Fight Oh!: The Gokusen Drabble Challenge
CappuccettoRosso
Beta: None
Fandom: Gokusen
Universe: Manga
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): None
Genre(s): Friendship / General
Disclaimer: Gokusen is the intellectual property of Kozueko Morimoto, and its publisher, Shueisha. I am only borrowing its characters without prior authorization for my own amusement. No profit is being made in the publishing of this story.
Author's Note: Okay, so basically, I joined the livejournal community, 31_days, sometime last year and didn't do anything. I know, my bad. Finally, I decided, enough was enough and started to actually participate. This is the result!
Every day is a different prompt, a different drabble I'm going to write. These are not full length stories. They are drabbles. Some stories are manga-based, others are based on the dramas. They are not interconnected, but stand-alone stories. Also, the ratings differ from chapter to chapter: from PG to R. They will be marked accordingly, as well as any appropriate warnings, so please, keep this in mind. I am not going to update daily. More than likely, I am going to update once a week.
If you have any questions, then please feel free to send me a message!
Here we go! Fight-Oh! Oh!
Summary: Minami has a question
April 1: Chapter Title: Fear-less
Theme: When I want to run away.
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"Aren't you afraid?"
Sawada blinked up at him. "Minami, you ain't that ugly."
Minami sputtered. "What...! No, that's not...! Come on!" He turned and punched Uchi and Noda when they started to laugh. "Shut up."
Sawada sat up with a groan. He knuckled his eyes and yawned. Sitting under the sun always made him sleepy."What the hell are you talking about?" Sawada rolled his right shoulder, feeling the muscles pull unpleasantly.
Minami huffed. "Back there. Weren't you afraid?"
Sawada stopped and eyed Minami. It took a moment to figure out what Minami was talking about. "Not really. I mean..." He frowned.
"We were outnumbered," Minami said, and frowned down at his hands. "I thought we were done for, especially when Kimbara brought reinforcements." He swallowed roughly. He looked up at Sawada with a serious look. "You kept fighting. It didn't matter that we were gonna lose. You didn't quit or run away. You just..."
Minami hesitated and then added: "I would have skipped the moment the others came." He flushed and looked away.
"And that," Noda began, smirking at Minami; "is the difference between you and Sawada. He's not easily intimidated."
Minami glared at him but kept silent. Sawada scratched his cheek. "Why didn't you?"
Minami blinked at him. "What?"
"Why didn't you, run away I mean?" Sawada asked again. "No one would have stopped you."
Minami pursed his lips. "Because...because you were there. And I couldn't just leave."
Sawada sighed and laid back down. "Well, there's your answer."
"I don't get it."
Sawada closed his eyes. "All of you guys could have bailed and left me to Kimbara and his goons. They were after me after all. But you guys stuck to my ass and well, you know the rest."
"We can't let you have all the fun," Kuma mumbled.
Sawada opened one eye and peered up at Minami. "We're friends so, you know, fuck you very much."
Minami looked at him and then laughed. "Yeah, okay. I get it."
They fell silent until:
"Were you really gonna piss yourself, Minami?" Uchi asked with a shit eating grin. "You're such a coward."
Uchi squeaked when Minami lunged at him.
"I'll show you who's a coward!"