For Services Rendered Afterthoughts

By: Bunny

Rated: Teen 15 and up

Genre: Romance, Comedy, AR

Summary: RyoSaku, AR. A collection of extra "scenes" from the For Services Rendered alternate reality fic of mine. Mostly drabbles, some of the past, some of the present story time and some of the future. This isn't complete or incomplete each "chapter" will be a separate self-contained scene that just adds onto FSR...think "bonus features" on a DVD. So I will add little drabbles here as I think them up and write them out. Heh...it will probably be mostly fluff. ...cowers...

I would recommend reading FSR first so you understand the basics of the alternate reality I created in that fanfic. Reading this will also spoil some of that fic if you don't want spoilers.

Ten - Sweets

Fourteen Years Ago...in Tokyo

Eight year old Echizen Ryoma stood in the park eyeing the candy stand across the street with interest. The bright labels of various flavors of bubble gum, chocolates, gummies, hard candies, chewy candies and other sorts of sweets flashed at him enticingly as the young girl his age making her selections moved back and forth in front of them.

The girl had long brown twin braids with purple flower clips on the ends, and the desire to go up to her and yank on one of the long strands was almost as powerful as his desire to get candy.

The problem was, his parents had told him in no uncertain terms not to leave the park.

So he stood there, watching the girl, eyeing the candy, eyeing her braids and wondering in all seriousness if he would get more satisfaction from pulling her braids or popping a piece of chocolate in his mouth.

Ryoma turned his head back in the direction of the park to see his parents talking with an older lady. They were definitely not watching him. Maybe, in the end, he could have both.

He ran quickly across the street, grabbing a couple of small coins from his overall's pocket as he approached the stand. As the girl was about to pay for her purchase, he jumped in front of her and thrust his coins at the man behind the cash register and took the candy from the girl's hand with a grin.

The girl instantly turned to him, her eyes flashing, "That's my candy!"

Ryoma tore the wrapper off one of the candies and popped it into his mouth as he skipped back away from her a couple of steps.

"Oh yeah?" He challenged and then flashed the girl the melting candy inside his mouth.

Her eyes widened and she stomped her foot in outrage and demanded, "That was the last piece he had of the strawberry choco! You give it back!"

Ryoma had grinned at her attention and continued to skip backwards a few steps ahead of her as she advanced on him. Finally, the girl broke into a run, and Ryoma spun on his toes, rushing ahead of her. He crossed the street, going back into the park, and dodged past the bushes on the outskirt of the park. Turning his head back, he saw that the girl was gone and was a bit disappointed. He stopped running and looked around for her and a second later slammed into the ground, face first.

The girl was on top of him! She was yelling about her strawberry choco candy as she struggled to move him.

Finally, he found himself laying on his back, the girl sitting on his chest, her face flushed red, her expression furious.

"You stupid boy! I hate you!" She said as her hands grasped onto his jaw. She wedged his mouth open and a second later he felt her fingers in his mouth!

"WHAA OO OONG?" He tried to say around her fingers digging through his mouth for her chocolate. What kind of a girl would go so far for a candy?

He licked at her fingers with his tongue, trying to gross her out so she would get her hand out of his mouth, to no avail. The girl was determined to have her chocolate back.

"EWWW! Stop! That's soooo gross!" She protested as they continued to struggle.

After a few seconds of struggle, Ryoma decided he'd had quite enough of this game. Grabbing onto the girl's arms he pushed her over and changed their positions.

As she had screamed out in protest and her hand had left his mouth with a trail of chocolaty saliva he took a last suck on the sweet candy. Then closing the distances of their faces, he placed his lips slightly against hers and pushed the chocolate into her mouth with his tongue.

She choked for a second in surprise and sat up, pushing him away with her sticky chocolate hand, but started to suck on the candy none the less.

"All you had to do was ask nicely," Ryoma deadpanned.

The girl made a sound of disgust, "I can't believe you just kissed me!"

"I did not!" Ryoma quickly denied.

"RYOOOOOMA!"

Both of their head's turned at the call and Ryoma quickly shot to his feet, knowing the call from his mother probably meant it was time to go. He dropped the rest of the candies into the girl's lap and then for good measure he leaned over her, grabbed one of her braids and pulled down on it as hard as he could.

The girl screamed and glared at him again, "Don't pull my hair!"

He laughed wickedly and instantly wanted to tug on her other braid.

"RYOOOOOMA!" His mother yelled out again.

Time to go.

He gave the girl one last look and then ran in the direction his parents were in.

"Ryoma! Where did you go?" His mother scolded.

"Nowhere."

His father had a goofy grin on his face and he placed the large palm of his hand down on Ryoma's head. At the weight of his father's hand, Ryoma instantly tried to remove it.

"Did you get to see your wife?" His dad asked as they struggled over his hand on Ryoma's head.

Ryoma stopped trying to remove his father's hand for a second and flushed. What did he mean? Had his dad seen him kissing that girl with the long brown braids?

His dad chuckled, "Ah, you did. Cute little Sakuno-chan. How is she doing? Did you give her a kiss? You haven't seen her for a few years, you know."

Ryoma had no idea what his father was talking about and promptly told him thus, "I have no idea what you're talking about!"

He didn't even know any girls in Japan before today, did he?

Not like he really knew that girl either. She just had long brown braids he couldn't seem to resist and looked kind-of cute when she was angry.

"Ah, Rinko, our son claims he has already forgotten about his wife. We must punish him with western food for dinner."

"DAD!"

Too. Much. Fun. ...grins...

For those of you also reading Coming Home, I'm going to try to update that one tonight.

I'm so thrilled that you all are enjoying these tossed together drabbles so much. I'm having so much fun writing them it's ridiculous!

Many thanks to all you that left some review love for drabble #9 - 1wingedangelX, SinfulEmerald, Ryosaku12, JulieBookLover21, Cata06, 2Lazy2CreateAnAccount, Imperfect Artist, ILoveSxS, Black Rose, Strands of Ivy and Sakura, ai-chan97, and Madison14.

Also ai-chan97 for drabble #8.

Also ILoveSxS for drabbles #2 and #5. I'm so happy you found these drabbles! :D

It's really awesome to see more and more of you that read FSR stumble your way onto these drabbles and to enjoy them so much. Especially since fluff isn't really my style...

ai-chan97 - Naw, 1wingedangelX is my self-proclaimed stalker and doing a rather good job of it and hasn't scared me off yet, so by all means, stalk away - I'm tough. :D I am totally on an update rampage. ...wilts... I'm a fanfic monster right now, it's sick. hahaha. "I just really love reading your fics... They always show RyoSaku-ness at its best..." That is so sweet and such high praise! TYVM! ...hearts... Thanks for noticing the 5th drabble mention in drabble #9! Yayay!

Madison14 - hehehe, yeah...I like possessive Ryoma too. :) It might be 100 drabbles, or more, or considerably less, right now I have no idea how many there will be, I'll just keep on writing them out over the years as thoughts come to me. :) Thank you so much for the support! ...please don't hunt me... EEEEEKKK! lolololol :D

Strands of Ivy and Sakura - "I have to comment on this quote- Sakuno's ridiculously long wavy brown hair- I love how he indirectly kinda insults her hair XD so cute!" OMG! I love you for picking up on that! I ROFL'ed like a maniac when I read your review, because I do add stuff in like that on purpose, but I don't think anybody has ever mentioned before that they pick up on that. :D LOVE IT! Muah! xoxo

Black Rose - "I have a question or an epiphany, I dont know, just call it what you like . . . So in For Services Rendered you said that Sakuno did remember what happened, just that she thought she was dreaming, so would that conviction alone be what pushed her to get out in just a towel? Can we assume that by that point she was already beginning to accept or maybe perceive Ryoma's feelings?" I really like that idea, but that's not what I was thinking when I wrote it. I was thinking that 1) Sakuno was still hungover, and when you don't feel very good, you get kind-of lazy & don't care about modesty as much. 2) She was genuinely starting to get more comfortable with living with Ryoma. That's kind-of a natural progression of living with someone, "towel-level" comfort. If it was a "lover" comfort level she would have just gotten dressed from naked to clothed, and not bothered covering anything up in the process. 3) Ryoma had just yelled at her about getting upset about screaming over him being naked in the bath, so maybe she was unconsciously trying to apologize by being a bit more risqué herself. Now...as for perceiving and accepting Ryoma's feelings, that kind-of started right away in FSR, but she got scared thinking she was falling into a fantasy and purposely started building walls around her heart because she was worried he would break her heart. Of course, she still totally fell in love with him and by the time they were in Venice, she was a complete goner, just like Ryoma was. Sakuno still believed though, up until when she figured out that Ryoma was seriously asking her to marry him in Dubai that nothing lasting or "real" would ever come of their relationship because of Ryoma being who he is - famous, rich, celebrity, prodigy, etc. Ryoma's insecurities on the other hand stem from the same source, but they're the opposite side of the coin. Where Sakuno doesn't think a real relationship is possible with Ryoma due to his fame, Ryoma thinks it's all real and is determined to make her happy so she'll stay by his side and not leave him like most of the people in his life have because of his fame. I hope this all makes sense?

Imperfect Artist - You read For Services Rendered all over again? Kyaaa! That's so awesome! Also, I'm so happy you found these drabbles and are enjoying them so much! YAYAYAYAY! Any of these drabbles in the 'present' won't be as hot as FSR (unless it's after they got married in the epilogue time frame) because it would take away from FSR's story, so "inserts" into the main story itself will be just little additions. Stuff in the epilogue time frame and past that after they're married...well, we'll see what I come up with. :D

2Lazy2CreateAnAccount - So happy you found FSRA ...huggles...

Everybody! I love you all, I wish I had time to type out a personal thanks to you all, but I have to leave for work like half an hour ago. Eek! So I'll be off for now, and I'll try to update more again ASAP! MUAH! xoxoxoxoxo ~ Bunny