a SenRu short fic by pyro-icy
Slamdunk © Takehiko Inoue
warning: Shounen ai, Unbeta-ed
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Kaede Rukawa that Ritsu knew was someone who loved to drown himself into loneliness and quietness.
A boy that she's known since he was a baby. His mother's died when he was born, and his father was too busy even just to eat dinner together with him.
Since he was a child, he was too independent, and it pained Ritsu somehow. A kid like him should've had someone to lean onto.
Ritsu was 18 and just being accepted in one of private university in Kanagawa. Being an older cousin to him, and lived a far from Kanagawa, she decided to move into his house and started taking care of him while continuing her study. That was when he was just 7.
He didn't say a word. But she could see a glint in his eyes. Deep inside his heart, she knew he was feeling happy.
When Kaede was 8, his father gave him a basket ball as a birthday gift. He treasured it a lot and started to learn about how the game went on. The sport mesmerized him, and that was the first time Ritsu saw him fell in love.
And she never imagined, a few years later she would see him falling in love once again.
The name was Akira Sendoh. A second grade student from different school in the same prefecture. His senior by a year in basketball.
As always, the younger cousin didn't say a word or two. But something in his eyes was so bright, and he looked lively.
Sendoh came to the house oneday and greeting politely. And that was the first time she saw Kaede blushing. A faint blush on his cheeks and it disappeared immediately right after.
She didn't questioning Kaede about the guy nor about his sexual preference. But Kaede tugged her shirt and called out to her, "Nee-san" he said. He felt worry somehow.
She gave him a smile and reassured him that everything's going to be okay. It was fine to be different. To see him being happy and being together with someone that he trully loved and who was loving him whole-heartedly was more important.
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They weren't the type of lovers who would act lovey-dovey toward each other. At least Kaede wasn't like that. He was too shy even just to say "i love you".
Kaede was a mature type person, so quiet and sometimes people would call him boring. But Sendoh knew exactly how to deal with him. Surprisingly, he was so mature in mind and action, he took the lead role in their relationship very well.
The first time Ritsu saw Kaede became so grumpy was when on Sunday he received a phonecall. She knew immediately that was Sendoh from the facial expression Kaede gave. Right after the call has ended, he mumbled, "Ahou. Baka. Liar. Why made a promise then?"
Ritsu suppressed the laughter hearing him like that.
She heard people called Sendoh a genius. But Sendoh she knew was more than that, he wasn't only a genius in basketball.
Sendoh made her realize that her Kaede was still a teenage brat after all. Kaede made a friend, experienced his first High School love, being pissed off when he failed, being grumpy over such a little thing and all. Even though people called him stoic, cold or something like Ice Prince, Ritsu knew her cousin has so many colours. Sendoh showed a little bit of them to her.
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a/n: Well, i don't really know why i used the name Ritsu here. But i like the name. I think it's just like Kaede, can be used for both male and female. And since i read P-Rythm's Deep Purple, i always have an image that our Rukawa has an older female cousin.
This is the first time i wrote a story with the style like this, it's kinda weird actually, but i hope people still like it.
Thank you for reading~