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    "Okay, shitty emperor. What do you think about this?" Isagi shot the ball to Grim and wove around Kaiser. Though Isagi had been trying harder, he couldn't believe that he had succeeded on the first try.

    Kaiser had a strange look on his face, but it wasn't half as strange as his reply once he caught up to Isagi, "Glad to see that you've finally stopped staring at my thighs and decided to play ball for real."

    Isagi gaped and nearly tripped over Kaiser's foot when Kaiser turned. "I— I wasn't looking at your thighs!" Shit, he should have mocked Kaiser about his pompous assumption that Isagi would ever want to look at his thighs. They were stupid and generic and nothing special, right?

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    Something isn't quite right with Isagi and Kaiser's translator earbuds.

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    He traced a circle on the snow, and a second, smaller one inside it. It would have been nice to dig out his old spellbook for the occasion, but Ness didn’t want to push his luck too much. Besides, though it had been years, he still remembered the runes and their significance. He inscribed them carefully in the gap between the concentric circles until he had filled the space with the same summoning spell he had attempted when he was a child.

    Now, all he needed to do was visualise the magical creature he wanted to bring to him. He was spoiled for choice, really, when there was an abundance of magical creatures he wanted to meet. Any one of them would do, he really wasn’t picky.

    All he could imagine was choppy blond and blue hair, red and black and blue tattoos, blue roses—

    Oh, who was he kidding? Kaiser was about the only thing he could think about.

    ⋆。°✩ ⋆。°✩ ⋆。°✩

    Frustrated over the growing gulf between him and Kaiser, Ness tries to find a distraction and ends up summoning another Kaiser "by accident".

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    As far as Isagi knew, it had all started the moment he had dashed through the doors in Ego’s wake, the day he had been invited to Blue Lock. More specifically, it had been upon entering that first room where they had played tag. No, that wasn’t it either. It was when he had reflexively received the ball Bachira had passed to him, before kicking it straight into Kira’s face, ending his football dreams in one decisive move.

    The flickering had started then, like an itch behind his eyes. It quickly built to a burning sensation seeping from the top of his head, down his throat, down his spine, coiling in his chest, before pooling in the pit of his stomach. It was then that he had noticed a small, blinking speck right in front of him. He had rubbed his eyes, but the speck had grown even brighter when he opened his eyes again. What was that?

    As if his thoughts had triggered it, the speck had expanded and… disappeared. In its place, a ghostly grey puzzle piece hovered, with what was unmistakably Kira’s name scribbled on it in a messy hand.

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    Isagi Yoichi is the protagonist, and he holds all the pieces to his own story. Literally.

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    “[Siegfried] had once heard it said, ‘Hope dies last.’ Years and years away from home, riding on dark waves and traversing grey fog, yet he would rally himself for years more of his lonely journey, all for a child’s dream that refused to be crushed.

    Now, standing before the mirror to what passed for his soul, he tasted futility. He was no prince, no divine gift to the world. He was more ignoble than the dirt on the ground, and he was twice as reviled as death itself.

    Once again, he had to decide: did he persist in the delusion of humanity, or did he accept his true nature?”

    —Alexis Ness, Beyond The Pale

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    Kaiser and Rin are both actors, giving life to the roles of a golden prince and a monstrous creature seeking a relic to empower a kingdom and to purify a distorted soul.

    Note: rating will go up; chapters are either in the actors AU or the fantasy AU of the characters they play.

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    Sae wasn’t sure if he had nodded or indicated in any way that he agreed, but he must have, because in the next instant, the hiten — which he was now sure was some canny, corrupted spirit, — scooped him up in his arms and peeled his sodden robes from him.

    “Then let us bind our fates together.”

    ─── ⋆⋅☼⋅⋆ ───

    Once upon a time, Itoshi Sae set sail from Oyashima to visit the faraway lands of Hispania. Tragedy strikes, but Sae is so lucky to be rescued by the Marqués de Llebrevermella, Ilustrísimo Señor Bunny Iglesias.

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    Isagi couldn’t stand it anymore. Intelligence really didn’t translate to smarts. “Are you together or something?”

    They were at a stoplight, so Kaiser could give Isagi the most contemptuous look ever known to man and make him feel like a bug. “Are you fucking crazy?”

    So, they were actual, genuine idiots. At least, Kaiser was. Isagi slumped in his seat and stared at the back of Kaiser’s head, plotting. He had to get them to realise what was happening so he could be put out of his misery. Besides, puzzles were fun and Isagi felt kind of embarrassed about their awful obliviousness.

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    Kaiser and Sae are obviously an item, they just don't know it yet.

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    Sometimes, it was both simple and complicated, as it invariably was when it concerned a person’s life. Understandably, the average person could be forgiven for balking at the prospect of murdering one person, even if it was to safeguard that of several billion. The fact that a person like that was akin to a free radical was not common knowledge nor could it be, after all.

    But Isagi was not one of them and he knew what was truly at stake. When he received an assignment, he carried it out with precision and alacrity, and with minimal bias.

    Michael Kaiser, predictably, simply had to be the exception.

    · · ─ ·✶· ─ · ·

    Blue Lock operative Isagi Yoichi attempts to murder Michael Kaiser and fails. He gets a second chance.

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    “I’m sorry, Isagi.”

    Annoyance flared to life in his chest, like blowing on an ember. “What are you sorry for?”

    Rin’s brother was unperturbed. He continued to stare down at Isagi even as he responded in that calm, unruffled monotone of his, “For Rin’s lukewarm behaviour. I’ll understand if you want to go home.”

    “What are you talking about?” Isagi clammed up and adjusted his volume, even though his anger was fast approaching boiling point. “He’s just late. I can wait.”

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    Isagi Yoichi gets a chance to rekindle something he'd thought he'd never had.

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    “What if I programmed football into each encounter?”

    Isagi hated the way he perked up instantly. Even so, he remained sceptical and very, very suspicious. “What do you mean?”

    “Every option you pick will contain football.” Reo looked downright gleeful now, “I would never think of taking away your practice time, and you might learn a thing or two.”

    “So… some kind of dating sim disguised as football training?”

    Reo gestured grandly, “Something like that, though I’d rather not call it that.”

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    In the year 2078, Isagi Yoichi decides to help his friend test out his VR dating simulator packaged as the vending machine, Lonely Mouths, and a choice of six unlikely characters to choose to go on dates with: Michael Kaiser, Bunny Iglesias, Itoshi Sae, Don Lorenzo, Vivien Hugo, and Julien Loki.

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    He’d lost count of the number of times he and Yoichi had rendezvoused, under the cover of night, in the small, clear patch by the camellia that some noble must have planted ages ago, left to run rampant and unruly the way their feelings had. Few words were ever exchanged there, what with Kaiser’s limited Japanese, and Yoichi’s even sparser German, but they found a common language in hands and mouths and, above all, the intent gazes they gave each other.

    °❀⋆・.ೃ࿔˚˖❀°˖

    Camellia: resilience and grace; boldness in the face of adversity

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    “You can do more, can’t you?” Bunny laughed, giving the collar a playful tug just to see if the beast could get any madder. “Unfortunately, this is where your tyranny ends.” He could see his sword now, and all he needed to do was end the beast the way he had ended so many others. What a shame.

    You are nothing more than a lukewarm lizardfucker and I’m done showing you mercy.

    Before Bunny could react, the beast wrenched back violently. Bunny was left holding a slack length of broken chain and was allowed just enough time to feel surprise, before the world went black.

    Caballero Bunny Iglesias has finally found his match. Now, he just has to convince the ryujin Sae that they’re both exactly where they want to be.

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    One day, Subaru would be able to accept the fact that he would never see Seishirou-san again, that the last time had been that awful, horrible day. That day would be the day he died, and even then, he might yet hold on to fragile, senseless hope.

    **✿❀ ❀✿**

    Subaru finds Seishirou in an unexpected place: assisting him in a mission uninvited. It involves a dollhouse, dolls, and little costumes that Hokuto would have loved.

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    “What the fuck are you doing here, Yoichi?” Kaiser hesitated on the threshold of his hotel room, torn between stomping inside and turning right around so he didn’t have to deal with whatever the hell this was.

    Yoichi grinned at him, a wicked spark in his eyes. He darted forward before Kaiser could ask him how he’d broken into his room and grabbed him by the hand, yanking him inside. Kaiser, of course, dug his heels in, resisting upon principle, if not on instinct. That was when another Yoichi poked his head around the corner, saw what was going on, and took Kaiser’s other hand to haul him in the rest of the way.

    The door slammed behind him and the lock engaged. Right away, the air seemed to change.

    “What the hell is this?”

    In his hour of greatest need, Kaiser returns to his hotel room after a match to find not one, but two Yoichis. (His Yoichi, a third one, is somewhere.)

     

    C1: Kaiser is visited by angel and demon Isagi
    C2: Isagi is visited by angel and demon Kaisers
    C3: Angel Kaiser and demon Isagi
    C4: Demon Kaiser and angel Isagi
    C5: Triple-decker sandwich

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    He had genuinely believed that the sakura would be in bloom. Now, the sky was a dusty grey, choked with clouds, and the only blue thing in sight was Kaiser’s hair, his eyes, the roses on his throat, and his matching fluffy jacket. Just Kaiser being Kaiser.

    Kaiser snorted and said nothing. He ruffled Isagi’s hair, turning it into a tangled nest, as he brushed past him, walking towards the stone bridge over the frost-clogged river. That gesture spoke volumes about how comfortable they were with each other in their own special kind of way.

    Isagi couldn’t help but think, they were never meant to get this close.

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    Cherry Blossom: a symbol of the impermanence of life

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    Re Al forward and two-time Puskás Award winner Michael Kaiser was found dead in his Munich hotel room on Saturday. The death was confirmed in a statement by his club’s publicists, as the football world reels in shock and disbelief at his sudden death.

    Prequel to Love Story; Isagi Yoichi and Alexis Ness team up to make the most selfish choice.

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    “The Kaiser — I’ll take him.”

    Reo gave him a curious look, “Are you sure? I’d have thought Shidou would be ideal.”

    “No, he’s mine!” Isagi’s mouth clicked shut at the startled looks he got from his companions. When he spoke again, he lowered his volume. “I met him last night. I think we’d work well together.” The control the Kaiser had shown in spite of his otherworldly nature made Isagi more confident about his chances of actually making something out of a partnership with him without dying prematurely.

    “Are you sure meeting him was all you did last night?” Rin eyed Isagi suspiciously.

    ─── ⋆⋅☼⋅⋆ ───

    Isagi Yoichi has travelled very far to meet someone as fascinating as the Kaiser, who is said to have come from a cursed land, where he'd cut off the heads of its former rulers.

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    Undeterred, Dio leaned a folded arm on Giorno’s shoulder. “Would it cost you so much to give this a chance? It’s obvious that you don’t believe that I found my sweet, stupid Jojo again during one such party, but there’s no harm in trying. Go downstairs, smile at your guests, be gracious, and maybe you’ll spot someone you never thought you’d see again.”

    “That’s an awful lot of luck you’re depending on. That’s not how things work.” Ah, Giorno could see why Mista was so friendly with Dio, while he had the opposite effect on Fugo.

    “It’s not luck, it’s fate. It brought me and you together, and Donatello to you.” Dio smiled, gesturing airily, “I’d think that the one wielding Requiem would understand this better than anyone else.”

    “I don’t appreciate your schemes. This is the first and only time I will allow it, on account of what you’ve done for me.”

    ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★

    Over twenty years later, Giorno meets someone dear for the second time.

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    The sweet scent was not so different here, but at the same time, it couldn’t have been more different. Kaiser swore that he could taste the frost that rimmed the plum blossoms on the back of his tongue, and when he closed his eyes and turned his face up to the white, featureless sky, it almost felt like he wasn’t on earth at all.

    How had he ended up here? How had this happened? When he opened his eyes again, would it all have been a dream? Would he wake up on a dirty wooden floor, surrounded by trash, clutching his fellow piece of shit? It felt like only yesterday that he’d made his wish — what had he done to merit its fulfillment?

    A bump against his shoulder, followed by a laughing voice, “This isn’t the place to daydream. You’re in the way, clown.”

    How could he have forgotten? This was all Yoichi’s stupid fault.

    °❀⋆・.ೃ࿔˚˖❀°˖

    Plum Blossoms: resilience and perseverance, hope and renewal; even in the harshest winters, life can still flourish.

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    All Isagi had ever loved was football. Once upon a time, his soulmate had held an equal place in his affections, until his dad’s job brought them all the way to Germany and Isagi finally realised that his soulmate’s true name, the one over his ribs, was a blistering insult no one deserved.

    He had been consumed by fear and regret. He’d cried so hard he’s made himself sick. Then, he became furious at the unfairness of it all. To think that his soulmate was some awful, degenerate, piece of

    Forget it. You’ve got a job to do.

    Ray Dark had put a hand on Isagi’s shoulder and given him a dispassionate brief: there was a boy who had fended off seven police officers with a football and he was currently sitting in a holding cell. He wanted Isagi to find out if the boy loved football, and if he loved it enough to cross the country and somehow get into shape to make the Bastard München tryouts next month.

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    A younger!Kaiser/ older!Isagi story and how their lives are intertwined, where they met the right person in each other, but at the wrong time, and their struggles to meet in the middle.

    Rated E for explicit smut in C3.

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    “You forgot?”

    “Forgot… what?” Ness approached his bed cautiously, then perched on the edge of it, close enough to get a better look at the boy, but not close enough that the boy could grab him. “Have we met?”

    The boy fell silent. Then, he changed — or the world outside did. Ness couldn’t tell if his hair darkened because a cloud had drifted in front of the sun, or if the cloud had appeared because the boy had started filling with colour. Whichever it was, the boy’s hair became a lustrous black and his right eye turned dark blue. “What about now?”

    “I’m sure I’d remember if we’d met—”

    “You obviously don’t!” The boy grabbed a fistful of the front of Ness’ shirt and jerked him closer. “You used to call me Yoichi. You said we’d be friends forever. I steered fate away for you, you know?”

    Ness lost something, but he will reclaim it with a little help from two otherworldly menaces.

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