sportsanime | Bonus Round 3: Gift Tags

Feeling generous? In this round, you get to give creative gifts as prompts.

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)

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If PROMPTING:	If FILLING:	If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to, including Grandstand or Sports Teams Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Place the prompt's relationship in the first bolded line of the comment. Including the canon isn't required, but it's nice. Below that, place applicable major content tags (when applicable; otherwise write "no tags" or "none") Visual example	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Place applicable major content tags and word count before your fill (when applicable) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of the fill in your comment. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/> Visual example	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the rules Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of your work in your comment. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example

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)

For fills:

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.

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Murasakibara Atsushi/Himuro Tatsuya Kuroko no Basket
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Package: A voucher for a couples cooking class clipped inside a recipe book
To: Atsushi
From: Tatsuya
Note: Interested?

Edited 2016-06-29 06:13 (UTC)

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word count: 424

Atsushi has been looking forward to the couples' cooking class all week.

He might be good at making desserts, but he's never been able to work out any other kind of cooking and he isn't really patient enough to learn on his own. The classes were Tatsuya's suggestion and Atsushi thinks that it could be fun. Tatsuya is already a good cook, but that's because Tatsuya is amazing. He's good at everything he does. Atsushi isn't going to let him down, when the class requires them to pair up. He's going to make sure that everyone knows that they're the best.

He's walking into the big kitchen classroom on their first night when he sees Kagami, and stops in his tracks.

"Atsushi?" Tatsuya asks, bumping into him.

"Why," Atsushi asks, "is he here?"

"Oh." Tatsuya peers around him, spotting Kagami and waving. "Taiga, you're already here."

"Muro-chin," Atsushi grumbles, low and unhappy.

"Taiga is the one who told me about this class," Tatsuya says with an innocent smile that Atsushi doesn't believe, even for a moment. "He's here with Kuroko. Ah, speaking of which, where is—"

"I'm here," Kuroko replies, by Kagami's side. Atsushi takes some satisfaction in the way Tatsuya jumps a little in surprise.

"Muro-chin is the best cook here," Atsushi declares, staring down Kagami. "We're going to crush you."

"I thought that this was a lesson, not a competition, Murasakibara-kun."

Atsushi desperately wants to hold his thumb and forefinger up in front of his eye and pretend he's squashing both Kuroko and Kagami's heads, but he refrains, only because Tatsuya tends to tell him off whenever he does that.

With an irritated sigh, he looks away. "Ah, whatever. This is going to be boring because we know how to cook anyway. We're going to be better than you, Kuro-chin."

"I suppose that we'll see about that," Kuroko replies.

"This is meant to be fun, Atsushi," Tatsuya tells him, guiding him over to their assigned bench. "Let's not forget that."

"I'll have more fun when we beat them," Atsushi mutters, then tilts his head to the side, glancing at Tatsuya. "Besides, I know that you're acting calm and composed, but you really want to prove that you're the better cook, don't you?"

Tatsuya huffs out a quiet laugh, shaking his head. "You know me too well, don't you, Atsushi?"

"We're going to crush them," Atsushi promises, placing his hand on Tatsuya's shoulder and glancing over to where Kagami and Kuroko are standing at their bench. "Won't we?"

Tatsuya grins. "You know it."

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"Muro-chin," Murasakibara whined as he wandered out of the kitchen into the living room. "Muro-chin, what's this?" he asked, dangling a piece of paper in Himuro's face.

"What's what?" Himuro asked. "Oh, that? It came in the mail, and I thought you might be interested."

"Does Muro-chin not like my cooking?" Murasakibara asked.

"No! Not at all. I just thought it could be something different…more like a date."

Murasakibara slammed the offending voucher for the couple's cooking class down on the table. "Friday night," he said, leaning in until he was inches away from Himuro's face. "Come over and I'll show Muro-chin a real cooking date."

Himuro swallowed hard as he nodded. Sometimes it was too easy to forget that Murasakibara had a side that was decidedly different from his usual lazy and childish demeanor.

On Friday afternoon, Himuro received a text message from Murasakibara with a list of ingredients to bring that night. Himuro wasn't at all surprised to see eggs, butter, cream, and chocolate at the top of the list; if given a choice, Murasakibara would almost always choose desserts.

By the time he arrived at Murasakibara's apartment, Murasakibara already had his hair tied back and his apron on. "Groceries go on the counter. Then wash your hands and join me," Murasakibara ordered without looking up from the stove.

Himuro did as he was told, turning off the sink just as Murasakibara turned off the burner he had been using.

"Muro-chin needs an apron first," Murasakibara said, pulling one off of the hook by the refrigerator and tying it around Himuro's waist. It wasn't one Himuro recognized, so he wasn't entirely surprised when he looked down and saw "Chef in Training" written across the front.

Murasakibara pointed to the cutting board already sitting out by the sink. "Muro-chin gets the fruit," he said. "Strawberries are sliced, apples are finely chopped."

"Sure, Atsushi," Himuro agreed, searching through the bags until he found what he wanted..

For the next several minutes, they worked in silence, Murasakibara continuing to fiddle with things on the stove while Himuro chopped. When Murasakibara looked up to check on the progress with the fruit though, there was a sudden clatter as he put down his spoon abruptly.

"Not like that, Muro-chin!" he exclaimed, walking over to stand behind Himuro and cover his hands with his own. "Like this. This way you won't get hurt if the knife slips," he said as he showed Himuro how to properly position his hands.

Himuro tried to focus on what Murasakibara was doing, but it was difficult when all he could think about was the heat of Murasakibara's body pressed behind him. He was both disappointed and relieved when something bubbling on the stove pulled Murasakibara away.

Next, it was time for the chopped apples to stew on the stove, which once again resulted in Murasakibara wrapping himself around Himuro to demonstrate proper stirring technique after he declared that Himuro was missing spots on the bottom of the pan. If it were anyone else, Himuro would have sworn that Murasakibara was intentionally standing just a little too close, but with his boyfriend, he was never sure what was deliberate and what was oblivious.

The rest of the apple cake went smoothly, but as soon as it was in the oven and he started on the batter for the chocolate torte, he once again found Murasakibara pressed up behind him. "Nee, Muro-chin," Murasakibara drawled as he maybe-accidentally-maybe-not pressed Himuro's hips into the counter, "you need to taste the batter before you finish."

Without waiting for a response, he dipped his finger in the mixing bowl and stuck it into Himuro's mouth. "They make you use a spoon in class," he murmured in Himuro's ear, and Himuro nodded, not trusting his voice. "Do you like it?" Murasakibara asked, his voice low. Himuro nodded again, not entirely sure what he was even liking anymore.

Then, the oven timer beeped, and Murasakibara was gone just as quickly as he had appeared, taking out one cake, pouring the chocolate batter into its pan, and putting the second cake into the oven. From there, it was a whirlwind of all of the final preparation of whipped cream, and ganache, and everything else that was apparently needed to assemble a torte properly, most of which Himuro ended up tasting off of the end of Murasakibara's fingers.

In the end, when the two finished cakes were sitting on the counter, Himuro decided that the evening had probably been more interesting and productive than the cooking class he had suggested would have been, even if he still wasn't sure whether Murasakibara had been oblivious or deliberately teasing for most of the night.

"Muro-chin," Murasakibara whined, interrupting Himuro's train of thought, "can we eat yet?"

Himuro laughed. "Of course we can, Atsushi."