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And It Would Be Enough (Hibiki/Kotone/Silver, five timed flash fics)

Title: And It Would Be Enough
Rating: G to PG-13
Word Count: 1328 total
Genre: General, Romance, Angst, Suspense
Series: Pokémon
Characters/Pairings: Hibiki/Kotone/Silver - variations on a theme
Warnings: minor swearing
Summary: Five variations on the Johto OT3, for

pokeprompts theme: 5x5.
A/N: Rough and super unedited because it was meant to be a writing exercise. And I'm lazy. Please forgive my grammar errors and typos. Also, the song of #1 and the actual flash fic totally do not match in tone. /fail

And It Would Be Enough

1. Psychobabble, Frou Frou

If love is surrender
Then whose war is it anyway?

"What the fuck? How did you get my number?" Silver yelled when he realized who it was on the phone.

"From Hibiki," the voice from the other side told him cheerfully.

"How did he get my number?"

He could almost hear her blink over the phone.

"Um, aren't you guys friends? Shouldn't he have your number?"

Friends was one way to put it. Silver rubbed his temple. He never gave Hibiki his number, but of course his rival would have it. It probably served him right though, considering how careless Silver had be getting lately.

"What do you want?" Silver snapped at his phone. He regretted it immediately when imagined Kotone's wounded puppy face.

"I was just... I was only wondering if you wanted to hang out," Kotone said, sounding as sad as he imagined her to be.

"W-what?" Silver blushed. That he had not been expecting.

"Hibiki told me... he told me you liked me!" She sounded close to tears. "C-clearly he was wrong. Sorry for wasting your time." She sniffled.

"Wait!" he yelled into the phone before she could hang up on him.

There was a long moment of silence.

"...yes?" Kotone finally said.

"He wasn't wrong."

"Huh?"

"I said, he wasn't wrong."

"......say it again," she whispered.

"You heard me the first two times!"

"Yeah, but..." She sounded happy. Silver sighed and gave in.

"Hibiki wasn't wrong. I do like you."

If it made Kotone happy, then giving in wasn't that bad.

2. It's So Easy, Linda Ronstadt (Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack)

People tell me love's for fools
Here I go breaking all the rules

"Why do you like me?" Silver asked as Hibiki played with his hair.

"Hm?" Hibiki replied, distracted.

"Why do you like me? I'm grumpy all the time. I'm mean. I'm a thief! For heaven's sake, I stole my starter from Professor Elm. Why do you still like me?"

Hibiki paused and licked his lips thoughtfully. Then he answered rather carefully.

"I think your personality is cute," he said. Silver snorted. Right. "And I see you do nice things all the time, when you think no one's looking. I saw you help a nice old lady cross the street the other day, remember? Because I know you get embarrassed when people know these things about you."

Silver frowned.

"There are so many sides of you that no one ever gets to see besides me. The fact that you'll only show them to me makes me feel special. And I want to make you feel special too."

"What makes you think you're special? How do you know you other people don't get to see those sides of me?"

"Well, do they?"

"..."

"See? It's things like that that make me like you so much."

Silver growled, but Hibiki laughed and hugged his boyfriend close. The fact that Silver half-heartedly pretended to struggle (but then gave up after a moment) made Hibiki love him all that much more.

3. Five Loaves and Two Fishes, Corrine May

Take my fears and my inhibitions
All my burdens, my ambitions
You can use it all
No gift is too small

Kotone looked down sadly at her empty lunchbox and sighed. She tried to be strong, she tried so hard, but... She was only nine. Was it too much to want to be kid still?

"Hey, Kotone. What's wrong? Aren't you hungry?" Hibiki popped up right beside her.

"No, I'm fine," Kotone lied, snapping her lunchbox shut. "I already ate."

Hibiki frowned. "I didn't see you eat."

"Well, I did. I'm on a diet. Girls do that kind of thing, you know. Boys don't understand."

"You got that right," Hibiki snorted. Still, he looked uncomfortable. "Are you sure? I have some -"

"I'm sure!" Kotone yelled, and Hibiki jumped. "Yes, I'm sure," she repeated, more quietly this time.

Hibiki looked at her worriedly, but he let it go.

Kotone went back to staring at her empty lunchbox. Like she needed to be reminded of how poor her family was.

"Where's your lunch, Kotone?"

Kotone glared at Hibiki. "I'm still on my diet," she said rather testily.

Hibiki bit his lip. He seemed unsure, but went ahead. "My mom packed me too much food. Says I'm a growing boy and all." Hibiki rolled his eyes. "I, um, I can't. Finish it all. I know you're on a diet and all, but could you help me? Finish it?"

Kotone stared at Hibiki. Hibiki had turned around and was digging out a sandwich for her.

"Thank you," Kotone whispered when he handed it to her.

It would be a secret, just between the two of them.

4. Volcano, Damien Rice

Volcanoes melt me down
She's still too young
I kissed your mouth
You do not need me

Hibiki should've expected to be pushed away when he tried to kiss Silver, but the fact that he was still hurt.

"Sorry," Hibiki whispered as Silver delicately wiped off his mouth. "I just thought--"

Or he didn't think. He just wanted. That was why he did what he did.

"Don't - don't worry about it," Silver said. "It was nothing. What's a kiss between friends, right?" But it clearly wasn't nothing. If Silver had considered them friends - more than Hibiki had ever hoped for - then he'd royally screwed up.

"Yeah, nothing but a kiss between friends." Hibiki smiled self-depricatingly.

"I like her."

Hibiki paused, looking up from organizing his backpack. "Who?" He hoped his voice sounded even.

"Her. Your friend. That girl."

Hibiki swallowed. "Yeah?"

"Do you - do you think she likes me?"

Hibiki shrugged. Silver was eyeing him warily, but with something like hope bubbling under the surface. "I guess. I don't see why not. Actually, yeah. Yeah, I think she does."

Something like a ghost of a smile flittered across Silver's face.

Hibiki hated himself for hoping that she didn't.

"I hate you," Silver whispered cruelly, his face buried in Hibiki's shoulder. "I hate you."

Hibiki breathed in, deep and unsteady.

"I hate you, you liar. She loves you. She always has. You're a fucking cruel liar." Silver gripped his arm so hard Hibiki could feel his circulation being cut off. Silver's tears were wet against his shirt.

"I'm sorry," Hibiki told him numbly, though he didn't know if it was the truth or not. "I didn't know."

"Yeah? Well, I still hate you."

Hibiki hugged Silver tenderly, almost as if it were a loving embrace.

This, he thought, it couldn't go on like this forever. Someday, the pressure would blow them all apart.

5. You Know My Name, Chris Cornell

Arm yourself because no one else here will save you
The odds will betray you

Hibiki and Kotone looked back for any shadows that were chasing them as Silver pushed them forward from behind.

"Go!" he hissed. "Go already! If you can see them, it'll be too late!"

They ran frantically - through the darkness, through the woods, through ghost towns and down empty roads. They didn't stop until they couldn't recognize anything of their surroundings.

Even then, they still weren't safe.

"You shouldn't have -"

"Shut up, Silver," Hibiki snapped. "It's already too late for that."

Kotone rubbed his arm down soothingly. "We'd still - we'd still choose this. To be with you."

Silver choked back a sob.

It was the closest call they had yet, the attacks of vicious, powerful Pokemon grazing them, the energy of what had happened still hanging in the air.

"You two can still get away," Silver insisted, desperate. "Just leave already. It's me they're after."

"That's not an option anymore," Hibiki said.

They were both afraid when they'd woke up and Silver was gone. They thought he'd left them for their own safety.

Which was stupid. There was always safety in numbers.

Silver came back a few minutes later, looking at them strangely when they burst with relief. He offered them the morsels of food they'd found.

"Thank you, thank you," they'd both said to him in hushed tones.

"That should be my line," Silver replied.

It was hard, but they managed.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Silver would whisper to them every night, desperate and full of grief. Hibiki wrapped an arm around Silver's waist and Kotone pressed kisses against his temple.

They'd protect Silver from Team Rocket, because Silver protected Hibiki and Kotone from them as well.

Together. They had to stay together. Because they had to make it through together.

And it would be enough.

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Lovely! Really enjoyed your interpretation of this prompt. I'm still trying to get my mind oriented on the who's who of the pokemon world, being as that I've only really played the games and not read the manga. <3
I also liked how all your stories were coherent with each other. :)
Can't wait to see what more you do in this com!

I mostly write in game-verse, so I know how you feel. When I read anime-verse or manga-verse, half the time I'm like, >_> I don't know who that is.

Thanks for your review! Glad you enjoyed.

Thank goodness, I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets confused with all the different universes. :D

Frou Frou and Damien Rice fffff~ ♥

These were good! I like their characterization here. They're all so sweet, and their sacrifices for each other broke my heart. Penniless Kotone makes me so sad.

Just so you know, two of them are numbered as three. xD

The funny thing is, that's the only Frou Frou song on my playlist, and Damien Rice is one of the less-listened to singer-songwriters I have songs from. @_@ But I love Imogen Heap and Damien Rice's stuff is really good. *g*

I kind of went "oshi--" when the song for the Hibiki/Kotone piece came on because it's such a... very religious song. So I ran with the first thing that came to me because I only had 10 minutes and that was someone in the anon meme mentioning how the PC's family is probably poor. D8 I'm sorry Kotone.

ffffff I was fixing this while you were commenting, but I didn't catch that. Thanks for pointing it out to me~

Frou Frou and Chris Cornell!! *q* I love them!

And I really like how you wrote the characters! I think they're my only OT3 in the Pokemon fandom~!! *___*

Oh, and penniless Kotone also broke my heart as well. ;__; But oh Hibiki, you saved the day!

The fourth one was also just d'aw Silver...Oh, Hibiki~!!

The funny thing about how my playlist went was that the randomizer picked all the artists I listened to semi-frequently, not never or very frequently. (I went down my 1200+ mp3 playlist XD;;)

;__; They're my only OT3 too. I really think they're all so cute together.

My shuffle picked some good song but some dark songs for something as child-friendly as Pokemon! XD;; Mm, me too. They were songs I listen to well enough but not hardly or too frequently. (I have 1513 songs @__@)

They are! Although I don't mind the separate pairings dividing them either. :3 Cute is cute no matter what!

Haha, honestly? I like them all as friends together, but I don't ship threesomes...I just personally can't see them working. I like any combination of the three as a pairing, though. XD;; I was trying to actually write a romantic OT3 of the last one but then You Know My Name came on and I was like, "...oic." It came out a little more than friendship but a little less than romantic still? haha.

I briefly considered writing the instrumental ones too, since I have some Yiruma piano music...but then I gave up for the same of my sanity. T_T

Your last one was the strongest and most interesting, but they were all really heartwarming and adorable, aaa. Tsun!Silver made me laugh! Silver is such a derp. Kotone/Hibiki was so adorable; I totally think they would have had this extremely supportive relationship. They do an awful lot of yelling in all of these fics! XD #4 broke my heart ;_; Hibiki's such a good person, a;ldskfjaler. I especially liked the last paragraph of #4. As I said before, #5 grabs you from the get-go with all the bustle and rush and desperation; you captured that really well. It stands out as being really different.

Excellent fics! Ilu Chry ♥

I imagine the three as a very boisterous trio. They did a lot of whispering too! I'm surprised you didn't call me out on that. ^^;;

The last one was something of a fluke, probably. I originally wanted to write something happy and cute for all three of them, but You Know My Name came on and I was like, "Okay. Then there's that." I'm glad you approve!

THAAANNNKKK YOUUUU~~

The fifth part was amazing, I loved how you played with Silver's bad roots and used it to show the bond of the trio. I tend to see them as a friendship OT3 too, probably the one I love the most out of all the generations thus far.

I liked how you explored their relationships in pairs too, especially the HibikiKotone one because that was really the sweetest thing ever :D Kotone in the first part seemed to be discouraged too easily, but Silver's save was so amazingly sweet, hee.

I think they have an amazingly adorable dynamic. *_* I don't have the heart to separate them.

If I'm honest though, Hibiki/Kotone is probably my favourite romantic couple out of the three. I have a thing for childhood friends.

Kotone in the first part seemed to be discouraged too easily

....she does. *frets over it* I think it was partially because I was panicking over finishing it (I accidentally deleted a large chunk of it since I was writing in notepad). The other half is, as a girl, if specifically called a boy who I thought liked me and and he was mean, I'd probably get really discouraged. In general, I believe Kotone is kind of the clingy/hopeful type, but you know, there's only so much even she can push.

Overall, I have to say I really, really liked this. #4 and #5 were by far the strongest; #5 was almost certainly the best, because it showed all three together and was written smoothly, emotionally, and just very intensely overall. #4 might have been my favorite, however, simply because Hibiki and Silver's emotions were portrayed so well in that.

#1 and #2, on the other hand, seemed a bit weak to me; #1 was all right, but at least from my opinion of Silver, he seemed less irritable and defensive than I see him being, and Kotone seemed to jump to the conclusion that Silver didn't like her a little too fast when all he demonstrated was surprise. #2 I honestly didn't like much at all; the ending was cute, but it also seemed a bit OOC to me -- Silver just struck me as far too open.

As for #3, I'm going to agree with everyone else: cute with a capital C. ...which I just didn't capitalize. Go me.

Hope that made sense and is helpful; overall, I did like this, and I'd love to see more exploration of their relationship.

THAT'S BECAUSE I'M A HORRIBLE PERSON WHO ONLY LIKES WRITING ANGST AND SEEING OTHER PEOPLE SUFFER.

*excuses excuses*

Kotone's extreme reaction might've been a result of my own panic because I was writing this in Notepad and accidentally deleted a chunk of it. I wrote all of these in under 10 minutes instead of 15 since

wanderlark and I were discussing lowering the time limit, and I was at 7 minutes and suddenly missing a part of my story so I was like HOW DO I FINISH FFF.

Your assessment of #2 is really interesting though. I didn't think it showed that much of Silver's personality. I actually don't think that much about Silver's characterization at all so I just modeled him after the traditional tsundere... Actually, I was probably writing Nowaki/Hiroki from Junjou Romantica if I were honest because the dynamic is pretty similar to that.

The content of your stories are all quite touching and cute.
I especially liked the last two. They seem to be well interpreted.
The only thing I think you could watch out for is grammar and several syntax and sentence structure.

Otherwise, all in all, it's a sweet batch 8D

I have zero ability to proofread my own works so I usually don't. And then I go and reread them months later and want to cut myself. /sob.

Thank you~~

They are not frequent, so I believe it's okay and very much passable.
I'm not the best in grammar either, so don't make yourself sound so bad ;-;

#3 and #4 are my favs. they broke my heart.
the only one i know is 'you know my name'. it's a nice song.
i like #1 kotone a lot too.

Straight-forward!Kotone is the best. I see her as someone who would take action and her life into her hands. *_*

I have a very eclectic playlist, haha. A lot of the songs picked were ones I listen to less often, actually, so I was surprised.

Thanks for reading!

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