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“How romantic,” chirps Eiji, tilting his weight into Ash’s palm. “A kiss in the rain.”
“Check that one off your bucket list?” Ash jokes.
“Almost.” Oh. He’s serious. “Gene Kelly had an umbrella. And he knew how to sing and dance.”
Ash and Eiji ditch a gallery party to fulfill their cliché, chick-flick dreams.
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Bookmarked by yellowsundress (im_bu)
10 Jul 2026
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It’s three AM. Ash is convinced he’s asleep. He pinches his leg, once, twice, and feels the pangs of reality reassuring him that his feelings had been reciprocated.
“Hypothetically speaking, if I were to kiss you right now—"
“Does it always have to be hypothetical?” Eiji groans.
“No." Ash smiles. “No, it doesn’t.”
Ash realizes diners aren't so tacky after all.
Bookmarked by yellowsundress (im_bu)
10 Jul 2026
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apple koi; the story that almost (and we’re here, now we’ll hold on) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
26 Dec 2019
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“A koi fish,” her teacher once read out loud from a well-worn storybook, “means tenacity. Perseverance. It is said that they fight against waterfalls, always swimming against the stream’s current so that when they one day reach the top of those waterfalls, they can shed their scales and become dragons.”
Thunder cracked in the doorway of the Okumura household, and from its light, her brother stood half-drowned in the doorway. Eiji was never the talkative type, but as he let the water drip from the floor into pools on the carpet without saying a word, thunder rumbling in the backdrop of Izumo, she knew that any words would have been choked out of him.
Eiji spared one small smile at her, dropped his suitcase by the shoe cupboard, and walked through the house with squeaking wet shoes. Kaori watched, frowned, and decided not to press.
He didn’t talk much about America.
(Or, a year from the finale, Kaori Okumura watches her brother struggle with the grief of his time in America, and not all is at it seems surrounding Ash Lynx.)
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- Part 1 of Apple Koi
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Bookmarked by yellowsundress (im_bu)
08 Jul 2026
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Ash closes his eyes. Years of waiting culminate in weightless dust, soon to be swept away by the living. This earthen smell will fade. It will be overtaken by home-cooked meals and citron peels. Silence will forsake to Sunday radio static and the slow turnings of a page. Behind curtains, it’ll be the push and pull of their noses as they love each other sore, cutting into the pristine sheet of white starlight.
Slowly, they’ll imprint this house until it has become theirs. Ash waits for that day.
Or, the steps to remedy a fragile soul.
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08 Jul 2026
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“Let’s stay a while longer. Please,” Ash whispers, moving his pinky so that it touches the knit of Eiji’s mitten. It’s enough to excite him.
“Don’t you think your trick to get me to hold your hand is a little outdated?” Eiji takes his right mitten off and interlaces his fingers with Ash’s.
“You’ll freeze,” he says. Despite his warnings, he silently wishes he doesn’t let go. Eiji feels like home. Ash squeezes Eiji’s hand like he’d disappear forever if they part, that he’d fall into the interdimensional space and never experience this cloyingly intimate moment ever again.
Ash and Eiji conjure up a blizzard.
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Bookmarked by yellowsundress (im_bu)
08 Jul 2026