Title: Take Solace
Series: Take Heart
Challenge: Holiday Bingo 2022.
[Prompt: Music, Holiday: Christmas Eve]
Category: Modern AU, PWP
Ratings: R
Pairings: Uchiha Itachi/Nara Shikaku/Nara Yoshino
Words: 1,006
Summary: Yoshino has to miss date night to keep with her ruthless holiday baking schedule, but Shikaku has things well in hand.
Itachi is ‘things’.
Title: Take Refuge
Author: Timothy Wren
Fandom: Naruto
Challenge: Holiday Bingo 2022
Relationships: Nara Shikamaru/Uchiha Sasuke (friends with benefits); background Nara Yoshino/Nara Shikaku/Uchiha Itachi
Genre: Anime, Slice of Life
Notes/Warnings: None especially, friends with benefits I suppose.
Word Count: 1,037 (complete)
Summary: "I’m taking your bed."
"Like hell you are." Shikamaru sends him a sleep-mussed glare. His holiday plans are centered around that bed. Most college students might be trying to get laid, but Shikamaru has a nap schedule all drawn up to get maximum sleep, optimized to prefer very specific times where his mom won’t nag him.
Or: They already share a room for most of the year, so Sasuke bunks down with Shikamaru when his family is annoying on winter break.
Title: First Taste (Niiname-Sai)
Author: Timothy Wren
Fandom: Naruto
Relationship: Uzumaki Naruto/Uchiha Sasuke, background Yamanaka Ino/Haruno Sakura
Challenge: Just Write’s ‘Holiday Bingo’ prompt: Hidden, holiday: Niiname-Sai (festival of the first taste)
Genre: Anime, Romance
Warnings: I used a very light version of Niiname-Sai on account of they’re not really in Japan; so it’s not the holiday proper, just a light homage at best. Tsunade’s canon alcoholism (referenced), and they’re ANBU in this. Reference to Kurama as a god.
Word Count: 1,813 (complete)
Summary: “We are a hidden village.” Sasuke said with a kind of helpless disgust.
Title: You Will Be Found
Author: Timothy Wren
Fandom: Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official’s Blessing
Relationship: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian
Genre: Danmei, Fluff, Established Relationship
Challenge: Just Write’s "Holiday Bingo," Prompt: Free Space (Home)
Word Count: 2294 (complete)
Summary: On Zhongyuan, you invite the dead in.