[Hikaru no Go] Fic: Hair Today, Go Tomorrow

[flonnebonne]

Usually I feel a need to let my finished fics sit on my hard drive for a while to germinate (get moldy). This gives me time to edit them (decide not to post them in case they make someone want to stick red hot pokeys in their eyes).

I figured I’d better post this one right away or no one would ever see it.

Title: Hair Today, Go Tomorrow
Genre: Humour
Spoilers: None
Summary: Touya learns exactly what Shindou thinks about his haircut.




Hair Today, Go Tomorrow

Knock knock was the sound Touya’s fist was supposed to be making against Shindou’s door, but he didn’t think it would be very polite to intrude on the conversation he could hear Shindou conducting with his mother inside the house.

“There’s nothing unprofessional about my hair! Go isn’t about hair! And since when did you care anyway?”

“I try to care but you never let me!”

Touya was starting to seriously doubt whether he and Shindou would be playing go today.

“Have you seen Waya’s hair? He puts like a whole thing of gel in it every day and it looks like an animal died in it but you never bug him about it!”

“Waya isn’t my son!”

“And what about Yashiro’s hair? It’s white!

“At least Yashiro respects his parents!”

“You’re just saying that ‘cause he compliments your cooking!”

Touya turned around to leave.

“And look at Touya’s stupid haircut!”

Touya turned around again.

“It makes him look like a freaking girl but you’re always saying ‘Touya’s such a good boy! Look at how polite he is! Look how he makes his parents proud wah wah wah!’”

“That’s because he does!”

“But he’s got a stupid haircut!”

“There’s nothing wrong with his hair! It’s just...youngish.”

“It’s screaming ‘jailbait!’”

Touya blinked. Jailbait?

“I bet it's why he wins his games against all the 10-dan geezers!”

“Hikaru, that’s horrible!”

Jailbait?

“Aw, who cares about you, I’m getting out of here.”

Touya felt a door whamming open into his face.

“T-touya!” Shindou managed to splutter, face flushed with equal parts mortification and anger. “You were eavesdropping?”

Touya felt a door slamming closed in his face.

“Jailbait?” he said.

---

When he got home, Touya looked up a certain word in the dictionary.

The next day, he got a haircut.



[Edit] A gigantic thank you to kali on fanfiction.net for pointing out that Shindou's mom wouldn't be calling him "Shindou." Weehoo! That was a silly mistake but it's fixed now.

Comments

[shinra-lackey.livejournal.com]

Lol. This fic just pushed all of my Hikago buttons. You've got to love old go geezers and their obsession with young up and coming go boys. The part that really killed me though was when Touya did a complete about face as soon as he heard his name, the straight forward way you wrote it just cracked me up.

[issen4.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'd love to know what made Hikaru's mother get on his case about the hair, but the entire conversation was funny.

[flonnebonne]

I'd love to know what made Hikaru's mom get her panties in a knot too! If you figure it out let me know.

Thanks for commenting!

[flonnebonne]

Thank ye! I liked the straightforward style too--because it made the fic really easy to write! Gya ha ha!

But seriously, thank you.

[svz-insanity.livejournal.com]

I just found this fic. This is wonderful. *snerks* XXD I love Hikaru's hair the way it is (I even wrote a fic about it because it's so... him. I can't imagine Hikaru without his bleached bangs) and Akira can still be Akira without his page-boy cut (which makes him look like Haku from Spirited Away).

[flonnebonne]

Thanks for commenting and glad you liked! I read your story Bleached too--it was cute and sweet and a funny. Thanks for telling me about it!

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

ahahahahahaahahahahahahah! thank you so so so so much for writing this. XD! that's one of those things i was wondering, because in a series where they actually bother to age the characters as time passes, i'm intrigued by how touya has apparently had the same hairstyle since birth. XD

[flonnebonne]

Yeah, and it's a hairstyle that has to be rigorously maintained too. I'm betting his mom trims it for him. Thanks for commenting!

Btw, have you seen harukami's fic The Rumour Mill, in which Touya also cuts his gay gay gay hair? Not to mention her picture post that includes a few shots of his technicolour outfits?

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

XD totally. or maybe he's learned how to himself, now. (it's actually not that difficult to trim one's own hair, as long as nothing fancy is really needed.) it would be a nice obsessive habit. :D

part of my glee with harukami's fic is that i had read this one almost directly beforehand. XD i was like, "whee! haircuts!" it was all good. and the picture post cracks me up.

i hope you don't mind that i've recced this in my reccing journal, heartingthing. :D

[flonnebonne]

What a weird coincidence! I kind of experienced the same thing yesterday--I was reading a water-themed HikaGo fic somewhere (I think it was at the hikarunogo community) when bam! karabana came out with a great fic called Preciptation, which I saw the next day. Not to mention I've written a watery fic myself (plug plug plug)...anyway, as far as I know all these HikaGo writers have been writing on the same themes independent of each other. :)

Oh, and of course I am totally angry that you recced my fic. So, so angry that I've friended your fic journal. Take that.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

as my mother just said re: a completely unrelated topic, "great minds think alike!" i'm sure she made that up.

ahahah, it is a journal full of spam. feel free. :) i shall friend your journal, however, to keep on top of things worth spamming. (mua ha ha.)

[moonythestrals.livejournal.com]

*laughs* oh, that was absolutely fabulous. (& not just because my name's kali, too.)

;P

[flonnebonne]

Why thank you! Glad you enjoyed. :)

[she-universe.livejournal.com]

I'm clearly rifling through your fics. I hope you don't mind.

See, i would like to say that it's cute and in character and quite cleverly done out? but all i can think is jailbait and winning against older players right now,

do excuse.

[flonnebonne]

Of course I don't mind! I really like it when my old fics get reviewed, actually.

Touya does terrible things to your mind, does he not?

[she-universe.livejournal.com]

(oh good, now my awful lurkerness doesn't seem that bad)

He does. Oh, he does--you just can't help it. Even though he really asks for it with those clothes and that hair and the way he says "Shindou, let's play" with his soft Shindou voice...

(<-is a worse person)