Hi, people! Time is up, last-minute entries are in, reviews are out, and now I'm going to go all Strictly-Come-Dancing on you and say that THIS...is the moment...of Truth.

In third place: Rolopolo with Love Has no Recipe. A gorgeous, graceful fic full of amazing character insights and beautifully developed cooking analogies.

In second place: GypsyxSilent with This Moment. Lovely schizophrenic darkfic with an 'I've never thought of this before but why the hell not?' pairing.

And in first place: Kitty-Kat K.O with Utterly Incomprehensible. I won't say the pairing here, because it would spoil the surprise, but OMG the CRACK! THE EPIC CRACK!

So there you have it. Congratulations to you three, and many, many thanks to everyone else who entered. It was so hard choosing these three winners – heck, it was even hard placing them. There were several other fics that missed out on a place by one hair's breadth – seriously, it hurt to choose. And there was nothing that qualified as a badfic – it was all really enjoyable stuff. Thank you so much for participating in my contest and indulging my god complex!

Now I'm going to list all the pairings used here (except for Kitty-Kat's because that would spoil the awesome), because it's FUN and fuels the COMPLEX. No two people wrote the same pairing, actually. I'm proud of you.

MintxKeiichiro

LettucexDeep Blue

Pai/Kish (but metaphorical)

RyouxDuke (trying to be clever)

KishxBerry

RyouxZakuro

ZakuroxKeiichiro

LettucexMasaya

KishxLettuce

Lettuce was popular. And Zakuro. Actually, nobody paired Ichigo with anyone, which is interesting (Gypsy and Dragontamer, I am annoyed with you. By using Pai and Mint at the last minute you drastically shortened my list of characters that nobody had had the imagination to use). And there was no slash (yaoi to anime fans), except for one fic which was so metaphorical that it hardly counts *sigh*. And no girl/girl slash. Maybe my next contest should be a yaoi one. I still haven't found a Pai/Deep Blue. Yes! That is my parting shot to you! Somebody write me a Pai/Deep Blue!

Oh yeah, and speaking of parting shots...^^" Kitty-Kat KO, you get to give me a prompt for a oneshot written in your honour. Whatever pairing you like, or deadly enemies if you prefer. Gypsy-san will attest as to how well this went last time. She gave me a prompt that mutated into a chapter fic and with which I grappled for about three months, and there was a lot of head-to-wall action. Anyway *grimaces bravely*, hit me, K.O.

True Colours, over and out.