Walking the Line Between "Hobby" and "Mental Illness"

Some more drabbles from Tumblr, for archival purposes.

( Prince of Tennis, Sanada and Yukimura, domesticity )

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( Mukuro, fucking with gender )

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( Hibari and Irie )

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( Dino, first ink )

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( How Gokudera ended up in the Cavallone )

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( Xanxus/Squalo, domesticity )

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( Xanxus/Squalo, post chapter 398 fix-it )

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( Hibari/Yamamoto, domesticity )

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( Hibari/Yamamoto, mermaids )

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( Hibari/Yamamoto, double genderswap )

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( Hibari/Yamamoto, microfic meme )

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( Tsuna/Xanxus, microfic meme )

Title: Firestorm
Characters/Pairings: Fem!Xanxus/Squalo; Timoteo Vongola, Federico Vongola, Enrico Vongola, Lussuria, Levi, Mammon, Sawada Iemitsu, and Yamamoto Tsuyoshi
Summary: They had been sleeping up at the main house off and on, leaving the sheets of Xanxus' bed a mess and staring her family down over breakfast afterwards, for a good six months before anyone said anything about it.
Notes: Adult for smut and explicit violence. Part of Sugar and Spice [Index]. Genderswitch, drama, angst, original characters, and mafia politics; see the notes post for additional notes on characters. 50558 words.

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six | Coda

( After about a month of attending family dinners with Xanxus, Squalo couldn't keep his mouth shut any longer. 'Boss,' he said, once they were home again, safely within the walls of her rooms where the wrong ears weren't going to hear him. 'You think I can get away with killing Enrico?' )

Title: Wild Justice
Characters/Pairings: Tsuna/Kyouko; Gokudera/Haru; Chrome, Mukuro, I-Pin
Summary: Most people assume that Kyouko's really nice. They're mistaken: she's simply polite. And there's a huge difference between "nice" and "polite."
Notes: Teen and up. A hugely belated fic for round four of khrfest, prompt III-17: Kyoko – Haru is killed by a rival family, Kyouko doesn't take it lying down; "Fly away/ Take control / Beyond the edge will make you whole." Character death, angst, Kyouko being a badass. Kind of a grim AU to "They Also Serve". 8801 words.

( There was no pleasure in having been proved right after all. )

Title: Bloodsport
Characters: Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryouhei, Shamal, Tsuna, Hibari, Lambo, Squalo
Summary: Gokudera knows that this can't possibly end well.
Warnings: AU with vampires; angst, violence, fangsex, death. No pairings but plenty of subtext. 27,707 words.
Notes: Once upon a time, readerofasaph posted the beginnings of a fic about Yamamoto hunting vampires and running around all bloody, and asked someone else to take it off her hands. I flailed at her excitedly in the comments, because it was a shiny premise and I wanted more. After a quick exchange, I posted a brief snippet for her, with the caveat that "mind you, i have no idea what the context of this is, so. this is probably all you're getting."

Those were, shall we say, famous last words.

We exchanged several world-building sorts of comments, then we both got busy and distracted, and the whole thing fell dormant for a few weeks... until readerofasaph's birthday, where she inquired, hopefully, about a continuation to the vampire fic. Her request was felicitously timed, the stars were right, and over the course of about two weeks, I churned out something like twenty-five thousand words to build on what readerofasaph had started, while she and branchandroot cheered me on and helped me plot and world-build and contributed bits and pieces when I got stuck. This is the end result of that: we hope very much that you enjoy it!

( The summer after his father's death, Yamamoto Takeshi started baiting vampires. It was a trendy game that year, a little fringe but with that tinge of the romantic, and not a few cool kids were getting into it. So far nobody at their school had died, which Gokudera Hayato thought was a great pity. )

Title: Moriturus Te Saluto
Characters: Tsuna, Kyoko, the Vongola Guardians
Summary: TYL Tsuna prepares himself for an unpleasant meeting.
Notes: Spoilers for ch219 of the manga; PG-13 for heavy themes. 2000 words.

( Hibari clearly disliked the idea a great deal. )