AftS Fic: A Winner Never Quits, Misaki/Tachiki

[prillalar]

1. Fic by other people:

Type Slowly by marksykins. Inui/Fuji. Marks, I'm going to eat your brain.

Boys Who Wear Glasses 1/4, by mayhap. Inui/Tezuka. Megane Pair and Quiz Bowl. Who could resist?

Three Percent by disutansu. InuKai. Mmm, sweet. Helen, if you get seduced away from InuKai into ZoLu, fffshuuu and I are going to have to have a cage match beat-down over you.

2. Drabble requests are being worked on. More tomorrow, I hope.

3. Fic by me, for mousapelli, who wanted drippy Asakawa:

A Winner Never Quits
Aim for the Sky!, Asakawa, Misaki/Tachiki, PG13, 600 words.
Asakawa has an incident.


"And he said--" Asakawa sniffed and swiped his hand across his nose. "He said that I was a quitter!"

Misaki dug for his handkerchief. Which he had last used when Tachiki cornered him in the supply closet in the home ec classroom while their chocolate cookies were baking. He left it in his pocket. He was so going to fail home ec.

He patted Asakawa's shoulder awkwardly. "I'm sure he didn't mean it like that."

"He said that a real man would have stuck with it!" Tears ran down Asakawa's face and his lower lip trembled. "Then he hissed at me!"

"Okay, maybe he did mean it like that, but you shouldn't let it get to you."

"He said that lacrosse was stupid!" Asakawa beat his fists on Misaki's chest. Misaki staggered back, rubbing his breastbone. Asakawa leapt forward, like some sort of leaping, tree-dwelling marsupial, and clung to Misaki's shirt. "LACROSSE ISN'T STUPID!"

Every bone in Misaki's body amplified the yell and his ears were going to ring for hours. "Uh...of course it's not. He's just...jealous that we won our first game and they...um..." Various bodily fluids soaked through Misaki's shirt. "Do you want a chocolate cookie? They're a little burnt but--"

Asakawa tipped his head back and stared into Misaki's face. His eyes were red and wide and filled with tragic tragedy. His lower lip had progressed from trembling to a full-on wobble. "You'll help me, right, Misaki?"

Two first-year girls walked by, looking sidelong at Misaki and giggling. Misaki could feel his face getting red. "Of course, I'll--"

"So you'll beat him up for me?"

"Sure, I'll...what?" Don't look at the lower lip, Misaki told himself. Don't look at the big sad eyes. "Don't you think that's a bit extreme?"

"HE SAID LACROSSE WAS STUPID!" A button popped off Misaki's shirt as Asakawa's hands twisted into fists and suddenly Misaki wasn't sure which one of them he'd rather face right now.

"I'll call Sato, shall I?" Tachiki slouched up out of thin air.

"But shouldn't we...?" Misaki glanced up, then back down at Asakawa, who was mashing his wet face into Misaki's neck.

"Sure," Tachiki said. "I'll comfort Asakawa and you go fight Kaidoh." He bent down and picked up the loose button. "If you need us, we'll be in the haunted bathroom on the second floor."

Misaki closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Okay, call him." Something was dripping down his chest. "It's all right, Asakawa. Sato will be here soon."

"And he'll beat him up?"

A crowd was starting to gather, just far off enough that Misaki's glare had no effect. "Sure, he'll take care of things."

Tachiki closed his mobile. "Two minutes." He turned the button over between his fingers, flipping it over the back of his knuckles. "And I'm sure Natsumi-chan will be glad to sew this back on for you."

Asakawa's shoulders were beginning to shake. Misaki put his arm around him.

"Or we could just take him over to the bathroom now." Tachiki fixed Misaki with that flat, bored stare that was somehow even more dangerous that Asakawa's lower lip.

Some days Misaki wondered if he really should have stuck with tennis.

Sato ran up and Misaki transferred Asakawa. "What's the matter?" Sato asked.

"LACROSSE ISN'T STUPID!"

"Of course it's not," Sato said, patting Asakawa's back.

Misaki plucked at his shirt, pulling the damp spots away from his skin. Tachiki grabbed his wrist. "Thanks," Tachiki said to Sato. "We're late."

"Late?" Misaki said.

"Home ec make-up project," Tachiki said and pulled Misaki down the hall.

-fin-


4. I so need to figure out an AftS icon.

Comments

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

*dies* I think that's a little extreme. XDDD I can have a big enough heart for them both!! *flails* I think... >.>;;

*snuggles Prillalar-san lots*

[chibimono.livejournal.com]

DO NOT CAVE TO TEH ZOLU! PLEASE! *does not want to die*

[prillalar]

Mwahaha! My intimidation tactics are working!

[chibimono.livejournal.com]

No matter how the match was held, you'd so totally win, Prillalar. ;_; I am no match to you, whatsoever. Besides, even if I attacked with my best ZoLu possible, InuKai still holds more room in Helen-chwan's heart, and you'd win anyway. ^_^;;

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

*squishes Chibi* Ahh, but that makes me feel bad for some reason. XD;; *hides*

[prillalar]

Probably your best strategy would be to seduce me into ZoLu as well. But I will counter-attack with Kamen Rider! I so need someone else to fangirl over it with.

[chibimono.livejournal.com]

... What would it take to bring you to the dark side? Cookies? Man smut? I could look into watching Kamen Rider... I've got to watch more Ultraman Max and start watching Garo, too.

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

I've already begun to cave, as I told you Chibi. XD And Prillalar-san won't kill you! *snuggles* Right? >.>

[prillalar]

Of course not! A martyr would only make the cause stronger...

[prillalar]

it's okay if it's both

*snuggles back*

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

It would take a long time before I become as devoted to ZoLu as I am with InuKai (if it ever gets to that point), so we have nothing to worry about until then. *nods*

[qem_chibati]

Ahahaha, poor Sato being left with that.

"Sure," Tachiki said. "I'll comfort Asakawa and you go fight Kaidoh." He bent down and picked up the loose button. "If you need us, we'll be in the haunted bathroom on the second floor."
*grins* I think Tachiki, if it ever gets animated, is going to be the character with the most, cool lines. =D

Can't help but feel a little awkward for Kaidoh, I find it hard to see him actually confronting someone with that, thinking yes... But he tends to keep his thoughts to himself, doesn't he?

[prillalar]

Sato is longsuffering, especially over Asakawa! Re Kaidoh, I agree that he wouldn't likely just come out with that unprovoked. But we don't really know his side of the story. :)

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Marks, I'm going to eat your brain.

Okay. Can I eat yours, too? And is there any way to make that sound not dirty?

"He said that a real man would have stuck with it!" Tears ran down Asakawa's face and his lower lip trembled. "Then he hissed at me!"

And that's where I died. Like, a lot. Hahahaha!

"Sure," Tachiki said. "I'll comfort Asakawa and you go fight Kaidoh." He bent down and picked up the loose button. "If you need us, we'll be in the haunted bathroom on the second floor."

Oh God. I can do nothing but laugh helplessly.

4. I so need to figure out an AftS icon.

Me too, dammit. Where are our torrents?

[prillalar]

And is there any way to make that sound not dirty?

Is there any reason that it shouldn't? *g*

Poor Asakawa. But I can't help but wonder what he *did* to make Kaidoh react that way.

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Is there any reason that it shouldn't? *g*

I knew you were going to say that. :D The brains are already being ingested.

And since I'm on a roll with AftS! today...
--

Asakawa searched through his bag and started to panic. Oh, no! Where were all his pencils? He couldn't take a math test without pencils!

Looking all around at his classmates, Asakawa steeled his nerves and poked his neighbor. "Momoshiro, do you have a pencil I could borrow?" He widened his eyes, trying to make Momoshiro understand how much he needed a pencil right that second.

Momoshiro stopped eating his red bean paste pastry, mouth open and crumbs falling out of it. He stared at Asakawa for a long enough time that Asakawa thought he had to have something on his face.

"Momo?" Asakawa asked, touching the corner of his mouth, just in case.

"Oh! Of course, of course," said Momoshiro, laughing. He reached into his tennis bag and pulled out a newly sharpened pink pencil with a Hello Kitty eraser.

Asakawa took it and grinned. "I love Hello Kitty! Where did you get it? I go to the Sanrio store all the time to take those pictures where they put your face on a sticker!"

"Ah, actually I'm not sure." Momoshiro looked embarrassed. "Er, someone gave it to me."

[prillalar]

*laugh* Of course! It all becomes clear now. Ah, boys. Never stop getting in trouble.

(Oh, Kaidoh!)

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

oh hal, you're so sweet *snuggles*

Misaki really can't win where Asakawa and Tachiki are concerned. Also, the idea of Tachiki baking chocolate chip cookies pretty much wins everything. And the haunted bathroom on the second floor! That'll be a prime mention in the ghost story team!fic.

Aaaaw, Kaidoh! he should be glad Asakawa's gone anyhow, otherwise they'd be competing for cutest tennis boyfriend. and Asakawa has bigger, damper eyes. and would drink anything Inui-senpai tells him to. anything.

God, why do I want Asakawa to be such a whore? I was kind of rooting for Misaki/Asakawa/Tachiki/haunted bathroom. But then again, OTP! Sato may just make it after all.

Thanks for this, sweetie. The boys make everything better.

[prillalar]

I'm glad it cheered your dark hours. :) Misaki can never win, but he'll probably get a few blowjobs along the way, so he might learn to live with it.

The haunted bathroom is quickly becoming a fixture. I have a feeling it may bleed over into PoT fic at some point.

Aaaaw, Kaidoh! he should be glad Asakawa's gone anyhow, otherwise they'd be competing for cutest tennis boyfriend.

My theory is that's one reason he's so pissed off! Now that Asakawa is gone, everyone has Kaidoh pegged as the club uke. And he doesn't enjoy it the way dear Asakawa does.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i don't that anybody enjoys anything the way that Asakawa enjoys being team uke.

really i just wanted an excuse to flail more. *FLAILS*

[flonnebonne]

Ooh, I would love to see one of the lacrosse boys try to beat up Kaidoh.

This fic is so cute in so many ways. "LACROSSE ISN'T STUPID!" indeed.

[prillalar]

I think the only one who could successfully damage Kaidoh would be Tachiki, and that's just because he would cheat. *g* Glad you enjoyed!

[insipid-paragon.livejournal.com]

Asakawa leapt forward, like some sort of leaping, tree-dwelling marsupial, and clung to Misaki's shirt. "LACROSSE ISN'T STUPID!"
ooohhhh, it's killing me (in the very best way).

Tachiki fixed Misaki with that flat, bored stare that was somehow even more dangerous that Asakawa's lower lip.
^^ Hee.

[prillalar]

They are so fun to write. I'm glad you're enjoying them so much!

We just this evening made a comm for the fandom: crosse_purposes which should make it easier to follow. :)

[insipid-paragon.livejournal.com]

Oh, fantastic news!