Takes place in the NHL!Kai verse. Not the tattoo prompt I had planned to write and not my best writing, but i tried!
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Having returned from a week long set of away games, Kai was looking forward to being horizontal for a full 12 hours. Longer if he could manage it. He’d taken a couple of heavy hits in the last game and his ribs protested every movement.
What he didn’t expect was a half-irish, half-spanish inquisition in the harsh light of his kitchen. While he was half naked and drinking orange juice from the bottle and feeling like a caught child.
“What?” he asked, wiping the back of his mouth and setting down the bottle.
“Where is it?”
“Where is what?”
“You know.”
He really didn’t but she’d cough it up at some point. With a shrug, he nudged her aside and headed into the living room, longing for the comfort of his couch and maybe grabbing a quick nap while catching up on the sports news for that evening. Tala’s team had played though the odds were against them making it to the playoffs.
Dropping onto the couch, he muffled a yawn and grabbed the remote. With the opening theme playing in the background, his eyes drifted closed only to pop open when he felt Amber’s fingers at the hem of his pants.
“Ember?”
“Just helping you get comfortable.”
“Uh-huh.” He knew that tone. She was up to something and he could almost guess what. His lips curved faintly as he lifted his hips to help her.
“Ember, I have no energy for anything you may be thinking about.”
“I mean you could just lie there and take it. But no, this is all about looking after you. Because I’m a good girlfriend who cares for your wellbeing.”
As the presenters began to dissect the games played that night, Kai kicked off his pants and sat back into the plush cushions of his couch. His eyes were drifting shut as he heard Amber return and then nothing.
He couldn’t have dozed long but it was enough for the show to reach an ad break and the feeling of being watched drew him from his nap.
He pried open an eye to find her staring at him, a hand propped on her hip. She was wearing his old Sentinel’s jersey, her quiet protest to never wear Arrows merch regardless of the fact he played for the team. She also wore trouble on her brow, in the faint furrow between her eyes, the purse of her lips as she studied him.
He opened his mouth to tell her he was just tired, that the trip and the games had taken their toll, but she huffed out a frustrated breath. Exasperated annoyance zinged through him. He knew zoning out on the couch wasn’t ideal but he thought she understood, more than most hockey girlfriends could.
“Okay, I can’t see it.”
Can’t see what?
“It’s not there. There’s nothing there.”
He forced himself to open his eyes and dropped his gaze to his crotch. Well, it wasn’t exactly functional right now, but it was there.
“No, Ian, it’s… no. He would not. I’m telling you.”
Ian? Why was his girlfriend talking to Ian? Was Ian here?
“Must be on his butt then. You owe me monies!” Ian’s tinny voice crowed from the coffee table.
“Not until I have definitive proof. There is no way my puck head boyfriend would tattoo his ass in some kind of moronic male bonding. It has to be somewhere else.”
“Where else is there? He’s practically naked on the couch. Or so you said. Don’t show me. There are things I don’t need to see.”
“There are things I’m never gonna share and my hot as fuck boyfriend is one of them.”
“I’m gagging.”
Amber flipped up her finger. “Shite. I’m gonna have to ask him.”
“You’re gonna have to tell him that you lost a bet to me.”
With a disgruntled hiss, Amber grabbed her phone, poked the screen hard with her index finger and then she reached down to shake his shoulder.
“Hey, Kai, you need to go to bed. You’re gonna hurt your neck and you need to ice those ribs.”
“Mm.”
“Tonight, please.”
As she helped him to his feet, she tucked her arm over her shoulder, and he dutifully patted her breast in greeting feeling her amused chuckle. They entered his bedroom and she eased him down onto the bed. His body sank into the mattress. Bliss.
He watched as Amber headed for the ensuite and his lips moved before he thought about it.
“Why do you think I tattooed my ass?”
“Of course you were awake.” Her voice bounced off the tiled surface of the bathroom and the cupboard door closed with a snick before she emerged back into the cool darkness of the bedroom. “I saw the story, about how your team decided to get tattooed together? Some kind of male bonding ritual?”
He jerked a shoulder. “Coach thought it was a good idea.” Kai sat up, allowing Amber to press the ice pack to his chest. “Sven wanted one but didn’t want to get it on his own. Beans said he’d get one too, solidarity. Then Gunnar wanted to add the baby to the tree on his back, he was going to do it in the summer so it just moved up the timeline. Caleb wanted his girlfriend’s birthday tattooed on his chest, but we talked him out of that.”
“Oh?”
“He’s known her for three weeks. We got him talked into something else. Something a little less sappy.”
“Okay, I can see how this became a team thing. So what did you get?”
“What do you think I got?”
“Ian thinks you got your number tattooed on your ass. I’m hoping to god it’s that rather than some horrifying version of Gavvy that’s waiting to pop out at me.”
“No one got Gavvy.” That was like marking yourself with the devil. Doom was bound to follow. They were already cursed with the mascot from hell, no one wanted to risk the idea of invoking the creature outside of the arena.
Amber curled up beside him and pressed a kiss to his shoulder. He wondered if she was giving thanks for the lack of Gavvy on his body. His shuddered. Not a good thought.
“Well, what did you get? I checked you and you don’t have any bandages or any new marks. Did you re-ink your phoenix? It looked a little different.”
Well, at least she’d noticed something. Still, maybe he should just say nothing, let her work herself into a lather trying to figure it out. Then again, the tattoo he’d chosen had been pretty simple. His team had been mildly disgusted with his tame choice.
But he wanted her to see it. Just to see her reaction.
He sat forward, the cold pack a cool press against his skin.
“Look under the phoenix.”
He felt her fingertips graze over the spot on his shoulder blade and he shivered. There was a soft breath and then her lips touched him, a burn that branded itself into his skin as much as the ink had.
“Oh! It’s a little ember. Way better than a girlfriend’s birthday Kai but equally as sappy.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s just a hot lump of coal that fell off the phoenix.”
“A hot lump of coal?” Her words reeked with derision.
“Mmhmm,” he murmured, easing onto his back and drawing her close, “not sure what kind of sentimental value you’re applying to it. I got something small and simple to appease the team.”
“Small and simple, a hot lump of coal. The compliments just keep coming. How do I cope with your gushing.”
He snickered, burying his face into the soft silk on her hair. It was good to be home. And that 12 hours being horizontal felt a little better with —
“Oh! Yes! I don’t owe Ian money!”
He shoved her away with a disgruntled sound. “I’m gonna get that ember doused.”
My favorite female character: Julia Fernandez. She is really badass.
My favorite male character: Well, it varies from season to season but mostly its Kane Yamashita.
My favorite book/season/etc. : G-Revolution was my favorite, but I like the others as well. For V-Force I like for the concept of character and season 1 for the amazing tournaments.
My favorite episode (if its a tv show): I loved the 48th episode of G-Revolution. It was such a masterpiece.
My favorite cast member: I liked Susan Roman tbh, I mean the English voice actress of Judy, Oliver and Salima.
My favorite ship: Kane x Salima!
A character I’d die defending: Brooklyn and Kane.
A character I just can’t sympathize with: I can't sympathize Dr. B and Gideon. They took the riskiest ways to lure children into using digital beasts. They are extremely manipulative.
A character I grew to love: I grew to love Brooklyn recently, ngl.
My anti otp: Kai with any girl apart from Julia, Hilary and an OC. Just no, its highly impossible for me to imagine Kai with any girl apart from them tbh.
Naruto
My favorite female character: Tenten. I love her, she is the best girl.
My favorite male character: Sasuke Uchiha. Can't find any nuanced and well-written character like him. I quite like Kuudere characters like him.
My favorite book/season/etc. :The fated battle between brothers. That was one of the best arcs in the series.
My favorite episode (if its a tv show): Episode 479, when all are happy and things are sorted out! But since it was a pretty simple episode, I might tell I loved the 140th episode.
My favorite cast member: Sasuke's voice actors in both English and Japanese. Also Itachi's as well.
My favorite ship: SasuSaku!
A character I’d die defending: Sakura Haruno/Uchiha. She is not my first favorite, but I have defended her for a lot of times. This itself should tell how insane her hate is.
A character I just can’t sympathize with: Danzo Shimura. Not him. He is an excellent villain, but I show no sympathy.
A character I grew to love: Temari. I pretty much disliked her during the chunin exams, but that's the case for even other contestants as well. She is pretty badass and likeable to me in general. I love her. I might tell even Neji because he was pretty mean. But out of the characters who I didn't love immediately, Neji and Temari showed bigger development in terms of likeability. I mean, my likeability was drastic for them.
My anti otp: SasuKarin and SasuHina. Heck I even prefer NaruSaku over them.
Sooo Im up at 1 am to give you just these quick sketches. I really wanna work on more expressions and body poses but hard to get some good references, if you get me.
But here’s at least my boi Kai and his basic portrait pose and some hand practices. Anyways listening to some vocaloid so there some Ren there, aaaaand me kinda.
Anyways gotta sleep and work and hopefully sit back here on the board.
Aolani is a Hawaiian name and means “beautiful cloud”. It is fairly common in Hawaii, but not anywhere else in the world.
Ekewaka
ORIGIN / USAGE English, Hawaiian PRONUNCIATION eh-keh-WAH-kah MEANING The protector or guardian of riches or wealth
More info about the name Ekewaka
Ekewaka is a Hawaiian variant of Edward. Edward is an English name that is derived from the Old English words “ead” which mean riches or wealth and “ward” which means protector or guard
Hani
ORIGIN / USAGE Arabic, Hawaiian
PRONUNCIATION HAH-nee
MEANING
Happy
More info about the name Hani
Hani is an Arabic name and literally means happy
Kahale
Hawaiian Etymology
ka (“the”) + hale (“house”). Often a short form of compound names beginning thus.
Pronunciation /kaˈha.le/, [kəˈhɐle]
Kahale
A male given name from Hawaiian. (Less common today) A female given name from Hawaiian. A surname.
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