Tezuka/Fuji Prompt Table

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Prompt table, condensed from here. Sources cited in that post; just find the appropriate prompt under it's original number.

001.	Five shades of white. ( a. IVORY b. BONE c. GHOST d. CHALK e. SNOWY )	002.	Everything you ever wished for.	003.	The effect of impact on stationary objects.	004.	Your pretty blue eyes are just stained glass.	005.	As long as you're mine.
006.	A dark heart, beating.	007.	Beneath these hands.	008.	The heart of your gesture.	009.	Hard, but much truer.	010.	Eyes meeting over the noise.
011.	The possibility of zero.	012.	In praise of surfaces.	013.	Tomorrow is something we remember.	014.	these children-no-longer-children.	015.	a fine line between genius and insanity.
016.	many nameless virtues.	017.	A lie told often enough becomes the truth.	018.	who can not forgive himself.	019.	I had to be the good one.	020.	the language of the visionary and the idealist.
021.	Writer's Choice #1: Under Glass	022.	Writer's Choice #2: Crossroads	023.	Writer's Choice #3: Hunger	024.	Writer's Choice #4: Finding New Prey	025.	Writer's Choice #5: Winners Take Chances

Prince Of Tennis; Tezuka/Fuji mostly, whether it's paired, gen, or mixed with others.

COMPLETED: 23/25

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Freebie #5: Winners take chances.
Tezuka confronts a man he wishes he could respect. In the same continuity as 017 (http://fsop.livejournal.com/5206.html?thread=16982#t16982).

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He is almost certain of when he figured it out; watching Echizen play a match, watching him turn into his father. That was definitely when Tezuka saw it. He couldn't help but have heard of Echizen Nanjiroh; if you were a lover of tennis, you had seen everyone worth seeing, and watched how they played. Ryoma had obviously never had any instructor but his father, and it didn't just show in his game style. It showed in his attitude.

Nanjiroh had retired suddenly, and it had become a mystery when nobody could figure out, or ferret out the answer why. Tezuka had figured it out; Nanijroh wanted to beat his son as much as Ryoma wanted to beat his father. But with one addition that made it just that little bit scary; Nanjiroh wanted Ryoma to beat him, too. The creation of a new generation in his family, quite possibly an accident, because what tennis player on top of his game would knowingly set out to bring a family into the middle of all that chaos? It had created a shining opportunity for Nanjiroh to improve upon himself through his son. If his natural talent had filtered through, all he would have to do was unlock it, a piece at a time.

And to do that, he had to remain thoroughly disinterested in his son.

Confronted with a man holding the same ambition in his head as Tezuka, it scared him. And Tezuka was so used to being the one to create a sense of fear, of respect and awe. He was calm, collected, he knew where he stood until Ryoma came along with his quirky father and threw off the balance. And now he was pushing Echizen to forget about his father, only to switch the ambition onto himself; he was becoming Echizen Nanjiroh, and it had to stop.

There was a part of them that did not correlate, and Tezuka would focus upon that. Nobody loved the game of tennis more than Tezuka; the thrill of a win, the satisfaction of a hunch proving true, it all seemed underhand compared to throwing yourself into the skill and the movements and becoming the game, win or lose. But when you loved something as thoroughly as that, you were very unlikely to lose. Tezuka refused to play just to beat people. You could do that in any sport, in many things on the face of the earth. He had chosen tennis, and it had chosen him, for much worthier reasons. They both were what they were, and it fitted. It angered him that there were people like that in his sport. Ryoma could be forgiven; he was still young and his father had been imprinting himself on his son's brain for a long time in order to have him fulfil masochistic ambitions, but Echizen Nanjiroh... There was no excuse.

Why have big dreams if ultimately they are unworthy of yourself and the life you live?

Tezuka was facing something that threatened two sides of his personality which begged to clash, and now would not. His self-discipline would be tested once again, and he resolved to rise above it stronger than before. One day he would become the best, purely to prove he had the biggest love for what he did, and nothing else. On the doorstep ofthe Echizen residence he waited, somehow knowing Ryoma's father would be the one to answer the door before he did. That was what fate was.

"What you are doing to your son is wrong." He said solemnly, and there the conversation began with a raised eyebrow from Nanjiroh.

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