Hi! I know you wrote this ten years ago and I don't know if you're even active on here anymore, but in my need for more RK fanfiction, I have been digging through ALL the completed fandiction. I stumbled onto yours, and while I normally don't read just A/M stories, I felt like I should read yours.

I am glad I did.

This is probably one of my favorite things I've read in a long time as far as function goes. It was cute, funny, romantic, etc. Thank you for writing this!

Ugh this is perfect, what else can I say? Just the right balance of frustration, misunderstanding, and finally, "little less talk and a lot more action" that just seems to fit these two so well 3 just enough detail to get you riled up, without getting too far into it. Another wonderful A/M fic 3

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I'm supposed to be behaving. By that, I mean that I am not supposed to be sneaking around typing at all. (Tendinitis is a horrible thing, that it is.) But how could I not type a review to this story? May I say first that your work is still as wonderful as I remember it being? Even in an AU setting, you manage to make things seem so...right.

What really won me over for this story...was the following:

[She made him feel increasingly old. Worse than that, the girl made him lonely. She came over and moved his stuff around and cooked and made tea and never asked anything and it was just too much like she belonged there… So when she wasn’t there, he missed the noise.]

That's so...Aoshi. It's so perfect. I think it suits him so well that it's almost scary. (And at the same time...I have to also admit to being impressed.) While Aoshi's personality in canon doesn't seem to bother him (being called the "Gloomy" one, anyway), I have to say that he would eventually second-guess himself. How difficult it would be to be alone for so, so long.

I know a guy. Actually, we were "seeing" one another for a few months. He was much older than I am (and by that, I mean by more than twenty years). A wonderful guy. Nice. Quiet. Compassionate. Understanding. (He was nothing like Aoshi.) But one thing about the guy I knew that really struck me hard was the sheer amount of loneliness he must have felt. Things did not work out for their own reasons, and that is neither here nor there.

I will say, though, that with Aoshi's quiet, anti-social type of behavior, it would be terribly easy for him to stay alone forever. I think that is one of the reasons I love Misao and Aoshi together as a pairing. It's not necessarily that her personality forces him out of his shell, but that their personalities mesh well together. I'm sure you know that already.

I love Aoshi's random thoughts, also. About things like the red of the condom, and then deciding her lips weren't red, and that he would prefer if she never painted them. Not red. It was so amusing, and still so in character for him. The man is definitely a thinker.

[If she came to his doorsteps pregnant one day...]

It's too bad that you are not writing in the RK fandom these days. (Or I assume you're not, anyway.) This requires 'fic. It needs to be written about. I'll never write it, but I felt the need to point that out to you.

Ahahaha, either way, this was a nice read. Aoshi got to tease Misao a bit, which is always a nice turn of events. Thanks for writing this!

Cheers,

-Manna

So cute! I love it!

XOXO

y y use a condom. i hate condoms. nice and funny story but i hated that he used a condom. can u write another chapter with these two, a continuation but without the condom?

Hahaha. That was good. It was certainly an interesting thought you came up with. I thought it was hilarious. Good story.

Okay, your spelling is good, the climax is fine, and the characters are well described. The only part I could nit-pick at is the length, the story feels longer than it actually, and in this case that's a rather good part, becuase it means that there are no 'filling' words or sentences. Also, your style is just as captivating as works like Paolini. You should come up with original stories and get published. In fact, I'm going to your homepage now to see the rest of your works.

haha that made me laugh, but it was pretty corny and cute which is like my favorite combination! Loved the story!

Adorable. I'm a fan of your use of a non-specific AU setting even though I usually don't much care for that particular RK-fic convention.

I love the ploy. Very sexy! Ja ne!

WOOHOO! Misao got ice man to crack! That was a great one-shot!

very funny. :) at first I was having a blonde moment and didn't know what she gave to him! I figured it out eventually.

-Mandella-sama

i really liked it- it really made me laugh it was very unique

ja!

Delightful! _ Oh i audibly SIGHED when he kissed her, *sigh* i LOVE aoshi...great fic, you're a talented writer - keep it up!