masayaXichigo my otp SQUEEEE!

That is a beautiful story. I love how she is the literal light in his life.

AWWW! Ichigos TRUE AND ONLY LOVE is Mayasa! SOOO SWEET!

wow. i never thought of things like that

I can't believe I haven't read this before. I loves me some not-quite-human!Masaya, and you write him wonderfully. I also quite like the detail that Masaya has the inner resources to sit still by himself and not be bored-it fits him really well. Yay for Masaya POV!

Very good, very good! I've just come back to this fandom, and it's nice to know that there are people who can write so well in it. I hope that my own fanfiction will be up to the same standard when I post it. Thank you for writing this piece!

Wownice and poetic could you write something about Ichingo and Ryou. I mean masaya makes me want to puke but this story made me actualy think of him without puking. Nice job.

Oh. My. Gosh.

First of all, this is the first ever Masaya-POV, or even Masaya-centric, fic I have read, and I am so glad you are not a Masaya-basher, because it's horribly common.

Just...gah. THIS WAS SO PERFECT! At the end, Masaya mentions being a 'perfect imitation' rather than a real boy, and you captured that. He was not cold, but very measured in his tone. What I love is how you've developed and encapsulated the IchigoxMasaya relationship in so few words, because, while it was the main focus of the cannon, it really wasn't developed that deeply. You showed how he wasn't all that thrilled at the beginning - incredibly mature - and yet by the end you had, with perfect plausability, explained what would make him grow to care deeply for her in the long run. It reminded me of that Christmas episode where he's explaining to her that he knew she was a Mew Mew, and why he likes her. So what I'm saying is that this fits the cannon, but takes the cannon to a whole new level.

My favourite line: 'We had a decent time.' I'm not sure exactly why...it's this not being head-over-heels, but growing to like her thing again, I think. 'A decent time...' Could any phrase capture cautious, lonely Aoyama so well? And again, with the description of his relationship with his parents, you captured a whole family life in a very few lines. And then, the comparison between the shades of grey and the strawberry red hair...when you began that paragraph, I could sense it coming, and then I read that last line (beautiful incorporation of the title there!) and I was like, 'YES!' To me, themes and metaphores like this are the essence of the oneshot.

Many thanks for this gorgeous fic about a very underrated character!

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Aww, this was so cute! :D And it was so Masaya, you done him really well~

Awww that was sweet! I really liked it :D

Aww! How cute! Sounds exactly like Masaya. I bet that's what he was thinking at the time.