Bonus Round 4: Quotes

[referees]

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

An oldie but a goodie—in this round, we draw inspiration from famous words said by other people.

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible.

RULES

• Submit prompts by commenting to this post with a quote attributed to a specific person or character, along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
  • Example: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." -Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The quote can come from almost anything—famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, etc.— but please don't quote personal conversations you've had or overheard.
  • Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Natsuo & Yuzuko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Natsuo/Yuzuko). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
• Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with your quote-inspired fanwork.
• Remember to 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)
• 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. (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.) <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>	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] 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!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <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>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"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ 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, [RATING] 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!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <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>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"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ 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.

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FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, T

[fickle]

Ship: Imayoshi/Hanamiya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 418 words

They are indeed the right basketballs! They are the most intelligent and scheming basketballs of them all. Thank you so much for this prompt!

***

“The press are still there,” Hanamiya says and Imayoshi groans. There are new lines in the corners of his eyes that weren’t there before the death of his wife, a new tiredness to his countenance that isn’t entirely feigned for the media’s sake.

“Vultures,” Imayoshi mutters tiredly, sipping at his tea. “If only we could get away. Maybe head up North, do some fishing…”

“Fishing’s boring.” Hanamiya flops down onto the couch, confidently graceless, and leans against Imayoshi. “Playing with the media’s more fun.”

“You haven’t said anything to them--” Imayoshi cuts himself off before he can ask ‘have you’? Of course Hanamiya hasn’t. He’s a yakuza boss. The last thing he needs is publicity.

“I don’t need to talk to them to toy with them, senpai,” Hanamiya says and kisses the corner of Imayoshi’s mouth. “Don’t worry. They’ll realize soon enough you didn’t kill your wife and then when the tide turns, you’ll be flooded with positive articles about your suffering and how it was worsened by being hounded by the media in your time of grief.”

“Is that a promise, Makoto?” Imayoshi wants to hear Hanamiya say it, wants a leash and a collar spun of Hanamiya’s own words, but Hanamiya smirks instead of smiling.

“It’s a prediction.”

*

A blistering op-ed about what a good, trustworthy politician Imayoshi is and how well he has served their country is published. The tide of public opinion swings as all the other reporters self-flagellate.

Apologies and retractions fill the newpapers while online, political blogs pontificate about the tendency of the police to always suspect the husband.

*

“Imayoshi-san, if you could think back to anything suspicious at all about the day your wife died…” The police officer is barely managing to be civil but Imayoshi’s fixed smile hasn’t faded.

“I’m sorry, officer. I can’t think of anything new that I haven’t told you during the other interviews.”

His lawyer’s sitting in on the interview and nods his approval of the answer.

Hanamiya’s off somewhere in the city’s dark underbelly, spinning his spider’s web. His wife’s carcass is decaying on Hanamiya’s thread, rotting slowly until it’ll be soft enough for both Hanamiya and Imayoshi to suck all the publicity and power from it.

Imayoshi won’t give Hanamiya up. Hanamiya will never betray him.

When the time is right and the public’s interest is starting to wane, Hanamiya will produce a convenient patsy and the media will surge to cover the story anew.

*

The enemy is everyone who isn’t them.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM DAIYA NO ACE

[greenowl]

AHHHHGGG

FILL: TEAM Teshima Junta/Aoyagi Hajime, G

[gurosan]

Ship: Aoyagi Hajime/Kaburagi Issa
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Word Count: 599

Someday I'll actually edit this and expand on this lovely quote more clearly...but until then-!

***

“Can you draw me!?”

Aoyagi paused, not looking up from his sketchbook. Kaburagi tried not to let his spirit falter, he couldn’t help but feel like he had asked some sort of forbidden question.

“Sure…”

“Eh? Really?”

Aoyagi nodded. Kaburagi’s heart skipped a beat.

Kaburagi locked eyes with Aoyagi, not wanting to miss a moment of whatever magic happened during the drawing process. Aoyagi started to draw, looking up at Kaburagi with complete focus.

Little did Kaburagi seem to know, modeling meant sitting still, and keeping quiet. Only a few minutes passed before the first year starts to squirm in his seat.
“Think of it as training,” Aoyagi spoke firmly, his brow scrunching as he erased a misplaced line.

Kaburagi tried not to squirm under the artist’s gaze, tried to ignore the sudden surge of self-consciousness that shot through him. He felt stifled with boredom and was dying to stretch out, start talking, anything. He decided to return to maintaining eye contact, but to his surprise, he now felt a soft flutter within his stomach. He’s thinking of me, he thought with a suppressed shiver.

The two sat in silence. Aoyagi trying to capture the shadows of Kaburagi’s cheeks, and Kaburagi trying to figure out just what about being drawn by Aoyagi made him feel so damn weird.

It’s his eyes, he finally decided. They’re deep and gold and seem to swathe Kaburagi. They’re warm and intense while also feeling welcoming. They matched his personality quite well, Kaburagi decided. Being looked at by Aoyagi made Kaburagi feel like the most important person on earth. He felt lost in his friend’s gaze, and before he could realize it his heart had sped up quite a bit faster than normal.

It was strange to be looked at so intensely for more than a few seconds. It made Kaburagi feel vulnerable, like he was bare and open, like he might somehow give something away about himself just by looking into those eyes for too long. But somehow Kaburagi felt content as well. As if the two of them were somehow closer now, somehow understood each other better. They had a silence bond, he decided with delight.

Kaburagi tried use their newfound silent bond to imagine what Aoyagi was thinking of as he drew. Most likely, he probably just thought about drawing techniques, but for a moment Kaburagi couldn’t help but entertain the idea that Aoyagi was simply thinking about him, and only him. And that the long looks Aoyagi had been giving him during their entire session were more akin to a caress, tender touches against his skin and bones. He wandered further, imagining Aoyagi’s actual touch against him, his palms running along his body instead of just his eyes. What would it be like for his senpai to run his nails against his back? His finger tips on his shoulder, his neck?
Aoyagi’s voice broke the sprinter out of his daydream.

“Done.”

Kaburagi is almost disappointed with how fast time went by. Aoyagi slid the notebook over for the other to see. A mix of think, bold lines combined with soft and deliberate details. It reminded Kaburagi of Aoyagi’s own personality. It was certainly impressive, Kaburagi had expected nothing less from his senpai.

“Wow! It’s uncanny, you’re amazing Aoyagi-san!”

Aoyagi nodded in thanks, already flipping the page to start his next piece. Kaburagi reached out to stop him without thinking. Their hands were touching now, and Kaburagi wanted to savor the connection, but he felt like writhing in embarrassment after getting carried away.

“Can I…keep it?”

Aoyagi nodded and Kaburagi beamed.

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Akaashi Keiji/Tsukishima Kei or Kawakami Norifumi/Todoroki Raichi or Aomine Daiki/Murasakibara Atsushi/Midorima Shintarou
Fandom: Daiya no Ace, Haikyuu!! or Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: hi again

Prompt:
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Re: FILL: Team Kuroo Tetsurou/Sawamura Daichi, G

[babster]

oh, this was lovely, thank you! i love the sense of growth, and the last lines, which combine two of my favorite things- people as home, and mihashi being greedy

FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, T

[fickle]

Ship: Imayoshi/Hanamiya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 414 words

Love is a battlefield and Hanamiya plays to win. Actually not scary, just college ImaHana fluff. Or as fluffy as it gets.

***

“...Wow.” Hanamiya said out loud, leaning back in his chair with an amused smirk. He reached over and poked Imayoshi. “Hey. Read this, senpai.”


“I’m studying,” Imayoshi said, smacking Hanamiya’s hand away. “I don’t have time for your cute animal videos.”

“It’s not a cute animal video.” Hanamiya paused, then snickered. “A little cute, but not an animal. Animals are smarter than this.”

Imayoshi glanced over from his desk at that. The two boys had moved their desks together, setting them edge to edge and placing them against the walls to give themselves more space in the cramped dorm room. It had seemed like a good idea at first but Hanamiya was one of those annoying people who didn’t study at all.

They were equals when it came to IQ but while Imayoshi actually did his homework, Hanamiya skipped it and instead scored highly enough on the tests to make it to the honor roll anyway. The calculations of just how little work he could while staying on the honor roll were far easier than actually doing homework for all his classes.

Exasperating as that was, Imayoshi could have born with it if it weren’t for the fact that since Hanamiya didn’t study, he didn’t seem to believe that Imayoshi should study either. He was always interrupting Imayoshi, telling him to look at something, or watch some video, or just kissing Imayoshi until there was no way that Imayoshi could concentrate.

He glanced at the image that Hanamiya was showing him, eyebrows arching skeptically.

“She was in love with him but didn’t know he had a girlfriend? How do you love someone without knowing something so basic?” He snorted, adjusting his glasses. “And what made her ask him out in such a public place?”

“Maybe she was too stupid to do basic recon,” Hanamiya said, smirking at Imayoshi’s tone of disbelief. Hah! He’d known this was ridiculous enough to tear Imayoshi away from his books. “She thinks that being yelled at and cheated on means she had a hard life. And asking him out in a public place sounds like inept emotional blackmail if she thought he wouldn’t reject her in front of everyone.”

“Clearly she underestimated him.” Imayoshi’s attention flickered from the computer to Hanamiya’s malicious smile and the dark sweep of his hair, falling over the oval lines of his jaw and just gently brushing his shoulders.

Suddenly, it seemed a shame to waste his time studying when Hanamiya was right there.

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Sawamura Eijun/Todoroki Raichi or Aomine Daiki/Kagami Taiga(/Murasakibara Atsushi) or Bokuto Koutaro/Hinata Shouyo
Fandom: Daiya no Ace, Haikyuu!! or Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: sorry

Prompt:
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Fill: Team Grandstand, T

[gurosan]

HOO BOY I love this. You've got Teshima's dramatics down to a T lmao. I love the little bit about Aoyagi losing one of the earrings Teshima gave her, that was completely genius and perfect. It's so clear here how much Teshima loves Aoyagi, I was even starting to feel a little heartbroken too lmao. Wonderful work!!! This is better than anything I could have imagined!

FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, T

[fickle]

Ship: Imayoshi/Hanamiya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 474 words

Angst, heartbreak, even monsters have feelings.

***

“I’m going to break your heart one day,” Imayoshi says gently, almost like a warning, and runs his hand along Hanamiya’s jawline in a sweet caress.

“Are you now?” Hanamiya’s eyes are grey as Imayoshi’s but there’s a green tint to them, uncanny and unreal. It shows now as Hanamiya tilts his head to the side and smiles up at Imayoshi. “Are you going to grow me one first?”

“Yes. I’ll water it with kisses and sweet words.” Imayoshi leans down and touches a kisses to Hanamiya’s forehead, right where the Mark of Cain should have rested, right where widows smear mourning ash over their skin. “And it’ll break your bones with how hard it beats whenever you see me.”

“Arrogant,” Hanamiya scoffs but there’s an edge to his tone, a faint question of what if he can do it, what if he can reduce the monster to merely a man?

Imayoshi smiles again and pinches Hanamiya’s cheek with deliberate condescension. “You’ll see, Makoto. Now run along with the rest of the kids.”

*

Imayoshi leaves middle school for high school, leaves Hanamiya behind, and something in Hanamiya’s chest feels a little sore. It’s not quite pain - it’s the ache of an overstretched muscle, something dull and steady. He rubs balm onto his chest, wraps up well against the winter and tells himself firmly that he does not miss Imayoshi.

He is allowed to think that the school is less fun without Imayoshi there but that’s it.

*

When Imayoshi suggests that Hanamiya attend Touou Academy as well, happiness explodes inside Hanamiya like a firework, intense and bright. They’ll have a year before the Miracles start high school to take the Winter Cup and InterHigh both. They’ll have two years together before Imayoshi goes to college.

He’s ecstatic, he realizes, and that acts like walking into an icy lake.

He’s this happy because of Imayoshi? He can be this influenced by the idea of spending time with Imayoshi?

He writes back and says that he’s going to Kirisaki Daiichi, the rich brat school. He’s heard the walls of Touou Academy are too thin for the kind of fun that Hanamiya enjoys.

*

Like mercury coming home, Hanamiya goes to college with Imayoshi. He’s spent three years regretting the unnecessary distance from Imayoshi, three years wishing he’d gone to Touou instead and he’s learnt from that longing that there’s no use suffering unnecessarily.

After all, this isn’t a one-sided affair. Imayoshi’s human. Surely Hanamiya must have some hold on his heart.

*

Imayoshi slides the ring onto his bride’s finger and Hanamiya waits for rage to overtake him.

Instead, it’s a pain so intense that he doubles over it, face against his knees, fists against his mouth to keep himself quiet.

Oh. So this is what a broken heart feels like.

Re: FILL: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru, G

[qingtian]

OH MAN, THIS IS SO GOOD. Robot Furuya, blank and most unwilling to accommodate humans by facsimileing their behaviour, and having the gall to call out Miyuki as not good at being human. I love it. i don't even know this canon-

FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, M

[fickle]

Ship: Imayoshi/Hanamiya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 543 words

Monsters never want to admit when it’s love. No warnings except for mild sexual content.

***

They kiss, slow and searching, mapping out each other’s mouths with the delicacy of spies moving in unfamiliar territory. The lick of Imayoshi’s tongue over his teeth tests Hanamiya’s canines for sharpness, pressing up against them to see if he can draw blood from his own tongue. Hanamiya lets his teeth catch in Imayoshi’s lip and pulls, feeling it stretch and thin until his teeth slide over the slippery inside curve.

It’s a very slow, deliberate kiss and when they pull away from each other as if obeying some silent signal, they stare at each other for a second afterwards.

The rest of the night is violent and bloody but that first kiss lingers in their mouths and waits.

*

The next morning, Hanamiya feels words trapped behind his teeth when he wakes. He goes to brush his teeth and the bristles stain themselves pink-red with blood that looks almost like words in a cursive script.

He rinses the toothbrush and spits pink foam into the basin. His lip’s split so he applies just a little surgical glue to close it, then wanders back into the dorm room.

Imayoshi’s already gone.

Hanamiya opens his mouth to sigh and what comes out is, ”I miss you in the mornings, when the bed is warm and lonely. I--”


He shuts his mouth hard, trapping the alien words behind them. What’s he doing talking to himself? Whose thoughts were those? Certainly not his. He doesn’t care if it was just a one-time thing or Imayoshi wanting to lose his virginity. Hanamiya’s not a virgin now either. They both benefited from it.

He tells himself that as he goes back to the bathroom and takes a long, long shower.

Pressing the bruises Imayoshi left on him makes him hard and he ends up masturbating in the shower. When he comes, it’s Imayoshi’s name he says, followed by the damning words, “I love--”

*

The canteen serves breakfast from six o’clock onwards so Imayoshi dresses himself and goes for breakfast. He can shower when he gets back. He needs a little time to himself to think.

His muscles are sore and every step aches but he knows Hanamiya must be just as sore if not worse. The thought brings a smile to his lips as he waits in line, still in the pyjamas that were discarded so quickly last night.

“What’ll you have?” The serving lady asks from behind her trays of food.

“There is nothing in the world--” No. That’s not what he meant to say. Imayoshi shuts his mouth, puzzled, and points at the tray of white rice, then at the natto.

The server gives him a suspicious look but dishes out the food and sets it onto the counter. Imayoshi puts it onto his tray and hurries to the cashier. He didn’t risk talking to her, just gives her his student card to swipe, then heads for a table near the window.

On his own, he risks opening his mouth. What he means to say is ‘test’. What comes out it, “--that I love more than you.”

*

Imayoshi spills a poem into the air of the near-empty cafeteria. Hanamiya presses his face against Imayoshi’s pillow and imbues it with all the love he’ll never confess.

FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, G

[kiyala]

Ship: Kageyama Tobio/Oikawa Tooru
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: handwaves some sort of medieval fantasy-type setting
Word Count: 433

***

The Kings' Meet is an annual excuse for Tooru to dress in his best robes, waking before dawn so that he can be adorned in the finest of jewellery, intricately woven through his hair and down his arms and between his fingers in a way that looks effortless. It's all about posturing, after all, and there is no king who is better at that than he is. His pride is not without reason; his kingdom has flourished remarkably ever since he took the throne. All eyes are going to be on him. He might as well give them something nice to look at.

His eyes, however, will be turned to the King of Crows, still new to his throne, a surprising choice when he's already failed one kingdom. His advisors seem to think that he'll change and grow. Tooru wants to see him try and fail.

He looks so awfully simple when they cross each other's paths at the Kings' Meet that Tooru just can't help the way that he snickers behind his hand and greets him with, "Tobio. I see you haven't changed at all."

Tobio meets his gaze steadily, and it's never been a pleasant experience, looking him directly in the eye. That hasn't changed either. He stares, like he wants to turn Tooru inside out and read the very secrets to ruling a kingdom so he can apply them himself.

He doesn't reply immediately but when he does, it's with a simple, "I have."

Tooru watches him go, the ornate jewellery hanging from his ears jingling quietly as he turns his head. It's too much of a giveaway, he thinks critically, but Tobio doesn't even turn around in curiosity.

"He's an interesting one," Tooru murmurs, for the benefit of Tobio's two advisors, still standing back. He addresses the one with silver hair, slanting him a smile while speaking. "Risky and volatile. I'm not sure what you think you're doing, but I always found you a much more refreshing King of Crows. I think you'll regret stepping down."

"We shall see," comes the reply, and Tooru wonders if the entire Kingdom of Crows is this annoying. "I think you'll find that between our people and yours, our king poses a much bigger threat to you. It won't do to underestimate him."

"That was never my intention," Tooru laughs. "He's a king who's already failed one kingdom. I don't think he's much of a king at all, but he has too much to prove and not enough to lose. He's dangerous."

The previous king smiles. "At least we can agree on that."

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[gionkenji]

Ship: manaka kaname&/tanba kouichirou
Fandom: daiya no ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: the slightest bit of angst

Prompt:
"i didn't choose kitauji because of the school itself. i just wanted a new start. going to a high school where i didn't know too many people... starting fresh, from scratch. that's all."

— oumae kumiko, hibike! euphonium

FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, T

[fickle]

Ship: Kiyoko/Yachi, Hanamiya/Imayoshi
Fandom:Haikyuu!!, Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 465 words

I went a little literal with this, hope you don’t mind! Nothing terrible happens here.

***

Colors swirled together, the deepest blue from the the parts of the sea that the humans never saw mixing with the purple heart of a pansy. White speckled it suddenly in glowing little points, then a thin sheen of green streaked over the upper side.


Yachi laughed, breathlessly pleased with herself, then Kiyoko dipped her fingers into the formless mass and stirred it gently.

“What are they doing now?” Hanamiya asked from where he was lying back in the grass with his head in Imayoshi’s lap. Imayoshi fed him another strawberry and glanced over at the girls.

“Making another universe,” Imayoshi said, able to see them easily. Despite the hot sun beating down, neither of them were sweating or even wearing sunshades.

“Again?” Hanamiya’s groan was distinctly aggravated. “Are we going to have to incarnate ourselves into that one as well and supervise it?”

“Most likely. You know how they like the personal touch.” Imayoshi smoothed his fingers through Hanamiya’s hair. “This time wasn’t so bad.”

“It would’ve been better without them there. Remember the fuss they made about that comet? All I did was wipe out a few giant lizards,” Hanamiya groused. “And change the climate a little. All that ice was fun to skate on anyway.”

“And sentient life did evolve eventually, even if it came from mammals instead of reptiles as they’d been planning,” Imayoshi agreed. “They need to learn to be more flexible.”

“Exactly! Every time we cause a harmless little genocide or engineer a new virus or plague, they act like we’ve destroyed the whole universe instead of just wiping out the majority of a sentient species on one planet. You think they’d have more perspective.” Hanamiya ripped up a handful of grass purely for the sake of defiance and tossed it in their direction.

“They are Life. Perhaps they feel it like pain when there’s so much death,” Imayoshi speculated.

Hanamiya’s eyes lit up suddenly, the immortal pushing himself to sit up. “So if we kill enough, we could cause them enough pain to cripple them? Maybe even kill them?”

“But then who would make everything that we destroy?” Imayoshi countered, catching his lover’s wrist and tugging him back down. “Leave it be. They have their place as we have ours.”

“True.” Hanamiya sighed and shut his eyes. “You think they’d stop making universes when they know the universes will fall to us in the end.”

Imayoshi threaded his hands into Hanamiya’s hair and let stars shine in the dark locks.

“We are the end of all things and they are the beginning. They must follow their natures too.”

The small, dark ball of the new-born universe expanded in an instant, a glorious firework of creation, and rolled over all four deities.

And so the cycle continued.

Re: PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[gurosan]

It's canon and no one can tell us otherwise

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Kuroo Tetsurou/Ushijima Wakatoshi or Wei Liu/Himuro Tatsuya or Yuuki Tetsuya/Tanba Kouichiro or Takigawa Chris Yuu/Kominato Ryousuke
Fandom: Daiya no Ace, Haikyuu!! or Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: heh heh

Prompt:
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words." -- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: oikawa/oikawa or miyuki/miyuki
Fandom: haikyuu!!, daiya no ace
Major tags: None
Other tags: Selfcest, self-loathing?

Prompt:

“Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable — your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers — and pretend they’re across the room.”

― Richard Siken

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: Yahaba Shigeru/Futakuchi Kenji or Shirabu Kenjirou/Futakuchi Kenji or Oikawa Tooru/Ushijima Wakatoshi
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major tags: None
Other tags: None

Prompt:

“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru/Kageyama Tobio or Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major tags: body horror (implied)
Other tags: none

Prompt:

Let's have a heart to heart. Here's mine, and here's a knife.

- @NightValeRadio

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: none

Prompt:

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, T

[fickle]

Ship: Imayoshi/Hanamiya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 551 words

Soulmate AU because sometimes I like experimenting with fucked up concepts. Warnings for self-harm (not what it sounds like) and accidental misgendering/heterosexism (or whatever the term is, I’m really tired, sorry.)

***

Soulmates share skins, or so the saying goes. Soulmates wear each other’s injuries, feel each other’s pains. A bruise on one will appear on the other.

The papers are always talking about murders caused by the meeting of soulmates and the uncovering of who the childhood abuser was. It’s a common enough story that every child knows that if they start getting lots of bruises unexpectedly, especially in their private places, they should tell someone.

Police and hospitals cross-reference soulmate injuries with reported accidents. Five or more matches are enough to confirm the identity of a pair - and to get the abuser locked away for good.

Imayoshi knows this but when the bruises start appearing on him, he doesn’t think it’s anything he needs to report. It’s all on the outside, the kind of bruises that come from falling. No finger marks, no teeth marks. Sometimes his knuckles badly and he thinks that they must’ve split punching someone. Sometimes his lip hurts and he worries it with his teeth, imagining his soulmate’s split lip.

Whoever his soulmate is, she’s a fighter.

*

He wakes one night, clutching his arm. Red welts rise over the skin, starker and sharper than anything he’s ever suffered before. The precise marks become kanji and Imayoshi stares in wonder as the name of his soulmate is revealed.

Hanamiya Makoto

Under it, in smaller letters, it says @gmail.com

It’s 3AM. His parents’ll be asleep. The sane thing to do would be to wait until morning and then ask to use the computer when he gets home from school.

He sneaks into the study instead and uses his father’s password to log on. His heart’s beating so fast he’s nearly dizzy. It could be a fake. His soulmate could have written someone else’s name there to set Imayoshi up for whatever reason. After all, if she’s Imayoshi’s soulmate, then she can’t be too nice a person either.

He really should tell someone about this. She could be a psychopath. How many people would scratch themselves just to get contact like this?

*

The e-mail he sends in the end is simple and short via a brand new e-mail address:

’m going to cut myself. You have to take a photo of where it shows up on you to prove you’re my soulmate.

He has to stand on a little stool to get the kitchen drawer open but he finds the fish fillet knife easily. It hurts to poke the tip of the knife into the inside of his left thigh, just above his knee, but he pushes as hard as he can until he draws blood.

By the time he’s made it back to the study, there’s a new e-mail waiting for him. It shows a skinny little thigh with a red, raised welt on the exact right spot and has the text, “Believe me now?”

There’s a second photo attached - this one is of a little forearm with the kanji and email address carved into the flesh.

His soulmate looks small. His age or smaller. Imayoshi thinks of how brave she must be to have cut her arm like that and feels, for the first time, a sudden rush of fondness to this stranger whose life is linked to his.

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: Futakuchi Kenji/Miya Osamu
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: im so sorry

Prompt:


[screencap of tweet from @forexposure_txt]:

[posts the copyrighted image he wants to use 8 times with different captions]

There. It's a goddamn meme now.
Welcome to the public domain.

- @forexposure_txt

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: Futakuchi Kenji/Moniwa Kaname or /Shirabu Kenjirou or /Yahaba Shigeru
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: none

Prompt:

Rosa: Hey, you should run. Going to meetings, writing stuff down. You love that nerd stuff.
Amy: Writing stuff down is nerdy? What do you do?
Rosa: I just forget stuff like a cool person.

- Brooklyn Nine Nine

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: Shirabu Kenjirou/Miya Osamu
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: none

Prompt:

Some people are so good at disappearing that you start to doubt your memories that they were ever there.

- A Softer World #1248

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru/Miyuki Kazuya
Fandom: haikyuu!!, daiya no ace
Major tags: blood
Other tags: none

Prompt:

A bloody knife and a smile. Why? What are YOU wearing?

- a softer world #1229