Bonus Round 2: Tic-Tac-Toe

[referees]

SASO 2017 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

Get three in a row! That's the goal of this bonus round. Inspired by a fanwork event type called kink bingo, this round encourages you to create and fill out themed prompt cards.

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. There's a lot of text here, but if you read carefully and follow the instructions step by step, you will be okay.

RULES

Please refer to the first comment thread of this post for an example of how this round works.

PROMPTING

1. Select a ship to create your prompt card about. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Haruki & Kazuma). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Haruki/Kazuma). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!


2. Visit this card generator.
   • Here is a visual guide to using it.
   • The large text box is where you can list prompts if you have your own ideas. Please list at least 9 prompts; you can list more if you want. (The generator says you need at least 24, but it's lying.) Single words or short phrases are better than sentences.
   • Otherwise, you can use the dropdown menu found right below it. Note: some of these prompts lists are NSFW. (NSFW prompts are a-ok as long as you tag for it.) If you don't like some of the options that appear in a prompt list, you can delete them.
   • Text prompts only, please. Also, each card square must be unique—don't list the same prompt 9 times.
   • In "Configuration Options," make sure you select 3x3 and (Normal prompt). This is the most important step!
   • Leave the tic-tac-toe card with its default colors, so everyone can read it clearly.
   • Click the "Create a bingo card" button.
   • Scroll down to see the card that was created for you. If you don't like the prompts it picked, you can reroll by clicking "Create a bingo card" again.
   • When you're satisfied, scroll further down the page until you see a textarea box full of HTML.
3. Copy and paste the HTML from the box and into the body of your prompt comment, then post!

FILLING

Fill prompts by selecting an individual square to create fanwork for, then leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work. (Optional:) If you can fill three squares from a prompt in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, you get a tic-tac-toe (and an additional point bonus)! You can also just fill prompts as you please and get standard points.

• Prompt squares are labeled as follows:

  A1	B1	C1
  A2	B2	C2
  A3	B3	C3

• If you're trying for tic-tac-toe, you cannot combine squares into one fill. If your fill can satisfy multiple squares, pick the most relevant square: e.g., one square is sailing and another is pirates and you make a fill about pirates sailing, it's mostly pirates so put down the pirates square.
• Each fill must stand alone as an individual piece, but all your fills can slot into a larger universe if you'd like.
• You cannot fill a prompt square more than once, but you can fill every square on a tic tac toe card if you want to.
• You cannot work with your teammates to get a tic-tac-toe. Only individually achieved tic-tac-toes get the bonus.
• Multiple people can fill the same prompt square. You cannot "block" others from getting tic-tac-toe.
• Remember to also follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
• Here is a prompt/fill index for your convenience.

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/images)
• 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. Any way you format it is fine. Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> (the ship your prompt is focused on. "&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. Format the ship name any way you want, but clarity is more likely to get you fills.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; these apply to content *in the prompt itself* and is NOT an implication of what you're looking for in a fill. If your prompt doesn't require tags, write "None" here. More info: http://sportsanimeolympics.tumblr.com/post/161707236774/tagging-and-you) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Prompt:</strong> (copy and paste the HTML of your prompt square here!)	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [SQUARE], [RATING] Replace [SQUARE] with the specific square you're filling (e.g., B2). Click here to see a comment thread example of which square is which. Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject, especially which square you're filling!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None"; if omitting tags to avoid spoiling, say "tags omitted." More info: http://sportsanimeolympics.tumblr.com/post/161707236774/tagging-and-you) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Square:</strong> (the theme of the square that you are filling, just copy and paste it from the prompt comment) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or won't get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML after the asterisks. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Consider posting only a thumbnail if the image is large. For more info, visit http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [SQUARE], [RATING] Replace [SQUARE] with the specific square you're filling (e.g., B2). Click here to see a comment thread example of which square is which. Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject, especially which square you're filling!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None"; if omitting tags to avoid spoiling, say "tags omitted." More info: http://sportsanimeolympics.tumblr.com/post/161707236774/tagging-and-you) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Square:</strong> (the theme of the square that you are filling, just copy and paste it from the prompt comment) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Consider posting only a thumbnail if the image is large. For more info, visit http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.

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.

If you see anyone breaking the code of conduct (e.g., causing drama, being rude) anywhere (not just DW), please contact the mods immediately.

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 for each tic-tac-toe card (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)

For fills:
First 4 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 5-10: 15 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21-50: 2 points each
Fills 51+: 1 point each
Tic-tac-toe Bonus: 2 points each for the first 12 achieved by your team

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 (see the line of links below this post).

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

Comments

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Todoroki Raichi/Sawamura Eijun or Kawakami Norifumi/Sawamura Eijun or any combination (ot3 ok too if u can manage to fit them in)
Fandom: Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: Your OTP doing SASO, Raichi as a fan artist ;;, Sawamura who writes, Nori probably can do both

Prompt:

this person on my team is so talented and I'm so anxious but excited to work with them for main round	someone filled my prompt the exact way I imagined it um hi want to be bffs	this one person who keeps posting more prompts when I do lmao
successfully baited my crush	I keep trying to bait this person but it just won't work	WHY ARE U PROMPTING ALL THESE NICE THINGS YOURE ON MY TEAM GOD DAMN IT
met through an icebreaker post and wow we've been talking every day I might be gay	brainstorming with someone unrelated to your team and holy shit their point of view on this prompt is amazing	this person posts all these sweet af prompts I don't know them they don't know me so why does it look like they're baiting me

PROMPT: TEAM IMAIZUMI SHUNSUKE/ NARUKO SHOUKICHI

[katsukat]

Ship: Manami Sangaku &/ Teshima Junta
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: Possible Violence/ Death
Other Tags: None

Prompt:

Ice Storm	Tornadoes	Hurricane/Typhoon
Heavy Rain	Sandstorm	Blizzard
Lightning/ Thunderstorm	Wildfire	Hailstorm

Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G

[flippinflakes]

I quote noya and say this is THE BEST AAAAH NOYA IS SUCH A WONDERFUL STUBBORN LIL SHIT!!! AND ASAHI JUST WANTS HIS BF SAFE AND WARM. WHAT A GOOD.also that pec groping is A+

FILL: TEAM DAIYA NO ACE, C1, G

[transmiyuki]

Ship: kuramochi youichi/miyuki kazuya
Fandom: daiya no ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none
Square: nonsexual touch
Word Count: 427 words

i got all soft and melty writing this, i hope u like it

***

Kuramochi loves kissing Miyuki.

He loves kissing Miyuki’s perfect, cupid’s bow lips; loves brushing his lips against the softness of Miyuki’s wrist. He even delights in the feeling of Miyuki’s dry, cracked-peeling fingertips against his mouth, idly half-kissing them while they both tap away on their phones.

He’ll kiss Miyuki’s bare back in the mornings, mouthing lazily at his shoulder blades and spine, arm slung over Miyuki’s waist. Miyuki will giggle sleepily, reach back to scritch Kuramochi’s wild bed hair. He’ll tug Kuramochi’s hand up, kiss his palm and knuckles, and roll over to say good morning. The smile on his lips makes Kuramochi awfully tender, somewhere in his chest.

It’s so warm - everything about the feeling of Miyuki’s skin against his. Warm, sedate contentment. Miyuki’s back to his chest, in bed, his nose tucked against Miyuki’s neck.

He thinks he could pick his smell out blind, now that it’s been the first and last thing he experiences when he wakes up in the morning and when he goes to sleep at night.

Under the sheets, Miyuki’s legs rarely stay still. His ankles like to lock with Kuramochi’s, his toes skim along his calf, poke playfully behind his knee. He’ll slot their legs together, like puzzle pieces of intimacy.

“I love you,” Kuramochi will sometimes mumble against Miyuki’s cheek, leaned against him by the stove, cooking breakfast. Miyuki will exhale on a hum, pleased, and turn his head to bump their noses together mostly, kiss his mouth, chaste and sweet, if he’s feeling particularly good.

“I love you,” Miyuki will sometimes whisper into Kuramochi’s chest, as he runs his fingertips through Miyuki’s hair. Kuramochi’s lips will alight on the crown of his head, he’ll take a deep inhale. He’ll tell him he loves him, too, so much.

He thought it might just be skin hunger, at first, when they moved in together, a sudden greediness to make up for years where they were at arm’s length. Only, the deep need is still a deep want, a desire for the his skin to never have the chance to forget what it feels like to touch Miyuki, born not from deprivation but from a pure and simple desire for the warm and the soft and the quiet.

Kuramochi loves to kiss Miyuki. Loves to hold him, loves to breathe in his scent. Loves even just to clasp hands on the sofa, slot their fingers together, rub his thumb against the top of Miyuki’s hand.

He loves this- loves Miyuki. He’ll keep this as long as he’s allowed.

FILL: TEAM DAIYA NO ACE, C2, T

[transmiyuki]

Ship: kuramochi youichi/miyuki kazuya
Fandom: daiya no ace
Major Tags: none.
Other Tags: discussion of sex but no sexual content, miyuki dissociates briefly
square: taking it slow
Word Count: 617 words

i may be planning to black out this card shhhh dont tell

***

They had agreed to take it slow. Kuramochi knows Miyuki’s relationship to his own body is tenuous at best. Sex, and masturbation, as he’d explained it, were touch and go, and then he’d laughed about saying ‘touch and go’ and Kuramochi called him a dumbass, and the conversation got derailed from there. But it was fine, Kuramochi got what he meant.

It had been a while since that exchange, and they had taken things slow. They sleep in the same bed, kiss each other. Nothing more, but Kuramochi reasoned they had the rest of their natural lives for the rest of it.

They had been in an intimate mood tonight, he’d had his hand just under the hem of Miyuki’s sleep shirt on his hip, had started kissing up Miyuki’s neck when he felt him go a little stiff, a little twitchy, and had pulled away. And Miyuki shut off, for ten minutes, staring at nothing, hands clutching Kuramochi’s.

And that brings them here, to the present moment, where Kuramochi feels like he’s about to throw up with worry.

Finally, Miyuki rouses, looking at Kuramochi with guilty eyes. “I’m not ready,” Miyuki says unsteadily, eyes flicking down at where Kuramochi’s hands are linked with his. “I don’t know if I ever will be.”

The tightness in Kuramochi’s chest loosens so fast he almost chokes on his next breath.

“That’s-” he starts, voice trembling with relief. “God, Miyuki, you’re okay?”

Miyuki shakes his head - not a refusal, but a clearing of clouds and vapors in the gordian knot of his brain.

“I’m okay. I just, I let you because I thought it would be okay, but then it wasn’t, and I-” he withdraws his hands, covering his face and pressing his fingertips against his browbone. “You noticed, though, I’m so glad you noticed.”

Kuramochi thinks, how could I not, my breathing and heartbeat take cues from yours even if you don’t know it.

He takes a deep breath.

“So what if we never have sex. I don’t care.”

Miyuki’s hands fall away from his face and his head jerks up, peering intently into Kuramochi’s eyes.

“You don’t really mean that, come on, Youichi-”

“I do, Kazuya.” Kuramochi reaches cautiously for his hand again. “So what if we never fuck. I’m not with you because I expect that. I don’t expect that. I’d like to, and if you ever want to I will be all kinds of up for it, but that’s- god, Kazuya- I love you.”

Miyuki’s eyes are glassy, his lip caught between his teeth. “But- you like sex. You said you did, and I don’t know if I can give that to you. I don’t want you to say that just to make me feel better.”

Kuramochi thinks about it very hard. Thinks about never touching Miyuki sexually, never kissing him hard and long.

He thinks about this hard, too: waking up with him every morning until his hair turns white and he stops breathing, about coming home to each other after work. About having the surety of their feelings for each other, for decades on.

He needs the second thing. He doesn’t know if he could go without it, now that he’s had a taste.

“Kazuya,” he says firmly, eyes boring into Miyuki’s. “I. Love. You. That’s all that I need. If we never have sex, we never have sex, but I want to be with you with or without it.”

Miyuki doesn’t have words for an answer. He doesn’t need them, not when he can tackle Kuramochi down onto the bed and cling to him like he’s never letting go.

Kuramochi clings back just as desperately, and has no intention of letting go either.

FILL: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru, B1, E

[aicqt]

Ship: Oikawa/Iwaizumi
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major tags: Body horror, sexual content
Other tags: Breast expansion
Square: B1 — breast growth / expansion
Word count: 1063

Sighs very hard at myself. I sure did have fun writing this.

***

Here on AO3

Re: FILL: TEAM BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, B2, M

[notallbees]

Thank you for the prompt!! :D

(this needs a sequel so bad, I'll put my hand up and admit it)

Re: FILL: TEAM BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, A3, G

[notallbees]

Thank you :D :D

(yes it's an orchid! :3 bokuto brought it for kuroo as a present)

Re: FILL: TEAM AZUMANE ASAHI/NISHINOYA YUU, B2, T

[notallbees]

WHY WOULD YOU APOLOGISE. THIS. IS. INCREDIBLE.

Re: FILL: TEAM BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, A3, G

[greenowl]

I, ahhhh, thank u...again, thank u so much...an orchid is perfect for Kuroo who'd forget to water his plants a lot. (It only needs to be watered once a week) sjjdjsjskdmkd sorry I just love this so much

FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, A1, G

[kiyala]

Ship: Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: future fic
Square: domesticity
Word Count: 418

***

Kentarou wakes up to two puppies curled up in the space between his and Shigeru's bodies. Shigeru sleeps curled up on his side, his head just touching Kentarou's shoulder, knees coming up to rest against the side of his leg. The puppies have found enough space in between to nestle comfortably and Kentarou lies there, listening to their sleepy snuffling, along with Shigeru's deep, even breaths, and huffs quietly to himself, a grin spreading across his lips before he fully realises it's there.

He's never thought of himself as a morning person, but living with Shigeru means that he is, just by comparison. He's the one who always wakes first, and he usually gets out of bed to at least get their coffee machine going by the time that Shigeru wakes up, but he's content to just lie there for now, too happy with where he is to want to leave the bed just yet.

Shigeru is getting used to waking up not long after Kentarou anyway; he shifts in his sleep, humming softly and pulling the covers down just enough that he can reach over to where Kentarou is lying, making a pleased noise to find him still there.

"Morning," Shigeru murmurs, finally blinking his eyes open.

"Hey," Kentarou replies, tangling their fingers together. He rubs his thumb back and forth over Shigeru's knuckle. "The kids found their way into our bed."

Propping himself up a little, Shigeru looks down at their sleeping puppies and makes a soft, fond noise. "God, they're cute."

The puppies in question are a few months old, newly adopted from the local shelter as of last week. They've finally warmed up to their new house and their new parents, and Kentarou is secretly thrilled by the fact that they've already started learning how to climb the furniture.

"I don't wanna move, just in case I end up disturbing them," Kentarou murmurs, squeezing Shigeru's hand in his.

"Sounds good to me," Shigeru hums, making himself more comfortable against Kentarou's side while making sure not to disturb the puppies as they sleep. "I don't mind staying right here in bed with you for a bit longer. We definitely shouldn't wake them before they're ready."

Kentarou snorts quietly. "Any excuse will do, huh?"

"You're the one who first suggested it," Shigeru replies, headbutting Kentarou's shoulder gently. "Don't put this on me. This is nice, though."

"Yeah," Kentarou replies, smiling at Shigeru as they both relax into their bed and against each other. "It really is."

FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, B1, G

[kiyala]

Ship: Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Square: dorm life
Word Count: 420

***

Kyoutani returns to the dorms late at night to find Yahaba in the shared kitchen, baking muffins.

"Your assignment's going that well, huh?" Kyoutani asks, pulling up a chair at the table and resting his chin in his hand so he can watch.

"My assignment is going great," Yahaba replies, his tone so frantic that Kyoutani is almost tempted to pity him instead of snort with amusement. Almost.

"That's what you get for telling me how far behind I was falling with study, instead of doing any of your own shit," Kyoutani points out. "Funny how these things come around, huh?"

"Stop mocking me and make yourself useful," Yahaba snaps, swiping his finger through the batter he's currently mixing and sticking it in his mouth. "I don't think there's enough chocolate in this."

"That's disgusting," Kyoutani says, getting to his feet.

"I don't have the time for a spoon," Yahaba says impatiently.

"You don't have the time to be baking muffins at all, you idiot." Kyoutani rolls his eyes. "You should be doing your stupid assignment about economics, or whatever."

"I'll ask for your opinion when I need it," Yahaba replies frostily. "Speaking of, I asked you if there was enough chocolate in this batter."

"You didn't actually ask," Kyoutani replies, and sticks two fingers into the batter, just to piss Yahaba off by scooping out a whole bunch of batter.

"I hope you get salmonella and die," Yahaba mutters.

"Fine, so you don't want my help to make your shitty muffins better?"

"They're not shitty muffins." Yahaba pauses for a moment. "Are they?"

Snorting quietly, Kyoutani gently nudges Yahaba out of the way and goes through the ingredients that Yahaba has out on the bench top. He pours out another half cup of cooking chocolate chips, melting them in the microwave while he adds more butter to the mix. He stirs the chocolate in, and then dips his finger into it, tasting it, and hums with satisfaction.

"Is that it?" Yahaba asks. "More chocolate and more butter? Anyone could have figured that out."

"You didn't," Kyoutani grunts. "Just sit the fuck down, Yahaba, I got this. Bring your laptop out here so you can work on your assignment. I'll finish your slightly less shitty muffins."

"Are you saying that you could only make them slightly less shitty?" Yahaba asks, a smirk tugging at his lips. "Here I thought you said you had this."

"Shut up," Kyoutani replies, turning away, reaching for some sugar this time. "Just do your work."

Re: FILL: TEAM BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, A3, G

[babster]

This was really sweet! Zoo not-a-date (ideal) and Tora fussing and being nervous and the reptile handling! Kenma really wanting to see the tiger! I really liked it

FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, C1, G

[kiyala]

Ship: Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Square: secrets
Word Count: 513

***

They manage to keep their relationship a secret for a grand total of three minutes.

It's still two and a half minutes better than Kyoutani's most optimistic prediction, highly doubtful of the fact that Yahaba could ever manage to be subtle about anything in his life, but in the end, he's the one who gives them away. According to Oikawa, anyway.

They don't meet up with their old high school team often, but if they happen to be in the same place, they'll go to the same ramen place they used to go to after practice, just to catch up. Oikawa is there, along with Hanamaki and Matsukawa and some of the other seniors that Kyoutani can't remember the names of. He and Yahaba even arrive separately because Yahaba is just that committed to making sure that their old teammates don't make a fuss over the fact that they're together. He's assured Kyoutani three times already that it's not because he's ashamed, or because he's worried about what they'll think. And that's just counting today.

Maybe it's the fact that Kyoutani shows up first that gives them away at all. He's there, without having to be dragged in, without even pretending that he wants to be elsewhere, and Oikawa even comments on it as soon as they spot each other. Kyoutani should have known better than to assume Oikawa would miss a small detail like that, or think about what it could mean.

It's when Yahaba arrives that Kyoutani really gives himself away though, and he doesn't even mean to. It's just that Yahaba is smiling and waving at their old teammates as he walks in, clearly so happy to be there that Kyoutani can't help but be glad that he's arrived first, so he can see that smile. It's not like he's any stranger to Yahaba's smiles these days, but he loves seeing each and every one of them. These days, they make him smile too.

Which is when Oikawa looks between them and declares that he's worked it out.

The panic in Yahaba's eyes is enough of a confirmation and Kyoutani sighs to himself, patting the stool beside him. Yahaba walks over quickly, looking over a little guiltily as Kyoutani rests a hand on his back.

"I'm sorry," Hanamaki says, "are we meant to be shocked? Can we have a do-over? I'll put on my best shocked face. It's really good. Just have a look."

His shocked face is, admittedly, pretty good. Kyoutani snorts, rubbing soothing circles into Yahaba's back.

"S'fine," he murmurs, before Yahaba can even apologise.

"It wasn't even your fault," Oikawa tells Yahaba. "It's just the way Kyouken-chan looked when you walked in. Like you were the best thing he's seen all day."

Yahaba looks over at Kyoutani with a raised eyebrow. Kyoutani looks away, fully aware of the fact that his face is flushing a bright red, giving him away.

"You suck at secrets," Yahaba declares, then takes Kyoutani's hand under the table, where it's out of sight of everyone else. "But whatever. I like you anyway."

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Isashiki Jun/Fujiwara Takako/Kominato Ryousuke
Fandom: Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:

When I reach out there's nothing to find When I sleep I break down and cry	I ran a long long way from home To find a heart that's made of stone	In a time Where the sun descends alone
Fading like a rose Fading like a rose	It's such a cold cold town Ooh it's such a cold town	Everytime I see you Oh I try to hide away
But when we meet it seems I can't let go Everytime you leave the room I feel I'm fading like a flower	I will try I just need a little time To get your face right out of my mind To see the world through different eyes	Tell me why When I scream there's no reply

FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, A1, G

[lonelywhale]

Ship: Miyuki Kazuya/Takigawa Chris Yuu
Fandom: daiya no ace
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: i never want to draw catcher uniform ever again ;_; (respect for mangakas increase 1000000x)
Square: chest protector
Word Count: None

chris is helping miyuki with the catcher gear to minimise time between innings of course

***

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B2, T

[wino]

Ship: aomine/himuro
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: mentions of death, implied violence, implied sexual content
Other Tags: gladiator!au
Square: remember me for centuries
Word Count: 440


***

There is nothing like the adrenaline of the arena—the sun bearing down on his nape as if it intends for spontaneous combustion, the crowd cheering or jeering in equal measure (depending on who's winning, or how they're winning), the weight of a weapon in his hands as it slices through air, the sound of it cutting deep and hitting bone, and the breath he takes when the gods grant him victory (smelling of metal and sweat, of men exerted to their limits.)

There is nothing like the adrenaline of the area, and not only because he's forgotten everything outside of it.

He'd led a different life, once, raised in a small town among greenery, summer days spent running in the fields and scraping his knees, and evenings spent weeping as his mother tended to his wounds. Mistakenly, he'd assumed that the rest of his life would follow the footsteps of his father, or any path to normalcy; he had never imagined his village being razed to the ground, that he'd ever be taken prisoner and have the crying boy he once was bled out of him.

He never imagined that he'd have the constitution for survival either, not until he's forged out of iron and blood by force.

Years upon years and countless bodies of his opponents piled high later, he's become one of the best warriors to have ever stepped foot within the oval, and were he on a battlefield instead of a stadium they'd be singing songs in his honor. But glory is secondary, next to the thrill in his veins when he's sent out for a match, a man made entirely of sinew and blood lust.

Will this enemy succumb quickly at his hands, or will they put up a mighty fight? And best of all, will he summon a smile out of Tatsuya's lips, sitting high and lofty in the stands?

Because even the adrenaline of the arena is paltry compared to seeing emotion flicker across that marble face, whose gaze he can feel on his skin even from a thousands feet away. My champion, Tatsuya would call him when they're alone in his quarters, their bodies like candle wax, melting into and taking pieces of the other with them when they part.

He has forgotten his old self, as this crowd will forget him when he, too, meets someone of greater strength. But he needs no one to remember him except for the one that sighs his name on those warm nights, Daiki falling out of that mouth as slowly and as luxuriously as a leaf leaps to its death in autumn.

Re: FILL: TEAM BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, B2, M

[lonelywhale]

oh my goodness

would it be asahi next who asks suga to help her buy lingerie
suga would be having so much fun

Re: FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, A2, G

[prillalar]

Murakoshi standing there less than patiently while Tatsumi blows the dandelion in his face seems about right for him. :D This is so great! I love their expressions and how relaxed Tatsumi is in contrast to Murakoshi.

Thank you so much for this! I love it!

PROMPT: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/OIKAWA TOORU

[sotongsotong]

Ship: Aomine Daiki &/ Kise Ryouta
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: body horror, cannibalism
Other Tags: human bones, abnormal eating habits, weird 3am thoughts edition

Prompt:

i'm happy enough here in the ground	i cried a bit into your ribs	we played at shadows till one swallowed you up
the ocean's not a cocktail	i don't care	you always laugh at fires
i'm not sure if i can stop eating glass	stop chewing on his heart	i don't know how to fill this chest cavity

PROMPT: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/OIKAWA TOORU

[sotongsotong]

Ship: Himuro Tatsuya &/ Nijimura Shuuzou
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Gallileo Gallilei song titles

Prompt:

good shoes	to the one listening to this rotten voice	hello goodbye
whale bone	circle game	control tower
blue blood	drop of a star	rain followed

PROMPT: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/OIKAWA TOORU

[sotongsotong]

Ship: Akashi Seijuro &/ Kuroko Tetsuya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Nirvana lyrics edition

Prompt:

i can pretend	nevermind	with the lights out it's less dangerous
i wish i was like you/ so easily amused	locked inside your heart shaped box for weeks	in full bloom
come as you are/as you were	hurry up/ take your time	all in all is all we are

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B3, T

[wino]

Ship: aomine/himuro
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: mentions of death, implied violence, implied sexual content
Other Tags: gladiator!au
Square: you look so pretty but you're gone so soon
Word Count: 513

***

Daiki is a gladiator, for want or need of nothing but victory in the ring. Freedom is a concept he's long relinquished, deemed as something someone like him can never attain. As long as he can fight, as long as he can win, living another day remains an option. Simple pleasures are as much as he's allowed—thirst momentarily quenched, hunger momentarily satiated, or in the winter, cold bones momentarily warmed by fire. Wanting more than what he has is not only discouraged, but dangerous. Give a gladiator something else to live for and they'd start wanting to live, instead of merely exist.

The carnage, the stadium, the triumph; he tells himself he wants nothing else apart from these, and then in walks Tatsuya, reintroducing to Daiki the very idea of desire.

-

He's training, a sword in each hand, facing off against no one in particular. Trust is a rarity, not a currency, in this place, and no one trusts him not to forget himself and take a blade to their jugular the way he's done to countless others, countless times before. It's just him, the sun, the swords, until it isn't any longer.

An unfamiliar gaze settles on his back and he spins around, battle ready, only to find himself looking at the most beautiful person he's ever seen. The stranger is accompanied by his master, and he's appraising Daiki not like he would a jewel or a weapon. It's discomfiting.

"He's one of our best," says Daiki's master, speaking as if he isn't there. He's accustomed to that, but the stranger's gaze is what tears him in two, uncertain if he should stay or run far away.

"I've noticed," says the stranger, who is introduced to him as Tatsuya, a noble searching for a representative in the arena. Tatsuya's eyes travel downwards and then up along Daiki's body, an unreadable smile perched upon his mouth. "He'll do."

With that, he turns and leaves Daiki's mouth drier than a city in drought.

-

Tatsuya intrigues him, but the notion of representing anyone but himself or his master doesn't sit well with Daiki, resistant to being owned by another again. There's only so much of him to go around, though all of this goes unsaid, evident only in the fury of his strikes, the brutal swings of his swords.

He doesn't understand why he should fight for someone else's sake until the day he wins and glances up, past the emperor's approval, past the riotous audience, at Tatsuya's smile, no longer as mysterious as before.

This time, behind the pride and the satisfaction, hunger quietly sits, waiting to be sated. That's what the appraisal had been, everything he wants to do to Daiki (or everything he wants Daiki to do to him) woven into a tapestry of depravity on his face.

And then it's gone, Tatsuya's attention claimed by something or the other, and forget winning, forget living at all.

Give Daiki that smile again, and everything that comes with it. Give him this, and the gods can do to him as they wish.

FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, B2, G

[kiyala]

Ship: Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Square: literal sleeping together
Word Count: 458

***

The first time they share a bed, it's because they're both exhausted when they return to their apartment. They're too tired to care when Kyoutani follows Yahaba into his bedroom, both of them shrugging their bags off their shoulders and crawling under the covers. Yahaba's bed is too small for them to fit into comfortably and they end up with their limbs tangled, heads sharing his pillow, but they're asleep almost immediately.

Yahaba wakes up the next morning with Kyoutani lying on top of him, and freezes up so suddenly that it wakes him too,

"Shit," Kyoutani mutters, scrambling off the bed and tripping over himself. He looks away, the back of his neck flushing a bright red. "Sorry."

"It's fine," Yahaba replies, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. "We finished our assignments, right?"

"Yeah," Kyoutani says quietly. "You made us stay in the library until we did. Thanks."

Yahaba waves it off, covering his mouth as he yawns loudly.

"Coffee?" Kyoutani suggests.

"Coffee," Yahaba agrees.

They sleep in their own beds that night. Yahaba wakes the next morning, feeling as if his bed is incredibly spacious. They don't share a bed again until they're both sitting up late in Kyoutani's room, playing a video game together. Yahaba is kicking Kyoutani's ass at a fighting game and they have so many rematches that it's past three o'clock in the morning before they even realise, and they're both struggling to keep their eyes open.

"Just go to sleep," Kyoutani mutters, turning the game off. When Yahaba flops over right where he is, Kyoutani doesn't kick him out, or even shove him over. They just fit themselves around each other again, and Yahaba's slightly more awake this time, enough that he remembers where he is and why he's there the next morning, and doesn't freak out.

It's an especially good thing because Kyoutani has his arm around Yahaba, fingers curled in his shirt, not tightly enough to hold him where he is, but it feels like the intent is still there all the same. Yahaba doesn't move, marvelling at just how much warmth Kyoutani gives off. It's comfortable here, even with both of them twisted around each other to actually fit on the bed. Kyoutani doesn't snore, but there's a soft, rasping quality to his breaths that Yahaba matches his breathing to, almost letting it lull him back to sleep.

"Yahaba?" Kyoutani mumbles sleepily, a few minutes later as he starts to wake.

"Hey," Yahaba replies softly, pushing himself to sit up. "Sorry."

Kyoutani's grip on his shirt tightens now, keeping Yahaba in place. Yahaba exhales, letting himself relax again.

"Sleep," Kyoutani mumbles, like it's really that simple. Like he can quieten the thoughts racing through Yahaba's mind about what this means, about whether they're going to regret this later when they're more away.

Yahaba shuts his eyes, and tries to go back to sleep anyway.

Re: FILL: Team Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, A1, T

[babster]

Oh, this was lovely. It was very quiet, and sweet, and my favorite kind of touch starvation.