Title: Ever After
Author: Nekocin
Type: AU-ish, one-shot
Genres: Parody/General
Warnings: OoC
Pairings: slight Fuji+Ryoma
Rated: PG
Additional notes: shounen-ai, Sleeping Beauty ~Tenipuri style
Disclaimer: I wrote a wish list to Santa about wanting a set of all the Prince of Tennis characters for Christmas. He wrote back, sending me a 300-page 'booklet' on copyright laws and infringement suits, said there was nothing he could do about it and asked if I would want a plastic kitty instead. I'm currently thinking it over... :burst into tears: =P
Dedicated to: yoshikochan

Ryoma stares at the sleeping, richly-clad princess [or is it prince?] entwined in in royal drapes of guilds. 

He has come all the way for this? what was his old man thinking? 

Echizen Ryoma had been deceived by old king Nanjiro. He had been told that in these lands, there lived a very powerful opponent who would most likely need to be beaten by prince Ryoma. 

He has traveled from south all the way up north, fighting everyone who dared to underestimate or provoke him. And at last he ends up in this tower... of a slumbering person, wearing very expensive -painstakingly?- embroidered clothes. 

Luckily, there are no signs of valuable jewelries round the person's neck, fingers, wrists etcetera. Ryoma just hates the display of heavily-decorated people in gold, diamonds, silver, emeralds etcetera.

The journey has been very disappointing. Once he's home, he should really beat that old man on his head for sending him to this useless place. 

He really should be going before the slumbering fair lady awakens. He turns on his heels-

"Why are you still standing?" A melodious, amused voice calls out -most definitely male-. Ryoma freezes in mid-step and cautiously looks over his shoulder. 

The slumbering person is smiling at him, but the eyes are still closed... That cannot be right. He's very sure he has heard someone, but that someone on the bed cannot be the speaker... right? He's heard about the sleeping beauty, who has never been awakened, of the north before. 

He shakes his head ruefully and is about to step away from the bed when a pair of hands grabs him from behind, sending him tumbling into the feathery-soft bed. In a moment of confusion, Ryoma finds himself entangled with someone else's limbs. 

He blinks, staring straight into a pair of azure eyes.

"You've finally arrived to wake me up," 
There's a person pinning him down... and has suddenly brushed his lips against Ryoma's.

"I've been waiting for my prince-"

"You're awake all this time?" Ryoma snaps. "Why did you pretend to be asleep?"

"Because I'm manipulating this fairy tale" 

Thus sleeping beauty starts crushing -ahem- manipulating his prince in the most impossible ways you can think of, whether or not they ever lived happily ever after.

END

TheNekoTalks:

Pointless, I know. But I just want to write something humorous. It's so short! I guess, I'm at ease when I write short ficlets. :3

:smiley face: cin