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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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Date: 2009-01-15 10:06 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2009-01-15 10:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-15 10:18 pm (UTC)I'm glad you've enabled the comments, I've been stalking your journal for quite some time now :D
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Date: 2009-01-15 10:28 pm (UTC)"Leader is a lesbian," Jun said promptly. "Keep up."
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Date: 2009-01-15 10:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-15 10:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-15 10:58 pm (UTC)It was seriously hilarious xDDDDDD
And the first one....Jun is just always amazing xDDD
*still giggle at the caterpillars eyebrowns*
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Date: 2009-01-15 11:04 pm (UTC)Either that or everybody's whipped boyfriend. XD Also: I love the idea of everyone being Nino's magic disciple. ^.^ Jun, you know you'll crack sooner or later. XD
Oh, god, I am so glad you enabled comments so now I can SQUEE at you. ♥♥♥♥♥
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Date: 2009-01-15 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-15 11:22 pm (UTC)Eyebrow caterpillars! What a great idea.
Oh, and the necklace thing was very sweet. I like the idea of the necklace stored in the guitar case, along with all the stuff that is in there.
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Date: 2009-01-15 11:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-16 12:31 am (UTC)"Leader is a lesbian," Jun said promptly. "Keep up."
Brilliant.
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Date: 2009-01-16 12:34 am (UTC)Also, the one with Kagami and Tadokoro-san, oh my god yes. I totally buy that same theory (I always assumed the original was sick or something, but car accident on the day it happened, yes) and it wasn't quite what I thought of with the prompt, but it's brilliant. THERE SHOULD TOTALLY BE MORE TADOKORO-SAN IN FIC. o/
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Date: 2009-01-16 01:00 am (UTC)That and enabled comments, so I can do this:
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Date: 2009-01-16 01:43 am (UTC)And rainbow caterpillars alkkdfjlzkbcva washable markers AHAHAHA. OH MY GOD. WHY ARE THESE ALL SO EXCELLENT. AND OHNO KISSING. *___________* AND HELLO OHNO/TOMA MENTION, I FULLY SUPPORT THIS.
"Leader is a lesbian," Jun said promptly. "Keep up."
:D :D :D :D WIN. DYING. MY SIDE IT HURTS FROM LAUGHING.
Hi sorry, excuse me, I'm just a creepy person who found you ages ago via links from other people and NOW YOU HAVE COMMENTS ENABLED SO I CAN VOCIFEROUSLY STALK YOUR ARASHIFIC. *BEAMS*
*trundles off to find other places to shower you with love*
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Date: 2009-01-16 01:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-16 06:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-16 06:19 am (UTC)*also thrilled you allowed comments* Now I can praise you inscesently.
"My disciples say you won't play cards with them."
Best line I've heard all day.
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Date: 2009-01-18 07:59 pm (UTC)SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM
omg I loved all of these so badly. The first one broke my heart -- I'm glad Nino ended up giving the necklace to Sho but omg wouldn't it be nice for Noriko to have something to remember him by? ;____; Aiba, omg. "It means you're his girlfriend now." T____T
And: DISCIPLES ADHKJASHDKAH KAD and he seems so nonchalant about it too. I loved Ohno's part the most, how he doesn't say anything and just holds the cards out lmao.
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Date: 2009-01-21 05:04 pm (UTC)Oh, and I don't usually notice Aimiya, but the first fic = AIMIYA LOVE. ♥ ♥
Thanks for this! (Haha, no PM-ing anymore. XDDD)
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Date: 2009-01-22 07:00 am (UTC)For some reason I really love Ohno's time with MA. Maybe it's because he and Machida looked like girls while Yara and Kohara looked like boys but I like to throw them in to stuff when I can.
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Date: 2009-01-22 07:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-22 07:03 am (UTC)traumatizelove him more often.(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-22 07:04 am (UTC)late comment is late!
Date: 2009-01-22 07:07 am (UTC)That theory--it seriously is the only way I can explain Tadokoro. He's just...there's no way he could do that. Not and be the same guy who goes out of his way to protect Kagami and Misaki. The only way I can fanwank away the Natives who killed Tendou's parents is that they honestly felt there was no other way to protect the program and the other Natives.
(There should be more Kabuto fic in general. Also: I have another idea based on your prompt. I just need to find time. You do brilliant prompts.)
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Date: 2009-01-23 06:02 am (UTC)I think MA are adorable, and I love to see them come into Ohno fic. (And I would adore if there were even just one Sho/MA fic because he was, like, an honorary member or something, wasn't he? Plus there's that bit in one of the junior concerts where he gives Kohara a bouquet of flowers and it's, um, really straight. >_>) I wish it were easier to keep tabs on them, though. I get sort of sad over all the mutations the group's gone through over the years and the people they've lost. Like, now that Akiyama's gone and they're down to three I keep thinking, okay, who's going to leave next?
Being a fan of a debuted group draws my attention away from the fact that there are so many juniors who never get to debut, and for the ones who leave earlier that's not too big of a deal, but what about the ones who do hang around into their twenties? I'm sure there's other work out there for them, but it still feels almost like they're being cheated. ;_; At least I don't feel so bad about it in Toma's case, since he's making a name for himself in dramas and things, but for MA... I don't know. Does it ever reach a point where an undebuted group gets too old to stick around anymore? And what then? There should be some sort of pension plan or something, hahaha. Well, they seem to be having fun with Koichi for now anyway. But still. They make my heart hurt a little. :( (Do you know if there are any still-existing junior groups that have been around longer than MA? I'm kind of curious about this.)
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Date: 2009-01-29 03:08 am (UTC)I actually don't know a whole lot about MA or the other Junior groups--I only joined this fandom...well, not even a year ago. Before that I didn't even know what Johnny's was. I think the groups used to change a lot a few years ago--like Toma was in four or five different groups because every time a member left, they reformed. I'm pretty sure MA (and it's spin-off group M.A.D.) is the oldest of the groups. I think MA formed in early '99.
I do feel bad for some of the Juniors (Toma has a really nice singing voice--I sort of wonder why he wasn't put into a group) but, at the same time, they honestly can't promote everybody. And I think Johnny's is sort of branching out a bit--like Toma is sort of famous even though he didn't debut because he's done so much acting. And some groups--like M.A.D.--I don't think even want to debut, necessarily. The guys in M.A.D. seem pretty happy to backdance for Arashi and some of the other guys. (Which, where would Johnny's be without backdancers?) So maybe they think of it as different levels of between being a Junior and a debuted act?
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Date: 2009-01-29 08:02 am (UTC)I'm pretty much in the same boat as you, just a few months ahead (I didn't know what Johnny's was until around November of 2007). So I really don't know much about the Juniors either, and I don't really have much interest in most of them honestly. MA grabbed my attention through Arashi, obviously. For a while I didn't know much about them. And then on a whim I downloaded Domoto Koichi's solo cons to see them backdancing, and I don't think I really realized just how prominently they'd show up in the DVDs (it's practically like watching a five-person group sometimes). A-and that Akiyama and Machida had big fat fanboy crushes on DoKo. >_> (Give me adorable boycrushes and I am sold, you know?) I still don't know that much about them, though, considering how (relatively) little there is out there.
Yeah, the Junior groups did seem to change a lot. It's hard to know how to look at it. I mean, not knowing the way any of it works - salaries, contracts, all that - not to mention the way the various Juniors themselves feel, it's impossible to judge. And I guess you could say at least they're not stuck with each other and with the company if any of them want to leave. I always laugh through all of Arashi's I-wanted-to-quit discussions because they seem so happy together now, but it must have been sort of awful for them at the time. You're right about the backdancing, too - debuted groups will always need backdancers. It just seems to me that at some point the backdancers will probably get traded out for younger ones, and then what? And when it comes down to it, I probably just miss seeing Akki with MA (and no one really knows the true circumstances behind his departure, so maybe he even wanted to leave). And the fact that they seem to be down to Yonehana and Machida now that Yara's busy with other things. It's just not something I think about too often or know too much about, so it's interesting to talk about once in a while. Thanks for indulging me. ;)