I won't lose to the character limit, part 2
The original Masterlist post has grown too big and needed to be split up, so here's the second new Sub-Masterlist, the
Periodically Updated Masterlist Of All GinZura Fic That’s Ever Been Written, Hopefully With Many More Updates To Come: The One With The End Of The Alphabet
Some Prolific Authors
First, our esteemed moderator, beside being, you know, our esteemed moderator, has written his fair share of fan fiction:
Title: i have found what you are like
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13?
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Joui wars era ficlet. Written for asuka_chan and fridge, who are certifiable arseholes, and therefore good company.
Or, Katsura as the Team Mom.
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Title: (here is the root of the root)
Author: Rabid
Rating: G to NC-17
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Ginzura and Co through the years; for legein. 50-prompt theme set taken from 1sentence [although I did a lot more than one sentence and broke every rule but "write stuff"].
This lovely collection of connected vignettes sums up Gintoki and Katsura‘s relationship beautifully; it also happens to be the longest fic for this pairing to date, so savor it.
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Title: in your hair [a babbling brook]
Author: Rabid
Rating: R
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For Asuka, whatever lj name she's using these days, who's on a grand adventure. Very much written to Old College Try and Broom People by the Mountain Goats, one of which the title is stolen from.
Gintoki’s appreciation - or lack of - of Katsura’s haircut(s).
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Title: &everything is clear
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For antimonial, who gave me the prompts "short hair Zura" & "clear." A short introspective thing, unbeta'd and written quick and dirty.
Still on the subject of Zura’s hair, and the close cut that was the Benizakura Arc.
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Title: before you can walk
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For antimonial. Based off of a hideously long AU storyline we drummed up together. "Chiro" refers to Kanshichiro, who in this story has come from a member of Gintoki's family who passed away. Raising Harry style, suckas. TL;DR, Japanese slice of life.
It's a modern AU where they raise a baby together. Very cute and sweet.
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Title: Fight on a Monday, Cry on a Tuesday, Throw Up on a Wednesday, but Always Laugh on Saturday & Sunday
Author: Rabid
Rating: R
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For antimonial. Title from the Radwimps.
Kagura gets a new mommyZura moves in with Gintoki. It goes about as well as you can expect.
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Title: yet someone told me
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Inspired by and written to "Quelqu'un Ma Dit" - Carla Bruni.
Technically it's about Sakamoto spending a couple of days at Katsura's place. Actually it's about Sakamoto playing matchmaker for his hapless friends. It's also a wonderful look at these two characters' friendship, something we don't see enough of in canon OR in fic!
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Title: a haiku for you
Author: Rabid
Rating: G
Summary: No summary.
Notes: A drabble for the day five ginzura advent prompt.
Adorable kid!fic featuring Gintoki struggling with a haiku-writing assignment.
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Title: applications & affections
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: SUDDENLY, AU FEMMESLASH? Sort of obliquely mentions day six of the ginzura advent prompt? I'm just as confused as you are.
The one where Gin & Zura are actually Paako & Zurako. Present day AU, hints of femslash.
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Title: grime & punishment
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For day nine of ginzura advent. Also sort of for antimonial, who wanted 'happy war days.'
More Joui-era shenanigans! Zura being pissy! Others being retarded! Takasugi still has two eyes! Or does he still, at the end of this fic?!
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Title: talk dirty to me
Author: Rabid
Rating: NC-17
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Modern AU GinZura, PWP like whoah, literally just ten pages of bickering and banging. Inspired, as most hideous things are, by antimonial, and written in part to Reel Big Fish's happy-go-plucky cover of Talk Dirty to Me. For ginzura, a group of people who are Into That Kind of Thing, I Guess.
Fantastic banter and hot, hot sex, what more do you want?
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Title: summer science
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG
Summary: No summary.
Notes: A very belated fic for ferrox, who gave me the prompt "Biology." Another modern AU GinZura, this time young and innocent (and a bit stupid, too).
Cute and gross and wonderful Zura voice.
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Title: grew into a hope
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Completely inspired by and title taken from this song. An in-between moment of the war, where beginnings and ends can't help but nod at each other across the street.
A quiet moment around a campfire during the war. Good glimpses of characterisation for Takasugi and Sakamoto as well.
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Title: creature comforts
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Canon shenanigans. A birthday gift so belated that's it's almost a Christmas gift, what even is this? For antimonial, for being insane in only the best ways.
Gintoki and Katsura suffer some aftereffects from the cat curse. Hilarious and cute.
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Title: embarrassing
Author: Rabid
Rating: G
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Japanese slice-of-life AU, Chiro's first day of school. Here mostly for archival. For antimonial, ages ago.
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Title: get used to it
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: CRACK ALERT. Genderbent + pregnant Zura, Kagura is awful in every way, I just can't apologise enough.
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Title: The Luckiest
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG
Summary: No summary.
Notes: AU Japanese slice-of-life. Entering AU Inception at this point. A visit to the hospital. More archival.
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Title: trust in teens (is unfounded)
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Japanese slice-of-life AU. With great puberty comes great responsibility.
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Title: seconds are always more complicated than firsts, except during dinner
Author: Rabid
Rating: NC-17
Summary: No summary.
Notes: College-era AU. Painfully, horrendously awkward smut.
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Author Also Wrote: Correspondence, a short epistolary piece that highlights Katsura’s oft-neglected friendship with Sakamoto.
Our Official Purveyor Of Crack, aka pyrrhic_victoly
Title: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, But Sometimes Two Idiots Can Make a Genius
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: Gintoki and Katsura being idiots and having ass-babies.
Another cracky fic that had me fully believe it could be canon. If, you know, the characters were having hot monkey sex that results in mpreg babies in canon.
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This fic has been translated into Chinese
Title: Life Imperfect
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Fifty run-on sentences about Gintoki and Katsura getting lost on the road of life because they didn't stop to ask for directions. Or maybe because Katsura is a horrible driver and they can only get so far on Gintoki's scooter. Something like that.
A very well-done set of 50 sentences for 1sentence
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This fic has been translated into Chinese
Title: Instinct
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: It might have been considered sexy if they were human. But it was just awkward as cats, nya?
It’s hard to come up with crack where the source material hasn’t already gone before. But expanding on the canon crack can be a lot of fun, too ;-)
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Title: Gonorrhea Comes to Those Who Don't Wait
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: It's the dreaded morning after and your "daughter" wants to know how the dirty deed is done. As a responsible adult, you defer the responsibility of giving The Talk over to your "wife". This is a mistake.
Anyone who's watched the show can guess how a "Zura gives the Talk" plot will go, and the author doesn't disappoint. Meandering ramblings FTW! Bonus points for Gin's contribution to the topic, and for Kagura's actual question.
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Title: Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Squared
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: A quiet moment, and The Universe According to Katsura.
Notes: Um... Sort of for advent prompt #4, but like, y'know, 4 months late.
The early days of Gintoki and Katsura's acquaintance. Zura's overactive imagination is already on display, and it is glorious.
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Title: When Fate Hands You the Short Straw, Use It to Blow Spitballs (The Short Straw on FF.net)
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: The princess is in another castle. Prequel to "Nine Point Eight..."
Notes: Kind of for advent prompt 12 in that... there is a children's game. A very stupid one that you just *know* had to have been Katsura's idea.
Yet more kid!Gin & Zura sort-of-friendship! Both laugh-out-loud funny and adorable.
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Author Also Wrote: Some Hijikata/Yamazaki. Check her FF.Net profile.
Also, it’s not fic but it’s definitely worth a look: 3Z Novel translation (very much a WIP)
Part 1 Part 2
Complete first chapter here
Some Other Authors Who Aren’t Quite As Prolific, But Whose Contributions We Nonetheless Very Much Value
Author: nique
Untitled R-rated drabble
Summary: No summary.
Pets can be such mood killers…
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Title: Never Wear Your Best Pants When You Go Fight for Freedom
Author: nique
Summary: No summary.
A young Gintoki and Katsura consider joining the war effort.
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Author: nique
Untitled drabble
Summary: No summary.
Gintoki tries to get Katsura to enact one of his fetishes. Emphasis on tries.
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Title: Keep Body and Soul Together
Author: nique
Summary: No summary.
Notes: I apologize profusely for how profoundly unfunny this fic is. No, really. Sorry. At least it's a full-length fic?
A beautiful, melancholy fic of Gintoki letting go of Zura and the past after the war.
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Author Also Wrote: A couple of Katsura-centric drabbles based on prompts from 1sentence. Some gen, some Takasugi/Katsura, and some GinZura.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
And a Takasugi/Katsura piece.
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Title: Zura's Fairy Tales
Author: sn1987a
Summary: It's Zura's turn to tell bedtime stories. Young Joi era.
Who knew Zura's weird headspace was such a popular topic? This fic is decidedly meta, and side-splittingly funny. ETA: Sequel/continuation by different authors here and here!
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Title: Be Careful of Snowballs
Author: sn1987a
Summary: Shenanigans. Kid-Joui trio.
Mostly Gintoki and Takasugi bickering, but Zura is there, being practical and concerned.
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Author Also Wrote: The Kamui backstory I always wanted to read A couple of Yato-centric fics, at her fic journal or her ff.net account.
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Title: Faith is a series of calculations
Author: stitchedophelia
Summary: This is how you come to believe in somebody.
Rating: PG-7
Warnings: Explicit descriptions of violence. Slightly spoilery.
Notes: Set during the tail end of the Benizakura Arc, TVerse or movie version. The title is taken from the 31_days theme for March 17, 2010.
A short piece from Zura's POV during the fight at the end of the Benizakura arc.
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Title:…But don’t let the sun catch you crying.
Author: stitchedophelia
Summary: Waking up in sunlight.
Rating: R
Notes: For Pris. The title is taken from a line from the song “Deadweight”, by Beck.
Gintoki, being taken care of by his friend(s) at two different points of his life. Though the fic is more about Takasugi and his presence/absence, Zura is never very far.
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Author Also Wrote: Various Shinsengumi-centric fics dealing with Mitsuba and the fallout from her arc, as well as a Kondo/Otae fic, a Yorozuya fic, a fantastic Otose piece, Bansai backstory, and miscallaneous fics centered around the four Joui boys. Of particular interest are one fleshing out the members of the Kiheitai, and a fascinating piece from Sakamoto's point of view. Her Gintama fic tag
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Title: The Fallen Banner
Author: summer_sierra
Prompt: Searching
Rating: T
Summary: No summary.
A very short drabble, set during the war. After a battle, Gintoki panics.
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Title: Watch Your Sugar Intake
Author: summer_sierra
Prompt: Marzipan
Rating: K+
Summary: No summary.
Katsura tries to celebrate Gintoki’s birthday with a special treat.
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Author Also Wrote: a compare-and-contrast of the Joui 4, a Katsura/Ikumatsu fic, some Hijikata+Okita post-Mitsuba angst, and two ensemble pieces. Read it here here on FF.Net.
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Title: Pandemonium
Author: xparrot
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Today's lessons for the Yorozuya trio: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, don't count your chickens before they're hatched, and be careful when life seems too good to be true, because it might be a sign that everything is soon going to go very, very badly.
Author's Notes: Warning: I love the cracktastic humor of the series; I love the moments of epic drama as well. So this starts out silly, but that is not the tone maintained throughout the story entire. Also watch out for random Japanese jokes and references - I'll annotate the major ones; I can try to explain the others (though some might only make sense in my head anyway.)
I've been meaning to put this up for a while, and now that it's complete, the opportunity has come. So, this is a truly epic fic in the style of the manga's more serious arcs. Naturally the focus is on Team Gintoki, Shinpachi and Kagura, but Zura is in it too in a supporting role, and has a couple of nice scenes with Gintoki that showcase their friendship - enough to meet my (admittedly rather broad) criteria for Ginzura. Of particular interest for us are chapters 7 and 19, but the whole fic is really worth the read!
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Title: Resuscitation
Author: xparrot
Rating: R
Rating: Mature
Warnings: This is not the GinZura fic you are looking for. Sorry. Beware exceedingly un-Gintama levels of angst, violence, melancholy, unhappy endings, and not-very-graphic consensual sex between young men at war.
Summary: Joui War-era. "For a while Katsura tells himself that it's no more than the camaraderie of the battleground."
A truly lovely war-era piece. Interesting character interpretation, and very bittersweet. ETA: Now complete!
LJ Part 1 LJ Part 2 LJ Part 3
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Author Also Wrote: A somewhat melancholy Yorozuya-centric futurefic, and a crossover with Doctor Who!
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Title: Fire
Author: saetha
Summary: Set in their childhood. Gintoki has a horrible dream and Zura tries to comfort him.
Exactly as the summary says. Part of a "101 Ways To Die" fic challenge.
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Author Also Wrote: Mostly other fics for aforementioned challenge, mostly Takasugi-centric, here.
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Title: Of Mothers and their Children
Author: Simply Kim
Summary: As they continued squabbling, Gintoki couldn't help noticing Elizabeth staring at them as if absorbed in their verbal sparring. For a short moment, he thought master and pet were alike. If it was anything like Katsura, it wouldn't be so bad, would it?
Gintoki makes peace with Zura’s weird pet.
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Author Also Wrote: A fic called Promise. You’ll recall Elizabeth was a gift from Sakamoto to Katsura. What exactly gave him the idea?
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Title: Fifty Introspections
Author: knightblazer13
Rating: PG-13 to Soft R
Summary: No summary.
Yes, another set of 1sentence prompts.
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Author Also Wrote: a whole lot of other stuff as I recall, including a lot of Gintoki/Hijikata, but I couldn’t find a central archive. Look for them at gintama’s fan fiction tag, keeping in mind she used to be known as knightblazer13.
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Title: When you're making a bomb, it's important to fix your hair first.
By: worblehat
Rating: G
Summary: Katsura makes his first bomb.
Dialogue fic.
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Author Also Wrote: some Gintoki/Kagura, Kagura/Okita, Kondou/Sacchan, but mostly Gintoki/Hijikata. Found here
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Title: Small Comforts Are Sometimes All You Need
Author: novelvision
Summary: Katsura has been slowly but surely wearing himself down with work and his stupid inability to rest. Gintoki notices this and he's displeased for various reasons.
This is a nice domestic scene based, apparently, on an RP the author is in.
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Title: Around The Corner
Author: novelvision
Summary: A promise is broken between two friends, one they had hoped would last forever. And yet...
It's a deathfic so it may not be everyone's cuppa, but it's not bad; make sure to keep a hanky handy!
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Title: A Name to Remember One's (Idiotic) Self By
Author: novelvision /noblefury
Summary: There were five moments when he cared and one when he did not.
Notes: Technically this was written for an RP, but it's not very obvious. The theme was 5 + 1, and it should be obvious which was the five and which was the one here. :P
A pre-series look at Katsura and his hated nickname.
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Title: There Are Many Ways To Keep Warm in Winter
Author: phreakyfish
Summary: Katsura Kotarou is sent to a forgotten outpost in the middle of winter to guard it against the rising Amanto forces, hoping to find peace from the nightmares of battle in the pristine snow. He finds it from an unlikely source. GinxZura
Title and summary says it all, really.
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Title: War Stories
Author: phreakyfish
Summary: There's a reason why Gintoki stopped fighting in the Amanto war. Slight GinxZura.
Sharp contrast between past and present, dramatic and funny - exactly like the series.
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Title: There's No Such Thing As A Vertical Mamba, Dammit!
Author: runawayroadkill
Summary: A new law and sudden visit from our favourite terrorist brings old secrets to light. Shinpachi may need therapy. [GinZura]
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Title: Too Late
Author: schlafied
Rating: PG
Summary: Set after the Benizakura arc, Gintoki worries about Katsura and curses Takasugi.
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Title: Freedom
author: schweinsty
Rating: G/PG
Summary: No summary.
There’s something of a gulf between Gintoki and Katsura’s current goals in life…
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Title: A big shiny white smile alone doesn’t make you beautiful
Author: simsim_hb
Summary: No Summary.
Written for the Ginzura Advent day 6 prompt. Not betaed.
Another Yorozuya casefic with added Zura presence. It's just part 1 up so far; we'll see how it unfolds. ETA: It's now complete.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Title: Close Enough
Author: slightlyjillian
Summary: Gintoki wakes up to a situation that he must explain to himself.
A bit of goofy fun…
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Title: Zura Fairy Tales II: Revenge of the Rapunzel - the Laputa Strikes Back!
Author: spartydragon
Summary: In which Zura decides to tell a little story to pass time whilst he and his silver permed chum are trapped for a little while...
The sequel/continuation of this story.
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Title: When You Go Out Drinking, Make Sure Your Designated Driver Knows He's The Designated Driver (or Have A Designated Driver on FF.Net)
Author: stark-black
Summary: Gin/Zura. Katsura is moody on a regular basis, but lately he's been uncharacteristically down. Gin is reluctant, but being a good friend, he's there to help.
Unsurprisingly, Katsura is a gloomy drunk.
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Title: Kyoto Politics
Author: sublimeparadigm
Rating: R
Summary: No Summary.
Zura philosophizes drunkenly, an equally drunk Gintoki steers him away from politics into more pleasant topics.
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If you can't find an author, it's possible they have more than one handle and I listed them on the other alphabetical list. Or I accidentally left them out, in which case let me know!
Other Lj-based authors Here, FF.net authors Here, misc stuff still at the old post.
Updated 10/09/2012
Periodically Updated Masterlist Of All GinZura Fic That’s Ever Been Written, Hopefully With Many More Updates To Come: The One With The End Of The Alphabet
Some Prolific Authors
First, our esteemed moderator, beside being, you know, our esteemed moderator, has written his fair share of fan fiction:
Title: i have found what you are like
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13?
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Joui wars era ficlet. Written for asuka_chan and fridge, who are certifiable arseholes, and therefore good company.
Or, Katsura as the Team Mom.
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Title: (here is the root of the root)
Author: Rabid
Rating: G to NC-17
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Ginzura and Co through the years; for legein. 50-prompt theme set taken from 1sentence [although I did a lot more than one sentence and broke every rule but "write stuff"].
This lovely collection of connected vignettes sums up Gintoki and Katsura‘s relationship beautifully; it also happens to be the longest fic for this pairing to date, so savor it.
Link: Part 1 Part 2
Title: in your hair [a babbling brook]
Author: Rabid
Rating: R
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For Asuka, whatever lj name she's using these days, who's on a grand adventure. Very much written to Old College Try and Broom People by the Mountain Goats, one of which the title is stolen from.
Gintoki’s appreciation - or lack of - of Katsura’s haircut(s).
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Title: &everything is clear
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For antimonial, who gave me the prompts "short hair Zura" & "clear." A short introspective thing, unbeta'd and written quick and dirty.
Still on the subject of Zura’s hair, and the close cut that was the Benizakura Arc.
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Title: before you can walk
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For antimonial. Based off of a hideously long AU storyline we drummed up together. "Chiro" refers to Kanshichiro, who in this story has come from a member of Gintoki's family who passed away. Raising Harry style, suckas. TL;DR, Japanese slice of life.
It's a modern AU where they raise a baby together. Very cute and sweet.
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Title: Fight on a Monday, Cry on a Tuesday, Throw Up on a Wednesday, but Always Laugh on Saturday & Sunday
Author: Rabid
Rating: R
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For antimonial. Title from the Radwimps.
Kagura gets a new mommyZura moves in with Gintoki. It goes about as well as you can expect.
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Title: yet someone told me
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Inspired by and written to "Quelqu'un Ma Dit" - Carla Bruni.
Technically it's about Sakamoto spending a couple of days at Katsura's place. Actually it's about Sakamoto playing matchmaker for his hapless friends. It's also a wonderful look at these two characters' friendship, something we don't see enough of in canon OR in fic!
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Title: a haiku for you
Author: Rabid
Rating: G
Summary: No summary.
Notes: A drabble for the day five ginzura advent prompt.
Adorable kid!fic featuring Gintoki struggling with a haiku-writing assignment.
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Title: applications & affections
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: SUDDENLY, AU FEMMESLASH? Sort of obliquely mentions day six of the ginzura advent prompt? I'm just as confused as you are.
The one where Gin & Zura are actually Paako & Zurako. Present day AU, hints of femslash.
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Title: grime & punishment
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: For day nine of ginzura advent. Also sort of for antimonial, who wanted 'happy war days.'
More Joui-era shenanigans! Zura being pissy! Others being retarded! Takasugi still has two eyes! Or does he still, at the end of this fic?!
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Title: talk dirty to me
Author: Rabid
Rating: NC-17
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Modern AU GinZura, PWP like whoah, literally just ten pages of bickering and banging. Inspired, as most hideous things are, by antimonial, and written in part to Reel Big Fish's happy-go-plucky cover of Talk Dirty to Me. For ginzura, a group of people who are Into That Kind of Thing, I Guess.
Fantastic banter and hot, hot sex, what more do you want?
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Title: summer science
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG
Summary: No summary.
Notes: A very belated fic for ferrox, who gave me the prompt "Biology." Another modern AU GinZura, this time young and innocent (and a bit stupid, too).
Cute and gross and wonderful Zura voice.
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Title: grew into a hope
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Completely inspired by and title taken from this song. An in-between moment of the war, where beginnings and ends can't help but nod at each other across the street.
A quiet moment around a campfire during the war. Good glimpses of characterisation for Takasugi and Sakamoto as well.
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Title: creature comforts
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Canon shenanigans. A birthday gift so belated that's it's almost a Christmas gift, what even is this? For antimonial, for being insane in only the best ways.
Gintoki and Katsura suffer some aftereffects from the cat curse. Hilarious and cute.
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Title: embarrassing
Author: Rabid
Rating: G
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Japanese slice-of-life AU, Chiro's first day of school. Here mostly for archival. For antimonial, ages ago.
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Title: get used to it
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: CRACK ALERT. Genderbent + pregnant Zura, Kagura is awful in every way, I just can't apologise enough.
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Title: The Luckiest
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG
Summary: No summary.
Notes: AU Japanese slice-of-life. Entering AU Inception at this point. A visit to the hospital. More archival.
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Title: trust in teens (is unfounded)
Author: Rabid
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No summary.
Notes: Japanese slice-of-life AU. With great puberty comes great responsibility.
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Title: seconds are always more complicated than firsts, except during dinner
Author: Rabid
Rating: NC-17
Summary: No summary.
Notes: College-era AU. Painfully, horrendously awkward smut.
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Author Also Wrote: Correspondence, a short epistolary piece that highlights Katsura’s oft-neglected friendship with Sakamoto.
Our Official Purveyor Of Crack, aka pyrrhic_victoly
Title: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, But Sometimes Two Idiots Can Make a Genius
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: Gintoki and Katsura being idiots and having ass-babies.
Another cracky fic that had me fully believe it could be canon. If, you know, the characters were having hot monkey sex that results in mpreg babies in canon.
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This fic has been translated into Chinese
Title: Life Imperfect
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Fifty run-on sentences about Gintoki and Katsura getting lost on the road of life because they didn't stop to ask for directions. Or maybe because Katsura is a horrible driver and they can only get so far on Gintoki's scooter. Something like that.
A very well-done set of 50 sentences for 1sentence
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This fic has been translated into Chinese
Title: Instinct
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: It might have been considered sexy if they were human. But it was just awkward as cats, nya?
It’s hard to come up with crack where the source material hasn’t already gone before. But expanding on the canon crack can be a lot of fun, too ;-)
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Title: Gonorrhea Comes to Those Who Don't Wait
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: It's the dreaded morning after and your "daughter" wants to know how the dirty deed is done. As a responsible adult, you defer the responsibility of giving The Talk over to your "wife". This is a mistake.
Anyone who's watched the show can guess how a "Zura gives the Talk" plot will go, and the author doesn't disappoint. Meandering ramblings FTW! Bonus points for Gin's contribution to the topic, and for Kagura's actual question.
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Title: Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Squared
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: A quiet moment, and The Universe According to Katsura.
Notes: Um... Sort of for advent prompt #4, but like, y'know, 4 months late.
The early days of Gintoki and Katsura's acquaintance. Zura's overactive imagination is already on display, and it is glorious.
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Title: When Fate Hands You the Short Straw, Use It to Blow Spitballs (The Short Straw on FF.net)
Author: pyrrhic_victoly
Summary: The princess is in another castle. Prequel to "Nine Point Eight..."
Notes: Kind of for advent prompt 12 in that... there is a children's game. A very stupid one that you just *know* had to have been Katsura's idea.
Yet more kid!Gin & Zura sort-of-friendship! Both laugh-out-loud funny and adorable.
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Author Also Wrote: Some Hijikata/Yamazaki. Check her FF.Net profile.
Also, it’s not fic but it’s definitely worth a look: 3Z Novel translation (very much a WIP)
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Complete first chapter here
Some Other Authors Who Aren’t Quite As Prolific, But Whose Contributions We Nonetheless Very Much Value
Author: nique
Untitled R-rated drabble
Summary: No summary.
Pets can be such mood killers…
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Title: Never Wear Your Best Pants When You Go Fight for Freedom
Author: nique
Summary: No summary.
A young Gintoki and Katsura consider joining the war effort.
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Author: nique
Untitled drabble
Summary: No summary.
Gintoki tries to get Katsura to enact one of his fetishes. Emphasis on tries.
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Title: Keep Body and Soul Together
Author: nique
Summary: No summary.
Notes: I apologize profusely for how profoundly unfunny this fic is. No, really. Sorry. At least it's a full-length fic?
A beautiful, melancholy fic of Gintoki letting go of Zura and the past after the war.
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Author Also Wrote: A couple of Katsura-centric drabbles based on prompts from 1sentence. Some gen, some Takasugi/Katsura, and some GinZura.
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And a Takasugi/Katsura piece.
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Title: Zura's Fairy Tales
Author: sn1987a
Summary: It's Zura's turn to tell bedtime stories. Young Joi era.
Who knew Zura's weird headspace was such a popular topic? This fic is decidedly meta, and side-splittingly funny. ETA: Sequel/continuation by different authors here and here!
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Title: Be Careful of Snowballs
Author: sn1987a
Summary: Shenanigans. Kid-Joui trio.
Mostly Gintoki and Takasugi bickering, but Zura is there, being practical and concerned.
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Author Also Wrote: The Kamui backstory I always wanted to read A couple of Yato-centric fics, at her fic journal or her ff.net account.
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Title: Faith is a series of calculations
Author: stitchedophelia
Summary: This is how you come to believe in somebody.
Rating: PG-7
Warnings: Explicit descriptions of violence. Slightly spoilery.
Notes: Set during the tail end of the Benizakura Arc, TVerse or movie version. The title is taken from the 31_days theme for March 17, 2010.
A short piece from Zura's POV during the fight at the end of the Benizakura arc.
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Title:…But don’t let the sun catch you crying.
Author: stitchedophelia
Summary: Waking up in sunlight.
Rating: R
Notes: For Pris. The title is taken from a line from the song “Deadweight”, by Beck.
Gintoki, being taken care of by his friend(s) at two different points of his life. Though the fic is more about Takasugi and his presence/absence, Zura is never very far.
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Author Also Wrote: Various Shinsengumi-centric fics dealing with Mitsuba and the fallout from her arc, as well as a Kondo/Otae fic, a Yorozuya fic, a fantastic Otose piece, Bansai backstory, and miscallaneous fics centered around the four Joui boys. Of particular interest are one fleshing out the members of the Kiheitai, and a fascinating piece from Sakamoto's point of view. Her Gintama fic tag
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Title: The Fallen Banner
Author: summer_sierra
Prompt: Searching
Rating: T
Summary: No summary.
A very short drabble, set during the war. After a battle, Gintoki panics.
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Title: Watch Your Sugar Intake
Author: summer_sierra
Prompt: Marzipan
Rating: K+
Summary: No summary.
Katsura tries to celebrate Gintoki’s birthday with a special treat.
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Author Also Wrote: a compare-and-contrast of the Joui 4, a Katsura/Ikumatsu fic, some Hijikata+Okita post-Mitsuba angst, and two ensemble pieces. Read it here here on FF.Net.
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Title: Pandemonium
Author: xparrot
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Today's lessons for the Yorozuya trio: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, don't count your chickens before they're hatched, and be careful when life seems too good to be true, because it might be a sign that everything is soon going to go very, very badly.
Author's Notes: Warning: I love the cracktastic humor of the series; I love the moments of epic drama as well. So this starts out silly, but that is not the tone maintained throughout the story entire. Also watch out for random Japanese jokes and references - I'll annotate the major ones; I can try to explain the others (though some might only make sense in my head anyway.)
I've been meaning to put this up for a while, and now that it's complete, the opportunity has come. So, this is a truly epic fic in the style of the manga's more serious arcs. Naturally the focus is on Team Gintoki, Shinpachi and Kagura, but Zura is in it too in a supporting role, and has a couple of nice scenes with Gintoki that showcase their friendship - enough to meet my (admittedly rather broad) criteria for Ginzura. Of particular interest for us are chapters 7 and 19, but the whole fic is really worth the read!
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Title: Resuscitation
Author: xparrot
Rating: R
Rating: Mature
Warnings: This is not the GinZura fic you are looking for. Sorry. Beware exceedingly un-Gintama levels of angst, violence, melancholy, unhappy endings, and not-very-graphic consensual sex between young men at war.
Summary: Joui War-era. "For a while Katsura tells himself that it's no more than the camaraderie of the battleground."
A truly lovely war-era piece. Interesting character interpretation, and very bittersweet. ETA: Now complete!
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Author Also Wrote: A somewhat melancholy Yorozuya-centric futurefic, and a crossover with Doctor Who!
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Title: Fire
Author: saetha
Summary: Set in their childhood. Gintoki has a horrible dream and Zura tries to comfort him.
Exactly as the summary says. Part of a "101 Ways To Die" fic challenge.
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Author Also Wrote: Mostly other fics for aforementioned challenge, mostly Takasugi-centric, here.
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Title: Of Mothers and their Children
Author: Simply Kim
Summary: As they continued squabbling, Gintoki couldn't help noticing Elizabeth staring at them as if absorbed in their verbal sparring. For a short moment, he thought master and pet were alike. If it was anything like Katsura, it wouldn't be so bad, would it?
Gintoki makes peace with Zura’s weird pet.
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Author Also Wrote: A fic called Promise. You’ll recall Elizabeth was a gift from Sakamoto to Katsura. What exactly gave him the idea?
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Title: Fifty Introspections
Author: knightblazer13
Rating: PG-13 to Soft R
Summary: No summary.
Yes, another set of 1sentence prompts.
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Author Also Wrote: a whole lot of other stuff as I recall, including a lot of Gintoki/Hijikata, but I couldn’t find a central archive. Look for them at gintama’s fan fiction tag, keeping in mind she used to be known as knightblazer13.
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Title: When you're making a bomb, it's important to fix your hair first.
By: worblehat
Rating: G
Summary: Katsura makes his first bomb.
Dialogue fic.
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Author Also Wrote: some Gintoki/Kagura, Kagura/Okita, Kondou/Sacchan, but mostly Gintoki/Hijikata. Found here
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Title: Small Comforts Are Sometimes All You Need
Author: novelvision
Summary: Katsura has been slowly but surely wearing himself down with work and his stupid inability to rest. Gintoki notices this and he's displeased for various reasons.
This is a nice domestic scene based, apparently, on an RP the author is in.
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Title: Around The Corner
Author: novelvision
Summary: A promise is broken between two friends, one they had hoped would last forever. And yet...
It's a deathfic so it may not be everyone's cuppa, but it's not bad; make sure to keep a hanky handy!
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Title: A Name to Remember One's (Idiotic) Self By
Author: novelvision /noblefury
Summary: There were five moments when he cared and one when he did not.
Notes: Technically this was written for an RP, but it's not very obvious. The theme was 5 + 1, and it should be obvious which was the five and which was the one here. :P
A pre-series look at Katsura and his hated nickname.
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Title: There Are Many Ways To Keep Warm in Winter
Author: phreakyfish
Summary: Katsura Kotarou is sent to a forgotten outpost in the middle of winter to guard it against the rising Amanto forces, hoping to find peace from the nightmares of battle in the pristine snow. He finds it from an unlikely source. GinxZura
Title and summary says it all, really.
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Title: War Stories
Author: phreakyfish
Summary: There's a reason why Gintoki stopped fighting in the Amanto war. Slight GinxZura.
Sharp contrast between past and present, dramatic and funny - exactly like the series.
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Title: There's No Such Thing As A Vertical Mamba, Dammit!
Author: runawayroadkill
Summary: A new law and sudden visit from our favourite terrorist brings old secrets to light. Shinpachi may need therapy. [GinZura]
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Title: Too Late
Author: schlafied
Rating: PG
Summary: Set after the Benizakura arc, Gintoki worries about Katsura and curses Takasugi.
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Title: Freedom
author: schweinsty
Rating: G/PG
Summary: No summary.
There’s something of a gulf between Gintoki and Katsura’s current goals in life…
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Title: A big shiny white smile alone doesn’t make you beautiful
Author: simsim_hb
Summary: No Summary.
Written for the Ginzura Advent day 6 prompt. Not betaed.
Another Yorozuya casefic with added Zura presence. It's just part 1 up so far; we'll see how it unfolds. ETA: It's now complete.
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Title: Close Enough
Author: slightlyjillian
Summary: Gintoki wakes up to a situation that he must explain to himself.
A bit of goofy fun…
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Title: Zura Fairy Tales II: Revenge of the Rapunzel - the Laputa Strikes Back!
Author: spartydragon
Summary: In which Zura decides to tell a little story to pass time whilst he and his silver permed chum are trapped for a little while...
The sequel/continuation of this story.
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Title: When You Go Out Drinking, Make Sure Your Designated Driver Knows He's The Designated Driver (or Have A Designated Driver on FF.Net)
Author: stark-black
Summary: Gin/Zura. Katsura is moody on a regular basis, but lately he's been uncharacteristically down. Gin is reluctant, but being a good friend, he's there to help.
Unsurprisingly, Katsura is a gloomy drunk.
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Title: Kyoto Politics
Author: sublimeparadigm
Rating: R
Summary: No Summary.
Zura philosophizes drunkenly, an equally drunk Gintoki steers him away from politics into more pleasant topics.
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If you can't find an author, it's possible they have more than one handle and I listed them on the other alphabetical list. Or I accidentally left them out, in which case let me know!
Other Lj-based authors Here, FF.net authors Here, misc stuff still at the old post.
Updated 10/09/2012