For the record, I could totally do without Livejournal's new road-block ads.

I don't normally do Holiday Fiction, but I couldn't resist this... not after shamelessly blackmailing fiction out of amaranthadanae.

Valentine
By Dragon's Daughter
Rated G
Warnings: Naru/Mai. Drabble. Spoilers for the light novels and unmitigated fluff. Un-betaed.

Summary: Valentines day before and after...

( Naru would be the Scrooge of Valentines Day if he could be relied upon to remember it on his own... )

( Notes on the vagarities of the Japanese Flavor of Valentines Day )

Yesterday I apparently had Lady Luck on my side because I've managed to win fic off of most of my friends in bets over competition TV.

Iron Chef America: Duff vs. Symon
I bet on Symon and won a one shot (fandom and theme of my choosing) and a continuation of any drabble I like off of quoth_the_ravyn.

I'll let the fandom discover just what I demanded from her once she's done. Suffice to say I'm a horrible friend and will deserve the beating I'm sure to receive once she gets here on Friday. : D

Pimp Launch My Line Finale

I bet on the designer doing Native Rose because jane_drew_ jumped on Inside Out. amaranthadanae was very good about being stuck with the last one whose name I can't remember, but was basically hoochie gear designed by a professional DJ.

BY A STROKE OF SHEER LUCK I managed to win. How? I don't know. I'd have honestly picked Inside Out, but still. I can't knock her too badly. She won me custom one shots from my friends.

amaranthadanae owes me Ghost Hunt Fic: Naru vs. Valentines day.

jane_drew_ owes me RK fic: Victorian Steampunk.

Mohammad and the Mountain: Mean Girls
By Dragon's Daughter
Rated G
Warnings: Naru/Mai, Spoilers for the light novels, and Naru's not so SECRET IDENTITY. Un-betaed. Mohammad and the Mountain verse.

Summary: Mai’s never had to deal with bullies before, but that doesn’t mean she’s a pushover.

( Mai is really bad at names... )

A/N: I'm basically using M&M to explore a lot of those tropes you see about Japanese school life. Some of them are real (surprisingly so!) and some aren't. They're still fun to poke at. I wonder if Japanese school girls REALLY form fan clubs for cute boys on campus...?

Mohammad and the Mountain: Boys Will Be…
By Dragon's Daughter
Rated G
Warnings: Naru/Mai, Spoilers for the light novels, and Naru's not so SECRET IDENTITY. Un-betaed. Mohammad and the Mountain verse.

Summary: Even Naru can make friends his own age. Honestly, he’s as surprised as anyone else.

( Well, Naru had certainly made a splash on his first day. )

Plus or Minus
By Dragon's Daughter
Rated G
Warnings: Married!Naru/Mai, Smart-mouthed Doctors, and Yasuhara's blood pressure. Un-betaed.

Summary: Plus is yes. Minus is no. So what does a weird little lumpy triangle mean?

( Congratulations. It's an onigiri. )

So, I think they stuffed my new bed with proto-bunnies. This keeps happening. Enjoy! Let me know what you think. Concrit is always appreciated.

Just so you know...? The whole 'I probably won't be posting here for a while' thing was not a desperate bid for attention. >_<

I go and tell the internet that I'm not writing fic so much anymore, then what do I do? I go write some fic.

My brain, you guys. I hope you forgive me for being a crazy, crazy person.

OK, yes. I'm using the RANDOM ATTACK PLOTBUNNY excuse again.

This is an idea that I'm surprised to have not encountered in the fandom already. This isn't to say that it hasn't been done, I just haven't seen it. :P

Given my... track record with chaptered fics, I'm going to have to chuck that idea out the window. What I'm probably going to do with this one is a series of one shots set in a particular vein. I got the idea from maldoror_gw's Naruto fic Diplomatic Relations, which is basically a set of vignettes that follow Lee after he's been detatched to Suna as a Military Aide at Gaara's request. (Warning: Gaara/Lee slash. Probably NSFW, but very well written. Hands down the best Gaara characterization I've ever seen.)

Mohammad and the Mountain

By Dragon's Daughter
Rated G
Warnings: Naru/Mai, Spoilers for the light novels, and Naru's not so SECRET IDENTITY. Un-betaed.

Summary: Lately Naru's father has gained new appreciation for the High School as a method to socialize adolescents.

( Read more... )

( Translations and notations for those interested )

Freud
By Dragon's Daughter
Rated G
Warnings: Naru/Mai, Spoilers for the light novels, and Naru's own personal traumas. Un-betaed.

Summary: Sometimes popular psychology is popular for a reason.

(  Naru has only ever truly feared Mai once... )

This drabble was born of a conversation between amaranthadanae and myself some long months ago after a Ghost Hunt Marathon when one of us realized that Modoka and Mai characters had a lot in common and that the major difference between them was about fifteen years.

My muse lately, man...

Here are some drabbles from the Ghost Hunt universe that I typed out really quick over my lunch break.

If you haven't seen Ghost Hunt, you should! It's on Anime Season. Naru takes the 'Dark Haired and Snarky' Anime hero trope and makes it hide in shame.

Meet Me Halfway
By Dragon's Daughter
Rated G
Warnings: Naru/Mai, Cohabitation, and Naru's attitude. Un-betaed.

Summary: Naru's Motto: "Better to ask for forgiviness rather than for permission."

( Mai stared at her closet... )


Analogy
By Dragon's Daughter
Rated PG-13
Warnings: Naru/Mai, Relationship, Mai's brain. Un-betaed.

Summary: Mai doesn't tend to think of Naru as a sexual creature.

( Naru never did anything the way Mai expected him to... )


These two have been in my head since yesterday. Oi vey. C&C is always adored!

Right after I post and say I'm not going to post here for a while, what happens?

I wrote a drabble.

The muse is a FICKLE FICKLE BEAST. :D

Here ya go!

Kenjutsu Komachi

By: Dragon’s Daughter

Summary: Despite the way the Kenshin-gumi teases her, Kaoru really didn’t make up that ‘Kenjutsu Komachi’ stuff. Even as the Rurouni, Kenshin doesn’t need help running off a herd of fanboys.

Warnings: Vaguely sadistic Rurouni. Un-betaed.

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AN: I really don’t know anything about kendo competitions in the Meiji era and I couldn’t find anything on the net. Please forgive my ignorance!
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( Of all the things Kenshin has to deal with in a day... )

So, it's been an AWFULLY LONG TIME since I've updated this journal. I've been kind of caught in this weird situation of having two journals, but I really suck at keeping them seperate. So I'm making it official: this journal will be for finished fiction only. All my artwork and regular posting will be found at guardantares. That was my first journal and does contain a bunch of my adolescent whinging. I've finally gotten over being embarrassed that it exists.

I'll be keeping this journal open, but will only post finished fiction. Drabbles, works in progress, and plotbunnies will pretty much live over at guardantares. However, I'll be honest. I have not been writing a lot recently so it might be a while before you see anything here. Then again, I'm a contrary beast so there might be something here in a few weeks. If anyone is still watching this journal, I hope you'll continue to be patient... and maybe friend me over at guardantares. :D

I hope y'all had an awesome holiday and that only good things find you in the New Year!

Ja ne!

-Dragonsdaughter

Dearest quoth_the_ravyn and davyn,

On this most special of days, I just want to tell you something from the heart...



Love,

Me

P.S.

 

What I am about to describe is probably someone’s nightmare.

 

It probably says something about me that it only registered as a minor annoyance.

 

So, I was asleep. It was 4 am or something equally awful like that. Then I woke up to something crawling on me. Now, it was a weight and a type of crawling that I registered immediately, even in sleepy woken-up-suddenly-ogre-Rachael mode.

 

(Anyone who has seen me get up without the appropriate 20 minute mental surfacing routine knows what I’m talking about.)

 

There was a rat on me.

 

Well, one of my rats to be specific.

 

I remember when Pie was the quiet rat who didn’t LIKE people and never wanted to play. I remember when she DIDN’T bust out of her cage in the middle of the night to go play on the bed.

 

Logically, I know this means she must be a happier rat, but still!!!!

Title: Jerkbenders

Summary: There are somethings you just don't tell Sokka.

Rating: GEN (no pairings unless you count Aang/Zuko friendship... sort of.)

I can impagine a lot of you Doomians will be pleased to see that.

Hey there!

Pardon the long silence, I've been a little busy with this.



Please drop on by, leave a comment, or just boost the pageviews!!

Gacked from evilpuppy

"Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favorite icon of yours.Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon."

I doubt I'm the first.

Anyway, due to FF.net's recent hiccups with the Author Alert System, I've decided to start a Yahoo Group and keep my fiction there. It will also let me send out alerts whenever (or however sparingly), I update.

The link can be found here.

It just seems to me like FF.net has gone from passingly fair, to bad, to worse in the last couple of years. The God Mods' habit of yanking fics with no warning has really got me worried. Those of you in the know are all too aware of my recent computer problems and the fact that I keep losing my collection of fiction (only one of the reasons it takes me forever and a year to update >_<). A few of those fics only live on at FF.net and I'm always worried that one day some kid will report me for some perceived slight and they'll get deleted, never to be seen again. So I've undertaken the task of backing them ALL up on the Yahoo Gorup.

Also, just for giggles, I've put up a bunch of my numerous WIPs from various fandoms to preserve them from my black thumb when it comes to computers. If you're interested, then by all means drop by and have a read. Right now the contents of the group is pretty much all the stuff I have on my work computer. I'm collecting all my fiction from where it's been backed up with Ravyn and JaneDrew, as well as various other places. This is a bit of an undertaking because at last tally I had at least 44 Rurouni Kenshin fics alone. Most of them have been relegated to the Plot Hutch since I don't have more than a nebulous idea of what's going on with them. The ones that I have Actual Plans for will go in the WIP folder. The stuff that is actualyl being actively updated will be in the Honest To God Genre Files (Rurouni Kenshin, Harry Potter, xxxHOLiC, etc. etc. ad nauseum)

So please, drop by, join and I'll send around e-mails when there's been a new update!