Ficlet: Blow Out Your Candles, Buchou [TezuRyo; PG-13]
Blow out Your Candles, Buchou! TezuRyo; PG-13.
On Tezuka's twelfth birthday, he has a dream about losing. No, he dreams about playing tennis on a mountain and being utterly conquered to the point where he can't stand up, to where he can't breathe, and then he's falling down. The sun burns his eyes as his hands grapple with nothingness for any sort of hold. He wakes up feeling sweat weigh him stickily to his bedding, air pulling and pushing out of his throat raggedly.
On Tezuka's thirteenth birthday, he has a nightmare about Fuji. It will later be the reason his family spends tens of thousands on his therapy.
On Tezuka's fourteenth birthday, he dreams he is his father. He has his father's job, his father's clothes, his father's future. He chooses not to reflect on the fact that in his dreams his mother is a good kisser, and assigns himself laps for tomorrow before practice.
On Tezuka's fifteenth birthday, he dreams of playing Echizen naked while the freshman girls hold up signs with fat, sparkly hearts and squeal in disturbing delight. Tezuka can't play properly, and keeps trying to cover himself up with his racket under Echizen's intense and steady gaze. Echizen approaches the net, and Tezuka can't move as Echizen lifts his hat off and says, "Mada mada dane." breath close enough to taste. When Tezuka's eyes snap open, he quietly removes his bedsheets and heads off to the laundromat before his mother can wake up, face a fierce shade of red. He can't remember if his sheets used to be a darker lavender. The color has been fading since school started.
On Tezuka's sixteenth birthday, he dreams of Echizen.
On Tezuka's seventeenth birthday, he dreams of Ryoma.
On Tezuka's eighteenth birthday ... Ryoma makes sure he doesn't get any sleep at all.
;D
On Tezuka's twelfth birthday, he has a dream about losing. No, he dreams about playing tennis on a mountain and being utterly conquered to the point where he can't stand up, to where he can't breathe, and then he's falling down. The sun burns his eyes as his hands grapple with nothingness for any sort of hold. He wakes up feeling sweat weigh him stickily to his bedding, air pulling and pushing out of his throat raggedly.
On Tezuka's thirteenth birthday, he has a nightmare about Fuji. It will later be the reason his family spends tens of thousands on his therapy.
On Tezuka's fourteenth birthday, he dreams he is his father. He has his father's job, his father's clothes, his father's future. He chooses not to reflect on the fact that in his dreams his mother is a good kisser, and assigns himself laps for tomorrow before practice.
On Tezuka's fifteenth birthday, he dreams of playing Echizen naked while the freshman girls hold up signs with fat, sparkly hearts and squeal in disturbing delight. Tezuka can't play properly, and keeps trying to cover himself up with his racket under Echizen's intense and steady gaze. Echizen approaches the net, and Tezuka can't move as Echizen lifts his hat off and says, "Mada mada dane." breath close enough to taste. When Tezuka's eyes snap open, he quietly removes his bedsheets and heads off to the laundromat before his mother can wake up, face a fierce shade of red. He can't remember if his sheets used to be a darker lavender. The color has been fading since school started.
On Tezuka's sixteenth birthday, he dreams of Echizen.
On Tezuka's seventeenth birthday, he dreams of Ryoma.
On Tezuka's eighteenth birthday ... Ryoma makes sure he doesn't get any sleep at all.
;D