sketchofgehenna (mud)
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Butterfly Bandage by sketchofgehenna (mud) for linzbees
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
20 Oct 2025
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Submission for the 2025 TSHD Fic Exchange ♡
The original Hikaru was always popular with the girls, so this was something he should've come to expect. They didn't usually get around to actually confessing to him, though… twice in the span of a few months made for some impressive numbers compared to his track record so far. He guesses it's one of those things that comes along with maturing… figures being closer to summer break would be emboldening, too — if things don't go to plan, you've got a couple months to rebuild your self-esteem before you've got to see the person again.
He again takes to smothering the part of him that wishes to go back to simpler times; every time he's sure he's finally killed it, and every time he finds out that he's wrong. He turns instead to hoping that things today had gone better than they had with the girl from class D — a much more realistic standard.
"Didja at least reject her kindly this time?"
"Huh? Why would I reject her?"
That certainly isn't the answer he was expecting.
Or: Hikaru and Yoshiki have a talk in the infirmary.
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Last Train Home by sketchofgehenna (mud)
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
31 Aug 2025
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Yoshikaru Week 2025, Day 5: Date
"Hey, Yoshiki... look." He stops to marvel in front of one display in particular, but his arms are slack at his sides. The creatures bobbing inside are mostly transparent, but the light shining through them highlights their multicolor reality: the blue of their bodies; the yellow-green of their internal organs; their numerous tendrils, tipped with purple and fluorescent pink. The placard beneath the tank reads 'Flower Hat Jellyfish'. "This one kinda looks like me."
He's right. They're beautiful.
Or: Yoshiki and Hikaru visit an aquarium.
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- Part 5 of Yoshikaru Week 2025
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Gratitude by sketchofgehenna (mud)
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
28 Aug 2025
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Yoshikaru Week 2025, Day 4: Free Day
"A few months back, when we celebrated yer birthday... it was Hikaru's. Not yours."
"Now thatcha mention it... I guess that's true..."
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"Yours woulda been—" he hesitates, "a little more than six months ago. So I guess I was just wonderin' if ya wanted to do somethin'."
Or: Hikaru and Yoshiki revisit Hikaru's makeshift grave.
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- Part 4 of Yoshikaru Week 2025
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How We Spend Our Days by sketchofgehenna (mud)
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
27 Aug 2025
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Yoshikaru Week 2025, Day 3: Domestic
When you both go to retire to your room Kaoru pitches a fit about you hogging all of Hikaru's attention. With her on the couch, the two of you instead end up sprawled out near the window on the sitting room floor. Now that it's nighttime you've pulled the curtains aside and opened the room up to let in the night air. All you can perceive is the light of the moon and the smell of the mosquito coil strategically placed in proximity to the sliding door.
"Hey, Yoshiki." Hikaru's voice reaches you from half a yard away. You know you're facing each other, but without the light of your phones or anything you can't see him very well. "I'm really havin' a lot of fun. Ya havin' fun?"
"I'm miserable." You're having fun.
"Man..." He steamrolls right over your joke. "We should get an apartment or somethin'. Kaoru can come too."
Or: Yoshiki, Kaoru, and Hikaru have the house to themselves.
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- Part 3 of Yoshikaru Week 2025
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Under The Eaves by sketchofgehenna (mud)
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
26 Aug 2025
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Yoshikaru Week 2025, Day 2: Festival
You and Kaoru both stand quietly and slurp your noodles; Yoshiki exists beside you, carrying Kaoru's stuffed frog under one arm and your stuffed alligator under the other.
"Man... the rain's gettin' the decorations all soaked."
Yoshiki doesn't respond — not even to just say "yeah" or something like he normally would.
"Ya bummed everything's gettin' wet or somethin'?"
"Nah. We were just gonna send it all down the river later anyway."
Empathy and compassion don't come naturally to you. Most of the time in social situations you don't really get what's going on. It's different with Yoshiki, though. You know something's on his mind — you don't know how you know, but you know.
Or: Hikaru, Yoshiki, and Kaoru attend Kubitachi's Tanabata festival. It starts to rain.
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- Part 2 of Yoshikaru Week 2025
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Yoshikaru Week 2025 by sketchofgehenna (mud)
Fandom: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
31 Aug 2025
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down beneath the ashes and stone by strayryuu
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
28 Aug 2025
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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.
Bookmarked by sketchofgehenna (mud)
28 Aug 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
“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.
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out of time by boracynth
Fandoms: 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
24 Sep 2025
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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.
Bookmarked by sketchofgehenna (mud)
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.”