► partridge & quail

Chapter 13 — “Look What You Made Me Do”

Chapter 12 — “Within Reach”

An eurasian jay stands by the staff room’s coffee machine, and the water boiler. He turns around and announces to his coworkers.

“Oh, yes please! If that’s okay!” Kazuaki chimes in as first. “Do we have any mango tea left~?”

“What a nice offer! Mango sounds splendid!” Tohri answers as second. “My! What an impressive array of flavors to pick from… Strawberry shortcake flavor? I would like this one!”

“Ah, no, I’m not much of a tea drinker.” That’s Hitori excusing himself from the other direction. “But thank you anyway.”

…He waits for a fourth answer, but none comes out. Kazuaki turns around to the desk behind him, to see that Iwamine’s spot is empty.

Hitori tries to recall, to his best ability, that scene that happened not so long ago—That strange golden pheasant that popped out of nowhere and performed a show right in the middle of the staff room, limelights being the only missing aspects.

That decorated and gaudy man named Tohri Nishikikouji seemed like a force of determination and energy that may have been somewhat lacking in the previous months of school.

A little change of plans. I started this blog thinking I could have an active ongoing fic series, and an active ongoing ask blog where I would answer with art to every ask, but somewhere along the way I forgot that I’m a 16-17 year old with untreated mental problems, a stressful living situation, and also would like to draw and do other things, so it’s pretty impossible for me to do all of that…

Also, there are two more asks in my askbox, and I promised myself (two months ago) that I won’t publish the next chapter until I answer these two, but drawing the answers has proven to be more difficult than I imagined for some reason, so I decided that I’ll answer most asks in text form from now on.

Which is easier for me, but also won’t be too lazy, because this IS a fic series, so writing and describing things is already what I’m doing.

History Lesson #01: Many drugs became legal after the 40 years of war between humans and birdkind. Preserving human traditions, cultures, and laws is an ever-changing topic... Especially since bird bodies work differently than humans. At last, marijuana and amphetamine are some of the drugs that are legal now!

Hello Hatoful Boyfriend community. I am Kiro. Again!

Last year I made the blog @kazushuu (It’s really crazy that an entire year has passed since then) and initially I didn’t have much thought put into it, and was making stuff up along with the asks... Then my hyperfixation on Hatoful went from 70% to 170% and I developed an entire AU dedicated to rewriting Hatoful Boyfriend. Not in a “I’m gonna fix Hatoful’s plot holes” way but mostly in a “I am lonely and crave self indulgent headcanons” way. But fixing plot holes also.

Thus came the Shrine AU. A timeline whose basis is “Shuu ended up seeing Ryouta and Hiyoko on the street on the day of that terrorist attack, but turned away, and never asked Ryouta for his wish... prompting him to lead a more depressing and remorseful life.” And thus a butterfly effect is caused, and Nageki didn’t die, Kazuaki never died, but! Hitori still developed narcolepsy, and there is a strange inverted mirror-reflection happening between Kazuaki and Hitori. A perfect neutral between the happenings of Holiday Star and MIRROR’s storylines.

--And on April Fools this year I made the blog @hitotohri which has been a shitty little ask blog for Hitori and Tohri as “no homo boyfriends” meanwhile kazushuu was about Shuu and Kazuaki as “yes homo boyfriends”.

And then I decided to start writing... stories that take the story back to the very beginning of the year, before Shuu and Kazuaki become boyfriends. I’ve been uploading chapters here and there, showing the point of views of Shuu, Kazuaki, the students, and some other stuff... Basically I decided to take my shipping game a step higher and write an entire novel dedicated to the partridge and the quail’s love story. There are also some fix-it elements to Anghel’s character and somewhat to Nageki, Kazuaki, and his childhood, even the Ichijou situation. So I hope that even if you’re not a full-on ShuuKazu shipper, you can still enjoy it to some extent. The most niche pairing in Hatoful receives its own ““novel””. Because I am that much of a simp.

So now... I decided to take all this scattered and disorganized mess and combine it into something neater. Behold! ...This blog!

This is an askblog for Shuu, Kazuaki, Hitori, and Tohri, from my fanfiction series, which will update along with new chapters of the fanfiction, and you may or may not impact the way the story will flow! Or you can just call Shuu a gay baby and make me draw his reaction.

The more in-depth about page is here, the rules page is here, the muses are here, and the fanfic series itself... is here!

Because yeah, you kind of have to read all the chapters that have been written thus far to be up-to-date with the plot. it’s like an ARG but not mysterious. Please dont fret, there are only 11 chapters so far... 52k words... I mean, you don’t gotta get into the plot if you just want to call Shuu a gay baby. I GUESS.

maybe this’ll be a complete failure and i’ll just retreat onto the old pseudo-askblog pseudo-rp pseudo-send me hatoful art requests format. but hey it’s worth a try.

Also, I renamed the AU from “Shrine” to “BitterSweet” because that certainly fits the story better. But because I’ve used it for so long and it still sounds catchy, I’ll still call these AU hc-based characters “Shrine Shuu” “Shrine Hitori” etc.