slipping sideways

Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Shikamaru/Temari
Genre: Tragedy, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Rating/Status: PG-13 / 490 words, complete
Summary: In the aftermath of war, Temari stands beside him, steady. And Shikamaru finally understands.

Author's Note: This one has been sitting in my drafts for well over a year (soon after ch.616 of the manga came out, to be exact), which means there's a peripheral mention of SPOILERS that occurred in said chapter. It took so long to get posted because I kept struggling with the wording, so it ended up getting stashed away until now.

Applicable prompts: 500themes, #169 - A time for tenderness.

( Steady Against the Tide )

Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Characters: Kasamatsu Yukio, Kise Ryouta
Genre: Gen, Crack, Silly Stuff
Rating/Status: PG / 216 words, complete
Summary: The one where Kasamatsu's life is in Kise's hands. Or (less dramatically), Kasamatsu is a passenger and Kise is the pilot.

Author's Note: This was written about a year ago when I tried to imagine what Pilot!Kise and Passenger!Kasamatsu would be like after the whole future jobs thing was released in the character bible. It was supposed to be part of a longer fic, but it refused to be anything other than crack (which would have been ridiculous for the fic I was planning). So here it is, by itself, along with a version 2 that turned out so similarly it's probably more accurate to call it version 1.1.

Applicable prompts: 500themes #115 - Deliverance.

( Professionalism, Except Not Really )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Haruno Sakura, Team 7
Rating/Status: PG/PG-13 for blood / 404 words, complete
Timeline: Future fic for confrontation between Team 7. No spoilers.
Summary: Sakura became the strongest just for them and for this moment, but sometimes even that isn't enough.

Author's Notes: This was completely inspired from reading the latest Naruto manga chapters 305-306, but there are no spoilers. It's a future snapshot so it's purely made up. Finished within 15 minutes... but it's angst so it takes me faster to write. :p The style makes it kind of choppy though, and it's also the first time I wrote something using present tense. I might build around it later?

( The Strongest )