Fic: On Razor's Edge - Chapter Eight

[lovelylytton]

Title: On Razor’s Edge - Chapter 8
Summary: Crystal Tokyo has arrived. So has Ando Tanaka.
Warnings: Oh, lots and lots of swearing. But other than that, tame.
A/N:. Written for venusorbit1’s help_japan donation. Contains a line from GA. As always, written with the help and assistance of the fantastic charliechaplin2.

The previous chapter is here.

Comments

[lovelylytton]

I absolutely love how happy Umino and Ami make everyone round here. It's almost enough to only make me write happy stuff. Almost.

*is sly*

I love this firstly because Ando gave up his coffee for Umino, and that is how we know they are best bros. And secondly, because once again you show off just how infinitely complex your characters and their thoughts and motivations are. Ando, the man who is the LEAST sympathetic of Takeshi, refuses to see him as Kunzite. Maybe because that would mean acknowledging who he is, too. But he is so confident that Takeshi is too strong to become that and agh have I told you lately how much I love Ando?
I think you might have mentioned it once or twice, as has Charlie. Ando can be such a doll, in his own chain-smoking, annoying, caring way. Him giving Umino his coffee is the equivalent of me giving someone else the last chocolate bar in the house. It's a sign of love.
Ando desperately and seriously believes that they are more than the sum of their past lives and that the life they had lived this time around shapes them just as much as the past did. He sees Takeshi as Takeshi and not as Kunzite because he (and that's where you hit the nail on the head) also doesn't want people to see him as only Jadeite and not Ando. Or, to get philosophical, he sees Kunzite as a small part of Takeshi, not Takeshi as a small part of Kunzite.

AND RIGHT AROUND HERE IS WHERE THE TEARS STARTED. Because Hiro remembers Kunzite threatening to personally execute him because he MIGHT do something that in a convoluted way could possibly endanger Endymion down the road. He remembers Kunzite being a dangerous, terrifying man. And Takeshi is still his friend and he still feels bad for him.
Oh darling, don't cry! Hiro and Takeshi are tight! It was Hiro whom Takeshi called about the house, that means something! But yes, Hiro has memories (and unlike Umino, his are flesh memories) of Kunzite and some scars run deep. He loves Takeshi like a brother, but he is deeply afraid of Kunzite. The only one more afraid of Kunzite? Takeshi.

Seriously, Hiro. You're worse than Mamoru.
That, I believe, is saying something.

I thought AA was over.
It is! That's why this ended on a wedding! :D
(That being said, with Takeshi and Minako, it's AA all year.)

Spirit, thank you so much for your generous and lovely and heart-warming comment! I love it muchly.