1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the timeframe of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards! [I confess: inveterate beta that I am, I did go back and edit a bit--but I did not write more! I swear! I only fixed typos and so on.]
4. Do 10 of these, then post them.
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6. Carmina Burana, In Taberna, In Taberna Quando Sumus, [In the Tavern, When We Are In The Tavern], by Carl Orff
This was not like him.
Sake cups pounded the wooden tables.
This wasn't like him at all.
A new round of drinks came; in a disorderly mess, they were poured into beards, mouths, and sometimes cups.
But here he was, in a bar, drunk, with an equally drunk Miroku.
"The fairest of them all—" the collected men sang/shouted.
Singing bawdy tavern songs about women.
Muzzily, his thoughts turned to Kagome. Oh, she was the fairest, wasn't she…why did he call her ugly all the time? He couldn't remember…
"Ah, to fuck them all!" came the resounding finish from every man and hanyou.
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A/N: If you haven't heard this song, it's amazing and you should go listen now, though I recommend finding an English translation of the lyrics. I regret that my drabble pales in comparison, only covering two of the Lord-knows-how-many themes actually within the lyrics of the song. Especially the main one: gambling. Ah well. It's not that I'm unhappy with the drabble, as I think it came out fairly well, and I really like the counterpoint between Inuyasha's perspective and his surroundings and how they meld together in the last line. I just feel like nothing I write so quickly could ever be as epic as this song. But I knew that to begin with...
Oh, and if anyone is interested in reading more of alcohol and Inuyasha (as it's not all that common), they should check out FrameofMind's fic Under the Influence.
