Title: Self-Preservation
Group/Pairing: Arashi - Nino/Jun
Rating: PG
Word count: ~3,500
Summary: Nino takes Jun on one last trip to Hong Kong.
Notes: Originaly posted here for jentfic_remix. This story really struck a chord with me and I wanted to write it from Nino’s point of view since we have no idea what was going through his head. There was so much I ( Read more... )

Title: Reverse
Pairing: Nino/Ohno
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,123
Summary: Nino makes a mistake and it costs him everything.
Notes: Inspired by Utada's "Come Back to Me" and it's probably really obvious.  I don't care.  I played with a new style/format and I hope that is interesting at least.  Just something short for fun though it's really angsty.  The ( Read more... )

            The attack on the Imperial guard had been the first fracture in the peace of Musashi province, as Miyake had predicted.  He was now certain that the raid on the provincial capital would shatter it entirely, once word spread to the borders.  Okada and the soldiers had been able to secure the village-only just in time-but not without ( Read more... )

Title: What If
Pairing/Group: Aiba/Jun
Rating: R
Warnings: Sex, swearing, angst. Oh god, is there ever.
Notes: For goldengutgirl. Emo!Aiba, Slutty!Jun and a bit of het. I tried. 4,374 words. Thanks to all my little helpers! Remixed by littlealex beautifully into you're the catalyst (that makes things faster). ♥
Summary: He’s lost count of the number of girls who have ( Read more... )

The tatami was soft, worn by time and tea ceremonies, beneath his hand.  His skin was raw, the hair on his arms standing straight at the nip of dawn, remembering the careful caresses of only a few hours ago.  Head pillowed on one arm, Sho swept the hair from Aiba’s face, fingertips barely brushing his pink cheeks; the sleeping man ( Read more... )

Ohno feels hands cupping his cheeks, sliding along his jaw and into his hair, fingers roughened by guitar strings and piano keys. They are gentle in their frenzy; they are concerned in the way they pull him and wrap around his shoulders. Always, when they are this close - sitting on the floor in a human knot with Nino crawled into his ( Read more... )

            When Nino found Sho slumped against the wall, still wearing the green surgical gown, he felt like crying for his friend: Sho had never looked so absolutely without hope.  Nino called Sho's parents and told them as much as he could: it was a healthy girl, thirty-one hundred grams and forty-eight centimetres long but the mother had passed ( Read more... )

 
( Ignoring the signs plastered on the walls, he called Nino. All that came out where choked sobbed pleas to help him because he didn't know what to do. )

A pair of messengers returned from the borders with more unsettling news of sedition seeping further inwards, closer to villages and townships. A messenger from Kyoto carrying a letter bearing Kimura’s seal arrived with little more advice than, “You know what needs to be done. Do what you have to.” Being more than a week’s ride away ( Read more... )

As the wheel of the seasons turned, the equinox passed and the heavy heat of summer settled. A sullen tension had fallen over Iwatsuki castle since the arrival of the first reports of insurgence. And yet, despite the feeling of something malicious lurking over the horizon that wrapped itself around everyone in the castle, Sho alone ( Read more... )