When Gambit left Rogue on the shores of Blood Moon Bayou, he slipped a playing card into her hand. More than a conciliatory gesture, it signaled the start of something that carried the understanding: Never bet more than you are willing to lose.

Challenge Fic. Submissions for livejournal's 30Kisses challenge community. GeorgeMason pairing. Theme 6: the space between dream and reality.

Sequel to Not Like Bobby . . . RoguePyro as Rogue waits for the cure for mutation in XMen 3.

Next to Mugen she feels too hot, next to Jin she feels too cold. In the middle, Fuu feels warm. A sereis of drabbles dealing with the trio.

Kakasaku Sakura always wanted to see Kakashi unmasked. This was a bit much though...

Any way one looked at it, Jiraya was just too old.

Series of vignettes describing Kakashi's courtship of Sakura. Fluff, lemons in later chapters.

[Hitsugaya x Karin, Yuzu] Future!fic. Seven years in the life of Kurosaki Karin, in which she almost dies three times, falls in love, and miraculously stays there. No thugs were harmed in the writing of this story. Much.

Dick thinks about it for a while, pondering the pros and cons of death by vitamins, weighs them against the possibility of jumping to his death. Neither option seems too pleasant. He decides to live.

They figure each other out eventually. Oneshot, ChadKarin.

[EOL][GenHaya] Hayate is not a delicate flower, and he'd really like people to stop treating him like he's made of glass. In fact, he's rather pointy, most of the time, but Genma handles him with grace and skill.

When her fifth date got food poisoning, and her sixth date cancelled in over the phone in a tone bordering on hysteria, Sakura decided things were getting out of hand. KakaSaku

12 short shorts about shinigami and their swords.

It was only a phase. He could wait it out... And then she got engaged. JarethSarah and very sweet.

Second response to a challenge. Jareth loves nothing more than to bend the rules and he loves to provoke Sarah. Original title taken from challenge pic.

SJ fluff. Oneshot. For all of us who wished the Goblin King would come and take them away instead. Response to a challenge set by PikalaCynique in DeviantArt, the title is from the picture of the same name.

Their love had phases. [NejiTen, one shot] [For the NejiTen Gift Exchange at LiveJournal]

Broken Social Scene Series, sequel to Finish Your Collapse and Stay for Breakfast. "This is where your feet took you. You're just here. Occupying the negative space. The space he left behind."

KakaSaku. How does one hardened shinobi transition to a point in life where he’s ready to accept change? Will consist of eleven shorts

Frost tonight—so clear and deadstill. Half sad, half proud, my arms I fill. M because I'm paranoid.

What did she care, though; she had the military's most gorgeous man between her legs in a broom closet. Life doesn't get better than this. ..RoyRiza, PWP..

Originally, for Halloween, Sai hadn’t decided what to go as, but once he glimpsed at the bleeding flesh on Sakura’s neck, he suddenly had the urge to be a vampire…

[No Rest for the Wicked]. Set around Ch3, p59, 60. A Red short. The line between a beast and a human has little to do with fur.

Ryro. Rogue and Pyro talk about weddings, olive branches, and what it means to just be Marie and John. X3 spoilers. FINAL part up.

[InoSaku oneshot] Ino invites Sakura over to her new appartment with something to prove, and ends up with something to give. Shoujo ai and yuri.

...There were none. [OneShot]

[One-shot][InoHina] It doesn't matter what Ino says as long as Hinata doesn't understand.

Ryro: Sequel to Mind Games

A prison in the Fire Nation occupied territory of the Earth Kingdom. Two unlikely boys, enemies, with death sentences. Nothing to do but talk together. And perhaps, together, find a way to escape. Friendship, rated for language and adult themes. Complete

Ryro: She played mind games with him like always.

They are animals with bullets for teeth, meals shredded and left to rot instead of consumed. EdHawkeye. Angstgoresmut. No Spoilers. Rated M for Mature

Tools You'll Need: A sharp object, an inescapable burden of shame, the experience of the worst failure you've ever committed in your life. Time to Complete: about 15 minutes. Results may vary.

Between one life and another, Sakura goes looking for a man she doesn't know.

KougaSango pairing. An incident in the past that Sango's never told her friends about, Kouga needs to find out why.

The aftermath of a life and a death that shouldn't have happened and the fallout from it. Epilogue to Someone Else's Hero, by afrai.

PyroRogue interlude. Occurs when Xmen camp for the night before their assualt on Alkali Lake facility.

Set before ch. 245. Growing older for Sakura isn't just about physical age, but also about love.

Inhaling deeply, Endymion follows the path of her finger down, down, down, and shudders when it skates over the top of his hand. She turns her face up to him, somber and bright and alive...EndymionSaturn...Crystal Millennium

There are two schools of thought on the stories about my mother, writes Kuchiki Rukia's son in his 154th year.

Even though she always knew it would have to end. It still hurt. Oneshot. Ishbal, manga. RizaMaes.

It's a good thing Karin only took after Ichigo in some respects. AU futurefic.

AU, High School, the bane of the teenage existence. Toss in the gangs, the rivalries, the cliques, the existential angst and one twisted plot for revenge and no one will escape unscathed. Too bad no one saw that until it was too late.

Without Sakura, Team 7 falls apart. Kakashi sees this all too well, and he's almost surprised that he can't accept it. [NaruSasu] [Implied KakaRin] [Hints of NaruSasuSaku]

Mason is scared of the dark [sort of]. George isn’t scared of anything [sort of]. MasonGeorge friendship mostly, leading to more.

Jayne has a bit of trouble sleeping. The bit of trouble being River. JayneRiver. Sorta. POST SERENITY.

Jiraiya doesn't understand some things. Others he understand all too well.

Sometimes, what one chooses to do for love can be the worst mistake possible. [KakaRin]

Just because you know where you are, doesn't mean you can believe where you stand. KakashiRin, unabashed fluffgst.

Introspective oneshot for a very broken team. Some spoilers for the Gaiden, and some KakashiRin.

Saved, saved, wants to be saved, but it's a lie, because he can't be saved, because he doesn't think he should be saved... [one shot fic, redemptionista.]M for intellectual understanding and perception.

She'll be his.

COMPLETE. Hojo becomes trapped in the Sengoku Jidai: Chivalry isn't dead, but it sure seems to be asking for it... Rated for Inuyasha's mouth and Miroku's mind.

The one and only time Rin tries to kiss Kakashi late at night. A tie in to Chapter 7 of 'Butterfly in Reverse' by bitethehandthatfeeds. Rated for everything but the language, so check the warning inside.

[Hatake Sakumo had killed himself while Kakashi was still very young. Though it had started before that, really.] angsty oneshot

Quite literally, Kakashi's always got someone keeping an eye out for him.

She comes home and tries not to wake him up. Set a little ahead of the current manga timeline. KakashiRin

Kakashi finds someone he's been missing. Vagueish Kakashi Gaiden spoilers. Rin and Kakashi. rated mostly for the language

Spoilers up to and including the Chuunin Exams. Set two years preseries. Kabuto visits Kakashi's hospital bed with the intention of studying the Copy Ninja.

Spoilers up to the Chuunin exams. Kakashicentric. Talent comes up a lot in the Naruto series, but it can cause more problems than it solves.

Rogue is sick of safety, and John is all too dangerous.

One shot fluff: what happened to the Xmen in August of 2003, when power went out to much of the East Coast?

Kitty goes on a Google search for "phrenology", and discovers the humorous depths of 1900s medical ignorance. One-shot... and all the devices are REAL.

Rogue wasn't sure when she'd started noticing hands.

‘The difference between confusion and anger was the amount of blood.’ Ryro, Logan, Scott, et al, masochism, self-mutilation; Complete. Please review.

Pretty selfexplanatory. John POV, his musings on Rogue and their relationship set preX2

Sakura has put up with her team's lack of hygiene and communication for far too long, and just as she thinks she's bound to be alone in her misery, she finds comfort from a most unexpected source...Kakashi. *COMPLETE!*

Being lost in Venice. It's preferable to being lost in other things, sometimes. St. John/Bobby. Post X2.

Set in the X2 world. PyroRogue. Rogue POV, pondering importance of honesty.

Cyclops -- on true love, prejudice and big multicolored British imports. '80 proof dry irony warning.