Hello everyone! I'm Watapon12 and a newbee here.

Well, this is my first ever three-shot story. Hope you'll enjoy reading it as I've enjoyed writing it!

Updated: April 1, 2012

I just thought of reading this again. Reliving the old times. ^^ This is the very first fan fiction that I have finished and I'm still very happy and proud of this achievement.

As I was re-reading this one, I've detected a lot of grammatical errors and I edited them. Well, if you've detected more grammatical errors, please do tell me! Thank you!

Disclaimer:

I do not own Initial D. Shuichi Shigeno does.

Warning:

The characters might or might not be OOC. You'll understand the reason why later on.

Happy reading everyone!

LETTING GO

PART 1

Ryosuke's POV:

Racing. My first love.

No, really. I've never felt so much love and happiness before I started racing.

I've never even felt alive not until I owned my very first car, the car that I really wanted: My white RX-7, the FC3S.

Every time I sit behind the steering wheel of my beloved FC and turn on the engine, my heart just beats so fast and I can't control the adrenaline rush and joy that's overpowering me.

I can always feel that I am in total control.

No one would plan for me.

No one would decide what I should do.

No one would dictate what I should do next.

No one would control over me.

I can feel the freedom that has been taken away from me for the longest time.

My FC is the most important thing in my life, regardless the people that I care the most.

Nothing can really exchange the joy I feel whenever I race together with my beloved car.

Nothing can surpass it.

Unfortunately, everything has an end: including my greatest joy, the only one that is left with me whenever everything's not.

It's been over five years since I have been doing my residency in my family's hospital. My team, Project D, has retired four years ago. We've already gone around Japan and done our goal: to beat every team there is in the country, and let the two aces discover and surpass their limits, in order for them to be ready for the professional league.

Keisuke and Fujiwara are now very well-known professionals because of their natural skills and abilities. Plus, their achievements. They continue to sharpen their abilities even more. Both are still working as a team together with the rest of the members of Project D.

Yes, Project D now only remains as a legend in terms of street racing but is starting a new legend in terms of professional racing.

I'm very happy seeing my team winning victory after victory. But the unfortunately I'm not standing as their team leader anymore. As much as I want to, I can't. It is because I do not have enough time anymore. I cannot work two things at once this time, two very major things.

I'm too busy with my work as a doctor and managing the responsibility being the first-born Takahashi, heir of the hospital. I can't find enough time to be with my team. Besides, Otousan is not going to tolerate this any further. He's already been too nice when he had allowed me to continue my hobby when I was in medical school.

Again, everything really has an end even though how important that is you can't keep it forever.

I suddenly hear a familiar chuckle of a kid coming from outside my office and footsteps follow, fast footsteps of a person that is possibly running. I stop typing and close my white Apple laptop, thinking that I can resume my work later, guessing that unexpected guests would be coming at 3…2… and…1.

As I've expected, I hear knocking and the door opens revealing my secretary, a lady at her early thirties and slightly older than me.

"Takahashi-sama, I apologize for the disturbance, but-"

She suddenly stops as a young boy at the age of three enters the room, running like hell, completely innocent and unaware of what is happening around. All he cares about is to get to me as fast as his legs can. I back up my chair away from the table, just enough for him to literally jump on my lap and calling me "Otousan!" at the same time.

Yes, you saw it right, I'm already a father and the boy sitting on my lap is my first ever child.

Part 2 coming soon...

Well? What do you think?

Thank you all for reading! See you again for the second part!

December 12, 2011

Edited: April 1, 2012