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

[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

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh! thank you for such lovely and long feedback! i always feel inadequate when i reply to feedback, so if this response is inadequate, allow me to apologise in advance. i'm delighted you felt that it was like an episode of the show. that's how i tried to think about it while i was writing it - like a crack episode, only with slightly more slash. i adored writing an ensemble like this, with crack and more crack and all my favourite pairings and everyone together as a group, because that is exactly what i love so completely and so passionately about tenipuri itself. thank you for all your compliments. i can't stop blushing. :) but for the record - i don't think fuji understands ryoma completely, though he has a better idea than most. there are a few times in canon when he surprises even fuji, and tezuka is the only one who is just quietly satisfied, because he already understands it all through their psychic connection. ♥