slipping sideways

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: NANA
Characters: Ren/Nana, Oosaki Nana POV
Rating/Status: G / 625 words, complete
Timeline: Some time after Nana moves to Tokyo, and BLAST forms anew. Exactly when is a bit murky, but no spoilers for any specific bits.
Summary: All she ever wanted was to be just Ren and Nana, without parenthesis.

Author's Notes: Written on a whim for the 04/18/2006 challenge, "(in parenthesis)" at 31_days. It was my first attempt at writing a NANA fic - quite unplanned but it popped up out of the nowhere the moment I saw the theme, which resulted in super speed writing all in one go at the last few minutes of the theme day.

( Just Ren and Nana )


* Why did this entry's order go out of wack after editing?

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Gaara/Sakura (subtle)
Rating/Status: G / 500 words, complete
Timeline: Post time-skip, likely right after the Gaara-rescue mission
Summary: Actions speak louder than words. Or in Gaara's case, sand speaks the loudest.

Author's Note: The last paragraph of this fic was actually written on a scrap piece of paper almost a year ago. I accidentally found the paper earlier today, hence the birth of this ficlet. I'll warn you now that the style is littered with tons of run-on (and probably grammatically incorrect) sentences. It's also angst-free, nothing deep, and with a likelihood of OOC. :D Written very quickly, without much editing, but all in good fun. It is, however, the first Gaara/Sakura anything that I've ever shared with the public though. Can't help feeling a little nervous about that.

( Sand Speak )

Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Shikamaru/Temari
Rating/Status: G / 606 words, complete
Timeline: Open for after the Sasuke retrieval arc (around manga ch.238+). No spoilers.
Summary: Shikamaru thinks that, for once, it was probably best he did nothing at all.

Author's Notes: More ShikaTema (with a cheesy title). :p This one came out of nowhere and just sorta dribbled out without any proper refinement or editing. All in all, I guess it's just another exploration of a "moment" between the two. It's probably too wordy, quite cliche, and a tad bit boring... and it also doesn't have any dialogue again. Rather below the kind of standard I usually try to set for myself, but I'm trying to break into a new kind of writing and this will have to do for now. >_>;

( A Moment Stolen )