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.

Posts not using this format will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, regardless of what they contain. They, like all comments in this community, are subject to the code of conduct.

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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

All scored content must be created new for this round.

Etc.

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Comments

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru/Yahaba Shigeru
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: none

Prompt:
Yahaba in the duelling arena with the black roses.

PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[gurosan]

Ship: Manami Sangaku/Teshima Junta
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: Vomit/Vomiting
Other Tags: Emetophobia, Sex and violence is okay, I'm curious to see anything you come up with lol

Prompt:
Manami in the upstairs bathroom with vomit on the floor.

FILL: Team Kanzaki Miki/Miyahara, T

[luckycricket33]

Ship: manate
Fandom: yowapeda
Major Tags: bodily fluids (vomit), eating habits (I feel like intentionally triggering a food allergy should go here), mentions of self-harm through overwork
Other Tags: mentions of illness, nb manami just because, hatemance to end the ages, 0 days since our last pizza murder
Word Count: 495

so uhhh this may be something even you, sweet prompter of vomit, did not want, but
here it is nevertheless

***

Manami feels a burning at three different points in their throat: below the larynx, above where the entrance to their stomach must be, and somewhere between their sternum and heart. Or somewhere thereabouts.

There’s only acid left in their body, and rotting, cheese pizza, is over the floor. Rancid oil. Small flabs of mozzarella. Wet, malodorous chunks of marinara sauce, another acid for Manami’s prone form.

“You should have told me you were lactose intolerant,” says Teshima, from the other side of the door to the restroom stall. He’s just waiting there to be polite. Not to you, he would say. I’ll help clean up for the restaurant owner’s sake.
“It’s really irresponsible of you. I know children with better awareness of their allergies.”

Manami cough-barks at that, upsetting the delicate balance of their squat on the floor of the stall, upsetting their stomach, sending what little acid remained jostling, ventrally.

“Lactose intolerance is only one of many, many things wrong with me,” they say. “It doesn’t matter. If it isn’t this, it’s that.” Manami leans their head on the toilet seat. (It’s pristine, because they missed completely, and hit the grimy restroom tiles instead.)

“Well I wouldn’t have invited you out for pizza if I’d known,” Teshima huffs. “I’m better than that.”

If Manami could laugh without falling over they might have made more of an effort to do so.

“You’d be better than that to me? Really? You would have done the same as I did in my position.”

“What?”

“You’d walk right into something you’re allergic to and have no particular love for, arms open. You’d do it.”

Teshima waves a hand, outside the stall, where Manami can’t see. “That’s completely different, of course. The reason I can pull stuff like that off is precisely because my body doesn’t betray me, like yours.” He frowns for a moment, thinking about races, and the other ways his body betrays him. Regardless of that, he decides.

“You think your health is an excuse?” To hate yourself? hangs implicit in the stifling restroom air.

“I can bounce back from anything if I overwork myself or get hurt. It’s practically my job to, since no one else can. I’m young. I’ll be fine. It’s fine.”

Manami slaps their left hand, the vomit-coated one, on the inside of the stall door with a bang. “You have a gift, that many other people, and I, will never have. Your job isn’t to squander it.”

Teshima steps away and turns around, facing the stall now. “You should be thanking me, for evening out the field,” he says, with enough bile to compete with Manami’s aching throat.

“I don’t need you to create more suffering to even things out,” shoots Manami.

“Then,” says Teshima, fed up with playing nice for them, “then fine. I’ll go back to saving that all for you!” And he jabs a foot under the bathroom stall, knocking them off balance, slick on the acid floor.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: none

Prompt:
Oikawa in the bedroom with the lipstick.

FILL: TEAM BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, G

[ryekamasaki]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Boys in lipstick
Word Count: 508

This was fun, I hope you like it!

***

Tooru leans his chin on Suga’s shoulder and watches in the mirror as he slides the tube of lipstick over his lips, until they’re covered in a deep, dark red that stands out against his pale skin. He watches as Suga carefully presses his lips together, mesmerized, at least until the corner of Suga’s mouth quirks up and Tooru snaps out of his daze.

He presses a gentle kiss to Suga’s neck and squeezes his arms around his waist. “You look gorgeous, darling.”

Suga meets his eyes in the mirror and smiles fondly. It looks even better than Suga’s smiles usually do, which is an impressive feat in and of itself. It turns devious as quick as lightning, though, and his eyes glitter with something that Tooru knows means mischief. He holds up the lipstick and waves it back and forth a little. “You wanna try, Tooru?”

Tooru purses his lips thoughtfully, considering. “Sure.”

Suga turns in his arms, until they’re face to face, and then he smiles up at Tooru, that smile of sin and soul, and the only thing Tooru can think about is kissing it off of his face. So he does, deliberately pressing their mouths together just right, trying not to smudge the color unnecessarily. Suga giggles as he pulls away, wrinkling his nose. “You’re not supposed to do it like that, you shit. Now it has to be fixed.”

He looks up at Tooru though, eyes on his mouth, where in the mirror Tooru can see a thin layer of the same dark red that still lingers on Suga’s lips. It looks good, though not quite as good as on his boyfriend. Suga lifts the tube again, but instead of reapplying his own, he drags it gently across Tooru’s mouth, fingers gently holding his chin in place. When he stops he presses his lips together, indicating that Tooru should do the same, and then he nods firmly when he’s done. Tooru tilts his head and smiles. “Better?”

“Yes.” Then he hands the lipstick over and lifts his face, waiting. Tooru gets distracted for a moment by the way his eyelashes flutter against his cheeks, by how deceptively angelic he looks for that one moment. Then he opens his eyes and stares straight into Tooru’s like he can read his mind, a tiny smile ghosting across his face before he relaxes again. “Come on, Tooru. Your turn.”

It’s not something that Tooru’s familiar with, but he doesn’t mess it up, either, just does it the same way that Suga had, until it’s full and dark again. Suga takes it back and turns again, looks at them in the mirror side by side. They both look good, but Tooru can’t help teasing. “Oh, it looks like I’m prettier again, Sugachii. Maybe next time.”

He has just enough time to dodge the elbow that Suga throws back, and then he dances away with a laugh. Suga follows, smile bright even through the dark makeup, and Tooru thinks that he could get used to that look too.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: is this a mean girls au? ha ha ha

Prompt:
Oikawa in the cafe with the burn book

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: none

Prompt:
Oikawa in the apartment with the recipe book

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Sugawara Koushi/Sugawara Koushi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: implied violence to eyes, blood, horror
Other tags: selfcest

Prompt:
Suga in the dream universe with the eye(s)

PROMPT: TEAM KANZAKI MIKI/MIYAHARA

[qingtian]

Ship: Tsukasa Eishi /& Hayama Akira
Fandom: Shokugeki no Souma
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None, mushishi au, it's cooking manga so. hunt ingredients. hunt mushi-, i don't shokugeki and idk if these characters even work together in a ship orz sorry

Prompt:
[Any of above] in the headily mushi-heavy woods with the list of ingredients.

FILL: Team Kirishima Natsuya/Yamazaki Sousuke, G

[clearlykero]

Ship: Tsukasa Eishi & Hayama Akira
Fandom: Shokugeki no Souma
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none
Word Count: none

thank u for delicious mushishi bait TT

***

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Sugawara Koushi/Sugawara Koushi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: selfcest, supernatural

Prompt:
Suga in the looking glass at midnight with the perfectly peeled apple

PROMPT: TEAM KANZAKI MIKI/MIYAHARA

[qingtian]

Ship: Chinatsu Hiyama & Manami Sangaku || Chinatsu Hiyama & Aoyagi Hajime || Chinatsu Hiyama & Teshima Junta
Fandom: Ballroom e Youkoso, Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: implied violence, injury in the future??

Prompt:
Chinatsu in the hunting fields with the bow and arrow.

PROMPT: TEAM KANZAKI MIKI/MIYAHARA

[qingtian]

Ship: Manami Sangaku & Miyahara || & Aoyagi Hajime || & Onoda Sakamichi || & Kinjou Shingo || & Imaizumi Shunsuke || & Kishigami Komari
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: drowning possibly, mushishi au, ok if not strictly platonic, just is preference

Prompt:
Manami in the sea with the floating seaweed mass of mushi.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KANZAKI MIKI/MIYAHARA

[fickle]

Uh, what's mushi? Google is not being helpful!

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Yahaba Shigeru/Yahaba Shigeru
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: selfcest

Prompt:
Yahaba in the TV world with the deflated volleyball

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Yahaba Shigeru/Yahaba Shigeru
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: selfcest

Prompt:
Yahaba on the balcony with the potted thorns

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Kuroo Tetsurou/Haiba Lev
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: supernatural

Prompt:
Lev in his lord's castle with the toyol

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Kuroo Tetsurou/Haiba Lev
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: implied sexual content
Other tags: none

Prompt:
Lev in McDonald's with the dick straw

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[serpheat]

Ship: Kuroo Tetsurou/Haiba Lev
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: none

Prompt:
Lev in the kitchen with the parang

PROMPT: TEAM KANZAKI MIKI/MIYAHARA

[qingtian]

Ship: Tsukasa Eishi /& Hayama Akira || Kishigami Komari &/ Kanzaki Miki || Kishigami Komari /& Manami Sangaku || Manami Sangaku & Kanzaki Miki || Manami Sangaku & Miyahara
Fandom: Shokugeki no Souma || Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None, mushishi au

Prompt:
[Any of above] in the light stream of mushi with the gutted lantern.

PROMPT: TEAM KANZAKI MIKI/MIYAHARA

[qingtian]

Ship: Tsukasa Eishi /& Hayama Akira || Kishigami Komari &/ Kanzaki Miki || Manami Sangaku & Kanzaki Miki || Manami Sangaku & Miyahara
Fandom: Shokugeki no Souma || Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None, mushishi au, that 1st episode with the ghost and the ink.

Prompt:
[Any of above] in the isolated house crawling with mushi, with the calligraphy brush and paper.

PROMPT: TEAM KANZAKI MIKI/MIYAHARA

[qingtian]

Ship: Tsukasa Eishi /& Hayama Akira || Manami Sangaku & Miyahara || Imaizumi Shunske & Kanzaki Miki || Shinkai Hayato & Shinkai Yuuto || Fukutomi Juichi & Shinkai Hayato || Midousuji Akira & Midousuji's mother
Fandom: Shokugeki no Souma || Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None, mushishi au, that episode with the mushi that traps you in enclosed spaces and disappears you with it when released.

Prompt:
[Any of above] in the space under the sheet, with the singular candle and match.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: himuro tatsuya/murasakibara atsushi
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
himuro at the river's delta with a cup of water in his hands

FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, G

[kiyala]

Ship: Himuro Tatsuya/Murasakibara Atsushi
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: magic au, witch Himuro, demon Murasakibara
Word Count: 719

***

The potion he's making needs water from a delta, specifically, and Tatsuya frowns over his old book, flipping through it and trying to see if there are any ways to get around it. He's been making potions for years now, and most ingredients have something that can be used in replacement, in case they can't be found. Something with the same magical properties, that would work the same way in whichever potion it was being used in.

Except his potion book tells him nothing. The two spell books he consults don't have any solutions for him either and Tatsuya sighs, resigning himself to a trip to the very end of the river. It's out of his way, but that's not really the problem here.

It's the stories he's heard, about the demon who lives at the delta. Magical creatures are drawn to most potion ingredients for their magical properties as well, but this particular demon protects the water at the delta, refusing to share it.

Tatsuya needs this potion to work if he wants to complete the job that he's being paid to do, so he goes to the delta anyway, prepared to fight a demon if need be. He doesn't feel particularly optimistic when he sees dejected witches along the way, all heading in the opposite direction of Tatsuya, empty handed after having given up against the demon. He pauses by the river and shakes his head, determined to try as hard as he can. He's not going to fail here. He'll find a way.

All he needs is a single drop, but he brings a cup with him, so that he can store it and save himself another trip down here if he ever needs this particular water again. He leaves his things behind and goes out to the delta with just the cup held in his hand.

The demon finds him immediately, appearing out of nowhere, so big and imposing that he blocks Tatsuya's path without even having to try.

"You're not getting my water," the demon replies.

"Just a cup?" Tatsuya asks, looking up at the demon with what he hopes is his most convincing smile.

"Oh," the demon breathes, looking down at him. "You're beautiful."

Tatsuya smiles, and he's about to use that as a way to push past the demon, but before he can, the demon suddenly shakes his head.

"You're too beautiful. It's weird. I can't even stand to look at you. There's no way I'm going to trust you. I'm not letting you have any water."

"What's your name?" Tatsuya asks, lowering the cup to his side.

"You can have my true name if you want," the demon replies. "It's Murasakibara Atsushi. There's not a single spell in the world using my true name that can make me do something I don't want to. I'm too stubborn for that. If you try to force me, I'll crush you."

"You're a handsome demon, Atsushi," Tatsuya tells him warmly. "I brought some cookies with me for the journey. Would you like some?"

Atsushi frowns suspiciously. "Cookies? I've never had them."

"Stay right here," Tatsuya tells him, and walks back to where he's left his belongings, pulling out the bag of homemade cookies he brought to snack on while travelling. He gives Atsushi one, watching with satisfaction as he eats it.

Atsushi loves them so much that Tatsuya doesn't even mind the fact that he eats the rest of them too.

"You made these?" Atsushi asks, looking at Tatsuya. "With what magic? I can't taste any magic in them."

"I used an oven," Tatsuya tells him, smiling. "If you let me have some water, I'll make you some more cookies."

Atsushi grumbles under his breath, thinking it over, before he takes the cup from Tatsuya's hand, filling it himself and then handing it back.

"There. You didn't take any water. I just happened to fill a cup and then gave it to you. Okay?"

Tatsuya smiles even wider. "I'll visit you with some more cookies once I've finished my potion. Give me three days?"

"Three days," Atsushi replies, nodding. "If you don't come back in three days, I'll crush you. You have my water. I can follow it to you, if I have to."

Tatsuya raises the cup to Atsushi. "You won't have to."

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: ushijima wakatoshi/oikawa tooru
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: sexual content?? idk ushi is quite nekkid
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
ushijima in oikawa's painting studio with a cloth covering his unmentionables

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[jessibot]

WOW I

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: oikawa tooru &/ kageyama tobio &/ kunimi akira (any combo or all 3, up to u!)
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
kageyama in the copy room with a 300-page law and order: svu fanfic

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[dynamite]

I'M CRYING

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: ushijima wakatoshi/aomine daiki
Fandom: haikyuu!!, kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: LISSEN.... i was thinking about this the other day someone humor me

Prompt:
ushijima in the dorm room with a half-empty container of protein powder

PROMPT: Team Grandstand

[umaibo]

Ship: Makishima Yuusuke/Toudou Jinpachi/Tadokoro Jin
Fandom: Yowapeda
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Don't look @ me

Prompt:
Makishima in the nightclub with two glasses.

PROMPT: Team Imaizumi Shunsuke/Kinjou Shingo

[yrindor]

Ship: Arakita Yasutomo/Kinjou Shingo
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
Kinjou in the hotel after the race with a bottle of massage oil.

PROMPT: Team Imaizumi Shunsuke/Kinjou Shingo

[yrindor]

Ship: Arakita Yasutomo/Kinjou Shingo
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: injuries

Prompt:
Arakita in the club room with a knee brace.

FILL: Team Kuroo Tetsurou/Sawamura Daichi, T

[putsch]

Ship: kinjou/arakita
Fandom: yowamushi pedal
Major Tags: mention of knee injuries
Other Tags: angst, a lot of arguing
Word Count: 623

***

kinjou knew it was late to be biking, but the next race was a week away and he needed to train up if he was going to do well enough to place. his endurance had been taking a hit the past few days as his knee would twinge with pain and force him to stop.

he couldn't afford to be doing that now, not with some of the biggest races of the season just around the corner.

no light came from the clubroom windows, yet when kinjou tried his key he realized the door was unlocked. that was odd - everyone knows how important it is to lock up at night to keep the bikes safe.

he pushes the door open, and a snarling voice greets him.

"there you are."

"yasutomo." kinjou sighed, feeling better that it was someone he knew in here - a feeling that didn't last as he took in arakita's expression. it was twisted up in rage over annoyance, his hand fisted around thick fabric - no, a brace.

"what the fuck are you thinking kin-chan!? we got a race coming up, tout can't go out at night alone pushing yourself!"

"i have to practice if we're going to win."

"you ain't even gonna get to enter if you break your knee! then what? huh? you gonna practice your way out of that too??"

kinjou bristles, pressing his mouth into a hard line. arakita knew what happened to him in high school, why his knee gets bad and makes it hard for kinjou to ride sometimes. but that doesn't mean he has the right to be chiding him like this, even if they are teammates.

"i know what i'm doing, that won't happen." kinjou says coolly, because he won't.

"bullshit!" arakita yells, throwing the brace at kinjou's face. he barely catches it in time, and finds himself surprised for not the first time at the strength of his arm. "you'll keep working until you think your damn good enough, or over it, instead of resting like you should until you snap! this ain't good kin-chan. you gotta take a break."

"and what," kinjou's voice is thin, he doesn't want to fight but on this topic, on riding, it's too easy for him to get riled up. "do you know about injuties? what makes you think you can lecture me on this?"

(he knows he's not the captain, that they're equals, but he still knows the voice to use to make himself sound in charge to get the edge.)

arakita's face suddenly goes slack, shock overcoming the anger. "what. do i know?"

it hits kinjou like a supernova - arakita bursts forward to grab him by the collar, get within in an inch of his face, and arakita roars.

"what do I KNOW? i know a fucking idiot when i see one, one too goddamn blind by wanting to win and be the best or some bullshit that he doesn't fucking listen, not to anyone, not to his own damn BODY, until one day he's busted beyond repair and can't do shit!! dreams over, no going back to baseball, no goddamn nothing left because he was an absolute DIPSHIT!!!!"

arakita's chest heaves as he pulls in the worst sounding breath kinjou has ever heard from him. it freezes him there, looking at arakita and his shaky hands like he's seeing him for the first time, at the cusp of something massive that kinjou had yet to fully understand yet.

arakita's voice is nothing more than a whisper. "it's gonna be you next if you don't quit being so fucking stupid, kin-chan."

kinjou doesn't know what to do, what to say, as arakita lets him go and walks right out of the clubroom.