8 Works by 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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Eternity Is A Human Feeling 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)
25 Aug 2025
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Yoshikaru Week 2025, Day 1: Dorodoro
Finally after what feels like several minutes (but was likely closer to 10 mortifying seconds) the first knuckle of your index finger grazes something hard. You practically lunge for it, grasping it tightly before you can lose track of it again. The sudden movement causes Hikaru's entire body to tense up and you're sure you feel drool start to seep into the fabric over the shoulder of your other arm.
("It's the weekend," he'd said. "Who wears a backpack on the weekend?" Like he's some kind of expert on what's socially acceptable... but at the end of the day, you suppose you're just as much of an idiot for listening to him.)
Or: Yoshiki and Hikaru sneak snacks into a movie theater.
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- Part 1 of Yoshikaru Week 2025
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Spit by sketchofgehenna (mud) for 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 Aug 2025
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It's weird to think about, but you've probably got a better understanding of how the human body works than how your own does. Your body makes the most sense to you when you're using it to form concrete shapes: Hikaru's appearance; the heart that pumps the blush over your cheeks and nose; the lungs that hold the breath that carries your voice; the xiphoid process that you broke and gave away. You don't need any of them to live — sometimes you forget to create them, and sometimes you choose not to — but each is a vessel for understanding and a vessel through which you're understood.
But really, you're a swirling mass of something. A wound inflicted upon you closes because you want it to. You could sink to the bottom of the ocean and the pressure of its depths would crush you before you could convince yourself to drown; even then, you would exist.
If you mix a little bit, it makes sense that you could reach in and fix Yoshiki, too.
Or: Hikaru deduces a quick way to help Yoshiki sober up.
Note added 10/27/25: This fic is not abandoned! I'm still working on it I'm just busy. It will be done by the end of the year.
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The Various Creatures of Mie Prefecture, Japan 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)
08 Aug 2025
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You've never done it yourself, but you understand the process that would follow: cutting the head off to kill it, probably; the scalding in hot water, to loosen everything up; plucking and rubbing, paying special attention to the wing and tail feathers...
You don't want to imagine it, but you do. You think of raw chicken. You swallow hard. The fingers on your dominant hand flex slightly without your permission.
"Man... Animals are so cool." He's right. You look back at them again, alive and whole, and wish you had half their skill at curling up into themselves.
Or: Yoshiki Tsujinaka has passing interactions with the local wildlife, some subjects more interesting than others.