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ciirceeSWEET ZOMBIE JESUS. It is cold. (It is -9F/-23C and has been like this for a few days and will be like this tomorrow, too.)
But! That's not what you're here for! What you ARE here for are the drabbles--which might actually not be drabbles. Orz.
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honooko: Nino, 'necklace'.
Chain unbroken
The first gift that Nino ever bought that was not for his family or his bandmates and was not a meal, the first one that actually cost him a lot of money, was for Noriko. It was a silver necklace and the pendant on it was a little silver rectangle with a little heart cut out in the middle. It was pure silver; he'd wanted gold but that had been more than he'd been able to really afford.
He never got the chance to give it to her. Their 'scandal' had broke and it hadn't seemed like the right time to give her something so bright, so full of their promise. Then the scandal had broken again and then they had broken.
For a long time he kept the necklace in his guitar case, the little box tucked in next to the extra strings and tuning pegs. Eventually the ache had faded and the regret had trailed off and he'd been able to look at his time with Noriko without flinching, to see 'them' like he could see his great baseball career--something that could have been, might have been, probably wouldn't have been.
"Hey!" said Sho suddenly.
Nino ignored the jolt and calmly continued fastening the catch. Aiba looked up and, from the corner of his eye, Nino saw him startle just a bit. He remembered that Aiba had been with him the day he'd bought the necklace and the day that he'd put it away. He smiled down at the top of Sho's head, trusting Aiba to understand that the necklace was just that now: something that Nino had once bought, intending to give to somebody he cared about.
"Quit bitching," he told Sho pleasantly. "You're the one who said you wanted to accessorize for this filming."
"Yeah," said Sho, "but what is it?" Nino finished the clasp and patted Sho's shoulder, watching as Sho lifted the pendant away from his skin and squinted at it. "Oh. It's pretty."
"It means you're his girlfriend now," Aiba said seriously.
Jun hit him. "He is not; Sho is everybody's girlfriend."
For15th_moon: Nino, magic.
This Magic Moment
"MatsuJun, MatsuJun, MatsuJun!" Aiba jumped him at the greenroom door. "Pick a card, okay?"
Jun pulled a card and flipped it at Aiba's face.
"You're not supposed to show it to me!" Aiba scolded him. "Now I have to reshuffle."
Sho sidled up to him at the catering table. "I'm holding the Ace of Diamonds, the Ace of Spades, and the Ace of Clubs," he said, flashing the three cards at him. "But if you tap the middle card three times, it'll change one of them!" He turned the cards over, their blue backs showing.
Jun grabbed the middle card and turned it over. The Ace of Hearts was upside down, the little point at the bottom on the top, looking very diamond-like.
"Jun!" Sho groused. "That's not how the trick works."
Ohno landed in his lap, cut the deck of cards in his hands, and held them out to Jun without a word.
Jun dumped him on his ass on the floor and went to sit with Abi-san behind the cameras while waiting for the staff to set up Aibaland.
"Jun-kun," Nino purred. "My disciples say you won't play cards with them."
Jun slapped the back of Nino's head as hard as he could, only barely managing a glancing blow as he ducked away.
"Aww, Jun-pon," Nino cooed, "does magic still creep you out?"
Forbeckerbell: Kagami, siblings (or happiness)
Different, yet still the same
He asks Tadokoro about it a few weeks after everything changes and their lives are suddenly normal. He doesn't mean to.
"Does your brother know?"
He doesn't even know that it's on his mind until the question is out, too late to be recalled.
Tadokoro gives him a long, unreadable look, the noodles still stretching long in his hands as he hangs them to dry. "Since we were children," he says at last.
"Oh," says Kagami. Then he nods energetically. "Good. All right. Do you want help with the noodles?" he asks as he's already reaching but Tadokoro nods anyhow.
And they hang the noodles together, Tadokoro moving fast and efficient and Kagami more slowly and with less surety. His speed picks up as they go along.
"It was a car accident," Tadokoro says. His hands keep moving steadily and so Kagami's do as well. "The day the Natives arrived. The driver was looking at the sky and not the street where the children were playing."
Kagami thinks he should say something. "Oh," he says, quietly.
"Everybody was," Tadokoro says, pardoning a person who existed in a moment that came and went over thirty-five years ago.
"He was hit."
"I was nearby," Tadokoro confirms. "Only close enough to take his place."
"Your brother saw it."
"Yes."
The noodles are gone and Tadokoro moves to the next bowl, a bowl of dough. The dough goes down on the floured counter, the rolling pin comes out. Tadokoro's hands move the pin, the dough, smoothing it out, folding it over in quick and easy movements.
Kagami thinks about Ryou, the Worm, the Natives, Tsurugi, Hiyori, Tadokoro, and himself. Mostly he thinks about Ryou and the way he smiled and laughed and tightened the laces on his baseball glove with his teeth.
Tadokoro cuts the first strip of noodles and hands them to him.
"Thank you," Kagami says, meeting Tadokoro's eyes and meaning it.
For a moment, Tadokoro looks surprised and then he smiles, let's out a puff of laughter and they begin to hang noodles again.
A song comes over the radio. Kagami sings along and Tadokoro's brother comes into the kitchen saying, "Ani!", and slapping a hand on his older brother's shoulder.
Forferinough: MatsuJun, eyebrows.
Pluck YOU
He woke up because Ohno was sitting on his chest and drawing on his face.
"Are you making caterpillars again?" he asked. Had it been morning, he might have been grumpier but as it was, Ohno was waking him from an afternoon nap.
"Uh-huh," Ohno said distractedly. "It has rainbow feet."
Jun shifted under him. "I should hit you so hard," he yawned.
"Uh-huh," Ohno agreed. "But Jun-chan has cute eyebrows." He wriggled and Jun opened his eyes just in time to see Ohno loom close and then he felt a soft, warm pressure on his forehead, right between his eyebrows. "They're happy caterpillars."
"Are they washable markers this time?" Jun sighed.
"I got them directly from Sho-chan," Ohno said as he sat back and went to work again.
Forrinalin: Ohno, unpracticed.
Pratice makes perfect
Ohno had kissed plenty of people in his life.
Girls and boys.
("Kohara and Yara both said Machi was girl-pretty, but then they said that about me, too, so I still think that kissing Machi counts as boy-kissing if we were both girls," Ohno explained drunkenly.
"...what?" said Sho.
"Leader is a lesbian," Jun said promptly. "Keep up.")
So it only stood to reason that he was good at it.
("Too much tongue, Oh-chan!"
"It is not!"
"It is so! Aiba, we need a second opinion!"
"...too much tongue, Leader. Try it like this!")
Which was why he didn't understand how come it was always Sho or Jun the fans picked as the member they most wanted to kiss.
("You want to practice what?" Toma asked.)
...huh.
I should be back in a few days with actual fic. If you see a glaring error, let me know. I typed it right in the update window because my word program is being a bitch.
But! That's not what you're here for! What you ARE here for are the drabbles--which might actually not be drabbles. Orz.
For
honooko: Nino, 'necklace'.Chain unbroken
The first gift that Nino ever bought that was not for his family or his bandmates and was not a meal, the first one that actually cost him a lot of money, was for Noriko. It was a silver necklace and the pendant on it was a little silver rectangle with a little heart cut out in the middle. It was pure silver; he'd wanted gold but that had been more than he'd been able to really afford.
He never got the chance to give it to her. Their 'scandal' had broke and it hadn't seemed like the right time to give her something so bright, so full of their promise. Then the scandal had broken again and then they had broken.
For a long time he kept the necklace in his guitar case, the little box tucked in next to the extra strings and tuning pegs. Eventually the ache had faded and the regret had trailed off and he'd been able to look at his time with Noriko without flinching, to see 'them' like he could see his great baseball career--something that could have been, might have been, probably wouldn't have been.
"Hey!" said Sho suddenly.
Nino ignored the jolt and calmly continued fastening the catch. Aiba looked up and, from the corner of his eye, Nino saw him startle just a bit. He remembered that Aiba had been with him the day he'd bought the necklace and the day that he'd put it away. He smiled down at the top of Sho's head, trusting Aiba to understand that the necklace was just that now: something that Nino had once bought, intending to give to somebody he cared about.
"Quit bitching," he told Sho pleasantly. "You're the one who said you wanted to accessorize for this filming."
"Yeah," said Sho, "but what is it?" Nino finished the clasp and patted Sho's shoulder, watching as Sho lifted the pendant away from his skin and squinted at it. "Oh. It's pretty."
"It means you're his girlfriend now," Aiba said seriously.
Jun hit him. "He is not; Sho is everybody's girlfriend."
For
15th_moon: Nino, magic.This Magic Moment
"MatsuJun, MatsuJun, MatsuJun!" Aiba jumped him at the greenroom door. "Pick a card, okay?"
Jun pulled a card and flipped it at Aiba's face.
"You're not supposed to show it to me!" Aiba scolded him. "Now I have to reshuffle."
Sho sidled up to him at the catering table. "I'm holding the Ace of Diamonds, the Ace of Spades, and the Ace of Clubs," he said, flashing the three cards at him. "But if you tap the middle card three times, it'll change one of them!" He turned the cards over, their blue backs showing.
Jun grabbed the middle card and turned it over. The Ace of Hearts was upside down, the little point at the bottom on the top, looking very diamond-like.
"Jun!" Sho groused. "That's not how the trick works."
Ohno landed in his lap, cut the deck of cards in his hands, and held them out to Jun without a word.
Jun dumped him on his ass on the floor and went to sit with Abi-san behind the cameras while waiting for the staff to set up Aibaland.
"Jun-kun," Nino purred. "My disciples say you won't play cards with them."
Jun slapped the back of Nino's head as hard as he could, only barely managing a glancing blow as he ducked away.
"Aww, Jun-pon," Nino cooed, "does magic still creep you out?"
For
beckerbell: Kagami, siblings (or happiness)Different, yet still the same
He asks Tadokoro about it a few weeks after everything changes and their lives are suddenly normal. He doesn't mean to.
"Does your brother know?"
He doesn't even know that it's on his mind until the question is out, too late to be recalled.
Tadokoro gives him a long, unreadable look, the noodles still stretching long in his hands as he hangs them to dry. "Since we were children," he says at last.
"Oh," says Kagami. Then he nods energetically. "Good. All right. Do you want help with the noodles?" he asks as he's already reaching but Tadokoro nods anyhow.
And they hang the noodles together, Tadokoro moving fast and efficient and Kagami more slowly and with less surety. His speed picks up as they go along.
"It was a car accident," Tadokoro says. His hands keep moving steadily and so Kagami's do as well. "The day the Natives arrived. The driver was looking at the sky and not the street where the children were playing."
Kagami thinks he should say something. "Oh," he says, quietly.
"Everybody was," Tadokoro says, pardoning a person who existed in a moment that came and went over thirty-five years ago.
"He was hit."
"I was nearby," Tadokoro confirms. "Only close enough to take his place."
"Your brother saw it."
"Yes."
The noodles are gone and Tadokoro moves to the next bowl, a bowl of dough. The dough goes down on the floured counter, the rolling pin comes out. Tadokoro's hands move the pin, the dough, smoothing it out, folding it over in quick and easy movements.
Kagami thinks about Ryou, the Worm, the Natives, Tsurugi, Hiyori, Tadokoro, and himself. Mostly he thinks about Ryou and the way he smiled and laughed and tightened the laces on his baseball glove with his teeth.
Tadokoro cuts the first strip of noodles and hands them to him.
"Thank you," Kagami says, meeting Tadokoro's eyes and meaning it.
For a moment, Tadokoro looks surprised and then he smiles, let's out a puff of laughter and they begin to hang noodles again.
A song comes over the radio. Kagami sings along and Tadokoro's brother comes into the kitchen saying, "Ani!", and slapping a hand on his older brother's shoulder.
For
ferinough: MatsuJun, eyebrows.Pluck YOU
He woke up because Ohno was sitting on his chest and drawing on his face.
"Are you making caterpillars again?" he asked. Had it been morning, he might have been grumpier but as it was, Ohno was waking him from an afternoon nap.
"Uh-huh," Ohno said distractedly. "It has rainbow feet."
Jun shifted under him. "I should hit you so hard," he yawned.
"Uh-huh," Ohno agreed. "But Jun-chan has cute eyebrows." He wriggled and Jun opened his eyes just in time to see Ohno loom close and then he felt a soft, warm pressure on his forehead, right between his eyebrows. "They're happy caterpillars."
"Are they washable markers this time?" Jun sighed.
"I got them directly from Sho-chan," Ohno said as he sat back and went to work again.
For
rinalin: Ohno, unpracticed.Pratice makes perfect
Ohno had kissed plenty of people in his life.
Girls and boys.
("Kohara and Yara both said Machi was girl-pretty, but then they said that about me, too, so I still think that kissing Machi counts as boy-kissing if we were both girls," Ohno explained drunkenly.
"...what?" said Sho.
"Leader is a lesbian," Jun said promptly. "Keep up.")
So it only stood to reason that he was good at it.
("Too much tongue, Oh-chan!"
"It is not!"
"It is so! Aiba, we need a second opinion!"
"...too much tongue, Leader. Try it like this!")
Which was why he didn't understand how come it was always Sho or Jun the fans picked as the member they most wanted to kiss.
("You want to practice what?" Toma asked.)
...huh.
I should be back in a few days with actual fic. If you see a glaring error, let me know. I typed it right in the update window because my word program is being a bitch.
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