Out of Bounds

It was cold and it was quiet and Aki was gone and it didn’t matter how long Shinji stared at the doll it wasn’t the same and it wouldn’t magically turn into Akira so it was sort of useless. Shinji got tired of staring at it and carefully got up, moving quietly down the stairs, [...]

Shinji waved his dad off with a frown. Ibu-san would be back in a few hours to pick him up. More likely, Shinji figured his dad was driving around the corner and sit and wait there for an hour or two until he got so paranoid he came and knocked on the door for ‘home [...]

Silence, save for the faint scritching of Kafe trying to get up into the loft…claws against the wooden rungs of the ladder below and Tatsu almost crawled over to carry him up. But the blanket was warm wrapped tightly around his shoulders and the corner near his desk comfortable. It didn’t really matter that no [...]

“Hurry over. Shinji’s been hurt. Er.. or, well, Shinji hurt himself. Just hurry. Please.”

It was amazing, Kippei thought, how quickly he’d gotten used to having everyone here….having everyone home. Coming home and finding them all there, or knowing they would be back soon. Seeing everyone every day. Sleeping all together in the same place and waking up together, all four of them… it was almost too right, too [...]

The house was strangely quiet. Shinji poked at the dinner he had cooked and sighed. He should have rung everyone and made sure they were coming home before he made something, but he had wanted it to be a surprise. If he’d been home that morning he probably would have known, but he’d been out [...]

Tatsu roared up to the Seigaku school grounds like a peel of thunder, the bike thrumming underneath him as he tore into the parking lot. He could spy the courts not far away and was almost tempted to drive right up to the fences…of course that was very likely to get him thrown out quick [...]

blushingbraids: Um…hello? fudod1cutie: *blinks* Hello…..

… Sometimes Shinji wondered about the things he did for the people he considered family. Really, walking in the crappy drizzily rain when it was freezing outside and all he had was one crappy jumper just to go see Atobe was asking…well, not a lot, but more than most people asked. But Shinji wasn’t really [...]

“Never, ever, ever going back, ever ever again,” Shinji mumbled for about the fiftieth time, stomping into the house and kicking off his shoes angrily. He turned to watch Akira come in and just…deflated, because he really shouldn’t be so mad about it when it was just Akira and him now and Akira had come [...]