Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Shikamaru/Temari
Genre: Romance, Hopeful Feelings
Rating/Status: G / 380 words, complete
Summary: A second in Tsukuyomi can last days, and minutes a lifetime. Shikamaru has lived it all, and he remembers too clearly, her presence. Reaction fic to Shikamaru's portion of the dreams in ch.678.

Author's Note: This came from thinking too much about the dream sequence shown in manga ch.678 and how we only saw one moment out of what may very well be a lifetime for them. There aren't any real spoilers per se, but it might be a bit confusing without having read said chapter (which, in itself is pretty standalone... I jumped straight there myself, after who knows how many chapters I missed). This fic is directly in response to the portion that has every ShikaTema fan out there screaming.

Applicable prompts: 500themes, #047 - One dream, one lifetime.

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Professionalism, it appears, is overrated where Kise is concerned. It's like déjà vu, really. In short, this is Version 2 of Professionalism, Except Not Really. PG / 275 words, complete.

I initially attempted to write another version that wasn't as crackish as the first one in hopes of getting it to fit into that long fic I wanted to write... except it turned out practically the same. So here it is too, for archival purposes. It follows pretty much the same formula; the two may as well be identical.

Applicable prompts: 500themes #344. Hold still, I'm trying to kill you.

( Professionalism, Except Not Really - Take Two! )

Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Gaara/Sakura
Genre: Romance, Drama, Humor/Crack
Rating/Status: PG-13 / complete
Summary: Four snippets; a tiny peek into the various shades of Gaara and Sakura.

Author's Note: These are just a few short drabbly things (not inter-connected) written back in January on Tumblr for the GaaSaku month event. I'm only now realizing I actually never got around to archiving them here. Due to the delay and the fact that a couple of them are super short, I've gone ahead and lumped them together in one post.

All of these are written with prompts or specific requests in mind, but they also crept out of some kind of head canon where Sakura and Gaara are sort of already in a relationship... I think. The latter explains the somewhat lame title of this collection, unfortunately.

Applicable prompts: 500themes, #84 - How you suffered for your sanity, #88 - Serenity Incarnate (for the 1st one and the 2nd one, respectively)

( Shades of Them )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Tenten, Neji/Tenten
Rating/Status: PG / 136 words, complete
Summary: Tenten had always thought relationships could come later.

Author's Note: Initially posted on Tumblr for the NejiTen shippers. SPOILERS for the most recent manga chapter, 614. You've been warned!

Applicable prompts: 500themes, #154 - Unfinished tale.

( Once Upon a Time )

Fandom: Ao no Exorcist / Blue Exorcist
Characters: Okumura Rin, Okumura Yukio
Rating/Status: PG / 686 words, complete
Summary: Growing up, Yukio may have been able to see things Rin couldn't see, but there were also plenty of things Rin could see that Yukio couldn't. Pre-series.

Author's Note: I haven't kept up with the manga for a few months now, so I don't know if canon managed to disprove any aspect of this fic since then. I wrote it back in March, and it was originally supposed to be a part of a longer fic, but I gave up on the idea and decided to post the snippet as a standalone scene. Takes place pre-series, some unspecified time early on when Rin and Yukio were young children.

Applicable prompts: 500themes, #151 - When eyes believe in mysteries.

( Blindly Seeing )

Fandom: Ao Haru Ride
Characters: Tanaka Youichi, Murao Shuuko
Rating/Status: PG / 439 words, complete
Summary: In time, Youichi knows, she will move on and remember this as just a silly crush she once had as a teenage girl.

Author's Note: Because I'm rather curious about where Sakisaka plans to go with this whole Murao and Tanaka-sensei thing. Inspired by manga chapter 11.5, featuring the side story of Murao and Tanaka-sensei, so expect spoilers for that.

Written for my Ao Haru Ride claim at 24_times, #23 - In time. Table index here. In conjunction with 500themes, #490 - When tomorrows run out.

( Tomorrow's Wish )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Nara Yoshino, Shikamaru/Temari
Rating/Status: G / 207 words, complete
Summary: This day may have arrived sooner than she originally thought, but Yoshino couldn't have said she was all that surprised.

Author's Note: Originally written back in 2010, during my bout of run-on sentences phase. I had left it lying around because I kept wondering if I should expand on it further. Reading it again recently, I realized that there really isn't much I want to add, so I'm posting it as is, with a bit of clean-up.

Applicable prompts: 500themes, #364 - Bless the union.

( Nara Men )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Team 7
Rating/Status: G / 100 words, complete
Summary: Kakashi remembers too much, too little, and forgets why he has never passed a team.

Author's Note: An old piece sitting around my computer that I either post now or end up forever fiddling with. :p Notes regarding the title at the end of the fic.

Applicable prompts: 500themes, #205 - Memory of a dream.

( The Mirror of Erised )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Inuzuka Kiba/Hyuuga Hanabi
Rating/Status: PG-13 / 832 words, WIP
Chapter: 1 of ?, A Razor's Edge
Timeline: Undefined future, no spoilers
Summary: In Team 8, there were certain things you simply don't speak of. Perhaps it was because of this that he never really knew her at all.

Author's Notes: Every time I lie down on the bed, I would get these "snapshots" in my head... like flashes of conversation, scenes, or just brief moments of something. I suppose you can say it's when my muse likes to visit me the most. As a result, that's where the basis of my stories generally come from. The following is a product of one of those flashes, pieced together on scraps of paper throughout the trips I had to take for work this past month. Like Simply Unspoken, it's Kiba/Hanabi, though these two fics are definitely not related in any way. This one has way more angst and much less fluff.

( The Paradigm of Understanding - Part 1 )