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𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐧…!

↬ 🎂 Yoshino regrets promising Yoritomo-sama everything he wants for his birthday.

Minamoto no Yoritomo x Main Character (Yoshino) • rating: G • tags: Fluff; Teasing; Kissing; Food • wordcount: 1, 366 • masterlist

a/n: Many, many thanks to @ga-yuu whose translations made this fic possible! 🙇🏻‍♀️ I hope it could be to your liking! I've loved Yori silently for almost four years now, and finally decided to express that love in a lil story... and I enjoyed every second of that 😭❤ Special tag for @the-bird-and-the-flute because it's her boy!!

A moment of weakness can cost you an eternity of regret, sometimes. If Yoshino leaves this room with anything else than a beet red face, it would be the moral of the story.

Promising Yoritomo everything he wants for his birthday was merely that, a moment of weakness. A seiitaishogun like him, what exactly does he not have, that she could give him? Those thoughts are some troublesome pests to have your head swamped with, when said seiitaishogun's birthday is quickly approaching… Naturally, when he cockily asked Yoshino what is she going to do for his birthday, accompanied by a toe-curling kiss to distract, without thinking, she said everything.

Now, the moment of the truth has come, and Yoshino takes her seat in front of a smirking Yoritomo in all his birthday glory. He must be enjoying this.

"What are you waiting for? I thought you'd begin by greeting me for my birthday."

Except, I already did. First thing in the morning. Yoshino doesn't say any of this out loud, but an incisive man like Yoritomo can read one's gaze just fine, there's no need for spoken words.

"Happy Birthday, Yoritomo-sama. May you stay healthy and bring glory to the shogunate in the following year, too."

Yoritomo frowns, visibly dissatisfied with Yoshino's overly formal extending of wishes.

"Like a lover would, Yoshino."

Looking down only to quickly raise her head again, Yoshino looks him in the eye and a bright smile stretches out across her mouth. It's like flowers are blooming around her.

"Happy Birthday, dear! It's a pleasure spending another birthday with you, please be happy by my side this year, too! Can I hug you?"

"Hooh…" Despite his prolonged humming, Yoritomo doesn't necessarily see fakeness in her eyes, as he knows for a fact she genuinely thinks all of this… besides, he's won over by the initiation of physical touch that was cleverly added at the end. A theatrical sigh and arms opened to invite her for a hug, he barely hides his satisfaction.

"See, it wasn't so hard. If this is troubling you, how are you going to give me the rest of what I want for my birthday?"

Already returning the warm embrace, Yoshino shudders. "The rest…?"

"Well, you promised me everything that I wish for, isn't that right? We shouldn't waste any more time. Let's see…"

The light pats that he gives her are working wonders about putting her at ease, and how much easier this could be if only he didn't abuse his powers and suddenly decided he wished to cuddle the day away…! Does that not sound perfect to him?! Yoshino finds it hard to understand him sometimes.

"Why don't you go fetch me your hairbrush? It's been awhile since I last brushed your hair. Ah, and please bring your other hair accessories too, while at it."

The comforting embrace is gone. Yoritomo sits contently, resting his chin on a hand propped on his knee until the accessory box and the brush are settled down before him. He shifts a bit and pats the mat in front of him, beckoning her to take a seat.

Yoshino complies with his unspoken request and sits down, fate foreknown. She undoes her hair tie to make it easier for her lord, and his fingers come in contact with her hair just a second later.

It feels… very good. Just as it always does: Yoritomo is gentle and precise while handling her hair, careful not to pull too hard and managing easily with the knots he encounters.

His chill fingers grazing the tips of her ears make her jump a little, and she earns a chuckle for it.

"Stay still now."

Easier said than done. Especially when the contents of the box come in action, as she is left to wonder just what is his wonder of a mind up to, as his hands are busy skillfully separating and braiding sections of her grayish-brown hair, then pinning them up to the upper back side of her head. It seems like a ribbon or two are thrown in the mix, too.

"All done. You might turn to the mirror now."

Guided by his large hands on her shoulders, Yoshino turns in the direction of the mirror without standing up… only to take in the hairstyle Yoritomo did for her. He left a large section of her hair down, but the rest he pinned up on two braid loops, secured with ribbons.

"It's… It's…"

"It's very cute. Such a great look on you."

Her face is heating up. Walking around in the palace with this - irrefutably, cute - hairstyle, would be…

"Oh and you're not taking it off until I tell you. I want to look at you more."

Yes, just as expected.

The next thing he asks is to be hand-fed sweets, and Yoshino's fingers tremble as his warm lips and tongue come in contact with them. Once that's done, he states that he slept unwell the previous night, demanding a bit of massage on his shoulders. Soon after, he concludes that praise is well in order, instructing Yoshino to bow down her head for pats, like a puppy. It's embarrassing to no end, and her face hasn't lost its flushed red color for a mere second through all of this.

"Hmm… I keep thinking, Yoshino, your birthday wish wasn't half bad, but weren't you a bit reserved with it?"

Yoritomo moves his hand from the top of her head to under her chin, tipping it and thus making her look at him again. When she does, she discovers his other hand pointing a finger to his own cheek. He wants a kiss.

Crawling yet closer to the exacting shogun, Yoshino squeezes her eyes shut and launches herself puckered-lips-first at Yoritomo's cheek.

Chu!

Thankfully, her kiss lands on its intended place and not directly on his lips, as he'd easily manipulated the situation by a simple shift of his face.

"Yoshinoo… the other cheek, too."

Chu!

As a smooch blooms on the other side of his face too, Yoritomo's smile grows wider. It looks pretty self-satisfactory, but Yoshino is far from the thought he's done with her. In fact, she has an idea of what is going to follow.

Unexpectedly, Yoritomo sighs and removes his hands from her waist as a signal for her to get up.

"As sweet as our time is together, I should go."

Duty calls, and Yoshino finds herself making a genuinely surprised noise despite her own wishes for this moment to eventually come, just awhile ago. What she thought would be her sweet salvation is now leaving her disappointed. Is it because she thought Yoritomo would want her to…?

"Hmm? What's on your mind?"

"Yoritomo-sama…"

Balling her hands into fists, Yoshino powers up with the thought of giving him something he truly wishes for, for this birthday - not just a kiss he normally deserves on any other day for simply being her loving partner, but rather, the boldness he wants to see from her. So pulling him in by his clothes, she clashes their lips together, poking out her tongue to seek permission for an entrance - which he quickly grants. She kisses him with growing confidence, sweetly but passionately, not minding the small sounds that inevitably fall from her lips. She doesn't let go until she's well breathless and he - thoroughly kissed.

Opening his eyes to look at him, she sees… a familiar sadistic smirk and sparkling light-blue eyes.

"Yoshinooo… Who thought you could be so naughty? And here I thought I had to stop playing with you. Ha! Very well then, I will be more demanding, since you're gladly giving me even more than I asked for."

Oh no. Oh no, no, no, this was simply meant to keep him well-satisfied for the rest of the day, but this…!

"I'll be off now, a birthday is no excuse to be slacking off on work. But once the evening comes…"

Yoritomo trails a single finger on Yoshino's rosy left cheek, making her instinctively face away so he could whisper in her ear.

"Once the evening comes, I'll be taking the rest of that everything that you promised to give me."

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[randonauticrap]

Cozytober 2023 (aka, my 250 Followers Celebration!)

I'm celebrating 250 followers!! I'm so thankful to all of you who have followed me and interacted with my posts and fics, and to thank you all, I'm combining my annual Cozytober Writing Challenge with my Follower Celebration!

All info and Rules are listed below! This writing challenge is open to everyone, and there's a little something to scratch every itch.

Info:

Dates: October 1st - October 31st Masterlist Posting: November 3rd

I decided to do something a little different this year, so all of the prompts for this event are songs! I handpicked this list from my favorites; some are upbeat and fun, others are a little more somber, and many of them evoke that hazy, haunting mood of the autumn season. I encourage you to listen to them, but it's not a requirement! I will have a link to the lyrics of each song that you are free to use at your leasure.

This challenge is open to Fluff, Slice of Life, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, and Smut for all Ikemen Games, including Ikemen Prince, Ikemen Sengoku, Ikemen Vampire, Ikemen Villains, Ikemen Revolution, and Ikemen Genjiden!

Rules:

NO minors or ageless blogs are allowed to post smut for this challenge.

If you are an ageless blog and you post Smut for this challenge, you will get a single DM warning and the 48 hours following to post your age on your blog, or you will be blocked from my blog. If you are a minor and you post smut for this challenge, you will be blocked on sight. I welcome ageless blogs or minors to write Fluff, Slice of Life, Angst, or Hurt/Comfort!

Please label your fic with the suitor(s) you are using and which ikemen game they come from!

Please also label which genre your fic falls under (ie., Fluff, angst, hurt/comfort/slice of life, smut) and any appropriate content warnings

You can use as many or as few lyrics as you want from a song to use as inspiration! You can also combine songs if you're feeling fancy. Just make sure to list the titles of the song(s), as well as the lyric(s) you're using in your fic in the description.

Example:

Prompt - No. 11: "Love Like Ghosts" Lyric - "Yes I know that love is like ghosts, only few have seen it but everybody talks"

Please use the tag #Cozytober Follower Celebration on your fics so that I can find and reblog them! Please also tag my blog @randonauticrap to make it even easier for me to locate them and add them to the Masterlist! If I haven't reblogged your fic by the end date of the challenge, on October 31st 2023, it probably means I have missed it, so please DM me with a link to your fic and I will reblog. Similarly, if you do not see your fic on the Masterlist when it is posted on November 3rd, please DM me with a link to your fic and I will update the masterlist accordingly.

The last date I will add new fics to the Masterlist is November 15th, so please let me know ASAP if your fic isn't there!

Song & Lyric Links:

She Lit a Fire - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

Welcome Home - Radical Face (Video/Lyrics)

The Yawning Grave - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

The Dead Waltz - Radical Face (Video/Lyrics)

The World Ender - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

Ghost Towns - Radical Face (Video/Lyrics)

Way Out There - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

Always Gold - Radical Face (Video/Lyrics)

Fool For Love - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

Lonesome Dreams - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

Love Like Ghosts - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

Cursed - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

In the Wind - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

The Night We Met - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

Meet Me in the Woods - Lord Huron (Video/Lyrics)

Thank you all again for getting me to 250 followers here on tumblr in the Ikemen Fandom!! I hope you have fun with this challenge, and I CANNOT wait to see your wonderful works! If you have any questions, feel free to pop in my DMs and ask.

Much love and coziness to you!

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[arsnovacadenza]

FANFIC MASTERLIST

ALSO AVAILABLE ON My Writing Blog, AO3 AND WATTPAD

Ikemen Vampire

Jean x Napoleon

A Monster From Paris (Monsterverse!AU)

and so in my own tears I’m gonna drown

Courting with a Cat

Hope is a Dish too Soon Finished (previously Through His Stomach)

“I could use something to wake me up”  (part of Napoleon Birthday Prompt 2020)

if you hate the sunlight, come meet me in the dark

Ikevam 2020 Election Previews:

Jean’s Side

Napoleon’s Side

Punch-Drunk Love

quietly invite me to where you are

Sacred Monsters

Stilts (ft. Napoleon & Isaac)

Sway (Part I, tbc)

Two Hares Running Side by Side (Wartime AU) Part I, Part II, Part III

Une journée des plus joyeuses 

Un Paradis Perdu (Napoleon route canon divergence)

you heard that screaming shout in your mind

Modern AU (various pairings)

Tastes Like Diabetes (Napoleon & Isaac ft. jeanpoleon )

Isaac and his Lunch (jeanpoleon, Sebastian x mc, and third-wheeling Isaac)

Ficlets

Hurt/Comfort request from ginshoujo 

Napo Route AU Fluff

Rain

that special feeling (Unappreciated Character Month 2020)

when the light gets into your heart, baby

Rated M

Afterglow

Japonesque drabble

Summer Sparks

Toward the Gate of Stars

At your Discretion (Napoleon x Fem!Jean request from Anon) 

NSFW longfic Idea (feel free if you’re interested in writing this one!)

Napoleon x Wellington

Standoff (Post-Apocalypse AU)

Angsty fic request from nuclearwinterexe (feat. Napoleon x Josephine)

Isaac x Mozart

Conversation Over (Modern AU)

Stolen Batteries (Modern AU)

Good in Red (Gakuen AU)

Rated M

Easy Breezy

Leonardo x Comte

Buon Giorno (ficlet)

Some Like it that Way 

Like the Real Seal

Only if you Hurry (hurt/comfort request from anonymous)

Ficlet:

If Leocomte had a computer

Theodorus x Arthur

Hurt/Comfort fic request from delicateikemenmemes 

Reader Inserts

Goldfish Fireworks (Dazai x Reader)

General (Individual Characters/non-slash)

Home (Napoleon-centric with various characters)

In the entire world, a sound only I could hear (Napoleon & Sebastian)

Jean in the Dark (part of Unappreciated Character Month 2020)

Ikemen Sengoku

Nobunaga x Kichou

Ficlets

All’s Well Ends Well (modern AU with OC)

Drinking Habits (modern AU)

Kichou’s snake pet (modern AU)

Untitled shorts (tag)

Wine

Rated T

A Court of Dragons and Fallen Angels (Demon AU, feat. Mitsuhide x Reader)

Rated M

birds of a feather

Make it Right, Till I Die

Stitches

Masamune x Mitsuhide

Ficlets:

Antebellum

Genpei War (Ikegen, Birushana Senki, historical)

Yoshitsune x Benkei

Ikegen ficlet (Rated T)

In Sickness and in Health (Rated G, Modern AU)

Morning After (Rated T, Ikegen-centric)

Pirate!Benkei (Rated T)

Yoshitsune x Shizuka

Male!Shizuka x Fem!Yoshitsune (Rated T)

Yoshitsune x Yoritomo

Crossdressing Yoshitsune (Rated T)

Mea Maxima Culpa (Rated T with mentions of suicide)

No Pairing (Mostly Rated G or T):

Yoritomo raises Yoshitsune

#ikemen sengoku #ikemen vampire #ikemen genjiden #ganpei war fanfic

[ga-yuu]

So the thing is I'm kinda of bored these days, so I'm planning on translating some of the collection event stories of ikegen. If anyone is actually interested in reading them you can tell me which character's story you want me to translate (except for Yoritomo and Tamamo because I couldn't make it upto their story). You can tell me which character you want and I will choose one nice story to translate from the ones I already have.(it's completely random, and don't worry most of them are nice.)

I always wanted to translate collection event story but I'm was lazy. You can tell me if you're interested in reading fluff content.

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[arsnovacadenza]

prompt: Yoshitsune wins AU (and YoshiBen celebrate their victory together)

Prompt: Victory, fluff, canon divergence

Note: this is Ikegen-centric. So, no Shizuka and co. here

Warnings: Suggested haracter death

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MORNING AFTER

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They did it.

They escaped Yoritomo and his army. And what a great price they had to pay.

"Leave," Kurama ordered. "Take the boy with you and don't come back. Let him live as he deserves. Away from his brother's shadow, his cronies, and sever his ties from the Minamoto."

"At the cost of my life," Benkei assured the old crow. After all, Yoichi had...

"Even at the cost of your life." Kurama nodded.

And so they arrived on unfamiliar shores, led by a young barbarian whose people he and Yoshitsune encountered a few years back. He remembered him —a young and captivating nobleman who cared little about their curious appearance and mannerisms —and his burly retainer, who scared even their fiercest men.

"Go easy on them, Benkei," Yoshitsune took him aside the first night they spent in a village. "You look like you intend to scare them away."

"That's not—" the warrior monk sighed. "We don't even speak their language, Yoshitsune. Who knows won't mean any harm?"

It was the first time Benkei saw Yoshitsune truly smile in months. Maybe years. It was a regretful one, but a smile nonetheless.

"I'm sorry," he leaned against Benkei's big, sturdy am. "Dragged you all over the way here and now...."

The warrior monk chuckled and brushed stray lavender bangs away.

"Don't be." He flashed a grin. "I signed up for this the day I swore fealty to you on Gojo Bridge."

But the road ahead was long and arduous. It took a year for the two to get the hang of settling in their hut, fraternizing with the locals, and fishing and gathering herbs and nuts and berries.

(And then, there was the topic of hunting. In the end, Yoshitsune volunteered to go instead of Benkei, who paled at the thought of having to eat deer meat and, heaven forbid, bears.

"Just like you pray to your golden statues," he said one day out of the blue while skinning a fat chipmunk, the firelight dancing across his pale cheeks. "This too is an act of giving and taking between them and their gods."

Benkei simply nodded and sipped his sake without replying.)

.

The sun had already risen when Benkei returned inside their hut, his charge sleeping soundly underneath their old robes, worn. It was a reminder of their habits back in Kamakura and Heian-Kyo, Benkei supposed.

And what better way to start the day than seeing Yoshitsune huddled under his robe, drowning himself in Benkei's scent? It took all Benkei's strength not to wake him and share more of his scent.

"Yoshitsune," he called softly, "The sun's up. Time for breakfast."

Like a dormouse reluctantly woken from its hibernation, Yoshitsune's nose poked out of the covers. His breath rolled into puffs of white mist, a sweep of dusted pink across snowy cheeks.

" -not want." He mumbled sleepily. " 's too cold."

Benkei had to think twice, thrice, before joining his lord under the covers and keeping him warm back in Kamakura. But never here, where no ears listened in from behind walls and spies waited behind sliding doors.

With a mischievous smile, he invited himself under the robe and slid against the warlord's lithe frame. Even with his daily hunts and renewed diet, Yoshitsune never did gather enough muscle for his body to change.

A muscular arm snaked across his waist, and Yoshitsune laid a freezing hand over the tanned skin, squeezing it.

"Geez, you're dangerously cold," Benkei whispered against Yoshitsune's nape, brushing his nose against a scarring bite mark. "Add more layers. Use the bearskin Granny gave us last week. Don't let yourself freeze to death." He planted his lips over reddened skin. "I'll make you the fish soup you love so much."

A groan, and suddenly Yoshitsune was twisting and turning his body to meet Benkei's gaze.

"And?" he stared into golden eyes with sleepy heather eyes. "You gonna leave me here again?"

Never.

That's what he vowed to the crow tengu back in Hiraizumi. To Yoshitsune, he would no longer offer his aid in battle, a hollow promise for a sure victory, triumph over his elder brother and his encroaching forces. Not even revenge for their fallen comrades.

Yoshitsune deserved to live at all costs, even if it meant ripping him away from the battlefield he had known for so long. The warlord was no more, sunken underneath the waves that would bring them back to Mutsu.

"Not a chance," Benkei breathed into lavender hair. "You can come with me later, when and if you're feeling up to it."

"And if I say no?"

A slender leg hooked Benkei's own. Gods, Yoshitsune felt warmer now against his chest.

"I suppose," Benkei grinned. "We can hold off the fishing trip for much, much later."

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"Let's make a promise, right here and now."

"Huh?"

Before he could protest, Yoshitsune was already snatching the saucer away from his hand and pouring their last jug of sake.

"What I'm trying to say is," the fallen hero looked at him with determined eyes. "Let's sever the ties between master and servant. You and I will become equals. That is the only way I can repay you for all these years."

Benkei was slack-jawed, uncomprehending.

"But that doesn't mean you're free to run away from me. You've doomed yourself to live with me, away from the comforts of our homeland, of our kinsmen. And I have no other to share my life with, now."

"My Lord—"

"That is to say, this is no brotherhood. I won't rest easy imagining a future where you'll meet a woman from the villages and start a family with her away from me. I don't wish for a single day without you by my side. From henceforth, you'll be my only reminder of home—"

"Really, you talk too much."

Yoshitsune froze, and Benkei cursed his own straightforwardness. Here Yoshitsune was, crafting a string of words he'd never utter in the company of others and his uncouth mouth had to cut him off. What companion he was.

He better say something or Yoshitsune would give up.

"So," he cleared his throat. "Do we need to prepare a banquet for this? Or should I look for a wedding kimono? I don't think we can get them from—"

Yoshitsune's toothless glare silenced him.

"Benkei, my Benkei," the smaller man cupped his cheek. "Just share a cup with me, and we can skip to the wedding night. You'd want that, wouldn't you?"

"Can't exactly say no to that."

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What was a victory? Was it overcoming a battle only to dread the next, and possibly oncoming ones? Was it stealing territory after territory to prove their point to Yoritomo?

Was there even a future with Lord Kamakura's infinite wings covering the entire land, sky, and sea? Where will Yoshitsune's fate lead, if not back into his palm?

It hurt Benkei to take him away from Yamato soil —their comrades' graves and the capital they've painstakingly won for the Genji. Yoshitsune would've gone on as a living corpse, blinded by his desire for war against his fickle clan. For their rejection of him and abject fear at the thought of him flourishing. To Benkei, who was closer to Yoshitsune than his own kin, they were no family.

But here in the Ainu woods, they are free. He was chained to Yoshitsune as Yoshitsune was to him. Without Yoshitsune, freedom meant nothing.

And was there any victory sweeter than this?

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Played a bit with the prompt after catching up with Golden Kamuy where I got my Ainu references from. But let me know if you want another scenario! I'm so happy that someone's finally suggesting that I write for Yoshiben so :)))))

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