Title: Full Circle
Rating: G
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Character: Ibu Shinji/Echizen Ryoma
Author's Notes: 7th letter, from Shinji to Ryoma. Anything that’s struck out was crossed out enough that Ryoma couldn’t read it.
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Echizen,
I’m sorry I let so long go between your last letter and this one, though I bet you were probably just glad that I had stopped writing you and now you’re going to see this and be annoyed that you have to write again, but you better write again.
Anyway, the reason I took so long was because of the city tournament. It came full circle, with Fudomine versus Seigaku again. You’ve probably already heard about the match from Momoshiro and how we won. He probably didn’t have anything nice to say about that. It does make sense though, in a way. With the exception of Momoshiro and Kaidoh, no one on Seigaku’s team has played in tournaments before, and we have. You may or may not be happy to know that your old school’s team does look promising, though. They just have to grow up.
I kept expecting to see you there, Echizen. It didn’t seem right without you. I played Momoshiro, and yes, I did beat him, but I kept expecting to see you on the other side of the net and not him. Maybe I meant hoping…no. Have we played together at all since that one doubles match at the street courts? If you ever come back to Japan, we should play. Against each other, I mean. I’m not sure you’re meant for doubles. I miss you, maybe? No, why would I miss you?
And I am shocked that you grew. I haven’t. Everyone else around me has, and I haven’t, and it really sucks. If you ever get taller than me, I think I might do something drastic, because you’re not meant to be taller than me.
I’m sending you that homework. You will see the sentence I used that had both your name and the word delicious in it.
We…are actually having a hard time filling the hole that Tachibana-san left with us. We’re working on training both ourselves and the upcoming freshmen and juniors so that hopefully, next year won’t be too bad. We’re doing what we can. I’m not sure if it’s enough.
I’m going to make you ask me what I like. I resent you saying that I’d tell you anyway. You’re very rude, did you know that?
Ad speaking of rude, since you did say it, then yeah. You are rude enough to say it. Annoying brat.
--Ibu
P.S.: If that was the case, why didn’t you just grab another type when you saw that it was special to someone else? If it didn’t really matter to you, then that would make sense, right?