Meme Time

[effex]

Internet, I am bored. So, a meme! Two memes, even! Ganked from poisonivory.

1: Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really!

2: Comment with two characters I'm familiar with (like these or these, and I'll tell you how they first kissed.

Comments

[onkoona]

Okay, I'll play.

1. what's your top five yaoi couples that have next to none following at the moment?

2. Fujiwara no Sai (in his ghost form) & Shindou Hikaru

waiting with baited breath!

This is longer than it was supposed to be.

[effex]

1) Hmm... assuming we're going with yaoi = two male manga/anime characters, I'd say Duo/Wufei (Gundam Wing), Gaara/Lee (Naruto), Ranma/Ryoga (Ranma 1/2), Luffy/Usopp (One Piece) and Ikakku/Yumichika (Bleach) <3

2) I can't see it happening before volume 15 (and you've taken away time travel and reincarnation, curses!), so:

For years, Hikaru thinks that Sai was the only ghost he'd ever see - that Sai, or their relationship, was special and non-repeatable. Then Kuwabara Honinbo dies and shows up at the Nihon ki-in the next day anyway, waving when he realizes Hikaru can see him.

There are more after that - first at the Nihon ki-in, then the Go salons, then the shrines and the temples and the streets until they're everywhere (Hikaru adjusts - he's good at that). None of them are Sai.

He takes a month off to go looking, then two, and finally finds him south of Kyoto in the waters of the Kamo-gawa. Sai looks asleep, floating gently just under the surface, and for a moment Hikaru considers leaving him to it. A thousand years is a long time to go without dreaming.

But Hikaru's always been a little selfish when it comes to Sai. He ducks his head under the water, fingers tracing a jaw he can barely feel, and kisses him awake.

Re: This is longer than it was supposed to be.

[onkoona]

Ahw, that's so sweet, thanks!!!
Well, I wasn't about to make it too easy!
When can we read the whole thing on FF.net? *wags tail excitedly*

Re: This is longer than it was supposed to be.

[effex]

Heh. A long while, if it happens at all - I've got a list. And I use the Archive of Our Own, so that's where it'd eventually end up.