Bonus Round 2: AUs

[referees]

Bonus Round 2: AUs

SASO 2015 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).


This round is made for exploration of all those "what-if?" scenarios, like "what if my favorite sports anime was actually a spaghetti western?" or "what if everything was the same except everyone was actually a car?"


This round ends at 7PM on June 27 EDT. Countdown Timer.

RULES

• Submit prompts by commenting to this post with an alternate universe idea, along with a ship from one of our nominated fandoms.
• An AU could be a canon divergence, e.g. "what if [team] didn't win the Inter High in season 1, but [other team] did instead?", or a completely different setting altogether, e.g.s pop idol AU, coffee shop AU, superheroes AU, etc.
• Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work.
• Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.

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, including Grandstand or Sports Teams Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Place the prompt's relationship in the first bolded line of the comment. Including the canon isn't required, but it's nice. Visual example	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Place applicable major content tags and word count before your fill (when applicable) NSFW FILLS: Post written/text fills directly to the round with clear tags. Please link to art/visual fills. You can include a small safe-for-work preview if you'd like. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the rules Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable NSFW FILLS: Post written/text fills directly to the round with clear tags. Please link to art/visual fills. You can include a small safe-for-work preview if you'd like. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example

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.

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 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points each

All scored content must be created new for this round.

Etc.

If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only.

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Comments

PROMPT: TEAM AKASHI SEIJUUROU/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU

[apareciums]

Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou, KNB

The King's Speech AU

Prompt: Team Haikyuu!!

[bisharp]

bokuto/kuroo, haikyuu

popular viners au (ike on vine dot com i aint talkin bout tarzan)

Re: Prompt: Team Haikyuu!!

[necessarian]

im going to write a tarzan au just to spite you

_{kidding kidding}

PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA

[nobetterpicture]

Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta Yowamushi Pedal

Revolutionary Girl Utena AU

Aoyagi's the rose bride(groom), idc, and Teshima battles over and over again to protect Aoyagi.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[alphahelix]

Haiba Lev/Yaku Morisuke (Haikyuu!!)

The Little Prince AU

FILL: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, G

[aeglos]

no major warnings apply.
1152 words


“Hey, mister--” comes the light, curious voice, a voice that Morisuke has yet to be rid of for the last two days. “Do you think we’ll find sheep while we’re here?”

“No.” Pause. “There are no sheep in the desert.” He frowns, taking his eyes off his broken airplane to eye the tall idiot behind him. “Why are you asking?” Morisuke’s fellow stranded-in-the-desert buddy has a smile as bright as the sun.

“I wanted to see one, is all.”




He’s tall. If he had to describe the guy, it was just--he was tall. Silver hair like a grandfather and wide, pale eyes set in a young face, a kid’s face. He's annoying, and asks strange questions. Had touched the propeller of his airplane with wonder when he’d met him.

“Hey, old man--” and Morisuke would have socked him right then and there, “What’s this?”

“A propeller.” He digs around for a wrench of a specific size that he probably will never find. There is sand in his pockets and sand in his toolbox.

“Is your propeller broken? What’s it for?” Morisuke sighs loudly. “Hey, mister, what’s it for?”

“I fly with it. It’s an airplane. The propeller is the front part. I’m not old.”

“Oh.” A frown had settled on his young face. “Are you a child, then? Should I help? If it’s broken.” Morisuke’s fingers wrap around the wrench he’d been looking for, and he carefully does not hit him on the head with it. He’s an adult.

“Are you any good at engineering anything?”

“Nope,” the tall idiot chirps, proud and bright. “Not at all.”




But he does help pass the time. Time passes itself, of course, but it’s liquid and slow, with Morisuke’s airplane hard to fix all on his lonesome. “I can fly, too,” he says, and Morisuke snorts at the thought. “I don’t need propellers, though. Do you not need one when you grow?”

“I finished growing,” Morisuke grits his teeth. “And I can fly just fine, thanks.”

“I’m just saying,” he continues, oblivious, “I flew here from another star and I didn’t break anything, not once.”

“Good for you.” He swaps out rusted copper wiring for fresh stuff, wire cutter providing him with an unusual air of satisfaction. The desert sun was famed for giving patient men bad tempers, right?

“And if you’re not a child, I guess you must be an adult. Are you a silly adult?” Maybe not just the desert heat. “I’ve met adults before, and they’re all kind of silly.”




Morisuke repairs the fuel gauge and navigation--and only stops when he realizes what the kid’s just said. “Wait, another star?”

The eyes that watch him are like a cat’s. Or a kitten’s: a feline edge color in his amazement, and the sheer wide-eyed wonder was staggering. Like he’d never seen anything like this planet before in his life. “Yes!” His enthusiasm is kind of infectious too, as long as he stops with the short jokes. “There’s so much on this star, it’s very different from where I come from. Or where I’ve been.” He smiles conspiratorially. “I’m a traveler, too.”

Morisuke puts his tools away and takes a break. “Okay,” he sighs, and leans against the body of his broken airplane. “What do you mean by silly adults?”

He takes it as an invitation, sitting down with his knees to his chest. “Have you ever met a king?”

“No.”

“Oh. I met one, when I left my star. On another planet, by himself. He had nobody to rule.” The kid just looks mischievous then, and Morisuke wonders how old he is, after all. “He was a blueberry of a king. He commanded me to stop yawning, because I yawned when I was tired. Then he told me to keep yawning, but I can’t do that. When I left, he commanded me to stay. He should have told me to go.”

A king with no subjects. Morisuke thinks back to the newspapers of the day, the headlines he’d seen before leaving. There’s nothing of the sort in the world, he’s pretty sure, but there’s something about this overgrown idiot that bends reality around him.

“And the king made you think that all adults were dumb?”

“No,” he frowns. “That was only after meeting the conceited man. And then the drunk man. And the banking man.” Morisuke has dealt with selfish people, drunkards, and--at least on one occasion--an accountant. He can sympathize. “I liked the lamplighter. And the geography man.”

“Tell me about them.” Those kitten’s eyes light up when Morisuke leans forward, curious despite himself. “Please.”




The tall idiot’s airy voice described to him little rocks suspended in the heavens, each of them so far apart that one would never know another could exist. And the smallest little planet, small enough for him to cover in three strides, was home to a lamplighter and a lamp. There were over a thousand sunsets in a year, and the lamplighter did his thankless work repeatedly, constantly.

“That’s absurd,” Morisuke says, but he’s laughing.

“He was,” his travel partner agrees, laughing too. “His planet wasn’t big enough for two people and a lamp! So I left that star, too.”




The last planet, he explains, was also strange. “The geographer had maps! Maps like yours, I guess, but I don’t know how he drew them. He talked about rocks for hours. I yawned a lot. And then he told me that he’d never seen these rocks himself. But I guess lots of people tell him about rocks. For hours.”

He’s alight with the memory of his travel, and Morisuke watches him with his own sense of delight.

“He wrote about everything, like the banking man. He asked me,” and he puts a hand to his chest, legs stretched out until his feet could touch Morisuke’s, “About my star, too. About where I was from.”

He looks as somber as his face can manage, with a child’s seriousness and an adult’s sadness. “I told him that I grew up on a star far away from his. I grew up there among these baobab trees, big huge trees that took up all the space in my home. Their roots are very deep.”

“Did he believe you?”

“Yes. But he wrote nothing down! He said that plants were ephemeral. I didn’t know what that was, but I said to him--I told him that I was the most beautiful thing to grow on my planet. He still didn’t write anything down.” Morisuke watches his face turn from curious joy to turbulence. “He said that ‘ephemeral’ means that it would disappear quickly. Flowers, kisses, memories.” He rocks back and forth a bit, looking troubled. “Am I ‘ephemeral’?”




Among the six billion selfish people on earth, the millions of bankers and drunkards, the thousands of lamplighters and geographers, the hundreds of kings, Morisuke hesitates to answer his question.

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

[winterstuck]

Kuroko & Mayuzumi (Kuroko no Basuke)

Kuroko is the friendly ghost that haunts Mayuzumi's new apartment.

Re: PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

[headphoneninja25]

*aggressively hugs* LET'S GET READY TO RUMBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHLE!

PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

[capsoumako]

Ushijima Wakatoshi/Moniwa Kaname // (UshiMoni), Haikyuu!!

Flower Shop!AU
-- Moniwa owns the local flower shop that business man Ushijima passes by on his daily commute to work.

FILL: SWAG2016, no tags

[(Anonymous)]

participant 9.

the corner of the block is green
it’s alive
gloxinia peeks out from pots,

(their purple makes you think he was royalty in another lifetime.
maybe you were too.)

roses too familiar a smell
but beautiful a look,

(you brushed by his shoulder once,
roses came from the tips of his curly hair.)

him,
(a bloom all its own.)

hello, he says.
he hands you a flower
ambrosia, he says again.
its pale yellow stands out amongst the green

you and he are alive.

PROMPT: TEAM AKASHI SEIJUUROU/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU

[apareciums]

Kuroko Tetsuya/Ogiwara Shigehiro, KNB

Idol Survival Show AU

ummm [1d laughter track.mp3]

Re: PROMPT: TEAM AKASHI SEIJUUROU/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU

[ennoshita]

are u fucking kidding me

PROMPT: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA

[fullofjoy]

Mikoshiba Momotarou /& Nitori Aichiirou

Phantom Thieves AU

PROMPT: TEAM NANASE HARUKA/TACHIBANA MAKOTO

[doxian]

Nanase Haruka/Tachibana Makoto (Free!)

Final Fantasy X AU. Haru is Yuna, Makoto is Tidus.

PROMPT: TEAM MANAMI SANGAKU/TESHIMA JUNTA

[sylphofkarkat]

Imaizumi Shunsuke/Naruko Shoukichi, Yowamushi Pedal

19 Days AU

Re: PROMPT: TEAM MANAMI SANGAKU/TESHIMA JUNTA

[elts]

I READ THIS MANHUA JUST YESTERDAY I S2G, BLESS YOU

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

[winterstuck]

Abe/Mihashi (Oofuri)

Fandom AU, where Abe is a very vocal/opinionated bnf writer in *insert fandom of your choice here* and Mihashi is a shy artist who would rather let his art speak for him. They get paired up for a big bang challenge.

PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA

[nobetterpicture]

Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta Yowamushi Pedal

Resident Evil AU

Aoyagi and Teshima are the only members of the Chiba S.T.A.R.S unit left to fight and figure out the mystery of the zombie outbreak that all started at Sohoku High School.

PROMPT: TEAM NANASE HARUKA/TACHIBANA MAKOTO

[doxian]

Arakita Yasutomo/Makishima Yuusuke (Yowamushi Pedal)

pet shop/vets AU. Arakita is the really scary (yet really cute) vet Makishima takes his dog Josephine to when she gets sick/hurt.

PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA

[nobetterpicture]

Teshima/Sohoku+Hakugaku and Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta Yowamushi Pedal

The Bachelor AU (like the tv show)

Teshima just wants to find his true love.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA

[doxian]

oh no.

PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

[capsoumako]

Kise Ryouta & / Kuroko Tetsuya // (KiKuro), KnB

Pet sitter!AU
-- Kuroko needed someone to take care of Nigou for a week. Kise accepts his request enthusiastically, unknowingly aware of what he signed up for. His daily text updates about their adventures together worries Kuroko.

FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, G

[ennoshita]

no warnings, 735 wc.

DAY 1

PRINCE KISE (12:12 PM): kuruokocchi!!!!! here's a cute picture of me and my best friend, nigou!
PRINCE KISE (12:12 PM): aren't we cute? he's almost as cute as me! (but not quite, sorry, nigou!)
PRINCE KISE (12:18 PM): he's sooooo cute!! i don't understand how kagamicchi could hate him :(
PRINCE KISE (12:18 PM): (sad)(sad)(sad)

Kuroko glances at his phone and reads through Kise's messages without replying. He saves the image and is careful in cropping Kise out of it. Nigou looks nice.


DAY 2

PRINCE KISE (3:32 PM): is nigou potty-trained???
PRINCE KISE (3:34 PM): oh he's not
PRINCE KISE (3:35 PM): KUROKOCCHI HE'S PEEING ON MY DESIGNER SWEATER?
PRINCE KISE (3:36 PM): ......................................................
PRINCE KISE (3:40 PM): nigou has such expensive tastes i'm a little shocked...!

Kuroko glances at his phone and reads through Kise's messages carefully. Ah, he thinks to himself, Nigou is at it again. He remembers fondly the last time he peed on Kagami's favorite pair of Jordans and was almost boycotted from the gym by Kagami and Kagami alone.

Kuroko Tetsuya (3:45 PM): Please send me the bill.
PRINCE KISE (3:46 PM): 20000 yen i think
PRINCE KISE (3:47 PM): i got a discount
Kuroko Tetsuya (3:48 PM): Suddenly, I am having difficulty seeing. I apologize.


DAY 3

PRINCE KISE (4:28 AM): kurokocchi..................... nigou will not stop crying....
PRINCE KISE (4:30 AM): please kurokocchi i cannot sleep when nigou is crying
PRINCE KISE (4:32 AM): IS HE SAD? DID I UPSET HIM??? HELP ME PLASE
PRINCE KISE (4:36 AM): (crying)(crying)(crying)

Kuroko checks his phone as soon as he wakes up despite his mother's insistence that he does not.

Kuroko Tetsuya (8:46 AM): Good morning, Kise-kun.


DAY 4

Kise does not message Kuroko on LINE and he fears that it is very likely for the worst. However, his parents are insistent that he relax and focus on things that do not cause him unnecessary stress. He agrees, so he chooses not to text Kise because he's sure that (based on the tiny sliver of optimism that makes itself known in optimal situations) Nigou and Kise are just bonding.

Kise is remarkably capable of connecting with dogs for some reason, after all.

He sips his drink and turns his phone off.


DAY 5

PRINCE KISE (6:18 PM): KUROKOCCHI IM SO SORRY YOU MUST HAVE BEEN SO WORRIED!!!
PRINCE KISE (6:19 PM): DID YOU TEXT ME??? i'm sorry!!! nigou got excited and chewed my phone...
PRINCE KISE (6:20 PM): i had to get it replaced and then he chewed my new one
PRINCE KISE (6:20 PM): did you miss me??????!!!

Kuroko sighs, perhaps out of relief. He is glad that Nigou is safe and not in some terrible dog-napper's clutches or even worse, under Kagami's supervision.

Kuroko Tetsuya (6:27 PM): Yes
Kuroko Tetsuya (6:27 PM): I missed Nigou.


DAY 6

It's the last day of vacation and Kuroko is relishing every minute of it. It will be back to exhausting himself over basketball once he gets back home and though he misses the sport and his teammates, he hardly misses spending his vacation days away from the classroom dying in the sweaty gym. Perhaps he will suggest they go to the beach to practice to Riko.


PRINCE KISE (5:41 PM): i'm so glad nigou is such a well-mannered dog!!!
PRINCE KISE (5:41 PM): he hasn't misbehaved once since the last time i messaged y
Kuroko Tetsuya (5:44 PM): Kise-kun?
PRINCE KISE (6:11 PM): NO WORRIES! he must have been spooked by my pillow...
PRINCE KISE (6:12 PM): he peed on it for some reason? maybe he thought it was kagamicchi?
Kuroko Tetsuya (6:13 PM): Yes. That is possible.
Kuroko Tetsuya (6:13 PM): I will do the laundry for you when I return tomorrow.


DAY 7: END

When Kuroko drops by Kise's house to pick Nigou up, he is shocked to open the door to utter chaos and debilitation. He is not sure what happened or why there are so many things scattered on the ground among torn pillows and crumpled blankets but he thinks, with fondness, that he is glad that Kise let Nigou play king for a week.

"Kurokocchi!" Kise cries out from beneath the table, maybe in relief. "Don't say anything! We're playing hide-and-seek and Nigou is remarkably good at finding me!"

"Yes," Kuroko says wisely, closing the door behind him. "I suppose I owe you that much."

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

[winterstuck]

Aomine & Nigou (Kuroko no Basuke)

It's-not-what-it-looks-like-I-swear-I'm-not-trying-to-steal-your-dog-but-I-really-needed-your-dog-because-reasons AU

FILL: Team Manami Sangaku/Toudou Jinpachi, G

[honeyochre]

no major content warnings

PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[kiriska]

Arakita & Makoto (Yowamushi Pedal & Free!)

Cat show AU.

PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[kiriska]

Arakita & Aoyagi (Yowamushi Pedal)

Dog show AU.

PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[kiriska]

Teshima & Haruka (Yowamushi Pedal & Free!)

Cooking contest AU and/or cooking team up for cultural fair/matsuri AU.

PROMPT: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA

[fullofjoy]

Hazuki Nagisa /& Nanase Haruka Free!

Pokemon AU because they would love Pokemon.

FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/RYUUGAZAKI REI, G

[myriahkamm]

no major content warnings
Word Count: 489

Title: Swimming Interlude

“C’mon, Pikachu!” Nagisa ran toward the lake with his Pikachu bounding alongside him. “You too, Sylveon! Haru-chan’s probably already there!”

It didn’t take long for them to get there. Sure enough, once they reached the water’s edge, Haru’s Vaporeon leaped out of the water and onto the shore. She shook the water from her back and ran toward Sylveon immediately, brushing her head under his chin. Nagisa looked into the water, with Pikachu right next to him doing the same. After a few more minutes, Haru’s Milotic breached, followed swiftly by Haru himself, clad only in his usual black jammers with purple accents. Nagisa waved excitedly.

“Haru-chan!” he cried, throwing off his jacket and shorts to reveal his own jammers, these with pink accents here and there. Diving into the water, Pikachu right behind him, Nagisa swam over to his friend and his favorite Pokémon. “Are we training today, Haru-chan, or are we just going to swim?”

Haru ran a hand over Milotic’s skin slowly. “I only battle free.”

“I know that! But you said you’d help me train! Or did you forget about that?”

“I didn’t forget.” Haru glanced at Nagisa with a faint smile. “Can we swim for a while first?”

Nagisa pouted for a moment, but then grinned broadly. He wanted to train his Pokémon, but he would never turn down a chance to swim with Haru. His swimming was one of the things that had made him fall for the quiet teen, really. Nagisa could never get enough of the amazing feeling he felt when swimming with Haru and his top-notch water Pokémon. Milotic especially was amazing, always swimming with such beauty and grace that Nagisa couldn’t get enough of it.

“Yeah, we can swim for a while!” Nagisa agreed, glancing over at Pikachu. “Sound like a plan?”

“Pika-chu!” the electric mouse agreed, swimming over and climbing onto Milotic’s back. Milotic’s eyes seemed to smile. It was a good thing that Nagisa and Haru’s Pokémon got along so well, since they spent so much time together.

Nagisa stole a glance at Sylveon and Vaporeon, lying curled up together on the shore of the lake. The two of them were the best of friends, almost as close as Nagisa and Haru themselves were. It made Nagisa really happy to see them curled up together like that.

“We’re going for a swim, Sylveon!” he called to the shore. “Don’t go anywhere!”

Sylveon looked up at him and smiled, offering a nod before curling up with Vaporeon again. Turning to Haru, Nagisa grinned. “Let’s get going, Haru-chan!”

The two boys dove under the water and started swimming, Milotic swimming alongside them with Pikachu clinging to her back. Nagisa swam closer to Haru, his hand brushing the other’s for a moment. Haru glanced at him, offered another faint smile, and took Nagisa’s hand as they kept swimming.

PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[kiriska]

Kenma/Hinata (Haikyuu!!)

In which Kenma has to dogsit Hinata's dog for a week. Kenma doesn't know anything about dogs. How do dogs. Help.

FILL: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL, G

[cinderellaboy]

no major warnings/spoilers | 2900 words
omg this got super out of hand but your prompt was so cute, i just— ...i hope you like it!! ;U;


Day One.

Kenma doesn't know how to deal with dogs. There aren't any pets allowed in his apartment complex and the closest thing he's ever had to an animal companion is Kuroo.

And yet, here he is. At Hinata's house, without Hinata and his family, left alone with a little, yapping orange furball.

He stares at the dog, crouching down tentatively after a moment, and reaches out. "Hello... I'm Kenma..."

The dog's name is Shouyou.

("Isn't your name Shouyou?" Kenma had asked via text when he'd first been told.

Hinata had replied promptly. "So what!!!!!!! The dog's like me, so obviously he got a name like mine!!!")

The dog... Shouyou the dog crashes into Kenma's hand, then headbutts his knee. Kenma sits down, hugging his knees. "You're butting me. Does this mean you don't like me?"

Shouyou barks.

"Actually, please don't reply," Kenma says. "You'll disturb the neighbours..."

Even if the houses in Miyagi are a little more spread out than they are in Tokyo (okay, a lot more spread out—especially up and over the crazy mountain where Hinata's house is), Kenma still can't deal with a lot of noise. Or mostly, he can't deal with the thought of his neighbours hearing a lot of noise and thinking bad thoughts about him and his dog control skills.

What if they knock on the door and complain? What if it ruins Hinata's mom's reputation forever?

"Uh." Brushing his hands off because he doesn't really want to get dog on his limited edition PSP (why had he packed that one? Why hadn't he just brought his usual one? Just because he got the special edition recently and couldn't wait to use it... He's stupid.) Kenma pats down his pockets and—

Why are his keys in the dog's mouth? Or rather, why is Hinata's volleyball keyring, which is attached to Hinata's house keys, in Hinata's dog's mouth?

The dog had better not eat those keys, Kenma thinks with a sinking heart. Kenma doesn't know where the closest vet is. The internet would be able to tell him, but he still doesn't have a car, and doesn't really like the idea that he might have to ride all the way there down a crazy mountain with a dying dog in the basket of Hinata's mom's bicycle. The dog had better not eat those keys. The dog had really, really, really better not eat those keys.

What would happen if the vet couldn't get the keys out? Kenma wouldn't be able to get back into Hinata's house, or face Hinata ever again for the negligent murder of his dog, or ever come back to Miyagi, and he'd probably have to quit volleyball too, which would make Kuroo mad and—

Kenma crouches down again, a little light-headed, and reaches his hand out slowly, palm up. "Um. Shouyou... I need those... Could I... have them back... please?"

The dog...

The dog seems to think Kenma is really funny or something. He grins when he meets Kenma's eye, and then promptly turns around and starts to run. The keys jangle out the side of his stupid smiling face as his short little legs turn into an orange blur.

Kenma...

Kenma's never chased a dog in his life.

He got chased, once, at his local park in Tokyo when he was smaller. By a big dog. But back then Kuroo had saved him with a loud yell and a fierce, indomitable stare right back at the dog's angry face.

No such thing works on Shouyou. Or, more precisely, Kenma's voice isn't the kind that commands authority. It sucks.

After five minutes, Kenma resorts to moving the furniture. A small table sideways in front of one doorway cuts off the route out of the living room; when Shouyou bolts past again, Kenma puts his entire back into moving the couch in front of the second doorway.

Even in the enclosed space, Shouyou continues to bolt around in circles for what feels like hours and hours and Kenma thinks tiredly that the dog definitely does take after Hinata in more ways than one.

Incredibly, it's only when Kenma collapses cross-legged in the middle of the room, exhausted and definitely no longer interested in stupid games of tag, that Shouyou stops running. He trots up to Kenma and deposits the keys (and their borderline unsalvageable, toothmarked keyring) at Kenma's feet. Kenma stares at the sorr bunch. Almost all of the colour is gone from the volleyball. It looks like barely more than a lump of white plastic. Kenma faintly hopes it wasn't an important gift of Hinata's or anything.

"You're... really dumb, you know?" Kenma tells Shouyou with resignation, sighing. He picks up the keys gingerly, trying to avoid the worst of the dog drool, but before he can get up and go wash the lot off, Shouyou plops onto his back in the middle of the floor and barks, once. He stares at Kenma expectantly.

Kenma stares right back at him. "What do you want now...?" He doesn't speak Dog.

Shouyou gets up and barks again, once, before lying back down on the floor like a belly-up potato, and Kenma abruptly thinks of how Hinata likes having his hair ruffled by Karasuno's second setter after a particularly good point.

Tentatively, he reaches out and rubs Shouyou's tummy. Shouyou makes a funny, satisfied noise and his tongue hangs out even more than usual (making him look even dumber than usual), so Kenma figures he must be happy.

"...that wasn't a good point though," Kenma says, stubbornly, before finally getting up and washing Hinata's keys off in the sink.

It takes the remainder of his energy to put the furniture back the way it was before the night is over.




Day Two.

"How's stuff??" Hinata texts, with sun emojis and a bright little flower. "Still alive???? House still standing???"

Kenma has no idea how Hinata has any energy left at all on a day-to-day basis after riding to school over that ridiculous mountain, doing volleyball, doing class, more volleyball, riding all the way home, and walking his utterly ridiculous dog. It's summer holidays and nothing's on but Kenma can still barely keep up. He hates sweating even under usual circumstances, but Shouyou is making him sweat a lot.

"yeah dw" is basically all Kenma can send back before passing out face-down in Hinata's futon. It smells like Hinata Shouyou the boy, and not Shouyou the dog, and Kenma has a series of weird little dreams that Hinata visits that night.




Day Three.

Shouyou the dog licks him on the face at asshole o'clock in the morning and yaps, and keeps yapping until Kenma drags himself out of bed and refills Shouyou's food bowl.

The dog has learned that if he keeps barking at any given hour of the day, Kenma will feed him to keep him quiet. Kenma resents this fact a little bit. It's like he's being blackmailed. By a dog. Shouyou is going to get fat. (But then again if he gets fat, he won't be able to run as much, and that will make Kenma's life easier in the long run.)

"where do u buy the dog food" Kenma asks Hinata that night.

He hopes Hinata doesn't ask why Kenma wants to know, because Hinata's mother specifically made sure there were fifty thousand Extra Value cans of dog food stored in the pantry before they left, but it's been three days and they are almost all gone because Hinata's crazy little dog is crazy and also loud. (And not fat enough for Kenma's comfort yet.)

Kenma puts the address Hinata sends him into his phone's GPS. The route doesn't look too long. He sleeps well thinking it probably can't be too hard to just go buy some more dog food the next day.




Day Four.

It's unexpectedly hard. Or, maybe, Kenma just hadn't been thinking straight before he'd gone to sleep.

He can't ride back up the mountain slope the way Hinata can, because it's a ridiculous incline, and walking Hinata's mom's bike up on foot takes so much effort when there's fifty thousand new Extra Value cans of dog food in the front basket.

When he finally gets back to Hinata's house and turns Hinata's chewed up keys the front door lock, he can already hear Shouyou barking up a storm inside.

It's mortifying, but a quick glance around doesn't show any angry, judging stares from the windows of Hinata's neighbours' houses, so Kenma quickly slips inside—

And steps into a puddle of pee on the floor.

So. Speaking of mortification, Kenma then has to ask the internet how to get dog pee out of a tatami mat, and how much Dettol can be put into a bath before it becomes unacceptable for human use, and if he needs to use any special detergent in a load of laundry that contains dog pee...

"Kenma youv been quiet l8ly!!!!" is the text that greets him after his exertions. He put so much food in Shouyou's bowl that the dog curled up and went straight to sleep after dinner.

Kenma replies with a not-quite-non sequitur before collapsing into bed. "3 more days..."




Day Five.

Kenma figures, in yet another momentary lapse of judgment brought on by dogsitting madness, that it would be a good idea to take Shouyou to a park for a chance of pace, instead of having the tiny, crazy dog drag him up and down the mountainside when they go out for a "walk." It's embarrassing when people look and Kenma doesn't really like it.

Except, there aren't any sticks bigger than pine needles in the park, and the only ball Kenma had been able to find before leaving Hinata's house was an old volleyball in Hinata's mom's garage.

Shouyou tries to make do, he really does. The volleyball is almost half Shouyou's size but he tries to get his teeth into it anyway—

It... doesn't really work out.

Kenma quietly, resignedly adds the old volleyball to his little list of things, including Hinata's chewed up volleyball keyring and that one square of tatami in the house, that he kind of really hopes are not that important to Hinata or his mother's mental well-being.

Or Natsu's.

He has a small heart attack on the spot thinking What if the volleyball is Natsu's precious item, before reasoning that it probably isn't given that it looks almost as old as she is. And that people don't generally give babies volleyballs as presents of congratulation for being born into the world.

Do they?

The internet says it's not standard practice, but just to be sure Kenma texts Hinata before sleeping that night. "does ur sister have a volleyball in particular that she likes?"

The only reply from Hinata is a 61-long string of question marks, which, upon reflection, Kenma thinks he had coming.

He decides to go to sleep instead of replying so he can't make any more of a fool of himself in the space of twenty-four hours. But just before he nods off, Shouyou pads quietly into Hinata's room. Kenma rubs at his eyes, sitting up in the dark. "Shouyou...?"

The dog obviously doesn't reply. He just steps onto the end of Hinata's futon and turns around three times, before settling himself down to sleep right on top of Kenma's feet.

Kenma...

Kenma doesn't know how to deal with this.

He lays awake staring at the ceiling the entire night, paranoia whispering every time his eyes droop that if he sleeps he'll accidentally kick Shouyou in the face and Shouyou will hate him for it forever.




Day Six.

Kenma fills Shouyou's food dish right on time—essentially at the crack of dawn—and, in that window of time when Shouyou ambles out to eat, quickly nestles back down inside Hinata's futon.

He falls asleep pretty much instantly and doesn't wake for another ten hours.

At that point, when he finally opens his bleary eyes, Shouyou's glum-looking face is about a foot from his own. Shouyou's tail swishes only slowly from side to side, and even Kenma can tell that he doesn't look happy at all.

"Oh... crap," Kenma mumbles, half sitting up. He rubs at his eyes. "Sorry. Are you hungry again, Shouyou? Do you want to go for a walk?"

Shouyou, the same dog who knows how to grab his own leash from its hook and for the past five days has practically dislocated Kenma's kneecaps slamming into them at the mere mention of the word "walk," doesn't even stir. He stares at Kenma and Kenma stares right back, quiet unease creeping up inside his stomach.

"What... What's wrong? Did I miss something...?"

Shouyou makes a pathetic kind of whimpering noise and butts his head gently into Kenma's chest until Kenma, surprised, lies back down. Then Shouyou rests his head right in the middle of Kenma's torso and just stays there, staring over at Kenma with big, woobly eyes.

At a loss, Kenma just... pets Shouyou's head and goes back to staring at the ceiling. He wonders if he should text Hinata to find out where that vet is after all. Given Shouyou's track record, and the apt fact that the dog is literally named after Hinata Shouyou and not Kozume Kenma, this kind of depressed behaviour isn't normal at all. But Hinata will be back tomorrow at around noon, so maybe it will all be okay.

Kenma can only hope.

(Dogs are so weird.)

(He doesn't understand them at all.)

PROMPT: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA

[fullofjoy]

Tachibana Makoto/& Yamazaki Sousuke

Ponyo LOVES SOUSUKE AU. These Ghibli AUs are very cute.

FILL: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou, G

[winterstuck]

Gif warning (it doesn't flash or move that fast, but just in case)

PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

[capsoumako]

Kozume Kenma & / Hinata Shouyou // (KenHina), Haikyuu!!

Mute!Kenma + Sign Language
-- Hinata is quite expressive with his hands and body language. He also wants to learn another way to communicate with Kenma, and learns that he is quite patient with him when it comes to these things.

Re: PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

[claramarla]

I know these don't count for points at all any more, so I won't give my team name, but I filled this if it's still allowed!

http://claramarla.tumblr.com/post/124269632525/hearing-impaired-kenma-part-1-a-couple-weeks-ago

LOVED this prompt, it was my favourite!

PROMPT: TEAM HAIKYUU!!

[minders]

Ukai Keishin / Takeda Ittetsu [ Haikyuu!!; possible abuse – child abuse + possible additional warnings ]

"Teenage foster kids placed in the same group home/childcare institution who meet and fall-into-whatever" AU.

PROMPT: TEAM ABE TAKAYA/MIHASHI REN

[harklights]

mihashi ren & hatake atsushi + mihoshi academy, oofuri

canon spoilers??
"Mihashi, I messed up your middle school years badly."
"Can you... give us a chance to make it up to you? Come back."
if mihashi stayed at mihoshi for high school too... :)

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ABE TAKAYA/MIHASHI REN

[uwu_anon]

Oh my god i really hope this gets filled i might do it myself.