PoT: Standalone: Challenge - Chapter Nine

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Challenge: Chapter Nine

For Regionals, the team pulls out all the stops. Drama, I-3

Masaharu didn't know about the others, but he'd had to catch Yukimura from falling more than once, while spotting for his "light" practices, and had to carry him back inside twice. He'd watched the frustration his captain could keep out of his voice but couldn't keep out of his eyes, and shuddered to think what it must be like.

Comments

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

I have just fallen in love with you. ^_~

I read this arc this morning, and just took this evening to re-read it, and it's even more brilliant this time.

You paint the most brilliant, and possibly most "realistic" picture of Rikkai I've seen. You've got all the characters portrayed in a manner which I simply adore them - your Yukimura is freaking BRILLIANT, and you have cemented my adoration of this piece with your complex Kirihara...

But what I sincerely love is your Yagyuu. You've caught exactly what made me fall in love with him (even over Niou). The fact that Yagyuu is a bit of a bastard, hidden under the civilized veneer. I love this - I haven't seen it portrayed so well before.

[branchandroot]

*blushing* Thank you!

Ah, Kirihara; he did his best to take over this whole story. I only bought him off by promising him one of his own later. I was very taken with his manga incarnation; there's so much hinted at, just begging to be explored!

Yagyuu... you have to figure, he must have some serious mad hidden under the manners to be able to pull the switch at all. He's hard to get inside of, but at lot of fun to write--kind of like Fuji, that way. It's good to hear that people think I brought him though well!