#kyouryuuger

[egophiliac]

THEY'RE GETTING MARRIIIIIEEEEED

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Can you do a Marvelous/any Red(s) of your choice 25? Been hooked on the promts on ao3 going by the term "Marvelous and his increasing collection of Reds"

Good heavens, I’m going to have a time of it getting AO3 updated, I ought to start on that this weekend. Anyway, last time it was Commie’s Choice Of Reds we went with Ryo from Dairanger, Yamato and the LuPat boys have both gotten kind of a lot of love (and will continue to get it if the state of my inbox is any indication), I’ve only seen three episodes of Go-Busters so far so I don’t think I can do Hiromu yet, Right is a child...let’s go with King.

There’s something about dinosaur guys.

Don isn’t sure what it is about them, exactly, but it’s definitely there. An energy, a charisma, a vividness. He wouldn’t be surprised to think that it comes from their partners, that they absorb the wildness of the enormous monsters that they work with and only control by courtesy and teamwork. Nothing he’d want to do on a regular basis, definitely, but it suits them.

The Kyouryugers definitely have that energy, whatever it is. The party they’re throwing now isn’t exactly raucous, but Don’s definitely been in quieter rooms. Their Blue brought takeout, and also a kaijin woman that he’s apparently dating, and the kaijin woman brought a kaijin child who’s talking about comics with Gai. Joe and Luka are chatting about swords with a high schooler.

And there’s dancing. Someone put music on earlier, and Kyouryu Black, whose name he vaguely recalls being Ian, is swinging Ahim around the room as she beams at him. Kyouryu Blue and his kaijin girlfriend are dancing too, Kyouryu Pink and Kyouryu Gold are doing a sort of two-step, and Kyouryu Red--King, his name is King--is showing Marvelous some dance he learned in his travels.

“I like them.”

Don jumps. “Luka! I thought you were over there!”

“Yeah, but I couldn’t just let you mope in the corner. Anyway, dinosaur guys are always fun.” She grins. “Dance with me, don’t just stand around.”

“O-ok, if you want to.” He lets her haul him into the middle of the room.

They swing past King and Marvelous in time to hear King saying, “Here, you gotta put your hips into it.” He grabs Marvelous’ waist, spinning both of them together. “You know?”

Marvelous looks down at King’s hands, puts his own hands on King’s shoulders, and says, “How about I just let you lead.”

“Sure, if you want.” King smiles like he can’t imagine a world in which people cry. “It’s really easier for me to teach if we just start moving. So I step here, and you follow me...”

They’re going for a few minutes before Don realizes what’s going on and says in Luka’s ear, “Is it just me, or is the captain pretending to be a worse dancer than he actually is?”

She squints at them and then frowns. “Holy shit, he is. Damn. He must really like this guy.”

“Well, he does seem likable.” Don pauses. “Given the look on his face we may want to give them some space.”

“Yeah, come on, we’ll go hang out with Souji more, you’ll like him.”

The other dancers are also clearing the floor, breaking into conversation groups or getting food while King and Marvelous keep dancing. Marvelous is clearly restraining himself, but he’s not good at pretending to be bad at things; he nods along with King’s murmured instructions while his moving feet get more and more easily, unconsciously sure. Eventually the instructions stop, and it’s obvious that they’re both just dancing for the fun of it, the pretense dropped.

Next to Don, Kyouryu Pink says, “Damn, your captain’s a good dancer.”

“He likes to show off.” Don laughs nervously. “Your, uh, your Red is. Really something.”

“King’s a little overwhelming, it’s ok.” She smiles brightly at him. “So you guys haven’t seen any Deboss offshoots out in space, have you?”

“Pardon me, have we seen what?”

In the middle of the room, King swings Marvelous around and then down into an impressive dip, and his voice is only barely loud enough for Don to hear him saying, “And if we were on a date, this’s where I’d probably try to kiss you.”

Marvelous grins up at him. “So what’s stopping you now?”

The trick of being at a party is that sometimes, everyone just needs to pretend they’re not staring at something. Which is to say that it’s a pretty lengthy kiss. Possibly several kisses.

“So I think we’ll probably need to expect him home in the morning,” Kyouryu Pink says to Kyouryu Gold, who nods thoughtfully and murmurs a quiet assent. “Does your ship have soundproofing?”

Don blinks at her. “Does it have what?”

“Soundproofing. I think--yeah, they’re definitely leaving. King gets noisy.”

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Souji/Ian??? Or King with anyone? 7?

Thank you for giving me an out on this one, Anon--I can absolutely see the basis for Souji/Ian as a ship in the show, but I’m not super comfortable with it myself. I can and will, however, happily write you some King/Ucchi (with low-key hints of King/Amy, Ucchi/Amy, and the attendant OT3) with a romantic kiss. (Also, figuring out the details of this one led to a very fun conversation in the car, which started out at “would Ucchi know what chocolate is”--no, he would not--and ended with a ton of goofy headcanons spinning off of the 100 Years After special.)

The Spirit Base has all sorts of little rooms that he doesn't typically go into, but it doesn't seem to have electricity at all, so he's been curious about where Torin might have been hiding a washing machine. As it turns out, there isn't one--Ucchi, when Daigo finds him, has his jacket off, his sleeves rolled up, and his hair up in a bun, and he's doing laundry in a tub of soapy water. His back is to the doorway; he doesn't hear Daigo come in.

"Hey, Ucchi."

Ucchi jumps, nearly splashing himself in the face, and scrambles to his feet. "King-dono! I wasn't expecting you. Please, ah, hold on a moment." He casts around for a moment before finding a towel sitting on a nearby table and drying off his hands and arms. "What brings you here today? Is there a monster to fight?"

"No, not today. Fortunately. Actually, I was looking for you." King holds out the box he brought with both hands, grinning. "Here."

Ucchi accepts the box, looking puzzled. "Thank you, King-dono. Ah...not that I'm not delighted to receive a gift from you, but what is the occasion?"

"They're Valentine's chocolates."

Ucchi's forehead wrinkles.

"Oh right, right, they didn't do Valentine's during the Sengoku, did they, never been great at history. It's a holiday, you give chocolates to guys you like."

Ucchi nods slowly. "Forgive my ignorance, but. What are chocolates?"

Daigo stares at him for a moment before the realization hits. "They didn't have chocolate in the Sengoku either, did they? It's a kind of candy, it tastes like...it's really hard to explain, it's easier to just try them."

"I see." Ucchi still doesn't any less puzzled. "And you give these candies to...comrades?"

"Well, not exactly, mostly it's women giving them to men." Daigo scratches the back of his head nervously. "You know."

There's a long moment before realization dawns, and Ucchi flushes slowly, attractively pink. "I. I see." He looks down at the box in his hands. "Thank you, King-dono. I...regret that I didn't know about this custom, or I would have gotten some for you."

Daigo relaxes minutely; he'd half-expected Ucchi to hand them back to him, or somehow contrive to leave the room and then avoid him for the next few days or forever. "That's all right, you didn't have any reason to know about it."  He gestures to the box of chocolates. "Anyway, these are chocolate-covered strawberries, I thought you might enjoy them. Would you like to try one?"

"I'd like that very much, thank you." Ucchi carefully slides the ribbon off the box and takes off the lid, revealing the strawberries in their little paper cups. He lifts one by its green top and inspects it, looking fascinated, holds it to his nose and breathes in the chocolate scent.

When he finally takes a bite his eyes flutter shut. Daigo realizes that he's staring, and furthermore that he's jealous--either of Ucchi, for getting to taste chocolate for the first time, or of the strawberry, for being the subject of Ucchi's reverent attention.

"That is..." Ucchi drops the top of the strawberry back into its paper, blinking. "I can see why one might give these to someone they...admired." He gives Daigo a shy upwards look, which is impressive from someone barely a few centimetres shorter than him. "May I share one with you?"

"I'd love one, if you want to share. Chocolate-covered strawberries are a favorite of mine."

"Here, then. For you." Ucchi picks another strawberry from the box and holds it out.

Grinning, Daigo ducks his head and eats the strawberry directly from Ucchi's hand, lips brushing his fingertips. Ucchi sucks in a sharp breath, but doesn't jerk his hand back, or for that matter look away from him as he savors the bite.

There's an awkward silence between them once Daigo swallows his mouthful, and he breaks it with a question that's been starting to worry him. "Look, like I said, I was never great at history, were there, like...attitudes about kissing during the Sengoku?"

Ucchi turns bright red. "Certainly nothing like the current views on it, I'm sometimes shocked at what people now feel is acceptable in public. Kissing is an extremely intimate act."

"Well..." Daigo glances around. "We're alone right now. Can I kiss you?"

Ucchi swallows visibly and nods.

Daigo takes the box of chocolates from his hands and puts them aside, closing the gap between them with one step. Ucchi doesn't kiss him at first as much as let himself be kissed, but after a moment he sways forward into Daigo's embrace, and his eyes close in the same way they did when he was eating the strawberry.

The laundry sits forgotten in the tub next to them.

--

Torin glances in through the door of the laundry room and immediately steps back and heads out to the main room of the Base. "I was wondering when King would get around to that."

Amy appears in the entryway a moment later and brightens up when she sees him. "Torin! Hi! Have you seen King anywhere? Or Ucchi?"

Torin glances at the two large, flat boxes she's carrying--both marked "Läderach," one tied with a red ribbon and the other with gold--and makes some quick calculations before saying, "They're both in the laundry room."

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Daigo/Utchy, 19

19 is a Forceful Kiss

Utsusemimaru spends the morning assembling a bookcase for the Spirit Base. The base doesn’t have much furniture as a rule, of course, but Amy’s manga collection has gotten a bit out of control, and at this point they really need somewhere to put it. He functionally lives there, so he’s considered asking her to take them home, but truth be told, he’s started reading them. So has Torin. And he’s fairly sure he spotted Ramirez sneaking off with a volume the other day. So a bookcase for the Spirit Base it is.

He gets the thing put together successfully entirely in spite of the baffling pictorial instructions, and he’s just shelving the last book when Nobu and Souji appear in the entryway with King supported between them.

“Ah! Friends! I have--” He stops. “King-dono, what is wrong?”

“New monster hit him.” Souji ducks away from King’s swaying head for no visible reason. “It’s, uh. It’s got some. Interesting powers. You might want to leave the room, he keeps trying to--”

King’s head snaps up. His face is flushed, and there are, alarmingly, little pink hearts floating in his enormously dilated pupils. “Ucchi! Hey!”

Utsusemimaru only has time to say, “Are you feeling--” before King lunges at him and tackles him to the ground.

He’s not sure what he was expecting, but he’s still entirely unprepared for what he gets, which is a hard, open-mouthed kiss with liberal application of tongue. His first reaction is a flash of hot arousal, followed by an equally powerful upswelling of shock at such an intimacy being witnessed by their teammates. “King-dono,” he hisses as soon as his mouth is free, “we are in public.”

“That,” Souji says, sounding exhausted. “He keeps trying to do that. He actually got Nossan before we got him down here.”

“First time I’ve been kissed in ages.” Nobu groans. “I mean, he’s hardly bad at it, but he’s also not exactly my first choice.”

King is...the only word Utsusemimaru can think of is nuzzling at his face. “Ucchiiii, you smell really good.”

“We have not ceased to be in public, King-dono.” The nuzzling is rapidly becoming distracting; Ucchi extracts himself from King’s grip with some difficulty and stands up. “Has he. Ah. Been like this for long?”

“At least half an hour now, I’m pretty sure it’s not going to--” Nobu stops. “I was going to make a joke there, but I feel like under the circumstances it might actually be tasteless. We need to deal with the monster. I’m sorry, Ucchi, could you keep an eye on him while we take care of it? Amy and Ian are on their way, and I’ll give you a call if it gets big, but right now he’s just going to get himself in trouble.”

Ucchi is about to respond when King’s arms wrap around him from behind, and King’s mouth presses to the back of his neck. “Iii. Ah. Yes. I will. Keep him out of trouble. You two go.” A beat, and--he’ll admit that he’s never been a paragon of the masculine ideal, but mainly that’s just an issue of being a poor poet and having a tendency to laugh nervously in uncomfortable social situations. Now he’s fairly sure that if King continues in this vein he’ll swoon like a maiden, which he would prefer his comrades not see. “Immediately, please.”

[zadvent]

Zyuden Sentai Kyouryuuger was my first Sentai . I'll always have a soft spot for it.