Title: Complete
Author/Artist: Liz
lilly_scribblesPairing: Rin/Kai
Rating: G
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Theme: 8. our own world
Disclaimer: All characters portrayed herein do not belong to me. They belong to their creators, and I am making no profit from them.
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There were three things that made up Hirakoba Rin’s world, three things he knew that that he couldn’t live without.
One was the ocean. Rin knew that if he ever had to give up the sea, he’d go mad. Not loudly or dramatically, but slowly and surely, like the waves eroding the sand. It wasn’t something Rin liked to think of too often. His sanity was at enough risk just from being a member of Higa’s tennis team.
Tennis was the second thing that Rin could never let go of. The feeling that Rin got when he was on the court…singles, doubles, it didn’t matter. Rarely did Rin feel as alive and free as he did when he had a racquet in hand. His team only enhanced that feeling. He felt as tightly bound to his teammates as he did to his family…perhaps even more so.
Kai was the third thing that Rin couldn’t give up, and the one he knew he’d fight the hardest to keep. The ocean brought him peace, and tennis brought him freedom and family, but Kai made Rin complete. Without Kai, Rin knew he’d be hopelessly empty and lost, and it wouldn’t matter if he lost the other two things at that point. The most important would already be gone.
Rin knew that Kai knew that he wasn’t the only important thing in Rin’s life, and Rin knew that sometimes Kai sulked over it, that sometimes Kai worried that things would change and that the importance of the first two would overtake the importance of Kai in his life. He’d caught Kai in his brooding before, and every time was the same.
Rin simply laughed at Kai and hugged him, telling Kai that nothing could be more important that his precious Kaikins. And he would kiss Kai every time, showing him without words just how Rin felt about Kai and their place together.
There were three things that Rin couldn’t live without, but only one thing that Rin could never be whole without, and that was Kai. In the end, Kai was Rin’s world.
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