zukkokya | THE ANONYMOUS PAIRINGS MEME

I WISH TO CREATE A MEME.

Therefore

I give to you

T H E
A N O N Y M O U S
P A I R I N G S
M E M E

This right here is a guessing game. I've written eight drabbles for eight pairings, but I haven't mentioned names. However, to even the odds a bit, I've also made a list of the pairings I wrote. There are no repeated pairings.

For the first person to guess at least five correctly, you may choose one of the eight drabbles to be turned into a full-length fic! ♥

AND NOW --

THE PAIRINGS
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Yamapi/Jin, Subaru/Yasu, Nino/Ohno, Shige/Ryo, Takki/Tsubasa, Kame/Koki, Koyama/Tegoshi, Hina/Yoko
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THE DRABBLES

8)

They don't know he can still hear them.

C: "This isn't fair."

B: "I know."

"And you're going to do it anyway."

"Yeah."

The pause makes A think they're going to leave it at that, which means he should get out of here before they come back. But if it means hearing more, he'll take the risk of staying.

"Eh? You're too quiet."

"I said don't go."

"What do you mean 'don't go'?"

"I mean you can't quit."

Something complicated and painful twists in A's chest.

"I'm not quitting. Stop being dramatic. I just won't have as long of a contract as the rest of you anymore."

"Fuck you! That's, like, advance quitting. I'll quit too, if you do. It'll be the end of the group."

"Now you're being too dramatic."

"And A will know it's because of him."

"Then he'll have to accept it."

"He loves you."

"That's -- tough. Let him handle that. He's too old to be babied."

Seeing spots, A kicks the door. "I CAN HEAR YOU, JACKASS," he shouts.

A: Yoko
B: Hina
C: Subaru
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7)

A thinks of all the words that apply to him right now -- sloshed, trashed, wasted -- why all the garbage synonyms?

He's drunk. Drunk drunk drunkdrunkdrunkrunkrunkunk. Kuh. Du-run-kuh.

Why is he drunk?

Almost before he thinks it, some overprotective part of his mind shuts down on the answer. A tries to maneuver around in his memory, but he comes up blank. Whatever reason he has, he apparently doesn't want to remember it.

Huh.

He hasn't had to pee for hours, which is weird. He must be soaking up all the alcohol like a sponge.

Actually, that would mean that by now, his sweat must be pure alcohol. A pokes his tongue out to catch some of it beading on his upper lip. Eugh. Tastes better from a glass.

A watches B squash out his cigarette in the half-full tray. "Come on," B shouts, turning his back to A. "I can't believe I'm doing this. Hear me? YOU OWE ME!"

A blinks.

"Oh for -- " B scoots back farther into the booth and pulls A's arms around his neck.

A suddenly gets it and beams. "PIGGY BACK!" Before B moves an inch, A wraps his legs around B's waist. "ONWARD, PIGGY!" he shouts, easily heard over the thrum of a remix he distantly recognizes.

A: Yamapi
B: Jin

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6)

A waits for B outside the bathroom. He listens to the toilet flush four times within a pretty short amount of time. The sink runs and shuts off, runs and shuts off, runs and shuts off, runs and shuts off. A hears B make a high-pitched, helpless noise. A frowns. It doesn't seem right to stay put here like B asked him to.

As if B heard his thought, the bathroom is suddenly, unusually quiet.

A gets to his feet and knocks on the door. "Are you feeling better?" he calls.

B's voice is hoarse when he answers, "Yes. Just give me a sec."

"Okay." A worries his lip between his teeth. He sits on the bed and stares at the floor.

A thinks of C and D back at the beach. His hand itches for his cell phone, but it's only when he finds his pocket empty that he remembers where it is. Given time, the tide may wash it back to shore. But broken is broken, and even if A ran back now, the phone would have been underwater for over six hours. It wouldn't matter if he'd dropped it in a bonfire for all the good it would do him trying to exchange it at the retail store.

B opens the bathroom door. His hair is still sand-slicked and wet, his face pale even against the white of his robe. He looks so young in the doorway, it presses a sharp edge of guilt against A's heart.

"I'm so sorry," he says, standing.

B nods, tucking his hands into his pockets and wincing. "It's not your fault," he says with a rasp low in his throat. He shuts his mouth with a clack and frowns like he's fighting off tears. "Do you think it's permanent?" he asks. His voice gets more and more ragged the louder he speaks. B, eyes bright, covers his mouth and looks utterly forlorn.

A's not sure what to do from here.

A: Koyama
B: Tegoshi

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5)

"I don't understand."

A cringes, because this is exactly what he expected would happen.

"A-are you serious?"

A starts planning how he'll make this funny. A great story. A joke. Just a joke.

"You really meant that, didn't you?"

The only good thing A has going for him now that he didn't expect is that they're alone. Somehow, everyone knew to give them space after the concert. Now all A needs is his common sense back.

"Oi," B says softly. "Let's go somewhere else and talk."

A is positive that that's a stupid idea. But he doesn't want to say so in case there's another reason behind their group mates leaving them alone, and it turns out that B is the only one he's still in good with.

What he wants is to be on stage ten minutes ago, still in possession of a relatively secure career and an image he could control.

A: Subaru
B: Yasu

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4)

A must be drunk, to let B take advantage of him this way.

"Am I drunk?" he asks B.

B rolls his eyes. "Yeah, you really are."

"Why?"

An annoyed click of B's tongue. "I don't know. I just found you like this, you idiot." His fingers in A's pockets press against A's hipbone. A yelps.

"Stop that!"

"I am never going out with you again."

A shoots an alarmed look at B. "This was a date?"

For some reason, B's face looks pained.

"I'm not dating you!" A yells.

"For the love of -- where the fuck are your keys? I just want to go home already. Fuck it, I'm leaving you here." His left arm around A's waist -- is gone. Wait.

A lands hard on his ass.

A: Shige
B: Ryo

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3)

After three years, the only difference A sees in B is a ring on his fourth finger. Seeing it from across the room, A can't swallow correctly on the first try. His feet feel leaden, his tongue sour. Then B notices him and the smile that dawns on his face is also unfamiliar.

A can't imagine where he'd go, but he suddenly wants to run.

But now B is maneuvering through the crowd, gingerly steering a champagne glass ahead of him. He doesn't duck under arms the way he used to -- now he walks tall. As tall as he's able, A thinks with sudden, surprising bitterness.

By the time B reaches him, A is feverish from his forehead to his toes. The way they left things -- broken, shattered, ground into dust -- how can B grin that way?

A nearly blacks out when B tugs him into a fierce hug. Champagne sloshes onto A's shoulder.

B whispers, "Don't be angry still," and it almost sounds like a child's prayer.

A: Ohno
B: Nino

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2)

"Can I say something dumb?"

"Will it be followed by doing something dumb?"

"Uh. I don't know. Maybe?"

"Comforting. Go on, I guess."

"I'm scared."

"Eh? Why?"

"Just. Thinking about the future."

"Don't do that."

"But -- "

"No, seriously. Seriously. Don't."

"Okay."

When that's all A says, B sighs and adds, "I can't tell if you're still doing it, but stop it if you are."

"It's just that -- "

An airplane scoops in low, sending a trembling roar through the air. B makes a visor over his eyes with one hand to watch the plane fly over A's car. Once it passes and the noise dwindles down, A sits up. Without a word to B, he slides down the windshield to stand on the hood.

"That's probably not good for the -- "

"Will you leave?"

B frowns, levering up onto his elbows so he can stare at A. "Huh?"

A looks up at the sky, his shoulders low. He looks lonely and uncertain.

"I'm sorry," A mutters. "I'm just tired."

"Leave what?"

A is silent.

"Leave the company?"

A doesn't answer.

"Leave you?"

A is still. He's too still.

A: Takki
B: Tsubasa

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1)

A said he couldn't stay long. B has always thought that that means a person has somewhere else to be. It doesn't occur to him until he's alone in his apartment again that A meant something else.

Because A doesn't have anywhere else to be. And neither does B.

Two hours ago, A stood six inches away from him and said goodbye. Actually, A said something stupidly formal and forgettable, but he meant goodbye.

B can't get used to A's hidden meanings, even though they're all A seems to communicate with lately.

A stood six inches away and lied to him. Because if a person isn't direct, isn't that lying? If a person only means to say something and says something completely different, that's definitely lying. B is dimly aware that he's encouraging a long-dormant fire. Maybe it's about time.

A can lie to C and D and everyone else in the whole company. He can lie to B and tell him, "I'll see you later," when he really means, "I won't let you find me."

That doesn't mean B will let him get away with it.

Because B is just as abruptly, miserably jobless as A, but B is prepared to fight to take it back.

That's what A has inspired in him.

A: Kame
B: Koki
C: Jin
D: Junno
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~~COMMENCE!~~

HALT!

karinberry HAS WON. ♥! HOORAY!

However! She didn't get them all! She got five:

6) Koyama/Tegoshi
5) Subaru/Yasu
4) Shige/Ryo
3) Ohno/Nino
2) Takki/Tsubasa

Drabble of choice for the first person who gets the last three!

COMMENCE PART TWO!

spurious HAS WON PART TWO. WHOO!

Thank you for playing, guys! This was so much fun. *__* Totally doing this again! I think 8 was confusing having more than two people involved. XDDD