singingoriole | A general post of shipping

A general post of shipping

Just a general open post for shamelessly shipping muses together and just for generally playing cute things.

If you see anyone you know, feel free to jump in~.

EDIT: Now with a links list organized by pairing because this post is getting hard to navigate.

Threads are organized according to IC chronology.

A ♫ means the thread has been completed.

Aqua x Oichi
(Kingdom Hearts AU)

♫ Once upon a time, a princess and her knight were wondering in the Darkness...

Eagle x Aqua
(Kemono Kingdom Zoo AU)

♫ Sea otters have some very quirky (but cute) sleep habits. (Aqua as a sea otter)
♫ First kiss~

Huang Rong x Oichi
(The Sky Tides AU)

♫ Huang Rong takes Oichi out to make flower crowns.

Hyoubu Kyousuke x Oichi
(Zettai Karen Children AU)

♫ Hyoubu goes out to meet the Demon Queen.
♫ If it was just something like that, she was sure even the weak, selfish her could manage it.

Kaitou Sai x Katsuragi Yako
(Idol AU)

♫ Fans ship members in idol groups all the time. It's not often that they turn out to be right, though.

Kuro x the Duchess
(Are You Alice? AU)

♫ The first rule of being a tomcat: always protect the things that are important to you.

Okita Sougo x Eve
(Soul Campaign AU)

♫ Call me Master.

Okita Sougo x Keroro

♫ I want a refund. This wasn't what I ordered!

Ryuuko x Katsuragi Yako

♫ She probably should have suspected something was amiss at that point.

Ryuuko x Sannomiya Shiho
(Zettai Karen Children AU)

♫ A meeting in the rain between alternate worlds (OU!Ryuuko still)
♫ ...
♫ Ryuuko and Shiho are going to be parents (god help us all).

Sannomiya Shiho x Aqua
(Zettai Karen Children AU)

♫ A girls' day out is sometimes what you need.

Sannomiya Shou x Mizunashi Akari
(Aria AU)

♫ The Marriage of the Sea Festival comes around again.

Sannomiya Shou x Hanasaki Tsubomi
(Heartcatch Precure AU)

♫ In the language of flowers there isn't one that means 'tsundere'. (Eventual guest appearance of Erika)

Sasha Hell x Oichi
(Sengoku Basara AU)

♫ Two lost souls find each other...

Shi Ryuuki x Eagle
(Kemono Kingdom Zoo AU)

♫ Ryuuki has a nightmare.

Shi Ryuuki x Sannomiya Shiho
(The Sky Tides AU)

♫ Happy Birthda--oh god I'm falling out the window!!
♫ Stuck in the rain...together. Good luck, Shiho!
♫ Ryuuki wants only what's best for his and Shiho's child. Somehow that translates into a truckload of teddybears...

Shirogane x Aqua
(Soul Campaign AU)

♫ When you get sick, remember to get plenty of rest and drink plenty of fluids.

Shirogane x Hanasaki Tsubomi
(Heartcatch Precure AU)

♫ I want to make flowers bloom in space.
♫ Sometimes a bit of alcohol gives you the confidence you need.

Shirogane x Kurumi Erika
(Heartcatch Precure AU)

♫ Erika's model is late. Shirogane, unfortunately, has the right posture and height to take his place.

Shirogane x Mizunashi Akari
(Aria AU)

♫ Sometimes you'll find something precious where you least expect it.
♫ Separation
♫ The autumn wind brings back a familiar face.
♫ It's winter again, but somehow I still feel warm.
♫ To be able to sleep in is a rare treat.
♫ Breakfast at the Aria Company.

Shirogane x Tsubomi Fujiko
(Rapunzel AU)

♫ Shirogane, Shirogane let down your hair.

(Zettai Karen Children AU)

♫ Someone's first kiss gets stolen.
♫ Jealousy is a terrible thing especially when it is paired with insecurity...
♫ Fujiko becomes an octopus when she sleeps.
♫ In which Fujiko is bored and Shirogane is not allowed to read in peace.
♫ So Fujiko heard some interesting things about Shirogane and alcohol...
♫ TEXT
♫ Come to my ~~bed~~ parlour, says the spider to the fly...
♫ It's easy to forget sometimes, that there won't be a happy ending in the end.
♫ Except in the very, very end there will be.

(Zettai Karen Children: Generation Zero AU)

♫ If you've read the Generation Zero chapters then you already know this will be both cute and heartbreaking.

Takasugi x Aqua
(Soul Campaign AU)

♫ 到了最後的最後他們還是不捨得放手 (Until the very end neither of them were willing to let go.)

Tsubomi Fujiko x Oichi
(Zettai Karen Children AU)

♫ Being able to wake up with someone by your side is a kind of happiness.

Pairing
(blah AU)

♫ TEXT

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It was like letting out a breath that you didn't know you were holding, Shirogane supposed, when he felt his eyes slide closed and everything slip away into darkness.

He had lived a good long life, never quite managing to do as Fujiko had asked him to. Not for lack of trying, because there were plenty of people willing to lend him a hand with settling down and creating a family. It had only taken him thirty or so dates that had ended up with nothing but him feeling emptier than ever, until Kaoru and Akira had staged an intervention (in Akira's case, that intervention involved punching. One-trick pony, that kid.) He remembered the red-haired girl whose name he honestly hadn't remembered till that moment, holding onto his hand and crying.

When he first learned that Fujiko had died, he had tried crying over her, but that hadn't helped. Then he had tried running away, with no purpose other than running as far away as possible in the hopes that he could come back to find that it had been a dream. Ryuuko had found him, and had asked nothing of him so Shirogane returned. He had tried hating her after that, wanting to blame her for not choosing to stay, but he couldn't do that. He could never do something like that. So he had tried blaming himself, trying to analyze the situation in a hundred different ways to find out what he had done wrong. Should he have noticed that she had seemed tired? Was it his fault for not noticing that even though he had held and kissed her hundreds of times, that she was dying? Why hadn't he told her that she was important to him?

Akira had punched that out of him.

So he had listened, or so he claimed, to what everyone told him to do. He heard her will, face impassive as he listened to her telling him to find someone new. Make beautiful children. Keep a place in your heart for me.

And he had tried. He had tried so hard. But in that restaurant, as that girl Kaoru held onto his arm, shouting at him that all Fujiko had wanted was for him to be happy, he had broken down and cried for the second time in his life.

Picking up the pieces after that wasn't any easier. But at least he no longer had to do dates.

Shirogane walked along the platform of the shinkansen, his silver-topped cane thudding against the concrete, water-blue eyes calm as he examined the trains. He had taken the shinkansen just a week ago, he remembered.
He wondered what he was doing here now.

Then he caught a glimpse of hair that was a very familiar shade of white and his heart skipped a beat (a small part of him noted that this would have been an extremely bad idea for someone of his age). He ran, heart resuming its beat and actually beating faster as he neared that figure that he was so sure he knew. That small part of him nagged, told him that this was impossible: was he actually running? He was nearing ninety. The run alone would have killed him. And did he lose his cane? Did he remember how much that cost?!

He stopped for only a brief moment to make sure that it was her, breathing laboured as he runs a smooth hand through long silver hair, not even caring that it was probably a mess. Then he is pulling her to him, holding her from the back as tightly as he can. This time, he won't let go of her again.

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People were running here all the time, so Fujiko ignored the sound of running footsteps at first. But they were getting closer and then...stopped. Right beside her, she looked over then, one hand still poised over her selection to see what was going on...

...only to see a face she would know anywhere. Everything about him looked exactly as she remembered, though she doesn't recall ever seeing an expression like that on his face.

She'd laugh at it, except a strange lump seems to have formed in her throat. Her hair was white, she knew, instead of brown because this was the Tsubomi Fujiko he knew and he was the one this part of her was waiting for.

She had known for a while and thought of all the ways she'd tease him and rag on him but when he finally got here all she could do was gape. When he pulled her into an embrace she still couldn't find the words.

Something, did you miss me? I was waiting for you, anything...say something.

She reached up and clutched at him like she never wanted to let go and pressed her face against his neck instead.

If he were able to see the expression on his face, he'd probably have told her that he'd never seen this expression either.

But he had time to do that later. He knew, without a doubt now, that he had all the time in the world and still too many things he had to tell her.

Leaning down, he presses a kiss against the top of her head, his voice rough and trembling as he continues holding her tight, "...missed you."

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The way his voice sounded broke her heart a little. She knew her death would be hard for him to accept, but maybe it was even worse than what she'd thought.

She wasn't going to apologize though. Apologizing would mean she regretted what they had and she couldn't do that.

No matter what happened, she would never regret it.

She laughed instead; the shaky, unsteady, breathless laughter of someone who wasn't entire sure whether to laugh or cry. Her voice sounded about the same.

"When did you get so clingy? Not that I'm complaining or anything..." Quite the opposite, really. The feeling of her arms around him, of her palms on his back and in his hair...it was all so achingly familiar. "Because I missed you too."

The him of seventy years ago would never have been this clingy, that was for certain. But that Shirogane had never thought for one moment he'd have to watch as Fujiko cracked like plaster in her final moments. It didn't matter to him if he was being clingy now, all he wanted to do was hold onto her and never let go.

He releases a shaky breath when he hears what she says, but he's still not ready to stop holding her just yet.

She had a feeling that might have had something to do with this...so was it bad that she kind of like the way he held her?

Still, she couldn't let him keep living in that moment when and after he lost her. She was here now, wasn't she?

She nuzzled his neck a little. "Well?" She demanded teasingly, "Are you going to just stand there all day or are you going to kiss me?"

He makes a sound that is partly a laugh and partly a sigh, because really...she had always been impossible. The moment he'd let her hang around him, he'd probably already lost himself to her.

So he tilts her head up and kisses her deeply, trying to fit seventy years worth of missing her into one kiss.

Fujiko had kissed a lot of people during her lifetime, even more so after she needed to periodically read the state of younger, healthier cells.

Kissing Shirogane, however, had always been different. No other person had ever been able to make her heart race like this. It was such a nostalgic feeling and she hadn't realized just how much she'd missed it until this moment.

She presses as close as she could, returning the kiss only too willingly.

Which still isn't close enough. Shirogane tugs her up until she's pressed flush against him, letting himself get lost in her scent and her taste, filling in what felt like a seventy year blank space.

He only pulls back when the lack of air becomes a problem, resting his forehead against hers as he traces a finger over her cheek, over her jaw, the line of her nose, her mouth. There wasn't a single crack.

Fujiko doesn't move away or squirm when he does that: she can guess why he was doing it (he had always been ridiculously easy to read). While he did that she took the time to really drink in his presences, the feel of his chest rising and falling against hers, his scent, his face the feel of his hair brushing against her hands...it was all so beautifully familiar that she could scarcely believe this was all real.

"Well?" She asked, tilting her head so that their noses brushed, "Is Fujiko as beautiful as you remember~?"

"You're exactly as I remember."

Not crumbling and dying, which was the memory of her that had come to him most often in the first few years following her death. But as that blindingly vibrant, living woman he had only been able to spend such a short time with. That impossible to deal with, idiot of a woman who captured his mind and his heart and never let go for a single second even after she passed away.

His eyes are still as serious as ever while he looks at her, but there's a softness there, and the barest hint of a smile of someone who has found something precious that they thought had been lost.

"You charmer."

The truth was, Fujiko had been called many things by many people. Most of them had been far more eloquent than Shirogane was. Why was it then, that while she was alive she would have happily traded any of those flattering words for just one more minute to spend with him?

Maybe it was because every minute with him had been precious. Every minute was another step closer to the day they would part forever...and she would have done anything to spare him that pain, if just for a little longer.

Anything except, perhaps, the only thing she should have done from the beginning which is staying away. Even now, she can't say for sure if that had been the right choice for him, but it was a little too late to be thinking about that. (She'd done enough of that when she was on her own in this place.)

"Have I told you that I love you?" It was a question she had asked often when she was still alive. She wondered if he remembered?

Shirogane nearly does laugh then when he hears that familiar question. He can feel tears gathering at the corner of his eyes, but he doesn't care. God, he had missed her.

Leaning forward till there is only a breath of space between them, he cups her face in his hands and gives her one of his rare smiles, "Not lately."

"You don't say..." She smiled, though she was getting a little misty eyed herself. She blamed him because she was sure she had been holding herself together very well until he started to get all teary eyed on her.

"Then I guess I'll just have to make up for it." She blinked once before deciding to just close her eyes and lean in so that their lips brushed when she spoke, "I love you. So, very, very much."

He closes the distance between them with a chaste brush of his lips against hers, pulling back just long enough to wipe a tear from her cheek before he angles his head and gives her the kind of kiss she was constantly demanding in the beginning of their relationship. The kind of kiss that would make her heart race and leave her breathless.

Behind them (or maybe somewhere around them, Shirogane wasn't really inclined to pay attention to anything that wasn't Fujiko at the moment) the train's whistle sounds. For a very, very long time.

I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO DEAFEN EVERYONE HERE BEFORE THEY NOTICE.

Fujiko heard the whistle of the train, but she wasn't in any rush to acknowledge it as she returned that kiss with everything she's got. She was not about to be out-done, after all.

She conceded though, that maybe she should acknowledge the person who just spoke. At least, it was clear that Shirogane had managed to leave her breathless with that kiss (it only took him so many years to master that art) when she pulled back.

She turned her head to look at the being in the station employee uniform (which Fujiko suspects might be called DR or something), without letting go of Shirogane.

"Hi~. Are you finally opening another bento place?"

Shirogane turns around as well, arm still looped around Fujiko's waist to look at the newcomer.

....It was a skeleton in a JR employee uniform. Who then opens his mouth and talks.

IS ONE NOT ENOUGH?

"There isn't enough variety." She squirmed a little, finding a position where she could comfortably pillow her head on Shirogane's shoulder and still see Death.

THERE ARE SEASONAL SPECIALS.

Shirogane was never very good at talking to new people (or to people in general), so he stays quiet, opting to watch Death calmly and run his hand through Fujiko's hair.

Fujiko absent-mindedly twirled a lock of Shirogane's hair on her finger.

"They repeat a lot." Especially after being here for as long as she had. "But I guess since we're getting on the next train it won't be my problem any more."

Shirogane doesn't stop her from playing with his hair. It's not like she can tangle it.

YOU ARE?

If a skeleton can look puzzled, it would probably be making a face like Death is making now.

YOU TWO DO NOT NEED MORE TIME?

Because from the way Albert had talked about it, he thought they'd be here longer.

She grinned, moving back just enough to look Shirogane in the face.

"We have all the time we need."

"That's true."

He bumps his forehead against hers, eyes soft.

Death raises a bony hand to his mouth (or more like to his teeth).

AH HEM.

Coughing was difficult when you didn't possess the necessary body parts for it.

"Hm?" Fujiko turned as if she only just remembered Death was there. "Yes~?"

Albert nudges Death pointedly and Death, looking as embarrassed as a skeleton can, turns back to look at the two of them.

THE TRAIN. YOU CAN TAKE IT NOW CAN YOU NOT?

At that, Shirogane turns to look at the train (which is still whistling. But now in short, extremely annoyed bursts.), "Where does that even go?"

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