Succint [tenipuri; tezufuji; english 06 & 07]
title: Succint
author: yumeyana
pairing: Tezuka x Fuji
themes: English: 06 & 07
genre: sap
rating: pg
summary: Kunimitsu believes in brevity. Syusuke simply nullifies this belief.
crossposted @ 30_lessons, potfics, tenipuri_yaoi & @ quilled_dreams where it sleeps.
Author’s Notes: I was supposed to write a paper but seeing as I haven’t even read the material I am supposed to comment on, I followed the urge to write this for the moment. I enjoyed writing this and somehow by writing this, I got out of my writer’s block. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Disclaimers: Tennis no Oujisama and all its characters belong to Konomi Takeshi. Only the plot is mine.
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Succinct
Kunimitsu believes that brevity is the key to a real conversation.
Details are needed, he agrees, but only those that are necessary. Anything other than that could result to confusion and misunderstanding which is the root of all arguments. Words are meant to inform and not to decorate the world with adverbs and adjectives. Leave the decorating to the painters, interior designers and other artists. Keep it short and simple and the world will be peaceful.
*
Ayana always thinks of it as ironic since she loves to shower the boy with flowery words as a show of affection (Kunimitsu is later informed that she used to be the literary editor for the school paper). And more so since her husband has a way with words - most of the time, making her laugh and Kunikazu just shakes his head. Her father-in-law may not be a man of expressions but he speaks often enough to call him normal.
Kunimitsu, on the other hand, just gives them a small smile but remains silent often enough to make his parents sometimes doubt if any of their genes have ever been passed on to him.
*
Kuniharu remembers that one time Kunimitsu talked to a boy in the sand pit.
The boy is rather adamant in not letting Kunimitsu in and the latter ends up talking more than what is usual of him. Kunimitsu thinks it is the first time he ever engaged in a verbal fight about how the capped boy can’t possibly own the sandpit and place a barrier over the entire world so that Kunimitsu won’t be able to enter.
Kuniharu smiles. His son had always been the logical one, he thinks, before he sees the two boys run towards a black Porsche.
He shakes his head. Kunimitsu is still a kid.
*
It is a puzzle, Syuichiroh often observes, how Kunimitsu is involved in activities that requires him to speak more than he wants to or he believes is necessary
It amazes him even more that inspite of this, Kunimitsu manages to head the student council and tennis club with just a few words and never needing to say more. Somehow, the entire student population - not to forget the teachers - understands all those things he leaves out.
Trivialities are never Tezuka Kunimitsu’s thing.
*
For Sadaharu, Fuji Syusuke is a distortion in Kunimitsu’s perfectly structured life.
This is the first data he ever gathers about the fellow bespectacled one and probably, he often considers, the only true and reliable one. Kunimitsu is rather too indestructible for a twelve year old - both in and outside of the tennis courts. Yet when he is faced with the honey-haired one, he becomes less of a wall and more of a boy nearing his teens.
Syusuke, he writes down, is the only person who can make Kunimitsu remember his real age.
*
Ryoma finds it extremely amusing when he catches buchou in a conversation with Syusuke.
Normally, there is nothing amusing about them talking to each other since they always converse with each other. But when he walks past them on his way to the rooftop, he sees that - for the first time since he became a member of the tennis club - the one speaking isn’t Syusuke but Kunimitsu. Which isn’t entirely new either, except for the fact that the sentences were longer than the usual three.
And Syusuke is just listening.
*
In Syusuke’s opinion, Kunimitsu has a low and amazingly attractive voice.
He finds it a waste that the other would speak so little and keep to himself most of the time. This, he thinks, is the first reason why he likes to taunt Kunimitsu into speaking more than he usually does. Beauty should not be kept, he believes, and should be shared. If a camera could just capture the beauty of a voice, Syusuke knows that a roll of film would not suffice.
He is successful somehow, he assesses, because by the time they are third years, he gets Kunimitsu to speak for an entire hour without the tensai making more than a handful of comments.
*
With Syusuke, Kunimitsu thinks, brevity is non-existent.
It is not only because the tensai cajoles him to speaking since they talk about tennis. Talking about tennis is easier than actually playing it. After all, he discusses tennis with Ryuuzaki-sensei, Syuichiroh and Sadaharu. Why should talking to Syusuke about tennis be any different?
But tennis is always just a prelude to Kunimitsu’s real topic.
It is only now - now that he is beside Syusuke while they look at each other, the fireworks in the sky forgotten - that he understands why his mother’s stories and poems use too many flowery words when someone is about reveal his or her feelings toward another.
His lips are moving, telling Syusuke how much he treasures the friendship, the memories, the triumphs and the losses. He tells Syusuke that he feels comfortable with the tensai and that he is one of the rare people who could elicit such a feeling from him. He tells Syusuke more than he intends to or thinks he can but the three words he wants to tell the tensai is still somewhere at the end of the long train of jumbled thoughts, words and emotions.
He berates himself for being of incapable getting straight to the point when all he needs to relay how he feels are three words and not twenty feet of long sentences. But, he thinks, Syusuke will understand once he gets to the end and the courage to say actually it.
After all, saying ‘I like you’ or ‘I love you’ isn’t as easy as it seems to be.
Especially when it is true.
xxx
19M06
8:08p
author: yumeyana
pairing: Tezuka x Fuji
themes: English: 06 & 07
genre: sap
rating: pg
summary: Kunimitsu believes in brevity. Syusuke simply nullifies this belief.
crossposted @ 30_lessons, potfics, tenipuri_yaoi & @ quilled_dreams where it sleeps.
Author’s Notes: I was supposed to write a paper but seeing as I haven’t even read the material I am supposed to comment on, I followed the urge to write this for the moment. I enjoyed writing this and somehow by writing this, I got out of my writer’s block. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Disclaimers: Tennis no Oujisama and all its characters belong to Konomi Takeshi. Only the plot is mine.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Succinct
Kunimitsu believes that brevity is the key to a real conversation.
Details are needed, he agrees, but only those that are necessary. Anything other than that could result to confusion and misunderstanding which is the root of all arguments. Words are meant to inform and not to decorate the world with adverbs and adjectives. Leave the decorating to the painters, interior designers and other artists. Keep it short and simple and the world will be peaceful.
*
Ayana always thinks of it as ironic since she loves to shower the boy with flowery words as a show of affection (Kunimitsu is later informed that she used to be the literary editor for the school paper). And more so since her husband has a way with words - most of the time, making her laugh and Kunikazu just shakes his head. Her father-in-law may not be a man of expressions but he speaks often enough to call him normal.
Kunimitsu, on the other hand, just gives them a small smile but remains silent often enough to make his parents sometimes doubt if any of their genes have ever been passed on to him.
*
Kuniharu remembers that one time Kunimitsu talked to a boy in the sand pit.
The boy is rather adamant in not letting Kunimitsu in and the latter ends up talking more than what is usual of him. Kunimitsu thinks it is the first time he ever engaged in a verbal fight about how the capped boy can’t possibly own the sandpit and place a barrier over the entire world so that Kunimitsu won’t be able to enter.
Kuniharu smiles. His son had always been the logical one, he thinks, before he sees the two boys run towards a black Porsche.
He shakes his head. Kunimitsu is still a kid.
*
It is a puzzle, Syuichiroh often observes, how Kunimitsu is involved in activities that requires him to speak more than he wants to or he believes is necessary
It amazes him even more that inspite of this, Kunimitsu manages to head the student council and tennis club with just a few words and never needing to say more. Somehow, the entire student population - not to forget the teachers - understands all those things he leaves out.
Trivialities are never Tezuka Kunimitsu’s thing.
*
For Sadaharu, Fuji Syusuke is a distortion in Kunimitsu’s perfectly structured life.
This is the first data he ever gathers about the fellow bespectacled one and probably, he often considers, the only true and reliable one. Kunimitsu is rather too indestructible for a twelve year old - both in and outside of the tennis courts. Yet when he is faced with the honey-haired one, he becomes less of a wall and more of a boy nearing his teens.
Syusuke, he writes down, is the only person who can make Kunimitsu remember his real age.
*
Ryoma finds it extremely amusing when he catches buchou in a conversation with Syusuke.
Normally, there is nothing amusing about them talking to each other since they always converse with each other. But when he walks past them on his way to the rooftop, he sees that - for the first time since he became a member of the tennis club - the one speaking isn’t Syusuke but Kunimitsu. Which isn’t entirely new either, except for the fact that the sentences were longer than the usual three.
And Syusuke is just listening.
*
In Syusuke’s opinion, Kunimitsu has a low and amazingly attractive voice.
He finds it a waste that the other would speak so little and keep to himself most of the time. This, he thinks, is the first reason why he likes to taunt Kunimitsu into speaking more than he usually does. Beauty should not be kept, he believes, and should be shared. If a camera could just capture the beauty of a voice, Syusuke knows that a roll of film would not suffice.
He is successful somehow, he assesses, because by the time they are third years, he gets Kunimitsu to speak for an entire hour without the tensai making more than a handful of comments.
*
With Syusuke, Kunimitsu thinks, brevity is non-existent.
It is not only because the tensai cajoles him to speaking since they talk about tennis. Talking about tennis is easier than actually playing it. After all, he discusses tennis with Ryuuzaki-sensei, Syuichiroh and Sadaharu. Why should talking to Syusuke about tennis be any different?
But tennis is always just a prelude to Kunimitsu’s real topic.
It is only now - now that he is beside Syusuke while they look at each other, the fireworks in the sky forgotten - that he understands why his mother’s stories and poems use too many flowery words when someone is about reveal his or her feelings toward another.
His lips are moving, telling Syusuke how much he treasures the friendship, the memories, the triumphs and the losses. He tells Syusuke that he feels comfortable with the tensai and that he is one of the rare people who could elicit such a feeling from him. He tells Syusuke more than he intends to or thinks he can but the three words he wants to tell the tensai is still somewhere at the end of the long train of jumbled thoughts, words and emotions.
He berates himself for being of incapable getting straight to the point when all he needs to relay how he feels are three words and not twenty feet of long sentences. But, he thinks, Syusuke will understand once he gets to the end and the courage to say actually it.
After all, saying ‘I like you’ or ‘I love you’ isn’t as easy as it seems to be.
Especially when it is true.
xxx
19M06
8:08p