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Kia did this for Yukina, and Jen encouraged me to do it. I did Kougaiji first, because he's the one that's been in my head the most lately. I'm not sure if I'll do my other characters or not.
Prompts borrowed from 1sentence.
#01 - Motion
The sudden eruption of the sutra from Sanzo's shoulders was breathtaking, until the books started raining down on them.
#02 - Cool
Her aura is the complete opposite of his, ice instead of fire, but somehow they meet in the middle and find a balance.
#03 - Young
The thing that surprised him the most was not meeting War Prince Nataku on the island, but that a boy that young had been the one to defeat his father.
#04 - Last
As soon as he woke and found the cave empty, he knew.
#05 - Wrong
Despite his best intentions, the kiss he gave Yukina was not entirely a brotherly kiss.
#06 - Gentle
He would never admit it to anyone, but Yukina brushing his hair brought back memories of his childhood that he hadn't thought of in years.
#07 - One
That one hit to Nii's face with the pillow felt better than a hundred hits with his fist to anyone else.
#08 - Thousand
He doesn't have the blood of a thousand youkai on his hands, just their deaths on his conscience.
#09 - King
Sometimes Kougaiji wonders if there is an alternate world where he was old enough to take the throne when his father died, instead of watching helplessly as Gyokumen Koushu declared herself Empress.
#10 - Learn
"At least she's smiling," he thought, as he picked himself up off the ice for the third time and tried to slide again.
#11 - Blur
The memories of the time he spent under Nii's control are hazy, but he's afraid that someday they might suddenly come into focus.
#12 - Wait
It seems like they are always waiting for something here: waiting for people to arrive or leave, waiting for the madness to start and then waiting for it to stop, and waiting to see if they ever get to go home.
#13 - Change
Kougaiji stared down at his suddenly feminine chest, and for the first time found himself wishing that the island had given him a change of clothing too.
#14 - Command
Despite the absurdity of the idea, Ky had a way of speaking about his convictions that made Kougaiji believe the man might actually be able to impose some kind of order on the island's population.
#15 - Hold
Sometimes it feels like a struggle to hold on to his sanity, especially when the island insists on doing things like switching Sanzo and Hakkai into each other's bodies.
#16 - Need
It only made sense to salvage some of the food and bedding from the honeymoon cave, but taking the extra packages of cigarettes he found behind the sake was an impulse he's not going to try to explain.
#17 - Vision
He had a dream once that everyone he knew had vanished from the island, and as familiar faces disappeared one by one, he wondered if maybe it was a vision of the future instead.
#18 - Attention
There are a lot of questions Kougaiji would like to ask the island, starting with 'Why did you bring us here?', but the last thing he wants is to draw its attention to himself.
#19 - Soul
The next person who tries to tell Yukina that youkai are just evil demons is going to get a punch in the face; it may not disprove their opinion, but it will make Kougaiji feel better.
#20 - Picture
All he has to do is close his eyes and he can see her face, frozen forever in stone.
#21 - Fool
Somehow the fact that the island also seemed to enjoy making Sanzo look ridiculous made it easier to take when it was Kougaiji's turn again.
#22 - Mad
Every time he gives a new arrival the standard information and they get that look like they think he's crazy, Kougaiji remembers the man named Smith who was the first to tell him about the island, and how he probably gave Smith the very same look.
#23 - Child
Kougaiji will never forget the image of the tiny girl, sitting under the tree, looking totally lost.
#24 - Now
Dokugakuji used tell him he was thinking too much, and being on the island does sometimes give him too much time to get lost in thought, but there was nothing like a plague of zombies to make one focus on the here and now.
#25 - Shadow
For years he's been trapped in the darkness of the castle's corridors; now he stands in the sun and feels guilty for his momentary wish to never go back to those shadows.
#26 - Goodbye
Even though he knows it's not their fault, it still hurts that they left without saying goodbye.
#27 - Hide
Kougaiji kept telling himself that Lirin was just playing Hide & Seek, until a week had gone by and he still hadn't found her.
#28 - Fortune
The gems were beautiful, and probably worth a fortune, but to him they were only a reminder of Yukina's sadness.
#29 - Safe
The first night on the island was the first night in months that Kougaiji didn't sleep behind a locked and bolted door; now he doesn't even think about it.
#30 - Ghost
Kougaiji would enjoy talking to Kubota more if it wasn't for the little jolt of panic he gets every time he catches a glimpse of the man.
#31 - Book
Kougaiji wasn't actually reading one of the books hidden in the back of the cave, he was just checking to see if the contents had changed.
#32 - Eye
The reports from their spies had indicated that Cho Hakkai's right eye was false, so the monocle was a bit confusing, to say the least.
#33 - Never
If Kougaiji had ever tried to make a list of ridiculously improbable things that would never, ever happen in a million years, marrying Genjyo Sanzo might have been on it somewhere.
#34 - Sing
As he was drifting into sleep, Kougaiji could have sworn he heard someone singing a lullaby.
#35 - Sudden
The last thought that night that was entirely his own was looking at Dokugakuji and realizing that he was suddenly seeing him in an entirely different way.
#36 - Stop
One of the very few things Kougaiji actually liked about the island was being able to disappear into the trees and just stop for a while.
#37 - Time
Being on the island reminds him a little bit of being sealed in the castle - aware of the passage of time but unable to truly measure it.
#38 - Wash
Kougaiji imagines he can still see Lirin's footprints, even though he knows they've long since been washed away by wind and rain.
#39 - Torn
He missed Yaone for her steadiness, her support, and her friendship, but also because she knew how to sew, and he only had one set of clothing.
#40 - History
Kougaiji was oddly disappointed when he learned that Sha Gojyo was gone from the island; he had hoped for a chance to get to know Dokugakuji's brother.
#41 - Power
The thing Kougaiji hates most about the island is how powerless it makes him feel when he wakes up and finds himself changed.
#42 - Bother
Yukina seemed to think she was a bother to him, but that was the one thing he was certain she could never be.
#43 - God
Kougaiji's relationship with the gods had always been rather antagonistic, so it was hard for him to understand Ky's devotion to his one god.
#44 - Wall
He swam out to the barrier once, just to make sure it was really there.
#45 - Naked
It was sheer luck that Kougaiji showed up at the hot springs just after Sanzo had borrowed a shirt from Hakkai; whether that was good luck or bad luck has yet to be determined.
#46 - Drive
He's going to blame boredom for his sudden urge to ask Hakkai to teach him how to drive.
#47 - Harm
The closest Kougaiji had ever come to completely losing control of his anger was the moment when Homura mentioned that he and Lirin had been together under the influence of the Moe Note.
#48 - Precious
Nii's mocking words are still haunting him, especially now that the list has grown, and he knows he cannot hang onto them all.
#49 - Hunger
Somewhere in the back of his mind, far back where he doesn't have to think about it, Kougaiji knows it probably had very little to do with a hunger for food.
#50 - Believe
He has to believe there is a way to bring her back, because sometimes that's the only thing that keeps him going.
Prompts borrowed from 1sentence.
#01 - Motion
The sudden eruption of the sutra from Sanzo's shoulders was breathtaking, until the books started raining down on them.
#02 - Cool
Her aura is the complete opposite of his, ice instead of fire, but somehow they meet in the middle and find a balance.
#03 - Young
The thing that surprised him the most was not meeting War Prince Nataku on the island, but that a boy that young had been the one to defeat his father.
#04 - Last
As soon as he woke and found the cave empty, he knew.
#05 - Wrong
Despite his best intentions, the kiss he gave Yukina was not entirely a brotherly kiss.
#06 - Gentle
He would never admit it to anyone, but Yukina brushing his hair brought back memories of his childhood that he hadn't thought of in years.
#07 - One
That one hit to Nii's face with the pillow felt better than a hundred hits with his fist to anyone else.
#08 - Thousand
He doesn't have the blood of a thousand youkai on his hands, just their deaths on his conscience.
#09 - King
Sometimes Kougaiji wonders if there is an alternate world where he was old enough to take the throne when his father died, instead of watching helplessly as Gyokumen Koushu declared herself Empress.
#10 - Learn
"At least she's smiling," he thought, as he picked himself up off the ice for the third time and tried to slide again.
#11 - Blur
The memories of the time he spent under Nii's control are hazy, but he's afraid that someday they might suddenly come into focus.
#12 - Wait
It seems like they are always waiting for something here: waiting for people to arrive or leave, waiting for the madness to start and then waiting for it to stop, and waiting to see if they ever get to go home.
#13 - Change
Kougaiji stared down at his suddenly feminine chest, and for the first time found himself wishing that the island had given him a change of clothing too.
#14 - Command
Despite the absurdity of the idea, Ky had a way of speaking about his convictions that made Kougaiji believe the man might actually be able to impose some kind of order on the island's population.
#15 - Hold
Sometimes it feels like a struggle to hold on to his sanity, especially when the island insists on doing things like switching Sanzo and Hakkai into each other's bodies.
#16 - Need
It only made sense to salvage some of the food and bedding from the honeymoon cave, but taking the extra packages of cigarettes he found behind the sake was an impulse he's not going to try to explain.
#17 - Vision
He had a dream once that everyone he knew had vanished from the island, and as familiar faces disappeared one by one, he wondered if maybe it was a vision of the future instead.
#18 - Attention
There are a lot of questions Kougaiji would like to ask the island, starting with 'Why did you bring us here?', but the last thing he wants is to draw its attention to himself.
#19 - Soul
The next person who tries to tell Yukina that youkai are just evil demons is going to get a punch in the face; it may not disprove their opinion, but it will make Kougaiji feel better.
#20 - Picture
All he has to do is close his eyes and he can see her face, frozen forever in stone.
#21 - Fool
Somehow the fact that the island also seemed to enjoy making Sanzo look ridiculous made it easier to take when it was Kougaiji's turn again.
#22 - Mad
Every time he gives a new arrival the standard information and they get that look like they think he's crazy, Kougaiji remembers the man named Smith who was the first to tell him about the island, and how he probably gave Smith the very same look.
#23 - Child
Kougaiji will never forget the image of the tiny girl, sitting under the tree, looking totally lost.
#24 - Now
Dokugakuji used tell him he was thinking too much, and being on the island does sometimes give him too much time to get lost in thought, but there was nothing like a plague of zombies to make one focus on the here and now.
#25 - Shadow
For years he's been trapped in the darkness of the castle's corridors; now he stands in the sun and feels guilty for his momentary wish to never go back to those shadows.
#26 - Goodbye
Even though he knows it's not their fault, it still hurts that they left without saying goodbye.
#27 - Hide
Kougaiji kept telling himself that Lirin was just playing Hide & Seek, until a week had gone by and he still hadn't found her.
#28 - Fortune
The gems were beautiful, and probably worth a fortune, but to him they were only a reminder of Yukina's sadness.
#29 - Safe
The first night on the island was the first night in months that Kougaiji didn't sleep behind a locked and bolted door; now he doesn't even think about it.
#30 - Ghost
Kougaiji would enjoy talking to Kubota more if it wasn't for the little jolt of panic he gets every time he catches a glimpse of the man.
#31 - Book
Kougaiji wasn't actually reading one of the books hidden in the back of the cave, he was just checking to see if the contents had changed.
#32 - Eye
The reports from their spies had indicated that Cho Hakkai's right eye was false, so the monocle was a bit confusing, to say the least.
#33 - Never
If Kougaiji had ever tried to make a list of ridiculously improbable things that would never, ever happen in a million years, marrying Genjyo Sanzo might have been on it somewhere.
#34 - Sing
As he was drifting into sleep, Kougaiji could have sworn he heard someone singing a lullaby.
#35 - Sudden
The last thought that night that was entirely his own was looking at Dokugakuji and realizing that he was suddenly seeing him in an entirely different way.
#36 - Stop
One of the very few things Kougaiji actually liked about the island was being able to disappear into the trees and just stop for a while.
#37 - Time
Being on the island reminds him a little bit of being sealed in the castle - aware of the passage of time but unable to truly measure it.
#38 - Wash
Kougaiji imagines he can still see Lirin's footprints, even though he knows they've long since been washed away by wind and rain.
#39 - Torn
He missed Yaone for her steadiness, her support, and her friendship, but also because she knew how to sew, and he only had one set of clothing.
#40 - History
Kougaiji was oddly disappointed when he learned that Sha Gojyo was gone from the island; he had hoped for a chance to get to know Dokugakuji's brother.
#41 - Power
The thing Kougaiji hates most about the island is how powerless it makes him feel when he wakes up and finds himself changed.
#42 - Bother
Yukina seemed to think she was a bother to him, but that was the one thing he was certain she could never be.
#43 - God
Kougaiji's relationship with the gods had always been rather antagonistic, so it was hard for him to understand Ky's devotion to his one god.
#44 - Wall
He swam out to the barrier once, just to make sure it was really there.
#45 - Naked
It was sheer luck that Kougaiji showed up at the hot springs just after Sanzo had borrowed a shirt from Hakkai; whether that was good luck or bad luck has yet to be determined.
#46 - Drive
He's going to blame boredom for his sudden urge to ask Hakkai to teach him how to drive.
#47 - Harm
The closest Kougaiji had ever come to completely losing control of his anger was the moment when Homura mentioned that he and Lirin had been together under the influence of the Moe Note.
#48 - Precious
Nii's mocking words are still haunting him, especially now that the list has grown, and he knows he cannot hang onto them all.
#49 - Hunger
Somewhere in the back of his mind, far back where he doesn't have to think about it, Kougaiji knows it probably had very little to do with a hunger for food.
#50 - Believe
He has to believe there is a way to bring her back, because sometimes that's the only thing that keeps him going.