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.

Fourteen - Just Ryoma

Seven Years Forward...in New York City

Echizen Ryoma was twenty-nine years old when he finally beat his old man.

Not for lack of skill on his part, no in all honestly, he'd known since before he'd gotten married that he could have beat him, but for whatever reason, they'd put it off. He'd actually known it for certain, that fateful day in Australia when his old man had suddenly showed up to ask when he was getting married.

At the time of course, he hadn't even remembered that Sakuno and he had been as good as engaged from when they'd been toddlers. There had just been this moment, this moment when he'd realized somehow that everything in his life had just shifted and that if they played a match seriously, that he would beat his old man.

That day though, his old man had put it off, and Ryoma never understood why until it finally happened, seven years later.

It was spring, and they were making their usual visit to their home in New York between the Sony Ericsson Open Miami and the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. What was special that year was that they were expecting.

Ryoma had always known he'd eventually want to have children. He'd always pictured himself spending his years after retirement teaching however many brats he'd have how to play the epic tennis that ran through his bloodline. After they'd gotten married, Sakuno hadn't been anxious to have children, and he hadn't really cared one way or another, though he'd been a little hesitant to add even more to his traveling entourage. He'd shaken up the tennis scene enough by going from Mr. Zero in Romance to Mr. I Fooled You All Cuz I've Been Engaged Since I was a Kid.

Seven years later though, his wife was just starting to show that their lives were about to change again. She'd just finished her first trimester and they'd just started sharing their happy news.

His parents had been thrilled, as expected, and they'd planned in advance to spend some extra time in New York so his mother could smother his wife in all sorts of baby talk and baby plans and baby blah blah blah. They had known of course...that mom would demand it.

His old man on the other hand, had showed up early the next morning with a tennis racquet and somehow, without a word, Ryoma had known.

It was finally time.

Their match, despite his old man approaching 50 had been fairly brutal. Ryoma had felt as if it had dragged on and flown by too quickly all at the same time. At times, he'd felt like he was going easy on his old man, other times, he'd felt like he was simply falling into his old man's old tricks, like he was letting him beat him. By the end, they both knew though, without a doubt, what had really happened.

There'd been a passing.

A passing of the torch.

As the two men had slouched against the bench on the side of the court Nanjiro turned to his son and said, "So, old man, how does it feel?"

Ryoma scoffed, "Old man? Don't you dare call me old man."

Nanjiro had laughed gleefully, the ever amused by his child father that he was, "I can't call you young man anymore, there's a new one coming, isn't there?"

Ryoma smirked at the tennis court, "Mada mada dane, old man. It's Ryoma. I'm only just Ryoma."

So inspiration for this one goes to sweetpea999 who told me "you need to write about Sakuno getting preggo in her eggo."

So happy weekend everybody. ...grins...

I wanted to try to get this up real quick for you, so I'm going to try to make this brief...

Thank you to everybody that reviewed drabble #13...it ended up being more popular that I ever would have expected! Strands of Ivy and Sakura, 1wingedangelX, whatsername, CathLuvbear, krisaku, Black Rose, Imperfect Artist, ChochloidMeganecha, mae, ILoveSxS, SinfulEmerald, Enma20, Cata06, JulieBookLover21, and imnobeautyqueen - thank you all bunches, if I don't respond to you individually, thank you thank you thank you!

Strands of Ivy and Sakura - Thank you also for the review for drabble #12."I realized half of this story is just the " chase " of a relationship. ( If you find yourself free one of these days, maybe you can try to watch Strangers again on You-tube to kind of get a better idea of what I'm talking about)" The show is called Strangers Again? So wait...what's this show about? By half of this story...do you mean these drabbles? XD Oh and your idol/friend? pfffft! Wut! Idol? ...cackles... That's too funny that anybody would use such a word to describe me. Just your friend is perfect, let's not elevate me to something I'm not. :)

1wingedangelX - Ohh! Just want to say hi I missed you stalker-chan.

whatsername - okay...so not the 8th, but the 10th is your fave? Gotcha. Cool! :D This drabble is actually almost Daddy!Ryoma...there's one coming up though where he's actually Daddy!Ryoma...

krisaku - "-please make more Ryosaku fanfics! because your good on writing stories:))" Thank you I am going to probably keep writing RyoSaku stuff for a long time...especially if the manga/anime keep continuing on as they are...

Black Rose - Oi...I'm happy your computer is working again...yes...I plan to write more fun stuff about Ryoma's parents in these future drabbles...

Imperfect Artist - LOL yes, you can call me Bunny-chan if you want to. :) Thank you for making the connection for drabble #12 with where it fell into the timeline of FSR. That made me really happy to see that! ...happy dance... "...uncomfortable feelings for a guy..." Oh really? Tell me more...maybe it will help me with my writing muses...grins...

ChochloidMeganecha - WAHAHAHAAHAHA it's my twitter friend. ...glomps...

mae - You quoted lines! I can't believe it! WOW! So awesome. I love the parts you picked too, that was so much fun to write! :3

ILoveSxS - Yay! Thank you! There will be more of other people's POVs from FSR in future drabbles as well, all part of the fun of it. XD

SinfulEmerald - Thank you for entertaining me yet again. I think I read your review like 20 times already. Seriously. "I didn't just grin like I'm on crack, what are you talking about." Who could resist that? ...dies... Oh and yeah Rinko is totally at least partly a fan mum to me...you know? Since she was so supportive of Nanjiro, it just seems to me that she would be uber supportive of Ryoma being pro.

Enma20 - Yup, Rinko is a lawyer and that's cannon.

After all that, I still almost replied to everybody. ;_; Sooooo...

CathLuvbear, Cata06, JulieBookLover21, and imnobeautyqueen - LOVE YOU GUYS ...GLOMPS...

So here's a teaser for you all for the NEXT drabble...

Ryoma shook his head, "You kissed me."