PoT: Mirror Writing: Long Exposure - One
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branchandrootFic post from my archive.
Upon meeting again in the hospital, after Seigaku plays Rikkai, Tachibana decides Fuji could use a friend outside of tennis.
He'd been told before, most notably by his little sister, that he worried too much. But he couldn't shake off a feeling of responsibility for this injury.
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Date: 2004-05-01 05:22 pm (UTC)Kippei also; his determination and quiet compassion. A lot of his patience. The thing about him not playing Fuji says so much about his character, and Fuji's, and even Tezuka's. Nice. ^_^
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Date: 2004-05-01 05:51 pm (UTC)Have you gotten to *counts in head* the low hundreds, yet? TachiFuji makes far more sense after you actually see the hospital scenes. It never occured to me before then. It implied, to me, that Fuji sees parallels between Tezuka and Tachibana, and once I paired off Tezuka and Atobe for this arc, these two just kind of fell together.
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Date: 2004-05-01 06:15 pm (UTC)Your arc almost makes me like Atobe, you know.... But I just can't get over my general dislike- I'm like, hey Tenipuri fic! By Emily! About.... eeh, Atobe.... If you write more about Fuji messing with him, I'll probably start sympathizing more.... //incredibly nonsubtle hint
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Date: 2004-05-01 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-01 05:28 pm (UTC)But it is Tezuka and Fuji's friendship that fascinate me so damn much. I love how you have incorporated the latest manga issue, weaving Fuji's reaction to the change in his reasons for playing tennis. And how now he KNOWS, he know the motivation, the need, the desire to win at all cost, and this knowlwdge doesn't bring him happiness, because now he knows he never fully understood his closest friend.
And just damn, I love this.
More.
*keep on feeding emily chocolate*
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Date: 2004-05-01 05:56 pm (UTC)I love how you have incorporated the latest manga issue
*coughs* Especially since I haven't actually read it. ^_^; Just the little flashback scene, and all the spoilers I could find. It seemed like a reasonable extrapolation; good to know it worked!
*trots off to work on next section*
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Date: 2004-05-02 05:45 pm (UTC)This makes me stop and smile, because knowing that they will end up together, then seeing this now... Watching Fuji open up to someone like that, finding someone he could trust like that... while retaining all the essential fuji + tezuka intensity that occurs in both anime and manga. *glomps you*
(of course, you do know that I'll be stalking you for the bits in the middle, but well, I stalk you anyway, so...)
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Date: 2004-05-02 07:13 pm (UTC)*giggles* I will prepare to be stalked. *nods*
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Date: 2004-05-19 03:29 pm (UTC)And, I have to admit, in accordance to an above comment, when I first started reading this fic I was like "Atobe... hn. I could do with---oh, hello, Tezuka. Why yes, yes, I was just scooting along to the second part, I mean, hmm... what part? who's counting parts... oh, *hello* hot steamy sex, and dammit! shower sex not shown...but... oh my...heat's good... yes, very good... and, tteeeheeehee... fear the one known as Fuji Syusuke, for he will rip your heart out with a spoon, smiling all the while..."
Yeah... I got hooked. badly. and, really, I can *see* Tez & Atobe... I don't know why... but, [sighs] I guess if I'm opening ~A Game Worth Winning~ up to the other teams (and since Shinji, Akira, and Ann have already claimed a fic for themselves, and that stupid Dahn kid, too... and whatever his hot-assed name is from Hyotei who's decided that bondage is a very good look for redheaded partners... {blinks} I'm doomed..........)............
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Date: 2004-05-19 05:04 pm (UTC)Oshitari, yes? The one with the voice that's sex all by itself. Hooray for doom!
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Date: 2004-05-19 09:48 pm (UTC)Oshitari... yeah, that name looks familiar, although, until I get a chance to actually sit down and rewatch my PoT disc with focus on everyone else who's *not* Seigaku, I really can't opinionate about voices... or anything really. ^.^;;;
{blinks} "hooray...for..." {glares} C'mere so I can hit ya with this hammer!
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Date: 2004-05-19 10:30 pm (UTC)Of course, now that it's licsensed, and viz intends to torture us all with an every-other-month schedule, it's going to take *forever* for the translated volumes to catch up. *glares at viz sadists*
To play seriously... well, the thing is, it's proverbial, before Kirihara, that Fuji has never played seriously. Never played full out. He's only ever played hard enough to win, except against Tezuka, and no one knows what his true capacity is. Which, it seems, really kind of pisses Tezuka off. He wants his team to be the very best they can be, and here's his annoyingly quirky, genius, singles two player toying with the game. In the manga, the Kirihara match is where Fuji finally buckles down and plays at full strength for the first time. Shocks the daylights out of everyone, including himself.
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Date: 2004-05-20 03:57 am (UTC)Did he rip Kirihara to shreds, or did Kirihara survive with ego/spirit intake? Was Fuji himself hurt? devistated? shocked? horrified? Oh, damn... hmm... I wonder if I can't just sneak into the book store this weekend and find out... {mews at prospect of just hopping the train into Shibuya and visiting Mandarake's or Kikukinuya's...}
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Date: 2004-05-20 04:09 am (UTC)If you do go pick up the latest volume, tell me?
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