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.

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

Comments

PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA

[hapaxlegomenon]

Ryugazaki Rei & the rest of the Iwatobi SC (feel free to / wherever); Free!

AU where Nagisa's plan goes horribly wrong and somehow he, Makoto, and Haru end up joining the track team, rather than Rei joining the swim team.

FILL: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke, G

[capsoumako]

No major warnings apply
Word Count: 501
A/N: omg where did this story go...xD

--

“How did it come to this?”

“There’s no water…”

“Don’t worry Mako-chan! Haru-chan! I’m sure we can find something to do in this club too!”

It was easier said than done.

Makoto was praised by the track team for his upper body strength that benefited him in the javelin-throwing event.

Nagisa, with his lithe form was really quick and agile at the short distance sprints.

The only one left, who couldn’t find his niche, was Haru.

The raven remained sour and opposed to the entire thing claiming that he wasn’t going to compete in any event unless it involved water or his beloved pool.

The water had lanes and competitive events just like this one, but it was a swimming activity. Here, he literally felt like a fish out of water. He couldn’t swim. What a travesty.

“Haru… maybe you could try it?”

“Haruka-senpai, we could make a runner out of you yet!”

But alas, Haru would not budge. He would sit out on the bench with his arms crossed as the rest of the group practiced.

Don’t get them wrong, they tried. Oh, they tried their very best, but Haru was just unenthusiastic about the entire thing.

The most they saw him do was just lie down on the grass and take a nap.

“Ah, sorry Rei-chan,” Nagisa apologized on their walk to the station.

“I guess Haru-chan just really loves water too much.”

Rei adjusted his glasses, “You give up too easily Nagisa-kun. I’m sure we can find something Haruka-senpai can do.”

--

“Haru, are you sure you don’t want to do any field events?”

“No.”

“But, I’m sure you’ll still be good out there just as you are in water! You’ve got an athletic build and stamina… we just have to find your drive.”

“Is there an event that involves water?”

“Well no—“

“Not interested.”

Makoto texted Nagisa last night and told him that every attempt was shot down, he even tried to bribe him with cooking his favorite mackerel dish but Haru looked offended and told him to please never try cooking with his precious mackerel after the last cooking disaster.

Nagisa: It’s okay Mako-chan! I have an idea! ;)

Makoto: Oh, that’s great! I feel bad seeing him just sitting there on the sidelines.

--

Rei and Makoto were sitting down in a shaded patch of grass, cooling off from a long day of practice.

“Guys!” They heard Nagisa yell from beyond the distance. He was pulling someone along from behind him.

Makoto’s eyes widened at the figure before them when they both came into view.

“Guys, look! The track team has a new mascot!” Nagisa introduced the new and improved Iwatobi-chan 2.0 [track team version] and inside the mascot was Haru.

“It’s…not beautiful,” Rei commented wondering what their mascot was even based off, was it some type of animal?

Haru responded by just flapping his wings and going to sit down on the grass.

“That’s probably the most team spirit we’ll get out of him.”

x-o-x-o-x
I tried to think of a situation where Haru would be for it, but I couldn't really think of him outside of swimming, so the next best thing then.

PROMPT: TEAM HAIKYUU!!

[minders]

Tsukishima Kei / Yamaguchi Tadashi [Haikyuu!!]

AU (modern or not) where Tsukishima is second son and heir to his family's throne/fortune/business/what have you, and Yamaguchi is an orphaned ward to the Tsukishimas who's been basically raised from childhood to be Tsukishima's fanatically devoted companion/shadow/bodyguard.

Aaaand Tsukishima is a cynic who naturally doesn't believe that Yamaguchi's feelings of adoration can possibly be sincere, or at least mean anything, considering his upbringing. But all the same he can't help but feel really attached to the other boy more as time goes on and OH NO UNEXPECTED EMOTIONS WHAT DO.

PROMPT: TEAM HAIKYUU!!

[minders]

Koganegawa Kanji / Sakunami Kousuke
–or– Oikawa Tooru / Yamaguchi Tadashi
–or– Ushijima Wakatoshi / Moniwa Kaname [Haikyuu!!]

Arranged Marriage AU. Don't care-slash-no preference for which context/setting/reasoning used, just PLEASE ARRANGED MARRIAGE AU.

FILL: TEAM NISHINOYA YUU/TANAKA RYUUNOSUKE, T

[snuggy4589]

402 words

Yamaguchi didn't want to get married. Sure, he was a young bachelor who would be forced to tie the knot soon enough, but his wife was the absolute last person he would've picked. In all honesty, he wanted to marry his best friend, Tsukishima Kei, but no one would ever allow that. He just accepted his fate and let everyone else push him towards his bride to be. It was good for his family. They'd get a good reputation. The Oikawas were lovely people, and the family was looking forward to their union. He went through everything in a haze, a bit disappointed that he'd be stuck forever with someone he'd never met yet. On the day of their wedding, he was struck silent by how beautiful she looked. The minute they were alone, though, everything changed. He'd helped her into the back seat of their carriage and looked over at her nervously. "So... Hi?"

She turned and glared at him. "We're going to set some ground rules. First of all, I get to go wherever I want, whenever I want. Second, I'm a guy. My parents duped you. If you tell anyone, my grandpa will have you dumped in the nearest river with cement shoes."

Yamaguchi just stared in horror. "Please don't kill me, I'm sorry. W-Wait. My parents are expecting grandchildren. What are we going to do?"

Oikawa smirked at him. "My sister is going to fill in there. Her husband is a lot like you, weak willed. So she's going to give us all the kids we need." He flopped back and stretched out. "To be honest, they just wanted your family's money and reputation. They've raised me as a girl since I was young because they've had this plan all along."

Yamaguchi just sighed and sank down in his seat. "Well, to be honest I don't really like girls anyway, so this is a plus I guess."

Oikawa grinned deviously and eyed his husband. "So maybe we actually will consummate our marriage."

The taller male swallowed thickly and shrugged. "I mean uh, we've just met, so I don't think it'd be exactly. Well, they'd be expecting us to, but we could not and say we did?"

With the way Oikawa was eyeing him like he was a piece of meat, he highly doubted that he'd get through the next sixty years of his life without a few scares.

PROMPT: TEAM MANAMI SANGAKU/TESHIMA JUNTA

[sylphofkarkat]

Kishigami Komari & Midousuji Akira, Yowamushi Pedal

Kyoto Fushimi is a butcher shop. Komari is in heaven.

PROMPT: TEAM SAWAMURA DAICHI/SUGAWARA KOUSHI

[binni]

Daichi/Suga; Suga & Kageyama Haikyuu!!

au Where they all study music; Suga's assignment is to conduct the orchestra through their next concert, but Kageyama shows a lot of promise. Daichi plays first violin and is concerned about Kageyama taking control of the orchestra.

oh look i just made myself so sad. basically i saw this and it was all over.

PROMPT: TEAM IMAIZUMI SHUNSUKE/NARUKO SHOUKICHI

[peterpandemic]

Fukutomi/Arakita Yowamushi Pedal

Mad Max AU. Arakita is Furiosa (emphasis on the furious part) and Fukutomi is Max, a man of few words.

Feel free to make this as serious or as cracky as you want. :)

PROMPT: TEAM IMAIZUMI SHUNSUKE/NARUKO SHOUKICHI

[peterpandemic]

Ayase Eli/Toujou Nozomi Love Live!

Hogwarts AU where Eli is the most Gryffindor Gryffindor to ever Gryffindor and Nozomi is her Slytherin girlfriend.

FILL: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO, T

[catlarks]

Major Tags: None
Word Count: 1,023


"We'll work together," Nozomi says. "What's so wrong with that?"

"It isn't that I have a problem with the idea," Eli replies. "It's more than I disbelieve your commitment to getting work done."

"Eli," Nozomi says, drawing back with a theatrical flinch just broad enough to show that she's been hurt. "Have I ever taken my prefect duties anything other than entirely seriously?"

Eli is silent a moment, lips pressed firmly closed on words she knows she cannot speak. Nozomi is right; sneaky though Eli knows her girlfriend can be (and in the true tradition of her house), she is nothing if not dedicated to the tasks and responsibilities she takes on. Perhaps it would be one thing if they were still fifth-years, newly come into their prefect positions and only just embarking on a new stage of the relationship they'd fostered back during their very first days at Hogwarts.

But they are sixth-years now, and Eli has already witnessed a year of her girlfriend's steady devotion to enforcing the rules of the school. It would be an outright lie, to insinuate that Nozomi is anything other than skilled in her position.

"I'm not saying you don't take being a prefect seriously," Eli settles on saying. "It's more that I understand you to never have only a single motivation for doing something, and I'm not certain I should encourage whatever less obvious plan has led you to propose this working partnership."

"That may be true," Nozomi says, smiling and making no attempt to deny Eli's insinuation, "but who says a secondary motivation will hinder our work performance? For all you know, it may make us twice as productive."

"That's impossible," Eli says, seizing on the flaw in Nozomi's logic. "We are already both very efficient in catching rule-breakers. In order for us to be twice as productive, there would need to be twice as many rule-breakers in the school."

She smiles back at Nozomi, badly trying not to appear smug. "If there was suddenly twice the amount of flaunting the school guidelines, I would have to consider that a drop in our performance, even if we did catch every student out after curfew and every enterprising rule-breaker."

"That isn't what I meant," Nozomi says, shaking her head, "and you know it."

Eli shrugs, allowing her silence to imply the playful 'well, then you should have said what you meant in truth.'

"Eli..." Nozomi says, voice dropping and becoming more serious. She steps toward Eli across the torchlit hall, and even though it's late and few other people should have permission to be out of bed at all, Eli can't help almost stepping back out of fear that someone will appear to witness her fraternizing on the clock.

Nozomi catches her hand and she pauses, arrested in the process of lifting her foot to move away.

"Maybe I just like your company," Nozomi says, leaned in so close that their noses almost brush. "Maybe I want you to agree to work with me when we're patrolling the halls so we can spend this time together. This is our last year before NEWTs. We both know we have precious little free time."

Eli glances away, her cheeks darkening with an embarrassed flush, though she doesn't pull her hands out of Nozomi's warm, certain grip. But she's unwilling to let her nervousness overcome her, and with a silent reminder that Gryffindors are brave, she returns her gaze to meet Nozomi's eyes.

"We won't be as efficient," Eli says, speaking just as softly as Nozomi had. It's the last protest she can muster. "If we aren't working together, we can cover twice as much ground, and make certain students aren't sneaking around us. It's only smarter, to do this job alone."

"We'll work harder, then," Nozomi says. "I don't think it would be so bad, staying out later with you."

"It won't be good, for our getting a full night of sleep." But Eli can tell already, she no longer intends to pursue the argument toward victory. "And we may not be as attentive to our surroundings, with each other's company to distract us."

"I'll be sure to be very attentive," Nozomi says, leaning across the small gap between them to kiss Eli on her cheek, just beside the corner of her mouth. "You know that I can do that."

Eli's face flushes warmer than before, but this time she makes absolutely certain not to drop her gaze. "Yes, I have happened to witness quite how attentive you can be, a time or two before."

"I could remind you," Nozomi says.

Her mouth presses to Eli's again, this time a bit further over her lips, in a teasing kiss that still hasn't found its mark. Eli can't help but smiling, lips curving up so close to Nozomi's lips, and Nozomi drops her another kiss, this time squarely on her mouth and where Eli can return it. She's quick in pressing back, after all of Nozomi's sneaky teasing.

"We were working," Eli says, when she pulls away. "This is not doing a lot to persuade me of the efficacy of our new work partnership."

"Of course not," Nozomi says, letting Eli's hands drop. But as she turns to face with Eli down the hall, her fingers brush the back of Eli's hand once again, and she slides her palm to cup warmly against Eli's palm. "Let's correct that. Come on now! We have hallways to patrol."

Eli can only shake her head, as Nozomi tugs lightly at her arm and takes the first few purposeful strides down the corridor. She feels as if she's the one being chastised, improperly when she was the one attempting to best maintain their enforcing of the rules. She feels as if she's lost the argument — officially, when she'd already resigned herself to Nozomi wheedling her around to seeing things Nozomi's way.

But Gryffindors are nothing if not chivalrous, and with that thought in mind, Eli allows Nozomi to lead her down the hall, fingers linked together and with the smile from when Nozomi had kissed her still lingering on her lips.

PROMPT: TEAM KOUSAKA HONOKA/MINAMI KOTORI

[underscored]

doubashi/ashikiba yowamushi pedal

au where doubashi is shrek and ashikiba is fiona

bonus points if naruko is puss in boots.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KOUSAKA HONOKA/MINAMI KOTORI

[sylphofkarkat]

dear lord above

PROMPT: TEAM MANAMI SANGAKU/TESHIMA JUNTA

[sylphofkarkat]

Kageyama Tobio & Karasuno VBC, Haikyuu!!

AU WHERE KAGEYAMA IS SWAGEYAMA

PROMPT: TEAM HAIKYUU!!

[minders]

Oikawa Tooru &/ Iwaizumi Hajime &/ Kindaichi Yuutarou [Haikyuu!!]

In which Oikawa and Iwaizumi are traveling mercenaries-slash-vagabonds in a troubled land and Kindaichi is the poor son of a bitch they 'recruited' to carry their bags.

PROMPT: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU

[aeglos]

Kageyama Tobio/Hinata Shouyou (Haikyuu!!) (feat. whomever you'd like really)

Natsume's Book of Friends au.

PROMPT: TEAM HAIKYUU!!

[minders]

Oikawa Tooru / Iwaizumi Hajime + Seijou Volleyball Club, etc.
–or– Bokuto Koutarou / Akaashi Keiji + Fukurodani Volleyball Club, etc.
–or– Sawamura Daichi / Sugawara Koushi + Karasuno Volleyball Club, etc.
–or– Futakuchi Kenji / Moniwa Kaname + Datekou Volleyball Club, etc. [Haikyuu!!]

Tales of Symphonia AU. One of the characters is the Chosen of a dying (or flourishing) world and the other character aka-their-best-friend is direly misinformed as to what that means.

MAKE ME CRY ON THIS ONE OKAY.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM HAIKYUU!!

[nobetterpicture]

oh...I

[internal screaming at all these video game prompts from my FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES]

Did...did you have a preference for which pairing/team???

PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[kiriska]

Kageyama/Hinata (Haikyuu!!)

Animorphs AU. Kageyama gets trapped in crow morph after a failed rescue mission to the Yeerk Pool to free Hinata's little sister.

Re: PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[miyukitty]

omg

PROMPT: Team Aomine Daiki/Kagami Taiga/Kise Ryota/Kuroko Tetsuya

[ali_kise]

Matsuoka Rin / or & Nanase Haruka (RinHaru - Free!)
Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) AU


Please Rin as the butler! he's so hot :Q_

FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, G

[fullofjoy]

No content warnings apply

I don't know about this series except that the butler is doing a showy thing of pouring the tea, which Rin wouldn't normally do... unless trying to show off in from of Haru.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[alphahelix]

Ushijima Wakatoshi /& Goshiki Tsutomu (Haikyuu!!)

Farm AU. Goshiki is a new farmhand at Shiratorizawa Farms (Your Trusted Source of Mundane Vegetables since 1810!)

FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, G

[oikawas]

no major content warnings
838 words
honestly idk

The sun beats down overhead, and Tsutomu wipes the sweat that has collected on his brow, underneath the neat but of his bangs, with the back of his hand. In front of him, Ushijima concerns himself with musing on and on about the plants, and how to tend to them, when to set the sprinklers so they'll be watered, how to tell for signs of misgrowth or disease, when they're good for harvest, and on and on. It seems that in all topics but those of things which sprout from the earth, Ushijima was taciturn and didn't have very much to say at all. But once he's gotten started on the topic of plants and farming and all things nature--well, then he was a rather unstoppable force.

Tsutomu doesn't bother paying attention. He already knows all these things; it's what he's spent the past year of his life training for, after all. Out of all the farmlands surrounding the Shiratorizawa village area, Ushijima's is by far the best, most abundant, most fruitful farm and nursery. And it just so happened that they had been short a farmhand, after the last one--a man Tsutomu had never met, but had heard rumors that it had taken Ushijima years to convince him to come to Shiratorizawa at all--finally left in a rage, fed up with everything at last.

And he'd been quick on the uptake--he's had his eye on Ushijima's farm for ages now, and this was the perfect opportunity for him to make his strike. He was going to slither into the mouth of the lion, get the lion to trust him, and then, before Ushijima knew what hit him, Tsutomu would take the title of the greatest farmer in the prefecture, right out from beneath Ushijima's rather noble-looking nose.

"Hey," Ushijima interrupts, his low voice sounding perhaps stern, if not for the fact that he uses the same tone for practically every thing that comes out of his mouth. "Are you paying attention?"

"Yes, of course," Tsutomu answers quickly, snapping to attention. "Don't worry, know everything already. I'm going to be the greatest farmer in the prefecture someday, you see," he continues, meeting Ushijima's stare from above eye for eye. "Even better than you!"

Ushijima evaluates him, and the set of his brows is angry, the corners of his mouth downturned. But that is his default expression, Tsutomu thinks, so he's difficult to tell whether or not he is actually angry. Tsutomu doesn't care--he's nothing if not honest and earnest and he's not going to lie about his ambitions in the face of the one he hopes to overcome.

"I see," Ushijima says finally after a moment of deliberation, uncrossing his arms. Tsutomu's eyes flick downwards, noticing the shiny stretch of well-toned muscle across his thick forearms, sweaty in the mid-morning sun. Ushijima turns then, and Tsutomu's attention shifts to the snug fit of Ushijima's shirt across those broad, broad shoulders.

Well, aside from the opportunity to defeat Ushijima, this was a plus of the job as well.

"Anyways," Ushijima goes on, bending down to display some of the uncultivated land that needed to be worked on, "your job here is to..."

Tsutomu tunes him out, honestly. He goes back to daydreaming, and sneaking glances at the rippling muscles of Ushijima's arms every so often.

Ushijima impresses upon him one single rule:

"Do not touch my personal garden. That is mine. Please do not touch it."

Tsutomu smiles and nods complacently. And then Ushihima finally leaves him to handle things around the farm while he goes off in his tractor to survey the field of sweet corn on the west side of the farm.

It doesn't matter, anyways; Tsutomu's already switched out all his cucumbers with summer squash. He grins wickedly, pleased at having condemned Ushijima to slightly-off tasting recipes for a while. Truly, he's outdone himself this time.

Come dusk, Tsutomu's done all he can around the farm, and Ushijima has returned to the farmhouse for the night. As Tsutomu's leaving, he calls out to him.

"Goshiki. Wait."

For a moment, Tsutomu thinks he's been caught. Well, it was only a matter of time, probably. It's impossible to trick the Ushijima Wakatoshi when it comes to all things plants, after all.

"I was pleased with your work today. You are a satisfactory farmhand."

"Well, of course I am," Tsutomu says, turning his nose up and flicking some hair away from his eyes. "I'd have to be, if I'm going to defeat you some day."

"I see. Would you like to stay for dinner? I am making some of the vegetables from my garden."

Tsutomu stops, looks back at Ushijima from over his shoulder. He's standing there on the porch, still wearing his work clothes and his scuffed up, muddy boots and his pants are grass-stained and worn. And in the waning, light, he looks possibly even more handsome than he had earlier, under the bright sunlight.

Tsutomu finds himself agreeing happily; after all, summer squash is his favorite.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[alphahelix]

Bokuto Koutarou/Akaashi Keiji & Fukuroudani VBC (Haikyuu!!)

Journey to the West AU

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[cinderellaboy]

o-oh gosh... akaashi seems like he would make the most long-suffering monk..... *u*;; ♥

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[alphahelix]

Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru or Kageyama Tobio/Oikawa Tooru (Haikyuu!!)

Octodad AU

FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, G

[oikawas]

no major content warnings
720 words
honestly........................idk


Iwaizumi wakes up that morning feeling absolutely terrible.

He slithers out of bed, groaning as vertigo hits him when he uprights himself too quickly. It comes out as more of a wet gurgle, however, and he nearly slips while trying to pad across the carpet to the bathroom across the way.

Oikawa is probably already up making breakfast for him and the kids before he has to go to work; Iwaizumi can hear him bustling around in the kitchen. Perhaps he should have asked Oikawa to wake him up, after all.

After some unusual trouble with the doorknob (he just couldn't seem to get a proper hold on the slippery sucker), Iwaizumi makes it to the bathroom in one, tired, groggy piece. He and Oikawa had stayed up late the night before, talking about life, and as a result Iwaizumi hadn't gotten much sleep. It shows by the bags hanging beneath the eyes on either side of his face. Is his complexion looking yellower than before?

Iwaizumi reaches one of his tentacles up to jab tentatively at the skin on his face. He's satisfied when it comes away with the usual layer of slime; the discharge keeps him moistened and alert, or else he'd be drying out everywhere and he couldn't have that.

Getting through his morning routine is always a little troublesome, but it's not so bad today--he only knocks over half of the contents of the bathroom shelf and falls down in unwieldy clumsiness three times instead of the usual five to seven.

Getting dressed is a whole new adventure, just as it is everyday, but Iwaizumi thinks went pretty well. He's off to a good start today--only destroyed about a quarter of the racks of clothing after he had fallen into the hanging coats. He'd tried to grab the rack overhead to right himself, but his tentacles were too slippery, and they globbed right past the metal bars as he had fallen. No matter, though; it was still better than usual.

By the time he makes it downstairs, the children are at the table and Oikawa is setting eggs on a plate for him.

"Iwa-chan! Good morning," Oikawa greets once Iwaizumi makes himself known in the kitchen by sliding wetly against the door frame after losing his balance.

"Grgrohghrg," Iwaizumi gurgles in response, and Oikawa smiles fondly.

"You're so sweet, Iwa-chan! Not in front of the kids," he chides, giving a saucy wink. "But there's no time for that! You, mister, are late! So hurry up and eat so that you can go to work already while I drop the kids off!"

Obediently, Iwaizumi makes his way over to the kitchen table. The rest of it is routine--he's done it thousands of times by now, but--uh oh. Today, he guesses his skin is secreting more lubricant than usual, because it takes him several tries to get a grab on the back of the kitchen chair to pull it out, and after he does, he slides right out of his seat and nearly onto the floor once he sits down. That can't be good. He looks at Oikawa--

"You know, Iwa-chan," Oikawa says, a small hint of suspicion creeping into his tone, "sometimes I think there's something weird about you lately. Like you're actually an ocotopus, or something."

"Ghghogghsgh!" Iwaizumi gurgles in protest. "Gorhghghhrg!"

"Aaah, don't call me Shittykawa in front of the kids! And you're right, I'm being silly. What an absurd thought."

Placated, Iwaizumi turns to dig greet his children and dig into his meal.

After breakfast (one of the eggs missed his mouth, and one was just simply impossible to pick up with both a fork and his bare tentacles, which was just as well since octopi don't eat eggs), Oikawa prepares the children for school and Iwaizumi rushes trying to get his things together for work.

"Your keys are on the counter, babe," Oikawa reminds him.

Right, of course, where he always leaves them--what would Iwaizumi do without Oikawa?

He gurgles in thanks, and Oikawa bats him away, giving him a quick peck on the lips before shooing him out to get to work.

As the door closes behind him and he makes his way clumsily to the car in the driveway, Iwaizumi can't help but to smile at how fortunate his life is.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[alphahelix]

Aone Takanobu & Furuya Satoru (Haikyuu!!, Daiya no Ace)

Zoo AU. Furuya and Aone meet at the polar bear exhibit.

When asked who he respects the most, Furuya said polar bears. And Aone is often depicted as a polar bear... please indulge me...

PROMPT: TEAM AOMINE DAIKI/KAGAMI TAIGA/KISE RYOTA/KUROKO TETSUYA

[ali_kise]

Pairing: Rin/Haruka (Free!)

Haruka is a student at a School of Magic. One day he founds a little red wolf in the woods near the school and decides to bring it home.
But something happens on the night of the fullmoon.

FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, T

[fullofjoy]

A suggestive situation at the end? IDK. 1022 words

Nanase Haruka had been studying at the Iwatobi School of Magic for years now. He cast spells and brewed potions with the best with little effort. But most of all, he took interest in the strange and mystical creatures in the dark forest to the west of the campus. If there was something worth expending energy on, it would be on voyages into the forest. Everything that looked bizarre to others fascinated Haru, and he wanted to document more of the species that no one else sought out.


The branches of the trees grew dense, and even with the tall trees, the light hardly reached the ground. Even so, Haru often made plans to venture inside. Makoto was naturally too scared to go, and Nagisa could never keep up in the past-- they both likely preferred he not go, but Haru had top marks in his spellcasting class so he could take care of himself.


Many of the Iwatobi, birds with stone heads that the school took its name from, gathered in the branches. They watched Haru with unblinking eyes as he stepped over dead branches. Then a small crunch sound, out of time with Haru's steps, came from behind him. Careful to make no sudden moves, Haru turned around to find the source of it.


A lone, small wolf, with the most unique color. The deep red caught the light of Haru's lantern, and despite wolves not having magic properties, he already took interest.


"What are you doing here alone?" Haru asked. Not that any creature could speak in any human language, as far as he knew, but still worth trying. When he approached the wolf, he noticed how... sad it looked. If it was possible, Haru would think it was crying before he found him.


If Haru had to guess, the wolf was already fully mature, just on the small side. Just small enough for Haru to pick up in his arms. So, carefully crouching down, Haru averted his eyes and reached around the small wolf. It didn't hesitate at all, letting itself be picked up. Haru figured that he had explored enough today and followed his trail back to the school.


"You picked up a wolf?!" Makoto and Nagisa asked in unison, incredulous.


"He looked like he needed help."


"But that's dangerous, Haru," Makoto said, still looking at his friend in confused shock. "What if he bit you?"


"This one is harmless," Haru replied, storing some of the roast beef he never ate from the school's dinner away in a small bag.


Indeed, after returning to his room, Haru would feed his new companion. The wolf acted surly, often lying down and snorting as if annoyed, but reacted right away to the slices of roast beef. At first, the wolf turned away when Haru tried to pet him, but after a few days, started to allow it. And for some reason that Haru couldn't fathom, the wolf would run out of the room or hide his face under his paws whenever he was changing out of his robes. As the days passed, the wolf living in his dorm came to be more and more familiar, sometimes sleeping on his bed before Haru could get to it. (Haru couldn't bring himself to wake the wolf, instead curling up around the wolf while trying to get comfortable.)


One night, the full moon shone through the window, and the wolf curled up on Haru's chest as he lay in bed. This is nice, Haru thought, shutting his eyes. Haru never opened up to humans very well, but this wolf already wormed its way into his heart in a matter of days.


Speaking of, Haru felt something really heavy on his heart. Not to mention the rest of his body. As small and thin as the wolf was before, Haru now wondered if this was because of all that roast beef. But when he opened his eyes, the first thing Haru saw was a mop of long human hair.


The man with red hair pushed himself back onto his knees, both on either side of Haru. Haru couldn't help but give this man a quick once-over-- he was naked, about Haru's age, had sharp yet elegant features on his face, had nicely developed muscles... and again, he was naked. But from the looks of it, this man was as surprised as Haru was, as he could see the man's face turning red as much as he could feel his own doing the same. The man stared in shock, then looked at his hands, flexing his fingers as if to see if they would work. Haru opened his mouth to ask what was happening before being cut off by a scream.


"I-I'm back! I'm not a wolf anymore!" He swooped back down to hug Haru with his big (and warm) arms.


Haru, still surprised from all this, croaked out, "W-What happened?"


"I was just gathering some ingredients for a potion, when some asshole cursed me!" His look of excitement turned to a glare, before turning back again. "But you saved my life! There's no way I could've survived out there."


Well, Haru thought as his face grew warmer, the wolf was cute... but this guy is cute in a different way.


"So when do you turn back into a wolf?"


"What? Hopefully never!"


"What a shame."


"Hey!"


Of course Haru couldn't help but to tease the guy, even if he would make sure he didn't return to the wolf form. There were a lot of questions to ask, like where he was from, and what he's going to do now, but first of all...


"What's your name?"


"It's Rin," he said, before yawning (in a very wolf-like way) and placing his head back down onto Haru's chest. Clearly exhausted from the transformation, Rin started to drift off back to sleep. Which led Haru to trying to sleep with a beautiful naked man on top of him.

PROMPT: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL

[cinderellaboy]

Tsukishima Kei / Kozume KenmaKenma (hq!!)

some sort of hacker au... please... rivals or teammates trying to take down corruption or whatever i don't care, just... these two nerds... please..... *U*;;;

Re: PROMPT: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL

[trueprinci]

I WISH I COULD FILL THIS this is a great prompt

PROMPT: TEAM HAIKYUU!!

[minders]

Tendou Satori / Semi Eita [Haikyuu!!]

The always timeless, “soooo, our-parents-are-super-BFFs-and-they-also-expect-US-to-be-super-BFFs-when-they-hang-out-together, except- (NEWSFLASH) -I-actually-SUPER-FUCKING-HATE-your-SUPER-FUCKING-GUTS-since, like, GODDAMN-KINDERGARTEN”

……………AU

PROMPT: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU

[aeglos]

Kuroo Tetsurou &/ Kenma Kozume &/ Akasahi Keiji &/ Bokuto Koutarou (Haikyuu!!)

mundane magic au, where you just use your magic to never really be wet in the rain (unless you're bokuto, who chooses to burn off the water from his clothes), declutter your room because you're too lazy to do it (ken m a), spark little fireworks from your fingertip when you have an idea, warm up your socks just a little, etc. o u o

Re: PROMPT: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU

[simpleruser]

O-oh, I am so tempted by this, would you mind if I focused on one pair out of the lot of them? (Probably bokuro)
and would you mind if things took a turn for the nsfw? (Not saying they WILL but it would be nice to have the option)

PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA

[hapaxlegomenon]

Hinata Shouyou/Kozume Kenma; Haikyuu!!

AU:

Image text reads "an exciting power outage at mcdonalds"

Re: PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA

[trueprinci]

i'm so drawn to this prompt and i'm like (SCRATCHES MY CHIN) did you have anything in mind for it? :OO

PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA

[hapaxlegomenon]

Aoyagi Hajime &/ Naruko Shoukichi; Yowamushi Pedal

Professional hot dog eating competitive circuit AU

PROMPT: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL

[trueprinci]

Shimizu Kiyoko/Yachi Hitoka; Haikyuu!!

Red string of fate AU ;-;

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

[aeglos]

no major warnings apply. lapslock is this even au omg im so sorry
423 words




she’s really beautiful. that’s what yachi would say, if someone pressed her to describe kiyoko-san. she’s incredibly, wonderfully, extremely beautiful.

yachi isn’t quite the same. (but in the end, it might not matter, because she’s heard about a love so strong that it went beyond the surface. ‘more than skin-deep’, or so they say.) she’s always fretting, too, nervous and anxious and scared about the things that--reasonably speaking--might not necessarily happen. she’s not a dreamer, she’s not detached, but it’s different from kiyoko-san’s rationalism.

and she likes it. she likes her. she’s followed this little tug of her heartstrings since she’s felt it, years and months ago, and when she attends her high school entrance ceremony and scours the crowds, it doesn’t go away. her other half is here, maybe, probably, hopefully. yachi hopes so fiercely it keeps her awake at night. it could be anyone. it could be--to her brief, sharp horror--a teacher.

but it isn’t: her heart only pounds a little harder when it’s her turn to answer a question or read a passage. she’s learning to distinguish, day by day, what it’s not like to be in love, from the constant rhythm of tugging that yanks her bones to the school, every day.

when kiyoko-san arrives in her life, she’s not quite what she’s expecting, either. yachi doesn’t ask--doesn’t know how to ask--if kiyoko-san felt the world stop the way she did, frozen by the solid reality of her, no longer a faceless dream. hinata-kun is so happy to help kiyoko-san out that he probably doesn’t notice how badly she’s blushing, and yachi can’t quite hide her stammer when kiyoko-san introduces herself.

even her voice is nice. it’s everything that yachi would have asked for, if she were given carte blanche on soulmates; but it’s also intimidating. kiyoko-san is so stunning that other people stop just to comment on her looks. it’s unreal that a girl this pretty even knows she exists.

“hitoka-chan!” kiyoko-san waves at her when classes let out. she waits for her by the gym so they can walk together, footsteps tep-tep-tep in the sun-dappled hallway. yachi watches her mouth move and wonders what they would feel like; burns when she realizes the thought; tries to stop her heart when it thunders in her chest. her heartstrings thrum when they’re this close together. “--hitoka-chan, are you okay?” kiyoko-san frowns when she sees yachi space out. it’s still lovely.

she could be brave, maybe, if the time came. “ah--yes! yes, of course--”