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SO I AM STILL WRITING FICS FOR PEOPLE. ... I said "winter fics," not holiday, right? If I didn't, I am totally retconning as of now. :B

Also, because January 1st is Kantarou's birthday, I thought I should go ahead and post this while it was still technically day-of. [dork]

Yearfall
tactics -- Haruka/Kantarou [not worksafe]
913 words
for sjen, who said something about either a winter-themed HaruKan, or something where tengu are grumpy birdies in the winter. :D

( Yearfall )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARUKA? (According to the tactics artbook, today is the day.)

... oh, and happy birthday to that crazy catmommy who lives downstairs from me, rivendellrose, too. XD This is totally a present for her not for Haruka at all, no really XD.

Knowing to Fall
tactics -- Haruka/Kantarou
1475 words
Did you know?

( Knowing to Fall )

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Because Kingdom Hearts 2, I love you and all, but you're really, really big. And there's this tiny little fandom that I love just as much and well.

Actually, I wrote this because:

A) A doujinshi (never a good sign)
B) Writing wackyfun beach hijinks isn't as easy when you-the-writer actually doesn't like beaches
C) I had some free time at work today FTW.

kagome kagome
tactics -- HaruKan [darkfic]
1816 words
Who is the one standing behind you?

( kagome kagome )

I'm kind of spamming today, aren't I? I do apologize~

So, from what we know of tactics canon, Haruka's original master was a woman named Fuji (kanji: wysteria) who may or may not have been dangerously obsessive; the most we really see of her is her telling Haruka she loves him, that he's hers, and that she'll never give him to anyone else. Sugino really disliked this woman, to the point where he actually admits that he prefers Kantarou over her. The ONE TIME we see her, it's a lower-face shot as she lifts a bamboo hat up from over her eyes. (I don't know if there's a proper name for it, but it's the straw/bamboo hat that wandering monks and miko are often shown wearing.) There's another shot that might be of her, where we see a woman crying as flower petals -- wysteria petals? -- float around her, and she mentions that she's been having the same sad dream for years.

And we know that Raikou owns this little black cat named Fuji, who is very obviously more than just a normal cat. After Haruka attacks Ayame (in the manga Raikou's sister -- no connection is ever mentioned in the anime -- who looks exactly like Fuij-the-woman) in the garden and Ayame pushes him away, the cat attacks her, pissed off for some reason.

And THEN, harukami was websurfing tonight and found some interesting things:

1. Fuji-musume, the Wysteria Maiden -- about a painting of the wysteria maiden coming to life for the obsessive love of a man, wearing a black bamboo hat and carrying a branch of wysteria. And another image of the Wysteria Maiden.

2. The story of Fuji-no-kata -- a court woman with connections (via her handmaiden) to the Genji [Minamoto] clan. Another brief article here.

...

...

As Haru said, if you take the TONE of the first and add the historical facts of the second ... And then there's the fact that SOMEONE of the historical Minamoto family (I usually hear it's Yoshitsune, descending of Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu, whose name can also be read "Minamoto Raikou") was trained by tengu in the arts of war ...

You know, sometimes, I really do think my fandom is pretty damn cool. XD

Done! Done, done, done, DONE!!!1!11 Omigod, that was so very long. |D

２０．大切な人 [precious person] -- 4/4 END
tactics
HaruKan with a bit of a twist haha
NOT WORKSAFE (het). Cheesy reincarnation fic. This may not be the Haruka/Kantarou you're expecting, haha. |D No spoilers beyond who the villains are. Some visual cues taken from Karumadoh's "Haru no Hana" doujinshi series. Follows the rest of the 20 Themes cycle (i.e., it helps to read them for setup, but isn't necessary for this fic other than "this is futurefic"):

Theme 12: together
Theme 19: butterflies
Theme 13: onsen
Theme 14: memory
Theme 20: precious person -- 1/4 | 2/4 | 3/4 | 4/4

COMMENTS ARE VERY VERY APPRECIATED. Thank you for reading this far, those of you who have! ♥

( ２０．大切な人 [precious person] -- 4/4 )

( A second author's note, re: the end of the story )

２０．大切な人 [precious person] -- 2/4
tactics
HaruKan with a bit of a twist haha
NOT WORKSAFE (het). Cheesy reincarnation fic. This may not be the Haruka/Kantarou you're expecting, haha. |D No spoilers beyond who the villains are. Some visual cues taken from Karumadoh's "Haru no Hana" doujinshi series. Follows the rest of the 20 Themes cycle (i.e., it helps to read them for setup, but isn't necessary for this fic other than "this is futurefic"):

Theme 12: together
Theme 19: butterflies
Theme 13: onsen
Theme 14: memory
Theme 20: precious person -- 1/4 | 2/4 | 3/4 | 4/4

COMMENTS ARE VERY VERY APPRECIATED.

( ２０．大切な人 [precious person] -- 2/4 )

So after a huge scare with my computer (it died, but it came back to life? ... it's an old laptop and it's served me well, and I just hope at this point that it hangs on till graduation, when it's been heavy hinted that I will be getting one as a graduation present) and whatever I ... am very sort of wibbly about everything. |D

Have fic! Thus almost concludes the HaruKan 20 Themes -- as well as the "future" arc I've been kinda-sorta setting up. (Because every immortal/mortal pairing, I feel, deserves at least one soppy reincarnation story. Haha.)

１９．蝶々 [butterflies]
tactics
HaruKan
752 words
A funeral and the passing of an era. Futurefic (i.e., 50+ years in the future of the "present").

In chronological order, the "rebirth" themes should be read:
Theme 12: together
Theme 19: butterflies
Theme 13: onsen
Theme 14: memory
Theme 20: precious person [NOT YET POSTED]

( １９．蝶々 [butterflies] )

Ahhhhhhh, the first day of class. |D [already at work again]

１８．風邪 [a cold]
tactics
Haruka/Kantarou [preslash]; no spoilers
2026 words

( １８．風邪 [a cold] )

HAHAHAHA OKAY SO. I go to this one Japanese fanart site, and I saw one picture in particular that hit me with a bunny THIS HARD. (Actually, it wasn't even so much the picture as the short not-quite fic that accompanied it.

AND I WROTE THIS. |D Blame harukami, she held my hand when I was a baby and cried. XD;;

SO NOT SAFE FOR WORK. O GOD.

withered spring
tactics -- Raikou/Kantarou
1281 words
episode 25 AU? NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
Please forgive me, my OTP~!

( withered spring )

If you're curious, this is the picture in question. Most of the ficlet is just the usual demandings-for-sex you get in some douj, but what Raikou asks is, in essence, "Am I better than the Oni-Eater?"

"Oni-Eater? I don't understand, who's that?"

It's not even technically yaoi/slash/what-have-you, but the creators STILL draw porn. (Fairly explicit porn, at that.)

I am incredibly amused. MY OTP IS CANON SO THERE!

(I suppose I should have guessed; looking at Higashiyama-sensei's original BL work, it seemed like she was projecting her desire to draw Haruka/Kantarou porn on her original characters liek whoa. XD)

HAPPY TUESDAY, PEOPLE.

Edit: I have recieved permission to share the scans. You can either get 'em from me via AIM, or I'll have the link up in a bit, under filter. :3