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FIC: After a fistful of near misses

Feb 19, 2010 06:21

Title: After a fistful of near misses
Author: alestar
Recipient: aunt_agatha
Rating: R
Wordcount: 4432
Summary: Prompts: awkwardness, real tennis, staying over, rain. Or, Five Things that totally did actually happen to Kaidoh Kaoru.

Author's notes: (1) aunt_agatha, your prompts were stirring enough to wake me from my Sherlock Holmes coma! I didn't quite make it to NC-17 ( Read more... )

fic, author: alestar

Comments 20

inksheddings February 19 2010, 15:53:55 UTC

I very much enjoyed this. It's lovely.

alestar February 20 2010, 03:04:10 UTC

I'm so glad you did, thank you. :D

ms_worplesdon February 19 2010, 16:58:15 UTC

I. Oh. God. I have this stupid grin on my face and am sitting here thinking to myself how bizarre it is that the day I tell myself I need to catch up on the exchange is the day that this shows up. I am indescribably happy and think it's really hilarious that it turned out to be you writing for me. I'm just lucky, I guess!

I don't know how any comment can do this justice, so I'M JUST GOING TO RAMBLE. Things I loved about this were the inclusion of Hazue (which I have discovered I'm unexpectedly fond of in the days since my signup), Kaidoh's solemn thank you, the fact that he hit Inui and then apologized ♥__♥, the revelation that perhaps juice could taste good(!), Inui not even being certain for a while if what he felt was love (why is he so adorable?), their quietly domestic routines together, Kaidoh taking the initiative after all that time WAHHHH, 5.7 MINUTES TO MY ROOM GSDJHGSKJGJSK. And GOD, I just wanted to wrap Inui up when he was about to have a heart attack. Kaidoh is so quietly seductive and only he can get away with being ( ... )

alestar February 20 2010, 03:11:21 UTC

Ahahah, yes!! You liked it even though there was no explicit rimming!! I'm so glad-- I'm also glad that it's out there, and now I can friend you without fear of revealing myself as your writer-person; your lj banner and title have become, like, hypnotic to me. ♥

ms_worplesdon March 1 2010, 22:01:20 UTC

Lol thanks!! If that's a good thing, I mean. Heh. Man, I'm so sorry I didn't friend you sooner for easier stalking!

God, this fic was perfect for me. I cannot thank you enough!!!

insertevilname February 19 2010, 17:40:49 UTC

This is just wonderful! I really, really enjoyed reading this :)

alestar February 20 2010, 03:17:14 UTC

Thank you so much! I really enjoying writing it, especially the adjectives. Also your icon is adorable. :)

prillalar February 20 2010, 02:33:55 UTC

This is lovely -- the slow progression and the way they always fit into each other's lives. The UST was delicious and of course Kaidoh knows what he wants. And the description of the tennis was *fantastic*.

I enjoyed reading this so much! ♥

alestar February 20 2010, 03:28:25 UTC

Thank you, friend! I'm so glad! It turns out it's really hard to write tennis without being repetitive and using the words hit and return and ball over and over again. and it's hard to write Inukai without using the words frown and hands and strong over and over again. So hottt.

longleggedgit February 20 2010, 05:19:39 UTC

Ohhhhhh man this was AWESOME! I've been behind on this fest all week but when I saw this one posted today I knew I'd have to start with it and work my way backwards. Brilliant, brilliant; I love fics that explore what happens when one of them figures things out before the other one, and you developed that really well. I especially liked how Inui was just willing to suffer and keep being Kaidoh's best friend and actively WOULDN'T LET HIMSELF think maybe Kaidoh reciprocated the feelings, even after Kaidoh was probably making it super obvious. Also, this:

Maybe they would cycle through that exchange indefinitely. What were the variables? Maybe they had been cycling through it for longer than Inui knew.

It's so them, it just sums up their whole relationship perfectly. Loved it! ♥