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The time it took for a letter to travel the distance between them caused them to spend over a full year talking about the differences between fleeting glances and purposeful stares amidst paragraphs and paragraphs of bitter politics. For some reason, Kiku felt as though he was reading it all over again as he looked at Arthur, that man who had long since become as good as a stranger to him.
Was it really with him that he had exchanged those letters?
Originally written for the zine Love Letters From 9½ Thousand Kilometres
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a shadow of us, a dream spun from gloss by erzi
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
23 Dec 2024
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He clinks the cup on its quivering tray. But he had not set the cup down so brusquely; but no earthquake claims the Matoba clan head where a youkai could not prevail. It’s his hand on the tray’s edge, struck by a tremor.
Seiji steals it away inside in his kimono. It is black. The Matoba’s color. The color of a groom. The color of a lizard skittering across a hand, up the arm, to a face that does not want to see his.
He opens his mouth. “I have to—”
Beget a worthy heir, as many tries as it takes. Teach him—it must be a him—to wield a bow and arrow, to enunciate spells so resoundingly that they reach the gods, to chop up his heart and eat it before their enemies can. Balance that with leading the clan; with having a wife, a stranger in his room bearing more than his name.
He has to let go of everything that would impede the Matoba legacy, transcending one man’s wants. He has to marry her.
More than the sake rises up Seiji’s throat.
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Sigils by copperiisulfate for meguri_aite
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
24 Dec 2024
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Matoba sitting cross-legged in Shuuichi's living room with a pot of ink, a calligraphy brush, and a look of intense concentration on his face as he painted a script up Shuuichi’s arm wasn't even close to the direction he could have expected this day going in.
(Shuuichi embarks on an exorcism job for the Matoba clan. The clan head loans him some help in the form of a spell.)
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of wind and flowers, of the snow and the moon by orange_cheetah
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
16 Dec 2025
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["Legend has it that if you bring a boat to the middle of the lake when the full moon hangs high, you’ll see what your heart cherishes as your treasure.”
“But shouldn’t one already know what their own treasure is?”
“Hahaha…” Hearing my answer, Matoba Seiji laughed, though I didn’t know what was so funny about it. “Of course I already know what my treasure is; it’s your treasure I’m curious about, Shuuichi-san.”]
Wind, flower, snow, moon—the beauty of each of the four seasons; a romantic love.
Four stories set in Matoba Seiji and Natori Shuuichi’s adolescence and adulthood, with wind, flowers, snow, and the moon as themes.
Canon compliant.[Translated from kurrokura's【的名的】风花雪月]
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Love Letters and Chocolates by xanithofdragons
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
13 Jul 2018
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Shuuichi and Seiji go out on a Valentine's Day date.
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