Written for the
1sentence challenge.
Title: Suoh & Nokoru: Fifty Sentences
Fandom: CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan
Genre/Rating: Various // 12
Characters/Pairings: Suoh Takamura/Nokoru Imonoyama. Contains tiny amounts of Suoh/Nagisa.
Summary: Fifty sentences on Suoh and Nokoru. Written for the
1sentence challenge.
Notes: Based around the manga timeline. CLAMP Gakuen is the property of CLAMP.
This is my first writing venture into a non-HP fandom. ^^; I'm a little nervous, but I hope it turned out OK! ConCrit would be hugely appreciated here :D
01; Walking
Suoh was the faster walker so Nokoru often had to run to catch up with him - something which neither boy seemed to mind.
02; Waltz
“Come on Suoh, dance with me,” offered Nokoru, to which Suoh politely but reluctantly refused.
03; Wishes
Akira wished them happiness for the future, after all the funerals and cremations were over and they could lie back-to-back in peace again.
04; Wonder
“I wonder where Suoh-san went…” pondered Nagisa, and Utako didn’t have the heart to tell her.
05; Worry
Suoh worried too much - he knew he did - but Nokoru had an amazing knack of turning a quiet study session into a wild goose chase across campus, usually searching for a hairclip (or something of similar significance for the female sex).
06; Whimsy
After spending three hours trying to comb tofu out of his hair, Suoh decided that the Imonoyama family were all as mad as each other.
07; Wasteland
“I’ll find you Kaichou; Takamura-senpai,” whispered Akira, as he stepped out into a deserted Tokyo, backpack full and hopes high.
08; Whiskey and Rum
They only ever slept together once - they’d been on the run, it was a seedy hotel and the alcohol was flowing - they had no reason not to.
09; War
“You’re fighting a losing battle, Ijyuin,” commented Suoh, as Akira waved his accountancy papers hopefully at Nokoru.
10; Weddings
It took everything Nokoru had to attend Suoh and Nagisa’s wedding, and even then he couldn’t stop himself shouting ‘I object’ during the Declaration, his own impulses terrifying him.
11; Birthday
Nokoru’s birthday was always special: It was the one day Suoh could kiss him in public without anyone batting an eyelid.
12; Blessing
“The gods have given you the gift of a companion, so you must treasure it for as long as you can,” the Rijichou had insisted, and Nokoru agreed with her.
13; Bias
On bad days, Akira often wondered if his Kaichou would smile at him more if his name was Suoh Takamura.
14; Burning
Suoh knelt there, cradling the hysterical Nokoru in his arms as CLAMP School burned around them.
15; Breathing
The cupboard was too small, the light switch was broken and all they could here was the sound of each other breathing.
16; Breaking
Nagisa was a china doll; she broke the day she looked too hard.
17; Belief
He had complete belief in him: the blond hair, the wicked smile, the polite manner… it made Suoh want to believe in a future after 1999.
18; Balloon
On every calendar, Nokoru marked that certain summer day with a little balloon sketch in the corner.
19; Balcony
Suoh had jumped out of the boardroom window so many times that Nokoru seriously considered having a balcony built there.
20; Bane
Once Nokoru was poisoned; it reacted quickly and a panicking Suoh gave him the kiss of life, something which made the resulting hospital scenes both emotional and slightly awkward.
21; Quiet
It wasn’t until Nokoru graduated into middle school that Suoh realised just how deafening the silence in the boardroom was.
22; Quirks
Suoh’s hand moved automatically over his concealed weapons as he and Nokoru took a mid-afternoon stroll, just in case…
23; Question
“Kaichou, Takamura-senpai, look what I just found in the cupboard: My missing bottles of whipped cream - oh, you both look ill, is everything all right?”
24; Quarrel
A quarrel a day keeps the doctor away, thought Nokoru cheerily, watching Suoh walk towards him with a thick wad of paperwork.
25; Quitting
Nokoru was impossible to quit; he was just too sugary.
26; Jump
Both boys screamed as they threw themselves off the auditorium roof, desperate to escape the assassin sprinting over the roof tiles.
27; Jester
He joked around a lot - mainly about his bodyguard’s girlfriend, which always caused a sad smile to trickle across his face.
28; Jousting
There was always one smartarse kid who cracked a joke about Nokoru’s ‘lance’ at the Imonoyama Jousting Festival, and he was usually seen later in the hospital after a run in with a certain ninja.
29; Jewel
“Your eyes are like diamond that sparkle through the night,” read Nokoru from a small notebook, “and your hair is bluer than the deepest of deep oceans -”
“Kaichou… why are you writing poetry about me - ” started Suoh, thoroughly embarrassed but slightly touched at Nokoru’s latest work-skiving activity.
30; Just
“Just get on with your paperwork, Kaichou,” fumed Suoh, trying to keep his temper under control, “you can play with Ijyuin once the finance sheets are done.”
31; Smirk
Beneath the welcoming smile, Suoh saw something dangerous; something suppressed that could one day drown them both.
32; Sorrow
The wisterias had died, but the warm embrace of his beloved sun led him out of the darkness.
33; Stupidity
Nokoru wondered whether he should tell the girls about him and Suoh, but even if I did, said a wandering thought, they’d still throw themselves at the boardroom door every morning.
34; Serenade
The boardroom radio was playing a slow number and Akira chuckled, watching Kaichou and Takamura-senpai argue over paperwork with only a table stopping them from fulfilling their obvious UST.
35; Sarcasm
Sarcasm did not suit Nokoru; it was too blunt and Suoh had an obvious dislike for it, so both boys left that language aspect alone.
36; Sordid
The thought of cheating on Nagisa made him feel dirty, yet - as the older boy’s lips brushed against his own, he found it impossible to refuse.
37; Soliloquy
Nokoru lay there for hours, watching the mould shrivel on the ceiling and whispering through cracked lips to himself; praying that his partner had somehow escaped from the compound earlier.
38; Sojourn
As the sun set on another summer day, Nokoru glanced over at Suoh and wondered how long this selfish paradise would last.
39; Share
Nagisa knew that she shared Suoh with someone else - she could tell from the look of guilt that flashed through his eyes when they met for lunch.
40; Solitary
“I’m sorry, we couldn’t find him,” said the guardsman, and Nokoru felt like screaming.
41; Nowhere
Seven years had passed but they were still in the same place; standing in the centre of a metropolis forever watching each other in the same room.
42; Neutral
There were some days when Nokoru wished they’d stayed neutral - however, keeping Suoh and Akira alive were a priority of his and that meant supporting the Dragons of Heaven, no matter what the cost.
43; Nuance
Blood made Nokoru sick, but Suoh’s blood made him hysterical.
44; Near
Akira thought it looked odd when one was without the other: like someone had torn them down the middle and crumpled up the right side.
45; Natural
“Loving another man is not natural,” a pushy aristocrat had once told him, but Nokoru refused to believe that the painfully strong feelings he held for Suoh didn’t exist.
46; Horizon
The two boys always sat on the cold roof together to watch the sunrise, sometimes holding hands for curiosity’s sake.
47; Valiant
To thousands of women over the campus, Nokoru was a knight-in-shining-armour; to Suoh, he was a wonderful, lonely slacker.
48; Virtuous
Things are fine during the day; the girls smile and he waves back happily… it’s not until Akira goes home to feed his mums that Nokoru sees his sin stare back at him across the boardroom.
49; Victory
Glimpsing a flash of blond in the audience, Suoh gripped his opponent and executed the perfect tenshi-nage on the poor fellow, letting the nervous rush of adrenaline run through him and aid his performance.
50; Defeat
“Kamui’s dead,” whispered Nokoru, tightening his grip around Suoh; the only warmth left in a cold, dead campus, “we lost, I’m sorry…”