#hakusanta2016

Long time no see! :) Sorry, we meant to make this post earlier, but we were waiting for all presents to come in, and it took a little longer than initially anticipated.

Thank you all so much for participating in the 2016 Secret Santa! We hope everyone had fun and had a nice holiday, we’re looking forward to hosting again next year. :)

If you have any complaints or suggestions about the way we handled things this year, you can send us an ask any time!

Merry (belated) Christmas and Happy New Year! 

For finrod-finwion for Hakuouki Secret Santa. I’m so sorry this is late and that this is kinda short! >w< It’s been very hectic for me this past month so I haven’t had much time to write. Sorry about that.   ๑•́ㅿ•̀๑) ᔆᵒʳʳᵞ  

On another note, this is my first Hakuouki fanfic, so I hope they’re both in character. 

Prompt: Hijikata/Chizuru, something post-canon

A baby’s cry rang out through the house, startling Hijikata out of his thoughts and making him jump up from his seat on the engawa, already halfway through removing his sandals and opening the shoji door before his mind fully registered the source of the sound. He rushed inside and towards the bedroom, only to freeze in the doorway.

There, laying on the futon in the middle of the room, was his wife, looking tired as the midwife placed a small bundle in her arms. A small bundle that was currently sniffling and squirming, with a tiny hand peeking out from between the folds.

Chizuru turned to look at him, giving him a tired smile. “Toshizo-san, come look at our son.”

Shaken out of his stupor, he did as she asked and walked forward, kneeling down next to the futon to peer down at the bundle in her arms. “It’s a boy then, just like you thought?”

She smiled, a twinkle appearing in her eyes as she moved the edges of the blanket to better show him the baby wrapped in it. “Yes. I told you so.”

“Yeah”, Hijikata agreed, a fond smile growing on his face as he gazed at his son, who’d finally fallen quiet and seemed to be asleep. “Yeah, you did.”

-_____-

~Two months earlier~

“Toshizo-san, dinner is ready.”

An absent hum was all the answer Chizuru got from her husband, who didn’t even turn to look at her from where he was bent over his work. She released a low breath, placing her arms on her hips as she frowned and tried again, this time more insistently. “Toshizo-san.”

Another hum.

She frowned. “Toshizo-san, please come to eat with me. The food will get cold.”

Yet another hum.

“Toshizo-san, are you listening to me?”

Hijikata grunted in agreement.

Chizuru stared at his hunched back for a moment, waiting to see if he’d actually register her presence for once. When no other answer seemed forthcoming, she huffed indignantly. Well then. It seemed she’d have to take matters into her own hands.

With steps surprisingly fast for a woman 7 months pregnant, she crossed the distance between her and her husband, reached down, and snatched the papers from his desk with easiness that only came with practice. It was with that same easiness that she ignored his glare, instead leveling him with her best frown.

“Toshizo-san, the dinner is ready.”

“I heard you the first time. I’ll come eat in a few minutes”, Hijikata assured her, extending his arm towards her. “Now give those back.”

“If you go back to work now, the food will be long cold before you come to eat. I’m sure you can finish this up later.”

“I told you, it’s just a few minutes. Now give them back.”

Chizuru leveled him with an unimpressed look. “That’s what you said the last ten times. You need to eat, and letting the food get cold would be a waste.”

“Then you go eat already. I’m fine with cold food”, Hijikata replied, only to freeze when he saw his wife narrow her eyes just slightly.

“Toshizo-san, you might be fine with letting the food go cold, but I spent a long time making it, and I’d much rather not see it ruined because you decided working was more important than eating with your wife.”

They stared at each other for a moment, a battle of wills so common in their relationship, before Hijikata sighed in defeat. “Fine. You win. Let’s go eat.”

Five minutes later found them sitting at the table, just about to start eating when Chizuru’s eyes widened. “Oh!”

Hijikata raised a questioning eyebrow. “What?”

“I forgot to bring the tea tray from the kitchen”, she replied as she made a move to get up, before thinking better of it and looking at him. “Could you go get it?”

“Hm? Sure, but why can’t you get it yourself?”

Chizuru gave him a long stare, glancing pointedly down at her extended stomach before looking back at him, making him cough and stand up.

“Right. Point taken. Nevermind”, he assured, and walked out of the room.

Once he’d returned with the tea tray and they’d finally started eating, Chizuru took a moment to look at her husband before asking:

“What should we name our baby?”

Hijikata paused in his eating, raising an eyebrow. “Hell if I know. What brought this up?”

“Well, I think it’s good to have the name ready when the baby is born. Do you have any ideas?”

“Not really. Never been great with stuff like this. You got anything?”

Chizuru tilted her head, unconsciously placing a hand on her stomach as she hummed in thought. “Hmm. Maybe… Kenta? Or Takeshi? Or….” Suddenly, her eyes brightened. “Oh, I know! How about Soutaro?”

Hijikata choked on his tea, coughing as he tried to clear his airways while waving away Chizuru’s worried questions. Once he felt like he could breathe again, he gave her an incredulous look and asked:

“Where the hell did THAT come from?”

Chizuru blinked. “Well, I’ve always liked the sound of a name ending in ‘taro’, and since it’s our first child, it’d be very fitting, wouldn’t it?”

Hijikata was not convinced. “But why that name? That’s just asking for a troublemaker kid, you know.”

She huffed. “Oh, don’t be silly, Toshizo-san. It’s a perfectly normal name. And it’d be fitting to name him after someone from the Shinsengumi, no? And Okita-san was like a younger brother to you, in the end, wasn’t he?”

“...Souji’s never going to let me live this down. Probably laughing his ass off, wherever he is”, he grumbled, ruffling his hair with a sigh, ignoring how his wife giggled at him. Suddenly, he realized something. “Wait, why are you only thinking up boys’ names? It could be either.”

“Hmm, no, it’s a boy”, Chizuru said, voice sure as she rubbed her stomach absentmindedly.

Hijikata stared at her. “How the hell would you know? We won’t know until it’s born.”

She blinked again. “Well, he feels like a boy.”

“Feels-? That doesn’t make sense.”

“Well, you’re not the one with the baby inside her, are you?” she pointed out, before looking at his still mostly-full plate. “Toshizo-san, your food is getting cold.”

With that, she went back to eating, and after a moment of staring at her, Hijikata followed her example, deciding that there was no point in arguing about it. There was no use arguing against her, after all.

Christmas day is now over! Of the people who haven’t gotten their presents yet, we should’ve gotten in touch with everyone with word from their santas about when they think they should be able to finish. If you’re without a present and haven’t gotten a message from us, get in touch!

For:  @abstractcactus 

From: Your Hakuouki Secret Santa

Words: ~ 4500

I hope you enjoy this!  And it is still December 25th here for one more minute!

Hey, Merry Christmas to everyone! I am putting this on schedule and I never put things on schedule before so I'm hoping this works. Anyway, this is for my Hakuouki Secret Santa ( @hakuokisecretsanta​ ) , who is @amikoroyai​, who's one of the prompts were " Something with Saito, like playing with a cat" . I was so for this (I had wonderful flashbacks to that Two Toshizo drama cd), and this prompt worked out well for artwork, so that is the one I picked.  He's playing with the cat with his scarf! He's smiling a bit more than I intended but shhhh, he's just that into it, okay?

Sadly, though, I was little rushed this year with how busy I am this Christmas, so the painting itself lacked a little bit in the shading, and realigning the anatomy that was messed up in the initial painting process where I painted over the lines (I ended up doing the painting part of it before work haha...ha) still I hoped you like it! I initially had intentions of putting Souji in there, but it just wasn't working out, sadly. I decided to try out watercolour for the background, since I haven't worked with watercolour since high school and it was really fun to do! I wanted to experiment more with mixing and all that before I tried something like Saito himself though, so I went back into familiar territory with acrylics.

Merry Christmas @onekiri ! I was your Secret Santa :D

You wanted “Kazama cooking or shopping with Sen-hime? heck anything involving him in domestic situations” so have some KazSen shopping and then hugging in their home <3

I managed to take part at the Hakuouki Santa this year! My gift is for @gluecookie! Hope you like it! And Merry Christmas! Hope you have a wonderful day today!

The prompt was HeiChi cuddling so I took the freedom to make them SSL ver., hope you don’t mind!

Merry Christmas to @a-beru!! :D I was your Hakuouki Secret Santa this year and had a lot of fun writing this, I hope you will enjoy :) [I will probably post it on fanfiction.net later on]