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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SCORING

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For prompts: 5 points each (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)

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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

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Comments

FILL: TEAM miyuki kazuya/sawamura eijun, G

[hilaryfun]

Ship: Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun/Kawakami Norifumi
Fandom: Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Word Count: None

ahh this was so fun to do! They are taking a cruise and ask a fellow passenger to snap a pic! Click thumbnail for full size

***

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

[themorninglark]

this is!!! stuffs fist in mouth

I love how you took the prompt in a more literal direction here, I love the idea of sharing dreams and the detail you put into it: from Kita's hazy form and Suna's snicker, to the understanding that this is theirs alone, that they don't talk about it, because there are some things that you don't lay out in the open and that makes the secret more precious. Their banter here is so natural and I love how you've spun this premise of shared dreaming so neatly into canon and their parting ;__; thank you for this!!

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Nijimura Shuuzou/Kagami Taiga
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: hello

Prompt:
"A Dream You Dream Alone Is Only A Dream. A Dream You Dream Together Is Reality."
 – John Lennon/Yoko Ono

Re: FILL: Team Miyuki Kazuya/Oikawa Tooru, G

[themorninglark]

I'M RIP... there's such an aching tenderness to this, their banter about Osamu's fake-innocent face and same face and that's exactly why it's creepy, i'm just HIGH PITCHED WAILING NOISES because this exchange feels so well-worn and there's so much affection and i! love!! that it's Osamu who pushes Atsumu over the threshold, that Atsumu feels insecure moving ahead without Osamu to watch his back, that they will miss each other so much and yet they're determined to keep moving forward in their own ways and let each other go, so they can both grow ;__; i am just so full of feelings and I love the dynamic you write for them... thank you so much!!

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Nijimura Shuuzou/Kagami Taiga/Himuro Tatsuya/Haizaki Shougo(any combination)
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: There's pasta for lunch who wants to come

Prompt:
"What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us." 
– Ted Kennedy

FILL: Team Kanzaki Miki/Miyahara, M

[elucidatedlucy]

Ship: Manami Sangaku/Teshima Junta
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major tags: Sexual content
Other tags: Trans character in sexual situations, HC pronouns, this came out more silly than expected sorry
Word count: 585



***

Link to fill on AO3

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

[themorninglark]

I am, without exaggeration, absolutely blown away by how vivid your imagery is here, especially in the beginning: what a visceral image, injecting poison into veins to colour proteins, diagnose a problem, it gives me chills in all the best ways and I can't tell you enough how much I love it. I love Kuroko being the first one to forgive but also that forgiveness feeling self-serving because I can so see it; and I can see Akashi seeing it that way and keeping the grudge for longer, long after Kuroko's let it go and decided he doesn't need Akashi's forgiveness to move on. There's just something about this one that feels very raw and real to me and I am so glad it exists. Thank you for writing this.

Re: FILL: TEAM miyuki kazuya/sawamura eijun, G

[greenowl]

You're my hero right now........this is so beautiful, you're so beautiful, I love you

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Aomine Daiki/Kagami Taiga/Himuro Tatsuya/Murasakibara Atsushi (any combo!)
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: :3 yums

Prompt:

FILL: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru, T

[aicqt]

Ship: Oikawa/Kageyama
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major tags: Violence, major character death
Other tags: none
Word count: 445

Context, who needs context

***

"When you pick up a gun," Oikawa says, and Tobio's footsteps pause, "you shoot to kill. Or you don't pick up a gun at all."

Tobio's glare feels comfortable against the back of Oikawa's neck as he continues checking the figures his deputies have sent him.

"I thought I taught you that, Tobio-chan?"

Tobio continues making his way into the room before he says, "You taught me a lot of things."

Oikawa spins around on his chair with a laugh. "I suppose I did! Now, tell me, will I be your first in this, too?"

This day has been a long time in coming, and if Tobio has the guts to shoot him, Oikawa thinks he can summon up the guts to die.

"I loved you," Tobio says like a belligerent child.

Oikawa stands and closes the gap between them, taking Tobio's hand and settling his grip more firmly on the gun before raising the barrel to point at his heart. "Come now, Tobio-chan, I don't think 'loved' is quite the right word."

Tobio flinches, but his gun remains where Oikawa placed it.

"Will I get a goodbye kiss?" This is probably goading, but Oikawa has always been good at raising people to higher achievements than they thought they could reach, and if Tobio does this then maybe he wasn't such a failure with him after all.

Tobio scowls harder but doesn't reply. Oikawa has never been able to entirely read him. Oh, he certainly knows the broad strokes, but the inner workings of Kageyama Tobio remain a mystery. He doesn't know what he's thinking right now. He wonders if he knows he's almost scared to die.

"I suppose I'll just have to take it then," Oikawa muses, and cups Tobio's jaw and he kisses him. Tobio tastes of mint and tobacco. He probably chewed gum in case Oikawa wanted to fuck instead of take a bullet to the heart.

Oikawa releases him and Tobio leans into his lips for a moment longer than Oikawa made him. The prodigy is most definitely still in love with the old king.

"Tobio-chan, I don't have all day," he says.

Oikawa has to give him credit, Tobio doesn't flinch as he pulls the trigger and sends the bullet through Oikawa's heart. It's like one last test: Does Oikawa Tooru have an organ that pushes blood throughout his veins, or is he too much of a bastard to allow one to remain in his possession?

His blood flows out through the hole that runs right through him.

"Well done, Tobio-chan," he says as his consciousness fades for the last time. "Make sure you don't miss me when I'm gone."

Re: FILL: Team Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T

[themorninglark]

I'M YELLING I'M SO GLAD I GOT A FILL FOR THIS ONE AND WHAT A FILL

This quote could have gone so many ways but I am so thrilled that you took it literally in the spirit of TSoA... I love the setting here, and how you sketch it out with all these vivid details: the sound of sword and whetstone clattering in the dirt, that image of their camp on a hill overlooking the valley, Otabek's body like a bowstring. I love what you've done with their characters here, Yuri impatient and tempestuous but so magnetic, and Otabek, knowing Yuri is not invincible, praying for his safety. This AU makes me ten thousand kinds of emotional and with these two, even more so. Thank you for this beautiful fill <3

Edited to add: I shared this with a friend not in saso and they can't comment here but I promised to pass on their yells and tears and compliments ;-; this was one heckuva fic

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Kise Ryouta/Himuro Tatsuya/Aomine Daiki/Midorima Shintarou(any combination)
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: :3 yums

Prompt:

Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, G

[hyalinee]

I WENT AND REWATCHED ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A SPOTLESS MIND AFTER THIS SO NOW IM SAD AND AM HAVING FEELINGS but akdkhdjs i love this wehs THANKS FOR THE FEELINGS I DIDNT NEED

Re: FILL: TEAM Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi, T

[hyalinee]

ah!! i'm glad you like it. <:

FILL: TEAM KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

[kazuyas]

Ship: tadano itsuki/narumiya mei
Fandom: daiya no a
Major Tags: emotional abuse
Other Tags: unhealthy relationship dynamics, infidelity
Word Count: 458 words

jazz hands

***


he imagined it, once. or maybe it was a dream, something his mind gave him in his sleep that followed him in his waking hours. it becomes almost a pet project, of sorts, something he builds on and develops as time went on, like picking at a scab so it wouldn't heal, only get worse, until it scars and stays with you.

in it, he walks into their bedroom, and mei isn't alone. sometimes its miyuki kazuya. sometimes its harada-san. once, it was karlos.

in those dreams, he gets angry. he yells. he doesn't throw anything, because that's excessive, but he imagines he would want to.

mei yells back, tells itsuki he should have expected this, that it was always going to happen. he asks itsuki if he's even happy with mei anyway, asks them the last time they had fun, the last time sex even felt good, asks if its even worth it to be this angry.

itsuki thinks about that a lot. he thinks about how there's been a tangible strain between them, like a wire pulled too tight, making it susceptible to snapping, how being with mei has been like walking on eggshells.

he thinks about how mei hasn't trusted him for some time. he knows that these dreams mean he doesn't trust mei, either.

so when mei asks him in this scenario, in this imagining, itsuki never quite has an answer, never knows how to respond, because he doesn't want to admit that they've fallen so far from where they were. he doesn't want to admit that all the time they spent on becoming equals, all the time spent learning each other—he doesn't want that to be a waste. he doesn't want to regret learning all the little things that make mei smile, like starberries in his yogurt or candles that smell like tobacco. he doesn't want to regret telling mei about his parents, bringing them to meet his family.

that's what holds him back, always—that hope that somehow they can return to that, can return to the days where their arguments were in fun, when they ended with a kiss in the kitchen instead of mei stalking off to their bedroom.

it doesn't matter, though, in the end. not the dreaming, not imagining what he would do if he caught mei with someone else, not the hoping and the wanting things to go back to the way they were.

the grand return to what they had, the dramatic ending—he's denied them both when mei sits him down one night and tells him.

he sits across the table from itsuki, supposedly just inches apart, but he feels so far away that it's almost like itsuki can barely hear him at all.

FILL: TEAM KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA, G

[kazuyas]

Ship: kasamatsu yukio/kise ryouta
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none
Word Count: 836

whispers i love them

***

The Monday after they lose to Seirin, Kasamatsu calls Kise.

He answers, groggily—"Senpai?"—indicating Kasamatsu has just woken him.

"You're late."

"Late for—"

"Our run. It's 7:00."

He hears the rustling of sheets, followed by Kise's response: "Kasamatsu-senpai, it's—you're—"

"What? You think just because we lost I'm going to let you get lazy?"

"Senpai—" and now Kise is definitely whining, and Kasamatsu can't help but smile.

He's all business, though, when he says, "I'm outside. You have ten minutes or I'm going to come an hour early tomorrow and we'll run twice as long."

Kise is out in eight, rubbing the sleep from his eyes and yawning.

"I almost thought I would have to come and get you myself," Kasamatsu says, and Kise makes an affronted noise.

"Kasamatsu-senpai is so mean," he mutters.

"Try to keep up," is Kasamatsu's only response, and it's only because he's slightly ahead of Kise that he allows himself a small smile.

Morning runs before school had been a ritual of theirs for a few weeks now, started with the intention of building stamina for the Winter Cup. As they'd gotten closer they began to double as strategy sessions, drilling plays and troubleshooting ideas and memorizing details about their potential opponents, and Kasamatsu got a chance to see what Kise was capable of behind the facade of model-athlete perfection.

(It was disarming, and Kasamatsu had started to treasure those mornings despite his best efforts to stay removed and view them impartially, as a general would the movement of his troops.)

They put them on hold when the tournament officially started, and not even Kasamatsu expected them to resume when their journey to the Cup concluded, but then they lost, and he woke the day after knowing he couldn't just let them go.

Ostensibly, they're for Kise: to make sure he stays discplined, to make sure he keeps building stamina—the list goes on.

But they're for Kasamatsu, too. For him to stay in shape, for him to stay in tune with the Kise he's grown to know over this past year, to keep seeing the determination in his eyes when Kasamatsu challenges him to a sprint, or teases him about his stamina, or any other number of things, and to keep seeing the way the sun glints off his hair.

It sends goosebumps up the back of his neck, leaves him short of breath in a way he can't blame on the run.

They stop at one of their usual resting points, breathing hard, and Kasamatsu is rubbing the sweat from his face with the hem of his shirt when Kise asks (the first time either of them have spoken, since there aren't any plays to review any more, no games to look ahead to for some time): "Why are you doing this, senpai?"

Kasamatsu looks at him. "You're not still upset I woke you, are you?"

"No!" Kise says quickly, then glances away. "No, I'm not." He worries his lip, pushes his hair back from his face. "But I'm just—confused?"

Kasamatsu puts his hands on his hips and tips his head up to the sky. "Someone has to make sure you don't get lazy," he says.

Kise makes an affronted noise. "So cruel, Senpai." Then, softer, he asks, "Is that really it? Just because you want to make sure I stay useful?"

Kasamatsu snaps his eyes back down, sees something that might be hurt in Kise's expression, and he kicks himself. With a sigh, he replies, "That's. No, that's not what I meant. I don't want to see you lose motivation just because we lost. Just because I'm—"

Just because I'm not here.

Kise blinks. "Just because you're what, Kasamatsu-senpai?"

Kasamatsu inhales slowly, working consciously to not look away from the intensity of Kise's gaze. The sun lights them up, too, just as brilliant as his hair. "This team is more than just me and the other third-years," he says. "It's—it's about being a team, and I don't—it'd be bad for the team, is all, if you lose motivation, and I don't want that to happen. Not because you're useful but because you're important to the team, because everyone is important to the team."

Kise is quiet after that. "Is it just for the team then?" he asks. "Nothing else?"

Kasamatsu swallows, wishing Kise weren't so perceptive, wishing he didn't so easily forget that Kise is perceptive. "I may have gotten used to doing this every morning," he says. "I'd miss it."

I'd miss you, he doesn't say.

But he thinks Kise hears it anyway, because he's smiling softly, his face painted by the pinks and oranges of sunrise, and Kasamatsu tries not to sigh, resists the urge to lift his hand to Kise's face and cup his cheek.

"C'mon," he says instead, looking back to the trail in front of them. "We should get going."

"Always so demanding, senpai."

Still, though—it's Kise that sets the pace for the remainder of the run.

Re: FILL: Team Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T

[fickle]

WOW, this was great! I really like how atmospheric it is and how witty and spy-perfect the dialogue is. There's something really bittersweet about this and I adore how it's all set up and how good the immersion factor is.

Thanks so much for this fill!

FILL: TEAM KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA, E

[kazuyas]

Ship: ukai keishin/takeda ittetsu
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: explicit sexual content
Other Tags: blowjobs in the supply closet
Word Count: 586 words

high kicks

***

This entire situation, in truth, is something he finds troublesome, given they're in his store, during business hours, in the supply closet.

(Okay, no, not really, but still.)

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Kise Ryouta/Murasakibara Atsushi/Aomine Daiki/Midorima Shintarou(any combination)
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: I'm full

Prompt:

FILL: TEAM BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, G

[ryekamasaki]

Ship: Sawamura Daichi & Oikawa Tooru & Bokuto Koutarou & Kuroo Tetsurou & Ushijima Wakatoshi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Word Count: 494

I hope you like this, I really enjoyed writing it!

***

Daichi leans against the borrowed van with his hands in his pockets and watches Oikawa and Kuroo bicker over who gets to ride in the front seat. It’s amusing, the way they try to one up each other with the reason they should get it. Bokuto slams the trunk door closed, finally done stuffing each of their individual bags in, and trots over to let Daichi know he’s done.

“Okay! We’re ready.” He glances over at the other two. “They’re gonna be like this the whole time, aren’t they.”

“Probably. You gonna keep an eye on them?”

“Of course!” Bokuto puffs his chest out, ever proud of his status in their shared dorm of being the best at diffusing disagreements.

Ushijima finally arrives with a quiet nod, and he slides into the front seat as Daichi settles behind the wheel. Bokuto laughs and whoops loudly as he throws himself in the back, and Kuroo and Oikawa are finally distracted from each other to notice that they’re all ready to go.

They squawk in unison, and then Oikawa pushes to the passenger side window, where Ushijima looks at him for a second before continuing to fiddle with the GPS. “Why does Ushiwaka get the front seat? That’s not fair, Tetsu-chan and I were almost at a decision.”

Daichi grins as he slides his sunglasses on, still looking over at Oikawa’s pouty face. “He’s the navigator. And also the tallest, he needs the room.”

Kuroo makes a noise and frowns from behind Oikawa, and then sighs as he clambers into the back and plops down next to Bokuto. Oikawa tries to protest some more, but Daichi just grins and revs the engine in a clear message that he wants to get driving. Bokuto laughs as Oikawa climbs, pouting, into the back and closes the door behind himself.

It’s quiet while Daichi pulls away from the school, aside from the GPS giving monotone instructions about where to turn. They have a bare list of places that they want to stop at, like each of their homes, but in general the trip is wide open for whatever they come across in their adventures.

Eventually, though, their troublemakers get tired of sitting nice and quietly, and the three in the back start playing some sort of game, though Daichi can’t tell what while he’s driving. Luckily they get to Daichi’s first planned stop just as they seem to be getting rowdy, and Daichi is waiting outside of the van while everyone else is still processing that they’ve stopped.

After they all manage to scramble out, they join him at the barrier, looking out over the best view they’ve ever seen, a whole mass of land all laid out. Daichi claps Bokuto on the shoulder and loops his other arm through Kuroo’s. His voice is solid and strong and hopeful that this summer is going to be their best.

“We have nothing to lose and a world to see.”

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Himuro Tatsuya/Mayuzumi Chihiro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: what's for dessert tho

Prompt:

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Aomine/Kagami
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 405

and somehow this becomes my obligatory glass eating fill for this round

***

It all goes to shit and then they eat the glass.

They can no longer afford the vast quantities of food that Taiga wants; he’s hungry but he just digs his fingers into the couch and his teeth into teach other but fuck that. It’s not like they can watch the TV; there’s been a hole put through it and it was way too old anyway. And maybe there’s no nutritioual value when Daiki gets up, reaches over, and breaks off a piece of the front, broken glass sharply edged in a way that makes Taiga turn over the piece so carefully in his hand before eating it.

It’s not a question of if he will; it’s a question of the sound of crunching under his teeth, the edges that he doesn’t get filed down, the feeling of holy shit he’s actually doing it. Shards and powder on his hands from where he breaks off smaller pieces. He beckons to it, as if Daiki should have some next. Daiki’s not so hungry but he’s getting there, ripping and tearing at the future, an unknown from all directions. The glass is cool under his tongue, when he takes a piece; it’s not going to try and kill him.

The glass on the window panes is broken, and even when it’s not they steadily chew their way through, one broken at a time (but then they’re not totally finished with the kitchen when Daiki starts to take form the bathroom, but the bathroom windows are tinted, a different kind of delicious texture than the rest. When they run out of windows they start on the dishes in the cabinet, the rest of the television. There’s something so satisfying about sharing a wine glass in between the two of them, even though there’s no wine and just emptiness and the sharp edges of the glass cutting their tongues. When they kiss each other they both taste blood from both sides, rusty salt from tongues on tongues on glass. Soon, it’s all going to be gone, just like everything else, glaringly finite in a world that can be strikingly unwilling and unfair sometimes. They’ll think of something, the way they always do, the way they’d thought of this and kept going, let the glass pile up in their stomachs until there was barely any room for anything else. But they’ve always got room for each other, stomachs, arms, hearts.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Aomine/Midorima
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
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Word Count: 483

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They had been samurai once, storming a castle, honor in their hearts and swords by their sides. They had taken it; they had taken many, serving their lord with unquestioned loyalty. And their loyalty was buried below that, too, loyalty to each other, an arm around the other’s shoulders and touches, kisses, beyond close doors. It had been easy to figure out that they were intimate, that they had cared for each other as well as for the cause they swore to. They would run their hands over each other’s, promising to be careful until one day the promises did not hold. Some are merciless; they slaughter senselessly; they had both been victims, perhaps for the best that they hadn’t been left there to bleed out or fall upon their own swords. Perhaps it was for the best that they had not seen each other and were left wondering, hoping for the other’s safety in vain.

They had been politicians, too, the last century, neither of them patient enough but raised for that world, the sons of the right (wrong) people. It had been easy for Aomine to spot Midorima, uncomfortable as he was at functions of state. They passed the time arguing, off to the side, engaged in whatever else was going on, not the particulars of political machinations, not the way their fathers wanted them to be. They knew; they had figured it out, what they once had been before. They had snuck off in the summer heat, complaining of aversion and assistance (Midorima doesn’t like lying like this but Aomine’s point that hey, he does want to avoid those people doesn’t he? rings true enough) but really stealing time together.

They always resist, at first; perhaps the resistance is part of the cycle, the way they remember and thing that this time it’ can’t work so well as it has before, fate or otherwise. They are always the same but always different, changed by the waters of their courses, separate but parallel until they meet again. How long until their paths come together and then diverge? They always remember, the first time they see each other; it all comes back in bits and pieces and then a flood,e very lifetime, samurai and politicians and rakugo performers and fishermen and foot soldiers, priest and worshipper, farmer and merchant.

In this life they meet so young, the first day of middle school, the two tallest in the class. In this life there is the two of them and basketball, the usual resistance smoothed over and filed down because of it (their styles are different, yes, but wouldn’t that have always been the case?) and their first kiss is behind the convenience store while everyone else is dividing up the popsicles.

“It’s always this good,” Aomine murmurs, and he kisses Midorima again (and even just because, Midorima wouldn’t disagree with him there).

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, M

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Momoi/Riko
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
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Word Count: 420

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FILL: TEAM KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA, E

[kazuyas]

Ship: oikawa tooru/kageyama tobio
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: explicit sexual content
Other Tags: arguably unhealthy relationship dynamics
Word Count: 576 words

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There's something about this that just—he feels crushed, smothered, constantly fighting to keep his head above water all while making sure his control of the situation never slips an inch.

He's still got Tobio fooled, at least, even though Oikawa can sense him losing patience. Stubbornnes, though, and stamina—Tobio has always had those in spades, so it's not a question of when Tobio will fade or fall away but when, rather, he'll dig his heels in.