Why is everybody in this show a ninja?

[elementalhero]

Meme ganked from redbrunja :

For those unfamiliar, first you pick a letter. Then you pick a fandom (or a crossover) and a character or pairing. For example, S is for Starlight, Kairi/Riku (Kingdom Hearts). In turn you'll receive a ficlet of some kind.

Simple, yes?

A is for: Angel, Itachi/Kairi (Naruto/Kingdom Hearts) keepdreamingxx  (this is based on our interactions at thedollsyhouse , btw)
B is for: Baggage, Jacen Solo (Star Wars EU) digthenym 
C is for:
D is for: Disaster, Ino & Asuma (Naruto) redbrunja 
E is for:
F is for: Flirt, Sakura/Kakashi (Naruto) redbrunja  (disclaimer: I, personally, do not ship this in any way, and only Red is allowed to ask for it because she is awesome)
G is for:
H is for: Hand, Deidara/Konan (Naruto) redbrunja 
I is for:
J is for: Jerk, Karin/Suigetsu (Naruto) redbrunja 
K is for:
L is for: Lie, Ino/Genma (Naruto) redbrunja 
M is for: Manly, Karin & Juugo (Naruto) digthenym 
N is for:
O is for: Obnoxious, Roy/Riza (FMA) renaliner 
P is for:
Q is for: Queen, Sakura/Sai (Naruto) redbrunja 
R is for: Rain, Tsunade & Jiraiya (Naruto) redbrunja 
S is for: Sandcastle, Riku/Kairi (Kingdom Hearts) keepdreamingxx 
T is for: Tits, Jiraiya/Tsunade (Naruto) redbrunja 
U is for:
V is for: Virtuous, Anko/Iruka (Naruto) redbrunja 
W is for: Water, Itachi/Anko (Naruto) redbrunja 
X is for:
Y is for:
Z is for:

In other news, I tweaked my hip while pitching today.  We were so busy beating the other team, I didn't notice I was in pain until the last two outs.  >.>

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[renaliner.livejournal.com]

...Would you mind if I stole this?

um um um.

O is for Obnoxious, Riza/Roy (Full Metal Alchemist) ALL SYSTEMS GO?

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Not at all! ^^

I'm not caught up to the FMA manga past volume 17, so here is my non-spoily (also not-based-on-any-scene-in-canon) fail:
--

"Sir. You have paperwork to do. It is not necessary for you to be at my side from when visiting hours begin to when they end." Riza coughed; the pneumonia made it hard to talk.

Roy waved her off. "No need to thank me, Lieutenant Hawkeye," he said. He plucked a rose out of one of the many bouquets sent to her by her fellow officers. "Do you think holding this in my teeth would make me look more dashing?" He placed the stem in his mouth and pulled it right back out, wincing. "The florist missed a thorn," he said, by way of explanation.

Riza coughed again. "Please, sir. You've been at this for three days."

[renaliner.livejournal.com]

FFFFFFFFF

I LOVE YOU. AND ROY. IT'S A BIT OF A TOSS UP BUT THE ODDS ARE LOOKING GOOD <3

Also, Riza, oh. So long suffering. Poor thing.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

F is for Flirt - Sakura/Kakashi

Q is for Queen - Sai/Sakura

W is for Water - Anko/Itachi

V is for virtuous, Anko/Iruka.

This is a mark of how much I love you, Red.

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

F is for Flirt:

"Kakashi-sensei?"

Kakashi glanced at Sakura over the top of Icha Icha Paradise. "Hmm?"

The twelve-year-old girl glanced back the way they'd walked for a second, looking uncomfortable. "Why was Anko-sensei talking to you so familiarly back there? She seemed kind of..." She didn't finish the sentence, but Kakashi knew she'd noticed the stagger in the older kunoichi's step, as well as the sake on her breath.

"Anko-sensei is a very outgoing woman," he said, burying his eye in his porn again.

"But she acted like she wanted to..." Sakura seemed to consider a word choice very carefully, "...she seemed like she was flirting with you."

"Believe it or not, Sakura, your sensei is a popular man in Konoha." An outright lie. It wasn't his place to explain Mitarashi Anko to his student.

But Sakura, surprisingly, was nodding. "...I could see that..." she mused.

Kakashi blinked. Really?

*hugs* You're sweet. Also, I'm sure this is some pairing you love that I'd only write for you.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Also, this was amazingly cute and funny and I loved it.

I like to think that this exchange plants a seed of an idea in Kakashi's head that is going to lead INTERESTING places later.

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Q is for Queen:

Sakura stared at Sai. "You didn't."

"I had a very nice time," Sai said. "Naruto suggested the place to me. He said I needed to work on my interpersonal skills in a social setting. Unfortunately, a scheduling conflict kept him from going with me, but I think I got some very good experience out of it."

"...You do realize what that place is, right?" Sakura briefly reflected that Sai was going to drive her to the bottle someday.

"A venue for social interaction through the medium of drink and musically-enhanced cardiovascular exercise?"

"It's a gay bar, Sai."

Sai blinked. "Oh." A pause. "Is that why that young man gave me his home address?"

Sakura merely groaned and rubbed her temples, as Sai continued, "I thought he seemed rather eager to bond with someone he'd only just met..."

"Sai, please stop talking."

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

V is for Virtuous:

"You're not."

"I am."

"You're not."

"I am."

"Dammit, Iruka, I hate it when men lie to me. You can't be telling me you're a virgin."

"I'm not lying to you, Anko."

"So you're saying you never had sex before."

"No. I mean yes, that's what I'm saying. No, I've never had sex before."

"...so...wow. So tonight's going to be really special for you, huh?"

"Well, any night I'm with Anko is special to me--"

"Shut up," and she silences him with her lips.

--

ffffffff Iruka is so cute.

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

This one took longer because I had to make it good.

Also, I remembered that you'd once requested a look at Insomniac from Anko's POV. While I'm still working on a full piece, I did do this one in a similar style, and there are some allusions thrown in there to it and other one-shots.

With that said...

W is for Water:

They are too young for this. He is thirteen and she is eighteen, and they are too young for this, they are told. They're not too young to be chuunin, not too young to fight and die and murder, but they are too young for this.

Maybe they are both aware of this, and maybe it is that cognitive dissonance that distances them when they do this, widens the gulf between them when they should feel the closest to each other.

Her chakra is midnight blue, and one night, for the first time she makes the mistake of actually making eye contact during the act.

She sees them burning red and wild and suddenly she's wet and cold and drowning and she can't breathe why the water in her lungs or the hand at her throat and the world going red black dim cold

...

She's come to a moment later, and the moon has moved from the middle of a tree branch's shadow to the tip of its grasping leaves. He's dripping with sweat some couple meters away, shivering violently though it's an eighty-degree summer night with no wind. Gripping his head in his hands, white-knuckled, palms trembling over his eyes. She’s too stunned and confused about what’s just happened to be properly angry or betrayed or whatever the stock response should be.

After a moment, the breath shudders back into his lungs, and he speaks. “I’m sorry, I... I didn’t mean to—I lost control.”

Strange, that. She rubs at her throat, where she’d thought she’d felt icy fingers and... “That’s a new one,” she says. Somewhere under the shock, it’s funny. Everything is, in the end.

He won’t look at her. She wonders. “...Your first, huh?”

She doesn’t even need to look at his face to see the question etched there. “Your first murder,” she clarifies.

He draws his knees up, curls up with his forehead resting on them. She edges closer and runs a hand along his jawline. It comes away wet with tears.

“It’s not going to be your last, kid,” she whispers. “Not by a long shot.”

They never speak of it again. She’s had nights like that and conversations like that for so long that this one eventually only blurs into her memory like the rest.

But years later, she stills feels an inexplicable chill when crossing running water.

[keepdreamingxx.livejournal.com]

..are you really going to do this.

-looks at comments.- Oh. I guess you are. Haha.

...........

A is for Angel - Itachi/Kairi (XDDDDDDDDDDDDD)
S is for Sandcastle - Kairiku

You know I might even do this meme. wtf. I don't have much to do this weekend, anyway...

XDDDDDD

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Any outsider reading this is probably like "wtf" because this breaks up two of my most treasured OTPs at the same time.

A is for Angel:

There's just something about the young man (or older teen--it's hard to pin down his age) that piques Kairi's curiosity as much as it frightens her. He's killed in the past, she's been told. She's seen him throw knives with inhuman accuracy, striking down monsters she knows he can't even see, and yet he never seems to enjoy the violence. There's something in the darkness of his eyes, something far-off, melancholic and adult, something that gave up the luxury of hope a long time ago.

"I don't think you're a bad person," she says, and for the first time in the maybe three hours total that she has spent with him, something that might be a smile flirts with the corner of his mouth.

"I hope that doesn't mean you think I'm a good person," he says, his voice as soft as the tread of a hunting cat. The kind of deep voice that creates a buzzing echo beneath your ribs.

She shivers, but can't let it die there. This house is large, and lonely, and after a while, even the most insane of conversations becomes welcome. "Well...I like to think there's good in everyone," she says, drawing her knees up to her chest. "And you...well, you seem different from...how you are." Wow. That made sense.

"Do I?" His head turns in her direction from the sound of her voice, and he talks to a point a few inches to the right of her head.

"You don't seem...happy. With what you do." That's right, provoke the stranger who could kill you.

By way of answer, he shrugs, and says, "When one loves, one runs the risk of hate. Evil couldn't exist, after all, without a good to fight against. Even Lucifer was an angel once."

"So...you're saying that..." She closes her eyes and rubs them, thinking. "You're saying..." She opens them and he's standing right in front of her. His eyes are burning red, and she can't move for momentary terror.

"I'm saying," he says softly, running two fingers along her trembling jawline, "that the higher you fly, the farther you fall."

something saner

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

S is for Sandcastle:

"Wet sand builds better," Riku sneers at Sora's attempts to dig higher up the tideline.

Sora grins and says, "We'll see whose is standing last," while Kairi gathers thalassa shells from tidepools.

Riku's is bigger and more elaborate, but the tide comes in over it before Kairi's done exclaiming over Sora's.

---

I still can't give him a happy ending, dammit.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

T is for tits, Jiraiya/Tsunade

J is for Jerk, Karin/Suigetsu

L is for Lie, Ino/Genma

H is for Hand, Deidara/Konan.

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

H is for Hand:

"Deidara-sempai, why do you look so sad?" Deidara's masked compatriot looks down at his hands. "Your bombs haven't been high-quality lately, either..."

Deidara scowls. "It's none of your business, Tobi, hmm?" He winces slightly as he claps his palms together to make another bomb. Out of nowhere, Tobi grabs his wrist and turns it over.

"How come your hand-tongues are all covered in paper cuts, huh, sempai? Did you try to blow up a paper shredder?"

"IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, HMM!"

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

J is for Jerk:

"Oh. Oh, this is too good."

Karin glares with impotent fury, a steaming red blush climbing her cheeks. "Suigetsu, who the hell said you could go through my stuff, huh? I'm pretty sure nobody did. Because you can't."

He teasingly holds up a sheaf of papers of varying ages--some are practically new, others worn almost to shreds. "You've been writing love letters to yourself, addressed from Sasuke, for close to three years? And you've carried them with you this whole time? Karin, I think you just made my month."

It's really lucky for Karin that Sasuke happens to be on patrol and Juugo is on water-retrieval duty at this time, and she knows it. She straightens her glasses, saying, "They're secret documents. You're just seeing the protective genjutsu layer--"

"You, ma'am, are lying. Totally lying," Suigetsu says, grinning so widely that he's in danger of slacing a lip open on his sharp teeth.

"Am not."

"Yes, you are. You fidget with your glasses when you aren't telling the truth."

Karin scowls, cursing at his unexpectedly acute observation skills. But she's running out of time and Suigetsu basically lives for opportunities to make her life hell. "What," she says, taking off her glasses, "can I do to make you forget about this whole thing?"

Suigetsu's gaze slides down from her face. "Let me think..."

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

T is for Tits:

They reunite over tea, two longtime friends/rivals/co-punching-bags, and the first word out of Jiraiya's mouth is, "When?"

Orochimaru raises one annoyingly perfect eyebrow. "When what?"

"Don't play dumb, mister big jutsu genius," Jiraiya sneers. "When did it happen?"

"Jiraiya, after not seeing you for three years, do you think I spontaneously manifested the ability to read your mind through your dense skull?"

"If anybody could, it would probably be you." Jiraiya rolls his eyes before elaborating, as if speaking to an particularly clueless and naive child. "When did they develop?"

Orochimaru looks up at some point over Jiraiya's shoulder disinterestedly, and then back at him. "What on earth are you blathering on about, already?" he asks, propping an elbow on the table to lean his cheek against his hand.

Jiraiya slams the table, shouting, "For the love of everything, Orochimaru, I am talking about Tsunade's boobs!"

A ringing, deadly silence falls over the tea shop.

At Orochimaru's widening smirk, Jiraiya feels the cold lead of doom creeping into his guts.

"...She's right behind me, isn't she?"

--

This ended up focusing less on Tsunade and more on Orochimaru and Jiraiya's relationship, huh. >C It's funny because this is my first time ever writing Orochimaru; I thought he'd be harder. (granted, this is younger!Orochimaru, sooo....)

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

L is for Lie:

It's the look Chouji gives her when she twists her fingers and the enemy medic begins to plunge his scalpel into the necks of his wounded, one by one, eyes empty, that drives Ino to the rear after the initial melee, chewing on her once-beautiful nails until they split and bleed. They all have their little quirks, Team 10, their little habits and twitches that burn off the nervous energy of battle. Chouji pops open a bag of chips, methodically demolishing the food, maybe so he can't hear the screams over the crunching. Shikamaru lights up, the safe refuge of nicotine and tar that he found after Asuma died, maybe so he can't smell the bodies.

Ino flirts madly with the closest male she can find, preferably a few years older, maybe so she can reassure herself that she's still attractive on the outside, if not the inside. And if one of them ever actually takes her up on it, well that's another hour or so of not having to think about the memories she catches, memories of spouses and children, same as them, people now fatherless, motherless, childless.

The worst is when their comrades don't kill them to save them, but find them after it wears off, sobbing or screaming or giggling or drooling or nothing at all.

Her bloodied fingernails trace the lines of his chest, and Genma asks her if she's okay.

Ino looks up and smiles beatifically, a demon with the face of an angel.

"Of course."

[digthenym.livejournal.com]

B is for Baggage, Jacen Solo!

M is for Manly, Karin x Juugo (or Karin and Juugo. Whatever's easiest XD)

ilu~

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

B is for Baggage:

A Jedi is calm. A Jedi is patient. A Jedi does not get the urge to Force-throw the little Toydarian luggage-handler out of the nearest airlock just because the cargo hold depressurized during flight and the seven small bottles of Ithorian firewine he'd gotten for his mother's birthday (which they'd missed) had shattered all over the contents of his cargopack, including a couple really important documents.

Jaina, who always packs super-light and mooches off of Jacen for the duration of their stay, is unsufferably smug. "I told you she'd like the book on microbiotic ecology, anyway," she says. Anakin, whose stuff had been in the other cargo hold, is at least sympathetic. "...If you need underwear, I have an extra pair for the changeover at Hathrox III," he confides to Jacen in a low voice.

A Jedi is calm. A Jedi is patient. A Jedi does not hate everything that ever existed.

--

Ah, the young Solos. I could have tried to do angst, but I have personally disavowed everything post-NJO from my mental EU canon, on charges of extreme suckage and character rape. XO

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

M is for Manly:

"Juugo. Stop it. You're creeping me out." Karin squints at him, even though her glasses are perfectly straight. She could just be trying to dismiss the goldfinch on his head as simply part of his shock of orange hair.

He starts and turns around guiltily, his usual reaction when someone speaks to him unexpectedly. "...Stop what?" he asks.

"Stop talking to birds. They follow us all the time now. Pooping on stuff and dropping feathers--not," she adds, "that I minded it when Suigetsu got a big one in the face the other day, but we're starting to become easy to track."

Juugo's face is stricken. "But--"

"I mean, next you'll be dancing around next to the waterfall, singing and stuff. It just isn't manly, Juugo." A shrug. "And Sasuke gets that unconscious twitch whenever he sees crows, seriously."

"But--"

Karin adjusts her glasses irritably. "No buts."

--

The next day, they started being followed by squirrels.

I Edited Because I Had To Have More Sannin Gen.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be totally selfish and ask for mores. You don't have to write them if you don't want to.

D is for Disaster - Ino and Asuma

T is for Time - Anko and Ibiki

R is for Rain - Tsunade & Jiraiya.

late fail is late

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

D is for Disaster:

"This is a disaster," Ino says, tears welling up at the corners of her eyes. "This is a goddamn disaster." Of all the stupid things to get emotional about, she is trying to fix her hair after hacking it off, after she didn't even win; she's in the back hall crying like a stupid child and raking her hands through her mutilated hair, and it's all just stupid and wrong.

She had wanted, so badly, to win that fight.

The distinctive smell of cigarette smoke wafts toward her and it takes her a moment to even recognize it and realize Asuma-sensei is walking up behind her. Immediately, she begins to swallow her tears, to smooth her hair down and act like she hadn't been doing anything of consequence, certainly not crying in a hallway like an emotional little girl.

Asuma smiles and pats her on the shoulder.

"You did good, kid," he says, and keeps walking.

Ino watches him walk down the hall and bursts into fresh tears.

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

R is for Rain:

"You're a stupid idiot," Tsunade tells him. "You're a stupid idiot and you could have been court-martialed and you could have been killed, and you didn't even try to communicate with us, and..." Eventually, she runs out of horrible consequences and applicable epithets, and just stares at Jiraiya in open disbelief. "I can't believe you left us for three years."

Jiraiya's nursing his black eye. "To be honest, I didn't expect to be gone that long."

Tsunade should have known, should have expected it, since it isn't like Jiraiya ever thinks anything out anyway. She wants to ask how could a bunch of orphaned kids from Hidden Rain possibly be more important than your village and friends? but it would be pointless. Jiraiya's just one of those people who can't ignore what's in front of him for what's behind him.

"But you know," he's saying, "I did miss the sun."

[rainbrat.livejournal.com]

P is for Pixie, Ino/Sasuke :3

[digthenym.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna be a butt and request more from you too <3

C is for Control, Jaina x Kyp
L is for Leftovers, Rukia x Renji