"Once Upon a Time” Lasts Forever

Title: Just a Bit
Author: opalmatrix
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: swearing, crossdressing, lots of liquor, and mild m/m
Prompt: Samurai Deeper Kyo, Kyo/Yukimura: crossdressing - Just the two of them, sharing alcohol.
Word count: 1124
Summary: Five years after the end of the series, two old friends meet for some drinks.
A/N: Written for springkink IX. Beta by the painstakingly thorough smillaraaq (who lessoned me on Edo-era drinkables) and the fabulous avierra.

Only one person had ever got within Kyo's guard without his notice ...

Posted together for your convenience!

(springkink is basically a multi-fandom prompt and art/fic writing community. Every few months, they open up a "prompt post" and users post prompts from any fandom. A few weeks later, the mods collect them into posts by date and open them up for claiming. Users claim prompts and post them on the specific date they are due. You must be over 18 to write for this community. )

Title: The Next Step
Author: opalmatrix
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: mild m/m
Prompt: Samurai Deeper Kyo: Benitora × Akira, Testing the lines of friendship, "I found myself wanting sympathy"
Word count: : 1485
Summary: Benitora is there when his old friend needs him.
A/N: Written for springkink VIII. Set between the last two chapters of the entire series (306 and 307), but I've tried to finesse any spoilers for volumes 35-38. This story assumes familiarity with canon in vols. 1-34 (the ones released in English so far), so there are some spoilers from those volumes. Beta by the insightful smillaraaq, the always-helpful blue_hobbit, and the surprising kispexi2

The noise of the common room of the roadside inn faded out as the host led Benitora back ...

Title: Too Damn Hot
Author: opalmatrix
Warnings: Perhaps not worksafe. Near-nudity, m/m desires
Pairing(s): [Saizo/Yukimura]
Spoilers: Aokigahara Forest arc
Notes: For smillaraaq, who wanted Saizo and his unrequited devotion to his master; with apologies to thewriter0, who wrote a very fine Saiyuki fic with almost the same title and punchline. (It also seems to me that I've read another story that starts out the same general way, but I can't find it anywhere. If there really is such a story, props and apologies to the author.)
Summary: The Sanada Ten's hot weather pastime of choice is only inflaming Saizo's problems further.

Title: Reflections
Fandom: Samurai Deeper Kyo
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: swearing; some violence; very mild kink; girls kissing
Disclaimer: Samurai Deeper Kyo characters and situations belong to Akamine Kamijyo
Spoilers: serious spoilers for vol. 32 onward
Notes: Set after the fall of the Red Tower, but before the events of the final issue. Inspired by a comment from xskadi and with a nod to kittycatbone and her story "Amidst The Flowers." Thanks to sanada for doing the beta read.

ETA: The pictures I meant to use in the first place.

Title: Spring Thaw
Rating: mild PG-13-ish
Summary: When leading the Mibu clan gets to be too much for him, Shinrei gets more help than he'd expected from a surprising source ...
Disclaimer: Samurai Deeper Kyo characters and setting are the property of Akamine Kamijyo
Notes: Takes place a year or two after the fall of the Red Tower in 306. All hail Sanada for the idea for the pairing! (It's my first fanfic ... o_O )
(Originally posted to the love_deeper community; reposted here because I wasn't sure about the etiquette of using a deep link into a community post)

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- Cho