more drabbles: ffvii, naruto, get backers, gundam wing

[jukeboxhound_backup]

 So I've learned a few things in the last week.
1. Drabbles are addicting.  Fuck.
2. I'm used to people hating my taste, but putting my music library on random sounds really strange even to me.
3. Fanfiction will always interfere with schoolwork, no matter how good your intentions.  ALWAYS.  You know it's bad when you're trying not to draw slashy conclusions about Basil I and Photios the Patriarch.
4. I'm now artimusdin's official buttmonkey, ever since she applied her lovely beta skills to one of my final papers.  (But make one joke about it and I'll pull a Dr. Faustus on your soul.)

None of these are requests. They're idle ones done in boredom and frustration, so they're unbetaed and somewhat odd.

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 Bare Naked Ladies – “If I Had a Million Dollars”

“If I had a million dollars,” Genji declared to the world one day, “I’d buy you a whole week’s worth of meals.”

 

“Just a week?” Ban asked dryly.  He was draped over their bug’s hood with a cigarette lazily spiraling smoke, shamelessly soaking in the sun of the park.

 

“Well, duh.  I’d be eating the rest.”

 

Ban rolled his eyes.  “If I had a million dollars, I’d buy you a puppy.”

 

Genji’s curious face appeared upside-down in front of his own.  “What the hell?  A puppy?”

 

“Then you’d be too busy playing with the damn thing to eat my food.”

 

Genji snickered.  “Well, if I had a million dollars, I’d buy us a real bed.  You wanna know why?  Huh?  Huh?”

 

“…I think I can guess.”

 

“No, because I’d wear you out so much that you couldn’t get up and then I could have the puppy and the food, and I’d get to see you make that face when you sleep that makes you look like a spoiled five-year-old.”

 

Ban grumpily admitted to himself that Genji won that one.

 

Marilyn Manson – “The Golden Age of Grotesque”

Duo had to laugh.  Guns were firing and people were dying and Treize had the fucking brass balls to stand behind the safety of his army, behind his communications screen in OZ headquarters, and preach about the ideology of revolution.  His blue velvet jacket had been freshly brushed, the pilot noticed idly.  It looked shiny.  Polished.

 

Then Duo turned away from the small screen in Deathscythe’s cockpit while Heero argued one point or another with the general; he wasn’t sure what it was about, and didn’t really give a shit about words.  Sandrock cleaved through a Taurus and he idly wondered how Quatre’s space-heart was holding up so far, what with all the machine oil spotted with human crimson streaking his Gundam’s sickles.  Wufei was breaking angrily into Heero and Treize’s debate as his chain-dragon sent a Leo up in flames.  Trowa’s expression on the comm-link was flat as he leveled an enemy squadron.

 

It wasn’t until he caught his reflection on the metal surface of the cockpit that Duo realized his lips were twisted into a grin, the light from the console casting a pale sickness over his features.  A frayed thread from his cuff was tickling the underside of his wrist as he braced himself to block the swipe from a Taurus’ weapon and immediately retaliated with his scythe.

 

With his oiled buttons, Treize didn’t seem like the type of warlord to have loose threads.  Not when he stood clean and polished behind his fighting, dying army and talked about the ideology of revolution.

 

Duo couldn’t help but laugh.

 

Dead Can Dance – “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”

Mako did odd things to a person’s perception of time.  Sometimes Cloud lived a thousand years between the meals that the lab techs brought him and Zack.  Sometimes he lived within the same instant for days, months on end, like a caterpillar that had died in its cocoon and would never transform.

 

It took Zack a thousand years to die.  Cloud knew this because the world came to a standstill when the Buster sword slipped from Zack’s fingers, when his body arced so poetically against the overcast sky, when he struck the earth and there was silence.

 

Just—silence.  The shot heard for an eternity.

 

Benedictine Monks of Santa Domingo de Silo – “Puer Natus Est Nobis”

“Pardon me, Father, for I have sinned.”

 

Cloud’s breath caught, his words stuttering in his throat.  I have sinned against God, Father.  I’ve perverted the nature he’s given me.

 

Last night strong hands pushed him back on his bed, spread his legs.  Gripped his hips as sharp white teeth left bruises on the soft insides of his thighs, bruises that now that rubbed uncomfortably against the material of his acolyte’s uniform.  He had arched his spine for the larger body that leaned over him, had moaned aloud when he was splayed wide and penetrated.  His fingers had slipped over the silky-smoothness of a single feathered wing.

 

“My last confession was three days ago.”  I sinned with an angel, Father. 

 

And I would do it again.

 

Orgy – “My Way With You”

Everyone knows Sasuke is fucked up—that he was fucked up long before Orochimaru came around with whispers of power and the dark—but what they don’t realize is that the sickness has twisted around the neurons in his brain, is being pumped through his veins, has become indistinguishable from the thump-thump of his heart.  Naruto will sometimes press his ear to Sasuke’s chest when he thinks Sasuke is asleep just to hear the slow steadiness of a heartbeat, and it’s those times that Sasuke wonders if Naruto can hear the disease.  He’d heard animals could often smell the cancer in their masters before a doctor’s chakra could find it.

 

Irony.

 

Sasuke doesn’t care one way or the other who he does or doesn’t fuck, but he won’t fuck Naruto.  Doesn’t know how to explain that he’d lose his mind if the touches turned soft, how a gentle caress will make his chest tighten with fear and revulsion unless he feels the sharp bite of nails in his skin or the numbing prick of a kunai.

 

His father and Itachi and Orochimaru have all taught him well.  Better to have the pain first so the good doesn’t hurt so much when it’s ripped away, and he refuses to do that to the only thing he has left.

 

Deftones – “Passenger”

His God whispers to him, twines around him, pulls him close and shows him the universe on a single black wing.  He hears a voice calling him, hears a laughing-warm-friendly-loving voice calling him back only it doesn’t sound so happy anymore.  It sounds broken.  It breaks his heart, and that makes him curl closer to his God.  He doesn’t think he’ll mind forgetting everything in his past so long as his God carries him through the future.

Comments

[rosethornli.livejournal.com]

...I am speachless from the awesomeness. Especially the religious!Cloud and Sasuke ones. I. yeah, have no words. (Has the first been brewing? Do you want to right more? Because, want to read more. Lots more. Hades-san is amazing!)

*insert keymash and mass of hearts* ♥

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Dude, with the way dina prods me all the time - subtly or not - I'm starting to feel like I don't have a choice in writing more. (Not that I complain, mind you.)

Uh, first what?

[rosethornli.livejournal.com]

You're having fun writing all this genius stuff, though, yes?

Hm? "First what"?

....oh. "Has the religious!Cloud verse been brewing?" is my question. But, it did not convey! Horrible grammar...

Random question: are you glad it's summer, Hades-san? Or is it not yet hot where you are?

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

Religious!Cloud-verse has indeed been brewing, most especially when I'm horny and irritable and listening to shitty industial.

*eyes you* You worded that question rather strangely. I'm half-expecting to find you at my door with a smile, a rope, and a sledghammer a la Stephen King.

[ardwynna-m.livejournal.com]

Whoo, that SephCloud one was squirm-inducing sinful goodness. Rowr! Like them all and those ZackCloud ones break my heart.

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

*looking back* *coughs* Ignore my previous comment, for I have just shamed my Latin professor with a mistake I always fell for. It's actually 'the boy is born to us' or something similar, and wow. *laughs*

[ardwynna-m.livejournal.com]

XD No worries, my knowledge of latin extends only to things like Drosophila melanogaster and your icon selection is fun. ^^ I do prefer the mistaken version for the obvious reason. *sigh* If only. Good luck making lemonade!

[dracontia.livejournal.com]

I have to agree, the Seph/Cloud one is just. Wow. *stares* There it physical discomfort! That seems so unusual for fanfiction that it just makes it all the more real seeming.

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

Physical discomfort? Where?

[dracontia.livejournal.com]

"-bruises that now that rubbed uncomfortably against the material of his acolyte’s uniform."

There just never seems to be much reference to pain caused from having wild sex.

Oh wait. *blinks* XD I think we're talking about two different things.

[creators-sigh.livejournal.com]

Guh. The 'Dead Can Dance' one outright made my stomach twist into little knots, it was almost like watching a train wreck - horrifying and fascinatingly wrong, ya know? I felt very horrible for Cloud - of course, it's very hard not to. The last one also struck a chord through me, because Zack is obviously trying to get through to Cloud's damaged psyche, but Sephiroth's so overpowering (mental-wise - and how ironic considering Jenova's pulling his strings too) in his presence that... Cloud's just not pulling through. Or even wants to do so, for that matter.

Cloud has always been a favourite - right after Cecil, really (who actually went through the literal 'journey of redemption': dark to light - and also because I had a seven-year-old's crush on his menu portrait and character, but we aren't going there today - DS just made it come back with a vengeance, damn that pretty face! XD) - because he is so messed up, that you can, oddly, relate and sympathize with, or at least feel empathetic towards him. I think Kain was supposed to be second, after Cecil, because I spent half my time thinking he was a kick-ass character and alternatively hating his figurative balls for being a backstabber, but Cloud gets that lovely place. Hee hee!

I found that I also enjoyed the 'Benedictine Monks' Drabble - it had a slithery feel to it, like a slow and steady corruption, and the fact that the black wing was totally Sephiroth's made it worth it, too (it was Seph, right? Not Genesis - although, hot too, I primarily enjoyed the Sephiroth connotations)!

I have so not watched Gundam Wing, since I was about 11 or 12, I think, so in about seven-eight years - basically a long time. The main thing I remember about that anime was that: Heero was reckless with himself, Duo and he had something going on (yes, even back then I was relentless in my male/male fascination, and its only grown worse - the wonders of the brain!), Quatre went batty in a space-thingy with his dead-or-dying-slash-unconscious older sister, and Trowa got amnesia and was a clown in a cirus, and Lady Una turned into a different person by basically taking her glasses off (which, trust me, confused the crap out of me back then - I was like, "SUPERMAN?!"). Oh yeah, and something about Relena and throwing herself out a window, or was that a fanfic? Either way, I really enjoyed that drabble, too. Duo is a crazy/high-on-adrenaline-SOB, and it's so right!

Although, I wasn't familiar with the very first drabble's characters, it had a very humorous and perverse (which made it funnier) tone throughout it. It was a good, charming read, made me chuckle, especially at the end when he's explaining himself fully to his partner. Is it an anime or video game?

Sasuke is a very messed up young man - and was there a more symbolic meaning to his drabble - he does have cancer or is it supposed to be, like a figurative cancer, soul-shredding-type of deal? I loved how he had Naruto so high on a pedestal, that he simply won't touch him in the way he wants to, and I bet the way Naruto wants him, too. *cough*

There, I actually previewed to make sure everything was fine, instead of excitedly typing and submitting like a douche-bag. :P *pats herself on the back, big-time*

Anyway, a whole round of applause! You deserve to have a plume and two more in your hat, Madam! XD

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

I feel rather bad for Cloud as well, but he's just too much to hurt. And you have no idea how relieved I am that you understood the last drabble; it wasn't until after I'd written and posted it that it occurred to me just how vague it was. I figured that if someone called me on it I could just blame a stressed mindset.

(I with I could add my own two cents about Cecil and Kain, but I only know their names and absolutely nothing about their supposed characters. When I get around to dedicating a full weekend to playing the game, I'll let you know. XD)

Of course it was Sephiroth - no matter how many pretty characters Nomura throws into FF7, I will always remain a SxC shipper. In fact sometimes I miss pre-CC fandom, when it was still just Sephiroth and Zack and Cloud. But hey.

Dude, I bought the entire series+OVA on DVD (totally pirated in Hong Kong, of course) and rewatched it recently. I hadn't realized how much fandom's twisted the characters, especially Duo, whom I consider to be a deliciously cynical fatalist of the highest kind. And Heero's so indredibly idealistic and Quatre so off his rocker, and really, thirty bucks was so totally worth it.

The first drabble was for Get Backers. It's an anime, although I'm more familiar with the manga, and it's...all right. Not bad at all, although I've seen a few better.

Oh god Sasuke. *snuggles the emo boy and gets a kunai in the ribs* I actually hadn't meant the cancer part literally, just a metaphor, so it was definitely a figurative thing. And I could just go off on these two forever, but I'd like to avoid wankage, kthnx.

...My first thought of the feathers was not in an innocent context at all. Hee.

[dmitchell1985.livejournal.com]

Good god I loved the FFVII drabbles! I adore what you do with those two pairings and would love to see more from you in a longer format, as your writing style could definitely carry a longer fic.

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

Thanks. ^^ And actually artimusdin is harassing me into writing an epic, one of those things that I always told myself I should never get into because it will absorb the last bits of life I have left.

[dmitchell1985.livejournal.com]

But, you don't really want that last bit of life, do you. . . ?

: )

[white-jenna.livejournal.com]

The monk one is just absolutely incredible. Wish I could be more coherent, but it's just that good.

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

It's an idea that's been in my head for a few months now, and with the response that one's gotten I'm half-considering turning it into a full lemony oneshot. X3 YOU'RE A CORRUPTING FORCE.

[white-jenna.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE A CORRUPTING FORCE. *preens*

[pixeled.livejournal.com]

*barges in on thread* LOL, sorry, I'm annoying, but...

plz to be making this a full lemony oneshot? kthx.

Heyyy, you're the one who did god!Aerith. RAWR.

My baybeh!Cloud icon, he compels you.

[rethira.livejournal.com]

I loved the acolyte!Cloud one. You can just see Seph doing that, descending from heaven and mucking around with little Cloud......excuse me while I go off into dream world.

[grygon.livejournal.com]

*sputters*

I'm agnostic... but I love a good religiousbutgay!Cloud story any day. Holy fuck that was hot.

[wildejoy.livejournal.com]

^_____^

Puer Natus Est Nobis is one of the hottest pieces I've read in a long time. The imagery is gorgeous.

[kyoki-kiss.livejournal.com]

Oh HEY! This is why I love tags. I click on gundam wing and/or drabbles, and I find some hot Seph/Cloud along the way.

The Angel Sephiroth and Acolytle Cloud is yum. I think you've written another story along the same religious theme... Something more recent. and HOW has this NOT been made into a full blown fic? Too-Hot-To-Handle. Naughty angel... Loves it!

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

It's truly strange to be going back and reading old stuff - I don't remember half of it, and it's a weird mix of 'hey new fic' and deja vu.

And it hasn't been revamped into a porny thing because I'm such a wuss when it comes to that sort of thing. Gimme blood and torture, but writing the word 'cock' and associated verbs will make me blush.

[kyoki-kiss.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, but if it makes you blush, doesn't that mean it is working? lol