Almond in Flower

Streets of Nippon, chapter 11
Summary: In which Yukimura has a plan, and Atobe has no idea what it is.
Wordcount: 4900


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Streets of Nippon, chapter 10/12
Characters: Atobe, Hyoutei, Tezuka Kunimitsu, Tezuka Kuniharu
Summary: In which decisions are made, and the Tezukas (finally!) show up.
Wordcount: 3500


( The master bedroom in the Rikkai safe house had been converted into a conference room, equipped with holoprojectors, multiple wall monitors, and even a neural link chair occupying what had once been the walk-in closet. )

Streets of Nippon, chapter 9
Characters: (this chapter) Atobe, Sanada, Yanagi, Inui
Wordcount: 4100
Summary: In which there is dialogue. And more dialogue. And more dialogue for good measure.
Notes: If you have not read He and You, do read it before this chapter, else this chapter will ...make even less sense than it does.

( Keigo was beginning to recall why he didn’t like Sanada Genichirou very much. )

He and You
Characters: Sakaki, Atobe, several original characters
Wordcount: 6300 words
Warnings: Mild slash, mostly implied. Also, more than any of the other Shin Tokyo sidefics so far, it is completely not standalone; the events in this interlude pertain to the main SoN plot - so in reading you should treat it as an SoN chapter, albeit in flashback.
Summary: Nine years before the events in SoN, Sakaki meets the child Keigo.


( Each time I was struck by how adroit you were in virtual spaces, how precise and lifelike the online manifestation of your body was – each golden ringlet in all its variation of shade, the black circumscribed mole below your right eye )

Streets of Nippon - Chapter 8
Characters: Atobe, Taki,
Wordcount: about 4000 words
Summary: Atobe and Taki go to the Tezuka household to investigate, and have an unexpected encounter.

( In which Atobe stalks Tezuka, Taki is sensible, and Oshitari attempts and fails to get drunk )


On to side-story: He and You.

Streets of Nippon - ch. 7
Characters: Atobe, Taki, Momoshiro, Oshitari
Wordcount: 3400
Summary: In which Seigaku's hand is revealed, Oshitari gratuitiously angsts as per usual, and Taki is actually useful for once.


( “You want to break into InSec.” )

Prognosis
Characters: Oshitari, Yagyuu, Niou.
Summary Sidestory to the Streets of Nippon cyberpunk AU. Five years before the events of SoN, Oshitari and Yagyuu are studying at medical college, when the precognitive Niou Masaharu arrives to disrupt their lives.
Wordcount: 6500 words.
Warnings: Violence; some coarse language.
Notes: Somewhat first-drafty, especially towards the end; I welcome any concrit people may have to offer.


(  That was the problem, he thought, you could never just make a suggestion to Hiroshi; you had to somehow convince him that he had thought of it all by himself, and all the better if you gave the impression that it was something you didn't want him to do, and really, Oshitari wasn't his mother, so what was with that attitude? )

Streets of Nippon, part 6/?
characters: Atobe, as usual. Kajimoto, various members of SeiRu and Rikkai.
wordcount: about 4750
genre: SF. Possibly a soap opera. The author is not quite sure. -_-
notes: In which there are meetings, meetings and more meetings, Fuji has Brother Issues, and Rikkai D1 steals the show. As usual.


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thoughts in empty space
characters: mostly Tezuka, with Yamato and Yukimura cameos.
wordcount: about 1000
notes: belongs to the Shin Tokyo AU. I'd like to think it could stand on its own as an AU Tezuka character fic, but it probably, really can't. Context: Takes place following the events of The Forming of the Sixth and before the main Streets of Nippon story; Tezuka's defeat to Atobe lands him in a coma-state, followed by a period where he's exclusively stuck in VR space, waiting for his body to wake up.

Dedicated to aiwritingfic; hopefully this will convince you that I'm not trying to turn Seigaku into the bad guys here.


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Streets of Nippon, part 5/?
characters Atobe-centric. Sakaki, Oshitari. Marui.
wordcount: about 5000 for this chapter.
genre: SF gangster AU, with half the plot ripped off from high fantasy.
notes: Sakaki reminisces about the past. Oshitari panics and wears caterpillar-print pyjamas. Rikkai looks cool.


Shin Tokyo stories all under this tag here, including previous chapters.


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