ChibiRisu-chan ([info]chibirisuchan) wrote,
@ 2006-03-27 16:54:00
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Entry tags:chapter links, ffvii, fics, other naruto fics

psst -- want a ficlet?
I am DETERMINED to learn to write SHORT, so I'm jumping on the meme bandwagon briefly. (sweatdrop) no guarantees on how quickly I'll write any of these, and what you get may be chibivision or other massively cracked out insanity, but...


--Pick any fandom I'm familiar with (ANY fandom - anime, books, movies, TV, just toss an idea at me and I'll let you know if I haven't heard of it, though I'll admit to having huge gaping holes in my TV and movie knowledge in particular). Or cross something over. I don't care. (If I don't know the series/series-es being asked for I'll ask you for another prompt.)
--Give me a character or pairing (or two or three or a collection)
--Give me some kind of topic or prompt or bunnystarter
--I'll write something that is GOSH DARN WELL GONNA BE UNDER THE LENGTH OF ONE COMMENT POST even if I have to hack it off at the knees.
--One per requester (though you obviously get another request if I can't write your first one).
--Max. cap. 25 just 'cause it's a nice handy number.

[goes to hide briefly, wondering what she's just gotten herself into]



Finished on 1/29:

#1 - for Askerian - Kakashi, Sasuke, and fatherhood

#2 - for Swtjemz - Naruto, Sasuke, and fireworks

#3 - for Bard_Linn - Cloud, Zack, Sephiroth, and what if Cloud had made it into Soldier

#4 - for Lazulisong - Neko-Cain!

#5 - for Sesshiyuki - Gaara, Lee, and beliefs

#6 - for Darksea - Cloud, Aeris, Zack, and after Cloud's allowed to die for the last time

#7 - for Lumivalkea - Ichigo and Ishida

#8 - for Thewriter0 - Rude, Reno, and hot brown sugar (rated, if not R, definitely F for frisky! ^^;;;;)

#9 - for Naatz - Ino, Sasuke, and urgency

Finished on 1/30:

#10 - for Evilsimon - Zack and shiny things

#11 - for Jrufirefly - Zack, Cloud, Sephiroth, and hair brushes

Finished on 2/5:

#12 - for Ciceqi - Zack, Sephiroth, and uniforms. And what they were smoking, and why he never wears ribbons, and getting them out of uniforms, and, er, massive critical core dump on the attempt to write short thing. Um. Anyway! ^^;;

Finished on 2/11:

#13 - for Toriko_ame - Kakashi and Iruka shopping for baby clothes

#14 - for Majochan - FFVII - Zack, Sephiroth, Aeris, and Cloud playing I've Never

#15 - for Wolfpilot06 - Zack shopping for clothes for Cloud

#16 - for Ickaimp - Hyuuga staring contest

Finished on 2/13:

#17 - for Mnata - Pregnant Iruka and Dr. Hatori from Furuba

#18 - for Firedraygon97 - If Zack had lived instead glee! this one was like 300 characters over and stripping the formatting and some dialogue made it fit!

#19 - for Lanerose - Sephiroth getting chewed on by a chocobo

#20 - for Maldaeien - Itachi and Macarena no Jutsu

Finished on 2/19:
#21 - for Icedark_elf - Sephiroth, Zack, and Cloud and h/c

[Coming back to the Sailor Starlight triplets one just 'cause that's STILL making my brain go squerp but not in the right way...]

Finished on 3/27: the last 3
#23 - for Vaysh - Rufus and Tseng, silver and glass

#24 - for Mako - Kakashi, Iruka, goldfish, and/or age

#25 - for Kitty - Shika/Cho, butterfly molestation



And the fic thread is breeding baby fics! ...Descendant fics? ...Anyway, more fics! ^___^

From Bard Linn: Calling All Heroes (also at her journal!

From Icedark_elf: I Never...

Also from Bard Linn: Uniforms! (swear that plotbunny has FANGS THE SIZE OF RHODE ISLAND...)





And artstuff! For one that hasn't even been written yet no less!
Sailor Hedgehog aka Zack! by Mirroredsakura

...so running off to pimp at Lazulisong now...


ETA:
I'm going to try hard to answer comments after I get all 25 of them written -- I've never had this many comments on a thread before and I keep looking at it and going EEEEEP OMG FLAILPANIC. I loooooove comments but I feel obsessively compelled to answer each and every last one at least once and that would turn this into like a 300 comment thread and OMG FLAILPANIC. Er. Must class prep. More fic soon, comments after, honest injun! (dash!) Almost almost done! Going to do the flying try-to-answer-stuff once I get these guys posted and linked and stuff...

ETA jr: auuuugh treading water, am going to try to get something replied at least to the requesters' comments and then go get foooooooooood...

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[info]jrufirefly
2006-01-29 01:01 pm UTC (link)
Definately asking for a z/c/s from ffvii
prompt: hair brushes

^______^

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[info]chibirisuchan
2006-01-30 08:59 pm UTC (link)
#11 - Hair brushes (too long again! @_@ but this one just demanded it...)

The sudden downpour hadn't been in the forecast, but the General was hardly going to let inclement weather get in the way of scheduled training. He kept them on the field until they were soaked, muddy, and grumbling as loudly as the thunderclouds, in order to finish the exercise -- Cloud understood that war didn't get called off like a blitzball game on account of bad weather, but on the other hand, they weren't actually at war right at the moment.

Cloud had enough faith in the General to believe the man sincerely wanted to prepare them for the realities they were facing -- that coddling them might spare a head cold or two for the moment, and create a platoon that misfired spells when thunder broke their attention or when a slip and fall in the mud jarred improperly-set materia loose. The people around him didn't sound like they were willing to give him that much credit. The fact that the General was just as wet as they were also didn't go far toward quieting their complaints; they seemed to be convinced he didn't feel cold, didn't even need to eat or breathe or sleep like the rest of them. Cloud thought about trying to correct them, since he'd seen the General eat and breathe at least, but his nose was dripping and he wouldn't present too convincing an argument when he had to stop every three seconds to sniffle.

Sephiroth stood in the rain with the other soldiers who'd lined up for the field showers, his expression just as remote and chill as the frigid rain dripping down their collars. Even Zack wasn't feeling energetic enough to try to tease him out of it.

The tradition was that they lined up by score after exercises like this, so that the prospect of a shower and food and rest was its own motivation to perform well. Cloud hadn't done all that badly in the exercise, but he found himself standing at Zack's side waiting too, for reasons he couldn't name even to himself.

By the time the rest of the squad had trudged through, Cloud was shivering all over; he tried hard to keep still, because it was embarrassing since neither Zack nor the General was showing the cold at all -- well, Zack was practicing making pathetic faces, but he wasn't visibly shivering. He'd been so busy trying to figure out how Zack was keeping himself from shivering that he yelped when the General reached over and pushed him forward by the shoulders.

"S-s-s-sir?"

"You're next," he said, in a voice that wasn't going to accept discussion even though he certainly hadn't done as well in the exercise as the General and Zack had. "Go."

Cloud saluted, and concentrated hard on not slipping in the mud as he tugged his boots off outside the shower building, because there was only so much his pride could stand.

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[info]chibirisuchan
2006-01-30 09:00 pm UTC (link)
Fortunately, they were stationed in actual buildings for the night, rather than needing to find enough un-destroyed level ground for several dozen tents in the mud and the dark. The buildings leaked, and smelled of mildew, but they were better than tents on most counts. The presence of working space heaters in most of the partitions tended to get counted several times when wet and cold soldiers were doing the counting, though not so much in the middle of summer. Cloud huddled up as close as he could get to the heater in his partition; his bunkmate was already buried to the nose under his blankets and the next day's clothes, and he was snoring away in the top bunk.

Zack let himself in as though it were his section too, as though he didn't have a jeep that could take the General and him back to Headquarters in an hour's drive. He shook his wet hair all over the room like an overgrown dog, just to make Cloud splutter at him. Then he stretched until his joints popped, and sat down on the bed with a sigh.

"You, Spike," he said with a much less soggy shake of the head, "have got way the heck too much -- whatever the opposite of common sense is. You shouldn't have waited around for us; Seph was making a point and I was backing him up on it, but you aren't an officer."

"I know," Cloud said, and scrubbed at his nose with a not-too-soggy-yet handkerchief, wishing his head would stop dripping from several directions already. "It's just... you were standing there for the troops' benefit, so... I wanted to be there for yours..."

Zack laughed, and reached over and ruffled Cloud's hair enough to spray droplets that sizzled on the space heater. "Like I said, no common sense."

There were no doors on the partitions, but the General tapped at the edge of the divider anyway, a slight nod at civility in barely civilized surroundings. Cloud immediately stood at attention; Zack didn't move from his sprawl across the bed.

"Sir?"

"Do you have a hairbrush in your kit, Private?" He lifted a hand with the snapped-off remnant of his own, and said, "Some things a restore materia clearly won't mend."

Zack started laughing. Cloud, on the other hand, started to panic.

"I -- er -- I don't, sir, I'm sorry, I just -- never -- I mean, I wash it and I go like this," and he dug both hands through his hair in anxiety as much as illustration. "And it dries and that's it..."

"...I see."

"I'm sorry, sir," Cloud said again, a little desperately.

"No, that's certainly understandable," Sephiroth replied. Zack started laughing harder.

"In other words, no wonder his hair looks like that!"

"That was hardly my intended implication, Lieutenant. Short hair would be much simpler to manage; that's all. Excuse me."

He made a slight, stiff bow and turned; Cloud said quickly, "Wait!"

"...Private?"

Suddenly realizing how that must have sounded, Cloud stammered, "I didn't mean it like that, sir, I just meant -- you came to ask me a favor in particular; I need to give you something, sir. It's perfectly reasonable that you'd ask, it's my own stupidity for not packing everything by regulations anyway -- maybe there's something else we're supposed to be able to do with hairbrushes that I never thought of--"

"I have a couple ideas," Zack offered, grinning from ear to ear.

"That is quite enough, Lieutenant." Sephiroth's voice was chillier than the rain dripping from the ceiling into that carefully-placed helmet.

"Don't you even want to know what they are?"

"I'm sure I have a fairly accurate estimate, thank you."

"Um," Cloud said, working hard to keep his chin up, because of how much he wanted to duck and hide. "Would you mind... maybe... sitting down, sir, because you're really tall...?"

The question of why flickered across the General's eyes, but remained unspoken; ignoring Zack's broad grin, he sat where Cloud had indicated on the edge of his bunk. Cloud's slight weight barely shifted the mattress as he sat behind him, and cautiously gathered up a handful of his hair, and began to stroke his fingers through it.

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[info]chibirisuchan
2006-01-30 09:01 pm UTC (link)

Zack snickered. Sephiroth ignored him, with great dignity, and Cloud took his best shot at imitating him.

It took a long time, of course; Sephiroth had a great deal of hair, and Cloud was almost painfully careful not to pull too hard, stopping at any hint of resistance from the wet shining spill of it through his fingers. He worked his way from the tips to the roots, one handful at a time; by the time he'd carefully separated out a fourth section, Zack's usually-questionable patience had given out.

"Kiddo, have you got any idea how long that's going to take at that pace?"

"I don't mind," Cloud murmured. "I should have brought a brush anyway. I'm sorry, sir."

"Don't apologize," Sephiroth replied. "You have gentle hands."

"...Um. Thank you, sir." He was blushing again and he knew it, and Zack was grinning like a bandersnatch, only with even more teeth.

"Much as I enjoy winding you two up and watching you fidget-and-inscrute at each other, respectively, I'd like to see the inside of my own bedsheets sometime tonight," he said, and pulled a hairbrush out of his pocket.

Cloud's hands froze. "...You had that this whole time?"

"...You use a hairbrush?"

They both turned to stare at Sephiroth, who blinked.

"Given Private Strife's method of arranging his hair, and its resemblance to your own, and that you weren't using the brush earlier with your own hair wet--" Sephiroth started, sounding actually defensive.

"Pffft," Cloud said, from behind both hands. "Mrph. Phfffggg..." And then he gave up and snatched his pillow off the bed and buried his face in it in order to laugh himself light-headed. Zack reached over and swatted him with the hairbrush, which only started him laughing harder.

"Yes, for your information, you smartasses, I use a hairbrush," Zack grumbled, and gathered up one of the sections Cloud hadn't gotten to yet. "...Shut up."

"I'm sorry," Sephiroth said, very quietly.

Zack swatted him too. "None of that," he said, the corner of his mouth tugging up despite himself. "I pick on you enough; turnabout is more than fair play. --Yes, even if you didn't mean it the way it sounded. Hush up and let me brush your hair."

"If you'll lend me the brush..."

"These things seem to be rare on the ground; I'm going to hang onto my bargaining chip, thank you very much," Zack said, beginning at the tips. "Besides, you let him play with your hair. I might start thinking you like him better than me. You don't want to hurt my feelings, do you?"

"Zack--"

"Just give up now," Zack advised him, grinning. "Much less embarrassing that way."

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[info]ciceqi
2006-01-30 09:16 pm UTC (link)
*flails and dies for the...oh, fourth time tonight, or something* Squeeee! Hairbrushes! Zack being pervy! Cloud playing with Seph's hair! And the crack about Zack's hair! And dude, I could practically taste the rain, and the mud, and the cold, and that was wonderful! *hearts*

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[info]satisfied_frog
2006-01-31 04:23 pm UTC (link)
Your Icon! I love it! BTW - do you know where I can get screen shots or clips of that?

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[info]ciceqi
2006-02-01 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! And, uh...I have no idea. It's Last Order, and you can probably torrent it from somewhere, but I have no idea where--someone mailed me my copy, sorry!

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[info]chibirisuchan
2006-03-27 04:28 pm UTC (link)
(was going to try to come up with a coherent response, but have been fixatedly watching your icon cycle for like 5 go-throughs now) ...guh?

("go get him, tiger"! Followed by the tiger going "purr"! ^_____^ mad flailing of glee!)

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(Anonymous)
2006-01-30 09:47 pm UTC (link)
*flails around*
AAAAAAAAAAAH!!! It's so cute, I love it, love it, love it, love it!!! *hugs to death*

Yay for Cloud playing with Seph's hair, yay for jealous Zack wanting to play too, yay for Seph making fun of Zack's hair and yay for Cloud actually demonstrating how he fixes his hair... ^______________^

Thank you so much,... you rock!! ^ ^

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[info]jrufirefly
2006-01-31 12:48 am UTC (link)
oh, and that was I.... silly thing didn't log me on....
wait... maybe i forgot to log on... whatev.... ^ ^

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[info]chibirisuchan
2006-03-27 04:29 pm UTC (link)
^___^;;; I've discovered LJ takes to logging people out like once every 24 hours whether you close the browser or not; maybe that did it... anyway, glad you liked!

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[info]icedark_elf
2006-01-30 10:39 pm UTC (link)
*dies again*

Oh, Zack, you will end up paying for that, I'm sure.

And that comment by Sephiroth.... *cracks up*

Laugh it up, Cloud, you so deserve it.

Excuse me while I go hurt my jaw by grinning and choke myself to death laughing.

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[info]bard_linn
2006-01-31 04:52 am UTC (link)
OMG SO CUTE!

And nice to see Seph get some of his own back!

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[info]lanerose
2006-01-31 08:31 am UTC (link)
"...You use a hairbrush?"

Thank you. I will be laughing about this all day, and perhaps well into tomorrow. That was... priceless, I guess is a good word for it, adorable and just absolutely wonderful and... well yeah. I'm babbling, but it's fantastic!!! ^___________^

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[info]evilsimon
2006-01-31 02:28 pm UTC (link)
*hysterical flailing laughter*

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[info]lanerose
2006-01-31 09:46 pm UTC (link)
As an idle aside: One of the true tests of any comedic line is whether or not it's still a funny joke when you know what's coming. I just reread this, and even while *waiting for* the "You use a hairbrush" line, I still got caught off guard and knocked into the territory of laughing out loud because of it. So yeah... You win at life. ^.^

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[info]chibirisuchan
2006-03-27 04:30 pm UTC (link)
^______^ yay! Glad it works on the second go-round too.

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