13 Works by spaciousbear
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When Eiji returns to New York, everything seems foreign to him again. The language he spoke, the city he began to consider home. Even Sing.
As time passes, he finds that learning the second time around is even more of a challenge.
(Snapshots of Sing and Eiji through the years.)
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Forget the Rest, Remember Me by Holly (spaciousbear)
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
05 Aug 2020
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The first time Eiji dies, Ash almost doesn’t notice the door. It’s strange, because he’s sure they were trapped here just moments ago and he’s taken stock of all the locked exits, but there it is - a door ajar, without a lock or a guard, just blackness behind it.
When Eiji dies, Ash gets another chance to save him. And then another.
Ash keeps going back to the beginning until he can get things right.
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Sing doesn’t have to look to know what the man in the room with Eiji looks like. Blond, waifish, tall - familiar, but always off, always a shade wrong.
The alcohol helps, probably, to close the gap, to make it feel less wrong. To forget that his eyes are blue instead of green, masks the wrong tenor in his voice.
In the close confines of their apartment, Sing overhears more than he anticipated when Eiji returns home late one night.
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The way Eiji’s voice lilted at the end gave Shorter pause. It was something about the long moment he let simmer there, the way his eyes gazed out, seeking, beneath a coy gloss of shyness, as though he didn’t quite know how to ask. But of course, that's how he knew that Eiji was asking.
Eiji has a lot of questions about Ash - some more personal than others. Luckily, Shorter has the experience, and is more than willing to show him what he knows.
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A smile curled the edges of Eiji’s lips and it didn’t merely light up his face - warmth radiated from him whenever he smiled like that, and Ash knew he’d give anything to make his home by the heat of that hearth, to keep the fire burning.
Three separate winter nights Ash finds himself fighting off the cold (but Eiji is there to warm him up).
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Sing thinks Eiji is doing better, that he's gotten used to his quiet new life in New York. And it's true, for a while.
When Eiji suddenly sees a ghostly image of Ash in one of his photos, he's certain it means something, but Sing isn't convinced - that is, until strange occurrences and terrifying dreams force him to consider the possibility that something is haunting them after all.
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Shorter could have, maybe should have, said something right then that would reassure Ash. It should have been as simple as telling him that he cared. But he didn’t. Feelings that came to him so easily were hard to define - maybe that’s why they had never talked about it.
He would do anything for Ash, but he didn’t know if that alone made it love.
Shorter knows Ash, perhaps better than anyone. But it's the things that are left unsaid between them that Shorter wonders about the most.
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Vulnerability. It was what had made Eiji’s photos of Ash so compelling, how he’d drawn softness from something that seemed so impenetrably hard. With Ash, he’d been able to uncover gentleness and joy, because those were the kinds of things Ash chose to hide. The things that made him human. Sing’s secrets were human too, but far more primal.
Eiji asks Sing if he can take his photo, but doing so reveals more than Sing had intended.
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Sweeter Than Chocolate by Holly (spaciousbear) for TrashAYfanfiction
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
14 Feb 2019
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Ash and Eiji try to find the perfect ways to surprise each other on Valentine's Day. Things don't always go exactly as planned.
Written for the Banana Fish Valentine's Day Exchange.
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Eiji was always a bit more chilled in the winter months, a little more quiet, a touch more withdrawn. He said the cold didn’t agree with him, but Sing could read the meaning beneath that statement. Despite the progress he’d made, he’d accumulated a thick layer of ice around himself to keep any further suffering from coming through. He carried it with him, like his own personal winter that had yet to end.
Sing tries to get Eiji out of the apartment for an evening. But they are definitely, totally, 100% not on a date.
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A series of drabbles for Banana Fish Angst Week.
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My Heart's an Autoclave by Holly (spaciousbear) for geckoholic
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
25 Dec 2018
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In the dark hallways of Dino’s mansion, bartering for favors was as natural as breathing. It was there that Ash learned that everything had its price, from the food on his plate to the tear-soaked pillows on his bed. He quickly began to understand that being hungry, tired, or cold was far better than being indebted to someone who could provide.
Sometimes, Ash has nightmares. Eiji knows better than to ask what they're about.
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Love is a language you don't need words to speak. Words do, however, help clarify some of the finer points.
(Or, a series of moments from Eiji Okumura's life in New York.)A set of short stories about language and communication. WARNING: Spoilers for the end of the manga and Garden of Light!