Bonus Round 5: Clue

[referees]

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

Sometimes, all you need are a few little details to imagine something bigger. This round is inspired by a classic board game with a cast of colorful characters, but for SASO your only limits on "who", "where", and "with what" are what you can imagine (and the SASO fandom list, of course)!

This round closes on 5 August @ 7PM EDT. (Countdown Timer.)

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. (There are changes from last year!)

RULES

• Submit prompts by commenting to this post with the format of a Clue mystery - "[character] in the [location] with [item]", along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
  • Example: Sawamura Daichi in the teachers' lounge with the Hello Kitty! lunchbox
  • The person in your prompt MAY be a member of your ship, but is not REQUIRED to be part of your ship. They must still be a named character from a SASO-nominated fandom.
  • Your place must be a physical location, not a state of being or a state of being. However, this location is not required to be real, nor must it be from the same setting as the characters.
  • The "item" used must be a physical object that the character can hold or manipulate.
  • Unlike the board game, your prompt is NOT required to imply murder. The scenario implied can be anything at all! (As always, please tag properly!)
  • 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 Clue-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> [Character] in the [location] with the [item].	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

These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many prompts/fills as you want!

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

For fills:
First 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

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Ebumi Masaru/Ise Natsuki
Fandom: All Out!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: possible fairy tale?

Prompt:
[Ise or Ebumi] in the woods with a basket of sweets.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Hoakari Umeno /& Ikuta Miki
Fandom: All Out!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None

Prompt:
Miki in her room with the pile of rugby magazines.

Re: Prompt: Team Grandstand

[babster]

ahhh i'm so glad someone prompted rugby girls!

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Hoakari Umeno/Ikuta Miki
Fandom: All Out!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: possible supernatural elements, up to filler how it works

Prompt:
Umeno at the train station with a compass that doesn't point North.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Kiyoshi Teppei /& Aida Riko /& Hyuuga Junpei
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: magic/supernatural elements

Prompt:
Riko in the kitchen with a handful of phoenix feathers.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Kiyoshi/Hyuuga/Riko
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 418

***

“If we ground the phoenix feathers into the fire, it should make it burn hotter—”

“And reduce the food to ash,” says Junpei (though, privately, he thinks that it might be better than the time Riko had raided the apothecary and force-fed them some questionable gunk that had turned their teeth rainbow for a week, or the usual inedible crap she makes).

For someone who had studied magical properties for twelve years and managed to never slip out of the top five despite managing the magicians team and juggling several hobbies, when it comes to utilizing them in the kitchen she’s completely hopeless. More accurately, it’s stepping into a kitchen that makes her hopeless (and Junpei has tried, numerous times, to refer her to a curse specialist, someone who might be able to solve her problem because it’s definitely not normal and there is no nonmagical explanation for this) and her terrible (though inventive) applications of magical properties to cooking are just an extension of that.

“Riko,” says Junpei.

“You try making it.”

“What’s going on?”

It’s always Teppei who ends up mediating; Junpei’s told Riko a billion times before that her cooking sucks but it never gets through to her. Teppei doesn’t seem to want to (out of politeness, or maybe something else, something that drags on him like—a thought that Junpei can’t quite grasp, some kind of illusion that doesn’t make sense, but the more he thinks about Teppei the more the thought escapes him, as always) but he ends up cooling the situation down, throwing their flames in a bucket of water (only sometimes literally).

“No phoenix feathers on the gas stove,” says Junpei.

“Why don’t we get takeout?” says Teppei.

(Because they always end up getting takeout and there’s produce and meat getting moldy in the fridge, because maybe if Riko does it enough she’ll break this ridiculous curse, because Junpei’s kind of stupid to hope all of this.)

“Yeah,” says Junpei.

“Are you sure?” says Riko.

“We can save the phoenix feathers for later,” says Teppei, wrapping one arm around Riko’s waist and ushering all of them out of the kitchen.

Junpei’s mouthing a thank you to Teppei when Teppei kisses his open mouth; he hears a little laugh out of Riko and what’s so fucking funny about this, huh? Junpei doesn’t say it when he can, though; there’s a menu to look through and prices to argue over and Riko’s hand to reach for across the broadness of Teppei’s back.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Aomine Daiki/Kuroko Tetsuya/Momoi Satsuki
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: supernatural elements, modern magic, fairy tale, this is not a euphemism, literal heart in a box, but basically I want magic not gore

Prompt:
Kuroko at Momoi's door with his heart in a box.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Aomine/Kuroko/Momoi
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 412

***

Tetsu’s at the door with a box, wrapped up in ribbon neatly, like someone at the store had done it (but more probably Tetsu himself). He’d rung the doorbell as he always had before one day Satsuki had just given him her spare key (and before things had gone to shit after that). Daiki squints at him; this had better not be something crafted in an elaborate imitation of the real thing, an apology because Tetsu thinks it ought to make them forgive him.

“May I?” says Tetsu.

Half of Daiki wants to slam the door in his face, get in front of Satsuki and protect her (she’d been the one protecting him throughout all of this, and yet) and the other half crumbles and sends the first half falling on its face. This is Tetsu; Daiki can never say no. He waves Tetsu on in, and follows him into the living room.

Daiki had been watching some boring shit on TV with Satsuki, his arm around her, still pretending like they didn’t miss Tetsu (and still thinking that someday soon that pretending would become real, that they wouldn’t miss him at all; it isn’t now and it isn’t when he places the box in Satsuki’s lap.

“Tetsu-kun?”

“You told me to come back when I had a heart to give you.”

Oh. Shit. This isn’t—Tetsu wouldn’t steal anyone else’s heart, not for this purpose; even with nothing in the cavity in his chest he knows that’s not the point. There’s no way he could have gotten his own, not after having searched for so long, is there? But Satsuki will know; she opens the box and inside is definitely a heart. It’s fluttering, too soft to rattle the box but enough for it to move and pulse inside, visibly.

“Oh, Tetsu-kun.”

She might cry; she probably will, an immovable wall except when it comes to the two of them. Daiki rubs her shoulder, looking at Tetsu’s face. The heart’s not inside of him, not attached yet (they’re going to have to pay some kind of mage a steep fee, but the price will be worth it to have Tetsu back, Tetsu whole, with all of himself). Satsuki’s already crying, but Daiki is, too, and he’s the one who reaches for Tetsu to bring him into a hug, folded between the two of them like he’d never left that spot, like it’s the most natural thing in the universe.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Manami Sangaku /& Toudou Jinpachi OR Manami Sangaku/Onoda Sakamichi & Toudou Jinpachi OR Manami Sangaku/Arakita Yasutomo & Toudou Jinpachi
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: modern magic, supernatural elements

Prompt:
Manami in Toudou's apartment with the freshly made paper talismans.

FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, T

[fickle]

Ship: Manami/Onoda & Toudou
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 482 words

Sliiiiight exploitation of child labor but not really?

***

“Are you ready?” Toudou asked, turning back to the two apprentices. Two pairs of blue eyes fixed expectant gazes on him.

Before each boy was a stack of paper, an inkstone, a brush, a small raised table that fit over their knees and a selection of charmed objects. Toudou had taken them to his favorite charm maker and told both boys generously that they could buy whatever they wanted and it would be on him.

Of course, he was going to send the bill for Onoda’s choices to Makishima. Makishima had enough money to pay for his apprentice’s charms and besides, Toudou was already donating his time by teaching Onoda for free.

“I’m ready,” Manami said cheerfully and Onoda bobbed his head in enthusiastic agreement.

“Good. Now, the first thing to remember about folding paper talismans is not to do any folding until they’re completely dry. To cut down on wasted time, you’re each going to do one charm multiple times. By the time you’ve worked your way to the last paper in the stack, the first will be dry and then you can start on folding it,” Toudou explained.

Both boys nodded again to show they’d understood.

“Did you practice writing the sigils that I assigned you as homework?” Toudou asked.

“Yes!” Onoda pulled out his phone and showed Toudou a wall covered in the sigils. At Toudou’s horrified expression, he added quickly, “It’s in chalk, I washed it off right afterwards!”

“I practiced them in the dirt and smoothed it over after each one,” Manami said.

“Fine. Now, all you have do is use the brush to do the exact same sigils right in the center of the paper. Fold the paper lengthwise - but gently - and write the sigils along the line,” Toudou said briskly.

For the next hour, except for the wet swipe of the ink brushes against the paper, there was silence. When they were done, Toudou sat down cross-legged in front of them and picked up a blank sheet that he quickly dotted down the center line to represent the sigils.

“Watch my hands carefully. I am the Mountain God and my talismans are as powerful as those of the divine because my folds are so precise. The sigils are the powerhouse of the spells but the folds direct how that power is shaped and flows.” Carefully, undoing and repeating folds when necessary, Toudou demonstrated how to fold the large sheets into small cranes.

“Good,” he said finally when they were done. Onoda’s was lopsided and Manami’s had oversized wings, but it wasn’t bad for a first try.

“Now you can attach the charms. Remember, don’t put too many or clashing ones on any bird else when they fly, they might explode or fall apart.”

And if that happened, the bride who’d asked for a 100 flying blessed cranes would definitely want her money back!

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Makishima Yuusuke/Kinjou Shingo AND/OR Makishima Yuusuke/Tadokoro Jin
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: fairy tale elements

Prompt:
[Kinjou or Tadokoro] at the bottom of a tower with a grappling hook.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Teshima Junta/Aoyagi Hajime OR Teshima Junta/Ashikiba Takuto
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: Character death
Other Tags: myth, can be sad or happy end

Prompt:
Teshima in the underworld with a lyre.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Kashima Sonora/Yamato Yura OR Haruna Rin/Yamato Yura
Fandom: Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C3
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: supernatural elements

Prompt:
[Sonora or Rin] on Yura's bed with a Baku.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Kirishima Rento /& Yamato Yura
Fandom: Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C3
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: possible magic/supernatural elements

Prompt:
Rento in the third floor window with cupid's bow and arrows.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Shin Seijuurou/Kobayakawa Sena
Fandom: Eyeshield 21
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: fairy tale elements, let's set Shin impossible tasks

Prompt:
Shin in the middle of Devilbats territory with water from an inaccessible spring.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Sakuraba Haruto /& Shin Seijuurou AND/OR Sakuraba Haruto /& Takami Ichirou
Fandom: Eyeshield 21
Major Tags: Potential character death/injury
Other Tags: Fairy tale elements

Prompt:
Sakuraba at the modeling agency with a poisoned apple.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Azumane Asahi/Sugawara Koushi/Nishinoya Yuu (or any pair)
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: myth/supernatural elements?, make up your own plant use a real one it's all good, (Night-blooming cereus and Datura inoxia are both pretty cool)

Prompt:
Asahi (or Sugawara) in the hanging gardens with the moonflower(s).

FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, T

[fickle]

Ship: Asahi/Nishinoya
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 409 words

Sliiiiiight creepy horror elements, mythical misuse, blood, ritual magic, character death, angst.

***

From the trees, silhouettes sway back and forth, their feet kicking through the air in a grisly dance. There is no mass to them, no more than to a shadow, but Asahi avoids watching them anyway.

Midnight in the hanging gardens is an eerie time. The grass looks black, slick with droplets of blood instead of dew, and it is utterly silent.

All the sounds of night time that go unnoticed are conspicuous by their absence; Asahi’s breaths are the loudest thing there and each time he inhales the dry, cool air of the garden, the noise is like a blaring alarm that he should not be there.

He has no choice. There is no other place that moonflowers grow except here.

The fountain in the center of the garden spits black liquid from the mouths of skeletons; Asahi has heard that to sip of its waters, even one drop, grants an absence of memory if taken by night. If the water is tasted during the day, it grants an absence of life.

If the moonflowers haven’t bloomed by the time by the time the sun rises, perhaps he will return the next night and try the fountain’s waters instead.

The second hand on his watch is ticking close to half-past; Asahi kneels and slides a silver blade over his lifeline, dripping the blood onto the dirt in a rough circle.

White blades of glass push their way through the earth and then grow upwards, straining to reach the moon. The flowers that unfurl delicately are likewise also grass and for a second, Asahi rethinks the next step.

No. The flowers bloomed as they were promised to. Asahi will not lose faith now.

He breaks off a flower, puts it into his mouth and bites down. Glass shatters under the pressure of his teeth, little shards explosively embedding themselves into the tender inside of his mouth and tongue.

He swallows and feels long thin wounds open along his throat.

When he speaks, the words issue painfully into the air, crimson in a world of black and white. “Nishinoya Yuu, return to me..”

One of the hanging shadows falls free from its branch. Asahi remains kneeling and waits for his lover to return to him.

When Nishinoya comes closer, Asahi smiles, blood dripping down his lips and blooming in bubbles at the corners of his mouth.

Nishinoya’s hand touches his cheek and Asahi does not feel its cold.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Sawamura Daichi /& Sugawara Koushi AND/OR Sawamura Daichi /& Azumane Asahi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: myth or magic elements welcome

Prompt:
Daichi in the monster's den with a broken sword.

FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, T

[dynamite]

Ship: sawamura daichi / sugawara koushi
Fandom: haikyuu
Major tags: none
Other tags: supernatural elements, thirst
Word count: 539

I love demon birb.


***


Daichi’s first mistake was probably not looking both ways.

Daichi’s second mistake was probably looking far too much, but he can’t help it, the way the moonlight drips white and beautiful from the crystal stalactites to move formlessly into the mirror pool. It’s mesmerising. It’s magic. It’s--

“--rude to stare,” the tengu huffs. His lovely mouth is sharp in displeasure. He’s naked but for a twist of linen cloth and the wide, proud spread of his gloss black wings, and Daichi thinks he’s made of moonlight, too, the way the tengu’s hair gleams ash silver, the way the tengu’s claws curl dangerous and white like ivory daggers. His hips are slim and Daichi can see the elegant line of the bone tracing underneath all that soft skin, and he swallows once, twice.

“I’m sorry,” Daichi manages. His first mistake had stumbled him through the caves and broken his sword but he feels like this second mistake is the more dangerous one. “I lost my way through the forest.”

The tengu’s wing feathers shiver as he steps carefully into the water. “Ugh, cold,” the tengu mutters under his breath, but he walks all the way into the deep end until only his face and the top of his wings remain visible. “So you didn’t come here to steal a wish?”

“Um, what?” Daichi replies. The tengu has a little tuft of hair that sticks right up, and it bobs comically each time the tengu moves in the water. Daichi has seen birds bathe before and he wonders if a tengu preens his feathers in the same way, and he makes the third mistake of looking at the the tengu’s lovely pink mouth that sits right above the water line. “I don’t want to steal anything. I just need to find my way home.”

“If you wait until I’m done, I can show you the way out of the forest,” the tengu says. He’s looking at Daichi more carefully now, measuring him up. Daichi wonders if he’s been found wanting, but then the tengu adds, “If you help me scrub my back, it’ll go faster.”

“So you don’t preen your feathers?” Daichi blurts out. The thought of touching all that moonlight seems so impossible to him, he feels like every truth is being ripped from his bones. Surely this is the tengu’s real magic, looking into the hearts of men, finding each and every one of their weaknesses and eating them whole.

The tengu gives me a withering look. “Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably dumb.”

“Can I ask for a wish anyway?” Daichi says quickly. He might as well. He can feel every one of his truths laid out under the tengu’s scrutiny.

“And what would that be? No promises. I’m just curious.”

Daichi feels like he’s letting go of something inside of his lungs. “What’s your name?”

The tengu just laughs at that, and water droplets fly from his wings as he shakes with it, and something like the sun breaks across the moonlight of his face.

(The tengu doesn’t give his name, but he does lead Daichi from the forest, and the wish that is exchanged is Daichi’s and not his, to come back to visit him once more.)

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Nanase Haruka/Tachibana Makoto
Fandom: Free!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: modern magic

Prompt:
Haru in the bathtub with a wet spell book.

FILL: team akaashi keiji/bokuto koutarou, [G]

[earlgrey_milktea]

Ship: nanase haruka/tachibana makoto
Fandom: free!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: witchy, slice of life
Word Count: 529

i love this prompt a lot but i got stuck so i hope i did it some justice at least

***

The book is an old one, something he dug out of the boxes in the extra room of the house. His family has been using that room as storage since forever, and even more so now that his parents are working in the city. But everything in there, just like this house and its planked tatami floors and shoji screens, have been passed down for generations, which is really just another way of saying old magic. So here Haru is, lounging in the bathtub with a new-old spellbook in his hands.

“Ah,” he says mildly, eyeing the drops of water he accidently splashed onto the page. The intricate illustrations darken slightly where the wetness seeps through.

Sighing slightly, Haru flicks a wrist, sending the book hovering somewhere above the bathtub. Lazily, he casts a quick waterproof spell onto the book. Just so Makoto won’t scold him too much. He’ll already be scolded for bringing the book into the bathroom, for taking too long in the bath again. But Haru knows Makoto, and he knows Makoto knows Haru’s habits better than his own. And Haru knows Makoto, and he knows how Makoto will shake his head but offer a hand to pull him out like always.

Sinking deeper into the water—warm still, thanks to the temperature-staying spell that Kou found for him the other day—Haru hooks a finger, bringing the book closer and flipping the page. The spells are complicated, but doable. Certainly way before the time the book was written, with its wild ambitious ideas and its many question marks. A personal spellbook. Haru wonders which ancestor penned it.

He flips through the pages, mind wandering as he noted which spells would be interesting to try and which ones he might want to bring up with Rei to see if they can work together on fusing witch magic and his fancy technological tinkerings. He doesn’t really get it, but Nagisa and Rei seems to have fun exploring and inventing, and who was Haru to deny his friends that joy? Besides, making them happy makes Makoto happy. Win-win.

There’s a knock on the bathroom door. “Haru-chan? Are you in there?”

“Yeah,” Haru says.

“Can I come in?”

“Yeah.”

Makoto pushes the door open. “The lights were on but I didn’t see you so I thought—Haru-chan! You’re reading in the bathtub again!”

Haru shrugs. “It’s comfortable.”

“You’re going to get sick, Haru-chan.” Makoto is already striding forwards, coat still on, plucking the spellbook out of the air.

“I won’t,” Haru says, a bit petulantly, but only because it’s Makoto. “I’m magic, remember?”

“How can I forget?” replies Makoto. “I keep telling you, magic won’t help you if you have a fever.” He holds out a hand, face softening into that familiar smile. “Come on, Haru. I brought home dinner.”

“Is there mackerel?” Haru asks, but he’s already reaching for Makoto’s hand.

The book lies forgotten on the sink until later that night, when they both shuffle into the bathroom to brush their teeth. Makoto sighs when Haru flips it open with his magic again, but reads along with him, the book hovering in front of the mirror. They take their time.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Kadowaki Ayumu/Kohinata Hozumi
Fandom: Prince of Stride
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: possible fairy tale elements

Prompt:
Hozumi at the side of the road with one shoe.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Kadowaki Ayumu/Kohinata Hozumi
Fandom: Prince of Stride
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: fortune telling, or magic, or card games?

Prompt:
Ayumu in the hospital with a pack of tarot cards.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[stariceling]

Ship: Kohinata Hozumi /& Hasekura Heath
Fandom: Prince of Stride
Major Tags: Sexual themes (possible but not necessary)
Other Tags: None

Prompt:
Heath in the dressing room with Hozumi's underwear.

PROMPT: TEAM Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi

[hyalinee]

Ship: Kita Shinsuke &/ Akashi Keiji OR Kita Shinsuke &/ Miya Osamu
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: this is not bait at all nope, is he on a photoshoot, is he just standing there majestically contemplating life, is he secretly charon/the spirit world ferryman who knows

Prompt:
Kita by the river with the jacket draped over his shoulders.

FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, G

[themorninglark]

Ship: Kita Shinsuke/Miya Osamu
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: third-year retirement feels
Word Count: 483

cries softly into my hands over kitasamu

***

The day after they win their third place playoffs in the Interhigh, Osamu tells Atsumu he’ll be home late, and follows Kita out of the gym before Atsumu can pester him for reasons.

So, he thinks. This is where Kita Shinsuke goes, in moments like this.

“I come in peace,” he calls out, when Kita turns at the sound of his footstep on the grassy riverbank.

“I know,” says Kita. “If you didn’t, I would’ve shaken you off long ago.”

“You knew I was behind you?”

“You’re quiet,” Kita concedes, and doesn’t finish the sentence as he turns back to gaze at the river. But it’s me.

Osamu hears the rest of it anyway, crystal clear in the silence they share, and finds his place next to Kita. It’s a warm day, summer nearly upon them. He can hear the flies buzzing among the reeds, as loud as his thoughts, Kita’s thoughts, and he holds his words close to his chest for now, lets the pricking sunlight and the reflections in the water do all his talking.

“Coach Tarou asked me today if I would retire,” says Kita.

“Ah.”

Osamu breathes, and waits. The breeze picks up, ruffling lightly at Kita’s hair, at the jacket draped over his shoulders. Kita crosses his arms. He doesn’t sigh, not quite, but there’s a set to his lips that Osamu knows, a stubbornness that’s fighting to find its way through all the cracks in his perfection.

“He said he would trust whatever decision I made.”

“You’re going to college, aren’t you?” Osamu asks.

Kita nods.

“I am,” he says, and his answer is decisive.

Osamu slips his hands into his pockets, scuffs a toe into the ground. The soil by the river is damp and smells of the last days of spring. He watches a dragonfly skim across the surface, leave tiny ripples that fade from sight before he can blink.

Kita’s watching the water too, as he murmurs, a musing under his breath almost to himself, “All rivers flow to the sea.”

“I’m a simple kind of guy, Kita-san—”

Kita scoffs. “You might fool anyone else with that.”

But it’s me. Osamu smiles.

“And I don’t know much about fancy metaphors, but if you already know you’re going to college anyway, does it matter?”

Kita’s still, for a while. The river runs.

“Can I still be your captain?” he asks, at last.

It’s a question tossed out on the wind. It’s not a question to Osamu, in particular, and Osamu knows this, by the timbre of it. He knows there’s a lot Kita keeps to himself, that he has entire tides that pull and push within him, and sometimes, a roiling storm.

Standing here by his side, watching that jacket billow at his back, Osamu cannot imagine another answer, only yes, yes, always, and he tells Kita, in all the ways he knows how.

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[dynamite]

Ship: oikawa tooru / kageyama tobio
Fandom: haikyuu
Major tags: implied sexual content
Other tags: (team oikage voice) don't @ me

Prompt:

oikawa in the bedroom on their wedding night with a kazoo.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[kazuyas]

i. oh.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[lonelywhale]

Ship: Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke
Fandom: free!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
Makoto in the amusement park with the ice cream.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[gionkenji]

Ship: kagami taiga/kuroko tetsuya
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: this is legit it

Prompt:
nigou in the foyer with the collar.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[gionkenji]

Ship: akashi seijuurou /& kuroko tetsuya OR akashi seijuurou /& midorima shintarou (OR akashi seijuurou & ensemble of basuke chefs)
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: character death, eating, depictions of violence/gore (cannibalism, violence to specific body parts - eyes)
Other Tags: maybe don't look at me, this is kinda crack, ahahaaaaaah

Prompt:
[kuroko tetsuya or midorima shintarou or competitor of choice] in the iron chef stadium with the secret ingredient: akashi's eyes.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, M

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Akashi/Kuroko
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 435

***

http://saso-afterhours.dreamwidth.org/82322.html

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[gionkenji]

Ship: miyuki kazuya & tanba kouichirou & sawamura eijun & furuya satoru & narumiya mei (& any other pitcher your heart desires)
Fandom: daiya no ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: imminent disasters, mythological trouble-making, has anyone been here yet?

Prompt:
miyuki in the olympic diamond (??) with the apple of discord, inscribed 'to the ace pitcher'.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[miaoujones]

this is hilarious and brilliant.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[gionkenji]

Ship: miyuki kazuya/sawamura eijun
Fandom: daiya no ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: probable alcohol and drinking, gambling, hopefully he actually needs that card

Prompt:
eijun in the casino with the ace of diamonds.