Snippet-y thing and some MORE pimping

[ciircee]

Pimps first: je_fqfest. Still posting. Arashi stories are here. I'm behind on commenting but so far it's all pretty good! One of them was/is/will be mine--I'm not that happy with it, honestly. I really think I could have done better. Or more. We'll see what the response is, though.

je_ficgames is DONE posting and now it's just a matter of time until voting closes. One of those stories is also mine! I don't think it gives away too much to say that it's Arashi-based. I DID manage to comment on all of them, though! I voted fairly even if it meant voting points away from my own team. I hope we do all right. I had some really awesome people with really great ideas on my team and I'm proud of the work we did.

And now! Snippet! This snippet belongs in the same AU as Into the Parlor and More Than Heaven. (You know, the sex-demon stories? Yeeeaahhh.) It does in fact take place after Parlor.



One Moment

(Matsumoto Jun did not eat the same thing day in and day out. He ate what was before him, enjoyed it, and moved on to something new.)

"Hey, Matsujun! You bought my favorite kind of beer!" Aiba beamed at him sleepily over the door of his open refrigerator.

(And he couldn't figure out why he hadn't yet moved on from the tanuki or the fallen angel. It had been months since the first time he'd taken them home. Only hours since the last time he'd taken them.)

"Oh, fuck, Oh-chan—do it. Just do it," Nino's voice carried lust-laden and clear through the very thick, well constructed walls of Jun's apartment.

"Satoshi, don't you dare take a bite out of him!" Jun shouted back absently over his coffee.

There was a moment of silence and then Nino wailed in a way that suggested he'd just been brutally denied what he'd been begging for (and was most probably about to get).

(The fact that their best friends were fucking was probably part of it but Jun was honest enough with himself to admit that it was only a small part at best.)

"Thanks for that," Sho mumbled around a yawn, nodding at Jun as Aiba set a glass of milk down in front of him.

"Don't mention it," Jun muttered. Really, don't he thought. He was protecting a human. A human who was willingly having sex with an incubus at every turn. Jun could never countenance idiots and yet…here he was. "Doesn't it bug you?" he asked.

Sho looked at him, brows drawn together. "As long as they're careful," he said at last.

"No, I mean…" Jun reached out and touched the corner of Sho's eye and dragged his fingers down along the side of his face, down his neck to his chest, following the path of his blood-red damnation. "You've got this and he's in there fucking Satoshi for all he's worth while you sit and—OW, fuckshit!" Jun picked himself up off the floor in time to see the black tips of Sho's wings vanish into his living room. "What the hell?" he muttered, testing his jaw.

Aiba slapped a bag of frozen peas against Jun's face.

(Really—frozen peas. Because Nino ate food. When he stopped to think about it, it was surreal. It was as though he and Satoshi had adopted a pet, only Satoshi was putting it to him every time he stopped moving. Maybe having Nino around had changed him more than he'd thought. Except he'd given Aiba his number even before Ohno had nearly killed Nino.)

"Sorry about that, Jun-chan," Aiba said, interrupting his thoughts and drawing him back to the present and his aching head. "Sho-chan fell for Nino, though. So he takes it personally, you know."

Jun let Aiba put him back in his chair. He held the improvised cold pack to his cheek. "I already figured that. That's why I asked if it didn't bother him. Guess it does," he said, more to himself than to Aiba.

"No," Aiba said firmly. "It's not like that. It's never been that way. Sho-chan fell for Nino. Nino was dying and Sho-chan gave up Heaven for him."

"And again," Jun said with a jerk of his head that had him hissing and pressing the cold pack tighter to his face.

"No, no…" Aiba made a frustrated motion, his ears pricking forward and back. "It's—okay, it's not that Sho-chan loves Nino more than God but it's like he—you know, he sort of—"

"I cared more for Nino than for the will of God," Sho said, walking back into the kitchen. "You can say it, Masaki; it's not a secret." He picked up his glass of milk and went out again.

Aiba's tail swished and he said, "I can't explain it. It just makes Sho-chan really mad when somebody suggests that he sleeps with Nino."

Jun got up and followed Sho. Sho was sitting on his couch, newspaper in his lap, sipping delicately at his milk. "Sorry about the face," he said, glancing up. He went back to his paper.

"Please," Nino's voice cut through the room, right on the edge of being a scream.

Sho looked up at Satoshi's bedroom door and put his hands together, bowing his head over them swiftly. Jun could not hear what he said but he felt the swell of it like a gathering storm.

There was a singularly loud crash from inside Satoshi's room and the sound of Satoshi groaning in something that was NOT pleasure. "Sorry," he called out.

Sho went back to his paper as though nothing had happened.

(And little things like that should not have mattered to Jun, should not have made having Sho and Aiba around more than something tolerable, into something he maybe wanted. Or craved, just a little.)

"Nice blessing!" Aiba called out from the kitchen. "Double punch! You turned the water! I'm going to have to re-wash the dishes…"

The sex-sounds from Ohno's room resumed.

Jun sat down on the opposite end of the couch from Sho. "I don't get it," he said at last.

Sho didn't look up from the newspaper. "How much do you know about love?"

"I don't know. There are the old family stories about the days before the fall, I guess." He shrugged, unconcerned. "It's not worth much."

There was the rustle of paper, the rustle of feathers, and then Sho was in Jun's space, his hand spread warm on Jun's chest. The world exploded deep inside him, slamming in his heart and tearing it to shreds, stitching it back together even as it happened. Distantly Jun could hear himself crying out, could feel himself reaching for Sho. The warmth was unbearable, the ache was a balm. He was full, filled up in a way he could scarcely imagine.

"SHO!" Aiba's voice penetrated the haze of Jun's brain and he felt Sho's hand fall away from him, taking the feelings with it. "Jun-chan, are you okay?"

Jun nodded in a daze. "What?"

"That was one moment of one day of his life," Sho said serenely. "He was six and playing cat's cradle, singing a song he'd learned in school. It was the first day of summer uniforms."

"Sho-chan," Aiba was gently scolding. "You could have hurt him. Did he hurt you, Jun-chan?"

Jun looked at Sho, still reeling. "That…?" he said helplessly.

"Was just a few minutes of his heart and mine," Sho said, his lips quirking up with a small, half-smug smile. "It was only love. It's not worth much, right?"

He knew that Sho had given him the only explanation that would have made sense, knew that Sho was just teasing him now, but he'd touched off Jun's hunger, had pulled it from satiation to raging need again. He was too weak with it, too strong with it. He stared.

"Are you hurt?" Aiba asked worriedly.

Sho looked at him steadily. "If you can find it," he began but Jun lunged at him, finding his mouth with his own and taking the first heady bite of Sho's love-laced life.

"Oh," said Aiba. "Sexy times!"

Jun lost Sho's mouth as Aiba's hood went sailing past and made Sho laugh out loud. He caught it again as Aiba landed on his back, laughing along with him. With them.

(He was afraid of what it meant, really. Because he knew that feeling, that feeling of being fed even without feeding from somebody. That fullness that came from something other than sex. Sometimes he felt it with Satoshi. And he was beginning to feel it with them.)



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And then this might or might not have happened in the aftermath of that.



"Hey, thanks for cockblocking me," Nino interrupted.

Jun looked up from where he was about to get a mouth full of Sho's and Aiba's cocks. "Yeah, because living is so troubling," he muttered.

"You guys can use my bed," Satoshi said, drifting up behind Nino and draping himself around his shoulders. "There's lube and condoms all over it."

"Thanks, Oh-chan," Aiba said and Jun found himself hauled to his feet and shoved toward the open bedroom door.

"You live like pigs," he heard Nino cheerfully tell Satoshi. "Sexually, I mean."

"He's not wrong," Sho said, pushing Jun down on the bed and climbing on top of him.

Jun refrained from pointing out that this was something that Sho loved about them.

(It wasn't that he was afraid to use the word. He wasn't.)
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...what the hell is wrong with me? Why am I even awake? I hope this is coherent. If not, I'll fix it tomorrow. Later today. Whatever.

Comments

[aegistheia.livejournal.com]

Why am I even up?!

But honestly, why are you so amazing? I don't ever think I've ever seen a pimp post packaged together so neatly with a 'fic snippet' before. I THINK I LIKE THIS PATTERN. 8D

Your SHO. Oh my god, I love with your Sho in this universe. His beatdowns aren't flashy nor epic, but they're the kind that touches the soul. It's only love, indeed. That's all Sho ever was, even before he chose to fall.

Nino was dying and Sho-chan gave up Heaven for him.

;_______; It could almost be tragic, but it's just their reality, no more and no less. I don't think I can love the direction you took this in any more than I do. And having Aiba understand that in a way that went beyond words - ♥____♥

Also: "Nice blessing!" Aiba called out from the kitchen. "Double punch! You turned the water! I'm going to have to re-wash the dishes…"

I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT I LAUGHED SO HARD. And protecting Nino's sex life with demons with blessings!

There's lube and condoms all over it.

The first thought that came to my mind was, "Used or unused?" And then I realized that either option was perfectly valid. *DIES*

Other things: Jun, with a bag of frozen peas, thinking of Nino as the equivalent of a pet that Satoshi fucks, oh my god DYING. Stocking Aiba's favourite kind of beer! NOT being afraid to use the four-letter L-word! "Sexy-times!" Aiba! An ungrateful cockblocked Nino taking revenge!

OKAY I KIND OF NEED TO GO TO BED BUT FIRST I NEED TO EXPRESS MY LOVE FOR YOU IN CAPS. I only just realized that the last time I expressed it in caps, it wasn't actually in caps, FAIL.

TO BED NOW, WITH THIS AS A LULLABYE TO SPEED ME ♥

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

You were awake because you knew I was going to flip out and spam the internet! Or something!

There are not words for how happy this comment made me. I kind of want to roll around in it like catnip. I'm glad you liked the saving-Nino-with-blessings bit because I really liked that part myself.

a pet that Satoshi fucks

Jun squinted against the sunlight, watching Nino moving around his apartment. Nino was spell-crafting--not like a witch would, just material spells--and not paying him any attention.

"I'm home!" Satoshi called.

"Welcome back," Jun returned.

Nino set down his pestle and went to the door. "Hey, welcome home."

...that was sort of the way a dog would act, Jun thought to himself. Waiting patiently for his master to come home and pat him on the head and tell him he was a good boy.

There was a rattling sound, like the pictures on the wall in the hallway had just been shaken by something, and then the wet sound of open mouths meeting desperately. Nino gasped and Ohno moaned. "You taste like magic."

"I was using your sunlight to cure a few spells." Nino sounded breathless.

"Mm," Ohno's murmur was indistinct, muffled, and Nino was gasping again. "I want to spread you out on my bed and ride you until it hurts. I want to come all over your stomach and chest and lick it off again."

It was Nino's turn to moan. The pictures rattled again. "Too bad. I have a spell to close. Go take a shower."

Jun tipped his head back and watched Satoshi slouch through the room, pouting and radiating sex like a thunderstorm. "I thought it was a good plan," he told him.

Satoshi gave him a little smile and went into the bathroom.

...maybe it was more cat-like, Jun reconsidered as he watched Nino step lightly back to where he'd been working. His fingers were nimble as he closed off his spell. But weren't cats supposed to be affectionate to the people who disliked them most? "Hey, come and sit with me," he invited.

Nino looked up and flashed him a smile. "Maybe later. I've got to close this off and then get Oh-chan on my cock. Until it hurts, apparently. Maybe later?"

...he was probably thinking about it wrong. Maybe Nino was like one of those non-interactive pets. Like a fish. Or a hamster. Hamsters did their own thing, hoarded food in places other than their food dish. Sometimes they went into those little ball things or into the tower-parts of a cage. Nino went home a lot, went visiting his human friends, so that Jun never had to deal with him if he didn't want to.

"If you were a hamster, Satoshi would be your running wheel," Jun said, watching Nino began to twist his spell into his talisman string.

Nino grinned at him.

"There's a problem with my bed!" Ohno was back, naked and wet. Jun looked at him and raised his eyebrows. Ohno was looking at Nino, who looked expectantly back. "Nino's not in it."

"Go make sure he's not hiding under the sheets," Nino said, his hands still working at tying his spell down. "And find the lube. Not that weird demon stuff, either!"

Ohno wandered out again. "If Nino isn't in under my sheets, I'm going to have to come back out and have sex with that guy making spells in my living room," he warned.

Nino snickered.

"You two are sick," Jun commented.

Nino gave him another smile. "I make him save the really sick stuff for the tramps you bring him for dinner." He finished with his string and put it away. "I'll clean this stuff up later."

Because Nino meant it, Jun let it go. "Whatever. Don't let him get a taste off of you," he instructed. "You're still low from last time and Sho will kill me if you end up dead again and I didn't stop it."

Nino saluted him as he left. "Jun?" he popped his head back in. Jun made a questioning sound. "I prefer to think of him as a trampoline," he said, tossing him a wink before he went down the hall.

Jun heard the sound of the bedroom door closing and laughed.


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And after that Jun calls Nino 'Hamster' as a nickname? In his head? IDEK.

[aegistheia.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm awake again when I should be asleep, and you're not helping me fix that. There are not enough words for how happy THIS made me! *____*

See, your universe is so charming. Even with all the mythological elements there is still believabililty in each and every aspect that you'd written, because of your attention to detail, delicate touch with powerful subjects, comedic timing, and a host of many other things.

I'm not going to lie, I came in for the lolz and walked out with Sho and Nino's relationship close to my heart. The theme of love that you're working on in here is really wonderful, and fun too, with all the sex and legends (and sexual legends) going on. Yes, I am horrible at puns. (Also, before I forget: Sho drinking milk. Some smoke, and he drinks MILK. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.)

OKAY THE SNIPPET. Nino trotting to the door to greet Ohno, and Jun thinking him like a dog! While listening to them slamming each other into walls like it's commentary! I lolled XD Story of my dorm days, I tell you.

And Nino just. Keeps working even when he's turned on beyond belief. Why is he so practical ;____;b By practical I really mean a trooper. I don't doubt that incubi meet that many beings who can resist them in that state.

But weren't cats supposed to be affectionate to the people who disliked them most?

Jun, honey, there's a flaw in your logic. You're not the person who dislikes him the most, if at all. This might be somewhat, just a little, related to your nonexistent aversion to the four-letter L-word. It's a variant, but it's still related.

Satoshi would be your running wheel

And then A TRAMPOLINE. Demon lube. This is kind of out of order, but I snorfled so hard I'm surprised I didn't wake anybody.

"Don't let him get a taste off of you," he instructed. "You're still low from last time and Sho will kill me if you end up dead again and I didn't stop it."

I love how the rest of the group watches Nino and Ohno's sex life so closely because it literally IS a matter of life and death. Ah, to regard it so lightly in here! Only in this universe. (Nice juxtaposition with the love, if I haven't mentioned that yet.) Also, Jun being afraid of Sho killing him despite everything they'd done together is A++++! Sho is powerful, and I love it.

LOL I'm trying to imagine what would happen if Jun accidentally thought aloud one day and Aiba happened to hear them. MY BRAIN IS BREAKING, THANKS.

If you ever gave this a thought, what would Shun be?

OKAY NOW I HAVE TO GO TO BED AHHHHHHH. Thanks for this lovely bedtime story ♥

[honeypuffed.livejournal.com]

god so like, i never saw the other ones you wrote until now and so i just had to sit here and read my way through them and my brain is kind of dead and there are so many comments i should be able to make but no really i can't even remember.

i love this universe so much ;_;

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

! I am SO happy that you read them and liked them. I keep thinking that I could have done them better, with less angst and more belivability (lol, sex demons and fallen angels and I want it to be more realistic). So you saying that you love it makes me all squishy inside.

Also: Your icon. IS SO CUTE. LOVE.

[honeypuffed.livejournal.com]

well just the fact that i loved it so much means you obviously did it ~perfectly~. lmao this is not me saying my opinion counts for everything, but just that i'm actually normally kind of irritated by this kind of au, and the fact that i didn't even blink an eye at it and instead actually really really really really loved it-- I HONESTLY CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW MUCH. i can't remember the last thing i read that i really just desperately didn't want to finish reading. lately i kind of go about reading like, it's great for filling time but i'm not really into it, but this, really, hhhhnnngg. this is not very coherent and i honestly wish i could just touch your chest give you my brain for a second so you could understand but alas.

man i know :< i just want to snuggle it forever.

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

I would totally let you touch my chest touch Sho's chest lend me your brain!

Also: a;ldfj;lsdjfsd YOU ARE TOO SWEET. I LOVE YOU. I want to snuggle you forever.

[honeypuffed.livejournal.com]

;~; ♥♥

I WISH I COULD WRITE SOMETHING PROPER FOR YOU BUT IDK WHAT AND AFTER YOUR AMAZING I'D BE ALL hi there o///o HHNNNG.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

i love that everyone makes sleepy posts when i'm just finishing my work day. this was a good one too! i loved the description of sho showing jun what feelings were. ♥ i want to read more~~ :D

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

XD You liked it! Yay! And I'm kind of stupidly happy that my middle-of-the-night-what-am-I-doing posts hit at the end of your workday. But mostly I'm happy that you liked the way Sho gave Jun a taste of what he felt. I love it when Sho loves Nino.

(And there is more just a bit up-thread now. But it's more about Jun and Nino.)

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

that was a little bit adorable too. ♥ lololol a trampoline

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

XD I'm glad you liked it!

[beltenebra.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I loved every word of this. You create these wonderful, rich universes revealed just a bit at a time and perfectly maintain all of the bonds that make the boys who they are. How are you so awesome?

♥

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

I'm blushing. No, literally. Thank you so much for saying that about my AUs. It makes me SO happy.

[tangiblewhimsy.livejournal.com]

DYING.

I think I've mentioned before (or maybe I haven't, in which case shame on me), but this is one of my favorite of your AUs. The reason for that is because you take what usually turns into a really trite idea, ridden with sloppy angst and poor characterizations and then you turned it into something poignant and amazing. This is your Super Power over fic and why I love you so so so so so much.

That scene where Sho gives Jun a taste of what it is he feels---that was intense. Whoa.

Oh and yeah. All of the Ohmiya sex in the background being treated as nothing more than a too-loud TV? I lol'd. So hard.

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

a;ldkfj;lsjkf YOU. You make me so happy. I'm kind of afraid that these DO come off as angsty and trite and kind of generally stupid and you make me feel so much better about them. Because you write so beautifully that any praise you throw my way is just. a;ldjkfs;ldj THANK YOU.

(I really loved writing the Ohmiya-sex as background noise. Like 'oh, crap, he's eating him again--it's YOUR turn to make him stop'. It was funny for me. I'm glad you liked it too.)

[tangiblewhimsy.livejournal.com]

I think that we as writers villainize angst. It becomes the bad guy because it is so often abused and overused. But in the tiniest of amounts that little ache and sense of 'Oh, my heart!' is an extremely powerful tool. I think that you take the oft overplayed idea of angels/demons/supernatural beings and manage to make it accessible without taking it too seriously. A perfect balance of crack and drama. TO WHICH I AM DELICIOUSLY ADDICTED!

(It was hilarious to me, especially because I come from a household where certain people really are ridiculously loud. You get accustomed to it, but having guests over can be a little awkward. LMAO)

[anoudegozaruna.livejournal.com]

I love this universe mostly 'cause of the Sho/Nino relationship. Sho's love is just so pure and powerful, and the fact that he fell for Nino is just so heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. And yet, even with all the heaviness of that storyline, you still manage to put so much wit and humor into the story. Gah, I'm so addicted to this universe.

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

Nino is Sho's most precious love; it's the first love he's had that wasn't born into him, but grew out of him. I kind of love writing it. I write in the humor and stuff to balance out that heaviness--I don't want Sho-and-Nino to be angsty. So I'm so very, very, VERY happy that you liked this story and that you love the Sho/Nino as much as I do. Thank you!

[literarylemming.livejournal.com]

*SNIFFLE* God I love this AU. You have no idea how many times I've reread the first two parts of it, seriously. Sho as a fallen angel will never cease to simultaneously be SO SEXY while breaking my heart. *LOVES*

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

The fact that you've re-read the first two parts makes me speechlessly happy.

And yes, Fallen Angel!Sho is kind of sexy. Especially because he's juuuuuuuuust now giving in to the urge to actually have sex. Boy has a backlog to work through, I tell you. (I should go back and write some of his 'learning to be mortal' story.)

[literarylemming.livejournal.com]

YES. YES YOU SHOULD.

Pretty please? *hopeful expression*

[fireatwill.livejournal.com]

Just thought I'd pop in and say I'm going to creepily friend you (though, honestly I think it seems vaguely less creepy when you warn someone) because gjkerrefrnsjgksf I love your writing long time.

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

I'm flattered! Also: I never notice when people friend me. :D I'm terrible about it. I might not friend you back for a while. I am crushingly shy and easily overwhelmed.

Also: You do know that I'm sort of a spaz-tard, right? Because I totally am. Just to warn you.

[yayhooraywoohoo.livejournal.com]

/stops being a creeper for a moment.
I love this AU so much! I've read the first two parts way too many times. It's 2:20 AM here, and really, when I saw that you wrote more of it I flailed around like an idiot. And then read it. And flailed some more. I think I'll go read it again, now.

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

Lurking is not the same as being a creeper! Also: Hello! I'm glad you liked this AU enough to comment on it. Thank you!

[yayhooraywoohoo.livejournal.com]

Ah! Right! Except I feel really creepy lurking, so...?
I love pretty much everything you've written, I'm just a bit shy ♥

[nicefinalbeam.livejournal.com]

Late comment, but DAMN I love this universe. ♥

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

Late comment, but DAMN I love YOU. ♥ I'm glad I could write something that you liked.

[r-1-ss-a.livejournal.com]

My bias is totally gonna show but my favorite is jun so I'm always ecstatic when awesome writers like yourself write fic including him. And I love all jun pairings but right now I'm super obsessive about sho and jun so this totally made my week because UGH Fallen Angel!Sho showing jun what love is? Yes please.
Totally adore your fics especially the aus!
Also I already gushed about the sho and jun chapter you wrote for roadtrip but I want to gush about that sho and jun fics you had. It was like 3 parts. Absolutely lovely! Thanks for writing!

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

Wow! I'm really glad you like my writing and that you like my Jun. I have a hard time writing him so this makes me feel better. Thank you for taking the time to comment and let me know you like it!

[babyrubysoho.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I was always hoping you'd write some more in this universe (especially succubus Satoshi, possibly the hottest incarnation of Ohno I've ever read XD - ooh, just read the comment snippet, magnificent!).

So yes, thank you very very much!

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

!! Thank YOU very much! I didn't know people liked this universe enough to want more in it(excluding the 'please write the pr0n now!', I mean. I'm glad you liked it and yes, yes indeed SexDemon Ohno might be totally hot. He gets laid often enough, at any rate.

[chesnee.livejournal.com]

All three stories are truly beautiful - I cried reading the one where Sho fell for Nino and I want to thank you so much for writing them! Your fics are always so amazing... Thank you!

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

Thank you for calling my fics amazing! I'm always happy when somebody takes the time, and actually likes stuff enough, to leave me a comment. I'm glad you liked this AU. I'm fond of it myself.

[waxrose.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOODNESS. ♥♥♥ You have NO IDEA how much I wanted to see more of this universe. I love how Sho FELL FOR NINO and is just so squishy for him (but not like that!) and they're all in a constant state of sex/near-death intervention on the Ohmiya side of things. BRILLIANCE.

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

You! YOU MAKE ME SO HAPPY WITH YOUR COMMENTS. I kind of want to wrap this comment around me and hug it. (The funniest thing is that they take time out of their OWN sex-having to remind Ohmiya that Nino is not for eating, even if he's begging for it.)

[satoyan]

This universe is my sexy happy place. Every time I open up one of these stories for re-reading I end up leaving it open in a tab to re-read again whenever I feel like it (which is often.) ♥

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

I'm SO HAPPY that you like them that much! I really kind of love writing in this AU so. Yeah. Super happy. Thank you! ♥

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

i'm not actually surprised that i've never commented on this but seeing as it is my 100th reread or something ridiculous like that i thought i would give you a heads-up that, hey, this universe you've developed? it's like happy medicine for me now. ♥~♥ i was feeling all grumpy and annoyed and then i read this:

"That was one moment of one day of his life," Sho said serenely. "He was six and playing cat's cradle, singing a song he'd learned in school. It was the first day of summer uniforms."

"Sho-chan," Aiba was gently scolding. "You could have hurt him. Did he hurt you, Jun-chan?"

Jun looked at Sho, still reeling. "That…?" he said helplessly.

"Was just a few minutes of his heart and mine," Sho said, his lips quirking up with a small, half-smug smile. "It was only love. It's not worth much, right?"

oh gosh, it's like i can feel the love pouring off of the page and it's all i can do to just stare with hearts in my eyes, sighing contentedly. it's really masterful the way you mix that feeling so perfectly with the intense attractiveness of the whole set-up, too - why is it so hot that ohno could kill nino if they have too much sex? is it hotter that they always need someone listening to make sure it doesn't happen? i'm not sure but i'm happy to think about it a lot! - and anyway. thank you for writing. ♥