fuji is a selfish little minx, but Tezuka seems to like that they don't share much about what goes on between them.
#40 - Solitary
Tezuka never seems to be alone anymore, neither does Fuji; they have become a package deal, no one knows when one ends and the other begins.
#41 - Nowhere
Fuji says softly that it wasn't that he hadn't any other place to go, after his parents kicked him out, it was that there was nowhere else he would rather be.
#42 - Neutral
Tezuka wanted the bedroom in beige; he eventually gave into Fuji's decadent desire for burgundy.
#43 - Nuance
Fuji's voice is laced not only with sarcasm but a sort of melancholy nuance that dissipates when Tezuka is around to watch out for it.
#44 - Near
Tezuka says that Germany isn't that far; Fuji remarks that they must have different definitions of distance.
#45 - Natural
Fuji acts like it's perfectly natural to be found in this state of dishabille when Tezuka comes home from the office.
#46 - Horizon
Tezuka sees the sun set from his plane, surprised by the color, and wonders if Fuji is taking pictures of it right now.
#47 - Valiant
Fuji loves Tezuka because he is so chivalrous and honorable; some kind of modern samurai.
#48 - Virtuous
Tezuka comes to church with Fuji on Sundays, he likes watching the light reflecting off the other boy's fine hair atop his bowed head, like a halo.
#49 - Victory
Fuji considers this his finest victory; this boy on top, beneath, beside him, over and over in some honest ecstasy.
#50 - Defeat
Tezuka lets Fuji think that he wins all the time, because Fuji provides the most exquisite consolation for his "defeat".
Pairing: Tezuka Kunimitsu <3 Fuji Syuusuke
Rating: PG-13 (mentions of adult situations)
Theme Set: Beta
Nota Bene: In this fiction, Fuji is Christian, Tezuka's parents are traditional and very strict, and he's an only child. Just so you know.
#01 - Walking
Fuji walks with easy steps, across his side of the court, while his opponent pants and trips after the ball, exhausted.
#02 - Waltz
Tezuka and Fuji, Inui notes down in another notebook, dance an obscure form of waltz, their bodies moving in the same direction, with the similar grace, but never actually touching.
#03 - Wishes
Fuji knows it's pagan to wish, but he tosses in his yen coin anyway, when he could've put it in the offertory basket.
#04 - Wonder
Tezuka watches Fuji wish, but he doesn't wonder what for.
#05 - Worry
Fuji worries sometimes, when Tezuka is late, that Tezuka has found someone less complicated and more alive, but when he feels Tezuka lace their fingers together, muttering about some trivial train breakdown, he stops.
#06 - Whimsy
Tezuka lets himself be tugged into this puddle and that puddle while listening to Fuji jabber about making rainbows.
#07 - Waste/Wasteland
Fuji smiles and doesn't say anything when Atobe comments that he is wasting his love on a person too cold to return it; they both know that Tezuka is different when he's around Fuji.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
Tezuka doesn't bat an eye when Fuji holds up the bottles and proposes a little toast in honor of their first year; he tries not to think that they're not supposed to know how sex and alcohol feel.
#09 - War
Fuji declares a subtly fatal war on anyone who hurts the people he cares so much for; sometimes even on himself, in Yuuta's case.
#10 - Weddings
Tezuka likes the simple hope and love that weddings have; he feels slightly bothered that this is something he will never have with Fuji: simplicity.
#11 - Birthday
Fuji's birthday comes only once every four years, so Tezuka tries to make every birthday brighter and more memorable than the last.
#12 - Blessing
Tezuka's parents are silent when they spot their son in the crowd, his arm around a smaller figure, their backs turned, heads bent together; this is a relationship that will never receive their blessing.
#13 - Bias
Fuji doesn't pay attention when Echizen comments that Fuji seems to have an easier time of it than any other Regular; the whole team knows Tezuka always plays fair.
#14 - Burning
Tezuka feels sometimes that he burns when he's with Fuji; not the quick spark like when he swallows wasabi, no, it is a slow smoldering ember fanned by their desire.
#15 - Breathing
Fuji counts his breaths when he is with Tezuka; the other boy has a way of making him feel breathless.
#16 - Breaking
Tezuka doesn't break things when he's angry, he's not the type to throw tantrums; Fuji is.
#17 - Belief
Fuji is Christian, meaning that in his belief system, people in love like he and Tezuka are in love are taboo and against natural law.
#18 - Balloon
Tezuka dreams of Fuji landing on his German welcome mat, clutching a bunch of balloons, saying "They're the prettiest way of travel!"
#19 - Balcony
Fuji leans on the balcony, calling, endlessly searching for his Romeo.
#20 - Bane
Tezuka tries not to listen as his mother wails that he is the bane of her existence; he thinks instead of Fuji against pale silk sheets, beckoning.
#21 - Quiet
Fuji enjoys the quiet of his soul when they are together; he never seems to find it anywhere else.
#22 - Quirks
Tezuka appreciates Fuji's little quirks: his love for spicy things, his "harmless" tricks that drive everyone mad, the way he blows against Tezuka's neck when they lie spent in bed.
#23 - Question
Fuji looks at Kikumaru, pondering his deceptively simple question of "Do you love him?", and he decides to answer, "Do tennis balls bounce?".
#24 - Quarrel
Tezuka and Fuji, Inui notes down in the other notebook, quarrel with silence and quiet murmurs in the locker room, with euphemisms masking the barbs they fling at each other, immature teenagers once more.
#25 - Quitting
Fuji does not comprehend when Tezuka tells him that he will no longer play tennis, that the stress is too much for his arm, his shoulder, his life; the Tezuka Fuji fell in love with was never a quitter.
#26 - Jump
Tezuka is a calculated risk-taker, he never jumps without checking the consequences of this action; he never checked the consequences of falling in love with Fuji, because Fuji is someone you could never get accurate data from.
#27 - Jester
Fuji is (Queen) Consort, Tezuka is King, Echizen is Prince (Heir Apparent); in this court Kikumaru is either petulant princess or court jester, a position he shares with Momoshiro, and only occasionally with Fuji.
#28 - Jousting
Tezuka likens tennis to the knightly sport of jousting in the fact that it requires speed and precision in all aspects; he must unseat his opponent while he holds the reins of the game in his left hand.
#29 - Jewel
Fuji opens an eye under his curtain of light hair and the tent of blankets, and watches Tezuka meticulously button up his uniform; when the sun hits his eye he blinks, and Tezuka thinks of sapphires winking.
#30 - Just
Tezuka, like life, Fuji thinks, is very just and very fair; if only they both could be biased, favoring him.
#31 - Smirk
Fuji is often accused of smirking, when all he is doing is showing the world this absolute happiness he has when he is with Tezuka.
#32 - Sorrow
Tezuka feels nothing but a dull pounding in his chest when his flight to Germany is called.
#33 - Stupidity
Fuji sometimes feels like smacking Tezuka upside the head, if only for the boy's sheer cluelessness.
#34 - Serenade
Tezuka blinked, his teacher blinked, his classmates blinked as Fuji strolled in five minutes before break wearing a sombrero and a matching bolero, strumming a Spanish guitar.
#35 - Sarcasm
Fuji's tongue is heavy with little threats and barbs that nevertheless sound pleasant to the ears; however, Tezuka considers it his duty to shut Fuji up as much as his breath allows him.
#36 - Sordid
Tezuka tries not to blush as Inui recounts the popular gossip concerning him and Fuji; the captain's never had the stomach for scandal.
#37 - Soliloquy
Fuji could go on like this for hours, if Kikumaru hadn't reminded him that Tezuka would only be gone for twenty-four.
#38 - Sojourn
Tezuka sometimes expects to open the door to find Fuji there, nose slightly red from the cold and blowing on his fingers, waiting patiently for Tezuka to warm him up.
#39 - Share
Fuji is a selfish little minx, but Tezuka seems to like that they don't share much about what goes on between them.
#40 - Solitary
Tezuka never seems to be alone anymore, neither does Fuji; they have become a package deal, no one knows when one ends and the other begins.
#41 - Nowhere
Fuji says softly that it wasn't that he hadn't any other place to go, after his parents kicked him out, it was that there was nowhere else he would rather be.
#42 - Neutral
Tezuka wanted the bedroom in beige; he eventually gave into Fuji's decadent desire for burgundy.
#43 - Nuance
Fuji's voice is laced not only with sarcasm but a sort of melancholy nuance that dissipates when Tezuka is around to watch out for it.
#44 - Near
Tezuka says that Germany isn't that far; Fuji remarks that they must have different definitions of distance.
#45 - Natural
Fuji acts like it's perfectly natural to be found in this state of dishabille when Tezuka comes home from the office.
#46 - Horizon
Tezuka sees the sun set from his plane, surprised by the color, and wonders if Fuji is taking pictures of it right now.
#47 - Valiant
Fuji loves Tezuka because he is so chivalrous and honorable; some kind of modern samurai.
#48 - Virtuous
Tezuka comes to church with Fuji on Sundays, he likes watching the light reflecting off the other boy's fine hair atop his bowed head, like a halo.
#49 - Victory
Fuji considers this his finest victory; this boy on top, beneath, beside him, over and over in some honest ecstasy.
#50 - Defeat
Tezuka lets Fuji think that he wins all the time, because Fuji provides the most exquisite consolation for his "defeat".