The Same Deep Water As You (Ficlet #2 PART 3): Deep As The Water Goes

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Title: Deep As The Water Goes
Universe: The Same Deep Water As You
Word count: c. 2,800
Rating: Explicit
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction.
Warnings: If there are warnings for this story, you can find them here.
Notes: Sequel to You And I Go Down and You And I Are Free. Still for ___clash. (Hi, Lulu! ^^;) This is what happens after that.
Summary: Let me drown.


 
Deep As The Water Goes
a Same Deep Water As You story: sequel to 'You And I Go Down' and 'You And I Are Free'
by haikuesque

Eleven months post epilogue: June

Uguisudani

"Do you like it?"

Kame takes a step behind him, his fingers a cool drift at the edge of Jin's shirt. Jin can hear his smile when he says, "I thought I should be the one asking that."

He makes his toes keep still, his hands keep still. "I'm asking you though." He's on edge, feels every breath of air on his face and naked feet. They chose wide black silk for the blindfold this time.

Kame comes around. Pauses. Jin waits, and is not surprised by the careful fingers at the edge of the silk. "I like it," Kame admits. "It's pretty."

Jin imagines it against the dark, through Kame's eyes, a flurry of jitters along his spine. Pretty. Jitters and rough whispers.

But Kame likes what he sees. "Good," Jin says.

Kame's hands are ghosting over him, his mouth and his neck and his chest. Three weeks since the last time, settling and thinking, Kame making up his mind.

Kame's touch hovers at his waist, fingers sliding along Jin's belt. They both dressed well for this again. "I think you'll be pretty when I undress you, too," Kame says, cautious with a test in there, not the undressing but staging Jin, for looking. Looking and enjoying.

Not so new. Just stronger, one-sided; differently familiar, being stared at like a pretty thing. Being for looking at.

It's a prickle on his skin, so wide-awake with his sight gone. "I think I will, too," Jin says, and it burns a bit. His mouth is dry.

"You know I like to look at you."

Another flush rising. "Yeah, I know," Jin says with barely any sound, and waits again for the next thing to pull him in, it's all swimming in his head, that it's good, that this is happening.

Kame never says a thing about his mouth or his ass but Kame likes them and gets off on them, and now he's getting off on seeing Jin with a blindfold, Jin letting him look all he wants.

He takes Jin's clothes off, slow and steady, and they've been there before. Jin wants to laugh a little. But he likes the shift and slide of the fabric, the air coming in, and Kame's scent in his nose, Kame's breath warm on him. He listens to it.

His shirt catches on his elbows, almost like restraints, and Kame leaves it there even when all the rest is gone, and he runs his hands up Jin's thighs, over everything. He could say something now, about pretty. About watching.

"I like the way I make you feel," Jin says, because he thinks it, and then just lets it out."You make me feel like I'm the luckiest guy in the world," Kame says quietly, his touch light as feathers.

Jin bites his lip on a smile. Kame is so sweet. "Just that?"

Silence, and Jin has time to imagine Kame taking it in, how Jin's naked, and blind. "No, not just that," Kame says. Silence, and it's only from the sound of the zipper that Jin hears enough to form the picture. Then Kame steps in, naked too, his body hot and his erection blunt against Jin's crotch. "This, too," he says, and it goes to Jin's knees, good thing Kame's got him. "You're so hot sometimes it makes me dizzy. You can get me hard just by standing there."

Yeah, he knows. Lets it spin through him, pretty and want and need and the difference to everything he ever hated about being on display like this. He hates nothing about this.

"It makes me want to blow you," he says into Kame's neck. "It makes me want to show off for you."

Kame's cock moves against him, even as Kame laughs softly. "If you started showing off, you could give me a heart attack."

Jin turns his head into the sweaty bend, shaking an absent no. "Try me sometime."

Kame's hands are brushing down his arm, over bunched-up fabric, and there's a pause. "I want to tie your hands there."

Blunt, just like Jin. Kame taking his cues. Jin nods. His shirt drags further down and something pulls inside him, and whatever Kame does makes the fabric go tight around his arms, his wrists, become fixed.

Jin's wrists sink, dragging his shoulders back. The stretch is just odd enough to have him alert, make him shudder when Kame's arms come around his waist. He can feel Kame's erection pressing against him, hot and wanting.

Another pause. "It turns me on that you let me."

"Just that?" Not a complaint now. Just a floating curiosity. He lets Kame, and he'll let Kame do more.

Kame's hands trace lines up Jin's arms, across muscle and bone; the tension in his neck. "No. This is pretty, too."

Jin nods, though he doesn't know to whom. It's good.

"Come along," Kame says. His cock goes away and Jin misses it for a second, before Kame puts a hand on his back and starts to lead him. Jin feels awkward and a bit unstable, walking blind, with the weight of his own erection.

"Sit down."

He needs Kame's guidance when he's there, to drop and sit safely on the edge of the bed.

Kame traces the blindfold again. Tucks at hair while Jin feels sweat at the back of his neck, a rush of blood and promise, until something slides, moves, and he starts when he feels Kame's hands on his legs. Kame is kneeling before him.

"You have no idea how much I want you," Kame says, straight to him, Jin knows despite the blindfold. Kame runs both hands along the insides of his thighs, pushes to make them part wider, and something in Jin curls up, longing and helpless. "How much it turns me on to have you like this."

And then his mouth goes down around Jin's cock and Jin hears his own sob loud in his ears.

He can't see and he can't touch, it's just Kame, around him, strong hands on his thighs and the hot and wet and... slow, slow and everything Kame ever learned about him, and Jin doesn't have to do a thing, he can't, and he's shaking with the shirt and the blindfold and Kame's grip, and sweat all over him.

He hears the noises, Kame's not shy. They sound greedy and happy and wind him higher.

Kame takes a break once; strokes him wetly with his hand and lets Jin feel he's looking again, seeing everything. "You're pretty all over," he says, and Jin flashes on three weeks ago, watching Kame fall apart, and then he thinks of Kame seeing him now, with the sweat and the hard rise of his chest and he bucks against Kame's grip without meaning to.

"Eager, are you." There's one long, too light slide along his dick. "Yes, that looks very eager."

Jin holds his breath, and then he can't think anymore, isn't supposed to, Kame's tongue is back on his cock, warm and rough and perfect, and then faster and faster and his wrists are straining against the shirt, his whole body wired and his dick is hot, pulsing, Kame's mouth, god, hot, oh god.

Plan, huh. Didn't expect that. Didn't think so soon.

Eventually he can breathe.

Kame is rubbing slow circles into his thighs. It's intimate and tender and Jin doesn't give a fuck how desperate he must look.

"That was good," Kame says quietly. "I wanted that."

Jin almost laughs, but then it's just a shudder.

Suddenly Kame is even closer, arms circling him, Kame's mouth is on Jin's chest, sliding down to his stomach in a row of breathy kisses. There's one of those pauses. Jin's fuzzy, but he gets that this is when Kame gives himself a push. "I still want to tie you to the bed," he says. "I want to have you like that even though you're done. Can we do that?"

Jin nods. He's drifting limp and boneless on a shivery cloud. Kame can do anything with him.

But Kame's still waiting, waiting to be sure, so Jin says, "Yeah, we can. Totally can." In a weird way, he's looking forward to it. "Do it."

"Okay," Kame says, kissing his mouth. "Hold still."

He leaves; Jin hears soft steps. A dip of the bed behind him, and hands at the shirt, untying. Of course.

Even when he's free, he doesn't make a move. Lets Kame move his hands around to his front, enjoys it; enjoys the new buzz when Kame ties them back together, and tips him back.

"Move up," Kame says, and it's naked and a little nice to scramble up like that.

Kame pushes his arms up, and something fixes his bound wrists to the top of the bed. Then it's quiet. Kame quiet, Jin's breath still. The bed doing that dipping thing.

"You're gorgeous like that," Kame says, warm and honest. It's a buzz, even without the drive of his own hard-on; it's not a threat.

"That what you like?"

He starts, just for a moment, when Kame moves his legs apart.

"Yeah," Kame says. "You... open like this. And letting me look, letting me touch."

Kame's hands on his thighs again, moving up. Brushing over his limp dick, taking their time on his hips, pressing on his stomach.

"You were right that I like it." Kame sounds quiet. His touch is soft, but steady, constant connection. "When I can just touch you, when I make you react, it's... intoxicating. It makes me feel invincible, like I can do anything. Even more when it's like this."

To hear it like that... Jin breathes deeper, feels like he's sinking but Kame is right there with him. He smiles and stretches a little, to open up even more. He likes being right.

"Told you," he whispers, and hears Kame laugh just as low. There's something sweet, maybe a thank you in Kame kissing his hip, his touch soft and everywhere, until it's right there up the inside of his thighs. Slick little circles, god he doesn't know when Kame did that, but it's wet and slippery and Kame is just waiting a bit, letting Jin catch the drift. Jin's caught it, and he says nothing, does nothing, doesn't even want to rush.

He exhales when Kame gets there, slips between, pushes his fingers inside with that same slow control. Even more when it's like this. He swallows, it's true, it feels more and a lot and for a moment he wishes he could see the strength in Kame, see everything he's getting from this.

He hears a gasp. So the picture's good. He rides out the tingle, that edge of embarrassment and it all goes soft and dreamy, he's always loved this.

"I'd like to fuck you too," Kame says, his voice wavering, his fingers not.

"Yeah," Jin says. "Do that." Just not yet. Not when Kame plays him like this, makes him sink so deep he can't tell if he's hard or just high.

"You..."

Pauses. Pauses, pauses.

Jin lets his hips rise, and gets more just like he wants, and Kame says, "It makes me feel like you belong to me."

Oh, Kame. "That's okay," Jin says, and there's a soft laugh again, a happy laugh.

"You look amazing."

And then his fingers make Jin gasp, and squirm, and god he just came but here he is all but begging, pushing and spreading and he pictures what Kame sees and he's not even ashamed.

"Yes," Kame whispers, and lets Jin know again all he's learned about his body. A long, long tease, Jin biting his lip and jerking against Kame, and then Kame slows down.

He doesn't ask again. And that's a surprise, a shaky little extra as Kame handles his legs and settles him over his lap, and then Jin feels him, the stretch, Kame inside him.

Kame sighs and Jin wants to reach for him, but his arms are caught and there's a hot spike in that. He waits, breathing out, Kame settling in ways he knows, and the first thrust comes and Jin almost forgets how often they've done this.

It's new. Rawer, the way he feels taken and overwhelmed and the power behind it a bit too much, when he can't see.

"Say something."

He doesn't know what was in his voice but Kame slows instantly. "Too much?"

"No," Jin says and it's true, it's not, he just... needed to hear. I need to know it's you. "It's okay," he manages, adds, "just, better. When you say something."

"Okay," Kame says, and he makes it sound easy. "Have I mentioned you're amazing?"

Jin laughs, he's shaking in Kame's grip. "Not in the last two minutes."

"That's terrible," Kame says. There's another thrust, stronger again. "Because you are." Another one, and Jin lets himself be rocked by it. More power, Kame building up steam. "And gorgeous, and mine."

Jin arches his back, and that's all he can do, Kame's got this show, "Jin," in a murmur and a whisper and sharp pants, Kame taking, just what he likes, taking taking pretty let me do this belong to me, and Jin says, "yeah," and he's here, right here, Kame clutching his hips and slamming hard against him, and going still.

Around Jin everything else is spinning.

"Jin." Kame's fingers, so sweaty, sticky, tight and weak on his hips.

"Right here," Jin mumbles, then has to laugh at himself. "I think."

Kame is stroking his skin, just staying still. Jin still feels the heat coming off his body. "You okay, yeah?"

"Yeah."

Kame slips out but he's still touching, always touching. For a while they're just breathing, the only sound in the silence. Jin feels more naked suddenly, held like this with the buzz in his brain, wondering what now, how long this... goes.

The circles Kame makes on his body grow smaller. Slower. Stop.

He holds on, and Jin doesn't know what he's thinking. If he's still looking, liking, or...

"You okay too?"

"Yes," Kame says, slowly. "Yes, I... I am."

Jin finds himself caught again when he tries to reach out. Of course.

"Okay if you take them off?" Jin says quietly. "I'd like you up here."

"Of course," Kame says. His voice still sounds rough. "I can do that." Sounds like the voice of someone who is trying to be in charge.

The bed sinks and bounces with Kame's knees, and the ties come off easy. Jin arms feel stiff when he takes them down. Ow. Kame is fondling his wrists like he's checking they're okay. Jin rolls them a bit, but stills when Kame's mouth is on the skin somewhere, warm and damp.

Then Kame tugs down the blindfold, and wow, bright. Kame, sweaty, searching. Kame's hair, a mess. Kame, great.

"You look really cute," Jin says scratchily.

Kame is scanning him, fingers trailing and hovering. "Thought I'm supposed to be bossy," he says, light as if all of this is easy, which Jin knows it's not, and he pulls Kame down with one of his inelegant arms because he wants a hug and Kame needs one.

Kame settles slowly, like thoughts are making his limbs unsorted. He puts a hand on Jin's dick, still half-hard from all that. "Want me to..."

Jin shakes his head quietly. "I'm done."

Kame leaves his hand there anyway, light and soothing. He seems awake, and Jin's awake too, way more than normal.

Well, this wasn't really normal.

"You liked it, yeah?"

He can feel the thoughts still hovering in Kame. "I did."

"And it wasn't like you worried it might be."

There's a pause, and then Kame props himself up, looking straight at Jin with dark eyes searching for courage. "It was hot," he says, lets it hang as if to examine it again. "I liked how it felt."

"But not like you worried," Jin repeats, because they already knew about the hot part. "Right?"

Kame examines that too for a moment. "Right," he admits. Takes another moment and nods.

"Come here," Jin says. Weird to think that he's been tied up but Kame needs things now. He pulls Kame in and kisses him on the mouth, sweet as he can. "I'm glad we tried it." It's not easy, or harmless; he had his own little scare right there, reminder that they're moving in deep waters and Kame's not just silly with his caution and his care.

But they're fine now. "You need anything?" he asks. "Anything I can get you?"

Kame's mouth quirks up like he's laughing at himself, but then he just shakes his head. When he settles against Jin again, it's heavy and slack, spent. "It was fine, wasn't it," he says after a while. Just fact now.

Dreamy fact. Jin holds Kame to him, smiling at nothing, at the whole thing. "Yeah. Just fine."

*

End
 

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/___clash/]

Holy pink leprechauns! There's more still!!1!11 *_____* Can't read atm because must... court. Now. But OMG!

[http://users.livejournal.com/___clash/]

So, I've read this now *___* And I... I don't actually know what to say. You've written tasteful bondage porn that's beautiful and amazing and so. hot. and also, I swear, the best possible way to end this, and meanwhile I'm just sitting here, dumb and silly, without the right words to convey how utterly fantastic this is. Kind of like Jin, actually *___*

They both dressed well for this again.
I love that they keep doing this ^^ I always dress up very carefully for events that scare me, or that I just don't know very well, so this, to me, seems intensely meaningful. It sends a determined-but-terrified kind of message. I don't know, perhaps this is something most people do. I've never actually asked ^^;; #OCDcat

"If you started showing off, you could give me a heart attack."
Yeah, I'm with Kame on that one, I think it's a definite possibility *___*

"You were right that I like it." Kame sounds quiet.
No! You don't say. I'm taking this to mean denial is a thing of the past, and yay to lots of happy bondage from now on! p(*^^*)q

...and he pictures what Kame sees and he's not even ashamed.
Haha! Look, they're just adorable! And hot, too. So adorably hot *___* #rollsaroundahappycat

I need to know it's you.
*_________* asdfghjkl I don't know what to say! It's so perfect! ;A;

Around Jin everything else is spinning.
Right around there I finally... remembered to shut my mouth OTL

and he pulls Kame down with one of his inelegant arms because he wants a hug and Kame needs one.
And your writing always... such vivid mental images... like it's just there for you, you can see it, them *_____*

...reminder that they're moving in deep waters...
OMG IT'S LIKE WE'VE COME A WHOLE CIRCLE AND AND AND IF FEELS DEFINITIVE NOW *______* Well I... I really like these things ^^;; YU write such great endings? They're always so... endy *___* I hate endings, but I really love yours *___*

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Normal operation of business was suspended while Solo was off in Japan, so we apologize for the delayed reply!

We're still very happy you're pleased with your story, and yeah, we enjoyed teasing you with the three days in a row. *g* (While at the same time, we did think a bit of a breather between three separate bondage scenes was in order!)

I always dress up very carefully for events that scare me, or that I just don't know very well, so this, to me, seems intensely meaningful. It sends a determined-but-terrified kind of message.

Hmm, we couldn't speak for humanity. :-) But they both do take it seriously, and the nice clothes are almost a bit of prep. Special occasion and all that. (Apart from the side benefit of looking good.)

Yeah, I'm with Kame on that one, I think it's a definite possibility *___*

LOL! Yeah. Can you imagine?

Denial is to a large extent a thing of the past. Though there are kink aspects Kame will probably keep Not Thinking about and that Jin in general won't poke at. (Jin has no burning desire to reclaim facials as a positive force in their relationship. *g*)

If you're curious, we don't really think they'll do a lot of deliberate, orchestrated bondage like this in the future -- this was fun, but also BOY HARD WORK and a bit dangerous. What we think will happen is that they start to incorporate a bit more unstructured fake-bondage, like Kame holding Jin down and stuff, more often, and with Kame being much more relaxed and able to play with it. (But AYKB, the authors are dead, and we could be wrong! :D)

We're very happy we produced a #rollingaroundhappycat and that even with all the complicated complications it was still a little hot! :DDDD And things coming full circle, yeah, they really kinda did.

Thank you for your comments on this whole thing, that really made it worth the trilogy! *g*

[souleater-angel.livejournal.com]

THERE'S. STILL. MORE. Asdfghklkhgfeaghjjjgfdd

[souleater-angel.livejournal.com]

I got so excited yesterday and I don't even know how to describe how I felt today when I saw there was a part three. I remember thinking just for a second that there was no 'The End' in the previous parts and I thought that was weird cuz I thought you guys normally did that but I shrugged it off... Twice. That's good though because they were lovely surprises. :)

This time was definitely much less awkward and much more hot. It was absolutely nothing like that first time.

"If you started showing off, you could give me a heart attack."

You could give us all a heart attack, Jin. XD

"I like the way I make you feel," Jin says, because he thinks it, and then just lets it out. "You make me feel like I'm the luckiest guy in the world," Kame says quietly, his touch light as feathers.
Jin bites his lip on a smile. Kame is so sweet. "Just that?"

I just love them together. They are so good for each other and obviously very head over heels for each other. After they were done I got the impression that Kame was having a hard time believing Jin was real. They are both so so lucky to have each other.

I think we can safely assume that these particular ghosts will no longer be a problem. Will this become a somewhat regular thing for them or was this just something they needed to conquer?

Thank you for this lovely ninja-three-part ficlet!

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

HEEE, it worked! We're pleased! If a bit evil.

Sorry for the late reponse, but Solo was irresponsibly on holiday! (Jo thinks she should not be allowed.)

This time was definitely much less awkward and much more hot.

YAY! That was definitely part of the progress.

Jin should really watch it, or he could become a heart attack serial killer without meaning to. >_>

I think we can safely assume that these particular ghosts will no longer be a problem. Will this become a somewhat regular thing for them or was this just something they needed to conquer?

Yeah, this ghost has been banished. *POOF!* We don't really think this will become a regular feature; it was fun, but also with very high stakes, and... we figure they figure there are slightly more relaxed ways to have fun? But it is true that they conquered this and we think this will actually mean they can do some other stuff, like the sort of fake-bondage at the start with Kame holding Jin down, or Kame being a little bossier in general, now more often and more consciously, and they'll enjoy that a lot.

Thank you so much for your excellent comments, again! We really appreciate them a lot. ♥

[souleater-angel.livejournal.com]

Yes. How dare she. And Japan of all places. Tsk tsk...

we think this will actually mean they can do some other stuff, like the sort of fake-bondage at the start with Kame holding Jin down, or Kame being a little bossier in general, now more often and more consciously, and they'll enjoy that a lot.

I can definitely see them having a lot of fun with that. *attempts to control imagination*

Just a little side question, but will we see this Jin getting on top at some point? He did, a bit, in this but he seems to be much happier to "graciously let Kame go" and let him take charge. Does he just not have any desire for that?

Thank you so much for your amazing fics. Amazing comments are kind of impossible without them. ^^

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Yes. How dare she. And Japan of all places. Tsk tsk...

She has been returned to Scotland now and her penalty is suffering 15 degrees plus rain in July. That'll teach her.

Just a little side question, but will we see this Jin getting on top at some point? He did, a bit, in this but he seems to be much happier to "graciously let Kame go" and let him take charge. Does he just not have any desire for that?

Jin's topped by now; after a while Kame would have found it weird if they hadn't at least tried it. But this Jin isn't really all that interested in topping; we don't see him as a super-toppy guy in general but he's less keen on it here than in any other universe we have. He likes to let Kame take charge. And since Kame is happy to top and usually has no specific desire to bottom... it'll happen once in a blue moon, but not all that often.

We doubt you, as reader, will get to see it, since nobody requested it and the ficlets we've got coming up aren't the types of situation where we think it would happen. Sorry. >_>

(We wonder idly if people who write longfic with a very aggressive toppy Jin ever get asked the return question... *g*)

[souleater-angel.livejournal.com]

since nobody requested it and the ficlets we've got coming up aren't the types of situation where we think it would happen.

That's okay; I shall make do with my imagination! *grins* I am surprised no one requested that though, I would be interested to see how that would work. Jin's so... what's another word for not toppy... um, easily embarrassed. ^^

We wonder idly if people who write longfic with a very aggressive toppy Jin ever get asked the return question...

Well I would, for one. I can't, off the top of my head anyway, think of one where Kame never got on top, but if I ever did I would certainly have something to say about it. I mean, just look at Kame. Come on.

:D

[sweetspicyhot.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I enjoyed that very much.<3

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Thank you for letting us know! :)

[prettyorianna.livejournal.com]

Wow, talk about awkward and also incredibly sweet and hot. But it was completely believable, that level of awkwardness and all that considering the past. And it was enjoyable to read.

Though it makes me really want to reread the original story. I don't have time right now exactly but I bet I can make room for that in the next couple of weeks or so.

I think... I think out of every story I've read with Akame in it, the original of this and the ficlets are perhaps the most... um, honest? Like, the timing of it fits the real world much better than most everything else I've read or written, the emotions come across as realistic and fit with the personalities which could be two actual people out there in the world somewhere.

Okay, I'm not sure that my words are making sense, so can we just accept I'm praising the almighty writers of such a well-done, awesome story and ficlets?

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Awkward, sweet and hot? :) We're happy that worked out and was believable. And not too awkward to be enjoyable.

We think we might understand what you mean with the timing - there's a lot of internal development in the story, and often in this kind of story, things happen really rather quickly. People get over trauma very quickly or jump from 'omg I hate this guy' to 'omg I can't get enough of his hot cock'. We have a slow pace here which, to us, seems more like it might go in real life.

But even if we misinterpreted what you mean, we are always very happy to be praised! :DDDD Thank you! And have fun on the re-read -- maybe a summer project? >_>

[prettyorianna.livejournal.com]

I think you got exactly what I meant LOL. Which is good because I couldn't think of a better way to say it.

I think even in my own stories it comes out a bit rushed but I think it's the fact that the amount of time it takes to write it compared to the amount of time passing in story is really two different paces.

But I am a big fan of stories which feel real. I mean, you can have a normal setting or a completely fantasy setting and still make it FEEL real, you know?

So I think I will always respect what you have done with this whole fic + ficlets. (^_^)

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Pacing is hard! We know from experience. ^^ Stuff takes time, but you also don't want to write waffle just to pass the time...

But I am a big fan of stories which feel real. I mean, you can have a normal setting or a completely fantasy setting and still make it FEEL real, you know?

Yes, absolutely. Even stories that have a really whacky plot or are bizarre AUs can still be emotionally 'real' and believable.

And thank you very much! #^_^#

[fond-of-pin.livejournal.com]

Just - WOW!

The first part was already a nice surprise, I didn't expect the second part, and now there's even THIS! So hot and sweet and akward. "The Same Deep Water" is still my favourite story of yours. I read it twice, and bits and pieces of it still pop up in my mind unexpectedly. It really left a deep impression.

So I'm really happy about every new ficlet from this universe, and hope you'll write some more.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

LOL. We felt quite sneaky and gleeful posting this in three parts. But we can always blame Kame and Jin, since they needed three attempts. Yes. Let's blame them.

We're really happy it left an impression and kept echoing in your head for a while. That's a great compliment - thank you! And yes, there'll be more in this universe, we still owe a few other people ficLETs (um...). ♥

[soundczech.livejournal.com]

i haven't had a chance to read this yet, but i'm laughing that you guys consider a 10,500 word piece a ficlet

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

No, we don't really consider this a ficlet. *g* These are written to spec, and we went with 'ficlets' as insurance, in case someone was dying to get 'Junno's life after whoring' or 'Nakamaru and Koyama's first time'.

Hope you enjoy if you read it, but we should say that it won't make any sense without the SDW background!

[sablenoir4.livejournal.com]

so---that's another ficLET of 10k+. where do you get them? lol.

i read the 3 in one go, and ended up deciding to comment here, right at the end, after some dithering.

they took their time, the dears, but they got there. ouf! jin's the definite hero here, for me. the things he does for love kame ^^ - tho' of course il trouve son pied [jin gets his share?].

this was needed. ghosts are nasty things. sneaking round and up on us when least appropriate. so good that one's gone. tho' jin does let us see he's some of his own. which prospect loomed way larger, and far more worriting in my mind for their sex life at the end of SDWAY. yeay for their love & loving - feels and doings - all down the line.

moving swiftly on, before i start melting/quoting stuff back/flailing at your descriptions of their kind of loving, i am just very glad you wrote this, as the one before. both fishing in deep water. these ficlets are complementing & filling-up little spaces that were left in my mind.

thanking you. [here, have a tart - and oh, crap, that could be misconstrued. time to find myself another edible icon >.<]. ciao bellas.

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those ficlets... it's not our fault, Jin and Kame just sometimes need a lot of time (and plot) (AND TALK) to get their shit together. :p

Ghosts, yeah. Lurking ghosts, and there are more of them. The interesting thing is to see how these two deal - for us too, since we have some general ideas, of course, but a lot of the nuance develops in the writing, when charas just insist on acting in particular ways. That's part of the fun for us.

No comment on tarts. But thank you for this! :)

[ismera91.livejournal.com]

Loved it of course :) I find it so cute reading about what they are like now and seeing them resolving some of their past issues. I love seeing Jin feeling more sure of himself and his place next to Kame :)

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked! Oh yes, Jin has gained much more confidence. Issues will continue to ambush them occasionally, but they're much better able to deal with them now.

Thank you for commenting! :)

[thesecretdoor.livejournal.com]

This was perfect *_* There really are no other words for it. The atmosphere and the feeling of it had that cheeky, but still a little nervous somewhere, edge to it. I loved it.

It was incredibly hot too, and I liked the way things worked, with Kame getting Jin off first and then still being ok with the rest, it's like more than one hurdle jumped together.

This bit:

'It's new. Rawer, the way he feels taken and overwhelmed and the power behind it a bit too much, when he can't see.

"Say something."

He doesn't know what was in his voice but Kame slows instantly. "Too much?"

"No," Jin says and it's true, it's not, he just... needed to hear. I need to know it's you. "It's okay," he manages, adds, "just, better. When you say something."'

this was just the icing on the cake, the need and the comfort, and damn I just love those two, even if I aren't really an Akame fan, your characters are way beyond that. They're so human and believable...

Thank you for posting these ficlets, they're awesome and I really never want the SDW universe to end T_T

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Perfect. *__* Perfect is good. :))

We're really happy the atmosphere worked for you, and the mix of emotions. The bit you cited is one we like a lot, too!

We must say, we're pretty impressed that a non-Akame fan would have read all of SDW *and* the ficlets. And we're glad we could make these two believable to you. Thank you for letting us know.

Sorry about the late, late, late reply, but half of the team was inconveniently absent. >_>

[haikuesque.livejournal.com]

Perfect. *__* Perfect is good. :))

We're really happy the atmosphere worked for you, and the mix of emotions. The bit you cited is one we like a lot, too!

We must say, we're pretty impressed that a non-Akame fan would have read all of SDW *and* the ficlets. And we're glad we could make these two believable to you. Thank you for letting us know.

Sorry about the late, late, late reply, but half of the team was inconveniently absent. >_>