Random snippets (the 2nd and 5th are the new ones)
Bandaid (49 words)
It was Kaidoh who cleaned the wound and applied antiseptic, and it was also Kaidoh who applied all of the bandaids in the kit to his hand. Inui was about to say it was enough when Kaidoh placed the third bandaid, but something about Kaidoh's mood kept him silent.
Deathgames chapter 3 (81 words)
Already the black butterflies have become a common sight. 'It takes time,' Ukitake had said, 'You'll get used to it. After a while you'll start seeing ghosts, then hearing them. Maybe help one or two transition to Soul Society.'
Shindou didn't bother to say he'd been there, done that.
Every jigokuchou sighting made him restless. Once he'd followed one on the way from the Go Association, but he couldn't really chase after them when they head to the sky, could he?
Holmes (I forgot the description!) (122 words)
"Ingenious, he had recently returned from a trip in South America, and possessing the bad habit of collecting things in his pocket, a habit that renders his card rather the worse for wear. And he rolls his own cigarettes as well. The print on the rightmost corner was made with a stamp and India ink, notably that of well-kept house of limited means. Said stamp was made by a skilled craftsman, possibly a whaler on a piece of ivory. It's likely to be a gift from an acquaintance met during his extensive travels, one who developed a close tie with his family."
"And why do you say that?"
"It is a sprig of St. John's Wort, a design chosen for sentimental reasons."
Hyotei V-day rabu (132 words)
"They don't suit you - you're so uncool with them." Gakuto thought Yuushi looked cool whatever he wore - or did not wear - but he was feeling very contradictory today. Antsy, Shisido would say, but that's not Gakuto-ish. It must've been all the girls around him even before they got into the campus. Just because it was Valentine's they thought they could hang around the Kansai boy so Yuushi can call them by their names and flirt tenderly. He had to go ahead to practice with Ohtori and Shishido and watching them so sweet on each other just made him feel gross. "Were they presents?"
"Jealous, Gaku-chan?" Yuushi teased, sliding long fingers into Gakuto's red hair, trailing them down to massage Gakuto's skin just under the collar. Gakuto shook his head.
osmalic's LE challenge (140 words)
The signal was a finger to his lips, as he mock-contemplated the complexity of their latest Transfiguration assignment. Lily's reply, sent above the bread and cheeseboard during luncheon, was a mere toss of the head to her right, a glance to the House Slytherin. They managed to walk out of the Great Hall together, and somehow it was passed before James pulled Remus away for a new bit of mischief.
An unsealed scrap of parchment, folded twice and tied with a ragged piece of twine tying his last package from home. She fingered it gently, before heading to her next class.
She nudged books off Severus' table, and he bent to gather them with a muttered curse. She sweetly apologized as she slipped the note in his sleeve, and his stuttered thanks brought a smile at the foibles of lovestruck boys.
Moon (13 squared)
"Maybe she shouldn't have," Lupin conceded, tracing the contours of the goblet with one slim finger. "It must've been the only way she could have him for herself alone, and she did it. But then when you're in love you don't really know what you're doing, isn't that so, Severus?"
That was something that he had understood - achingly so, during his student years in Hogwarts. Always, he sought out a certain figure among Gryffindor's ranks, and always, he'd turn away before their eyes would chance to meet. Hating that weakness, and yet unable to fight it, such a desire had caused the goddess of the myth to imprison her beloved in slumber. It had not made sense, but she'd wanted to grasp at any chance to be by his chance. A hollow remnant of a similar desire had echoed deep in Snape at the start of this year's term, when he'd first gazed at Lupin again. He'd chosen to ignore it then. His old excuses rang true still.
Gyorho (Someone help me come up with a title!) (235 words)
"Shindou knows what it is like to lose something important," he added, writing down kanji spelling the name 'Sai' in the space below the grid. "There was someone by the name of Sai, whose ghost seemed to hover above Shindou. Sai also played go, and he was stronger than anyone I have ever known, but somehow, when all the clues came together all I can think was, 'Sai was inside Shindou.' I knew it, and I told him, on the first game we ever had since he became a professional, but he said that maybe in the future he can tell me what Sai was for him."
"What does it mean for me?"
"When I think about that, I think of how it is for you," Akira continued. "You've lost something very important, and I think you want to find it, but if you do you might go about it the wrong way, and so you're afraid. Shindou almost quit go a year ago, and no one knows why up to now. Maybe no one will find out, maybe it had everything or nothing to do with Sai, but I don't want to betray his trust by asking about it, to him or to the people around him. For me, it is only Shindou who matters, not Sai. Sai is only important because he was the one who showed me what Shindou has become now."
It was Kaidoh who cleaned the wound and applied antiseptic, and it was also Kaidoh who applied all of the bandaids in the kit to his hand. Inui was about to say it was enough when Kaidoh placed the third bandaid, but something about Kaidoh's mood kept him silent.
Deathgames chapter 3 (81 words)
Already the black butterflies have become a common sight. 'It takes time,' Ukitake had said, 'You'll get used to it. After a while you'll start seeing ghosts, then hearing them. Maybe help one or two transition to Soul Society.'
Shindou didn't bother to say he'd been there, done that.
Every jigokuchou sighting made him restless. Once he'd followed one on the way from the Go Association, but he couldn't really chase after them when they head to the sky, could he?
Holmes (I forgot the description!) (122 words)
"Ingenious, he had recently returned from a trip in South America, and possessing the bad habit of collecting things in his pocket, a habit that renders his card rather the worse for wear. And he rolls his own cigarettes as well. The print on the rightmost corner was made with a stamp and India ink, notably that of well-kept house of limited means. Said stamp was made by a skilled craftsman, possibly a whaler on a piece of ivory. It's likely to be a gift from an acquaintance met during his extensive travels, one who developed a close tie with his family."
"And why do you say that?"
"It is a sprig of St. John's Wort, a design chosen for sentimental reasons."
Hyotei V-day rabu (132 words)
"They don't suit you - you're so uncool with them." Gakuto thought Yuushi looked cool whatever he wore - or did not wear - but he was feeling very contradictory today. Antsy, Shisido would say, but that's not Gakuto-ish. It must've been all the girls around him even before they got into the campus. Just because it was Valentine's they thought they could hang around the Kansai boy so Yuushi can call them by their names and flirt tenderly. He had to go ahead to practice with Ohtori and Shishido and watching them so sweet on each other just made him feel gross. "Were they presents?"
"Jealous, Gaku-chan?" Yuushi teased, sliding long fingers into Gakuto's red hair, trailing them down to massage Gakuto's skin just under the collar. Gakuto shook his head.
osmalic's LE challenge (140 words)
The signal was a finger to his lips, as he mock-contemplated the complexity of their latest Transfiguration assignment. Lily's reply, sent above the bread and cheeseboard during luncheon, was a mere toss of the head to her right, a glance to the House Slytherin. They managed to walk out of the Great Hall together, and somehow it was passed before James pulled Remus away for a new bit of mischief.
An unsealed scrap of parchment, folded twice and tied with a ragged piece of twine tying his last package from home. She fingered it gently, before heading to her next class.
She nudged books off Severus' table, and he bent to gather them with a muttered curse. She sweetly apologized as she slipped the note in his sleeve, and his stuttered thanks brought a smile at the foibles of lovestruck boys.
Moon (13 squared)
"Maybe she shouldn't have," Lupin conceded, tracing the contours of the goblet with one slim finger. "It must've been the only way she could have him for herself alone, and she did it. But then when you're in love you don't really know what you're doing, isn't that so, Severus?"
That was something that he had understood - achingly so, during his student years in Hogwarts. Always, he sought out a certain figure among Gryffindor's ranks, and always, he'd turn away before their eyes would chance to meet. Hating that weakness, and yet unable to fight it, such a desire had caused the goddess of the myth to imprison her beloved in slumber. It had not made sense, but she'd wanted to grasp at any chance to be by his chance. A hollow remnant of a similar desire had echoed deep in Snape at the start of this year's term, when he'd first gazed at Lupin again. He'd chosen to ignore it then. His old excuses rang true still.
Gyorho (Someone help me come up with a title!) (235 words)
"Shindou knows what it is like to lose something important," he added, writing down kanji spelling the name 'Sai' in the space below the grid. "There was someone by the name of Sai, whose ghost seemed to hover above Shindou. Sai also played go, and he was stronger than anyone I have ever known, but somehow, when all the clues came together all I can think was, 'Sai was inside Shindou.' I knew it, and I told him, on the first game we ever had since he became a professional, but he said that maybe in the future he can tell me what Sai was for him."
"What does it mean for me?"
"When I think about that, I think of how it is for you," Akira continued. "You've lost something very important, and I think you want to find it, but if you do you might go about it the wrong way, and so you're afraid. Shindou almost quit go a year ago, and no one knows why up to now. Maybe no one will find out, maybe it had everything or nothing to do with Sai, but I don't want to betray his trust by asking about it, to him or to the people around him. For me, it is only Shindou who matters, not Sai. Sai is only important because he was the one who showed me what Shindou has become now."