Omake! - The Firecat Fanfics Blooper Reel
For "Wings" and "Sakura and Snow"
You know how it is when a sentence just doesn't come out right, or you look at a scene and realize there's something bizarre going on there that you never intended, or the characters just take off inside your head and get really, really silly. This is where you can find some snips and snails and puppy dog tails that didn't make it into my releases. (Thank goodness....)
Wings, Chapter 5, Scene 1, Take 3
Director: "Action!"
Staring at the tall, glowing rectangles of Subaru's windows, Kamui hesitated. Then he launched himself from the balcony rail. One swooping flap and then another carried him across the distance, and a third stroke, wings sharply angled-- [SPLAT!]
Director: "/CUT!/ Would someone please scrape Kamui off the wall /again/?"
Kamui: [spreadeagled against the bricks like a bug against a car window] "Itaiii...."
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Sakura and Snow, Chapter 8, Scene 1, Take 1
Subaru slipped one hand out of Kamui's grasp. He touched the boy's damp cheek with his fingers, and Kamui turned minutely toward that touch. "Kamui," Subaru murmured, "if I were coming back to you and I got run over by a bus, would you be angry with me?"
[The corner of Kamui's lip twitches upward. Subaru stares earnestly into Kamui's eyes. Kamui loses it completely, beginning to laugh.]
Director: "CUT!"
Kamui: [still snickering helplessly] "A bus? You've /got/ to be kidding."
Director: "Same scene, Take 2. Action!"
Subaru: "Kamui, if I were coming back to you and I got run over by a bus...." [Subaru begins to giggle this time, and Kamui rolls his eyes.]
Director: "CUT!"
Director: "Okay! Take 5! Action!"
Subaru: "Kamui...."
Kamui: [under his breath] "Vroom! vroom!"
Subaru: [starts to giggle again]
Director "/CUT!/"
Director: "Take 22, people. Action!"
Subaru: [just looking at Kamui is enough this time]
Director: "/Argh!/ Cut!--/CUT!/ Everyone break for lunch!"
Subaru: [breathless but still giggling] "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"
[After lunch]
Director: "Okay, people--take 23. Let's do it this time! Action!"
Subaru: [struggling heroically to keep a straight face] "Kamui...if I were coming back to you and I got run over by a bus...would you...would you be...angry?"
Kamui: [stares at Subaru for a long endless moment] "Oh, shit. What was my next line?"
Director: [falls into a heap in her chair]
Kamui: [defensively] "Well, I forgot it! I'm sorry!" [Subaru collapses on him and he staggers to support the onmyouji's weight.] "Whoa!"
Director. "All right! I give up! I'll rewrite the scene for you."
Seishirou: "Run over by a bus, hmm?"
Hokuto: "Sei-chan, that's even worse than your meteor speech in book six of Tokyo Babylon!"
Everyone else on the set: [sweats]
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Sakura and Snow, Drift I, Scene 2, Take 2
Director: "Action!"
Seishirou watched those fingers walk down the shirt's white lapel until they reached the first fastened button. They undid it, and the collar gaped wider at Subaru's neck. [Subaru continues to undo buttons slowly--/very/ slowly--with diversions in between each one, for the next six pages.] As Subaru finished and glanced at Seishirou, both arms twining sensuously above his head, Seishirou's gaze met his. Seishirou looked into those luminous, inviting depths before letting his eye slip aside. It traveled down the length of Subaru's stretched-out torso, sliding across the bared skin at his waist until it struck the demarcation of his jeans....
[Subaru looks down as well and realizes he's wearing button-fly jeans. After a moment of stunned contemplation, he curls into a ball and rolls onto his side, somehow laughing hysterically without making a sound. Seishirou slumps against the window frame as the sexual tension is unceremoniously released.]
Director: "/CUT!/ /Wardrobe!/"
Seishirou: [groans] "Subaru-kun, sometimes I think you enjoy torturing me...."
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Wings, Chapter 3, Scene 3, take 1
Director: "Action!"
The maze seemed to end where he was, at a place where the grove that surrounded it fell gradually away and the lawn began rolling in a gentle slope down toward a faroff river. A few meters away there was a huge, old tree on the crest of the knoll, set a little bit apart from the rest. Someone had hung a plank swing from one of its branches, and Subaru was sitting there, his shoulders slumped forward and his arms laced loosely about the swing's ropes. Gazing down the shallow incline that lay in front of him, he rocked himself back and forth with tiny nudges of one foot against the ground....
[A tremendous crackling erupts from the hedge maze, and Kamui bursts into view. He sprints past Subaru, trailing honeysuckle and a small cloud of angry insects.]
Kamui: "/Augh!/ Bees! BEES!!"
[Subaru watches Kamui thunder away down the hill toward the river.]
[He blinks.]
Director: "/CUT!/"
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[Author's note: So, was that stupid enough for you? <g> Subaru's line about being run over by a bus really did appear in an early draft of "Sakura"; fortunately, I became more cunning and edited it out before the chapter was ever released. The same goes for Tamura-san's firm manliness. *cough* The six-page unbuttoning sequence actually wasn't quite that bad; for some reason, my word processor resized all my pages to fit my (rather small) laptop screen. It probably was only about two normal-sized pages, butI still cut it some before release. The two scenes from "Wings" are just random silliness that occured to me one day; the bees are courtesy of my friend Sheri. Sorry, Sheri, no naked Kamui in this version....
[December 25, 2001 - I've moved the "Falling from the Moon" one to a new page, and added some more, in honor of the final release.]