Titolo: ready, set, go
Fandom: Free!
Personaggi: Nagisa Hazuki/Sousuke Yamazaki, Tachibana Makoto/Matsuoka Rin, Aiichirou, Momotarou, Haruka, Rei
Genere: fluff (UN PO' ok), fantasy
Avvertimenti: fandom!AU, in inglese, pwp
Parole: 1921
Note: Eeee anche per la missione 4 del COW-T ("fandom!AU", anche se a dire il vero varrebbe anche per la M2 ma la M4 è quella con più punti da raggiungere >____<) sto a posto \o\ non sono tante parole, ma è qualcosa ok >_< la AU è settata nell'universo di ATLA (più nell'universo di Legend of Korra tho, e idealmente dopo la morte di Korra quindi in un contesto più futuristico dello steampunk della serie, ma comunque immagino che il pro-bending sia rimasto uguale, quiiiindi.) Vale anche per la giornata 4 del freerarepair, "Fantasy/Historical/Futuristic AU", dove porto la SouGisa /o/
E il titolo è patetico ma anche sticazzi *si accascia e non è neanche mezzogiorno*

"Careful!" Sousuke yells, while the stadium's roars surround him and his team. Rin has learnt not to turn around and look at him, but he catches a glimpse of the shot being directed at him. Promptly, he avoids the water shot, and from the palm of his hand he sends out a string of quick, consecutive fire hits.
Makoto, on the other side of the field, immediately raises a rock disc to defend himself, sighing. "Haru, quicker!" He commands, and his waterbending friend nods, launching himself forward to try again. But Makoto has now gotten that their strategy is to pick him out first, and then the others.
It's the last set of the pro-bending tournament's match for today, everything is decided in the next few moves.
Nagisa is in the third and last zone before facing a jump into the warm water and the end of the game for him - he's been pushed there by two consecutive attacks by Sousuke, and now he's had enough. He wants to keep playing as long as possible. He grits his teeth, deciding this is it. He jumps as high as he can, evoking wind to help him, and then using that same current he's created to push Rin off his feet, sending him to the second zone. He sighs, stepping back on the ground while avoiding all hits directed to him, and deviating those he can that fly against his team mates with his wind.
Momotarou, the third member of the opposite team, is also an airbender. He stands in the first zone, unmoved since the match began, and his movements are fast, somehow unpredictable. Nagisa likes him as a friend, but he really wishes something would keep him still...
Makoto is making discs fly regularly, but he is tired at this point. They would just need some new strategy... they absolutely need to push Rin off. But Sousuke, a few seconds later, sees exactly through all the attacks, somehow, and uses a moment of Nagisa having his guard lowered to push him off the ring with an earth disc. Nagisa yelps, while his feet fly away from the ground.
"Oh, nope," he whispers, however, pushing himself back on the surface with a wind thrust. Sousuke stares, blinking.
"Hey, that's not fair!" He protests.
"You should've pushed harder, Sou-chan," Nagisa replies with a grin, and the other blushes, sighing while everybody goes back to their place. "It's still not fair."
However, the judge does not object to Nagisa's move to stay on the ring, so Haruka and Makoto can take a relieved sigh.
"Pay more attention, Nagisa," Haruka says, picking water from the holes in the ground for the next charge.
"Oh, sorry I'm too busy protecting you from Rin-chan," the blond airbender replies, frustrated. "If you weren't so slow..."
"Hey, guys, head in the game," Makoto interrupts them, lifting a rock disc.
And then the match continues.

It finishes with the Iwatobi Mackerels (Makoto is the captain, but Haruka only joined on one condition: getting to choose the name, and well, Makoto can barely ever say no to him) losing at the last moment, while the Samezuka Sharks (Rin is the captain, enough said) triumph, but there is no feeling of anger or resentment. As soon as the match ends, Sousuke dives in the water, no matter that he's won, to go and pick Nagisa up, despite the fact that his blond boyfriend told him at least a billion times not to do that. He does not complain, anyway, when Sousuke drags him to the lift.
"Come on, Sou-chan, go on and gloat," Nagisa begins, pouting, while they both walk to the locker rooms.
"I have no intention to, I'm above that," Sousuke replies, with a crooked smile. Nagisa puffs out, but he smiles as soon as their lips meet, since the taller one is hell bent on making him grin as usual, and has tilted his head up for their mouths to touch. "By the way, you could've told me you wanted me to push harder," he continues, only to see Nagisa's face turn red, but it doesn't. The small boy just scoffs, nudging him away softly.
"Go change," he just says, entering the Iwatobi room.
Rin, as usual, is arguing with Makoto. Being the two captains of two opposite teams and also being in a relationship causes that every time. And usually it ends with them making up in five minutes - Haruka has counted the time - and Momotarou rolling his eyes.
"What Nagisa did is not fair, anyway. I mean, I could propel myself back on the ring with fire, everybody could do that with their bending," Rin argues, poking Makoto's sides.
"Well, the judge found nothing wrong with it..." the pacific earthbender replies quietly. "Besides, you won, so there is really nothing to be angry about. Right?"
"... Right," Rin concedes, more to stop the argument than to agree.
"If we have to talk about unfair, it's also against the rules to bend the opposite zone's discs," Haruka intervenes enigmatic before entering the locker room where Nagisa is changing his clothes. Makoto laughs awkwardly, grabbing Rin's hand. "You won, it's done, so there's no reason to fight, right?" He says before the redhead can yell something back to Haruka. He just snorts, nodding and giving Makoto an angry peck on the lips. Haruka and Momotarou look at each other, sighing empathetically.
"Always like that..." Momo comments, stretching as he yawns tiredly.
"Yeah," Haruka agrees, entering his team's room last.

"It's going to go better in the next tournament!" Nagisa is preaching enthusiastically to Rei, their best friend, who has watched the match with pure tension in his eyes. He hates seeing Nagisa being hit the most because he is so small and every time he gets hurt, it's Rei that has to medicate him.
"I'd rather you stopped putting yourself in front of all the hits..." Rei replies, knowing that discussion is a dead end. Because...
"But I can deflect fire and water!" The blond friend protests, sighing.
"Yes, but you can't possibly deflect earth rings," Rei continues, pursing his lips.
"I can try!" Nagisa continues, more and more pumped. "Hey, what about we train before the next tournament? Makoto launches earth rings against me and I try deflecting them!"
"Absolutely not!" Rei exclaims, grabbing his shoulders and shaking him. "Do you want to have a concussion? Do you want to die?" He yells dramatically.
"I would not do that anyway," Makoto says while taking his uniform off.
"Mako-chan, support me! I would take them for the team!" Nagisa protests, pouting.
"Yeah, like when you said you'd seduce Yamazaki for the team and look at you two now," Haruka mutters while walking in front of him.
"Hey!" Nagisa barks, blushing. "I really meant to be the mole, it's not my fault that he's so gorgeous and nice and he's got--"
"We don't wanna hear it," his blue eyed friend cuts him off, waving a hand while going to shower.
Makoto giggles at their banter, while also going to shower. Nagisa pouts, left in the room with Rei. Whatever.
On a whim, he decides to enter the Samezuka Sharks' locker room, and Aiichirou - the team's number one fan, and Rin's biggest not-so-secret admirer - blinks looking at him.
"What are you doing here?" He asks, covering his already dressed up body irrationally and blushing.
"Relax, Ai-chan," Nagisa giggles, patting his shoulder.
"I'm sorry for the match," Ai continues, actually relaxing.
"Ah, whatever, it's gone."
They spend a few minutes chatting - to be fair, Nagisa always does almost all the talking, no matter who he is conversing with - before the blond decides to say goodbye and move to the showers.
"Sou-chan?" He asks out loud, and Sousuke's voice comes out right after, directing him to the right box. "What?"
"I just thought we might shower together," Nagisa explains, pulling the curtain aside to reveal Sousuke's naked body. Every time he sees it, his whole body tingles, and his fingers act on their own, pulling him to Sousuke like vines had tangled them.
They kiss under the hot water jet, both blushing while the bigger male laughs on the airbender's lips.
"You're still dressed," he notes, but Nagisa makes his uniform fly away right after.
"Hey, you're gonna be indecent in there?" Rin barks, while Momotarou sighs under his own jet of water. They are one on a side of Sousuke's box, and one in the other.
"Yeah!" Nagisa calls back, giggling before kissing Sousuke again. He stands on his toes, while the other cackles at the constant banter with these boys.
"Okay, I'm out," Rin immediately mutters. He's finished anyway.
"Oh, like we didn't have to hear you and Tachibana getting it on in the showers before..." Sousuke teases, with a giggle from the blond.
Rin blushes violently for the umpteenth time today, muttering grumpy under his breath.
"Ah, Matsuoka-senpai! Congratulations on your victory!" Ai squeals, hopping on his toes like a puppy. Rin glances at him, with a small smile.
"Thanks, Ai. You wanna hang out?" He asks, tiredly.
"Yes! But what about your boyfriend?" The other replies, happily.
"He's coming too, want it or not," Rin decides, knowing Makoto will indeed tag along.

Nagisa holds Sousuke's hands while exchanging sloppy kisses under the water, and guides them behind his back.
"By the way, congratulations, Sou-chan," he whispers quietly, and smiles up at the earthbender, who first blinks then smiles amused.
"Thank you."
"Even though I'm sure you cheated at some point," Nagisa murmurs, smirking.
"Well, hear hear who's talking..." Sousuke gently snaps back, in a playful tone.
The smaller leans his head against the other's chest, making his fingers trail up his arms and then tie behind his neck.
Yes, he was supposed to be a mole of sorts in the other team's strategies, and he had managed to make Sousuke interested before realizing just how sweet he is, but when he did, he changed his mind. A game would not be more important than getting close to this boy. And Sousuke presented just the kind of challenge Nagisa was looking for. Rejecting him at first and refusing to open up to him, Sousuke practically invited him to snoop around him, until he reached the point where he could not remember ever being cold to him. And then during a training together Sousuke accidentally had sent an earth disc to smack against Nagisa's forehead, and immediately rushed to help.
Maybe it was the bump, but Nagisa saw him differently all of a sudden. It's the kind of fairytale thing he never believed in, but right after, he forgot all about his original plan. He knows about teams that cannot stand each other, but he actually adores the Samezuka team, and he knows the other adore his team too. He really hopes that will never change.
Because the game is important and, after all, Rin and Haruka want to go on doing this, maybe bring bending outside of this context even though there is no real need to - wars have been over for decades -, but Nagisa and Sousuke both happened to plan to fly to Ba Sing Se, since it is near the Northern Air Temple.
But right now, there is no need to worry about the future.
They are young stars, and the path from here on only seems to be brightly lit with candles, one they can walk through together.