Tuesday's older fiction

Title: Stepping Stones
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Lee/Gaara, assorted (suffers from Nearly Everyone Is Gay syndrome)
Rating: R
Notes: For qbic1, who is awesome and patient and won me via Sweet Charity. This thing has been beta poison, so extra special thanks to hello_scorpling for doing a plot/characterization beta of this. Sorry that this isn't further betaed, but seriously. LIKE POISON. Thanks to everyone who tried. I am just glad to get this out of my wip folder. It's, uh, only a hundred or so off 11,000 words. I was originally thinking one to five thousand. Ahahaha, so wrong.

Originally this started as just Lee/Gaara with the intention of showing what many people in the village thought, but it ended up sprawling out with so many different viewpoints into a bunch of smaller stories set chronologically and centered around the story of Suna and Konoha moving from being tense, temporary allies to having built strong ties of friendship and a permanent alliance, as well as working out some of the problems I can see inherent in a relationship between Gaara and Lee. I may try re-writing this someday without so many weird self-imposed rules (like only repeating Lee and Gaara's povs, no major character death, etc). But not for a very long time.


( The first time Lee noticed Gaara watching him, he ignored it. He only caught a glimpse of moving sand from the corner of his vision and he continued the kata smoothly, letting it draw him in, losing himself in the flow from form to form. )

Later, I'll round up links for all the awesome fic others wrote on everysecondtues. I've split up my own efforts into what will be a few posts, one a day: Guy/Kakashi, original, Lee-As-Hokage-AU fic, Hikago and Lee/Gaara, and Naruto gen and other pairings. In this case, the last shall be first.



( Not everyone in Konoha reacted to news of their special bloodlines with joy and celebration (Shino, gen) )


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( Right before Ino began at the Academy, she'd climbed with her mother to the top of the steps carved steep into the side of the hokage memorial. (Ino, gen) )


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( In the ensuing scuffle, Sakura's ribbon came undone and his hair tumbling down. (Sakura gender-switch, Sakura/Ino, crack) )


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( Naruto couldn't figure out how to put it, how to organize his question into the delicate phrases necessary. (Naruto/Sakura) )


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( And really, he could do a lot worse, Neji thought, looking back out at the dance floor (Neji, Lee, assorted) )


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( On the first morning of the Revolution, Guy-sensei finally appeared (Team Guy, mostly gen) )


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( Once upon a time, there was a peach tree in the Hatake gardens. (Kakashi, gen) )


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( Naruto punched Sai right in his pretty boy, too smug, annoying, annoying face. (Naruto/Sai) )


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( Ash fell from the sky like snow (Minato, gen) )
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Tomorrow, Hikago and Lee/Gaara!

(Nearly) All of the responses I wrote for the prompts I took during December. A few are left out because they're not finished, or have morphed into monstrously large and rather rabid plot bunnies. There are twelve, most Naruto, but also including Doctor Who, Hikaru no Go, and Jeeves & Wooster. I'm hoping not, but the Jeeves & Wooster may also be expanded to the large fic it keeps begging to be.

Listed by fandom and prompt:

( Naruto: Kakashi/Gai, anniversary )
( Naruto: Shikamaru/Temari, domestic dispute (think the kind that would land any ordinary person on Cops. Preferably over something REALLY stupid and overheard by the sandsibs+Lee+everyone within earshot) )
( Naruto: Gaara/Lee, bondage )
( Naruto: Kiba secretly really hates bugs. Like, a lot. )
( Naruto: Might Guy, Porn Star )
( Naruto: Lee/Girl!Gaara )
( Naruto: Sakura proposes a threesome )
( Hikago: Waya having a MASSIVE DORKCRUSH on Isumi )
( Naruto: Naruto/Hinata ♥ )
( Doctor Who: Sonic Screwdriver )
( Naruto: Kakashi/Guy, First Kiss )
( Jeeves & Wooster: Jeeves, drunk - narration by Bertie )

Fandom: Naruto
Word count: 2,986 10,098 7,491 (word counted with the omake at first, sorry. The omake I like will be added in another post eventually.)
Characters: Kakashi, Guy, most everyone else I could include from the series--this bitch is damn near the full Konoha cast.
Genre: Crack, prompt fic, romance of a sort
Snippet: Kakashi held up a hand. “We’ll pretend this never happened.”
Notes: Guy woos Kakashi (crack rival wooing stories! It's what I'm writing lately). Kakashi is not exactly appreciative of his efforts. Neither is most anyone else in the village, except those who are laughing. They are sadly numerous.
Written for imbrii for a prompt she gave me after she wrote for me her idea with Temari/Kankurou that is just full of win and awesome.

( Guy's team was staking out Kakashi's apartment. )