#minato x tsuge

[tatatasoma]

[imnosupaman]

[geekygirl24]

[nyanfish]

(WIP)

it's so important to me that tsuge is a gay loser w no game.

[characterdevelopmentobsessed]

Cherry Magic! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Aaaaahhhh!!! A lovely romance anime where I equally loved the main couple AND the side couple?!?! Wild!! This show is amazing, and both couples got together in the sweetest way!!! I will admit I felt like they fast tracked Adachi and Kurosawa’s relationship in the last few minutes but we got a wedding out of it so who cares 🤷‍♀️

Also, kudos to the animators for the make out scenes! Amazingly done! And when they were making out in the hotel room and you saw their reflections in the window winding their hands together was such an amazing detail I loved it!!! 🥰

Both couples had some seriously smooth pick up lines too!! If someone said half those things to me I’d melt 🥰

[inahochi]

Masato Tsuge x Minato Wataya

CHERRY MAGIC! (2024) ⋆ #04.

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cherimahoanime X 10 ene 2024 -

チェリまほアニメ Después de cada capitulo del anime se mostraba una ilustración de soporte (12)

¡Para conmemorar el inicio de la transmisión, hemos recibido una ilustración conmemorativa del Sr. Toyota! 1era foto y se conmemoro también con la ultima foto.(14total)

cherimahoanime X mzo 2024

Para conmemorar el Día Blanco, entregaron ilustraciones conmemorativas de Tsuge & Minato (Foto haciendo corazón con sus manitos)

toyotayou X 20 mar. 2024 (ilustración por capitulo 11)

ソワ……　#チェリまほアニメ

cherimahoanime X mzo 2024

CD con el tema final \ El tema final "Magical Love" cantado por Adachi y Kurosawa se lanzará el miércoles 27 de marzo ‼ Se incluirán muchas versiones diferentes ♪

(canción: #声にならないよ )“Se trata de ti por primera vez” (https://x.com/koeninaranaiyo/status/1773016140261785855?s=20)

"Amor Mágico"

avex picture youtube

【チェリまほ】TVアニメ「30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい」EDテーマ「マジカルラブ」MV【CDは3/27(水)発売！】

(https://youtu.be/8p-dlXBZ16E?si=PzfdUFl8-lctZWMV)

cherimahoanime X 9mzo 2024

(https://avex.lnk.to/cherrymagic_EDsg)

cherimahoanime X mzo 2024

AnimeJapan2024 se mostró un PV especial en la pantalla grande del stand de Avex Pictures y en ese evento se presentaron el elenco y el personal en el stand de TV Tokyo & Satellite 22-23 marzo 2024

cherimahoanime X mzo 2024

Eventos especiales con elenco, con marcas, pop up shop, hotel, cd, blu ray también hubieron merch de cherimaho anime (aquí solo algunas fotos)

toyotayou X 23 feb 2024 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい（14）特装版　のCDパッケージデザイン出来ました！4月22日発売です。よろしくお願いします🎤✨

チェリまほ

He diseñado el paquete de CD para la edición especial (14), que aparentemente te permite convertirte en un mago si eres virgen hasta los 30 años. Será lanzado el 22 de abril. Muchas gracias 🎤✨

チェリまほ (store.jp.square-enix.com/item/9784757590267.html)

(https://x.com/toyotayou/status/1760984604658614341?s=20)

Aparentemente si eres virgen hasta los 30, puedes convertirte en un mago (14) CD dramático de edición especial ~Aparentemente puedes convertirte en un ídolo si no vendes hasta los 30~

¡La parodia de ídolos "Cherry Maho" diseñada originalmente por Yu Toyoda se ha convertido en un CD dramático protagonizado por el elenco de anime!

¿¡Adachi y Kurosawa forman una unidad de ídolos!? ¡ El mundo del muy popular “Cherry Maho” if-if! El elenco del anime interpreta apasionadamente la historia de parodia de ídolos creada originalmente por Yu Toyoda. ¡Un aburrido cantautor y un apuesto actor popular crecen juntos y desarrollan una relación amorosa a través de sus actividades como ídolos...!? Disfruta del torpe y entrañable unísono entre estos dos que no puedes evitar admirar en el CD dramático. Por favor♪

[Elenco] Kiyoshi Adachi: Chiaki Kobayashi Yuichi Kurosawa: Ryota Suzuki Masato Tsuge: Makoto Furukawa Wataya Minato : Hajime Sato Nozomi Fujisaki: Ami Koshimizu Asahina Takumi: Hiroki Yasumoto y otros

cherimahoanime X 27 mzo 2024 ||◤🌟#チェリまほアニメ 　　　特別編集版制作決定🌟◢||

チェリまほアニメ の特別編集版が2024年劇場公開決定❗

特別編集版の制作決定を記念したティザービジュアルも解禁です💍 続報をお楽しみに✨

詳細はコチラ👇

(https://cherimaho-anime.com/news/detail.php?id=1115509)

||◤🌟#チェリまほアニメ Se decidió la producción de la versión editada especial 🌟◢||

チェリまほアニメ Se decidió estrenar la versión editada especial en cines en 2024 ❗

También se ha publicado un adelanto visual que conmemora la decisión de producir la edición especial 💍 Estén atentos para más información ✨

Haga clic aquí para obtener más detalles 👇

(https://cherimaho-anime.com/news/detail.php?id=1115509)

Inf de pág. oficiales al termino de cherimaho anime en X 2024 (checasuspaginasoficiales)

[reikurusu]

watched more of the cherry magic movie and:

rokkaku!!!! he was so excited seeing adachi back that boy can single-handedly bring back my will to live

THEY MOVED IN TOGETHERRRRR

"delete the photo!!" *rapid fire picture taking*

the smiley face omurice oh my heart <33

ARO FUJISAKI THE ONLY WOMAN EVER

THEY'RE GONNA MOVE IN TOGETHERRRRR (tsugenato remix)

they're gonna meet the parents........

I KNOOOWWWW!!!! T^T There's so much wholesomeness happening it's insane!! I absolutely adore paparazzi!Kurosawa, he truly missed his calling!

I'm a bigger fan of Adachi x Kurosawa, but Tsuge and Minato are so cute in their own way! And I love that we got to see them communicating about things AND MOVING IN TOGETHER!! Everyone's just winning in this show/movie :3

Meeting the parents... Stressful! Be prepared!

[avorbl]

Avor's Watchlist

May has begun and this year all weeks but one are short work weeks so expect to see me catching up on alot of series I missed while I was obsessed with other things.

Currently Airing

23.5 _10/12 I should have dropped this because it never really caught me and the framing of the Aylin incident made me skip through the last episode

25 Ji, Akasaka de _4/10 Love the colours, the pining, the Japanese Blness of it

Be Your Star _6/20 THere are apparently 20 episodes to rgis and I dont no what it wants to tell me

Beauty and Mr. Romantic _6/50 I like the general vibe chaebol intrigue a hidden child? child exploitation but the start of episode 7 is a hurdle

Boys Be Brave! _6/8 each set of episodes gets better and I really want these boys to work it out

Ghost Yankee _3/8 Fun ghost drama about the things worth living for

Kare no Iru Seikatsu _5/8 Love me a slice of life romance

Kimi to Yukite Saku: Shinsengumi Seishunroku _3/8 The theatrics got me. this shippable group of men is more likely to open a gay bar than start a rebellion

Only Boo! _6/12 Cute Fluff pretending to be more

We Are _6/16 THe dark/light brigade of friendship and couples

What I am catching up on

Celebrity Danshi wa Te ni Oemasen _3/10

Gym Affairs _8/24

Never Twice _6/72

Oh No! Here Comes Trouble _9/12

Star and Sky: Sky in Your Heart _7/8

Sweet Stranger and Me _7/16

The Love You Give Me _17/28

Unstoppable High Kick _15/167

Still on my watch List

Fermat no Ryori _3/10

Fight for My Way _0/16

Given _1/6

I Feel You Linger in the Air _1/12

Kore wa Keihi de Ochimasen! _2/10

My Lovely Liar _5/16

One Spring Night _2/32

Qing Qing Zi Jin _20/40

Sell Your Haunted House _3/16

She and Her Perfect Husband _18/40

The Great Shaman Ga Doo Shim _2/12

The Uncanny Counter _3/16

The Undateables _1/32

Finished in the last two weeks

1000 Years Old 01.05.24 8,5/10 True to its free flowing style a lot was left in the air but it was fun to follow along

Seven Days: Monday - Thursday 03.05.24 8,5/10 Ice and Fire

Unknown 04.05.24 9,5/10 All the things happening in Episode 12 were necessary to wrap and resolve this plot. I just wish they would have given themselves more time for that. There were a lot of interesting points I wish they dwelled on longer. Maybe by cutting the health and the return of Le to the gang

Seven Days: Friday - Sunday 04.05.24 9/10 An improvement on the first one. It really needed them to completely misunderstand each other.

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha 05.05.24 8,5/10 Why did they have to pack one episode with all this heavy stuff?! 15. 05.05.24 Overall this was very good and enjoyed it, but some story lines where oddly timed

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!: The Movie 05.05.24 9/10

Tsuge & Minato 05.05.24 8/10

Love Is Like a Cat 06.05.24 5/10 Romance stayed away from this Dog Cafe just like any sensible cat would.

A Shop for Killers 09.05.24 8,5/10 I dont know how I feel about the ending

To the X Who Hated Me 09.05.24 7/10 Worringly close to life

Silent 10.05.24 9/10 The music and audio design is compelling. I do love the Minato character he thought through and consistent. 5. 01.05.24 It's so heartbreaking. There is this whole cast of people I want to be happy and the series has a lot of work to do to achieve that. 6.04.05.24 Why belabour the point that Nana is only teaching people sign language out of romantic interest and as a persobal gift. In a show about hearing and deaf getting together this exclusionary attitude feels weird as the representative attitude of the life long deaf character. 8. 09.05.24

Memory in the Letter 11.05.24 5,5/10 Predictable progression so far. But in what world is Kyo 45-47 5. 04.05.24 Making handwaving gestures at solving the issues while trying to obfuscate them with the casting choice really leaves me with a bad taste

Zettai BL ni Naru Sekai VS Zettai BL ni Naritakunai Otoko 11.05.24 8,5/10

You Are Mine Special 11.05.24 8/10

Zettai BL ni Naru Sekai VS Zettai BL ni Naritakunai Otoko 2 11.05.24 9/10 Someone in the production for this series of drama specials has a thing for uneven teeth 1. 11.05.24 It works better as a second season

Blue Boys 12.05.24 7,5/10 two people navigating their homosexual awakening with the internalised homophobia 2. 25.04.24 This works as an ending even though i am hoping for an happy ending 4. 12.05.24

Lonely Girls 13.05.24 7,5/10

Bad Buddy 13.05.24 9/10 Slowly peeling away all the layers for this reveal 1+ 5. 07.05.24 There are some wobbly bits and some high points overall very good

Dropped in the last two weeks

My Stand-In 10.05.24 /10 Extended flashback, my beloathed 3. 10.05.24

[seytaniusak]

[imnosupaman]

[geekygirl24]

BL Prompts - Chapter 30 Links

Prompt from Taliron - The matchmakers and wedding planners are different divisions in the same company. Lunchroom discussion around planning the wedding for Li Ma Ke and Dai Ou Wen. Ou Wen delaying decisions about details because of his occasional insecurity that Ma Ke is making the right decision confronting his sexuality. While Mu Ren reassuring Ou Wen, he realizes that he needs to demonstrate his commitment more fully to Li Cheng and stop worrying about others opinion of their relationship.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46255276/chapters/125387632

Prompt from Lilyana_May: Hey, could you write about Rain/Phayu? Where Phayu comes back home stressed so much, Rain as good boy takes care of his man. Can you make Rain play Phayu's hairs, and later, they take a nap? I love your stories, they make my day.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46207009/chapters/125320468

Prompt from Taliron: How about have Semantic Error exist in the Color Rush AU. A getting (back) together story. Jang Jae Young convinces Chu Sang Woo that he isn't afraid of him turning psychotic or homicidal like other Monos have done. I feel that would be a valid concern expressed by the slightly emotionally detached Sang Woo.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46231810/chapters/125452222

Prompt from GuadaPandy000 - Idk if prompts are still open but I don't loose anything Cherry Magic (Tsuge/Minato)- omegaverse SubAlphaTsuge x DomOmegaMinato, tsuge go to see one of the Minato's dance practices and someone insult Tsuge saying that Minato need a "better" alpha but Minato of course won't accept anyone bullshit

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46179736/chapters/125512531

Prompt from Anonymous - sorry, I only know the untamed really :/ but if that's ok, how about Lan Zhan and Wei Ying night hunting and something goes amiss? Preferably set after the events of the main story. thank you :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46279000/chapters/125574262

[cajuncherrybee]

You can watch it at https://irozuku.org/fansub/tag/cherry-magic/#google_vignette

Do yourselves a favor and watch Cherry Magic!!

Edit: please click on each pic for better quality Edit: It's available in Crunchyroll too!

Edit: Update about the movie

https://twitter.com/tx_cherimaho/status/1491607993963610113?s=20&t=ROYUttLhMz4iiL0iADdhRw

LINK FOR THE TRAILER 

[nevermiind]

Cherry Magic (ep.8)

[rhysiana]

Off of the Podium, Into His Heart

I was watching the snowboard halfpipe prelims the other night and suddenly struck by a desire for a Cherry Magic Olympics AU. (Kurodachi, T, ~3400 words)

[Also on AO3]

(Content notes: will contain non-graphic references to an injury sustained in competition and Olympic isolation bubble logistics for plot reasons)

*

Everything about being at the Olympics was already weird, so Adachi thought he could be excused for forgetting it was also his birthday. He really didn't see any reason he couldn't have been on-call to make graphics for the live reporting team from his own apartment, but no. Here he is, in a foreign country, running errands and retrieving lost passes for the media team between occasionally being asked to do his actual job, and now he's hearing other people's thoughts? Everyone here is so stressed!

It's certainly educational—he's learning how to curse in so many languages—but he's also thinking very seriously about what it would take to become a true shut-in when he gets home. He boards the bus in a daze, following his colleagues automatically.

He only realizes what event they're attending when he gets out and sees… him. Smiling brighter than the sunshine glinting off the snow of the halfpipe behind him: Kurosawa Yuichi, Japan's winter sports darling and Adachi's most embarrassing celebrity crush.

/Why is this idiot just standing in the way?/ someone thinks loudly as they bump into him from behind, and the world snaps back into focus just in time for him to catch the extremely heavy gear bag the cameraman is handing to him. Right. Work.

*

Kurosawa, meanwhile, is having a fairly normal one, for standards of normal that include competing at the Olympics. Just another international competition, he's telling himself, as he smiles and high-fives the same people he's seen at venues all over the world.

His practice runs went well; he feels good about the order of his tricks; he's been getting excellent air here. He does hope the sun stays out so the light doesn't go flat, but he always hopes that.

(He determinedly doesn't think about the media questions he'll get asked if anything goes wrong. They've always been part of his job, but he really hates that sensation of letting people down, let alone the whole country.)

His first run... isn't spectacular. It's going great right up until he hits the lip on his next-to-last trick and the rest is scrapped. That score will definitely not get him to the final, but that's what the second run is for. He'll just have to go big!

*

"Hmmm, he better go big on this next one, or he might not even make it to the final," the reporter next to Adachi says. /And wouldn't that be a juicy piece of news,/ he also hears as her hand bumps his. He moves carefully away.

To be honest, he always turns the broadcast off when they get to the "how do you feel about letting down the nation?" part of an interview. He always feels too bad for the athlete to watch. It's not like they did it on purpose! No one likes to lose.

The crowd, sparse as it is due to the weirdness of this particular year, is still large enough to make some noise, and their collective gasp and sudden silence jerks his attention back to the hill just in time to see Kurosawa sliding uncontrolled down the center of the pipe.

He stands frozen in place as trainers and medics rush out. Fortunately, the big screens seemingly everywhere show Kurosawa smile and wave as someone takes off his helmet, so even though a stretcher ends up being involved, it mustn't be too bad.

The rest of the event passes in a blur. He couldn't even have said how the rest of Team Japan did. Which is why he's so bewildered when he finds himself deposited in front of Kurosawa's door in the Olympic Village hours later.

"You can do your job from anywhere, right?" his boss asks. He puts an encouraging arm around Adachi's shoulders as he knocks on the door. /Thank goodness we had someone with us we could so easily spare./

Adachi just nods. It's what he'd been thinking this whole time anyway.

"Kurosawa-san, we brought you an assistant!" his boss calls, and then Adachi is practically shoved through the door, stumbling to a graceless halt in front of the world's most perfect man.

*

Because he is perfect, the first thing Kurosawa does is smile at him and give an awkward little bow from where he's sitting with his leg propped up in a cast. "I'm so sorry to cause you trouble," he says.

"No no no," Adachi replies, waving his hands in flustered negation. He probably looks like an idiot. He's blushing furiously and not for the first time is actually grateful to be wearing a mask. "It's my pleasure! Um, just. Anything you need, let me know."

Kurosawa's brow crinkles ever so slightly. "I hope I'm not interrupting your work too much."

Adachi awkwardly holds up his laptop bag. "No, no, I can work from anywhere. They didn't really need to bring me," he confesses.

"I'm sure you've been a big help anyway!"

Adachi sets about unpacking his work stuff onto the desk rather than respond to that. That only takes about five minutes, though, so then he's left standing there, unsure. "Would you like tea? Water? Should I… turn on the TV?" What did athletes do when injured? Rest, surely.

"Tea would be very nice," Kurosawa says. "If you'll have some with me."

"S-sure." Adachi tries not to look like a deer in headlights as he heads to the electric kettle. He can make tea. He does it every day. This is fine.

When it's ready, he carefully sets his own mug down on the coffee table first, mind conjuring up visions of spilling too-hot tea on Japan's favorite boy next door. Then he hands over Kurosawa's mug.

Their fingers brush.

/How did I get so lucky?/ Kurosawa thinks, and Adachi nearly drops the mug anyway. /Of all the people they could get to help me, I get the cute boy from the plane!/

And then Adachi is treated to a vision of himself asleep on the flight, glowing in a pool of warmth from the reading light. He is 100% sure no lighting in the history of planes has ever been that flattering.

He snatches his hand back as quickly as possible.

"I'm sorry they couldn't find someone you actually know," Adachi says, picking up the tea in hopes of distraction only to realize he's still wearing his mask. He hesitates.

"Oh, don't worry," Kurosawa says, removing his own. "We're all in this bubble together, right?"

His foot brushes against Adachi's thigh as he leans forward. /And it's not like it matters for me now,/ he thinks wistfully. There's surprisingly little bitterness, but Adachi vows to do his best to make Kurosawa as happy as possible under the circumstances.

"My parents were sad they couldn't come," Kurosawa continues out loud, going back to Adachi's original comment. "They were always telling me their own Olympic stories growing up."

Adachi decides there's no point in acting like he doesn't already know Kurosawa's well-reported lineage. Instead he asks something he has always wondered: "Why didn't you go into skiing, like them?" He's honestly kind of shocked he's never seen an interview address this before.

Kurosawa settles further back into his end of the couch with his tea and looks thoughtful. "You're not a reporter?" he asks.

Adachi's eyes widen. "Oh, no! I make graphics. Animations and graphs and things. I would never…"

Kurosawa smiles at him again, and he's struck once more by how… un-bro-y he seems, compared to many of the snowboarders he's seen interviewed.

"I started in skiing," Kurosawa admits, "almost before I could walk. But it's very high-stress. More traditional."*

His gaze drifts to the window and his smile turns more inward. "But then one year, when we were just on vacation, not at a competition, I asked if I could try snowboarding, and it changed my life. Everything was so much lower pressure. More friendly, more encouraging."

"I made so many friends on that trip, and at the end, the teacher told my parents I had real promise." He looks down modestly. "It was mostly because I already understood so many basics from what they'd taught me, of course."

Adachi tilts his head, hair falling into his eyes as his considers what he knows of Kurosawa's parents. "I can see how downhill and ski jumping would get you used to speed, but isn't snowboarding very different, mechanically? I think your teacher was right."

He's surprised to find Kurosawa blushing when he looks up. Adachi's leg brushes Kurosawa's foot again, and he gets a flash of /Ah, he actually really thought about that! Usually I just hear how lucky I am to have had such good preparation! Cute and thoughtful!/

He nearly jumps off the couch when his phone buzzes in his pocket. "Work!" he says as he fumbles to check his messages. "I have to! Um."

"Of course!" Kurosawa waves his own phone cheerfully. "I can keep myself occupied, don't worry."

Adachi does his best to lose himself in work. He's exquisitely aware of Kurosawa's ever-present aura of friendliness behind him at first, but eventually (somehow) he gets used to it. The next two hours are probably the most relaxed he's felt since arriving at the Olympics.

When he finally gets everything sent off to his boss, he turns to find Kurosawa asleep on the couch. Suddenly, without Kurosawa's sparkling personality making him seem so untouchable, Adachi realizes they're actually about the same age. Kurosawa's already done so much with his life, Adachi forgot. Thinking back over the news coverage he worked on in the run-up to the Olympics, he realizes Kurosawa is probably very tired, and not just due to his injury.

Careful not to disturb him, he gets an extra blanket out of the closet and covers Kurosawa as gently as he can. Let him sleep.

*

Things Adachi has learned about Kurosawa in the past two days:

-he is incredibly popular with his teammates (no surprise there)

-his coaches love him (also not a surprise)

-he really is that naturally personable (of course)

-… and he finds it very tiring (huh)

Also, he's secretly a huge nerd. Adachi discovers this when he comes back from fetching lunch while Kurosawa had visitors and finds Kurosawa 1) alone, and 2) looking at a manga volume Adachi had in his laptop bag.

He looks up at Adachi standing frozen just inside the door and blushes. "Ah, I'm sorry, I hope you don't mind. I saw it sticking out of the top and I haven't had a chance to read this one yet…"

They spend the rest of the afternoon discussing the latest plot arc.

Adachi had expected spending time with Kurosawa in real life (well, sort of real) to kill his crush, because of course Kurosawa would be far too cool for him to relate to, or not actually that nice, or… something, but that's simply not happening. To be honest, it's just getting worse.

And it would be even without his newfound mind-reading or whatever it is! Frankly, he doesn't think Kurosawa needs this unfair bonus from the universe. Because now Adachi is burdened with the knowledge that he's not just being polite but actually likes Adachi specifically.

A travel organizer comes by the next day to apologize once again for not being able to get Kurosawa on an earlier flight home. Adachi's hand brushes Kurosawa's as he hands him a water, and he hears, /I'm so glad my time with Adachi doesn't have to end yet./

Adachi is forced to add to the list of things he now knows:

-Kurosawa is an incredible romantic

He also has a surprising number of daydreams about cooking, which is perhaps not surprising given the catering situation, but Adachi wasn't prepared to start appearing in them! They're really starting to make him hungry. And also cause some weird heart fluttering.

It's when the announcers on the TV mention that the games are half over that Adachi realizes there's probably someone from the snowboarding team free to help Kurosawa now. It would probably be a relief for everyone involved!

He's about to offer to find one of them when Kurosawa shifts further down on the couch, foot once again touching Adachi. A wave of melancholy washes over him, no real words this time, just a kind of dread of going back to Japan and rehab and eventually his normal life.

Oh, Adachi realizes. Kurosawa, who's friends with everyone, is actually very lonely. He's trying to figure out what to do with this knowledge when Kurosawa says, "Will you tell me about what you do?"

Adachi blinks at him. "Um. My job is pretty boring, really."

"Okay," Kurosawa says easily, "then tell me about what you really like to do."

Which is how Adachi finds himself showing his celebrity crush his portfolio and getting showered in compliments he can't deny are sincere, because Kurosawa is sitting so close their thighs touch.

How did his life get so weird?

He falls asleep that night to the memory of one of Kurosawa's daydreams about feeding him an entire homemade banquet. The last thing he remembers before true sleep takes him is being hand-fed a strawberry.

*

This strange bubble of unreality can't last, of course. The travel coordinator finally succeeds in getting Kurosawa a new flight.

As soon as Adachi hears this, he starts filing the whole experience away in his mind under "the most amazing thing that ever happened to me." A treasured memory to marvel over for the rest of his life, because nothing like it will ever happen again, that's for sure.

Kurosawa is mostly packed already, so he starts a last sweep of the room for stray belongings. He's unprepared for Kurosawa's hug.

"Oh!"

"Thank you for all your help," Kurosawa says sincerely. /I wouldn't have survived the week without him,/ his thoughts echo. /I wish he could come with me always./

Before Adachi can even begin to react, Kurosawa is pulling back and giving him one of his trademark sunny smiles. "I hope our paths will cross again."

"That would be nice?" Adachi manages, wishing with all his might it had come out as less of a question as Kurosawa is led away.

*

The Olympics end, the whole crew flies back to Japan, and Adachi returns to his normal life. Or what passes for normal now, with his unwanted mind-reading powers. He starts eating lunch near Fujisaki; her thoughts are so much more soothing than everyone else's. He thinks she might be his friend now.

Tsuge (whose thoughts are exactly as intense as Adachi always suspected) tells him he should be glad his experience with Kurosawa was a one-time event. "Love is too complicated."

"You write romance novels!"

"Exactly. I have studied the matter extensively."

It's fine. Adachi is beginning to doubt it all anyway. Oh, sure, he knows the mind-reading is real (it keeps happening; there's no way to deny it), but surely his memory of how much Kurosawa had seemed to like him is exaggerated.

That's the only thing that makes sense. All his memories of the Olympics seem more brightly colored than reality, heightened by adrenaline, not quite real.

(He hasn't answered any of the texts Kurosawa has sent him since then. It wasn't real, after all.)

(It's better this way. Soon Kurosawa won't even remember him. He'll just be one of the many, many people Kurosawa has met and forgotten in the course of his busy, exciting life. Adachi will fade into the background, like always. No use pretending otherwise.)

He's working on some personal designs at home in the evening, news on in the background, when he hears his name in a familiar voice: "… I would have been much more upset in the aftermath of my injury if I hadn't had the support of my good friend Adachi in Beijing."

The marker falls out of Adachi's hand as he stares at the TV in disbelief. What is happening? It's been a month! Even Adachi barely even thinks about their time together. (Just whenever he eats. Or tries to fall asleep. Or reads manga. Or wears his Olympics scarf.)

Tsuge texts an hour or so later about meeting at their izakaya. They haven't been for weeks, now that Adachi thinks about it. In a daze, he says he'll be there. Maybe Tsuge can tell him this is all a dream.

Instead, when he gets there, Tsuge is sitting next to a man with blond hair, looking… smug, Adachi thinks. The blond man is on his phone, but he and Tsuge are sitting unusually close. What on earth has been going on in the last couple of weeks?

"Hello," Adachi says uncertainly.

"Adachi, this is Minato," Tsuge announces, and reaches over to cover Minato's free hand where it rests near his drink. Minato looks up at him and smiles.

Oh. Oh!

Then Tsuge's foot nudges his under the table. /I know you can hear me,/ he thinks loudly. /It's all real. The cherry magic, the way Kurosawa feels for you, everything. I was wrong./

"What?" Adachi says blankly out loud. "What is happening?"

"Did you know you're famous?" Minato asks gleefully in reply, which is not helpful.

"What?" Adachi says again.

Minato holds out his phone. "The whole internet wants to know who this friend Adachi is that Kurosawa is talking about so much."

"It was just one interview, I don't think…"

"He's mentioned you in every interview he's had this week," Minato says. "Since he started taking interviews about how his rehab is going."

"You should call him," Tsuge says firmly.

"What? No! I couldn't."

"You don't have his number? I bet I can get it for you," Minato says, fingers already hovering over his phone.

"No, I do. I just… I can't. I'm nobody."

Minato cocks his head. "Clearly not to Kurosawa." Tsuge nods in emphatic agreement.

/Love is worth it,/ Tsuge thinks at him, practically kicking him under the table.

"But I haven't answered any of his texts," Adachi admits.

Tsuge's eyes widen. "Then you have to make a big gesture," he declares. (Minato, for some reason, hides a huge smile behind his hand at that.)

"Look," Tsuge says, his own phone now out, "here's a florist in his town, you can send him a bouquet. No! A bouquet for every text you haven't answered!" (Minato is now clearly trying to hide his laughter in his beer.)

"No," Adachi says, pushing Tsuge's phone down. "I'll do it myself. Thank you, though."

He manages to distract Tsuge from further meddling by asking how he and Minato met. That chaotic tale carries them through the rest of the evening.

When he gets home, he steels himself and then buys a train ticket. He has to do this. He'll never believe any of it if it's not in person. His magic will be good for this one thing.

*

He pats his pockets over and over the next morning, confirming once again that he has his phone, his keys, until finally it's late enough that if he doesn't leave right now, he's going to miss his train.

He opens his door and nearly runs into Kurosawa, poised to knock.

"Ah!" He trips backward over his suitcase.

Kurosawa reaches out to catch him before he can fall. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to—"

"I was just coming to see you!" Adachi blurts out anxiously at the same time.

"Really?" Joy surges through the points where they're touching.

In surprise, Adachi manages to trip again and ends up sitting down hard on top of his suitcase. Blushing furiously, he looks up at Kurosawa. "Really," he confirms.

Scrambling back up, he manages to shove the suitcase back into the apartment. "Would you like to come in?"

In answer, Kurosawa steps inside and folds him into a full embrace. This time, Adachi lets himself melt into it.

Kurosawa stays for a week. Adachi learns that the domestic fantasies he'd glimpsed in Beijing were only the tip of the iceberg. By the end of the week, he can't see Kurosawa's fantasies anymore, but that's okay, because he's living them.

A month after that, he quits his job and buys another train ticket. One way.

*

[One year later]

Press release: "Kurosawa Yuichi announces his own line of snowboards and snowboarding gear, in collaboration with graphic designer Adachi Kiyoshi..."

 (*Note: Kurosawa's fictional opinions of competitive skiing vs. snowboarding culture are his own.)

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