I don't particularly like this piece, but might as well put it where other people can possibly get some enjoyment out of it.
Math and Art
by
Redex
Tachibana was not much of a math person. It sounded too much like fate and religion. It broke down everything he thought and did into superficial little numbers. It made you predictable.
Tachibana did not want people to think they knew him simply becuase they had counted how many fouls he had gotten in the past season.
He rather preferred poetry, not that he'd ever admit it.
Hiiragi, on the other hand, found math soothing. It was a constant, even if only a false one. Even if the things it represented weren't. He used the numbers to his advantage, played with them and juggled them easily.
There was the same satisfaction in making a basket, winning a game and solving an equation.
When Hiiragi forced Akane to sit and go over math homework with him, afterwards he always concieded to listening to some narritage or poem out of whatever book Akane had stached on him at the time.
And then, when Tachibana insisted on a freestyling one-on-one, Hiiragi couldn't help but point out the iright/i way to do everything that Tachibana had made up off the top of his head. It didn't mean he wasn't in awe when Akane pulled off something especially extravigant, though.
What Hiiragi would work at and perfect, Tachibana would just look at it and see how it could be done.
They both envied each other a little bit, when Hitonari was being yelled at by his father (score more), or Akane by his mother (fix your grades).
Apart, Akane would have never passed that year's math and failed the year, and Hitonari would never had found the road where the flowers grew.
Together, Hiiragi found a love for iambic pentamitre and Tachibana's voice, and Akane found at least a tolerance for algebra.
They were a perfect blend, 1:1 ratio.
But for all their differences, they were the same. Especially in the fact that neither would admit that this perfect collaboration even existed, except - sometimes - to themselves, or - even rarer - each other.
Tachibana groans at the math homework scribbled on the board, but looks forward to bugging Hitonari later to help him.
Hitonari can't figure out how to make this move iwork/i, but knows that Tachibana will be able to figure it out.
It brought them closer together, figuring out each other's faults and loves.
(But they'd never tell anyone else.)
Bad ending. Comments please?