recthething | Recs - Matchablossom Fanfic || SK8 the Infinity

Fandom: SK8 the Infinity (Anime)
Pairing: Nanjo Kojiro | Joe/Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom

In celebration of the season two and OVA news (I am still bouncing off the walls), here are some Matchablossom fics that I highly enjoyed.

Title: falling for you
Author:

ailurea
Rating: Teen
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 11,647
Summary:

You know what they say: the best way to figure out that you’re in love with your best friend is to watch them fall in love with someone else.

(Alternatively: Kaoru’s got a crush, Kojiro’s got a crush, and it all goes wrong before it goes right.)

Title: jupiter couldn't keep me from you
Author:

altarlife
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings
Word Count: 10,100
Summary:

it takes them five years to go on a second date.

Title: The Tie That Binds
Author:

beelligerence
Rating: Teen
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 25,069
Summary:

Kojiro opens the door and looks around into the quiet street, frowning. It’s empty of life, no person in sight; the few other shops and restaurants located on the same street having long been closed by this time. He does hear some slight rustling, but it’s the small cooing noise that brings his attention downwards to the wicker basket left on the doorstep of Sia la luce. He slowly squats down so that he is closer to the baby occupying the basket.

“Hey there, sweetheart,” he says, his voice quiet so as not to disturb the little one. He reaches his arm over and grasps a tiny hand between his thumb and forefinger. “Where did you come from?”

Kojiro smiles gently as he picks up the basket and heads back indoors. He softly closes the door behind him and when he turns back into the restaurant, Kaoru is much closer to him leaning up against a nearby table.

“What’s—” Kaoru’s eyes widen when he sees the baby. “Uh, where did that come from?”

Or: fellas, is it gay to raise a baby with your best friend?

Title: Sunkissed
Author:

bitterheart
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 53,604
Summary:

Kaoru misses Kojiro more than he misses Okinawa. He misses the easy smiles, the solid warmth of Kojiro by his side. Even if he doesn't miss the way his chest aches when he'd look too long, or when he thinks too hard about everything he wants, and knows that he can't have.

Kaoru is hopelessly in love. Every time he tries to get over Kojiro and distract himself with something else, he only ends up falling deeper.

Title: The History of Love
Author:

crinklefries
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 167,051
Summary:

As they walk around the curve of the shimmering, black lake—walk toward the curved beams of the golden shrine and Kojiro, standing there, patiently waiting for him—Kaoru thinks: he has been ready for this longer than he could possibly have known. He has loved and longed and wished for this person, his entire life.

It had just taken him longer than anticipated to realize it.

Kaoru lets Kojiro get away once. Luckily, that’s not the end of their story.

Title: i thought I was dreaming
Author:

DFP
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 12,263
Summary:

What he has is this: Kojiro’s undivided attention in the small hours just after his restaurant closes, his idiotic presence at his back when they skate, the comfort and agony of his gentle, thoughtless touches.

It would be unimaginably mortifying to be mooning over Nanjo Kojiro, so Kaoru refuses to.

Title: how good it feels to have your love
Author:

DFP
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 9,000
Summary:

Kojiro had insisted on moving in either shamefully early or woefully late, depending on how you measured things, because their schedules are so out of sync they might as well live in different time zones.

So Kojiro had given him a ring, maybe 20% as a joke (okay, twist his arm, 0%), and Kaoru had been a dick about it but eventually let Kojiro move in with him, and then he filed their taxes together and that was that.

Happily ever after.

Series: Vacation Benefits
Author:

fancywaffles
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 83,923
Summary:

From the first story ~ Kojiro and Kaoru only hook up when they're on vacation. There are no feelings involved. Or at least Kojiro keeps telling himself as much.

(or, joe & cherry are frequent flyer friends with benefits)

Title: can i try again, try again, try again
Author:

fromeden
Rating: Teen
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 4,952
Summary:

“You’re late,” Kaoru states frigidly, once Kojiro is close enough, nose high in the air. He doesn’t dare look at him and his… companion.

“Sorry,” Kojiro says, his tone drowning in smugness. His companion giggles. Kaoru can tell he’s grinning — unapologetically, shamelessly — without sneaking a glace, and the pebble nested in the pit of his stomach makes itself known again. “Time slipped away from us. Ah, you know how it is, Cherry.”

Us. Kaoru wants to retch. And he does not, in fact, know how it is.

(or, five times kojiro is at ‘s’ with someone on his arm, and one time that someone is kaoru.)

Title: baby, you're my open road
Author:

marks
Rating: Teen
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 5,786
Summary:

"Where have you been?" Kaoru asks when he rolls into S after two. "You look like shit."

"I look disheveled." Kojiro runs a hand through his hair and doesn't bother tugging his jacket up over his shoulders again. "Maybe you should try getting laid once in a while, see the difference for yourself."

There's a glint in Kaoru's eyes at that, one that Kojiro hasn't seen since the accident on the curvy road over by the rest stop, the one that happened two days before Adam flew halfway around the world. His eyes stand out even more when he wears his Cherry Blossom mask, making what's already beautiful into goddamned artwork. "Maybe some of us are just more discerning."

"Funny way of saying virgin," Kojiro says and grins dangerously when Kaoru grabs him by the pendant he gave Kojiro for his sixteenth birthday. Kojiro hasn't taken it off in over a year.

Kojiro always does whatever it takes to keep Kaoru in his life.

Title: when your stitch comes loose
Author:

sepiacigarettes
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 5,055
Summary:

Because Kojiro is so nice during sex.

He'll choke Kaoru on his dick but call him sweetheart. Will prop Kaoru's hips up on a pillow and hold his hands while he eats him out until he cries. He's just like that and it's getting harder and harder for Kaoru to pretend that they're just best friends who get each other off. Kaoru has loved Kojiro since he knew it was possible.

pining kaoru just wants kojiro. kojiro thinks they're already dating.

Title: the dead lovers of the world are listening
Author:

sepulcher
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Word Count: 24,385
Summary:

Kaoru was skateboarding when he met Nanjo Kojiro and they came crashing into each other's lives, because of course he was.

Title: Entwined
Author:

thehoyden
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 8,412
Summary:

When Kaoru wasn’t looking, they apparently acquired three children—two idiots, and a Japanese national team hopeful who was too precocious for his own good.

Title: Don't Call Me Baby
Author:

Ulan
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 11,882
Summary:

No kisses. They agreed on that. Kojiro's sometimes a little shit about it, but Kaoru has to insist. It's the only thing that keeps him sane throughout all of this—whatever this is.

Kaoru is not cut out to be Kojiro's sex friend. But here they are.