Late at night

I’m restless.  My hand slides to my stomach – is this the start of the “flutters”, or just wishful thinking?  It’s early still… but my…

Revelations

I bring up Tsutomu’s dinner to the room he shares with Kinosuke. I know aside from helping Yagi-san, he knew just from Tsutomu’s absence at…

“Social Distancing”

I know we can’t – we have work to do. But if my lazy writer can conjure up food because “cooking this much is hard”,…

Eiji Overthinking

After a few days, middle of the week I know what I’m doing is wrong. I -know- this. He will find out eventually. But maybe…

Tanaka Arc #2

I lie awake in a room in Yoshiwara. Wondering how Shindou is doing. He didn’t seem particularly pleased at me taking over the case. I…

Meanwhile in Kyoto…

Yagi Yuunosuke, in his office at a secondary boy’s school in Kyoto Another rejection letter… I sigh.  The boys school is good but it’s limiting;…

Waking up

It had been years. I could have sat, and sat, but the first year where he did not come for first his birthday, nor mine……

Aizu/Gonohe Arc

I’m a vexed woman. I let my oldest go to him and my youngest out of the family. But what kind of family did we…

Tsutomu’s Story Arc

I don’t know what to think about her. A little sister… She seems happy. Yagi-san comes and picks her up daily at school and she’s…

Tanaka Arc

It has only been a few weeks that we’re here and yet I have to leave. The momentary detour I took to get Tsutomu back…
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Closure

It was needed. For many years I was laid asleep, occasionally waking to see the world pass by. Too fast in some regards. Watching the…

Birthday Wish

Tomorrow is my birthday. ? I’m not a child *smiles* but I am a selfish woman so I have one small wish…

So… what are the chances of us getting a New Year’s date this year? It may be quiet, but I’ll never forget that day. Any…

Later that Night in Tokyo

Kinnosuke: Since Yukiko was getting Makoto-chan?EUR(TM)s things ready for tomorrow and I know she?EUR(TM)ll be making sure her niece takes a bath and put her…

A Former Manslayer, Office Worker and the Ladies

Kinnosuke: Yukiko asked me to come with her today. We walk side by side and I look around. She seems nervous, as much as Yukiko…

Enter Tsutomu

Saitou: We finally get to our destination and I can see Eiji waving at us as we are let off the carriage. So he really…

Leaving Aizu

There wasn?EUR(TM)t much time left. The train to Tokyo was leaving in less than an hour. Thankfully I managed to procure us a carriage and…

To make things clear…

I would never leave you at a train station after you asked me to come. ? What she did with that is terrible, and, I…

A Lone Wolf

I decided not to hire a rickshaw even if Kanbee?EUR(TM)s house is quite the distance from where I need to return. It is not a…

Speaking of Speaking, Kanbee is Speaking

I decline Kanbee?EUR(TM)s invitation for lunch, it is way past that after all. Besides, I need to be alone. ?EURoeIt?EUR(TM)s not my place Goro, but…

No Excuses and Letting Go

Tsuyoshi and I leave and I smoke my cigarette furiously. He?EUR(TM)s quiet so unlike earlier but I suppose my disposition has affected him somewhat. I…

Broken Ties – January 1886

Tsuyoshi is one for good rides it seems. He?EUR(TM)s more interested in the sights and keeps pointing things out to me as if he thinks…

Meeting with Akane

Akane: I clean the last of the plates left on the table while Ueda-sama is finishing up his tea. He sips it slowly but I…

Stealing Time Upstairs

I told her I’d move this along. I look around and see everyone busy preparing breakfast. Tsuyoshi steps up to the kitchen counter standing on…

Late Night with Tsutomu

Tsutomu’s quiet. Normally he’d be asking me to tell him about my travels or at least what I did for the day. Back then, he…

He Finally Returns

I had the ahou try to fix the place after she’s been so negligent of warning emails. *sighs* Of course the ahou did a half…

Haircut

I approve! ? *grins* When do I get to touch it? I also like the boots. ? You are keeping the white socks though?

Complainer

Can I tell you I miss you? It?EUR(TM)s only been a week but maybe, just maybe… *stops and lights a cigarette* I never thought making…

Things kept to oneself

My writer has found a treasure-trove of pictures of you, and my ears hurt from her weird little yelps. ? *sigh* ? Although I do…

Shocking!

I had always assumed that our writers were “extreme” on the scale of “fangirls”. It appears NOT. ? Did you know that they put the…

Little green apples

Though I wish I was not tied to such an unreliable fool, I also can?EUR(TM)t deny that I find her ?EURoememories?EUR? useful. Though I can’t…

Just a Kiss…

I know your writer probably watches that show with the singing? ? I believe this song was on there recently. ? Ah well… I liked…

Old things not left behind

Ah it took me a while to get in here. It’s been that -long-. *sighs and lights up a cigarette, pacing around for a minute*…

I know we usually do songs, but I found this poem. ? It was written long ago, but I found it to be almost as…

Ah, see what I found?

*grins* ? I hope to see you soon, but I won’t need dangling greenery to induce me to kiss you! PS – I have been…

I miss you. I miss you in a million ways that they’ve not invented words for yet, or found songs for. ? I wish I…

Good morning…

I’m told I’m being left behind. Heh… Well we didn’t have a restful night last time and the morning might not have been perfect. Maybe…