After ff.net implemented the new rules [most of which I disagree with], I fled to mourn for a while, and returned to realise that I'd missed the back-up-your-now-illegal-fics-you-felon date [which I'd missed in my distress] by an hour. Tough. ^^;; But after a little lamenting over how my newest fic will never see the light of day [being rps. eh.], I decided to, a couple of weeks after finally finishing Deus Misereateur, upload all the [non-NC17 ^^;;] Slam Dunk fics I never got round to uploading over these two years. Most of these are FujiHana, posted at the SDBC [http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/13053] first, and quite old. Please bear with me. ^^; Yoroshiku na! Also, I'll have to thank all the people who reviewed 'Hakanaki Hibi To...' [http://fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=416078] so nicely! Though I think it's quite shoddily written now that I look back on it, it'll always be a very important work to me, and to see people actually like it is very moving. Thank you very much! If anyone actually likes FujimaxHanagata, I also happen to be the SDBC-endorsed FujiHana no Miko, and run a FujiHana shrine [http://fujihana.cjb.net] with the rest of my FujiHana fics, and quite a number of [old, though. -_- Haven't had time to upload my newer ones] fanart [and other resources], though it's been thrown into disarray right now by my exams and a previous hosting problem. Do drop by for a visit! One last thing - as far as FujiHana fics go, the coup de grâce of this bloc of uploads would actually be Deus Misereatur, rated R, so if you do want a look see, remember to check that out [seeing as ff.net doesn't include R in its normal listing. -_-].
Another sonnet. ^^; Written some time after the first for no good reason. [Yes, I'm the kind of person who sits around writing sonnets for no good reason and relaxation. Sonnets are just so...I wouldn't say easy, but easier...to write. At least, than villanelles...then again, just about anything is easier than a villanelle.] Awkward in places, but I do like the conclusion.
Technical Notes : Once more, Hanagata's POV, towards Fujima, and after the defeat by Shohoku.
'Ah, so naive I was...'
by Djinn
Ah, so naive I was, until that day;
So sure that all would always turn out right.
And trusting all the words you'd always say,
Believed I so profoundly in our might.
And just as I believed you, I beseeched
Your grace, so earnestly, to trust me true.
But in the mean, where words and actions meet,
I found, too late, my own strength would not do.
It was my fault, I'd full admit amidst
These careless tears I'd ne'er thought I'd shed,
But silent this I keep: to see you grieve
Cuts deeper than the dagger of regret.
For worse yet, than the dark wound of defeat -
The taste of heartbreak, sharp and bittersweet.
END
Simple, innit? ^^;;