prince of tennis story: "live tour in usa", tezuryo, momokai, r

[cimorene]

aozu & kyappu to bin: live tour in usa 2003 summer (≈17 000 words)
by cimorene
prince of tennis, band of princes universe (canonical boyband au!)
tezuryo and momokai; background taka/fuji and golden pair; suggestion of inui/yanagi. r.

one day, from breakfast till bedtime, in the life of two boybands.

note: thanks to bookshop for betaing and kessie for telling me it was okay to put data pair in. believe it or not, this extremely large quantity of crack was all originally inspired by this image from "band of princes" of the seating arrangement in the tour van.

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Hmm...boyband AU, eh? I think I may have to read this despite not yet having read any canon. *bookmarks*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

well, it is a boyband au, but it's also got a lot of references to the canon quirks of the characters. you shouldn't have any problem following, though. especially not if you've read a few doujinshi.

[love]

I loved this, and I have no more words but to say: memoried.

[achiasa.livejournal.com]

Oh my god Cim you rock so hard. ♥♥♥ I cried.

[flosspyromaniac.livejournal.com]

Really, really good. I love how you detail Tezuka and Ryoma particularly. And the MomoKai was so good! Very believable. The whole thing just made me smile. And thank you for the lyrics!
♥
~Floss

[hakeer.livejournal.com]

This is. Wow. Okay, trying for coherence, desperately.

This reads like a lost episode of the show, so much. Everything about it, the tone, the characters, the relationships, all of it could be canon. All of it should be canon. ;)

I have individual praise for practically every character, but basically, the Momo/Kaidoh here is so rich and true to them that I have to resort to flailing and making incoherent sounds, because I LOVE THEM SO. Your Fuji is always one of the most-loyal-to-canon Fujis I've seen (and at this point I realize this is probably my first feedback on your PoT fic, but I've read and loved everything). Eiji and Oishi, OH MY GOD. They are married, which we all knew. The epic love between Ryoma and Tezuka. ♥ Tezuka, who is so incredibly smooth but vulnerable here (Tezuka and his thermos! ♥), the way he thinks he's in control, but how could he ever be with Ryoma; and Ryoma, oh, Ryoma. I adore him. Tezuka-related expressions! (And yes, it scared me that even Fuji wouldn't understand Ryoma. Though I choose to believe that he does, because he's Fuji.) Inui/notebook! Um, I mean, Inui/Yanagi. ;)

Just. asdfghjhjlö!!11 You write everyone in such a way that the reader understands what they're feeling, why they're doing the things they do. You make me fall in love with one character after another, and I thought I already loved them all as much as I could. Reading this was like devouring sentence after sentence until you realize you're out of breath and dizzy and everything is perfect and you don't want it to end but of course it has to. And yet, that's not a bad thing at all.

And finally, Kikumaru shrieks and clings to Fuji in terror, smearing the faint dusting of glitter from his arms and cheeks on Fuji's shirt? I want a picture of this. :D

[knw.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this, anything that leaves you smiling widely when you finish has to be more than good ^_^ The MomoKai was really fun to read and TezuRyo moments were of course perfect. Fuji's Fujiness was fantastic and Eiji on his chair killed me.

The way you so easily encorporated their personalities into a singing career, taking so much from the show's brief glimpses and adding so much more... It was beautifully done ♥ Oishi seemed perhaps a little harsh on Momo and Kaidoh but I expect that was intended because of the stressful situations?

It was a fantastic read, one of my favourite of yours to date and I think a lot of that stems from how you touched on every character, even whilst focusing on those two central pairings. Can't wait for the next fic you do.

[fluttering.livejournal.com]

That was great! I love boy band AU fics!! *fangirls* This one was beautifully written, and I just loved how Tezuka cared for Echizen.

Excellent fic.

[bellezainfantil.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever commented on one of your fics before, even if I'd read them. I feel as if you've completely captured everyone's personality. And that you're not just showing one facet of their character but various. This was great and I will now be HAPPY for the rest of the day. :D

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I have had such a horrible day at work, and then I come home to find reposoir has updated her SP fic, and then you posted this. I love LJ. And you. And I can sit down with this and read because I'm on the evening shift tomorrow and and and ILOVEYOU. LOTS. ♥

[weirdlyyours.livejournal.com]

Wow, this was just so well-written and all the cameos just fit into their original personalities when they were playing tennis and not banging drums. The MomoKai was adorable and slightly violent and wonderfully them. But god, the TezuRyo was brilliant. I love how Tezuka is always watching and the songs they sing for each other and gah. Cuddling. ♥

Now I'm going to go read this over and play Arigatou and Hikari no Saki and eeeeeee. ♥♥♥

[polyurethane.livejournal.com]

You just rock. Seriously. ♥

[pixxers.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how difficult it was for me to see this earlier today and be unable to throw work aside and read it RIGHT THEN.

Alas, work sucks balls and owns me, so...yeah.

Just letting you know that I'm taking this to bed to read because I'm too lazy to sit up any longer. ♥

I know you love these kinds of comments. :D :D :D

Review coming soon to an eljay near you.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

;______;

That was beautiful.

*cries*

Oh god. Oh god, that should have been in the AU. It might have been. :D MOMOKAI. And the TezuRyo. :((

[kishmet.livejournal.com]

Your writing is always absolutely spectacular. I second (third?) the MOMOKAI. So much fun~! Oh, and Eiji was brilliant, and the TezuRyo interaction was perfect. I really wish I could say something better than all this, but. Seriously.

I'm printing this up and taking this to bed with me so that I can read it. Oh, this was beautiful. ♥♥♥♥♥ I am so happy right now that I could cry. You made my night.

[qem_chibati]

Gah. I know why you put it in there, but I just wanted to say that milk is generally considered bad for singers since it generally sticks in the throat and interfers with vocal range.

Hee. This was such a fun and beautiful read. Fuji's amusement was amusing, the way Momo and Kaidoh are in desperate need of a room, Echizen's nochalance and trying to hide that he was sick, you really got the characters personalities down well, making for a really great fic to read.

Definetly putting this in memeories. =D

[soundczech.livejournal.com]

My response to this can mostly be summed up as "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[pixxers.livejournal.com]

That was absolutely wonderful and well worth the long, long, long wait. XD

♥ I love your writing so much. I wish I could chain you to the radiator and make you write for me every day.

LOVED your Tezuka. Lovedlovedloved. Loved the Data Pair hints. Momo and Kaidoh were the hottest thing ever. EVER. I was mightily entertained.

[die-gute-seite.livejournal.com]

See my icon? That's me and this fic, living happily ever after. ;)

Really, I don't have words to express how much I loved and enjoyed reading this. (I wish I had, though. Then I could tell you a lot more eloquently how awesome Tezuka was in this, how much I adored Taka, that this was the best MomoKai I've read so far, that all your characterizations were spot-on and how incredibly perfect the end with Inui was. I also loved the part where Tezuka reflected on Ryoma's shyness towards him. That was great.) hearts; ♥ ♥

[penm.livejournal.com]

Cim, you already know how I feel about this and I came back and read it again and it's still as great as it was yesterday and I love it and my sentence is a run on but that's okay because I LOVE THIS FIC AND YOU, YOU BRILLIANT THING AND AKJDKASJDKJKASJDKAJSKASJD.

[julx.livejournal.com]

so amazing. *_*

[sparklespiff.livejournal.com]

Ok, so first I gleed over the fact that this was boyband AU. Then I gleed over the fact that they were all so in love. And, yeah, I copy-pasted bits to quote back at you but there were too many of them, so I shall just quote this one bit instead:

Ryoma will never forget that time he sang so loudly in the garden that the neighbours called the police, or the time he put paperclips on Karupin's ears and a rubber band around his tail, or the time he snuck out and bought the bar down the street and paid the owner in cash.

because Nanjiroh is love. ♥

*flails with joy at this*

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

LOVE.

The ensemble feel was just right, and all the little character touches were beautifully clear.

(Plus, your Momo and Kaidoh = HOTNESS.)

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

A:FDK:DSJ:GJ LJ DIDN'T POST MY COMMENT LIKE WTF.

I am in love with this because unlike everything else that came out after Band of Princes, you've written this so that it's so them, and everybody was real and human and them eating in restuarants felt like you could actually see them sitting there in all their zany glory. I really adore the way you wrote Momo and Kaidoh (which is saying something, because I hate that pairing XD) like they're teenagers and they don't understand what's going on but they like it, whereas Tezuka and Ryoma are all understanding without speaking and caring with reserve and sleeping in bed without sex and that moment when Tezuka asks Ryoma if he wants to sing a duet with him? The best ever. You are amazing.

[liathcosan.livejournal.com]

Ok. I am... completely blown away at this moment. Such perfect characterization. Guh. Everything was believeable, everything. I loved the different forms of love (MomoKai vs. TezRyo vs. FujiTaka..) Done so well. Gaaah! I'm sorry I wish I had more to say that made sense and was like, a tribute to the amazingness but I can't get it out~ ;___;