PoT: Challenge: Water
Jul. 28th, 2004 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandrootFic post from my archive.
Takes place during Chapter Seven. Sanada finds an opponent who can help him improve his game, and, perhaps, offer some much needed distraction from his captain's illness. Yanagi notes, in this, the possible start of a dangerous trend.
Genichirou never could decide whether he preferred Seiichi's manner, who invariably drew whatever Genichirou was thinking out of him, or Renji's, who rarely asked since he could usually be assumed to know already.
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Date: 2004-07-29 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-29 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-29 02:31 am (UTC)[curls up in your lap] Ah, life, she is good.
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Date: 2004-07-29 02:38 am (UTC)*pets*
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Date: 2004-07-29 05:36 am (UTC)saa... you know... just the sheer brilliance of the dynamics between those three boys and how you portray them really make me question why I should bother with writing when I can enjoy so much time just reading.... ^____^
Actually, this trio really does intrigue me. I know there are a lot of people who like to pair Sanada with Atobe or Renji with Kirihara, but I look at how you write this boys and wonder, *why*... I mean, they just seem to fit so perfectly! And this is perhaps the only grouping that *can* fit so seamlessly into a romantic partnership of more than two... Like, they were designed to work that way.
I'm constantly in awe... and enjoying re-reading all of "Challenge" again... (and yes, I *am* also giving an eye and ear to the promised Tezuka-Kirihara fic. The notes are looking somewhat promising.)
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Date: 2004-07-29 05:08 pm (UTC)*thinks* There is plenty of angst-potential in pairing them, given the high degree of togetherness that the text implies. Which is one reason I don't, 'cause I like my happy endings. But it's funny; I can make Sanada and Atobe the best of snarky friends, but I just can't get them into bed.
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Date: 2004-07-29 10:58 pm (UTC)Surprisingly.
They actually bumped the YuushiGakuto PWP right out of the way.
I'm surprised.
It's strange. I don't really like it, but, hey, {shrugs} you asked for it; I shall endeavor to deliver.
As for the Sanada-Atobe pairing, I think I can see a whole lot more potential for it after the most recent tenipuri all-stars arc than before. I never really understood why they would be paired before, even if the fics were usually very, very good. Now at least, we've seen them meet twice (once when Hyotei played against Rikkaidai, and then at this... 'camp' thing), and interact, and *play*, gosh darn it!
{grins} I can see Atobe going after Sanada just to make Sanada submit to him (and admit how wonderful Atobe really is---be awed by his prowness, ne?); while Sanada just wants to wipe the bloody smirk off Atobe's face. ^.^v
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Date: 2004-07-29 12:57 pm (UTC)You wrote me MORE SMUT! You wrote Sanada being taken against a wall!!! OMFG!!!! I LVOE YOU! I LOVE YOU!!!
And this LINE traded pieces of themselves back and forth like good books, reading each other's histories and fantasies and footnotes,. In one sentence you summed up their relationship. The imagery! OMFG!!! I LOVE! I LOVE!
And ditto there's an attraction in someone as strong as you asking for something like this. Kouji sounds like a very -interesting- young man *leeeeeer*
And Renji, oh sweet Renji, so poised, so beautiful, and so vulnerable, but damn it's HOT!!! I'm so happy at the moment. You wrote Sanada being taken against a WALL!!! OMFG!!! *melts*
*pile on the coffee and the truffles*
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Date: 2004-07-29 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-29 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-29 05:19 pm (UTC)Curious thing, but Sanada gets the best metaphors for his pov. I think he must write poetry; it would go along with his other pasttimes.
*grins* You like seeing Sanada topped, hm? Maybe I'll see if Yanagi is in the mood to do it, some time...
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Date: 2004-07-30 03:00 am (UTC)He so would write poetry (seems to go with the kendo thing, though I draw the line at flower arrangement), and I can imagine Yukimura and Yanagi reading them. The three of them are just soooo kyuuute *huggles*
You like seeing Sanada topped YES! YES! YES ^___^
Yanagi is in the mood ^____^ I LOVE YOU For the way your mind works ^_^
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Date: 2004-07-29 01:37 pm (UTC)Oh, girl, this piece was so perfect. I confess I was dying during all the fic...I was totally afraid that after the sex scene with Sasaki, you wouldn't write Sanada and Yanagi having sex. I was with my heart in my mouth all the time, and I'm so happy you really wrote.
Of course I would prefer to read them having sex in a chapter just to himself, but the way you did was almost as perfect as that.
Now, the only think is missing is the Yanagi/Kirihara fic (I'd like to see in Yanagi point of view...actually, I'd like to see a Sanada/Yukimura/Yanagi fic in Yanagi POV too).
Oooh, I'm sooo happy I don't have any words to make you understand how pleased I am for having read this fic ^_^
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Date: 2004-07-29 05:22 pm (UTC)I was going to write them as two separate stories, but Yanagi decided he had something to say about Sanada's fling. Far be it from me to deny him when he decides to interfere; as Sanada says, it doesn't happen too often.
*V sign*