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Otsuya by Jed (NC-17)
Yami no Matsuei recs are back after a year's absence! Please refer to the excellent overview if you are unfamiliar with this wonderfully insane animanga series about the angst-riddled members of a bureaucratic afterlife. My softest spot is for gloomy ex-teen Hisoka and his puppy-like partner Tsuzuki, and my preference is for happy(ish) endings. I'm not wedded to any strict notions of seme/uke order; unless stated specifically by the author, I'll probably just list pairing characters in POV order.
Fandom: YAMI NO MATSUEI
Pairing: Hisoka/Tsuzuki
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
velvetglove
Author Website: Glovebox
Why this must be read: I wanted to recommend this story first up not just because it is exceedingly cool - encompassing elements of drama, humour, horror and eroticism - but because it provides such an evocative sense of JuOhCho and the people who work (or shirk) there. Set three years after the Kyoto arc, it begins by following Hisoka in deliberate and well-drawn footsteps through a typical morning at the office, complete with departmental meetings, doughnuts and neverending paperwork. Ordinary conversation serves to illustrate not just the usual routine but the frustration and guilt simmering beneath it; Hisoka and Tsuzuki are so protective of one another that they have fallen into the habit of masked wariness. A particularly creepy case upsets the status quo; Hisoka is attacked by a malevolent spirit at an otsuya (Japanese wake) and has an uncomfortable awakening of his own. The subsequent breakdown and the passion that follows are so beset with misunderstanding and awkwardness that they feel all the more cathartic for their realism.
The paperwork is important, certainly, but the most important thing is that the souls have been properly judged and dealt with. He reminds himself of this fact frequently as he tells bureaucratic lies, the bravado flourish of his pen belying his discomfort with the falsifications.
He looks up from the form and watches as Tsuzuki, cursing softly under his breath, drags his white cuff through a dark blue splotch of ink. Even this is so predictable, so usual. Most likely, he'll be spending the rest of his afterlife with this person, doing his tardy paperwork and indulging his sweet tooth with greater and lesser degrees of affection and enthusiasm.
When he'd asked Tsuzuki to live for him, he'd thought somehow that the life he'd begged for would amount to more than this.
Perhaps he hadn't known exactly what he was asking for then, but now he is entirely too aware of what he wants from Tsuzuki. Really, though, possible interpretations of his request are extremely limited, and extremely pointed. It's been nearly three years; how can Tsuzuki remain so maddeningly dense? Suddenly irritable, Hisoka sighs aloud. "What do you think we look like, Tsuzuki?"
Otsuya
Fandom: YAMI NO MATSUEI
Pairing: Hisoka/Tsuzuki
Author on LJ:
velvetgloveAuthor Website: Glovebox
Why this must be read: I wanted to recommend this story first up not just because it is exceedingly cool - encompassing elements of drama, humour, horror and eroticism - but because it provides such an evocative sense of JuOhCho and the people who work (or shirk) there. Set three years after the Kyoto arc, it begins by following Hisoka in deliberate and well-drawn footsteps through a typical morning at the office, complete with departmental meetings, doughnuts and neverending paperwork. Ordinary conversation serves to illustrate not just the usual routine but the frustration and guilt simmering beneath it; Hisoka and Tsuzuki are so protective of one another that they have fallen into the habit of masked wariness. A particularly creepy case upsets the status quo; Hisoka is attacked by a malevolent spirit at an otsuya (Japanese wake) and has an uncomfortable awakening of his own. The subsequent breakdown and the passion that follows are so beset with misunderstanding and awkwardness that they feel all the more cathartic for their realism.
The paperwork is important, certainly, but the most important thing is that the souls have been properly judged and dealt with. He reminds himself of this fact frequently as he tells bureaucratic lies, the bravado flourish of his pen belying his discomfort with the falsifications.
He looks up from the form and watches as Tsuzuki, cursing softly under his breath, drags his white cuff through a dark blue splotch of ink. Even this is so predictable, so usual. Most likely, he'll be spending the rest of his afterlife with this person, doing his tardy paperwork and indulging his sweet tooth with greater and lesser degrees of affection and enthusiasm.
When he'd asked Tsuzuki to live for him, he'd thought somehow that the life he'd begged for would amount to more than this.
Perhaps he hadn't known exactly what he was asking for then, but now he is entirely too aware of what he wants from Tsuzuki. Really, though, possible interpretations of his request are extremely limited, and extremely pointed. It's been nearly three years; how can Tsuzuki remain so maddeningly dense? Suddenly irritable, Hisoka sighs aloud. "What do you think we look like, Tsuzuki?"
Otsuya