A/N: Hello! cityangelz here and I'm back with another story =) A big welcome to all readers, both new and old! Those of you who are old readers of mine, you might remember that I said I have 2 new multi-chaptered stories in the works? Yup, here's one of them. It's a RyoSaku future fic and except for the prologue, it will be set at the time when both our main characters are 24 years of age. I'm planning it to be relatively long, maybe about 10-15 chapters. Longer than my previous multi-chapter, at least. Haha. Ok. Shall leave you guys to read it first. Shall have another round of author's note below to explain my inspiration for this story.
Title: Suki/Ai?
Prologue: Daisuki Sakuno
The digital clock on the bedside table flashed the time; 2 am. The room was pitch black except for the study lamp in the corner, outlining the body of a 19-year-old boy who was scribbling something on a piece of paper. His task completed, he folded the paper and wrote a name on the outside. Switching off the lamp, he grabbed his suitcase and after one last glance at the girl sleeping soundly on the bed, he left, securely locking the door behind him.
"Ryoma-kun?" Ryuzaki Sakuno's voice rang throughout the house the next morning. Her boyfriend, Echizen Ryoma, was rarely up before her, and even when he did, he would usually be in the living room catching up on the latest sports news. "Mou… Where could he have gone too so early in the morning? It's only 7.30 am."
Sakuno re-entered their room in order to get her cell phone to give him a call. It was as she walked to her study table that she saw the note addressed to her.
"Oh! He left a note. Why didn't I see that earlier," she asked as she picked up the note. Leaning against the table, she opened up the note.
Her normally cheerful face suddenly crumpled as she scanned the note. Reaching the end, she sank onto her bed, broke down and cried into her pillow. Her sobs then were just so heartbreaking to hear. In her grief, the note was forgotten, fluttering down to the floor.
"Dear Sakuno,
I'm sorry. As much as I love our time together and
treasure our memories, you know how important tennis is to me.
I've always imagined my base to be in America and that is where
my coach, trainer and even manager is at. Being in Japan right now,
feels like I'm limiting my career and I seem to miss out on so many
opportunities. So I've decided to go back to California. Our family
home is still there so moving back there is not an issue. In fact,
transferring of schools and everything have also been settled. Please
don't blame yourself. It's my selfishness that is making me do all this.
And please don't think I no longer love you. I do. Daisuki Sakuno.
Ryoma."
A/N: Voila, there you have it. The end of the prologue. Anyways, this story basically started with the prologue. I had the idea for it sometime in October last year when I was doing a film module at school. Basically, the final project for the module was a one minute video and doing that project made me think visually and one of the series of visuals that I came up with was basically the prologue. The whole prologue was initially "written" as like a video in my head before I decided that it would make a brilliant opening for a new RyoSaku story and thus put it into words =) I hope you guys can kinda see the pictures in your head to as you read it coz well, I do, every time I read it. Haha. Especially the last part, after she read the letter and broke down and cried in her bed. I can just see the note fluttering down and landing on the floor as the camera follows it. Then, zoom into the note and like freeze for a few secs for people to read the note. Ahhh…
Anyways, don't forget to review! I'm in the middle of typing up chapter one now, where the story proper will start. Should be up within a few hours.
Cheers!