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 the Prince of Tennis

[fickle]

Ship: Midousuji &/ (Onoda, Manami, Komari, Ishigaki)
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: slavery
Other Tags: Dragon Age time!, fuck the Chantry, I hate them so much, let’s be apostates together

Prompt:

Midousuji in the Circle with a book on blood magic.

PROMPT: team miyuki kazuya/oikawa tooru

[nautilics]

Ship: Kita Shinsuke &/ Miya Osamu
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: none
Other tags: hello bait

Prompt:
Osamu at the top of the tower with a hairbrush.

FILL: TEAM Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi, G

[hyalinee]

Ship: Kita Shinsuke/Miya Osamu
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: w e l p this was a mistake, why did you pick a tower i had to THINK
Word Count: none

i made a mistake

***

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[themorninglark]

Ship: Kita Shinsuke & Miya Atsumu & Miya Osamu (and the rest of Inarizaki, optional)
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: D&D AU

Prompt:
Kita at the head of the table with the d20.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: himuro tatsuya &/ aomine daiki &/ kagami taiga (any combo or all three!)
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
tatsuya in the living room with a deflated air mattress

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Kagami/Himuro, Aomine/Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 448

***

“Hey, I think I broke your air mattress.”

Daiki looks more than a little bit sheepish, and the mattress looks a little more than questionably-deflated. It’s sagging in the middle; there’s probably a hole on one of the seams but Tatsuya’s got no clue where it could be. They’ve had the mattress for years, anyway; it was Tatsuya’s parents before he stole it and they’d never asked for it back, and, well.

“That’s okay,” says Tatsuya. “I think I can afford a new one.”

“I’ll buy,” says Daiki. “I might need to make a Target run anyway.”

He’s shifting on his feet; it’s getting pretty late, after dinner and close to bedtime (they’re all such old men this late in the summer; it’s almost laughable). Tatsuya thinks about how if he was living in a porno, this would be the perfect opportunity to invite his very attractive houseguest into bed with him and Taiga. It’s not like they haven’t talked about it, floated the idea of inviting a third person in for a bit, someone they could both have their way with, someone they could watch with each other (and Tatsuya’s just on the verge of getting Taiga to admit he kind of has a cuck fetish, which in and of itself is kind of hot, the idea that Taiga’s that possessive over him) and it’s not like Daiki’s name hasn’t come up in those conversations. Toned muscle, smooth skin, gorgeous eyes; they’re both a little bit into him, and especially when he’s a few feet away, sleeping in their living room, and they’re talking in ow voices late at night jerking each other off—and then, Taiga had said last night that they should. Maybe soon, maybe now. So this isn’t a porno, but maybe those scripts are good at cutting to the chase of what should happen, and Daiki doesn’t have a place to sleep right now.

“Well,” says Tatsuya. “We have a bed with room.”

Daiki’s breath stutters; his eyes grow wider in a very good way. “You mean…”

“Yeah,” says Tatsuya. “We’d been thinking about asking you, but now might be a good time.”

“Taiga’s okay with this?”

“He’s been pushing for it,” says Tatsuya. “Not that I don’t want it—Taiga!”

Taiga pokes his head out of the kitchen. “What’s up?”

“I think Daiki might want to join us.”

“For—?” says Taiga, and then. “Oh. Shit, yes.”

His cheeks are flushed; apparently whatever he’s been doing in the kitchen can wait as he strides across the room. It’s just the three of them, Taiga and Tatsuya on one side and Daiki on the other, until Tatsuya pulls Daiki in for a kiss.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: momoi satsuki/alexandra garcia (+ /aomine daiki if ur keen)
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
alex in the onsen with satsuki's towel

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[hatchbacks]

10000 EYES EMOJI @ THIS BLESS U

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: kuroo tetsurou/daishou suguru
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
kuroo at the fast food restaurant with his cosplay on and a giant prop sword

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[helwolves]

/DYING

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: murasakibara atsushi/kagami taiga (+ /himuro tatsuya if u'd like~)
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
atsushi in the airport with taiga's missing luggage

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Murasakibara/Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 422

***

Tatsuya’s gotten them lost again, and Taiga can’t really blame him for reading the airport map wrong. He wouldn’t have read it right, either; he didn’t, but that’s because he’s running on so little sleep. A game that goes into double overtime right before the all star break and the flight to connect to Tatsuya’s into Miami that had gone from a comfortable window of time to make-or-break, his cab driver hurtling through traffic to get him there just in time and make everyone else in first class glare at him.

Tatsuya, at least, hadn’t brought anything other than a carry-on; he always travels lightly and despite traveling so much from a young age Taiga’s never figured out how he does it. Maybe it’s because he’s always over-prepared, but they’re still making their way to the luggage carousel half an hour after it’s been announced and Taiga’s already thinking about the worst. Someone else having snatched up his luggage, the airport seizing it, getting stopped by another mob of fans staking out the airport for arriving basketball stars.

Tatsuya shifts next to him, where Taiga’s leaning against his shoulder, and Taiga looks up. Coming toward them is an extremely put-out Atsushi, dragging Taiga’s suitcase behind him, cear from the blue stripes and the pink yarn tied to the handle.

“Where were you?”

“We got a bit lost,” says Tatsuya. “And Taiga’s pretty tired.”

Atsushi huffs. “Sleep at the hotel.”

Taiga glares at him.

“Aren’t you going to thank me?” says Atsushi, handing over the suitcase handle.

“I could have gotten it myself,” says Taiga.

“Yeah, if you were here fifteen minutes ago.”

Taiga leans closer to Tatsuya; Tatsuya ruffles his hair but then smiles at Atsushi. “Did you get a car?”

“Yeah. Let’s go.”

They’re halfway across the airport when Atsushi actually hugs them both, a little bit awkwardly and with what is definitely not an accidental reach for Taiga’s ass, but he’s been off in fucking Arizona for the past month.

“I missed you, too,” Taiga says.

Atsushi huffs again, but gentler this time; he wrestles the handle of Taiga’s suitcase out of his hand again. He’s not much of a gentleman, but Taiga appreciates it all the same, Atsushi’s way of doing things that might be a little difficult but still have their—he’d hesitate to say charms, but yeah. It’s cute, anyway; when he says that in the car Atsushi gives him a look that says go the fuck to sleep, so Taiga does.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: oikawa tooru &/ ushijima wakatoshi &/ tendou satori (any combo! or all three!)
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: sexual content
Other Tags: it's a real card he made it and had it laminated

Prompt:
oikawa in the airplane bathroom with his Official Mile High Club membership card

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: hiruma youichi/anezaki mamori
Fandom: eyeshield 21
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
mamori on the roof with the confiscated flamethrower

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: jj leroy/seung gil lee
Fandom: yuri!!! on ice
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: water my rarepair crops

Prompt:
jj in the ballroom with a compromising polaroid of seung gil

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[dynamite]

Ship: iwaizumi hajime / oikawa tooru
Fandom: haikyuu
Major tags: none
Other tags: injury, this is probably also a pokemon au

Prompt:

oikawa in the grasslands with a scarf covering his burn heals.

FILL: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta, E

[miyukitty]

Ship: Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: None

***

~proceed to the sin bin~

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[ellipsometry]

Ship: alexandra garcia/himuro tatsuya (+ /kagami taiga mayhaps)
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: :3cc

Prompt:
alex in the living room with a collar and cat toy

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Alex/Tatsuya/Taiga
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 424

***

The chains around their necks have been looking a little bit rusty, and it hadn’t taken Alex too long to find a set of collars with room to attach something like their rings, said to be soft around the neck from the reviews. Bringing up the idea hadn’t even given Tatsuya or Taiga very much pause, and when the collars arrive it’s not that long before they’re undoing their necklaces and fixing the rings onto the collars. Alex fastens Tatsuya’s on his neck first, buckling the leather a little loosely around his throat.

“Does it feel okay?”

Tatsuya nods, fingering it, watching Taiga look at him, Taiga’s tail flicking back and forth with interest. It hadn’t been that long ago when Alex wouldn’t have been able to bring up putting a collar on Tatsuya at all—not like she would have meant it like that at the time—though, she supposes, this is a little bit different. A union of the bond he has with Taiga and the bond the two of them have with her, that they used to and that they do now.

“You can tighten it a little,” Tatsuya says, lifting his hair (it’s getting just a bit long) off the nape of his neck.

Alex scratches right behind his ears for a second before complying; she can feel him still purring a little bit under her fingers. Tatsuya’s still holding his tail, with his other hand, keeping it from moving (he hates when his body gives him away, but it’s okay to be obvious sometimes). Alex ruffles his hair and kisses his cheek; it looks cute on him like this.

Tatsuya does Taiga’s, deft fingers working quickly, the ring resting against Taiga’s throat, just right. Taiga flicks his ears forward; Alex smiles at the two of them. She’d left a toy out on the coffee table; Taiga had seemed to be getting a little antsy but he’s settled down, looking at the collar around Tatsuya’s neck again. There’s room on the couch for all of them, and even though the sun is far beyond it by now it’s still a nice place to fall asleep.

Tatsuya curls up, making his body smaller, wedging himself halfway into the couch cushions (how that’s comfortable for him Alex has no clue). She moves in facing him, entwining her fingers in his and kissing the side of his ear. She can feel both of them purring against her, the warm fuzzy rhythm like radio static from far away, lulling her down into a dream.

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: I forgot to post this why'd I forget to post this

Prompt:
Himuro inside a mirror with a poltergeist.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Nijimura/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 407

***

The mirror doesn’t break or ripple when Tatsuya passes through it; it just exists, flat, around him; on the other side there's no hole in the shape of his body. It’s odd to think about, but then isn’t all of magic? Difficult to explain, difficult to replicate, difficult to describe.

The writing in this mirror is all backwards and it will tire Tatsuya’s eye to try and read it; that’s not why he’s here, though. It’s the poltergeist, the face that appears overlaid on top of his when he fixes his hair in the morning or checks out his outfit. He’s not malicious; he would have done worse, screwed with Tatsuya’s appearance in the mirror or something, if he was. Or perhaps he’s less of the usual kind of poltergeist and simply trapped here. Tatsuya breathes in.

“Please, show yourself. I mean no harm.”

He waits, standing and staring straight forward, and there it is, motion in his peripheral vision. He moves his head slowly, and there is the poltergeist. That same face, fully featured, on a head and a body, a man who looks more ordinary than the usual poltergeist. Cute, Tatsuya thinks, but then some spirits are supposed to be appealing in that way.

“I haven’t been bothering you?” says the poltergeist. “Sorry, I just keep looking out and…you’re so beautiful, I had to.”

Tatsuya blinks. He knows he’s attractive, but to a poltergeist?

“I’m not being, like, creepy,” says the poltergeist. “I don’t look when you’re not looking in the mirror, but. Shit.”

Tatsuya laughs. “That’s really it?”

The poltergeist nods. “This mirror isn’t a really fun place to be, and when I see you it just…spices things up I guess.”

“Well,” Tatsuya says.

This certainly complicates things; does he want to be let out? At peace? Tatsuya’s okay with a spirit in his mirror; there’s a sound barrier between their worlds after all, and he really does seem to be harmless for the moment. But he is cute, and if he wants—something—is Tatsuya really in the position to turn it down? Would he push for it, even, before he releases the poltergeist from this attachment?

“You're pretty cute, too,” Tatsuya says, finally. “You can show yourself a little more.”

The poltergeist’s face colors a beautiful rosy shade. Tatsuya smiles, and holds out his hand for the poltergeist to shake. His grip is firm; his hand is warm and rough.

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Nijimura Shuuzou/Himuro Tatsuya/Murasakibara Atsushi
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
Murasakibara at the store with a half full bottle of cat milk.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Murasakibara/Nijimura/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 403

***

Tatsuya’s lost in the kitchen section of the electronics store again, of course. He’d left Atsushi with Shuuzou, and told him to to play with the wires, which of course means Atsushi’s probably more inclined to do that now. Still, the salespeople are giving Atsushi looks for shedding everywhere and it’s not their fault that cat hair’s so visible on their carpets but still. It’s not Atsushi’s fault, either.

Atsushi flattens his ears; he can tell they’re looking at him and of course it bugs him. Shuuzou squeezes his hand. They still need to go to the grocery store and they’ll end up getting there just at the wrong time, right after school lets out and opportunistic parents will be dragging their kids through the aisles and some little brat is going to end up pulling on Atsushi’s tail. At least it’s calm in here for now, but they don’t need any more kitchen gadgets and Tatsuya’s just wasting time. They have the new cables, which Atsushi is not going to chew on (he’s been better, but still, wires); Shuuzou had snagged a bargain bin DVD that doesn’t look terrible; they should go. Atsushi fusses with the label on his bottle of lactose-free milk; he looks like he’s ready to start whining but really would rather get back to the car.

“Okay. We’ll get Tatsuya,” says Shuuzou.

Atsushi flicks his tail.

Tatsuya’s staring at thousand-dollar microwaves, of course; all it takes is a nudge to his shoulder and clarification that they’re kind of ready to go for Tatsuya to get the hint.

“We can go out to the car and start the air conditioner,” says Tatsuya. “If that’s okay.”

“Sure,” says Shuuzou.

The line’s not too long, but Atsushi looks a little more perked up than he had in the store, especially since Tatsuya’s let him take shotgun. There are worse things than sitting behind Tatsuya on the very short ride to the grocery store, especially when they’re arguing over what they need (not a whole jar of pickles, Tatsuya, or half the candy section, Atsushi) and what’s on the list (which is just milk, sugar, butter, and stuff for a salad) and what they’re going to have for dinner. The parking lot’s packed and Tatsuya has to drive for a bit and snake some old guy in a minivan out for a stall, but Shuuzou’s feeling pretty good about it.

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Kagami Taiga/Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou/Haizaki Shougo
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: :3

Prompt:
Himuro at the cat cafe with cat hair in his coffee.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Haizaki/Kagami/Nijimura/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 414

***

Taking Taiga to a cat cafe to socialize with other cats was, Tatsuya thinks, a good idea. He and Shuu went into this with no intention of bringing someone else home (and holy hell, that’s a commitment, even for fostering) but this is the third time they’ve had the same waiter, a surly-looking but very prompt cat called Shougo who Taiga’s coaxed into eating with them. He keeps looking at Taiga, like he’s interested, but then back to Tatsuya and Shuu.

There aren’t too many cats who come as patrons, but there are some; Taiga’s the only one here who’d shown up with anyone else, though; Tatsuya wonders how the three of them look to Shougo. He looks down into his coffee; it’s stronger than usual today. There’s what looks like a cat hair floating in it; it always happens when Taiga volunteers to make the coffee, but this is light grey, probably one of Shougo’s. Tatsuya fishes it out and wipes it on his napkin; Shougo tenses.

“Shit. Did I—?”

“You’re good,” says Tatsuya. “These things happen.”

He smiles at Shougo; Shougo looks a little bit caught off-guard. He wrinkles his nose; it’s very cute, in a way that Tatsuya doesn’t expect. Shuu's looking at him too, the same feeling etched on his face; Taiga’s smiling the way he does when everything seems to feel right. Shougo looks back at Shuu, and then looks almost apprehensive.

“Hey,” says Shuu. “Would it be ok if I petted you?”

Shougo looks like he wants to flatten himself against the wall behind him; Tatsuya takes a sip of his coffee. And then Shougo nods, a jerk of his head; Shuu reaches out slowly. Like how he hadn’t needed to but still did with Taiga, trying to earn a little bit more trust.

“I guess,” says Shougo, and ducks his head.

Shuu ruffles hi hair, stroking his head and scratching behind his ears; Shougo leans into the touch like he he’s been craving it, like he’s wanted it so bad. Tatsuya feels Taiga purring beside him, squeezes his hand under the table. Maybe they hadn’t come here looking for anyone to bring home, even temporarily, but Tatsuya’s got a feeling it just might work with Shougo. He’s cute; he’s willing to open up with the right care; he makes some damn good coffee.

After a few moments, Shougo pulls away and Shuu lowers his hand. Shougo’s face is a little flushed, but it’s undeniably pleased.

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Wei Liu/Himuro Tatsuya(/Kagami Taiga?)
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
Liu on the couch with a laser pointer.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Liu/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 418

***

“It’s stupid,” says Tatsuya, but his eyes are closed and he’s trying to bury his face in Wei’s leg. “I’m not going to chase it.”

“It’s cute when you do that shit,” says Wei. “Nothing wrong with it. Keeps your reflexes sharp.”

“I feel stupid, though,” says Tatsuya.

Wei flicks the laser pointer on and off; Tatsuya’s forever fighting his impulses, to play with a dangling string or to chase a laser on a wall, his eyes fixating on a bug in the air or skittering across the floor. He holds his tail to keep it from swishing and twitching; he hates when his ears give him away; he doesn’t like showing more of himself than is necessary. And Wei’s told him multiple times, perhaps not in those exact words, that it’s okay to show more of himself here, with Wei.

He’s letting Wei stroke his back right now, snuggling closer (to Wei and also to the early evening sunbeams creeping closer to the back of the couch), much more openly affectionate than he’d been to start with.

“It’s fun for me, too,” says Wei.

“To make fun of me?”

“No. Just to watch you go.”

Tatsuya sighs, and Wei has a feeling he’s not going to win on this one tonight. He’d already won on their takeout, pad thai that’s still lying on the table, the prawns Tatsuya had let Wei feed him, picking them out of the noodles with his chopsticks. There’s still some noodles and bits of peanut and vegetables left; Wei’s still a little hungry but he could go for dessert. Ice cream might be good; he thinks about Tatsuya licking at a cone, his tongue between his lips, his mouth stained sticky. Or maybe there’s enough time to bake something together, or for Tatsuya to take over and bake a cake for both of them, warm chocolate melting on his tongue and rich frosting that makes Wei’s teeth hurt. He pockets the laser pointer.

“Dessert?”

Tatsuya doesn’t answer; his breathing’s evened out. He’s asleep again; were Wei to say his name or shake his shoulder he'd wake up immediately, blink slowly at Wei, and move his ears just so before he even realizes it. God, he’s cute; Wei’s so fucked. But it could be worse than this, an adorable cat who won’t play with a laser and he happens to be kind of in love with, asleep with his head in Wei’s lap. Yeah, it could be a hell of a lot worse.

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Aomine Daiki/Kagami Taiga/Himuro Tatsuya/Kise Ryouta
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
Aomine on the pillow with the leash.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Aomine/Kagami/Himuro/Kise (mostly aokise focus tho?)
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 410

***

Ryouta acts a little more like a dog than a cat, Daiki thinks sometimes. Like how he loves to go out for walks, preening at the end of his leash, how he shows up—not at the door with a leash in his mouth, wagging his tail, granted—plopping down on his pillow and holding out the leash for Daiki to clip onto his collar. Or, sometimes he’ll ask Taiga, but that's rare; it’s one of the things that mostly belongs to Ryouta and Daiki, between the two of them even when the four of them share everything.

Tatsuya likes going out, too, but he’s not prone to putting himself on the same sort of display; he’ll accept the compliments people always seem to give Daiki and Taiga, meant for him (about him at least), that he’s such a pretty kitty—words that Daiki thinks only they should be able to speak to him, and not like they have anything to do with that. Ryouta, too. Because, yeah, they’re fucking gorgeous, beautiful when they’re together, beautiful alone, but just saying something like that, on the surface, it’s hard to explain why it annoys Daiki so much. He doesn’t really want to think about it, at least not right now.

“We could all go for a walk?” Ryouta says.

They could; that would be nice, Taiga steering clear of passing dogs even when the rest of them stop to pet them, Ryouta pulling on his leash as if to remind both him and Daiki that it’s there, Ryouta letting Taiga or Tatsuya hold his leash for a bit, Tatsuya trying not to look like he wants to chase the butterflies hanging around in the neighbors’ hedges. But Tatsuya and Taiga are probably asleep right now, and maybe it’s better if it’s just the two of them out on a walk, tugging back and forth at the leash and stopping at the random corners that make Taiga get impatient.

“Let’s just go,” Daiki says with a shrug.

Ryouta matches his smile, handing over the leash, and Daiki lies back on the pillow. He only gets up when Ryouta starts tugging at it, clamoring to his feet and thinking about how they could just as easily join Tatsuya and Taiga in bed. But it’s still a nice day for a walk, even if he’s basically letting Ryouta walk all over him the whole way. But it’s Ryouta, so it’s not like he wouldn’t.

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Himuro Tatsuya/Kagami Taiga/Haizaki Shougo
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: :3

Prompt:
Kagami in a box with the spiky collar.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, M

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Haizaki/Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 406

***

http://saso-afterhours.dreamwidth.org/79345.html

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Midorima Shintarou/Kagami Taiga/Himuro Tatsuya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:
Midorima at the pet store with a cash register.

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, G

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Midorima/Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 407

***

A cat working at the pet store isn’t that odd, but Shintarou still gets asked from time to time if he’s available. It’s annoying; he’s not here to deal with people, only to work the register and check the inventory; he doesn’t get paid to deal with questions he tells himself probably weren’t meant to offend but still do, but at least he does get paid. His shift is over early today; the store’s open into the evening but Shintarou’s out at four, getting picked up by Tatsuya on his way home. Or at least that’s the plan; Shintarou's half sure he’ll get a text that Tatsuya can’t make it. He’s being jumpy, insecure; he knows. But still.

It’s a few minutes after four when Shintarou’s handed over the register to the woman who has the next shift, grabbed his things, and checked his phone (no new notifications). He peers outside, and there’s no Tatsuya; he looks down at his phone again and then he sees Tatsuya’s white Mazda pulling up to the curb.

“Sorry,” says Tatsuya, when Shintarou opens the passenger side door. “I got caught in traffic; I hope I didn’t keep you waiting.”

“I just got out,” says Shintarou; he feels himself relaxing.

Tatsuya reaches over to pat his head, and Shintarou sighs, closing his eyes and relaxing. He begins to purr, almost instantly; he’s been with Tatsuya and Taiga for nearly a year now and it still makes him embarrassed how easily his body asserts itself, that it makes it known he wants them here. Tatsuya leans over to kiss Shintarou’s mouth before he puts the car back into drive. The radio is on low, good for Shintarou's sensitive ears; he dozes off before they arrive.

Taiga’s already there when they get back, making dinner in the kitchen; he still has time to scratch behind Shintarou’s ears and ask him about his day while Tatsuya takes over for a bit at the stove. The kitchen is warm, like the afternoon sunbeams Shintarou enjoys on his day off; he nods off after dinner again on the couch, between Tatsuya and Taiga, both of them stroking his back and lulling him off into a dream. The murmur of their voices, discussing sports scores and politics, filters through to Shintarou’s subconscious, as if through a cheesecloth, muted but distinctly there in the background, anchoring him to the two of them, even when he’s not fully aware.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Ooishi Syuuichirou/Kikumaru Eiji
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Major Tags: None.
Other Tags: None.

Prompt:
Kikumaru Eiji in the Seigaku locker room with the cheer girl uniform.

(I don't have time to be making tons of prompts with all the stuff going on, but if I let this round go without prompting THAT, I would regret it forever.)

FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, E

[headfangs]

Ship: Oishi Shuichiro/Kikumaru Eiji
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Major Tags: Sexual content, Underage
Other Tags: Crossdressing (obv), I also have no idea if it counts as such but Unsafe Sex potentially?
Word Count: 2994

I'm glad you prompted this and I don't even have a thing for crossdressing but???

***

http://saso-afterhours.dreamwidth.org/82980.html

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[dynamite]

Ship: oikawa tooru / kageyama tobio
Fandom: haikyuu
Major tags: sexual content
Other tags: ha ha don't make it sad please

Prompt:

oikawa at the strip club with kageyama's thrown garter.

PROMPT: Team the Prince of Tennis

[fickle]

Ship: Lev/Hinata
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags:don’t ask why this was the first thing to come to my head, maybe their lion is off sick or something

Prompt:

Hinata in the circus with a huge lion costume.

FILL: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky, T

[mousapelli]

Ship: Lev/Hinata
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: cultural festival trope, footy pajamas, cats and crows

Uh this is ridiculous, I'm sorry.

***

It wasn't out of character for Kenma to refuse to go along with Kuroo to Karasuno's cultural festival, even though it would have meant hanging out with Hinata, but Lev didn't mind being Kuroo's plus one for the day. A field trip sounded like a good way to kill a Saturday, and he liked the train anyway.

Things became a little more clear when they made it to the first years' hallway and found out that Tsukishima's class was apparently doing a maid cafe, and Tsukishima was their incredibly grumpy greeter at the door.

"I'm going on break," Tsukishima snapped to Yamaguchi as soon as he caught sight of Kuroo.

"Perfect," Kuroo grinned, undeterred. "Lev, I'll text you in a bit, yeah?"

"Uh-huh," Lev said, exchanging a knowing eyebrow waggled with Yamaguchi.

"Hinata's class is just down there?" Yamaguchi pointed down the hall. "I hear they're doing a circus and it's pretty good."

Sure enough, Hinata's class was doing a makeshift circus, a couple of guys in clown outfits doing gags when Lev wandered in. It wasn't hard to spot Hinata, in the corner having a whispered argument with Kageyama. Hinata was wearing some kind of footy lion costume, and Kageyama was apparently supposed to be the lion tamer, not that that seemed to be going particularly well.

"Lev?" Hinata broke off arguing when he spotted Lev, then grinned and waved wildly. "HI, LEV! What are you doing here? You're just in time for our act!"

The chair and the fake whip were a little over the top, but Kageyama got Hinata to jump through a hula hoop in the end. Flush with success, Hinata dragged Lev out to find some food during his own break. They ended up sharing yakisoba and takoyaki, Hinata offering to show Lev their gym and club room when Kageyama deserted them to find his favorite vending machine.

"Not bad," Lev said when they were standing in the club room's door way. "And you make a surprisingly decent lion, for a crow."

He reached over to tug on the lion's mane, but Hinata chose that exact moment to finally yank his hood down, and Lev's hand landed in Hinata's hair instead. There was an awkward pause were they stared at each other, but Lev didn't move his hand, the tufts of Hinata's hair sticking out every which way, warm and soft under his palm.

Hinata grinned, and it reminded Lev of the grin Kuroo had given Tsukki, keen and full of trouble. He butted his head up into Lev's hand. "Wanna hear me purr?"

PROMPT: Team the Prince of Tennis

[fickle]

Ship: Lev/Hinata
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: gotta win his boy some prizes

Prompt:

Lev at the carnival with the test-your-strength hammer

PROMPT: Team the Prince of Tennis

[fickle]

Ship: Lev/Hinata
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: remember the Borrowers?, Borrower!Hinata, or just teeny tiny Hinata

Prompt:

Lev in the kitchen with tiny doll’s plates of food.

PROMPT: Team the Prince of Tennis

[fickle]

Ship: Lev/Hinata
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: mild sexual content
Other Tags: none

Prompt:

Hinata in the grocery store with 10 different kinds of XL condom packets.

FILL: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky, M

[mousapelli]

Ship: Hinata/Lev
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: sexual content (conversation, no actual action)
Other Tags: first timers, awkward conversations in public, Lev's awakening
Word Count: 468

They're probably in a drugstore or combini but it's all the same. Also my dad is super tall so I never lost him in Japan for this exact reason.

***

Lev's eyebrows climb into his hairline, higher and higher as Hinata tips quite a pile of condom packages into his shopping basket. Lev has a lot of questions, but the most pressing one falls out of his mouth first.

"How were you holding all of those?" he asks. He looks at the pile of slick wrappers and more questions arise. "There's like ten kinds here, man. What do you think we're gonna do?"

"I don't know what kind does what!" Hinata hisses, cheeks going pink. He keeps glancing left and right in the store aisle as if they're going to get caught by their moms or something. "You know so much, you should have come with me!"

"Everyone can see my head above the store shelves," Lev answers reasonably. Meanwhile, Hinata doesn't have that problem at all, and maybe he's not as flustered as Hinata is acting, but they are in Tokyo and the odds of Lev running into a person he knows in the drugstore isn't zero. He reaches into the basket and rifles through the condoms. "This is flattering, Shoyo, but I'm probably not as big as these sound." One of them is labelled Mega Big Boy with a picture of an elephant.

"You're super tall, though!" Hinata makes an exasperated noise and really, if he blushes any harder, he might pass out. It's adorable. "Can we just get out of here, please!"

Lev really wants to agree, but they have to get some actually useable condoms. "Come on, let's go figure out it. I'll come with you this time, ok?"

It goes a little smoother with both of them, although there's an awkward conversation about whether it matters whether there's a flavor or not and what that flavor might optimally be, and an even longer awkward pause when they discover the box of Rilakkuma condoms.

"They're so…happy," Lev says. "And there's only one? Must be a popular item, I guess." Lev tries to restrain himself, but he just can't. "Wrap your bear before you enter the lair, right?"

"Lev," Hinata insists, eyes pleading, and Lev chuckles at himself as he puts the box down and chooses something much more nondescript (but strawberry flavored). "Thank god, let's go already."

As it turns out, there is actually something worse than running into their moms here, because at the end of the aisle is Kuroo and Yaku, Yaku with his eyebrow raised and Kuroo with his hands on his hips.

"Oh ho ho," Kuroo says. "And what brings you cute little kouhai to this particular aisle, hm?"

Lev can feel his cheeks flushing - stupid half Russian complexion - but even as Hinata is melting down beside him, Lev manages to meet Kuroo's eyes. "Couldn't I ask you two the same thing, senpai?"