Title: Anesthesia by Falstaff
Pairing: Muraki/Hirose, Muraki/Oriya
Author on LJ:
greekhoopAuthor Website: Fanfiction.netWhy this must be read: Anesthesia picks up on similarities between YnM's Muraki and
Bronze's Nanjo Hirose - two bespectacled blond antiheroes with serious brother issues - and runs with them. The premise sees Muraki treating Nanjo Koji in hospital after his car accident; thereafter, the story interweaves on the fringes of both series as Muraki and Hirose tip toe warily around a would-be relationship too dangerous to flourish in either world. Muraki recognises Hirose as kindred - a problematic concept for both men. Muraki has been searching for something special, someone useful - but Hirose is no-one's puppet. Written in a deliberately
noir-ish style steeped in similes, the story is told in alternating first person POV and evokes the darkness of both series.
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