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ddaenggtan · 5 years ago

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☽ - angst | ♡ - fluff | ꕤ - smut | ⛒ - dark

i’ll be updating this as I go! this will be the first place i announce the actual publishing of fics, so y’all know when to expect them officially, but i do also have a wip list for you if you’re curious about what i’m actually physically writing. every series i post will also have its own masterlist page, which is always going to be linked with the story’s blurb and in the actual post for the fic.

✧ 666 masterlist

stories that feature you, a millenia-old vampire lovingly nicknamed Medici by your friends, and the somewhat debauched and very interesting adventures you all have.

✧ monsters and gods masterlist

a series of oneshots, each centering around the greek gods and legends. learn the truth behind the myths, and see how some of these deities and creatures of old navigate the modern world.

✧ lay me gently | greek god!au | ♡ ꕤ | 12.9k | monsters and gods pt 2 | 9.7.2019

there is no time for loneliness among the fires of your forge, no room in your buzzing mind for thoughts of anything but your next invention and the pain in your leg. your life is tilted off its axis, though, when your parents arrange a marriage without your knowledge or consent, and your new husband begins to situate himself into your life despite protests from either of you. you don’t know what zeus and hera have planned, but a volcano is no place for a love god like seokjin.

✧ 666 butterfly kisses (666verse) | vamp!reader, fae!jin | ꕤ | 4.7k | 6.10.2019

✧ birthday candles | ꕤ | vamp!reader, werewolf!yooongi, fae prince!jin | 4kish | 11.11.2019

you’re a vampire in renaissance italy who likes earning favors from the most powerful men in the country. you just aren’t used to meeting handsome men that might be assassins and definitely give you the best orgasms of your life.

or; the first time you met the fae prince, but certainly not the last. | 666 masterlist

a few of your friends help make your birthday extra special. | 666 masterlist

✧ half-baked holiday | ♡ ꕤ | baker!jin, grump!mc, f2l, i2l | 12.6k | 04.12.19

Granny Park’s Gossip:

That Seokjin, don’t get me started on him. He’s worked hard to open and run that bakery of his, you know, and I’m so proud that it’s so successful now. Wish he would find a nice person to settle down with, though, he deserves it, as long as he’s been on his own. Well, I guess you can’t really call it alone when he’s got that grump of a best friend always hanging around him. He really should be paying her, what with all the time she spends at the bakery with him. She’s always waking up on the wrong side of the bed, but she’s not so bad when she brings me some of those cookies of his, or just around Seokjin in general, if I’m honest. Too distracted by staring at that pretty face of his, I suppose, though who can blame her? | part of The Snowball Effect Collab

✧ monachopsis | ☽ ♡ | namjin | selkie!jin, marine biologist!joon | 5.7k | 16.03.20

seokjin knows - has known, for years - that his life will be like this forever. there is no more sea, there is no more swimming, there is no more of anything he used to know. this is life - wake up, go to a shoot, try not to piss giho off, go home, sleep, wake up again. because he was caught. because giho owns him. because he can’t.

but then he meets namjoon. and seokjin starts to realize that maybe…just maybe. he can.

✧ from eden | greek god!au | ♡ ꕤ ☽ | 15.6k | monsters and gods pt 1 | 16.6.2019

you’ve been in the dark a long time, overworked and exhausted. the only bright point is your gatekeeper, hoseok, your closest friend and the man you love but can’t have. you’ve accepted that loneliness is inevitable for you. when a voice calls to you, though, and moves you so deeply that you rip open the earth to help them, you meet a mint-haired boy that changes everything you thought you knew about your prison. | ft jhs | alternate ending

✧ penguins | boyfriend au | ꕤ | 3.5k | 18.7.2019

your long-time boyfriend takes you on a cute date to an aquarium, but gets a little jealous when you run into an old friend. it becomes his mission to set you back on track and remind you just who you belong to.

✧ backalley brawl (666verse) | werewolf au | 3.5k | 23.9.2019

You've been followed by a werewolf all day, and you're done being stalked in the night. Somehow you didn't expect him to need you to help him with a rather sensitive problem.

or; yoongi’s in rut and needs someone to help him out | 666 masterlist

✧ birthday candles (666verse) | ꕤ | vamp!reader, werewolf!yooongi, fae prince!jin | 4kish | 11.11.2019

a few of your friends help make your birthday extra special. | 666 masterlist

【ｍｉｎ　ｙｏｏｎｊｉ】

✧ as we go along | ♡ ꕤ | neighbors au, e2l, pining | 10.4k | 24.12.2019

Four years ago, the beautiful stunning attractive frustrating Min Yoonji came into your life. Ever since, it’s been a competition between the two of you to win the HOA’s Holiday Decorating Contest. The fiery looks she gives you paired with the pointed insults throw you off your game every year, but not this time. This holiday season, you’re determines to win; and along the way you might just find that Yoonji’s been trying to win something else.

;OR the queer hallmark movie of your dreams. | part of the 25 Days of Christmas: A BTS Anthology

✧ amae | neighbor!hobi | ♡ | 6.7k | 28.05.2019

amae - japanese. the way you act when you want to depend on another person. relying on someone’s goodwill and love to help you. frequently thought of as wanting to be loved and taken care of.

when someone new moves in next door, you don’t expect to become friends. everyone on your block was friendly, yes, but none of you gave more than a courteous wave when you spotted each other in passing. that changes with jung hoseok; a literature professor with sunlight gleaming out of every pore, who enjoys complex lectures, random coffee trips, and…sleeping in your hammock? curiosity gets the better of you as you befriend him, but just what could have this man sleeping in your garden hammock every night?

✧ from eden | greek god!au | ♡ ꕤ ☽ | 15.6k | monsters and gods pt 1 | 16.6.2019

✧ hearts on fire | hanahaki au | ♡ ☽ | 6.5k | 02.02.2020

Hoseok has been in love with you for as long as he can remember, and he’s beyond excited to see you married and glowing.

He just really wishes that he was the groom.

✧ give and take | mechanic!au | ♡ ꕤ | 10.5k | 18.05.2019

when your beloved jeep breaks down, you have no choice but to take it to a mechanic for once instead of trying to fix it yourself. you fully expected to empty your wallet or get told to just buy a new car. you don’t expect to meet kim namjoon, nor do you expect him to be hot like burning, sweet as honey, and interested in you.

✧ backseat memories | mechanic!au | ♡ ꕤ | ongoing drabble series | 18.05.2020

A collection of memories between you and the mechanic who saved your Jeep.

;or, the give and take sequel | on ao3

✧ 666 medici drive | supernatural!au | ꕤ | 4.5k | 30.08.2019

you decide to help garden witch kim namjoon gather ingredients he needs from local incubus kim taehyung, in a much more fun way than the two originally planned. | ft kth | 666 masterlist

✧ forever rain | ghost!reader au | ☽ ♡ ꕤ | 18.8k | 12.09.2019

being dead isn’t anything exciting. just a lot of walking the same halls of the same apartment day after day after day. things change when the new tennant arrives, though. kim namjoon isn’t anything you could have expected; not the way he’s so careful and gentle with his plants because he breaks so many other things, not the way his friends joke that he’s psychic because you refuse to let him get in the face one time, and certainly not the way he comes after literal months spent moving things away from table edges for him and announces that he knows he’s being haunted and he has some questions for you. you didn’t know ghosts could fall in love, but he makes you feel alive again, like you’re standing in the rain while thunder crashes around you. you should’ve known nothing good would come of falling in love with someone living, though. you should’ve known that heartbreak was the only way this could end. that the rain doesn’t last forever.

✧ midnight wishes | roommates/coworkers/fwb au | ☽ ♡ ꕤ | 10.3k | 21.12.2019

Granny Park’s Gossip:

That boy. Never met anyone as prone to disaster as he is while being so damned smart, except maybe that roommate of his. The two of them could probably cure cancer if they wanted to, but you leave them alone for more than a few seconds and you’re liable to come back to disaster. Jiminie did say they’ve been acting a little different, though, maybe they finally wised up and made things official instead of just humping like bunnies around that apartment of theirs. Oh, am I not supposed to say that? | part of The Snowball Effect Collab

✧ monachopsis | ☽ ♡ | namjin | selkie!jin, marine biologist!joon | 5.7k | 16.03.20

but then he meets namjoon. and seokjin starts to realize that maybe…just maybe. he can.

✧ coming soon ✧

✧ 666 medici drive | supernatural!au | ꕤ | 4.5k | 30.08.2019

you decide to help garden witch kim namjoon gather ingredients he needs from local incubus kim taehyung, in a much more fun way than the two originally planned. | ft knj | 666 masterlist

✧ black irises in the sunshine | greek god au | ☽ ♡ ꕤ | 14k | monsters and gods part 3 | 31.12.2019

anger is everything. other gods tease you for the short fuse, but it comes with the territory. people have called you stupid, have called you dumb, oafish, useless, incompetent, insolent, rude, arrogant. all of it. insults and mockery flung at you, but even your skin isn’t thick enough to deal with constant abuse. it’s the exact reason you keep going to the underground, knuckles bloody and bruised, fighting anyone that dared enter the cage. it’s the reason you go to the clubs, surround yourself with mortals and their writhing bodies. it’s there that you see him the first time, voice husky as it rolls through the room. it’s there you find someone who treats you differently than the rest. you just never expected him to be one of the muses.

✧ chasing butterflies | nerdy!jk | ♡ ꕤ | 12.7k | 01.06.2019

you never meant to be a jock in school. the volleyball team had just needed people and you were there and then you had a knack for it. you just happened to be good at it and went with it. similar to how you saw jeon jungkook in your friend’s orientation group and thought he was absolutely radiant and just went with it. for two years. you’ve spent the entire time pining from afar, mostly because you always seem to make a fool of yourself when he’s around, but also because jungkook is part of that exclusive crowd, the ones that you never can seem to penetrate: the weebs. that is, until your friends get sick of your hopeless pining and decide to do something about it. | sequel drabble posted 01.09.2019

✧ birthday candles | ꕤ | vamp!reader, werewolf!yooongi, fae prince!jin, small kook feature at the end | 4kish | 11.11.2019

a few of your friends help make your birthday extra special. | 666 masterlist

#masterlist #ddaenggtan

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carnal-lnstinct · 5 years ago

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Conton City Lockdown

Summary: Time patrollers have returned from missions carrying an unknown disease and infecting others denizens of Conton City with it, forcing Trunks and Supreme Kai of Time to shut down most operations and training around the City and drastically limit missions for a while until they can get everything under control. Everyone is instructed to stay inside their assigned domiciles until further notice. "Who knows what that could do to the timeline if Patrollers pass it on during a mission?!" Supreme Kai of Time urges Conton. The Conton City Hero has also been quarantined with her current Master, Goku much to both their dismay as there was still so much training left. What other shenanigans can the two saiyans get themselves into while being all cooped up.

Word Count: 7,140 (Chapter 1) AO3 Rating: Explicit / Mature Warning: nsfw ( smut, explicit language ) A/N: This was inspired by tumblr's lilhemmo/AO3 moegan's "Alone Together" series (Definitely check that out) and the recent events effecting the world today. An anthology of encounters with the beloved earthy saiyan, Goku who is the current Master of the Saiyan Time Patroller, currently known around as the Conton City Hero. I can't do anything but write in this quarantine so here we go! Also, it has been YEARS since I wrote smut so the rust will be very evident.

Chapter 1

This was such a waste of time. You didn't spend all this time getting stronger just to be thrown into hiding from some fever and little coughing going around. As far as you could tell only the humans and namekians were getting sick, but it was pressed urgently by The Supreme Kai of Time and Trunks that everyone take part in preventing it from spreading around lest more patrollers are put out of commission because of it. Even the Hero of Time was getting involved in it. Your long tail flicked in annoyance as you stare outside the window with a grump, upset that on such a perfect day for perfecting a new move you were stuck inside to endure the sounds of your current teacher gobbling down all your food behind you. "Never been sick a day in my whole life." You grumbled. Were you not all warriors of your respective races? Stronger than anything that has come at you? That was why you were all chosen in the first place to help fix time. As selfish as it sounded coming from the Hero of Conton City, it doesn't change the fact that sitting idle for an undetermined amount of time would settle in your warrior blood so easily. With a growl, you immediately turn to let off some steam, giving your own Master an earful, "How can you just sit there and eat at a time like this?! Aren't you the least bit concerned as to when we can go back out to finish training!" You snap, breaking the doe-eyed Saiyan's concentration as he looked at you, cheeks full to the brim and chopsticks hanging off his lips.

"Aw c'mon, there's no need to worry on an empty stomach. Besides, this place has everything! I'm sure if Bulma gets involved she'll be able to fix this up in a jiffy." Goku's muffled protest follows an audible gulp as he reaches over and pats the empty table setting across from him. " Now come on, as your fighting Master I order you to sit and chow down with me, or else!"

"Th- That's not how that works! You don't get to boss me around like a child!" You growled again, but so does your stomach, prompting your cheeks to tint a pink at how your body betrayed you in the moment. Goku hums an "over here~" sound as he pointed to empty space again with his chopsticks, settling back down to continue his assault on the various plates around him. You tuck your arms and turn your head away, however you do walk over and sit down across from him. Your temper subsided as you begin to eat, pace picking up to match that of your Master's as the flavors settle on your tongue. Before you know it all the plates are empty for the most part, leaving only small traces of food behind and some bones picked clean of their spoils. That really did hit the spot, but it only reminded you now that you felt 100% again there was no way of burning off the energy. The assigned housing of the Time Patrollers are pretty spacious, about the size of a one bedroom apartment but that could not accommodate a saiyan's training methods. Let alone Mr. "Go All Out" and his teaching style. You were so excited to keep practicing the Super Kamehameha Wave you recently learned. In truth it wasn't that much different from the others you learned in your training other than its charge time, but it did pack a bigger punch and you needed to know how to effectively apply it in battle if you were every going to whip it out successfully. Goku's been pretty relentless in his sparring with you because of it too, purposely not giving you the opening you needed to apply the new skill but hoping you find your own way to use it for your benefit. You were so sure you finally had it, too. You sigh leaning back in your chair and craning your head back over the edge, hearing your Master stretch himself out as well and suddenly get up from the table. "Alright! Well, since we can't train anymore for today I guess I better get goin'."

"You can't." You point out not making any movement from your restful position. "Supreme Kai of Time says we all have to stay put. That include you, Kakarot."

"What?! No way, that's hardly fair."

You jerk your head up to look at him, scowling at his whine. "That's what I said hours ago before you started stuffing your face!"

"Well, yeah but see, If I use the Instant Transmission technique, so long as I avoid anyone whose sick I shouldn't get it." The larger Saiyan confidently explains with his signature grin. You sigh, knowing the logic was pretty sound for him but there was still some issues with that.

"There was a whole announcement about this from Trunks. It's airborne, 'Master' , and also passed on through physical contact. Even if you Instant Transmission back, there's no way of telling who has it when you come in contact with them or if you became a carrier while you were already here training others. Then you pass it on to everyone you know and all of a sudden all your Earthling friends are sick. There's no sensu bean for that, remember?" You explain to him calmly now, somehow hearing it from your own mouth makes it seem more of an emergency than Trunks and Supreme Kai of Time making their announcements throughout the city. "Sure...Bulma could be helpful somehow, but if she gets it too..." This really is serious. The despondent look your Master gives you all but breaks your heart as he sits back down and mull over what's going on. "Like it or not Teach', we're stuck here until they give the okay."

Realizing you're now going to have to accommodate your single space for another, you cross your hands against your chest again in thought. You know the Conton Bots are doing what they can to sanitize the whole city and keeping rations in order so cleaner utilities would be the best first stop. Your storage gadget may need to be cleaned off, too. Goku doesn't seem the type to carry around any tools so he may not need anything sent out for the bots. You have a pretty comfy couch he can crash on, too. Since you were both outside today, you're going to have to change. Luckily he left some spare clothes here the last time you trained, that blue tracksuit he got from King Kai's planet. You open your mouth beginning to bring it up but hesitate and a small croak comes out instead, prompting him to look at you curiously. If you bring up King Kai, he's sure to teleport there instead leaving you here alone. Nope! Not after this mess he made of all the dishes! You clear your throat and put aside that fact for a while. "W-well, you better get cleaning. These dishes aren't going to wash themselves." You cheekily say as you fold your arms behind your head, kicking your feet up at the table. Goku gapes at you.

"No way! You made just as many as me! What kind of selfish meanie makes their guest do all the work, anyways?!" He whines once again, looking over the pile of bowls and plates that stood higher than him in his seated position. You grin and shrug, snapping a finger at him, "Chop, Chop." Goku pouts, standing up and leaning over an opening among the tall stack.

"Then I challenge you for it! Rock, Paper, Scissors!" He grins once again, extending his hand with a closed fist in the "rock" formation. You tilt your head and smirk. He had you at "challenge". You extend your hand as well in the same position. "Loser does the dishes."

"Ready?" He smirks, game face on.

"Yep."

"Rock! Paper! Scissors, Go!" Goku switches his hand to form paper "Rock! Paper! Scissors, Go!" You leave your fist to form rock.

"--Wait! Best two out of three!" You readied your hand again, intensely staring down his as he moves back into the starting position with a giggle.

"Fine then! Get ready!"

"Rock! Paper! Scissors, Go!" Goku switches his hand to form paper again "Rock! Paper! Scissors, Go!" You switch your hand to form scissors.

"For the win! Go!" You shout, excited.

"Rock! Paper! Scissors, Go!" Goku switches his hands to form paper once more. "Rock! Paper! Scissors, Go!" You switch your hands to form rock.

You growl loudly, slamming your fist onto the table in defeat and rattling the stack of dishes, Goku holds two fingers air, posing for victory and motioning away from the dining table. "Alright! It's settled then. Looks like you still have more to learn, pupil." He giggles again. You could sock him in his face right now for that. But a deal's a deal. You'll settle this later when you're allowed to get outside again. "Don't think this is over!" You shout out after him as he rounds a corner into the main area of the domicile. Pile by pile is begrudgingly moved from the table to the sink, water running to allow it to heat up as you started on the chore. You mutter again, sure he cheated somehow in that last round with his freaky god powers or something to get in your head. Regardless, the pile was taken care of and the dishes were stowed away as you sigh with relief it was over. You make your way back over to the suspiciously quiet main area of your home to find Goku flipping through a book with a colorful cover. Once you noticed the black and white images on the exposed pages, you froze.

"What the hell are you doing?!" You fling yourself at the taller male to snatch the manga from his hands and curl around it to keep it from his eyes, using your tail as some makeshift bat to swat him away. "That's not for you to look at!" You shriek at him. No one must know the Conton City Hero was into such trashy reads. If one could call it reading.

Goku with his hands up defensively takes a step back and blinks confusedly. "Woah, What? How come? It's just a book, isn't it? I, uh, just noticed the people on the front of it had tails like Saiyans." He laughs, "Is it like a wrestling book or something? They have some pretty weird techniques...Oh! I get it, you're going to use those as secret techniques to fight with."

"IT'S NOT FIGHTING!" You're louder and clearly defensive, but curiosity already has the best of your Saiyan Master. You get back to your feet holding the manga close your body staring him down with your dark eyes. "It's...literature." You pause, now averting your eyes as your face warms to a pink blush. "I...read it for fun, that's all."

"Oh..." He tilts his head after a moment of silence, "Why would anyone do that?"

"I HAVE OTHER HOBBIES THAN FIGHTING, JACKASS!" You snap again, energy flaring in your hostility despite the redness of your cheeks, making your master throw his arms up again defensively, somewhat shrinking away from you.

"Okay, okay! Sorry, I won't touch it anymore. Doesn't seem like my kind of thing anyways." He laughs more nervously this time, scratching at the back of his head unsure how to proceed to calm the atmosphere again. "Uh.. I guess I should have noticed it wasn't for fighting. I don't see how mashing your mouths together is gonna win a fight. " You shudder at his words, practically disgusted by his naivety. How in the hell was this one of the strongest warriors in all the known universes? Who refers to it as "mashing your mouths together"? You somewhat calm yourself after realizing he has no idea what he was looking through despite being left alone with it long enough to figure out. Honestly, it would be like explaining it to a child. A scrutinizing glare lingers on the larger saiyan's face making him waver just a little under your eyes, scratching a finger across his slightly pink cheek. "...What? Do I have something on my face?"

"...Goku." You straighten up, lowering your arms to your side with the book in hand.

"Y-yeah?"

"Have you...never kissed anyone before?"

His eyes widen a little more in their doe-like stare, innocence now present in his visage. "Kissing? What's that?"

You practically choke on your words as they all try to come out at once. "Y-You're kidding! Y-You're...You're married! With Kids!"

"Me? Married? I don't remember that. Oh, that's right. Chi Chi wanted me to be married to her a long time ago but I guess she got fed up with me and stopped asking me." He laughs once again, hand back on the back of his head.

You are frozen again in shock, the cogs are turning in your brain as you process and sum up the information you were given with a look similar to your Master's confused gape. The Saiyan Goku you know as your master is not married to Chi Chi? If time traveling and universe hopping had taught you anything it was that there were thousands of possibilities of how time flowed and it all kept a balance to their respective universe but what kind of timeline could occur in a universe where there is no Gohan or Goten? No one there to save Dende from Frieza's slaughtering henchman or defeat Cell in his perfect form? What becomes of the fusion technique if Goten is not there to fuse with Trunks and fight the evil Super Buu? How...could he have possibly achieve the Super Saiyan God form without them? You gasp, blinking yourself out of your trance. Is he just the strongest version of Goku? A version never anchored by family, who could train endlessly from master to master and only grow more powerful as time goes on. No wonder he's here teaching Time Patrollers how to harden their battle prowess and hone new techniques. It's an amazing thought, and frightening. "So-" You stepped closer, giving him the same look the demon Fu gave you before asking for some of your blood. "So you have never...kissed with anyone before? Not even as a reward for all the times you saved the world or cared enough about anyone to try it?!"

"Uhh...I guess not." He shrugs, guileless.

"Well..that doesn't excuse not knowing what it is! You saw Vegeta and Bulma at their wedding, didn't you?! Or...Old Man Roshi's magazines?" Kami, you hope that last part is a definite no. Your questions only seem to confuse your Master further and make him just a little bit uncomfortable with how close you were to him prying into his affairs like that. "Afraid not." He laughs, "I was actually dead when they got married. King Kai was busy training me in the Other World."

"....Oh." Is all you can say, backing off from him now. "That actually sounds very lonely of you." But it all made...some semblance of sense. Goku as you have come to know him has never seemed the type to be bothered by those kinds of things. A literal man child living out his dream of wanting to becoming stronger and fight the strongest out there with all his friends cheering him on. Same could be said for Vegeta but he has at least kissed his wife.

You take in this moment as you finally having something over your master who likes to rub it in how you need to become stronger to beat him in a real fight. Not with kissing! Though to be fair, your first kiss was a mistake on itself. When you really were a rookie Patroller out on a mission with others and you got slapped down hard by Perfect Cell into a Majin landing face to face, lip to lip as the yellow blob had surged forward to try to meet your impact and catch you only for it to end up like that and you both knocked down by the force of Cell's attack. It doesn't count, you continue to tell yourself, but in this case it could! You brush that off and smirk at Goku who is still looking more confused than ever. "Ha...So you're not the man I thought you were, Kakarot." You smugly say to the man you have deemed the strongest version of himself. A hand resting on your cocked hip, you jab a finger into his chest where it peaked out from the gi given to him by Whis. "No wonder you have all this free time to train."

The orange clad saiyan gives a childish pout at you. "How can you say that? Cut me some slack, I'm still a lot stronger than you." Here we go again.

"Tch- Well at least I have kissed someone before! And know what a kiss is!" You raise your voice back in the larger Saiyan's face, wearing your pride full on your sleeves.

"Well I don't see what the big deal is. It looks pretty strange to just do that to someone." Goku nonchalantly points out once again about what he's seen in your manga. How can he still seem so calm about it after seeing such an exaggerated version of it for the first time?

"People do it to feel good, Kakarot! It's suppose to make both people feel good!"

"Alright, Alright, I get it. Settle down now." He attempts to withdraw from riling you up even further, smiling innocently. "Wow.. Maybe someone should kiss you to make you feel good, huh?" Your face is pure red and your stun silent. You shrink away embarrassed he even had the nerve to say that. Here you were trying to get a rise out of him and he's managed to flip the script on you instead. Again! This was not how this was suppose to go. "Oh whatever!" You finally stammer out before slapping the book against his chest. It doesn't phase him, only making him laugh more.

"I'm sorry, (y/n). What can I do to make it up to you?" He asked, opened to what you suggest and oblivious to your wiles. Outside of combat, at least. But that was what made Saiyans such formidable foes. They treat everything like a battle. You eyeball him, measuring the depth of the suggestion. You did always want to learn the Dragon Fist or figure out how to unlock the Kaoiken while also in Super Saiyan form without burning out too much stamina so quickly. Those are off the table for now lest you explain to the Supreme Kai of Time and Trunks why you need a new home during a lockdown. Smiling like a scoundrel, you come up with the next best thing.

"Give me your first kiss."

"Oh, that's it?"

"What do you mean that's--?!" You cut yourself short and tuck your arms at your chest, attempting to keep your composure this time. "Yeah. It's the only way I'll forgive you." You move away from him and settle cross-legged in the open space on the carpeted floor, mimicking the same gesture he made earlier at you to sit down and eat, the open space in front of you awaiting his presence. He hesitates a little but then nods, walking over as well and sitting in front of you, crossed legs as well.

"O-Okay. So do I just-" Goku makes odd tilts of his head and soft motions forward as he looks at your face and try to figure out the perfect angle. You get the feeling he's going to just ram his mouth into yours like a headbutt and sigh, setting the manga to your side and taking his face in both hands. "Just let me. Close your eyes."

He obliges, the dark orbs disappear behind his eyelids as your thumbs gently stroke the skin underneath each eye. It should be nothing to just lean in and place a quick peck to his lips now, then rub that in his face as the woman who stole the first kiss of the Legendary Son Goku. But... you're not moving. A sensation in you chest pauses you. Nervousness. Your eyes scan over the surprisingly smooth skin of his face and how his messy spikes of hair frame it just right. He's so...calm about the whole thing. 'How does he keep doing this to me?!' You scream in your thoughts. 'He should be the one nervous about it, it's his first kiss! I have the upper hand here!' You gulp, blush decorating your face up to your ears as your fingers tremble a little against his head. You close your own eyes now, moistening your lips as they lightly puckered in preparation for contact. You move in a little, but you are unable to bring yourself all the way over or even pull him in closer to make the contact. The beat of your heart quickens in your chest and in your ears. Goku impatiently peaks open one of his eyes to look at you, seeing the redness paint across your features and the light tremble of your form. Even your tail twitching the behind you in a frantic manner. If only you could see how his own face started to glow with a pink color, but he smiles through it. He closes his eyes back and in your stead leans the rest of the way to meet your lips. The contact coming so unexpected to you made your eyes jolt open and your entire frame snatch back, surprising you and your Master. Your face could not get any redder than it was now as you held your mouth. "Uh...Did I do it right?" He finally asks reclining back into his upright position. Your insides are going crazy, the sensation when your lips met bouncing around inside like a wild ki blast. 'Say something', you urge yourself, 'Say something!'.

"T-That was f-fine." You speak behind your hand, trying to will your trembling to stop. That small touch electrified you all over. Even thinking about it speeds your heart again.

"Hmm...You don't look like you feel good." Goku adds with a tilt of his head, a little disappointed that maybe you were sparing his feelings and it didn't work at all. He's fine with moving past it if it doesn't mean anything. Again, you're cursing yourself at the outcome of how he keeps getting the better of you. This isn't training, you shouldn't be collapsing under something as stupid as a peck on the lips. Especially not to him! Even like this, he wins. He's brought something new to the table and utterly defeated you with it all over again, leaving you to gather yourself and come back later with a new angle to overcome him. Rinse and Repeat. It would seem you both still have a lot to learn from each other. You lower your eyes and finally remove your hand from your mouth. "Can...Can you try it again?" You ask in a tone foreign to you. Gentle, meek. Even your cheeks have lightened to a soft hue of pink, dark orbs lifting to find the large Saiyan's face. He blinks at you before giving an even more gentle nod and leans over again with his eyes closed as you instructed him before. He'll get it right this time! A little more daring, you inch closer, unraveling your legs and crawling forward on your hands to lessen the space between you both, allowing your eyes to drift close as you pressed your lips to his on your own and let yourself linger a little more this time. Your tail sways in deep, slow motions behind you, and you feel Goku's large hand brace your cheek as he leaned even closer to deepen the caress of your lips together. Your own lips part in a soft gasp as he presses more, a passive hum from you eaten by the kiss, electrifying your whole being all over again. This was what a real kiss felt like? It's way better than good. Finally you break away from the kiss, body shuddering at fresh air returning to your lungs and you look up only to see the sable hues of your Master staring back into yours. "Better?" His voice breaks through on an exhale. You can only nod before a breathy "More" escapes your mouth and you do not wait for him to position himself for it. You just take it, you take his mouth against yours and anchor yourself to his face with hands on either side of his jaw. So eager to have it send that energy dance up and down your spine and down into the lower regions of your body. It's like the build up of a ki blast without the payoff of releasing it. But you're still trying, you gotta get there. You try to pull away for air again, but the larger saiyan's hands now gather you up from your knees and pulls you into his lap, pressing further to keep your mouths close. Your hands can only wrap around his neck to steady yourself as you straddle upon him. You take a page from your filthy reads and draw your tongue across his bottom lip, however you feel his body tense against yours making you pull back from the kiss. You make eye contact again, chests heaving together in out of sync rhythms.

"H-Hey, you did that thing like in your book." He notes, making you grin as your hands rested on his shoulders. He's seen more of it than you thought.

"Did you like it?" You ask, almost growling it out. That sound you made suppressed the innocent gleam in his eyes and something more foreboding had taken its place. His tone dropped an octave to a sinful purr when he opened his mouth again. "Yeah.." Your thighs squeezed around him as the sound rang in your ears and straight to your loins. It's like he is speaking to you in his fury, that dangerous tone he took up whenever he transformed into any of his Super Saiyan Forms. You practically drooled over it, your saiyan blood knew there was something powerful behind it and you were prepared to drown in it. "I can do it aga-" Your voice, entranced by the shift in the energy is eaten by the Orange clad saiyan's kiss again and you can only hum deliriously accepting his embrace. Melting into it. Thank Kami, you did not remind him of the North Kai's planet. Only Goku could learn a new trick and adapt to it in record time like this and leave you on cloud nine with just a kiss. You hate him for it. He is not suppose to have this kind of control over you, Trainer or not. But you get the feeling this is going both ways. He can't seem to take enough of you in his hands either. His kiss has become so greedy but his hands remain so chaste. You feel them at the small of your back just above where your tail jutted out and pushing up to your shoulder blades as your equally wild hair tickles at his knuckles, smoothing over the fabric of your training gi as he squeezes your shoulders. Meanwhile all you have of him in your hands is his firm skin stretched across these tone muscles. Your hands had long slipped down into the collar of his top and gripped upon the bulging ripples of his back while caressing the back of his neck as he devoured your mouth. It's not enough to keep going like this. You withdraw your hands from his flesh to reach in between you both and tug at the knot holding his entire outfit together. "W-..Wait." He manages to speak against your lips in his normal tone before pulling back much to your reluctance slow down, but he takes hold of both your hands to pause you. "What are you doing?" How do you answer that? chest bouncing in short pants, you manage to put your brain back together and swallow to moisten the inside of your mouth again to give an answer.

"I thought you wanted to..you know..."

"Know.. what?"

God damn it, Kakarot. You stare at him in disbelief but you only have yourself to blame this time. Of course the man who didn't know what kissing was had any idea to where it leads. You sympathize with the Chi Chi of his timeline and praise her for quitting while she was ahead. You reach behind you and pick up the manga once again, opening it up to a random page displaying the ol' razzle dazzle before shoving it into his face.

"--Wrestle!" You emphasized. You feel him tense against you again as a meek "o-oh" sounds from behind the book. He laughs nervously once you lower it from his vision, goofy face brightened with blush.

"I-I don't know how to do that either!" He stammers out in his goofy tone. There is nothing but a deadpan stare at him from you. You can already see your hands wrapping around his thick neck and squeezing with the full force of your might for him rousing you up like this without any satisfaction to follow. But you know it's not his fault. You sigh instead and run your hands across your face trying to put it in words he would understand. "You like kissing, don'tcha?" You ask. lowering your hands from your face. He nods without hesitation, leaning against you some as if expecting this to lead back to it. "This will feel 100 times better. Kissing..is just a part of it. And it's call "sex", not wrestling...sometimes. Or... "love-making"..."Intercourse"..."Breedin-" No." Now you're nervously scratching at your cheek, thinking of all the innuendos for the act that may better suit his vocabulary. "...-Going to a level beyond kissing." Nailed it. Goku silently nods again.

"I get it now. Then...I trust you know what you're doing if...you want to go beyond kissing with me, (y/n)" He raises your hand to his mouth and kisses your knuckles, face darkening in his blush as he watches you and leans down to kiss the side of your mouth. You can't help but wonder if he was torn between planting that on your lips or your cheek, but its...adorable all the same. "Of course," You answer, pressing your forehead to his as your hands rested upon his chest again. "Master." You feel his eyebrow furrow at that.

"That made it weird." He utters and lifts his head from yours. You roll your eyes and look off in thought before looking back at him. "...Goku." He grins at that and wraps his arms around you again, resting his chin on your shoulder before burying his face there to keep your hair from tickling his nose. Your entire body shudders at that new touch of him there. Your hands, now free to continue where they left off, are back at the blue knot and with less fumbling from a clearer mind. You draw it through all its loops once its undone and pry open the cloth, lightly nudging him to release you just enough to slip it off his shoulders and remove it all together. There is it, all those muscles you could't wait to beat your fist into now traced over with your fingers. The body of the strongest man you know, and it's perfect. Not so much as a scar on him. You take his hands this time and bring it over to the knot that held your training gi together, sitting back in his lap and waiting for his hands to go to work. He blinks a few times, but follows through and unties the knot, leaving the sash to hang on either side of you. You rock your own shoulders a bit to knock it free of your body and slip your hands out, taking his hands again and placing them just above your breasts. Encouraging fingers urge him to peel down the strapless fabric supporting your chest. Each breast bounces free once the fabric sits tight around your torso and you lean forward against him, bare chest to bare chest as you meet his lips again, one hand wrapped around his back to hold you close. Goku is tense all over, you can feel it in the way he flexes his muscles against you. You know he is desperate for the same purchase you want but not quite sure how to get there. This wasn't something he could just power up and blast a powerful ki wave to relieve. It's a whole new technique he's going to have to allow his body to fall into. There is small jut in his hips that brush your thigh when you settle a little closer, and your free hand couldn't wait to grab the length of it making the large saiyan flex suddenly again. A sharp sound within the kiss from him makes you tremble with excitement. You already have a handful of him and it doesn't feel like you're anywhere near the base of length yet. Trying to remain mindful of his experience, you gently stroke against the tent of his pants,

His hands are squeezing you biceps now, more to support himself under the sudden ministrations and he raises his head from the kiss to take a breath he desperately needed, his head remains tilted back as more of those sweet sounds fell out of his throat. You attacked him there next, drawing your tongue along the muscles there before pressing firm pecks up to his jaw. Your teeth scrape at his skin as well, slowing your motions around his hard length to drag out the pleasure for him only to be met with jerks of his hips for more contact. "Look at me, Goku." You instruct him in your growl, his head lowering to meet your gaze. You can see the haze of his stare. He's a mess, putty in your hands already from just a little touching. "Does it feel good?" You ask, that scoundrel smirk on your face again. He opens his mouth to answer but your give him a squeeze, an indecent cry falling out instead. The muscle throbs in your small hand and you figure you better get this over with before he loses it. Letting go, you give his hip a pat to encourage him to lift up enough to pull his pants and underwear down, him taking the moment to adjust his legs from their crossed position and instead lay out flat in front of him, He removes his own hands from you, bracing them both on either side of him to support him up now. You take this opportunity to stand with your legs on each side of him and undo the draw string of your own training pants, slipping it and your underwear off and kicking them over, not wasting a moment as you lowered yourself back into his lap. Your eyes narrow on his exposed cock, it had more to it then your hand made you believe. Your finger slides across the tip and find some pre-cum shine on its surface, using your thumb now to smear even more to slick the skin from tip to base, all it's muscles throbbing at the direct contact of your hand. Goku's head lulls back on its own weight trying to endure as much as this as he could. To be so sensitive, you can only imagine he has never actually masturbated before, either. Truly, Goku is a pure soul. "Watch me." You tell him, languidly his head roll back up as a stream of drool slips down his chin. You lift yourself up on your knees to position yourself above him and steady yourself with a hand against his chest, the other wrapped just under the head of his length. You lower yourself enough to feel the head spread your wet lips a some, circling it against your clit and entrance to mix your weeping sex with the drip of his. You press it against you more only to slide down the side of his length, grinding your hips against his fullness a few times much to his torture. You had to hold it still to keep it from bouncing away from you before you pushed the head against your entrance again, this time allowing it to spread your lips and enter. You are barely containing yourself at his lament, finding it harder to watch you as you told him. You are a good ways down his cock before your body refuses to take anymore for now. "S-See...Beyond kissing." The Saiyan male managers to stare down at where you are connected as you slide your hands around his shoulders and balance yourself on your knees to drag your hips into his length, drawing back enough to slide him out and take a little bit more of him inside when taking him back in.

You set a pace to settle into with him, slow and tasteful stroke of your insides around him, wanting to pull more of him inside with each descend upon his hot thickness but such purchase needed to be worked up to. You embraced his head to the underside of your jaw, fitting his face in the crook of your neck as he tried to muffle himself against your skin. Your chin pressed into his hair, indulgent gasps from you breaks the rhythm you set as they fed into his lust. A few abrupt jerk of his hips becomes a pattern of quick, shallow thrusts that easily moved in and out of you. He's getting it now. Goku lurches forward and grabs your hips to still you enough to allow him to compose himself for a moment, long enough to pick up his own pace again. He pushes down on your hips to meet his thrusts and you feel the delicious graze of his tip at that sweet spot making you moan out, your core clenching around him in excited twitches for more. Before you knew it your skin was slapping against his as he could now bury himself deep inside of you. You had all but lost control of it now to the harmony of his moans and yours, the unsteadiness of him plunging into you in a mix of wanting to have you more for himself but hold out for you to feel good too, and then that lewd slick sound of your sex entwined with his. He's so thick inside you, the way his cock opens you up to accommodate his size and consistently knocks against your core, the desperation of his thrusts was pushing you to brink of your pleasure. You moved your legs to wrap around him now, trying to brace your heels against the floor to support his motions. A part of you is still waiting for that depraved side of him to creep back up on you, that enticed look he had in his eyes when he couldn't stop kissing you, and the vexing low tone he had. Instead, the large saiyan ruts himself into a frenzy of pumps before pausing deep inside, flush against your sweet spot as he spilled himself inside you. Your insides ate it up, mouth gaping as you are left gasping for breath and all of you clenched down around him to draw out more of his seed.

Goku moves your feet and lies back as you fall over with him, your own hips still slowly moving to ride out your own orgasm. You are equally heavy and weightless on his heaving chest, but his arms do not release you. You sit up enough to attack his mouth with your own, once again drawing your tongue against his lips and he does not shy away this time, letting you tongue slip inside and tease his to play with. He is so obsessed with you in this moment, cradling your head to his to return the kiss with matching vigor. You had already spent yourselves but still held so much passion in your actions. Of course, its not over yet. Goku shifts his legs beneath you, feet planting firmly into the carpet for leverage as his hands once again take hold of your waist much to your surprise. Against the half-hearted roll of your hips still riding the high of your orgasm, you can feel his pace pick up again. He's still hard inside you, thrusts now ravenous and unyielding in this new angle. You both just came, but he's already back in it. You haven't yet recovered from your first orgasm either, all of his movements are more intense and overstimulating. You cry out into your open mouth kiss, trying to will yourself through the euphoric agony as he continued. Your insides were so saturated with him, you know he was spilling out of you, that warmth trickling down to his balls and making your connection sound all the more lewder. He's wrestled control of your body now and looping your hips to meet his thrusts while your insides continue to twitch around him, building up all over again so soon. "G- Ah!..Go-" You can't even speak, pressing your forehead into his chest now as your toes curl in and hands clench at his skin. And then..there it is..

"Look at me, (y/n)" That merciless octave commands you in his own winded breath. "I-I...I wanna see you this time." Sweet Kami, you are a total wreck now. Your orgasm washes over you much more powerfully and hits you so quick this time you can barely process it taking over you. Before you can even raise your head to see his face, you are limp against his chest. Drunk on your pleasure. Goku uses a finger to lift your chin up, easily balancing the weight of your head to look at the smutty expression as you savored his ravenous assault on our core. Your blurry vision sees him smirk, the dark fade in his eyes weakening you more to the bliss of his hips still smacking into yours. You wish he would relent for just a moment but you're stuck in his wiles now. "Does it feel good?" The Powerful Saiyan asks huskily, compelling you to let out a meek sob in place of a yes. His second orgasm wasn't far behind yours, clenching your hips again as your chin fell back into his chest and he rode out this one with you, more of his cum filling you abused insides again.

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lee-jinkis-ponytail · 5 years ago

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A Reintroduction

So I’m still relatively new to Writeblr. I’ve introduced myself before, but then I wasn’t very active, at least not regarding writing. I mostly just reblogged stuff I liked. That’s gonna change now because I have a new regular work schedule and just one job! Yay! More writing time!!!

I like to write fantasy, sci-fi, magical realism, horror, etc. Right now I’m working on final rewrites of The World As It Should Be, a story about the end of the world and one witch’s attempts to survive in Salem, MA. There are witch hunters (duh), evil spirits, and lots of fun moments where I play with the Hero’s Journey and turn classic fairy tale tropes on their heads. It’s been about 5 years in the making. I’ve rewritten it a gazillion times. But this is the final draft. It’s finally how I originally envisioned it to be.

I am a high school librarian during the day. I run my school’s book club and anime/manga club. I also love playing video games and snuggling with my grump-who’s-really-a-softie cat, Butterscotch. My favorite writer is Ursula K. Le Guin. I love how she played with all those different ideas of how society could be.

I have an Ao3 account, LA_Writes. I don’t write fanfiction often these days because I’m focusing on original work. Fandoms I’ve written for include Until Dawn/The Dark Pictures Anthology, Harry Potter, and Z Nation. I also really like Dragon Age.

I also have an invisible chronic illness. If anyone else is in the same boat, I’d love to chat and offer one another support.

Follow me! Shoot me a message! I really, really want more writerly friends.

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matt-skc-rp · 5 years ago

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I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me and You)|| Swiftimer AprilAU

Matt and Suzy couldn’t really find time on their schedules to go out anymore, between their schedules and their own personal things popping up, so they found the perfect thing to get them together doing something they both enjoy, video-making and giving to those who can’t. The Gamma house had a few charity streams set up for the holiday season and Suzy said she can get him in one of them that she was doing with the Grumps, where she’d be off camera as well as on camera. They mostly needed someone to toggle the viewer’s screen.

Matt came over and Suzy met him at the door, they excitedly embraced and walked over to where the stream was going to be held. “You eat lunch yet?” Suzy asked, while she grabs the food she was eating, “We got some Chinese food over there you can heat up.”

“Oh yeah, I’ll get to it in a second. You have a uhh...like a wrap sheet of what kind of cuts I’m going to be making and how to transition into the different screens and minimizations. I know StreamLabs is gonna kind be on top of all of the donations and stuff,” he said.

“Wow, you’re really straight to the point about the work..but you’re volunteering,” Suzy pointed out with a giggle.

“Well once I know what I’m doing, then I can relax and have a little fun...But uhhm..I see you’re not looking like the Queen of Darkness much today,” Matt said with a nervous giggle.

“It’s not like that’s all I do, or all I’m about it. I actually do a lot of my activities wearing a bunch of Game Grumps merch,” Suzy explained while Matt poked through the Game Grumps Twitch channel and its setup in OBS.

“Well I figured as much, I do follow your social media, I just thought that you’d be a tad more done up for the stream,” he clarified, “I think your loungewear is what you look cutest in, you definitely are sexy when you’re modelling clothes or you’re dressed up.”

Suzy giggled shyly at his compliment and tucked her hair behind her ear, “Well thank you for recognizing I’m still a lazy girl gamer like everyone else in Gamma.”

“Aaaannd done! So, when’s the stream starting?” Matt asked, looking at the girl leaning on the table and gave her a warm smile.

“Uhhmm..tomorrow?..At 3 in the afternoon?” she replied, shrugging slowly.

“I’m actually not mad you did this..It means I’m much more prepared for this and can catch if something goes wrong..Thanks Suze,” he said, chuckling and standing up, “Was this your idea?”

“Yeah, the other guys are so busy with getting the rest of their finals and videos done that they forgot they needed to get a volunteer live editor for the stream since they’re gonna be completely hands-free on camera. Even their editor is gonna be in front of the camera or working props and other staging,” Suzy explained, grabbing her drink and sipping it, “Well, since you’re here, what do you wanna do?”

“I’ll be generous and ask what do you want us to do, because I blocked out literally all day today and tomorrow for this. I can stay here, we can go to my place and watch movies,” Matt suggested.

“Awwhh, but it’s still so cold!..Why don’t we stay here and play some arcade games?”

“What games do you guys have?” he asked, turning to her.

“Uhhm...we can just go check,” Suzy said, dancing around the chair slowly moving toward the hall where they held their systems and coffins. Matt followed, smirking at her and walked normally. She opened the door to a colourful and loud room, full of classic cases of games and some new ones they obviously brought in for fun, and tables of pool, foosball, and air hockey all aligned in a slightly dim room. Suzy gets the rush of air that is only distinctive of walking into an arcade and thinking about what is your first move after getting your cup of tokens. “Yeah whatever’s in here is what we can use..Did you wanna get beat in something?” she teased, nudging his side.

Matt was still surprised that this is what Gamma does for its students, and he’s been stuck playing off his consoles in his room. “It surprises me that any of you study with this just down here,” he scoffed.

“It gets locked during class times during the semester and at like 1am too, but since we’re in the middle of winter break, it’s open 24/7!” Suzy explained, propping herself onto one of the unused pool tables. She watched Matt take a tour, and she noticed that he was...different. He wasn’t hanging on her or trying to be as intimate as possible, not even in his questions and answers! It’s almost as if he’d welcomed whatever looming loneliness and let the ideas of being close to anyone repulse him. It was comforting, in a way, but it tugged at her mind that it’s not like they hadn’t started their chemistry, so why the distance with her?

“That’s good to know, but then you guys just go into your rooms..Whatever, we have something similar in Theta with the editing and shooting booths. We perfectionists tend to lose track of the time, so they lock the isolated editing and shooting rooms when we need to study, but it’s not like..we can’t just ask the president and vice, because the actual school security monitors that. And they only do that because our president has a horrible habit of putting work and results above all else,” Matt explained as he hovered at the air hockey table, “Let’s start here.”

Matt sets up the game and they wait for the puck, a gust of air blowing in Suzy’s face from the rink. It lands on Matt’s side and he starts the volley, “How have your classes been, Suze?”

Suzy defends herself well, and they get a hot volley going, “I really liked the anthology classes and courses in the dead and dying...what say you?”

“Taking a bunch of production and set detail courses, I’ve also started taking management and busniess courses just in case i don’t work out as an artist of some sort. Gonna start my business- Ah!” Matt exclaimed and as he saved his goal, darting it into Suzy’s. She nodded, retrieving the puck and serving hard and fast until the volley ended with a point from her.

They both looked at each other, then he dropped the puck and served her nicely. Again?! What’s his deal?

“Uhhm...well I mean ” she asked almost forgetting they were playing a game, “The whole taxidermy and bugs thing is gonna be like, my marketable skill, I also like to model sometimes. You know, I do all of that when I’m not working on my own gaming channel. I wanna start getting into jewelry-making..”

“Oh that’s dope! I love that you don’t settle for less!” he said, grunting as he was competing, then Suzy sliding a point past him, “You definitely are not afraid to get your hands dirty...I think that’s so great!”

Ping ping Ding Ding Suzy let the puck hit the wall and then slide in. She really wasn’t used to being praised like this. It was so refreshing in some way knowing that he was still willing to just talk to her. Even if she doesn’t really say what she really feels or thinks. “Haha..I was letting you catch up!” she blurted out as she bent down to pick up the puck and looked at Matt who looked at her as they stared intensely at each other before dropping the little plastic puck in front of her and checking it off the side towards him.

“Tell me more about your Christmas stream you’re having here instead of in the saftey and comfort of your family,” Matt had said after scoring another point and allowing her to start the volley again.

“I’m gonna hang out, and probably oversee some of the challenges we do on screen, then I’m probably going to just read comments and donations and just interact with my audience,” Suzy explained, “But if you were wondering why I haven’t joined the exodus from this facility like everyone else then that’s because I’m flying out on the 22nd or 23rd so I’m not missing out on all the cute cuddly family fun.”

“Oh...that’s nice,” Matt responds, focusing on the puck. He was interested, but he really only wanted to know about the stream, since Christmas for him was a touchy subject. He would be watching her work and he guesses he could get her food and water and such, but she could’ve asked anyone. Why him? “I already flew out and saw my family. I decided to come back to just have more time to think...At least that’s what my sister wanted for me,” he explained as he dodged her attempts to score, his hands were getting sweaty but he couldn’t let up. Then he feels his phone vibrate in his pocket.

[From: Gabbie Babbie] Hey, are you still with Suzy? [From: Gabbie Babbie] I don’t mean to bother you, just was thinking about you I think... [From: Gabbie Babbie] Idk have fun. Maybe we can try to grab dinner together tonight again. [From: Gabbie Babbie] I just wanna touch your beard lol

Matt scored another point, but then Suzy retaliated with the last 2 points of the game and they both sighed as the game went back to its normal state.

They played another round and then moved on to other games in the arcade. One being a two player game with only one joystick and set of buttons. He had allowed her to mess with him while he was giving a grand effort of a turn to get a higher score. So he had no problem returning the gesture as safely as he could. When the girl was gaining a lead and even past his score, he warned her that the game is going to get really hard. He started to tickle her sides. Fun little finger pokes at first while she beat his score. They set up another game. Suzy lightly feathered Matt’s arms and actually caused him to finish with a score better than either of them. Suzy received air being blown in her ears and her freaking out causing her to jump back into Matt’s arms. She looked up with a giggle, and he looked down, checking her eyes and saw a softer look. Where was her fear of falling? Where was her blind rage that he cheated?

She felt her heart start to jump a little, not from their frolicking, either. His arms were a lot more welcome than she last knew. His touch was gentle on her body, and she felt cradled instead of caught. Is this how his sisters feel? Who would have thought this creep and weirdo would have such a light touch. He’s told her once before that he’s played with his sisters (moreso Hollie) and he would make sure not to hurt them so they knew how to have fun, but that they wouldn’t get hurt because of them. His glasses shining against the lights of the cabinet and the dim light gave it a galactical shine. She was lost in his eyes and gripped him for her fear of falling, but she still felt drawn to him.

This whole ordeal was throwing Matt off balance and it felt like they only stayed like that for a moment. He watched them almost from above himself as they crash back into the game cabinet they were playing, Matt towering over her, his hands propped up on either side of her. He dodged hitting her in the face or falling with his whole weight by simply shifting, and landing on his hip at angles to the other girl still gripping his shirt on his sides. He immediately moved back from the cabinet to let the girl stabilize herself, her hands now going to the ends of the game cabinet, to stabilize herself, while he took her hands off of his shirt. “I...I am so sorry, Suzy. I didn’t mean to make you jump like that, are you okay?...” he said, a clear 5 feet away from her and edging towards the door.

Suzy wasn’t sure what had happened there. She had frozen, but she had also had something come over her. She hadn’t realized that she had been pulling them down until they were falling, their awkward recovery being salvaged by Matt, and he wasn’t being weird about it. She just noticed him scooting to the exit of the game room, and opened her mouth to answer the question, “NO! N-no...I think you should leave..” She hadn’t expected it to come off that way, or those words rather, but there he was, nodding in understanding and escorting himself out of the room to gather his things.

He wasn’t fighting to say it wasn’t that bad. He wasn’t trying to say that she was crazy. He wasn’t trying to touch her again to see if he could make things right. He wasn’t even offering to buy her something special to eat or to drink after the stream when they’d ultimately meet again. He’s just...leaving. Suzy sat and thought about it and knows she made the right choice. He shouldn’t have blown into her ear like that, fucking perv. He’s disgusting. No. NO. She followed him just to make sure he had everything and to maintain some level of their acquaintance with one another...at this point.

Matt walked away, knowing he didn’t do anything wrong and his intentions were good, but the whole thing became a jumble and he’s done trying to make sense of those. His sister said If you want a girl to make up her mind, be nice! And go with the first thing that comes out of their mouth. It’s usually their most clear answer. Then never talk about it again. Don’t make her feel bad for not being able to make a choice, just encourage the girl to have a better one in mind next time. And even though it’s advice from a 17-almost-18-year-old girl, it sounded right. It was easier, too. Better than his approach. His approach branded him as a creep. This one gives him some nobility. He could hear Suzy following behind him and he kept checking his phone and replying back to Gabbie.

[To: Gabbie Babbie] Lmaooo you can touch my beard anytime uwu [To: Gabbie Babbie] Dinner sounds cool, how about tonight if you aren’t busy? Nothing fancy? Just some Thai, I feel like spice tonight [To: Gabbie Babbie] I’m about to leave Gamma now. Just had a super weird interactive moment with Suzy and she told me to get out so I could use a distraction. [To: Gabbie Babbie] Call you when I’m back in Theta.

Suzy stood there, not understanding why she felt so...off. He was smiling into his phone, probably texting a girl, making separate plans for the evening because theirs had just come to an abrupt end. He’s not accepting his loneliness. He’s not even lonely. He’s just indifferent. Suzy knows for him to brush it off and walk away is what he usually does now, but now it also seems like he’s not even that interested in her. All because she snapped at him to leave. She was more so thinking the room and not leave her, but he’s okay with either gesture. She almost feels embarrassed he reacted so politely and jealous that he had another person he’d rather spend his time with- BUT SHE ASKED HIM TO BE HERE. “Uhm!” Suzy blurted out with a small voice, keeping her hand to her mouth, causing Matt to look at her and realize he hadn’t moved.

“Oh..I’m sorry, I wanted to make sure you hadn’t died in there from the beating I’d given you...We should do this again sometime after the charity stream, and under...uhh..better circumstances- which, again, sorry..about that...in there...” he trailed off as he began to hurry through the Gamma common area.

“You didn’t want a t-shirt?” Suzy asked, her face donned a broken smile, her whole body was conflicted on what her curse was to be around Matt like this. Maybe she just like dreamy guys treating her like a cool kid sister. Maybe it’s the beard he’s growing. Or the haircut. Or the glasses. It’s gotta be the glasses. He’ usually doesn’t wear them and he just thinks he can walk in here with them on like it was okay. “Yeah...uhh all participants of the charity stream get t-shirts and merch and stuff to wear, so do you want your t-shirt? Cus I can’t promise you any tomorrow, you know, with Mark and all-”

“Yeah, yeah, I do know,” Matt’s appearance of a deer in headlights quickly subsided when she mentions a t-shirt and an inside joke about Mark, “Uhh..I mean I can still hang here, if you’d like..and get that leftover chinese..and the t-shirt of course.” He agreed and knew exactly how this was going to pan out. It had to get better. Matt had to be able to hold some type of human interaction. He walked over to the kitchen with Suzy and she pulled out the food and let the other take his pick. “So uhh Suzy....is..it okay if I get personal?” he asked carefully filling a dish with food and then putting it into the microwave, pressing in the settings and starting it, leaning back against the counter.

Suzy was surprised he wanted to speak to her and dig into a topic. Here she was thinking that he was almost forced to come here. Whatever, maybe he’s just trying to keep his mind off of what happened earlier. “Yeah, yeah sure. What’s up?”

“Soo..I don’t usually let gossip affect my friendships and relationships, but, and I don’t know how to put this, but uhh..are you Pewds’ concubine or something? I’ve heard a lot about it, but I wanted to check with you on the validity of it,” Matt said, sticking his hands in his pockets.

“WHat?!” Suzy spat, she looked around and walked closer, “Is it that obvious?”

“It’s that true?” he asked back, matching her hushed speech.

“We don’t...I-I mean we haven’t..I just...*sighs* Yes. I’m in cahoots with Pewds,” she admitted after getting frustrated about not being able to sugar coat it. He was the Gamma President after all, “Shane is fine with it and Harlan doesn’t see it much. They just figure it’s a..rough dry spell until they can cuddle up and vacation in the summers and such. It’s really the only time they get to have off. Shane’s always busy with schoolwork and Alpha work and taking care of Harlan, but he knows Felix is busier and needs to relax, and he can’t be there, I guess this is how they figured it out.”

“Oh ok,I understand that. I was seeing a girl who was a double major double minor 5.0, and so she would like only talk to me when she couldn't focus on studying and so I’d like hang with her, we didn’t like have sex very much, but it was fun while it lasted. The only reason I’m not with her right now is because she got picked up by UC Berkley and transferred to go straight into grad school,” Matt explained.

Suzy’s hand was trembling. He was okay with it? It’s not like his opinion mattered that much, but coming from a guy and being told that what she was doing didn’t damn her, felt odd. She listened to him talk about the girl he saw and she couldn’t help but think that he must have creeped her out and she stopped talking to him. However, Suzy had a strange pull that he wasn’t lying. She got the school bulletins, too, and there was a double major double minor 5.0 student at this school that had gotten picked up on scholarship to UC Berkley. Maybe he’s just that good of a liar. She was brought out of her thoughts by the beeping of the microwave and followed the man to the island nook. He sat and started eating, nodding as he slid Suzy his phone, showing pictures of him with the girl, who clearly looked tired and nothing like the polished one in the picture, standing together in a mirror together, another of them getting coffee at the cafe, and another with the two in bed in their underwear kissing. She nodded back, raising her brows in surprise, “You like prodigies,” she commented, “Well, you like them smart, at least. Interesting..eh..You’d have to prove it. And I’d thought that you’d have more of..an opinion about me..doing what I’m doing.”

“Well, it’s not that I like prodigies or that I even like them smart- I mean, well, I do..but that’s not the point. What’s more important is that you expected me to judge you, the only cis-female in an all cis-male house, that it’s wrong you’re having sex with men...in college. Jeez, you’ve gotta relax. Don’t take yourself so seriously, or don’t act like you have to around me. I think it’s hot as hell to have something like that to look forward to...I mean, is he anything like me? Do you guys like talk about things and be there for one another? Cus I understand it’s not a whole big thing, but I’d hope you two are friends. I’d hate to have to be standoffish to Pewds because he’s just being a fuck boy to someone as great as you,” Matt said between bites, carrying the conversation, getting up to the refrigerator and grabbing a drink, then sitting down to continue. He felt that Suzy probably expected to be judged, or she gets off on defying it, either way he knew he just wanted to make sure his friends were happy. At the moment, he looked at her as she had tensed up, “Look at me, talking about me and being overprotective of your well being. You can talk if you’re up to it,” he mentioned, sipping his juice.

“Pew-Felix and I are friends,” Suzy began, fighting the blush on her cheeks, “He comes to me about his marriage and his house problems. Him and Cry going at each other over it and things. Planning events and things. He also just asks me for creative input. Sometimes I’m the babysitter. Oh yeah, I’m definitely more than just some cheeks for the man,” she blurted out in defence. It had been going on long enough that she could say normal things they’ve done, and that doesn’t count for the numerous instances of raunchy flirting. “Yup, your regular brand of rebel!” she joked, sitting back, proud of herself.

Matt giggled at her and cleaned up where he was completely, before going back to her and his drink at the counter. Suzy had came over the counter and was sitting, watching the man move around to cover his presence in her house. He looked at her, cross-legged on the countertop, and leaned back on his elbows next to her, “You’re not a rebel here until you get thrown out of a party, and you barely go to those!” he joked back, nudging her, “However, it raises your quality. You’re usually busy at work anyway. And babysitting would explain some of the times, especially between finals. That’s super duper kind of you. You’re definitely a real well-rounded friend!” he explained, listening to her and watching her face flush with pink. He looked at her and scoffed, “A real horny well-rounded friend. Pull yourself together, Suze!..All jokes aside that was cool how you were able to get in where you could find and got accepted for it. You get to have fun how most girls think they’d be having fun in college. You think you really like him?” he asked, looking at her.

Suzy grunted nervously, "Matt, you're putting a lot of thought into it, when...it's really really not that deep...I'm just friends with Felix sometimes and it's none of your business to be honest. So, like, can you please respect that?" The room rang with silence, causing Matt to withdraw. He stood on the other side of the kitchen now, looking through his phone and finishing his drink.

"I'm sorry," he began, "I haven't been the most respectful of people. It's mostly because I'm not around anyone anymore, so I tend to...obsess. And I really don't mean to be that way. That's why I wanted us to hang out more so that it doesn't happen anymore. I'm just..tired of being isolated."

Suzy looked at him and sighed hard, he very well could be lying. She can't doubt him, and given all the other times he's been very sweet, respectful and accomodating, maybe she was being a little too judgemental of him in that moment. She couldn't blame him for not being around anyone because she wasn't the most socalized person on campus either. She bit her lip and twirled her hair, feeling her chest tighten as she heard the familiar voice in her head. She was briefly conflicted and really thought she had gotten her voice up to tell Matt that she was sorry too, but had just been sitting there pulling at her hair. "Are you okay?" he asked from across the kitchen, scrunching his eyebrows. Suzy looked up and their eyes met, Matt looking at her blankly still waiting for a response. She had softened her stance, looking at the other person. He was so simple and strange and rugged. It all seemed so frustrating in her head, why couldn't he just be one way all of the time?!

Suzy still sat there and Matt grew concerned, but he was really about to leave because he had been totally blowing it. She quietly took in his frame, his energy. He was so soft and non-threatening, it felt nearly easy to be around him, and almost ignore him. Is that what he felt around everyone else? He didn't let the rumors become him, but it had isolated him because people like her would jump to so many conclusions. He'd believe anything you said, and wouldn't fight. Even though he's out for his gain of something so huge for him, she feels like it's not reaching her like that. "W-what about Gabbie?" she said, looking around, jumping off the counter, "Word around town is that you guys are becoming an item." She felt proud to have something to say about him.

"Gabbie and I are hitting it off. However, it's not what I'm used to," Matt began, "She's..as she described..going through a lot of things and she isn't always up for interacting, but if she cares about it in the back of her mind, then it'll show, but it takes some time."

"So...you think..maybe if you spent-"

"She specifically told me to leave her alone unless she asks for me- I usually don't know what it means until I get to see her, and from what I've been into so far, we're taking this...very..very slow," Matt replied, "SO..with that being said, I'll wait for her. Doesn't mean I'm tied to being around just her and when I can't I keep myself isolated; I spoke to my counselor and she said I shouldn't do that."

"Oh.." Suzy was so surprised, and felt rather lousy because of the explanation, and her lack of a rebuttal. He was put together and accepting of the different types of relationships. Maybe it really is lack of socializing. Matt looked at her and then looked at his phone again, then back to her. She felt like she wanted him to look at her, but maybe not look at her. She was so conflicted.

"Are you okay?"Matt asked, leaning over a little.

"N-No.." she said, pulling at a strand of her hair.

"Do..you...want me to leave you alone? Like leave?"

"N-No!" Suzy blurted out, trying to catch her breath.

"How about...we sit in the common area? Is anyone home? They gonna mind the noise down here?"

"Mmm-mmm...everyone's home on break or they're hard-wired into their streams and editing. I'm one of the only like...3 people here."

"Alright. Let's watch a movie or binge a series or something...this silence and everything are cutting into my psyche." ----------------------------------------------------------------- The two made some pizza rolls and settled in to watch an anime. Suzy sat close with him with his arm around her as they watched the show. She would elbow him when something made her jump or she reacted to a twist in the show. Matt would occasionally squeeze her arm and glance over at her as they casually spent hours together. Suzy hadn't realized, but she was so settled into Matt and his hand had moved from the top of her shoulders to the lower middle of her back, which felt amazing. His hand resting on her side ever so nicely, Matt felt so at home and relaxed. He really missed being able to hang out without that apprehension or air of doubt in the way. It was all clouded by the anxiety from him worrying about his hand going too far up or down, whether or not Suzy was comfortable, or even if she'd let him know what to do next.

Suzy had started it: "So..weird question, but..and you don't have to answer, but what's the best sex you've had...by category?" "By category..uhh..you mean like by position or like..by person? Bc either way that list is small and a bit arbitrary," Matt replied, jutting his lower body forward to lean back. "No...I mean like...well, obviously you start by orifice and work your way around to where and who...but like..for example..like...best head or something, then best penetrative sex then the subcategories of front and back-" "But I don't...I don't want it back there..." Matt joked, making them both laugh. "It's..it's fine, but in all reality it's not that bad. You just gotta really want it and stuff." "Ok, I think I get it...So...like the best head I've given was to the girl I was talking about earlier..you know the grad..I don't know why, but everything felt so right and I was in the zone. It may or may not have been because we'd taken adderall, may have not been. She was really into me, though. It was a good study break...Uhh best head I've received was hands down my first ex when I was 19 and she blew me in my mom's truck bed on a date." "Oh wow...Uhhm..well everything I did was mostly with Arin, and like maybe the person I dated a little after...but uhm..yeah I'd known him and been with him since we were teens," Suzy explained, "So it was really good and he didn't mind doing it upon request.." "You guys ever get caught?" he asked, looking at her, "Also I bet you all of your subscription payments that I give better head." "Hmm...well, I wouldn't say better, I don't like the idea of competition..How about if I cum more than once in like 30 minutes? Since sex on average is supposed to be a healthy half hour or so before a break," Suzy suggested, looking up at Matt. She wasn't too serious, at least not consiously, but sitting under him maybe had an influence because she couldn't think. He smelled so good and it just felt so comfortable to be wrapped up in him. Comfortable, though, isn't attraction; so what is she to do?

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marcotte-art · 7 years ago

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A preview of my contribution for the upcoming Game Grumps V Anthology Zine! Follow gamegrumpszine.tumblr.com for updates.

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luminoustico · 7 years ago

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2017 Writing Review

I did this last year, and thought, now it’s now 2018, it’d be interesting to look back over 2017 too.

Total Number of Stories Completed: 11 oneshots, 2 multichap (inc. Anthology)

Total Word Count: 131,774

Fandoms Written In: Star Wars, BBC Sherlock

Looking Back, Did You Expect To Write More Fic Than You Thought You Would This Year, Less, Or About What You’d Expected? Looking back, I wrote about what I expected to – and more than I did in 2016. It proves I need to stop beating myself up so much.

What’s Your Own Favourite Story Of The Year? A Worthy King.

Did You Take Any Writing Risks This Year? I wrote less for other people, and more for myself. I was just more self-indulgent this year, and it meant I had more fun writing this year than I did in 2016.

Do You Have Any Fanfic Or Profic Goals For The New Year? Just to keep having fun, and again, not beat myself up so much! In terms of finishing, I’m really focused on finishing Valse Melancolique and dragging up Princess Cut from Marble from the marshes of abandoned fic to make that complete as well.

Best Story Of The Year? From a technical point of view, and how it stands up on re-read vs. how I envisioned it in my head while writing – The Hunter & The Game.

Most Popular Story Of The Year? Going by kudos (eliminating Anthology), it’s A Worthy King.

Story of Mine Most Under-appreciated By The Universe, IMO: Two Stars Aligned, my RFFA fic. But I understand why. It’s a very confusing fic if you’re not its author, because of how damn trippy and overly-wordy it gets. But there’s still passages I am really, really proud of in there.

Most Fun Story To Write: Yub Nub, and a Celebration Song. Who doesn’t love Ewoks?

Story With The Single Sexiest Moment: “I’d say you were eager for my cock, Molly,” he says softly, touching himself, drawing his hand up and down his length. “But eager is kind. You’re desperate for this, aren’t you Molly? My sweet immortal slut. So desperate to be filled, desperate to be fucked and shown exactly who you belong to.” As she speaks, she slightly squeezes her thighs together. Her right hand slides over her hip, dancing towards her groin.

A blur of his hand and he has her disobedient right hand pinned hard above her head. She whimpers, eyes on his hand which he keeps moving against his shaft. If he comes over her, so be it. It’ll be a lesson taught, that she cannot make him this mad, derail his mind this much, without expecting some kind of consequence.

“You won’t come,” he snaps. “Only I can make you come.” – from Feathers, the smutty sequel to Light in the Dark, my Sherlolly vampire fic.

Most Sweet Story: Probably Yub Nub.

“Holy Crap, That’s Wrong, Even For You!” Story: Uh, I’m not very kinky or “wrong” if you like as a writer. I guess The Hunter & The Game, because it’s spy!Molly having hot angry hate sex with gangster!Sherlock on a Chesterfield sofa, so.

Story That Shifted My Own Perceptions Of The Characters: The Hunter & The Game was kind of a test to see how dark I could make Sherlock and Molly without making them, like, outrageously OOC and with the reader still being able to hear their voices, and I think the outcome’s pretty positive.

Most Unintentionally Telling Story: Actually, it’s a short fic that can be found in my Anthology. It’s chapter 247, and it’s about Sherlock and Molly meeting each other at a support group. It deals with addiction, which isn’t the telling part, but it mentions suicidal thoughts and… yeah.

Hardest Story To Write: Valse Melancolique, because I’m so close to the end and it just… keeps… going. Plus I got distracted by the whole Reylo thing so whoops, sudden ten-month hiatus!

Biggest Disappointment: Two Stars Aligned. It’s a mess. But it’s my mess.

Biggest Surprise: Kylo Ren’s Ten Step Guide on How to Get Rid of Awkward Boners Caused by Certain Scavengers. HOW did that 1k piece of crack get over 160 kudos?! I credit @thekesselrun and her excellent title suggestion for that.

Also, the fact that I’ve written quite a lot for rarepairs this year! I was hoping to sneak in my Amilyn Holdo/Poe Dameron fic before the end of 2018 but alas, no. I’m still working on it, sadly. But it’s all that Salcroft. @introspectivenavelgazer has been enabling me horribly in regard to those two. The more the merrier however because THEY’RE ADORABLE IN THEIR OWN STUPID, CAUSTIC, CONSTANT GRUMPS WAY.

#sherlolly #reylo #salcroft #star wars #bbc sherlock #sherlock #eleanorwrites

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fialleril · 7 years ago

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a list of things I am never gonna care about

No matter how many asks I get or how many posts I’m tagged in.

Because I can only find so many polite ways to say, “I don’t care at all about the Star Wars Expanded Universe, please stop telling me about it,” and because, no matter how often I say that, I still have about a million asks about the Expanded Universe in my inbox, and every single time I make a meta post of any kind, I get at least three replies ‘splaining “canon” (by which they always mean the Expanded Universe) to me. (And another three “lol I thought you meant the European Union!” comments every time I use the abbreviation EU, even when attached to Star Wars.)

So here’s a list of all the things that I’m never going to be convinced to care about, no really, no matter how many asks people send me about them:

Star Wars comics

Star Wars books

Star Wars video games

most of the Clone Wars and Rebels shows, if we’re being completely honest

the pre-Disney Expanded Universe

the post-Disney Expanded Universe

any Star Wars meta that’s primarily concerned with/draws from the Expanded Universe

any and all Disney Star Wars spinoff/anthology movies

literally anything about Darth Maul

stories in which Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon/Mace/Padme/Bail/literally anyone not from the Tatooine slave community frees the slaves of Tatooine

anything that ships Obi-Wan with anyone at all (Obi-Wan is aro ace and you can pry that from my cold dead hands)

And to prevent this post from being a total grump fest, here’s a list of things I am always interested in

puns

Iceland photos

my ongoing desert aesthetic

Mad Max: Fury Road

quality AUs

#grumpy post #fia doesn't do eu #faq #let's see how many followers i lose to this post lol #i say stories in which anyone not from tatooine frees the slaves #but let's not lie #9 times out of 10 the 'anyone' in those stories is obi-wan #idk why fandom is so into that #but i'm never gonna be interested in outsider savior narratives #sorry not sorry #on another note #aro ace obi-wan is extremely important to me #i will die on this hill #this doesn't exactly count as meta but idk how else to tag it so #my meta #star wars

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le-amewzing · 8 years ago

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falling into step (part 10/11)

At last, the curtain drops on Matsuwata's tale. -w-

Ch10: "Given the Chance…" [FFN] [AO3] | ← →

Pairings/Characters: eventual!Watari Shinji/Matsukawa Issei, Yahaba Shigeru, Mizoguchi Sadayuki, Seijou, OCs

Rating: light T

Words: ~5,700

Summary: Watari, responsible and content and comfortable in all his current roles, doesn't find his third and final year of high school lacking. But a rekindled friendship shows him that it's still possible to miss the good things around you even when you're not looking for them. Ch10: Things click into place for Watari.

Matsukawa seemed the same as ever and yet not later that weekend when Watari was over yet again that Sunday and the duo had one of their usual relaxing days spent inside, in the fan's line of fire as the summer tried to close out with a blast of heat. They'd done as much the past two days, for the same reason.

Watari, for his part, thought he, himself, was the same as usual, reading while Matsukawa made up strange playlists or looking something up while Matsukawa's eyes darted between his game and Watari, who sat there with the game guide cracked open in his lap. And yet…

Since finishing the light novel, Watari had sensed the change in Matsukawa's forthright gaze, and he found it hard to pick his head up and meet those eyes every time. Sometimes it was just typical, impish Matsukawa. Other times, it was that enigmatic Matsukawa who always appeared to be on the verge of saying something. Before, Watari now knew, Matsukawa had refrained from commenting on Hanamaki and Yahaba. But now there definitely was commentary on something else which he was withholding.

Still, Watari did his best not to dwell on it nor overanalyze it. He wasn't the type to jump to conclusions, and one really couldn't do that with the taciturn alumnus. Besides, Watari had the feeling that, if important enough, eventually Matsukawa would speak his mind…or let Watari guess it from his expressions as was his normal manner.

It wasn't as though the past several days had consisted merely of these instances of "Do I meet his eyes or not?" either. On Friday and yesterday, Kako had poked her head around more often, trying to play hostess in her own way, but she was an amusing addition to Watari's visits. He enjoyed watching the siblings interact, and Matsukawa was this kind of docile grump whenever she left them alone, which Watari loved seeing. She and Hanamaki appeared to be the only ones who could make Matsukawa lose his cool, and Watari pointed that out to the older boy now to break Matsukawa's stare this time around.

Matsukawa cocked his head to one side, surprised. "I do?"

The libero nodded and rested the anthology he was reading open on his chest as they leaned back against the closet doors like before, the TV supplying white noise in the background. Watari peered up at him, smiling gently. "I can't picture you genuinely angry, but you get annoyed with them sometimes. What?" he added when Matsukawa raised his eyebrows, the delight evident in his eyes as it returned and his befuddlement evaporated.

He turned back to the TV as something new appeared on the screen, and he shifted his cushion so it was a smidge closer to Watari's. "…getting annoyed or angry isn't the only way for someone to lose his cool" was all he said in response, and he didn't explain further as the half hour struck and a new show came on.

Watari was a tad curious about the remark and supposed there was some truth to it, but he didn't spend any energy trying to figure out what Matsukawa meant by his words. He thought about picking up the anthology again—he was close to finishing the collection—but he was comfortable as they were, and the late morning bled into afternoon this way as they enjoyed hanging out in general, not even necessarily interacting but simply being together.

They ate some tasty sandwiches Matsukawa whipped up downstairs for lunch and tidied up Matsukawa's room before calling it a day. Without saying anything, Matsukawa walked Watari home yet again, though Watari mused that perhaps it was a habit the taller boy was trying to pick up. He'd done it that day when Watari's thoughts had been a mess, and he'd done it twice last week, after they'd discussed Wish You Were Here Yesterday and on Friday. Thursday, Matsukawa had driven him home as had become near routine.

"Routine." It was a nice word, a word Watari enjoyed. Routines were good things. However… Watari cut his eyes over to his companion as they approached the hardware store. The libero knew that the sight of Matsukawa walking beside him would be anything but routine in the near future—it'd be a flight of fancy once he was off to university and if Matsukawa left for university before then.

Matsukawa turned to him again, curious at Watari's attention on him. He leaned his arm against Watari's, wondering if something were wrong.

Somehow, the gesture put Watari at ease, so he shook his head and offered Matsukawa a soft smile. "It's nothing," he fibbed.

The black-haired boy lifted one eyebrow and leaned on Watari the rest of the way, but the "punishment" only made the vice-captain laugh and prop him up as they walked. Matsukawa patted Watari's head at the gate, and he tweaked Watari's nose to draw another grin from him before heading back.

Watari couldn't help it: He watched Matsukawa reach the end of his street and round the corner, and only then did Watari head inside.

His mother didn't bother him before he went upstairs to his room, though he was surprised when his phone buzzed as soon as he'd shut the door to his bedroom. Anticipating a text from Matsukawa, his pulse quickened as he dug his phone out of his pocket. And his heart sank a little when he saw it actually was Yahaba:

-entertAIN ME.

Oh, boy. Punctuation, but misguided capitals. Yahaba was in a mood. But why?

-What's wrong?

-no Hanamaki-san…

Watari sighed and went and flopped backwards onto his bed. He knew to expect this, even if Matsukawa hadn't warned him. But, honestly, he'd expected a little better of Yahaba, thinking the captain wouldn't already start asking to hang when his boyfriend wasn't around. …still, he also knew that he understood Yahaba's actions and intentions, because it had to be lonely when he couldn't be with Hanamaki. Watari, too, felt down those times when practice interfered with him and Matsukawa meeting up or when Matsukawa texted him to skip visiting him on his break because work was too much and he wouldn't have a minute to give Watari.

…ah.

Slowly, Watari sat up, the humidity feeling like a cold breeze on his skin as he acknowledged that, in fact, the time he spent with Matsukawa…was it maybe in the same vein as the time Yahaba spent with Hanamaki? But, then that meant… Could he really want to spend time with Matsukawa that way, too? Watari knew—he knew he felt something strongly for Matsukawa, but…he hadn't named it yet.

All the same, he noted more and more details when they were together—details of time already spent and of the rest of the final week of summer vacation. These things had slowly but surely been popping out to him more and more often, more vividly, but Watari had a difficult time viewing them with an amused smile so dismissively anymore.

Their rides around town on the bus, with Matsukawa's leg right beside his or pressed against his, another indication of the difference in their sizes, another indication in their varied tastes, because Watari almost always wore the same, old, white sneakers, but sometimes Matsukawa wore black sandals when he felt especially relaxed, old sandals with a dark, blacker-than-black, thick strap across the top, a stark contrast with the white of the canvas shoe abutting it.

Their rides to Watari's home from the hardware store, seemingly shorter with each one that Watari took but intimate nevertheless, filled with idle or meaningful conversation as desired, the distance of the console between them up in the truck's cabin not much of an obstacle, not when Matsukawa could reach over so easily, too easily, to shove Watari's shoulder playfully or to pat his head softly, though this last Tuesday and Thursday both found Watari convincing himself he'd imagined it, imagined how what was supposed to be a pat had been Matsukawa's fingers ghosting over his skin, had been Matsukawa resting his hand on Watari's head, a lingering touch that, on Thursday, dipped to the back of Watari's neck, almost as if the libero were about to be pulled in, but then Matsukawa was waving him inside the next second, so Watari had no choice but to convince himself that, yeah, he'd imagined it…or hallucinated.

Watari's slightly wayward thoughts kept overwriting his senses like this, on Friday and on Saturday, too. On Friday, while watching a movie Watari had brought over, for once, the younger boy had been more aware than usual of the right shoulder beside him, and he'd wondered about the warmth there and how comfortable it seemed if Watari chose to rest his head there—again, he realized with a rush of blood to his cheeks during an odd part in the movie, making Matsukawa give him that throaty chuckle Watari often received when he accidentally found himself the impromptu butt of the joke, just as he did then, because he remembered he'd already fallen asleep on that shoulder once, so it was no wonder but actual memory at conjuring up that sensation.

And Saturday, Watari appeared at Sekitan Apothecary for the last two minutes of Matsukawa's shift—to collect him, the libero admitted to himself—and Matsukawa's eyes brightened when they alighted upon the smaller teen, and Watari kept the happy warmth that pooled in his middle at the action alive and well afterwards by musing how maybe it wouldn't be all that different, peering into each other's eyes a bit more fondly, a tad more often, it wouldn't be all that different from how they were already.

And on Sunday, the final one of the break, when they left Matsukawa's house later than normal, after supper, a meal they ate together before Kako could come interrupt and drag Watari into a Matsukawa family dinner, when it was darker than Watari was used to, darker and not so hot and humid, dark enough that the crescent moon was a Cheshire cat's ivory-toothed grin peeking between soot-stained clouds, Watari's mind wandered again, this time along with his eyes as he admired the profile walking beside him for the umpteenth time…and then his eyes slid down the sinewy arm that ended in a denim pocket, but Watari didn't need to view Matsukawa's hand to know about the lightly tanned hand that rested there, the sturdy hand with soft fingers that he'd felt on his wrists weeks ago, fingers that were proportionately more slender than Watari's own, fingers that teased him when they tweaked his nose…fingers on a hand that looked as though it'd feel nice to hold, even though Watari had never done such a thing before.

Would it be so bad, if things changed between them? And how did certain things become "good" or "bad" to begin with? Wasn't that up to perception, after all? And if Watari was all right with one or two adjustments to how he and Matsukawa got along, if it hadn't been Watari's imagination all those times before…

"…tari. Watari."

The shorter teen almost yelped as he was forced to halt in front of his family's nameplate when Matsukawa bent down some and stuck his face in the way. Holy crap, if he'd kept walking with Matsukawa hovering in front of him like that, then—! But, no, Watari reined his imagination in; he had to, otherwise he'd be rooted to the pavement for the rest of the night.

Matsukawa quirked an eyebrow, his lips a straight line and giving nothing on his mind away. His eyes lingered on Watari's face before he straightened up and turned towards the other boy. "You really didn't realize you were home," he pointed out, sounding impressed.

"I, uh…no," Watari confessed.

"Bummed that school resumes tomorrow?"

"Sort of." It wasn't a lie. It wasn't the entire truth, either, but it wasn't a lie. This had been one of Watari's favorite summers, thanks to Matsukawa…though Watari knew this was becoming one of Watari's favorite years, as well, also thanks to Matsukawa.

Matsukawa nodded, like "Same here." "Summer's been pretty cool," he remarked, that gleam back in his nighttime-colored eyes. But, before Watari could note his quickened pulse at the gaze, Matsukawa's mouth popped open. "Ah. Right." And he handed Watari a handkerchief from his other pocket.

Watari's handkerchief. From months ago, when they'd first reconnected.

"I…forgot about it."

"Oh." The fluttery-ness Watari had been experiencing the past week—even just from tonight—fluttered away as his mind went blank and he took the proffered piece of folded cloth. He didn't note the odd pause in Matsukawa's sentence, nor did he catch the fluster on his friend's countenance, because Watari busied himself with putting the handkerchief away, trying to do anything but zero in on how…on how disappointed he felt, as if this were some unforeseen ending.

"See you Tuesday?"

Watari blinked, snapping out of his stupor and plastering on a grin for Matsukawa. "Huh? Oh, yeah."

But Matsukawa's hand caught him as he turned to head inside, and Watari faced him again, rewarded with the full view of Matsukawa's fluster: all wrinkled lines of pursed lips trying not to frown and knitted brows pinching together and eyes that had a hard time settling on Watari's face. Then Matsukawa took a breath and twisted his lips around, like "I mean it. I'll see you then."

"I understand, Matsukawa-san."

"I want to see you then," he elaborated, as if saying it aloud cleared up everything.

Watari nodded dumbly, the only thing he could do in the face of Matsukawa's declaration, and he had to pat the hand that held on to him to reassure his tall friend before he was released and could go inside. And, inside, Watari shouted to his mother that he'd eaten already before he ducked up to his room, wishing for all intents and purposes to spend the rest of the evening with his head buried in his pillow because, if he didn't, he might scream at the feeling of his heart happily exploding in his chest.

So, of course, a text interrupted his confused celebration. But Luck was on his side this time, because the message was from the one person Watari wanted it to be from:

-(シ_ _)シ

Watari smiled wryly at his screen.

-? There's nothing to apologize for, Matsukawa-san.

Matsukawa's next response had him laughing:

-ヽ(ﾟｰﾟ*ヽ) ヽ(*ﾟｰﾟ*)ﾉ (ﾉ*ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ

His mother knocked at his door. "Shinji?" she called from the other side. "Are you all right?"

He calmed down long enough to answer her. "I will be," he said. And he knew it was a fact as soon as the words left his mouth.

The semester began with Watari a tad unfocused at school and at practice, but he knew he would've been in worse shape if Matsukawa had left him with the misunderstanding that their routine would cease.

Instead, Watari's mind filled with a plentitude of possibilities, and sometimes he was caught off-guard when Matsukawa sent him a silly emoji here and there while he worked. After half a dozen such texts on Monday, Watari—ever the good student—was a little bad and checked his messages during his lunch break, despite his tendency to keep his phone turned off during the school day. Still, he was back to being on his best behavior when he went to club activities Tuesday afternoon. However…

"If you're going to keep spacing out like that, I'm going to have to find myself a new vice-captain," Yahaba scolded during stretches. The other third years were clustered near them, but Yahaba gestured with a tip of his head for Watari to step aside with him. "You okay, Watari?"

"Yeah. Why do you ask?"

Yahaba narrowed his eyes at him. "Uh, did you not hear what I said? You've been spacing out. You do that at the wrong time just in practice, and you could find yourself injured."

Though it had long since healed, Watari instinctively touched where he'd split his lip during the Karasuno match. "I'm fine, honestly," he told his friend, and he looked at the others to avoid another one of Yahaba's "I'm not sure I buy that" glares.

But Yahaba's concern brought his attention back to Yahaba and Hanamaki, and Watari's eyes finding Hoshimura lining up for sprinting drills made the libero recall the middle blocker's words about envying such a couple, and that got Watari thinking of the comparisons he'd drawn recently between Yahaba and Hanamaki, and him and Matsukawa—comparisons that were making sense now that Watari devoted a bit of time to them and—

A funny thought hit him while Mizoguchi-san spoke to the team about preparations for the Spring High prelims. And Watari was stunned it hadn't occurred to him before. It was absurd to recognize this now, especially when it made him want to laugh in the middle of practice, though he didn't for he wanted to keep Yahaba's perceptive stare off him, but…

In all his comparisons, he'd never even stopped to think if he could see Matsukawa in such a light. He was picturing Matsukawa already fitting in to his life and vice versa, a little like puzzle pieces that had spent some of the spring and all of the summer forming the complete picture.

What a brilliant picture it was.

Watari tamped down his giddiness into pleasantness as practice went on…and dragged on…and he met up with Matsukawa a little on the later side that evening. He raised his hand in greeting, which Matsukawa returned, and Watari waited for Matsukawa to throw open the back of the truck so he could sit in his usual spot.

"We meet again," Watari said with a chuckle in his voice as he put his duffle bag down on his side opposite Matsukawa.

"As promised" was conveyed by the wry expression the older teen gave him.

"Ah, but things are different this time around."

Matsukawa frowned, perplexed.

"I've got my jacket zipped up almost the whole way, and you've left just the top button of your jumpsuit undone."

Matsukawa glanced down at his row of buttons on reflex before shrugging. "Chillier today."

"Yeah. Kind of weird, since we were still in t-shirts just this past Sunday…"

"It's supposed to be warmer this coming weekend."

"Is it?" Watari tried to think back, but he couldn't recall the forecast on the news this morning. Doubtful it would be warm enough for another pool visit, though Watari knew he'd like to do that again sometime in the future.

The familiar sensation of Matsukawa's eyes moving over him made him red to the ears in this instance, but that was only due to Watari seeing Yahaba's "I know more than you're saying" look in his mind's eye. Watari took a breath and calmed down, pulling from his memory the comfortable feeling he enjoyed from being with Matsukawa, friendly or no.

"Did I catch you at the beginning of your stop?" the third year asked, remembering how Matsukawa had had to open the back for him tonight.

"Yeah," Matsukawa said, heaving himself into the back and nudging a large number of boxes towards the front. "They've got more today."

Watari did a quick count. "Seven…eight boxes?"

"Remodeling."

"Oh. Need some help?" he offered as Matsukawa lined up the boxes beside him.

Matsukawa smiled, but he caught his bottom lip between his teeth, as though he were about to laugh. "No, I'm good."

Watari looked at him funny, but that only summoned Matsukawa's wolfish grin as the latter began carting boxes inside.

The black-haired boy moved steadily, so it took him several minutes to complete the delivery, but he didn't drop any of the heavier packages, so that was a relief. And he gave Watari a winning smile or that wolfish grin each time he returned, thoroughly confusing the libero. Matsukawa made his way down the line, drawing closer to Watari with each box turned in, but his lips were zipped tight about whatever entertained him so, and Watari rolled his eyes good-humoredly when, at the last box, Matsukawa made a show of bumping into Watari's leg on purpose. By the time all was said and done, they'd spent most of their typical time allotment this way, Matsukawa finding great fun toying with Watari once more.

But, honestly, Watari had fun if Matsukawa had fun, too.

"By the way," Matsukawa started, sitting beside Watari once he'd finished, "we narrowly avoided dinner with my family last Sunday."

"Kako-san did seem intent on remedying that situation then…"

Matsukawa cast his eyes over their feet swinging freely over the edge before settling them on Watari. He raised his eyebrows and drew one corner of his mouth up, as if to say "I'm not sure I can guarantee your escape next time."

Watari laughed and waved him off. "It's all right. I like her, you know. I'm sure I'll be fine when it happens."

"You mean when she gets her claws into you."

Okay, so that sounded scarier than Watari wished, but he'd been observing the Matsukawa siblings long enough now to know when Matsukawa was exaggerating. "She wouldn't have a leg to stand on if you cooked dinner, making it your dinner we gather 'round for."

"No."

"That was quick."

Matsukawa pouted but slowly responded, "…I don't often cook for them."

Oh. "I'm flattered," Watari replied, and his grin widened when Matsukawa's ears darkened with color.

Watari caught him up on the past two days' silliness—he'd missed seeing Kyoutani bow his head in thanks to Yahaba for handling the Hoshimura debacle since he'd been reading Matsukawa's texts, and Mizoguchi-san and Kunimi had yelled at Terakado in perfect harmony that morning. "I'd been wondering since Yahaba first became captain who'd be next, but Kunimi's really shown his mettle as of late. With Kindaichi as his vice-captain, Kunimi could make a great captain."

Matsukawa snorted at that. "Oikawa would be so proud."

"Yeah. Yahaba was tossing around the idea of buying Mizoguchi-san a year's worth of antacids as a graduation gift."

Their stomachs growled around the same time, and Matsukawa checked his watch as he passed Watari a spare umaibo from the breast pocket of his jumpsuit. "Agh. It's kind of late… I should get you home."

Watari nodded, and he unwrapped the snack and ate on the ride there. The truck cabin was filled with the sound of their crunching as they ate, and Watari sent his mother a quick message saying he'd be home shortly. A minute later, the truck rolled to a stop in front of his house.

Matsukawa tipped his head to him. "Thursday, yeah?"

The younger male beamed. "See you around!"

The words came so easily now, but the delight in Matsukawa's eyes was nothing of which Watari ever tired, and he was pleased when Matsukawa still wore that look while he watched Watari scamper inside.

The two of them really did paint a brilliant picture.

Come Wednesday morning, Watari was singing a different tune.

It wasn't that he'd had a change of heart about Matsukawa—Watari didn't even consider that possibility—but he woke up that morning, in a happy mood. He got ready for school, he ate a decent breakfast, and he'd left the house on time.

Then he got to school and realized he didn't have his phone.

He cursed when he first noticed it in homeroom, but he took a breath to extinguish his annoyance. It wasn't much of a loss if he'd merely forgotten it at home; he was used to keeping it off during the day, anyway, and it wasn't as though his parents had to hunt him down to discover his whereabouts, because he had club after school, and he would head straight home after since Matsukawa was working at his family's store.

But the past two days had indulged him, and he sighed morosely when he thought of the texts he'd miss with his phone lying somewhere in his room. He tried to comfort himself with the notion that the day would be over soon enough, and he'd call Matsukawa if he had to, just to explain any missed messages.

Nevertheless, he sighed. A lot.

"Be careful nothing flies in there while you keep doing that, Watari," Mizoguchi-san teased him during practice, but his teasing grin melted when the typically perky libero didn't respond. The next thing Watari knew, the assistant coach was motioning wildly to Yahaba.

"Not this crap again," Yahaba griped as he caught up with his friend on the sidelines. The team was in the middle of a practice set, but Yahaba had pulled Watari aside at Mizoguchi-san's insistence.

Watari sighed and gave Yahaba a tiny glare. "What 'crap again'?"

"Yesterday, you were in a daze. Now you're mopey. What gives?"

The shaven-haired boy debated telling Yahaba the anecdote…and went for it, giving him the glibbest version he could without raising Yahaba's suspicion. But Watari's bad luck didn't stop at forgetting his phone.

Yahaba wore a devil's smirk as he fought a snicker down. "You're sure you forgot it at home?"

"Of course." Though he hadn't considered it'd be anywhere else…

"And yesterday was Tuesday."

"Obviously."

The captain tilted his head forward, waggling his eyebrows at Watari. "And didn't you mention that a certain someone's local on Tuesday and Thursday evenings?"

Watari jolted. Had he? "I never said that."

"You told me when you last stayed over."

The vice-captain narrowed his eyes at the other third year. "No, I didn't."

Yahaba rolled his eyes. "Fine. Hanamaki-san told me Matsukawa-san's work schedule. But," he added when Watari settled him with a particularly dark expression, "I would've figured it out without asking. You scarper off promptly after club every week on those days. It doesn't take a genius to put two and two together."

Watari cocked his head to one side triumphantly. "Incidentally, you said it, not me."

But Yahaba only grumbled at inadvertently having called himself an idiot. "You were with Matsukawa-san the other night, weren't you?"

Another sigh bubbled up within him, and Watari released it, already tired of the games Yahaba was playing. "Yeah, I was. Since practice let out kind of late, we were out kind of late, and he drove me home."

"So you could've left your phone in the delivery truck."

Oops. Now Watari felt dumb.

But Yahaba was amused by how quiet Watari had turned, and he slung an arm around his shoulders, laughing all the while. "Look at you! I bet you left it on purpose."

Watari furrowed his brow. "Why would I leave it on purpose?"

"…or, in your case, you left it on purpose unconsciously." He rolled his eyes again, this time muttering something under his breath that sounded perilously close to "By gods, Matsukawa-san must be the patient one."

So Watari glared at him again.

Yahaba tried assuring him that it was all in fun that he badgered him, but Ueno flagged them over to the doors of the gym once there was a pause in the set. Yahaba, arm still tight and friendly around Watari's shoulders, turned, bringing Watari around with him. And Watari's bad luck worsened:

Morioka, the girl who'd all but confessed to Watari, stood on the outside step, twiddling her fingers as she scanned the gym and saw where Ueno pointed to captain and vice-captain. She bowed her head to them but remained rooted to the spot.

"Hell," Yahaba bemoaned, sliding his arm from Watari, but he lingered behind the libero as Watari jogged over to the pretty girl.

"Good afternoon, Watari-senpai," she said.

The shaven-haired teen blinked, noting her honorific. Not only had he never contacted her, but he'd never bothered to learn anything about her beyond the contact info she'd given him months back. That was not good. "Uh, hi, Morioka-san…"

She smiled, though it didn't reach her eyes. "Um…did you have a good summer?"

His cheeks felt warm as a select few of his favorite memories came to the forefront of his mind. "Y-Yes, I did. You?"

"Mm-hmm." She ducked her eyes then, continuing to twiddle at least her thumbs.

Watari felt like doing the same. It was better than searching for the proper words to turn her down. "Morioka-san…"

She picked her head up, her cheeks pink. "Yes?"

"Ah, so sorry to interrupt," Yahaba came up and interjected, and he slapped Watari heartily on the back. He gripped Watari's shoulder, too, digging his fingers in so Watari would be quiet. "Morioka-san, right?" he addressed her, wearing a blinding smile to put the other girls at school to shame.

Morioka nodded, though she was frowning.

"Oh, good. I'm Yahaba, the captain of the volleyball club. Sorry we didn't tell you sooner, but"—he shrugged as if it were an easy matter to forget—"the manager's position has been filled."

Her face fell, and Watari snapped his head towards the brunet. Had Yahaba made a decision all on his own? "But, we haven't—" He shut up when Yahaba dug his fingers a little deeper, making Watari wince.

Yahaba let up a moment later, casually resting on Watari's shoulder. "Sorry, he's misinformed. The position definitely was filled," he finished with a pointed look at the girl.

She flinched and turned, hurrying away after taking the hint.

Watari shoved Yahaba off him and shook his head. "For crying out loud… Did you have to say it like that? She—" He groaned. "What if she reads into that, thinking you and I…?" He groaned again as Yahaba pushed him back to practice, laughing all the way.

"Yes, yes. You can thank me some other time, Watari. I take rainchecks."

Practice, and the day with it, ended hours later, and Watari felt as though he'd been run ragged. To "lift his spirits," Yahaba focused the rest of the practice set and the one that followed on him and Okino, so the liberoes had no room to worry about anything but keeping the ball in the air.

"You'll thank me later~" Yahaba assured him in the clubroom as the guys changed and grabbed their stuff.

"I doubt it," Watari called over his shoulder, though he knew a part of him felt somewhat better after the vigorous workout. Still, a vigorous workout was draining, and Watari dragged his feet as he left the clubroom and traipsed downstairs, crossing the main courtyard at a leisurely pace. With the day over, he determined, it couldn't get any worse.

He took his time as he neared the school gate, his leg muscles not screaming but undoubtedly griping at him for not resting longer in the clubroom. He considered backtracking—maybe not the whole way…just to the shoe lockers…he could sit down right inside the doors for a few minutes…

Such ideas were forgotten, however, when he glimpsed a certain silhouette hovering right outside the premises. "Matsukawa-san?"

It was Matsukawa. Despite this being the usual time for deliveries, Matsukawa was here. He was dressed for the breeze that tumbled through the school grounds, his hands in the pockets of his dark green sweatshirt instead of his jeans. His head lifted up at the sound of Watari's voice, and his neutral expression shifted with the shy smile Watari had seen on a few occasions. He tilted his head, an invitation for Watari to catch up with him.

Ahh… Was it so wrong for Watari to enjoy the sight of Matsukawa waiting for him? Was it bad to think that they were better together as they were now, than as they had been before striking up this genuine friendship?

Was it a bad idea to get his hopes up and think that maybe, just maybe, this was a sign that the feelings he had were mutual?

"Sorry if you tried to get ahold of me today," he started with a gentle chuckle at himself. "I forgot my…oh."

Matsukawa's smile didn't lessen as he passed the phone to Watari. He glanced at the device and looked away, but Watari knew what he meant after unlocking it and seeing the handful of texts: "Yeah, I figured when my messages went unanswered…" The most recent string of fretful emoijs was a cute touch, though.

"Thanks," Watari said, looking up something on his browser.

He could sense the older boy frown, and Matsukawa took a step away.

"Hold on," Watari insisted, grabbing Matsukawa's nearer arm. "Give me a sec."

Judging by the shadow that felt over Watari, Matsukawa cocked his head again, curious.

And Watari sated his curiosity with one final check of the time. He lifted his eyes to meet Matsukawa's, though he wasn't as fidgety over being so aware of that coal-colored gaze on him. He smiled, too. "If you're not busy… If we leave right now, we can catch 'Nights Engarde' in twenty minutes at the theater."

Excitement was plain on his face. Had he a tail like the large puppy Watari sometimes saw him as, surely it'd be wagging. It was unlikely he'd picture Watari to look into more movies based on the odd short stories Matsukawa had him read, let alone volunteer to go with him to another.

But, Watari thought as he lightly tugged Matsukawa along, they had that first movie to thank, in a way. It wasn't just the light novel that made sense. The movie, too—that idea that Matsukawa embraced, of liking something…or someone…without fully understanding why… Watari decided it suited them very well.

Several yards from the high school, Matsukawa cleared his throat as they walked, forcing Watari's eyes up again. The black-haired teen averted his eyes, but he shifted his arm, long enough to shake Watari's handle on him and switch it so they walked with arms linked.

Oh, never mind. Seeing Matsukawa so happy and feeling that much happier as a result made Watari realize he'd positively fallen for this big goof who wasn't as sly as he appeared to be. So liking him without understanding why? Well…maybe Watari knew why, just a smidge.

Really, as the story developed, I recognized I wanted to write a quiet but genuine love story. Though the pacing for this chapter felt slightly different compared to the others, I still assert there are no quick revelations—for either Watacchi or Mattsun—and that's part of Matsuwata's charm. I also confess: There wasn't supposed to be any more angst after ch8, but mew did A Thing and wrote that mean little handkerchief scene. But! Luckily I have someone who lovingly points out when I'm being cruel to my OTPs ;P, and Mattsun also refused to let that scene end with anything but Watari's smile, so there you go. Let's see, what else… I like to think this story goes out with a pleasing, content sigh than with a bang. Part of that comes from the inspiration I drew for some of the story from two songs, "Don't Look Back" by Télépopmusik and "Love Is" by Meg and Dia, some subtle anthems, if you ask me. There's also the satisfaction of wrapping up the Morioka thread, and the fun in insinuating that, oh, yeah, Yahaba totes knows what's been developing. XD And Watari… He swore he wouldn't overanalyze, but some of that happened in the end, but that just breathes more life into him, because we all do things we swear we won't do, non? -w-

Thanks for reading, and feel free to leave an anon/unsigned review via the FFN link or the AO3 link at the top of the post! Check out my other [HQ!!] fics if you liked this, too!

~mew

#hq!!#haikyuu!!#matsuwata #watari shinji #matsukawa issei #yahaba shigeru #mizoguchi sadayuki #aoba johsai #seijou #OCs #mew writes too much #fanfic #ws/mi: falling into step

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rachelsdraws · 7 years ago

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SINCE IM BUSY THIS WEEK HERES ANOTHER WIP....a very rough look at my Game Grumps V Anthology piece :^O can you guess who THESE cuties are??

#game grumps #game grumps V anthology #game grumps V #WIP #this piece is 100% Tedious As Hell but im very excited abt the idea!!#cant wait for yall to see it \m/

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ekamy · 8 years ago

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2016 in Review!

I’m super late with getting this out but as per tradition, here is my word doc list of things that happened in 2016 that made me happy/were important to me :)

List under the cut

1. I celebrated the beginning of 2016 by watching the New Years Ball drop on TV with my friend over Skype

2. It’s the year of the Monkey! Freakin monkeys man

3. FLOW’s #10 album released in February 2016 and the Limited Edition DVD had footage of their World Tour – including Otakuthon 2015 where I could see my poster in the crowd!

4. FLOW also released two new singles – BURN and Kaze no Uta!

5. I went and saw my University’s production of the American Idiot musical

6. I saw Kinky Boots for the 4th time and met Toronto’s Charlie and Lola in person!

7. Galavant Season 2 began and finished, and it was wonderful. All hail Tad Cooper

8. Bayonetta was released as a Smash character and she is AWESOME

9. I found out my Hogwarts House is Hufflepuff

10. Gravity Falls had their grand finale episode and I cried. I’ll miss that show!!

11. Space Brothers #0 got a release date for its DVD/BD in Japan finally

12. Serika realized what Mutta’s ‘Alien Baltan’ was in actuality in the manga and my heart soared

13. I started watching Day9TV on Youtube, and became especially interested in his Mostly Walking Playlist. “I took a mint.”

14. Grumps played Shovel Knight. INFINIDAGGER!

15. I applied and was accepted into a Graduate Program for my Masters Thesis in History – Viking period as my focus!

16. JonTron’s Firework cover music video was released and it was stunning

17. NSP’s Under the Covers album released in March

18. I rediscovered the band Franz Ferdinand <3

19. I won at Roll Up the Rim at Tim’s for the first time

20. Vision of EscaFlowne got announced for a Blu-Ray re-release with a new dub from FUNimation

21. I watched Alien for the first time and it was awesome

22. Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar

23. Ace Attorney 6 was announced and released

24. Tamar and I saw Zootopia! So good!

25. Saw the band Said the Whale with some Uni friends downtown

26. Grumps quote of the year:

27. I got two official E7 production storyboards from Anime North’s Nominoichi and the seller even included a mousepad signed by Kaori Nazuka and Yuuko Sanpei with it!

28. Captain America: Civil War released and omgggg

29. E3 was fantastic. Zelda Breath of the Wild finally got a proper trailer and lots of great revealed gameplay, and Sony won like usual (Horizon, FFXV and The Last Guardian!!)

30. Speaking of Sony, I bought a PS4

31. I got to see Florence and the Machine perform live in Toronto with @tamarnicole1!

32. I saw Shakespeare in Love on stage – front row, centre with my friend Graeme! Additionally in August we saw Sweeney Todd live, once again front row centre. They were both incredible!

33. Pokemon GO released in July! :D Also I finally evolved a Ninetails after walking for months with a Vulpix as my buddy

34. Stranger Things released on Netflix and it was amazing – I also started and completed The Crown

35. I saw my friend @phiventure and his theater group put on RENT in July! Absolutely loved it

36. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable released and introduced me to the glorious doofus that is Okuyasu

37. After talking for about a month online, I had my first date with T on August 14 and it was amazing. ;3; <3 <3 So grateful to be dating this loving dork now

38. Bleach came to an end and Renji/Rukia became super 100% canon holy fuck and they have a beautiful amazing daughter named Ichika - my inner 14 year old almost cried

39. I got to go to the Royal Ontario Museum with some Uni friends for the first time!

40. I also got to go to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this year with @phiventure. Bought the new anthology from Love Love Hill and lots of cute pins and bookmarks~ Also went to a train-themed diner for dinner and saw Civil War right after B)

41. I went with my Dad for the first time to the Royal Canadian Exhibition and it was super fun! I won a tiny green owl prize at one of the games

42. @tamarnicole1 and I went to a Buskerfest in August! We saw a lot of cool performances, and even met Mario at the Nintendo Zone!

43. I saw Tupperware Remix Party and Ninja Sex Party ft. Starbomb on August 28 and it was an out of body experience

44. I watched Dead Poets Society for the first time and cried

45. Ross and Jimmy beat Pepsi Man. Anything is possible

46. Saw Kubo and the Two Strings with my parents and absolutely loved it!

47. Brooklyn 9-9 came back for its 4th season

48. Bastille came out with their new album ‘Wild World’ and it is STUNNING

49. I went for a Toronto day trip with @phiventure to Uniqlo, Hanji, Uncle Tetsu’s, and Sushi House and we also met the voice actor for Binkey Barns in Hanji out of the blue it was bloody amazing

50. T graciously lent me a bunch of PS4 games but also bought me the Uncharted trilogy collection remastered and put it in this cute Zelda game what a dork ;3; ~ In doing this I played through all of the first Uncharted game and started the second one!

51. Jack made a joke about going gluten-free in the Swords with Sauce playthrough, and followed it up by talking about his respect for celiacs allergic to it. Honestly what a good guy. All hail the loud Irish letsplayer

52. T came over for 5 days during his reading week. We went to some parks, out downtown for dinner and boardgames, stayed home and watched Brooklyn 9-9 some days and made food together <3

53. I was kind of a makeshift thug Luigi for Halloween

54. I ordered the Anemone Megahouse figure with the little Gulliver toy that comes with her stand!

55. Ace Attorney Spirit of Justice released!

56. I fulfilled my role as a TA this year, which was a really neat experience

57. I won a giftbasket from the local Cat Café here in an online draw

58. Star Wars: Rogue One released and it was rad

59. Two of my undergrad friends got engaged!

60. I tried the demo of Nier Automata and it was AWESOME THANK YOU BASED PLATINUM

61. I went to the Night Market in my city for the first time!

62. I went to a Vegfest in my city and had gluten-free dumplings for the first time! <3 They were delicious

63. This year, I ran the E7 Secret Santa on Tumblr!

64. Shuyan Saga got greenlit on Steam!

65. The Joe Biden and Barack Obama memes happened

66. I went and visited my old housemates for a weekend :D

67. Pat Maloney came to a local café!

68. Friendmas 2K16 with @phiventure and @usagismile was a success! We had our own Xmas tree and everything

69. I spent Christmas morning playing with dogs at the Humane Society with Dad

70. Dad struck again with the joke Xmas gifts

71. Yoshida drew and posted this for the new year

72. Yuri on Ice happened this year and it was 10/10

73. I spent New Years with T – we danced, played boardgames, ate great food – it was wonderful

#the year in review #ekamy

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i've been out of touch with rvb lately and after seeing the rtx sydney thing, red-vs-red redirected me to you to ask about the general production issues surrounding rvb right now so i was wondering if you could fill me in? Like whats up with the dvd or the mssing soundtrack and all that. sounds fucky

Alright, so I’ll try to break it down the best I can (though I’m not great at explaining things since I can usually break into tangents). Basically, since the conclusion of Season 14, Rooster Teeth’s been toning down Red vs. Blue’s overall presence within the company and its current direction.

As we know by now, 14 was sort’ve a relaxation period for Red vs. Blue’s ongoing narrative, which had just finished its fourth story arc (The Chorus Trilogy), instead opting to go for an anthology with a variety of different directors and writers at the helm to tell stories either within the universe or just PSA-esque non-canon episodes featuring the characters. According to Burnie (or Miles? Can’t remember), this was kinda a try-out season for potential new directors to replace Miles, the director of The Chorus Trilogy, which is where they found Joe Nicolosi, who had directed The Brick Gulch Chronicles in 14, to write/direct 15. Reception of 14 overall was, I’ll say mixed because I know there’s people who loved it, people who hated it, and lots of people who liked some episodes but disliked others.

This is important because Season 14 may have been the relaxation period for the narrative, but was the most expensive season of the series to date with its combination of traditional machinima, 3D animation, 2D animation, and live action in addition to its wide library of director/writers (including bigger names like Game Grumps and Freddie Wong). I’m not going to get into why Season 14′s reception was mixed, but I’ve seen the word miscommunication thrown around and I think that sums it up best. I’m not sure how the Blu-Rays sold, but something tells me it wasn’t great. So why’s this part important? Well, let’s get into the offseason stuff.

After Season 14 finished airing, Rooster Teeth actively removed Red vs. Blue from most of their site branding (save for the little “RvB Collection” link to the store; although on the store’s homepage it’s just lumped in with animation) and instead they started going all in with RWBY marketing, which had just gained its first spinoff show, RWBY Chibi, and its very own video game, RWBY: Grimm Eclipse. So, RWBY’s popularity is skyrocketing while Red vs. Blue’s starts to quiet down. Less people talking about it, less fanworks, less interest in the show from all angles. Now, after the end of 13, both 14 and 15 were confirmed at the same time due to the unique nature of 14, since 15 would be the season that continues the narrative. But here’s the thing: after the conclusion of 14, there was no mention of 15 beyond “it’s happening.” Joe wasn’t confirmed as director until a month before the season premiered, with the trailer being released just two days before the first episode came out. There was essentially no marketing for the season, Rooster Teeth barely advertised it on any of its social platforms. In fact, if you want to go back even further, right before the premiere of 13, the entire series was moved from Rooster Teeth’s YouTube channel to its own dedicated channel. This was probably the first sign of change.

Now let me backtrack to something that really hurt the series and its viewership: the schedule shift between 14 and 15. During 13 and 14, FIRST members would be able to watch episodes a day early on Sundays while regular site members would get episodes on Mondays and to the general public on the following Sunday. It was a pretty good system and kept fans mostly in sync with one another so spoilers wouldn’t be much of an issue, since joining the site as a regular member was free. Now lets fast forward to the release of the trailer, which had advertised the season’s premiere as April 2nd, the day after the show’s 14th anniversary. It didn’t specify whether or not that meant for FIRST members or regular site members, but nobody really saw this as a concern since the release times for both were so close to one another it didn’t matter. So when the season premiered, it was predictably FIRST-exclusive and many fans thought it would simply come out for regular members the next day. It didn’t, and it was instead followed by the announcement of a new release schedule. Rather than FIRST members and regular site members being closer to one another, regular site members would now have to wait with the public an entire week before being able to watch episodes. Rooster Teeth attempted this the year before via email, but after a large negative response from both FIRST members and the general community, they backed off. This time, the schedule was already implemented before it was announced with no intention on changing it, despite the backlash it again received. Instead, a flimsy excuse was given that can be chalked up to “we wanted to experiment with Red vs. Blue.”

So, now there was a large discrepancy between FIRST members and fans who didn’t have FIRST membership. At this point, Red vs. Blue was not being advertised, removed from most branding (now being lumped into the general “Animation” section in the store), and a divided community who couldn’t ever really discuss the show together anymore because the majority of fans didn’t have FIRST memberships so FIRST members wouldn’t discuss the show to avoid spoiling non-FIRST members as a courtesy. A lot of people didn’t even realize the season had even come out until after it was finished, that’s how bad the advertising was. For comparison, Season 13′s main trailer came out a month before it premiered, had a music contest, a holiday special, four individual episode trailers on the Rooster Teeth channel, cross-promotion with On the Spot, a series of exclusive limited edition posters as well as five promotional posters (four of which were for individual characters), really just a bunch of new merch in general and honestly the season just had more love from Rooster Teeth overall. Season 14 saw similar treatment, with its own trailer coming out, individual trailers for nearly every episode (although now on the Red vs. Blue channel instead of Rooster Teeth’s main one), frequently promoted on Rooster Teeth’s social outlets, and some new merch (although less than 13). The release dates for the DVD/Blu-Rays were about a month after they premiered, with 13′s soundtrack being released a little before the season finished if I recall (correct me if I’m wrong).

Now lets look at 15′s promotion: a single poster, one trailer, one AMA during the season (conducted by Joe, Miles, Kyle Taylor, and Josh Ornelas), and three shirts (a Grif one, a Sister one, and a redvsblue.com retro shirt). After the season wrapped up, there was no hype built around it, it came and went. Another difference this season was the exclusion of PSAs, a series staple since the first season. Even 14 had its own variation of PSAs, such as the Sarge 3 episode being a followup to two PSAs from previous seasons. Joe mentioned that this was to avoid interrupting the plot, which is fine, and it was implied that they would start releasing during offseason. After 15 wrapped up, the series went into hibernation. Now typically, like I mentioned earlier, a home release should have been about a month after the season wraps up. Season 15 concluded in August 2017, it is now February 2018, six months later without any mention of what’s going on with its DVD. On top of that, Red vs. Blue had no presence at RTX London. So far, we’ve had no PSAs but we got one holiday short, a new Caboose’s Guide, as well as a new Caboose plush to go with it, both of which are great! Joe also organized an AMA of his own (meaning not in the Rooster Teeth subreddit and no promotion from Rooster Teeth). To put it into perspective, in 2017 RWBY had yeararound promotion, RWBY Chibi’s second season, new spinoff shows (RWBY Rewind and CRWBY), new merch released year around (like, nearly every month?), and regular tweets updating fans on its fifth season before it came out, as well as a panel at RTX London in addition to the ones at RTX Austin and Sydney. Rooster Teeth also announced that RWBY Volume 5′s schedule would be readjusted from the one Red vs. Blue suffered from in response to what happened in 15 and its fractured audience (which fans had kept warning them about) without mentioning Red vs. Blue directly. Before RWBY’s fifth season had even finished, RWBY Chibi’s third season was announced with a teaser image.

Which brings us to now, RWBY Chibi is airing again as well as an update confirming that its sixth season is in production with still no sign of RvB’s PSAs that were supposed to come out nor anything about what’s going on with 15′s DVD and soundtrack (with conflicting release dates from online retailers that weren’t the RT store that ranged between January and February, the former proved to be inaccurate and I’m skeptical if February will come through). We did, however, receive a single image and a synopsis for the next season (that actually reveals nothing other than that it takes place moments after 15), but that’s about it. On top of that, while RvB had a panel at RTX Sydney last year, this year it has no presence and instead will likely be grouped into the animation and FIRST look panels (which are usually centered on RWBY, and more than likely Rooster Teeth’s new shows, gen:LOCK and Nomad of Nowhere; which both received teaser trailers at the end of RWBY5′s finale). This was the tip of the iceberg for a lot of people who initially weren’t too concerned about it, since it’s a very obvious exclusion as RvB just had a panel last year.

And that’s everything I can recount right now, with everyone currently asking the same question: What’s going on with RvB?

Unfortunately, we don’t have an answer right now, but I wish we did.

#there's probably stuff i left out but i could only write so much #Anonymous #replies

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