Fic written for the Pointless but Original Talking Forum Secret Santa Fic Exchange.
Request Number: 10
Pairing/Groups: Perfect Pair, Tango Pair, Platinum Pair
Squicks/Turn Offs in Fic: Smut/Lemon
Interests in Fic: Something not dull. Some romance, maybe; angst or humor.
Gen/Het/Slash/Smut/None/All-of-the-above?: Gen, het, and slash.
Request: Something...angsty, but with a good ending. Perfect, Platinum, Silver, or Emerald pair; or RyoSaku, KiriAn, or Kirisaku. It doesn't actually have to be romance if the writer doesn't want it to be. Could be some friendship, like in one of the teams. Yeah...and in the Prince of Tennis fandom, obviously.
A/N//Message to receiver:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Peri-chan! Angst isn't my specialty unfortunately, but I did my best! I hope it's okay. =D

Sometimes, Niou wished he had never met Yagyuu. Things would have been simpler, less emotional, if the boy weren't around. Because, if he had never met Yagyuu, he would have never known the feeling of emptiness that lurked in his mind whenever the gleam from the Gentleman's glasses wasn't around.

He really had no one else to blame but himself. After all, he was the one who scouted Yagyuu. He was the one who convinced the former golfer to join the tennis team. Of course, he could only regret his own actions.

Yagyuu made him weak- dependent to the point where he was a lost child when Yagyuu was gone. That's why Niou hated him. If he weren't around, Niou could have continued on, being blissfully ignorant of the fact that he was an unfinished doll, abandoned on a dusty shelf, missing his other half. Missing Yagyuu. Niou was once a nationally ranked singles player. Strange how, after Yagyuu joined, he never won another official singles match. Yet he, no, they dominated doubles matches.

Niou wished, every so often he wished, that he had never met Yagyuu; right before he wished he had never even imagined a life without Yagyuu. Life without him was really no life at all. No one could live with half a soul.

Author's Note: Ummmm. Yeah. Part one of six in a series of connected oneshots. I owe an extra special thanks to Rea/Sweet Obsidian Rain and Anne/Apple Snapple for bugging them about my fic for quite awhile. More thanks to everyone who read through this chapter for me, it's the first time I've actually had a beta, and I think I went overboard, so here's to you all, Awin-chan, Sweet Obsidian Rain, Apple Snapple, The Night Owl is Addicted, and Eternal .Angel. =D I love you all~