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Bonus Round 3: Gift Tags
This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on July 7 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.
RULES
- Submit prompts as a gift tag in the format below. You can specify the size and a characteristic of the gift, who the sender is, who the recipient is, and a one or two sentence note from the sender to the recipient. Descriptions of the package and the included note don’t have to be explicit, see below.
- Package: medium sized cube, rattles
From: Kageyama Tobio
To: Hinata Shouyou
Note: These will help you get better. - Envelope: manila, 12''x17'', very thick and heavy
From: Tezuka Kunimitsu
To: Kinjou Shingo
Note: Enclosed - Play without regrets! - Your prompt MUST include a relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Riko & Momoi). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Riko/Momoi). Please don't say "Any pairing," either.
- Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work. Fillers can get creative with how to interpret the prompt: your fill can be about the character receiving the gift, one or both characters using the gift, what prompted the sender to send the gift—the physical gift itself can even be excluded from your fill. What’s important is that the gift tag is clearly the inspiration for your fill.
- Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
FORMAT
Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.Required Work Minimums:
- 400 words (prose)
- 400px by 400px (art)
- 14 lines (poetry)
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
| FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
|
Posts not using this format will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, regardless of what they contain. They, like all comments in this community, are subject to the code of conduct.
SCORING
These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many prompts/fills as you want!For prompts: 5 points each (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)
First 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points each
All scored content must be created new for this round.
Etc.
If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only.Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!
FILL: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, G
984 words
AO3 link
a/n: excluded the line from the prompt and the names in the texting conversation from the word count
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Tsukishima adds the key to his keychain after he receives it in the mail. He doesn't use it. He takes it out and looks at it, sometimes, when he's on the train going to or from his classes, or when he's distracting himself from working on problem sets.
Just let yourself in.
- Kuroo
Kuroo is the kind of romantic sap Tsukishima would expect to make a big deal out of giving his boyfriend a copy of his apartment key. Candlelit dinner, emotional speech. That sort of thing. Presenting Tsukishima with it in such a casual manner - not even in person or with any sort of fanfare - is unlike him.
(Not that Tsukishima is bemoaning the lack of theatrics or anything. Of course not. It's just unusual.)
Tsukishima holds on to the key for several weeks. He still doesn't use it.
Kuroo doesn't comment.
Tsukishima considers whether this is Kuroo's way of ensuring that he feels comfortable - not making a big production of it. Allowing him to go at his own pace. He finds himself oddly touched by Kuroo's perceptiveness - much more than he would have been by any dramatic gesture.
And then one day, apropos of nothing, he takes the train over to Kuroo's neighborhood during the late afternoon on a day when he knows Kuroo has class and won't be home.
Just let myself in, huh?
Tsukishima does just that.
The door creaks as he pushes it open.
He isn't used to Kuroo's place being silent. He's visited Kuroo countless times by now - both while he was still a high schooler in Miyagi and after he moved to Tokyo for university - but there's always been some kind of noise - Kuroo playing music on his iPhone, the two of them watching a movie, Kuroo chatting to him intermittently while he cooks dinner for them.
After closing the door behind him, he leans against it, staring contemplatively at the hallway for a few seconds, letting it all sink in.
Eventually, he pushes himself away from the door with one hand and walks into the apartment. The sun is beginning to set, shining into the living room obliquely, lighting up some areas and leaving others in dimness.
He switches on a light. Everything looks just the same as it had before on Tsukishima's previous visits, but it feels different, somehow.
He walks through the apartment - going into the bathroom, the bedroom. Opens the medicine cabinet (at least five brands of hair gel, all opened but barely used), sits on the bed (rather massive, for a student - a queen-sized thing Tsukishima remembers Kuroo complaining about putting together when he first moved in). He's very much aware of the trust Kuroo has placed in him, allowing Tsukishima to enter his space like this whenever he likes.
He goes back out into the living room, gets out his phone and texts Kuroo.
Tsukishima: i'm not going to give you mine in return, you know that, right?
Kuroo: what ru talking about, ive already got urs ;3
Tsukishima: do you even know what i'm talking about? =_=
Kuroo: not rly babe, youre gonna have to give me a bit more context
Tsukishima: the key
Kuroo: oh
Kuroo: OH
Kuroo: thats fine, i know you need your space and all. i wouldnt mind if you never did tbh
Kuroo: i just gave you the key to mine bc i kinda thought it would be nice
Kuroo: you being able to swing by whenever u want
Tsukishima: but i already do that. i just let you know when i'm coming in advance so that you can open the door for me.
Kuroo: YEAH but now you dont have to do that anymore
Tsukishima: how do you know i'm not going to use it to come by when you aren't home and look through all your stuff?
Kuroo: cmon i know u would never do that Tsukki ~
Kuroo: wait
Kuroo: ru there right now???
Tsukishima: i never said that
Kuroo: oh fuck youre gonna find out all my dirty secrets
Kuroo: whatever u do dont look in the box at the back of the closet
Kuroo: lol jk u know all my dirty secrets already <3
Kuroo: plus maybe i just said that bc i WANT you to look in the box you never kno ;) ;) ;)
Tsukishima: third option: there isn't a box in the closet at all and you're just talking out of your ass.
Kuroo: damn u know me too well
Kuroo: srsly though, are you really there? right now???
Tsukishima: ...yes
Kuroo: omg
Kuroo: you actually used it
Tsukishima: i've been wondering something, though. why didn't you say anything to me about it? you just sent it to me without a word.
Kuroo: ............
Kuroo: i thought it would be suave and mysterious???
Tsukishima: :/
Kuroo: ok fine
Kuroo: i was kinda, maybe, a little bit nervous about it haha
Kuroo: wasnt sure how ud react
Kuroo: thought youd prefer it like that anyway
Kuroo: you know, me not making it seem like a big deal and everything
Tsukishima: okay.
Tsukishima: well. i thought about giving it back for a while, but i think i'm going to keep it.
Kuroo: :D :D
Tsukishima: ...does it really not bother you? that i don't want to do the same.
Kuroo: nah it rly doesnt
Kuroo: i kno u do things in ur own Tsukki way <3
Tsukishima: :|
Kuroo: i just want u to feel like
Kuroo: my home is yours too?
Kuroo: bc it is
Kuroo: even if you dont like
Kuroo: live there
Kuroo: altho maybe someday you could
Kuroo: u kno
Kuroo: if u wanted
Tsukishima: ah.
Kuroo: anyway since ur there wanna wait for me to get home? :3
Kuroo: class is abt to finish and i should prbly stop texting my prof is starting to give me the evil eye ;;
Tsukishima: ...
Tsukishima: sure. that would be nice.
Kuroo: :3 :3
Kuroo: see you soon Tsukki :3
Tsukishima: stop that
Tsukishima: see you
Tsukishima: <3
Kuroo: <33333333
Tsukishima puts his phone away, gets out a book, and settles in to wait. If he'd begun to smile towards the end of the exchange, he simply chalks it up to relief. Nothing more.