imaginedyou | Tezuka/Fuji Prompt Table

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.

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010. Eyes meeting over the noise. Tezuka/Fuji, Echizen. Spoilers for the end of the Nationals OVA 6, after Tezuka's match.

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Another win, and Seigaku still were not used to it; the excitement was almost unbearable, and everyone insisted on the traditional winner's 'banquet' at Kawamura Sushi. The crowd was lead (sprinting and yelling back) by a very hungry Momo, and an always-ready-to-eat-or-celebrate Eiji.

"I need to retie my shoelace," Fuji said, looking down at his shoe and finding the source of the annoying flicking noise.

"We'll catch you up," Tezuka said to the others, unexpectedly. No-one acknowledged having heard him; they were too busy rushing off towards food. Fuji felt Tezuka's shadow over him as he sat down and fiddled with his lace.

"Is it me, or are they acting even more excited than usual?" Tezuka asked idly, watching the stampede distance themselves.

"Oishi told them about Hyakuren Jitoku no Kiwami." Fuji smiled. "I think they are excited to see a Tezuka beyond their wildest dreams. I did not want to say anything to them. Oishi's heart is in the right place, though."

"It always has been." Tezuka agreed.

"He is proud to call himself your friend, and so he feels he should share the esscence of who you are with them all. Even if it means explaining things that should perhaps not be revealed."

"I think by now, the whole team knows too much about one another." Tezuka said reluctantly. "Perhaps it makes us better together, to be so entwined."

"I'm sorry I couldn't be the one to unleash it." Fuji says, and this time his smile is hard to keep up. Until Tezuka reaches out and cups his hand around Fuji's cheek.

"You never would have." He says firmly. "Because of the nature of it's sealing. It took misconduct and mistreatment of tennis, unecessary cruelty, to seal it, and unleash it both. You are not capable of that, and I thank god for it."

Something in the air between them feels as though if it hadn't been such a public place, they might have shared a kiss. For the team to be aware of their closeness is one thing, for every team at the Nationals to hear about it from one chance observer, is another. Though their lips do not meet, they both come away from the haze smiling.

"I shall have to attain Muga no Kyouchi, now." Fuji smiles. "Or else I will never be able to keep up with you." He pauses, his eyes glancing in another direction. "Tezuka."

Tezuka turns, and Echizen is there. They had both assumed everyone else in the team had gone ahead of them.

"What is it, Echizen?" Tezuka asks.

"You told me before..." He begins slowly, "to become Seigaku's pillar of support."

"What about it?"

"I'll take it." Ryoma says with a little grin. "I'll take the pillar of Seigaku from you."

Fuji makes an amused but approving sound, which Tezuka can't help but echo, however quietly. The captain turns away, and Ryoma is still looking out on the courts when Fuji gently reminds him it's time to go.

"It looks like you have inadventently created another barrier for Echizen to break." Fuji murmurs to Tezuka over sushi, and under the rest of the voices cheering.

"For some, it is no longer about the winning," Tezuka agrees, "or, more accurately, beating another."

"And for some," Fuji says thoughtfully, "it will always be about that, and everything else will be drawn in along for the ride naturally. It is the power of the Tezuka Zone."

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Wow. I like this. A lot. Like, not more than the rest, but for entirely different reasons. The Fuji stuff, the Tezuka stuff. Oishi and his heart and his mistakes. Echizen and the challenge.

It took misconduct and mistreatment of tennis, unecessary cruelty, to seal it, and unleash it both. You are not capable of that, and I thank god for it."

That's just beautiful. :x It says so much about Fuji and Tezuka! Because even if Fuji can be cruel, he's not... intentionally and unnecessarily cruel. And that Tezuka recognizies it. It's amazing.

See, this is the "I come up with ideas after WATCHING that I like better than most of the prompt-inspired ones" thing I was talking about ;) It was in my head for an entire day before I wrote it down; it made that work day verreh nice *haloshine*

I love Oishi! It made me notice a difference between he and Fuji in how they relate to Tezuka; I didn't buy that Fuji wouldn't have known what was happening, considering that in first year he knew Tezuka was left-handed before anyone else, and knows his game so well, so therefore it left the option hat he just didn't want to blab it all to the rest of the team. Where Oishi is his friend, and proud of it and willing to talk about how wonderful Tezuka is till the cows come home, Fuji thinks a little deeper and reminds himself of what Tezuka might want heard about himself first, because the emotions between them, and that they put out to everyone else, are important.

Ahem. I could ramble stuff like this all day. I have a big Tezuka/Fuji essay in my head waiting to come out that begins like this:

The Things Fuji loves best:
1. Tezuka
(Yeah, that's it).

The Things Tezuka loves best:
1. Tennis
2. Fuji

And the cruelty thing; I know a lot of people in the fandom are obsessed with the idea of Fuji as a masochist, but it's in entirely the wrong way. Because I see Tezuka on the other side, and the s&m as a partnership involves a lot of love and trust. It's never sadism as cruelty, always for pleasure. And if Fuji ever were to be cruel (perhaps Tezuka & Atobe's match as an example?) it ALWAYS has a reason. So yeah :)

YOU ALREADY KNEW MOST OF THAT COUGH.

* Duh and obviously where I put masochist I meant SADIST and was just thinking of Tezuka instead. I just got out of bed, forgive me ;)

I really need to see the OVAs. :x Because these have sparked my curiosity.

You should write this essay! ;) I'd read it.

You tlaking about the S&M stuff there makes me think about the episode of House with the dominatrix and stuff. It's about love and trust and being open, and pleasure, not cruelty. Which a lot of people get confused, and think it's about cruelty. You have really made me like that aspect of their relationship, a lot. :D

Go watch them! :D I may rewatch what I've seen so far, too. And yell at Oishi on the screen some more for breaking Eiji's heart. *slaps him silly* But then he gets forgiven :x

Muhahaha one day it will come out because I love to think about Fuji & Tezuka; they are so layered for ones so young (but not really ;) ).

Hehe I love that aspect of their relationship, but I'm too intimidated to try and write about it in more detail! I don't really have experience in it to back me up after all ;)

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But I am messing up the things for the prompt table but oh well :D

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