PoT: Standalone: Challenge - Chapter One

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Challenge: Chapter One

Niou enters junior high and encounters a wonderful new game. Drama, I-3

Niou Masaharu liked seeing people disconcerted. The expression itself amused him, and the knowledge that he had been the one to put it on somebody's face gave him a nice, warm glow of accomplishment.

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[absenceofmind.livejournal.com]

Never even mind that, if he did attempt to play something on Yukimura, Sanada, who had no sense of humor Masaharu could detect, would skin him. Possibly for the purpose of making Yukimura a new pair of house slippers. Sanada was that kind of bloody minded, iron bastard, and anyone with eyes could see that he had a mother-hen complex over Yukimura. It went strangely with his hot temper, not to mention Yukimura's greater skill, but Masaharu figured that was probably half the point--Yukimura could harness Sanada's temper.

that right there is exactly, EXACTLY the kind of sanayuki dynamic i would LOVE to see in a fic. gods, i LOVE it when i find ppl who can express something i've been itching to express. not that i've touched your rikkai troika fic, seeing as it's sanakiri and all kinds of strangeness (by my admittedly narrow definition.)

[branchandroot]

*glomps you* Yes, Yukimura is not a doormat, any more than Ohtori!

*thinks* If the troika threesome weirds you, you should be safe enough with the mostly-tennis parts of the arc. "Temper", "Need", "The Continuation of War", and "Circle". "Nutshell", too, but that's pretty pure angst that I wrote to set up some of the troika interaction, so it isn't as integral.