10 Letters: #019--Music
Title: Instant Communication
Rating: G
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Character: Ibu Shinji/Echizen Ryoma
Author's Notes: Ninth letter, from Shinji to Ryoma
Main table can be found here and here.
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Echizen,
Why didn’t I have your email before now? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to have given it to me a long time ago? Why did Fuji have to give it to me? Well, now that I have it, I’m using it. I don’t like waiting two or three weeks between letters, and this might be faster, assuming you reply to your email.
You don’t hate me, you know you were flattered by it. No one calls you those things, so it had to be nice to hear it that one time. I won’t praise you again anytime, soon, though, if it will make you feel better.
Momoshiro is an idiot. It was his own carelessness that cost him the match, though I know he’d never admit it. He was so busy looking for ways to use his pretty new smash that he forgot about my Spot, which I thought was odd, considering that I thought it had left quite the impression the last time he saw it, but I guess his pretty new shot overrode that. I haven’t even seen it yet, but I heard the name, and I think “Peach Cannon” is a silly name, I mean, can you imagine what would happen to a peach if you fired it from a cannon?
I…am shocked. I never thought that you would admit to missing anything. I guess that everyone that assumed you were emotionless are wring, because missing and nostalgia are definitely emotions. You should come back. America will contaminate you if you stay too long. In fact, you should come back permanently. I don’t understand why you moved here for just a year. That seems rather pointless and confusing and it can’t have been good for your education, going from one system to another like that. I’ll play you when you come. I’m more than a decent match now. Tachibana-san says that I’m firmly on National level. He also says that I should stop calling him “Tachibana-san” and start calling him “Kippei,” which just seems odd, but if Tachibana-san wants it, I can try. He also wants me to see a movie with him on Friday night. I guess it’s a movie about tennis, though I don’t remember any tennis movies coming out, but there has to be one, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked that.
I am not whining about height. I’m older, so I should be taller. That’s how it is.
Your upperclassmen don’t have to leave the team? Echizen is spoiled, able to keep his senpai around. If they’re good senpai, anyway. And no entrance exams? I’m already dreading those. I don’t know if any schools are the right fit for me. Tachibana-san says I should sit the Yamabuki exam and join him. What do you think?
Thank you for asking what I like. I like tennis, cats, physics, history, and languages. I also like music, which was self defense from being around Akira at first, but I like it for my sake now. Don’t tell anyone, but I have become an Arashi addict. A boy band. It should be shameful.
I think I like you the way that you are, Echizen. You may be rude, but you’re honest, and that’s better than anything else.
--Ibu (I feel like you should be calling me “Shinji” by now. Should you be?)
P.S.: It…didn’t matter to you? And here I had been thinking that you had superior taste, but you were just being spiteful. I’m very disillusioned now. And annoyed that you were that petty.
Rating: G
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Character: Ibu Shinji/Echizen Ryoma
Author's Notes: Ninth letter, from Shinji to Ryoma
Main table can be found here and here.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Echizen,
Why didn’t I have your email before now? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to have given it to me a long time ago? Why did Fuji have to give it to me? Well, now that I have it, I’m using it. I don’t like waiting two or three weeks between letters, and this might be faster, assuming you reply to your email.
You don’t hate me, you know you were flattered by it. No one calls you those things, so it had to be nice to hear it that one time. I won’t praise you again anytime, soon, though, if it will make you feel better.
Momoshiro is an idiot. It was his own carelessness that cost him the match, though I know he’d never admit it. He was so busy looking for ways to use his pretty new smash that he forgot about my Spot, which I thought was odd, considering that I thought it had left quite the impression the last time he saw it, but I guess his pretty new shot overrode that. I haven’t even seen it yet, but I heard the name, and I think “Peach Cannon” is a silly name, I mean, can you imagine what would happen to a peach if you fired it from a cannon?
I…am shocked. I never thought that you would admit to missing anything. I guess that everyone that assumed you were emotionless are wring, because missing and nostalgia are definitely emotions. You should come back. America will contaminate you if you stay too long. In fact, you should come back permanently. I don’t understand why you moved here for just a year. That seems rather pointless and confusing and it can’t have been good for your education, going from one system to another like that. I’ll play you when you come. I’m more than a decent match now. Tachibana-san says that I’m firmly on National level. He also says that I should stop calling him “Tachibana-san” and start calling him “Kippei,” which just seems odd, but if Tachibana-san wants it, I can try. He also wants me to see a movie with him on Friday night. I guess it’s a movie about tennis, though I don’t remember any tennis movies coming out, but there has to be one, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked that.
I am not whining about height. I’m older, so I should be taller. That’s how it is.
Your upperclassmen don’t have to leave the team? Echizen is spoiled, able to keep his senpai around. If they’re good senpai, anyway. And no entrance exams? I’m already dreading those. I don’t know if any schools are the right fit for me. Tachibana-san says I should sit the Yamabuki exam and join him. What do you think?
Thank you for asking what I like. I like tennis, cats, physics, history, and languages. I also like music, which was self defense from being around Akira at first, but I like it for my sake now. Don’t tell anyone, but I have become an Arashi addict. A boy band. It should be shameful.
I think I like you the way that you are, Echizen. You may be rude, but you’re honest, and that’s better than anything else.
--Ibu (I feel like you should be calling me “Shinji” by now. Should you be?)
P.S.: It…didn’t matter to you? And here I had been thinking that you had superior taste, but you were just being spiteful. I’m very disillusioned now. And annoyed that you were that petty.