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PRINCE OF TENNIS MARRIAGE PROSPECTS

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note: I'm not going to put anything non-canon, meaning that everything will be left as is. Ryoma will not be dating Sakuno, nor will he be in love with any of the regulars, and the same goes for all the other characters. if you want a specific character, do tell me, and I promise I'll do it! and of course, I'd love your feedback because this is the first time I've written something so...well, like this.

disclaimer: the idea and layout is courtesy of SOYBEAN. the characters are courtesy of Takeshi Konomi and all other copyright owners. I seriously can't take credit for anything all in this fanfiction. (and if you think it's an awesome idea, make sure to tell soybean, except they haven't been on FFN in over 3 years...)

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YUKIMURA SEIICHI

Appearance: Beautiful is the first word that comes to mind. He's definitely got a pretty darnedly feminine appearance what with shoulder-length blue hair and very deep eyes. Yukimura is the type of person to have high-set cheekbones and a naturally high metabolism.

Clothing: The pants will match the shrit will match the jacket will match the socks. Except only because he is Yukimura Seiichi, the tennis prodigy nicknamed "Child of God" and what is a Yukimura Seiichi minus his tennis skills? In short: you can always count on his clothing to match, but only because he wears tennis gear always. If you're unlucky, you might catch him in hospital attire, but then you should know that you have no chance (for Yukimura Seiichi is quite the nurse's man!).

Intelligence: For some reason, the image of him falling asleep with his eyes open and looking totally awake is the first thing that comes to mind. But aside from that, he'll be naturally gifted in the "intelligence" field, what with Rikkai Dai being a great!super!awesome! school and all. When it comes to tennis of course, he'll be smarter than just-about-everyone (like everyone else you see within this marriage prospect booklet). Street smarts are probably not his thing: Yukimura is definitely the type of guy to go up and goad a gangster to fight with him and then beat him black and blue (and probably end up in the hospital for "overexerting" himself...).

Personality/Socializing: Think Fuji minus the crazy and multiply and tennis-love and competitive spirit by ten. He'll have the creepy smile and the happy-happy voice and the slightly-stalkerish movements all in place. And then he'll act like a totally nice and sane person until you even talk about tennis. And then the conversation will suddenly switch from "oh that's nice"/"oh that's interesting" to "you are going to win or else I will personally smite you". It's great if you're unmotivated (about playing tennis) and terrible if you'd actually like a meaningful conversation that doesn't revolve around tennis. But then again, it IS Yukimura, he'll probably have a couple crazy non-tennis-oriented ideas lying around in the recesses of his mind. Enjoy those fleeting moments (however wonderful!) while you can.

Finances: Can YOU imagine THE Yukimura out on the streets? Can you imagine him anywhere but on a tennis court? Probably not (or if you can, you might want to rehtink your choice of husband!) and for very good reasons as well. THE Yukimura practically lives, breathes, and heck, even eats on the tennis court. Tennis is his life and you can definitely bet that he'll be more than good enough to make a living simply by playing tennis. If you manage to snag him, you should be more worried about having a house next to (or worse yet: right on) the most famous tennis court in the world as opposed to being out on the streets.

Home Economics: Yukimura will be the inevitable killer cook. You see, he's probably around Sanada a lot (who, by the way, looks like he has a couple cooking awards tucked under his hakama) and has the unfortunate circumstance of having none of those awesome!cooking abilities grace him. He'll be the nice husband that you can come home with a smile and a kiss and some... indiscernable black lump that he managed to fashion out of that insanely expensive steak. He'll smile and laugh when you tell him it's inedible (and probably think that you're just kidding because really: he'll think he's a good cook.).

Combat: Retired war veteran, or something along those lines. We must all remember that while Yukimura is made of awesome and win and everything that is Tennis!God, he is also a boy who has been terminally ill and has had to have an insanely quick recovery. Needless to say, that probably does quite the figure on his physical abilities. As referred to in the "personality/ socializing" section, he'll easily be able to take on two or three thugs and win, but you'll definitely have to wheel him to the hospital after the fight.

Competition: Aside from fangirls (whom, let's face it: Yukimura has whole truckloads of), you have the entirety of the Rikkai Dai team. While they're not romantically involved with Yukimura, it's pretty obvious that Yukimura is Rikkai's Tezuka (aka: Pillar) and they're not going to be happy about him being in a relationship if it might hurt their team's chances of winning at tennis. And just when you've managed to convince the entirety of the Rikkai Dai team (read: Sanada, Sanada, SANADA), you have to wrestle your way through Yukimura's one and only love. Yes, that's right: Tennis. And we're not talking about you winning either (there's no hope for that), we're talking about you being able to get his mind off of tennis for a long enough time to actually date (and the marry, of course). Don't ever try to make him choose, he's going to choose tennis every single time (and girl/guy/activity/place/thing as well). This is the largest sacrfice you are going to have to make in a relationship with Yukimura: understanding that Tennis is Numero Uno and you are simply...not...tennis. It's okay, really!

Family: In all honesty, they're just going to be glad that Yukimura was not so obsessed with tennis that he forgot about dating and marrying and, well, everything but tennis. There's not going to be any sort of dissent when you announce your holy union...unless Yukimura happens to be playing tennis during the announcement.

In Bed: Congrats! It's your big day (erm, night) and you've finally managed to convince him that skipping tennis for ONE EVENING is not going to cause him to lose the next month (or year) and that you would really like to spend some quality time with him (outside of tennis, of course). He agrees, like the good husband he is and you quickly extinguish the lights and try to start...anything, really. And then he breaks out laughing and the whole moment is ruined. Or worse yet, he skipped Sexual Education to go play tennis and now he has no idea what you're doing. In any case, make sure to openly tell him what the two of you are about to do and not rely on subtle hints and messages.

Conclusion: Yukimura would not only be a wonderful piece of eye-candy, a doting husband, and a loving father, but he would also be the person you want at any tennis-related event EVER. He'll be a little slow and a little random and a little crazy at times, but hey, he'll probably have to put of with your lack of tennis-playing skills as well, so it'll be a take-give relationship! Have patience, have love, have an understanding of tennis (mandatory, by the way) and hopefully, your love will take you to the places you want to go!

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random author note I finally updated; thank you for all those lovely reviews, here is the very much sought-after Yukimura selection! :D