PoT: Challenge: Cloud to Cloud

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Cloud to Cloud

Immediately following "The Continuation of War", Kirihara finds himself somewhat disturbed by the day's experiences, and Yukimura offers him reassurance. Porn with Insights, I-4

The lurch as the bus stopped woke Akaya from a half dozing dream that promptly escaped him. All he remembered was that it had involved cutting a tall chain-link fence. And that Fuji had been mixed up in the project. There were really days Akaya wished his subconscious could just send him a memo.

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[aishuu.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...

I'm wonderimg if you're taking this arc somewhere? I still want to see this as Yukimura/Tezuka (and I blame you for making me WRITE a Yukimura/Tezuka piece).

I think Kirihara has softened a bit through these series of smut ficlets. It's interesting, and the writing is still excellent, but I'm curious now where this is going. IE - Are you doing your own version of the championship? Because damn girl, I want to see.

The only Kiri pairing you've missed is my favorite for Rikkai - him with Yanagi... but I don't think this fits in this verse. *looks thoughtful* They don't seem to have a particularly close connection.

[branchandroot]

Kinda yes and no both; I usually have a vague idea of where my arcs are headed, but how they get there often surprises me. I do want to at least get to the Yuki V Tezu match to close out Nationals... though I expect mobs with pitchforks to come after me for the way I intend to end it. And that will be the end of the Challenge arc. There are a few more back-and-fill stories to fit in, of course. The thing is, I'm also very tempted to go on with a Kiri-centric arc tracking how he develops next year, when Rikkai is his. Because I don't think there will be any other captain he respects, and what happens then?

That arc, actually, is where there might be Yuki/Tezu, because that's when Yukimura might find himself in need of some of Tezuka's hands-off management methods.

So, yeah, you'll get to see. But the team stories are exhausting to write, and I need to soothe my nerves with smutlets in between while I get my wind back. ^_-

*chin in hand* You know, it's weird. I like to read YanaKiri, but I just can't bring that pair together in my head to write it. I do want to do some gen interaction fic for them, but I keep grinding the gears when I try to shift it to romance.

(and I blame you for making me WRITE a Yukimura/Tezuka piece).

*smug grin*

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

If you do a Kiri arc, I will... well, not be a slave, but a devoted fangirl. He's my current favorite...

I've thought of the matter myself, but from Echizen's standpoint. Next year is gonna be a wash, and the year after? Scary.

Yukimura strikes me as someone who instinctively is perfect at handling interpersonal relationships, so him needing Tezuka hurts my head. Tezuka is awkward, to me. Then again, my Tezuka tends toward antisocial.

*shimmers brilliantly* I'm glad you have further plans, sa!

*thwaps for smug grin*

[branchandroot]

*bounces* Well, see, it could be so cool, the thing is... *gets control of self again* Ok. Not babbling. The thing is, I see Tezuka and Yukimura coming at people-handling from different ends of the spectrum. Tezuka is... afraid, I think, to be too open, to let his people too close, because if he let go around his team he'd mow them down, and resentment rears its ugly head. So he leads by distant example. At least, that's the reasoning I impute to him. Yukimura, I speculate, leads his personal clutch of psychos precisely by letting go around them, by showing them clearly what he can do and by being pretty open to them; the openness counterbalances any intimidation factor, and it all works out. But if he's not right there, if he's placed at some distance to Kirihara, and isn't his official captain anymore, I'm not sure that openness will be as strong. It will have lost its framework. He'll be forced to lead from a distance, if he still wants to guide Kiri-elf at all, and the best example around of that technique would be Tezuka.

Ok, stopping enthusing, now.