andersenmom

Title: "Good Day to be Alive" – Metalica, No Leaf Clover
Rating: G
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Character: Kisarazu Ryou, to Kisarazu Atsushi, Table 10b, 04: disgust
Author's Notes: In response to this letter, by skyangel2009.


Atsushi,

Second weekend in April it is. I should get there early Saturday morning (like 6:00) and leave late Sunday night. I’ll be bleary for classes on Monday, but it’ll be worth it.

It was so good to see you again! I went back to Abeno and Hitomi asked after you – you get beaus wherever you go. Can I give them your address? Beth asked if you’d made it back okay – she really liked you, too – and I warned you about that treacle tart. If my face looked anything like yours, they had a reason to laugh. Isn’t it disgusting?

I hope you saw everything you wanted to. Thanks again for coming. It was nice to just talk in Japanese again!

Sae and possessive…. Okay, yeah, I can see that. And yes, you’re right, I probably would have sent him to you. Speaking of… did you ever date him? Would you, given the chance?

We do have recourses, but I got the feeling that foreign students are few and far between, and even fewer are Asian. Or… anyone with a different alphabet (way of writing?). Lilly said she’d never heard of anyone attending who uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and only of a few from the middle or far East.

Yeah, well – it’s likely Bane and Dabide will find work on the beach – like life-guarding or… something. Can’t you see them running a surf shop? They’d be poor because they’d make no money, and they wouldn’t care as long as surfers and the Rokkaku Junior High tennis club frequented their shop.

Atsushi, you’ve only got a couple of years of college left; try out for the team this spring. You can quit when you can’t play competitively any more. You know you want to. I can’t find any… of the right kind of competitors – my game against you was one of the best I’ve played in a while. The people here are either beginners (who I try not to discourage) or are rather like playing Echizen. Or Tezuka. So much better than I that I’m barely a challenge for them. Not that there are a lot of those, but….

I don’t need someone else to be happy, ‘Sushi. I am happy. And honestly? If I’ve passed up the “love of my life”, he or she wasn’t it. I’ve just never found someone outside of family that distracts me that much (oh, don’t even think it – you are a huge distraction when you want to be). And yes, I know that most of my friends outside of the tennis team got close to me because of a crush. I’m not that oblivious.

Okay, so they had to tell me, but still.

Your date sounded fun! Good kisser, huh? Learn how he does it, and overwhelm your next conquest. And – you’re right. He is beautiful. There isn’t a much better word to describe him.

Oh – do I need to find a place to stay while I’m there? I’m sure I could find something, if I need to.

It really was good to see you.

Ryou


Kisarazu Ryou