fic request meme!!!

[cupcake4mafia]

from lady_gemma

Whoever comments on this post gets to request a short fic from me. In return, they have to post this meme in their journal.
(...in my case you don't have to repost the meme unless you feel like it...so I guess I'm just asking for requests? XD)

I write: any Arashi pairing/moresome
...and also Jiro Wang 汪東城 and Danson Tang 唐禹哲 (a little esoteric, maybe)



With namesquishes because I felt like it XD

waxrose asked for Sakumoto
font asked for Ohmiya, Sakumoto, and Ohmiya XD
lady_gemma asked for Ohmiya, paint
akin16sk asked for Juntoshi, "with ohno healing our not-always-so-sweet disgruntled junji :)"
someone secret asked for Sakuraiba, "for science!"
15th_moon asked for Matsumiya
ferinough asked for Sakumiya
carrotfreak asked for Ohmiya, donuts
blood_opal asked for Sakumiya
ruisetsuna asked for snarky!Matsumiya, cards
maiaide asked for Aiba/Ohno, "Aiba gets a jellyfish sting. Ohno treats it. You know, like on Friends?" HELP, WHAT'S THE NAMESQUISH? Sasaki? Aibohno? Matoshi? Ohba?
rinalin asked for Aiba/Arashi, "something less than more"
alexiela asked for Matsumiya, based on October's Non-No article
a_brokenangel asked for Matsumiya, cute and fluffy
rininjapan asked for Sakuraiba, based on a photo
anonymous asked for moar Matsumiya
iloveqqmcmug asked for Sakuraiba sickfic
yay_box asked for Arashi/Arashi, with extra Matsumiya



Final word count: 7,465 (;0__0)
(excluding this one, because it was already written)

10/29: FINISHED. OMG.

Comments

[rinalin.livejournal.com]

I am likewise, a lurker... but, I can't resist a meme.

Aiba/Arashi. "Something less than more" or "The Many Moods of Aiba Masaki"

Cause there's not enough Aiba in fandom.

[cupcake4mafia.livejournal.com]

This is another strange one, but it's what came to mind when I read "something less than more." I am always happy to add some Aiba!

...and extremely long sentences?

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Sho doesn’t realize that Aiba’s napping in his bed until after he’s checked his e-mail and eaten a snack. The sight slows him down. He sits and pets Aiba’s hair, smiling as Aiba yawns and opens one eye.

“I got caught in the rain,” Aiba explains, stretching. “I borrowed your sweatshirt.”

“That’s fine.”

“Why are you still wearing your jacket?”

Sho looks down, surprised.

“I forgot to take it off.”

Aiba giggles, curling up again.

“You’re weird,” he murmurs.

“Who, me?" Sho replies, good-natured, then adds, "I thought you were at Nino’s.”

Aiba is quiet and Sho immediately wonders if it’s alright to ask.

“I was,” Aiba finally says. “But he had to go to filming.”

“Ah, right.”

“Does Nino tell you when I come over?”

Aiba’s eyes are closed while he asks. Sho resumes petting Aiba’s hair, carefully forming his reply, which ultimately comes out as an awkward “Yes.”

“What about Ohno?”

“He mentioned you came by the night before.”

“And Jun?”

Sho takes off his jacket and lies next to Aiba, wrapping an arm around Aiba’s waist.

“When was the last time you went home?” Sho asks.

Aiba shrugs.

“I don’t like my apartment,” he explains. “It’s too cold. Something’s wrong with the air conditioning.”

Sho moves Aiba’s hair aside to kiss the nape of Aiba’s neck.

“I need to know something,” Aiba whispers.

“Hm?’

“Do you all talk about me?”

Sho bites his lip, face burning.

“Do you call each other when I leave? Do you compare notes?”

“Masaki,” Sho exhales.

Aiba gets up suddenly, pushing Sho on his back and straddling Sho’s legs.

“You send Nino text messages, right?” he asks.

Sho feels frozen, unable to read Aiba’s expression, unable to answer.

“Why would you keep it from me?” Aiba demands, fists clenching in the sheets near Sho’s arms. “Why would you all let me go on feeling like, like…”

Aiba’s elbows give out and he collapses on Sho’s chest, sniffling. Sho automatically hugs him, kissing his forehead.

“No one’s angry,” he says.

“I’m angry,” Aiba grumbles. “What a waste of time.”

Sho panics, pushing Aiba’s shoulders back so that he can see his face.

“Please, Aiba, don’t think that we,” Sho hesitates. “We don’t think of you like that. We love you.”

Aiba shakes his head, an inexplicable grin spreading across his face.

“I understand that,” he says, voice hoarse.

Sho meets Aiba’s eyes and physically aches from watching him cry.

“It’s just, this whole time, we could have all been together, instead of in our own little boxes,” Aiba says, wiping his face with his (Sho’s) sleeve.

It takes Sho a very long time to understand what Aiba means, longer than it takes for Aiba to stop crying. In fact, it isn’t until that night, when the five of them are together in Aiba’s living room, Nino lounging halfway on Ohno’s lap and watching with sleepy approval as Jun slides Sho’s shirt off of Aiba, following the motion with his tongue, and Aiba reaches out to Sho, dark eyes half-lidded, that Sho realizes how incredibly right Aiba is about most things in the world, and how very right the world is because Aiba is in it.

[rinalin.livejournal.com]

Oh. *heart*

I kinda love that Aiba is not all bouncy and crazy and Baka. He's just Aiba. Hard to understand and feeling too much. I love that he doesn't want to go to his own apartment. I love that the others keep tabs on who he's with. Because they're worried. Not because they're jealous. Not because they want something more. But just because he's Aiba. And they're Arashi.

The last line... just utter perfection.

You totally made my day.

[cupcake4mafia.livejournal.com]

Aiba's just so full of love that it bursts out in a variety of wacky and incoherent ways.

Thank you SO MUCH for the prompt. I'm definitely writing a prequel or sequel or both, because I ended up liking it so much!

[waxrose.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, there are not enough hearts in the world for this. This whole ficlet just broke my heart and rebuilt it in tiny, perfect pieces.

Please, please write Arashi forever. *____*

[lybra87.livejournal.com]

Oh my this is sad and lovely, and it's always great to see another slice of Aiba. I love it because I don't always understand Aiba either, and yet, yes, there is not enough Aiba. I can't fully explain how much the last line resonated. Thank you for writing this!

[alexiela.livejournal.com]

Arashi surely deserves to be written like this. You are so amazing. The fandom is so lucky to have you ♥

This just broke me, in a very very good way..