NOTE: Echizen ＜-- Oishi, implied Tezuka x Oishi

Oishi POV

Acquaintance

What is the bond between acquaintances but loose and fleeting like the running waters?

Always flowing, but going nowhere.

Nowhere at all.

So, so what if they have met?

So what if he had been given the chance to approach him, to reach out, to make a meaningful exchange--his own heart for the other's?

And so what if the other is gone now?

Gone back to where he had come from--his home country in America.

So what?

He is not unlucky.

At least he dreams about him from time to time, that boy so well equipped with the dauntlessness and energy of youth.

At least, he still dreams of his playful, mischievous smiles.

And at least, when he wakes up to find the subject of his dreams missing from his life, he still has another source of comfort beside him, day after day, night after night.

And, seeing his companion beside him, at least his days are peaceful and undisturbed by the regret and dull pain that haunt his dreams at night.

Authoress's Crap:

My first RyoOishi (my Crack OTP)... Inspired by 藍淋's new novel, 君子之交. That story kills me, kills miracles, and everything else.

Thank you VERY MUCH for reading!