Title: Odori no Shikyo Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Gooseberry 11 - ghoul/wraith Topping: Whipped Cream Extras: Malt - Paraskevidekatriaphobia - Cemetery Dance Word Count: 778 AN: The O-Bon festival (Japanese festival of the dead) falls between 13-15 August. Three guesses which month Friday 13 is next year. The gates to the cemetery weren’t locked. Why would they be...

Title: Enforced Vacation Part 3 - The High Road's Fine, Thanks Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Gooseberry 16 - dwarf Word Count: 917 AN: The title comes from some of the lyrics of Loch Lomond . "You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll get to Scotland afore ye." “Look, it is really not my fault that we had to leave Delphi early,” Haruka protested. Gin ignored...

Title: Enforced Vacation Omake - Pixie Dust Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Gooseberry 15 - pixie/sprite/fairy Extras: Pocky Word Count: 94 AN: Well, he is a cat... It had been buzzing around them ever since they arrived at the new hotel. It was irritating; sort of like a butterfly with its shimmering wings, but louder and human-shaped with tiny clothes and body art. It...

Title: Enforced Vacation Part 2 - Sun Lounging Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Gooseberry 3 - phoenix Word Count: 1278 AN: Originally, this was all supposed to be in Gin's point of view. Then Haruka took over with his potty mouth and perviness and it actually became writable. Things would probably be a lot better, Haruka mused, if the only one of them capable of speaking a European...

Title: Enforced Vacation Part 1 - Sparkling in the Sunlight Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Gooseberry 2 - pegasus/unicorn Word Count: 1366 AN: This is for the October challenge thing. It's very late (I'm hopelessly disorganised right now) but I'm going to try and do the prompts as different chapters in a continuous story. “We’re being sent where?” Haruka sounded faintly hysterical...

Title: Coup D’état Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Mango 26 - if looks could kill Extra: Malt - Prompt in a Hat - if looks could kill: Hideaki and Reiko: with or without you Word Count: 369 “Do the words ‘coup d’état’ mean anything to you?” he asked. “Anything at all?” A distant part of his mind wondered what the hell he thought he was doing, standing up to her like this. He...

Title: And the Fool Rushed In Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Black Raspberry 6 - "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Word Count: 1246 AN: Suicide Squad 'verse. The events in this are hinted at in earlier pieces of mine called Hanami and Condoms . He felt nothing at first; just the same overwhelming urge to run that had been plaguing him since before the fight...

Title: Detachment Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Cherry Vanilla 19 - the dream that isn't a dream Word Count: 719 AN: Suicide Squad 'verse. It's odd, but I want to see where this idea will lead. Kyousuke glanced at Reiko from the corner of his eye. She was sitting slumped forward in her chair, her head supported on one hand, and she was staring at the Commander in disbelief...

Title: Otaku Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Mango 28 - 15 minutes of fame Extras: Pocky Word Count: 100 AN: Suicide Squad. 'Otaku' is the Japanese word for 'geek' or 'nerd', usually used in conjunction with anime/manga or computer games. It's not very flattering either. This is set after 'Mayuri', 'Hero' and 'Consequences'. “And now for the headlines. A school in Shinjuku...

Title: Rescue Author: Arisa Rating: PG-13 Challenge: Black Raspberry 13 - The straw that broke the camel's back. Topping: Whipped Cream - Gin is fifteen and pre-Guild - and Cherry - I don't usually write flashbacks. Word Count: 1729 AN: Suicide Squad 'verse. I'm back everyone! Um, this contains mentions of Gin/Shinji, so be warned - as usual - for a homosexual sort-of-bestiality relationship...