fic recs
❤️ = indicates particular favourite
haikyuu
kuroken
show a little faith (13k, G)
Presenting Kenma as the Boy-Who-Lived, whose living becomes a lot more interesting when Ravenclaw Prince Kuroo Tetsurou starts sending him singing telegrams about defeating the Dark Lord.
performance anxiety (9k, E)
Kuroo lets his perfectionism get in the way of exploring the more physical side of his relationship with Kenma; Kenma decides to take matters into his own hands.
teach me the way home (22k, T) ❤️
Kuroo and Kenma grow up in transit.
good calls (4.6k, T)
Kenma's third year. Or part of it.
seasons of love (101k, E)
Kenma's in his third year at Nekoma, Kuroo's in his first year at Tokai University, and the boys are attempting to navigate one year of a long-distance relationship... where 'long-distance' is measured by a forty-minute train ride and a mountain of obligations barring the way. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, and the more precious every moment.
two screens away (6k, E)
Kuroo and Kenma accidentally start platonically sexting. Kuroo and Kenma worry about their futures. Kuroo and Kenma talk a lot about time travel and dating sims.
i built you a home in my heart (20k, M)
Five years after high school— what changes, what doesn't, and what really matters, in the end.
chamomile and carnivorous plants (10k, M)
Kenma needs to admit a few things to himself, and to Kuroo.
the golden route (12k, T) ❤️
in which two childhood friends go on a road trip and Kenma builds up a quest.
hectic (8.6k, G, *krykkn)
Life is hectic. People need to run everywhere and be in different places, no one ever just sits down and relaxes anymore. Kenma knows life is hectic, and with two boyfriends it means his life is twice as crazy. It also means it’s twice as loving and Kenma doesn’t mind waiting a little bit for those moments.
give me a try (13k,T) ❤️
Kozume Kenma has only ever thought of himself as Karasuno High School's second setter - nothing interesting, nothing special. But after an intense rivalry game, the captain of Nekoma takes notice of him, and Kenma's life suddenly gets a lot more exciting.
it's like a summer shower (13, T)
It's Kuroo's and Kenma's anniversary and Kenma wants to do something different - cook him dinner. He regrets the decision pretty much immediately.
beginning's end (23k, T) ❤️
Kozume Kenma's third year and the changes the year brings in himself and his relationship with Kuroo Tetsurou.
speak easy, lie gently (11k, E) ❤️
Kenma’s invited back home to celebrate Christmas. Unbeknownst to him, his parents had invited a guest: his ex-boyfriend.
you like boys, dumbass (11k, E) ❤️
Maybe when people tell you that you act like Kenma’s boyfriend they know what they’re talking about, Kuroo.
atsukita ❤️
dreams of me and you (10k, T, WIP)
atsumu has to leave everything behind to follow his dreams.
no time like the rest of my life (19k, G)
The boy raises his eyebrows and straightens his back. “So you can see me! Hmm… most humans can’t, but if you can, then it means your spiritual powers aren’t too shabby…” A grin spreads across his face, all sharp teeth, very much fox-like. He leans forward, narrows his eyes, and tenses his shoulders, like he’s ready to pounce. “You’d probably make a tasty snack!”
Kita hums. “I might,” he says, “but then who’d bring you pudding?”
The grin on the boy’s face disappears in an instant, and he blinks down at him.
“What,” he says.
sentimentality (9k, T)
Atsumu doesn't think much about the past, with one exception. And that exception is the heartache called Kita Shinsuke. Hijinks ensue. Confessions and kisses may happen, eventually.
operation: foxy (19k, T, WIP)
One question, three boys, and a whole lot of shenanigans.
take a bullet to the heart (2k, T)
Kita Shinsuke is allegedly in an arranged marriage with Ushijima Wakatoshi, and it's up to Miya Atsumu to save Kita from marrying the wrong man
shining star (9k, T)
“I don’t believe you’re in love with me.” Shinsuke tells him. “I think you look up to me, might have a crush. But it’s not love.”
Atsumu’s jaw ticks, his eyes now glassy, shining with abrupt tears he doesn’t shed.
“Mingle with people, look up to somebody else and see if it’s the same feeling. Date somebody. Explore your emotions. Compare them. And if you’re still as certain as you are now - I’ll say yes.”
kitsune udon for the soul (3.5k, T)
At the tail end of his second year, Miya Atsumu helps an old lady with her shopping, eats a lovingly home-cooked meal, and completely fails to realise his own feelings.
come morning (1k, T)
Every year, the rice blooms in half-summer, half-monsoon, as if it’s always known.
apricity (3k, G)
Third year at volleyball is killing Atsumu. It's literally killing him. So when he asks to be taken out, in any way, really, surprise him, he didn't really expect Kita-san, okay? Spare him!
reap and sow (8k, G)
“No, it won’t.” He reassures, because it’s said that Kita Shinsuke can control the weather, and that the hills are a land where sleeping deities lie.
Atsumu stares like he’s going through a spiritual awakening, or something equally as mortifying. Within twenty minutes, there’s not a cloud in sight.
the miyas (12k, G)
Kita is invited to the Miya household for dinner: sappiness and roasting ensues.
if we were both alone (7k, E)
Atsumu gets Kita’s new number. Then he runs his mouth, which could turn out either good or bad.
hold this fragile thing (2k, T)
Atsumu and Shinsuke are in love. It just takes them some time to realize it.
built upon the small, everyday things (58k,T)
His point, before he forgets it in favor of lamenting how unfair life is, is that he’s a good-ish person who would’ve been much more prepared to adjust to dorm life on his own if he’d just eaten his twin in the womb when he’d had the chance.
Especially if dorm life involved a very attractive roommate that he totally didn't have a crush on, not even a tiny bit, no sir.
daisuga
as well as you know me (8k, E)
There's nothing like a Gryffindor v. Slytherin match to get the blood pumping. Well, that is, except angry post-game sex, but Suga's a prefect, he would never instigate something like that, right?.
i don't love you (i always will) (9k, M)
Things take time. Anything that’s good, anything that matters – things like love don’t happen in an instant, the way they do in movies. They grow. They bloom.
jealousy (7k, E)
It’s so horrid- it feels like sludge in Suga’s stomach, like poison in his veins, like an itch behind his skin. It burns, it stings. He hates it, he hates it more than anything, but he can’t help it.He’s hopelessly in love.
beauty mark (4k, T)
Ennoshita is the first one to notice, and he doesn’t hesitate to give Daichi a knowing look, one that says "I know what you’re thinking about and I am Very Disappointed in you." Daichi tries to act cool, to play it off like he wasn’t just openly checking Suga out or writing mental poetry about how his back muscles are freckled with moles of varying shades, like stars in the sky. It’s only half working.
in the shadow of the mountain (13k, T) ❤️
After graduation, Daichi and Suga climb a mountain to see whether it will make them the grown-ups they’re supposed to be.
it's like you never went away (7k, G)
Back from university, Suga looks forward to spending time with his friends, family and the person he feels most guilty for avoiding: Daichi.
you in your boxers, me in my daydreams (1.8k, T) ❤️
Suga realizes that he and Daichi are, in fact, perfect for each other. Well, he's known for a while. He just hadn't realized Daichi knew, too.
when time comes around (13k, T) ❤️
A love story of Sawamura Daichi and Sugawara Koushi within the hallowed halls of Hogwarts, in all its complexity and joy.
boys (5k, G) ❤️
Before, if Suga had been asked to pick a type, he would have hummed and thought it over, maybe said something vague like “nice eyes” or “nice legs” or “a good personality”. Now, he can only think “Daichi”.
oikage
beautiful boy (3k, G) ❤️
Kageyama Tobio, Oikawa Tooru— an experience with scars, both emotional and physical, and healing.
begin again (2k, G)
"Wow, you sure look ugly after you cried," Oikawa teased with a shit-eating grin. "Can't argue with that," Kageyama said completely unfazed, "You should probably take look in the mirror though." The least thing he'd expected from Tobio was him to be quick on the comeback in this situation or more precisely, in any situation at all. Also, he was pretty sure that he'd seen a little smirk. Well, it wasn't exactly a smirk, but considering Kageyama's resting bitch face it definitely was something similar to that.
the more things change (35k, E) ❤️
“So let me get this straight. You went to the Meiji-Chuo game and saw your old crush and after watching Meiji bring Chuo to a crushing defeat, you realized you were still crushing on him big time?”
Kageyama wishes he could spit in Tsukishima’s drink. “It’s not a crush.”
Tsukishima laughs. “You poor dumb fuck.”
so my darling, i'll succumb (6k, T)
Oikawa and Kageyama meet again, years later. (Medical AU)
oisuga
coincidence (10k, T) ❤️
coincidence • n. 1 a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. 2 correspondence in nature or in time of occurrence.
nice to meet you (i will beat you) (1k, T)
how to meet and beat your perfect match, a manual: from back to front. (or, four times suga beats oikawa and the one time he gets him back.)
i know when that hotline bling (5k, T)
Suga found Oikawa's snapchat username written in a bathroom stall after their match in the Inter High preliminaries.
except the morning after (7k, G)
Koushi concludes that he's probably the best to handle Oikawa right now. He doesn't necessarily dread it, but Oikawa's now saying, "I'll be the best you've ever had," and Koushi decides that while the sober, competitive Oikawa on the volleyball court is a slightly different person, Koushi has the same small level of patience for each.
due season (24k, G) ❤️
The documentation of a relationship that's more than a brief encounter, longer than a week in summer, and closer than any distance that words can't cross.
your hemlock heart, it's just like mine (5.9k, T)
Daichi and Iwaizumi decide, for better or worse, to set their best friends up on a date despite neither of them knowing until it's too late.
two player game (5k, G) ❤️
Oikawa’s a mystery waiting to be discovered, and Suga has always liked puzzles.
you're a sour little boy (14k, T) ❤️
Oh no. Oikawa realizes. The pretty face is a trap.
naruto
gen fics
What the Deep Sea is to a Puddle (1.8k, G)
5 + 1 AU where Minato survives the sealing.
of the leaf (41k, T) ❤️
A month before the Chuunin Exams are set to begin, the Hokage dies of a stroke. Danzo steps up as interim Hokage until the Council can vote in the Fifth, and then Kakashi has to start thinking about more drastic measures. Because what he knows, and what everyone else seems to have forgotten, is that natural causes have nothing to do with shinobi.
bad advice and yammering brats (4k, G)
a blond brat tries to befriend another blond brat while following useless advice.
sns
❤️ HEAVY HITTERS (>100k) ❤️
It’s Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You (129k, E, part of a series)
An AU in which all the character development of part one gets its due: Kakashi finds another way, Sasuke does not leave the Leaf, Itachi remains a villain, no one is a carbon copy of a previous generation, Sakura grows up to be terrifying, Sasuke finds his way back to family, and Naruto wins all hearts. Featuring Team Seven fluff, filling in the time-skip, and a rather different second half. Drama, Angst, Romance, Fluff, Action, Occasional Porn.
from the corner of your eye (150k, T, WIP)
When a misunderstanding prompts Sasuke to take a deeper involvement in the growth of his teammates, no one is quite prepared for the way things... change. Especially Sasuke. The question is - is it for the better?
in good company (200k, M, part of a series)
This will sound a little ridiculous, no matter how Sasuke phrases it. I see dead people is embarrassingly tacky, and I'm half-spirit seems like something Sakura might say when she's stoned sky high. So he settles for a shrug.
reverse (386k, E)
To make a tragedy, you break something beautiful and frame the pieces. To make a victory, you break something mighty and rebuild it piece by piece. To make a life, you glue the pieces together and hope for the best. Kurama's still getting the hang of this ‘human’ thing, but given that he’s 30 years back in time with catastrophes to prevent and a blond brat to save, he’ll have to figure things out on the fly. Luckily, living with Naruto's been good for his ability to improvise, if nothing else.
of harrowed hearts (223k, E)
In which Naruto discovers the real meaning of the word monster, Sasuke discovers power and strength and learns the difference between them, and Sakura discovers that being herself is not as selfish as she thought. Where Kakashi learns to fight again for what he loves, and Obito never stopped.
short(er) n sweet (<50k)
gloss (2.8k, M)
It begins with the way Sasuke reaches out and picks up Naruto's hand, with the way his lips are dry and smooth and he never even blinks as he pulls Naruto's fingers into his mouth.
reconsideration (5k, T) ❤️
War has left Naruto feeling hollowed. At a loss of what he really wants, and whether what he initially thought he wanted is actually what he needs. Sasuke is due to be home soon. And if anyone could ever help Naruto make sense and level with where he was coming from, it was always Sasuke. It would always, be Sasuke.
a place for us (8k, m) ❤️
Naruto hadn’t even noticed how their lives had started entwining so deeply. A year or so ago this was just a house, similar to the apartment he’d lived in all his life, but now—with every carefully curated item and random piece of clutter—it’s home. No place has allowed him to call it that until this very moment.
summer rain (3k, t)
“When the wind is warm and the crows sing at dawn,” Sasuke murmurs, the barest of smiles on his lips, “I will find you.”
rebuilding (25k, E) ❤️
Sasuke has spent every day since the war's end trying to rebuild. It's a good thing Naruto has been doing the same, isn't it?
waiting for an answer (8k,T)
After eight years of struggling, Naruto finally caves and confesses to Sasuke. But it's okay; nothing is going to change between them. Everything will be the same. ...The moment Sasuke stops bringing it up every twenty seconds, it'll be the same.
go forward slowly (9k, T)
In which the war is over and Sasuke is allowed home, and Iruka finds it all too easy to open his home and his heart to the young boy.
before today is over (12k,T)
Above him, Sasuke leans over the edge of the pier to watch. Naruto hears him laugh and even with his face draped in shadow, he can imagine Sasuke’s cheshire grin, eyes crinkling with mirth. He feels Sasuke smiling at him. Naruto would pluck every star from the heavens to keep that feeling.
from ashes and dust (14k,T) ❤️
Naruto and Sasuke get the ending they deserve and change the world, together. Not canon compliant after chapter 698 and parts of 699.
fallen here to grace (15k, T)
Genma is a very good assassin. He takes a job, takes a life, comes home, repeats. Then one day a stray genin shows up on his doorstep. And then another. Lonely assassin? Not so much. Try resident shinobi den mother.
fma
(NOTE: these are all ed/roy. sorry lmao)
leading the blind (31k, M) ❤️
Roy adjusts to a life of legal blindness, and Edward avenges three years of short jokes.
sappily ever after (12k,T)
Ed and Roy are going to get married. At least theoretically speaking…
son the desert (10k, T) ❤️
Every time Edward sees the circle on the back Mustang's hand, he wants to scream, wants to reach across the desk and shake him, wants to wrap his hands around the older man's throat and ask if it was worth it, if this desk and his rank is worth the screaming, crying, writhing, burning bodies of his people -
"Something to say, Fullmetal?" Mustang drawls.
Edward snaps the file shut, "Nope."
second chances, second thoughts (100k, M, part of a series) ❤️❤️
Fullmetal is standing on the doorstep, looking windswept and utterly bereft, but holding a tiny baby in his arms.
crux (5k,M)
It just appeared, without warning. Roy had had a few marks before; one when he was very young, which had faded within a year, and one on the cusp of his departure for Ishval which had been all but ripped from him within a week on the front lines. And then there was this: messy, scribbly, with the letters half crowded together and half spaced awkwardly far apart. At first, Roy didn’t understand it. And then once he did, he tried to burn the damn thing off. After all, when he meets Edward Elric, he’s twelve years old and only has one arm.
xenografts (4k, T)
Def.: transplantation across species. Or, what if Mustang had arrived in Riesembol just a few days earlier?
the crossfire (29k, T)
When international relations between Amestris and Xing start crumbling, Ed finds himself caught in the middle of a conflict between two of the most important world leaders. The complicated part? They're both his exes.
transposition ciphers (36k,M) ❤️
“I kissed Edward,” Roy said, more quietly than he'd ever spoken to her before. Riza’s raised eyebrows asked a question all on their own.
“Edward… Hertzmann? In signal corps, on the third—”
“Elric.” The surname hung heavy between them like it had hung between so many others before them. “But thank you for trying.”
shall we come full circle? (10k,T)
Staring’s the only thing Roy can do, as Edward Elric — former Amestrian State Alchemist, also someone he hasn’t seen in three years — flows to his feet.
“Ugh, fuck,” Ed says, with feeling, “he fucking tossed me off the balcony.”
It's in Xingdu, the capital city of Xing, that they meet after three years of running and pining. It's a reunion coloured with assassination attempts and street urchins and fireworks in the night sky, but, luckily for these two, Xingdu is a place where things come full circle, where the new rises from the ashes of the old.
vertias (24k, M)
Roy is a presidential candidate. Edward is a Law student.
Their affair might just be the scandal of the year.
the river jumps over the mountain (20k,E)
The airfield is comprised of a strip of concrete, a leaky barracks, mess hall, and an Intel cabin all jammed in an anonymous windy field outside Exeter.
Roy flies. Professor Elric does other things.
airplane mode (11k, M)
Roy’s in the arrivals terminal of CAIX, phone in either hand, because of a series of bad decisions that started with letting Maes talk him into getting birthday drunk the day before he was supposed to go visit two allegedly adult alchemists in Resembool and somehow managed to encompass an entire coup. He’s still paying for it more than a decade later, though these days less in blood and more in dignity. Ed is perfectly capable of getting his own ride from the airport, but between traffic, their respective scheduling and Ed’s natural tendency to be a little bitch, if Roy wants to see him before the end of the week he better pick the little bitch up in person.