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  1. Rec 7

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    “How?” Yoshiki stares out over the slopes of scrap. “How d’ya… fix it?”

    Hikaru pauses in his motion, lets the stick pitch over. He reaches into his pocket and slips something out, something small that bounces back at the beams of the sun.

    He flicks at the cap of the lighter.

    “Fire. Pulls the skin back together, or somethin’.” Hikaru turns to him and grins, wide and toothy. “Ain’t that cool?”

    Yoshiki learns about Hikaru's new form.

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    28 Aug 2025

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    “Hikaru would never say that.” He digs himself unforgivably deeper. “Thought ya were s’posed to be just like him.”

    Hikaru shudders. It’s a mechanical sort of vibration. It doesn’t roll over his whole body, just his torso, his head.

    “I am.” His eyelids shutter, like pages flipping in a book. “Doesn’t mean my feelings ain’t real.”

    His eyes find Yoshiki’s, pupils flashing red. They aren’t round— they’re sharp, pixelated.

    “Right, Yoshiki?”

    Yoshiki can’t answer. He doesn’t know.

  2. Rec 50

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    “I wanted you to stay,” says Hikaru.

    Yoshiki’s hands feel numb from how hard he’s squeezing them. He keeps his nails trimmed short and neat, but they still score deep into his palms and make his skin hurt.

    “M’here now,” says Yoshiki, his accent slipping a bit in his anger and fear.

    “No,” says Hikaru, sneering, “yer not.”

    Or: Yoshiki returns to visit Kubitachi for Hikaru's wedding.

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    28 Aug 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    “You left,” says Hikaru, and the way his voice trembles and breaks reminds Yoshiki so much of the lost, scared teenager he’d once been. “You left me.”

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