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Eiji is a farmhand working on a ranch for the summer. Ash is a rodeo star trying to steer his way toward freedom.
Everett County, 1997.
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17 Jan 2026
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Ash is tired. God is he tired.
But Eiji makes him feel something else. Something special. Something Good.
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17 Jan 2026
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The Young and The Fireproof: Unfinished Sketches from the Age of the Insurrection by MohMaya
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
27 Jun 2025
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One-shot collection for 'For Whom the Sun Died and the Stars Fell'!
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- Part 2 of For Whom the Sun Died and the Stars Fell
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15 Jan 2026
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It’s only right, Ash thinks, that he gets to ask this now, when everything around them feels commonplace. They’ve had enough of the opposite. Ash wants to bask in the mundane with Eiji, to have everything with him after everything. He still isn’t used to this, to quiet nights with each other without the catch, without fearing that something bad is waiting for them tomorrow. But he’s trying to get used to it, because Eiji tells him to. This is our life now, there’s nothing to fear anymore.
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5 times Ash asks Eiji to marry him and 1 time Eiji beats him to it.
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- Part 2 of giving up the gun
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13 Jan 2026
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There should be confrontation, rolling tears, sand caught between the cracks of their smiles. There should be answers handed out like festival candy, treasured and sweet -- there’s a perfectly good reason as to why Ash faked his own death, and he’d tell Eiji, and Eiji would let his anger dissipate like the muddy shore beneath their soles. They’d be happy. They’d be relieved.
There should be more than what is given.
“What was the reason this time?”
The past is a fleeting little thing; even Orpheus looked back.
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- Part 1 of no shade in the shadow of the cross
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10 Jan 2026
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Ash fucking Lynx.
A guy who dodged bullets couldn't handle holding a hand.Bookmarked by willoaf
09 Jan 2026
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“I didn’t mean to -,” he added hurriedly, wiping his runny nose with the back of his hand. “I can go back. I’ll ask Max to wire me some m-money and I’ll go back t-tomorrow.”
“I don’t want you to leave.” It didn’t sound like a lie but Ash still searched brown eyes for confirmation. “I’d like you to stay forever.”
Forever. There it was that word again, giving birth to unsustainable hope Ash knew he had to let go sooner or later. It was only a matter of time until Eiji was going to realize he was a lost case, too.
But until then, he was allowed to feel a little bit of whatever that was that took over him whenever he was in the elder boy’s presence. He did not expect to sound so vulnerable when he asked Eiji if he’d lie down with him, nor did he see the relief from being held impossibly tight coming.
He had almost forgotten the way his head fit perfectly in the crook of Eiji’s neck.
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The story in which Ash lives long enough to learn all the forms love can take.
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08 Jan 2026
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Often, Eiji would wake to the sounds of keyboards clacking and papers shuffling, the sunrise dim against his bleary eyes. He’d turn to find Ash with a pen tucked between his teeth and glasses skewed across the bridge of his nose, throwing himself into his research like he did all those years ago.
Except instead of drug formulas and government conspiracies, he’d be buried in milk formulas and adoption processes; a different kind of life or death.
"Do you think about kids, Eiji?"
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- Part 3 of Death with Dignity
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04 Jan 2026
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“One day, when this is all over,” Ash’s voice was low and gravelly from sleep, and he vaguely remembered a small amount of alcohol consumption at the window the night before, “you’ll go back to Japan. And you’ll take me with you.” He wiggled his way onto his side, facing Eiji’s sleeping face with an arm tucked under his head. His other hand shifted up until it was wedged between their chests, able to feel the steady rhythm of Eiji’s heartbeat under his fingertips. “Right here. I’ll always be right here, with you.”
Ash and Eiji solve the mystery behind Banana Fish and fall in love at the same time.
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04 Jan 2026
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They are beginning again.
They do not know where to go.
Eiji feels the warmth of Ash’s arm at his side and his fear becomes a silly thing; he has trained for years on how to take the leap.One new start.
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- Part 3 of By the Inches
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02 Jan 2026
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"So are you two dating?"
William blurted out. Eiji looked up from the ceramic plate Ash was holding. Ash apparently had done the same, and you could see it in his expression like you can hear the scratching of a record while his thoughts came to a halt. His face then turned red and glanced over to Eiji, red as the ochre that was adorned on the caves of our ancestors, painted with ancient lives forever etched in the canvas that was their world then when it had not yet torn itself apart.
Anyway, in retrospect, Eiji should have known it by then, and yet some things were simply not obvious when you're in the field, six feet beneath the surface level, and just dying to crawl back to your bed from where you camped.
But that was for Eiji in the future to worry about anyway. At that moment, Eiji remembered wanting to laugh as he gestured at the ceramic plate in Ash's hand along with the ancient dirt they were knee-deep in, giving William a look that conveyed--you are literally here, deep in the mud, in the middle of fucking Italy. How are you asking me this?
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Archeology au with a lot of misunderstandings and datingBookmarked by willoaf
31 Dec 2025
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Ash plans to surprise Eiji on Christmas morning. Eiji kind of spoils it.
Written for Day 12: Merry Christmas of 12 Days of Banana Fish-mas, hosted by @/softaslans on twitter!
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- Part 5 of 12 Days of Banana Fish-mas
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25 Dec 2025
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Eiji accompanies Ash to the library. He's bored, then he's trapped, then he's shackled with a list of books to find. Along the way, though, Eiji learns to love the New York Library, because of the man he shares it with.
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25 Dec 2025
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Eiji has gone back to Japan. Ash plans to follow. It may be a while before that can happen though, and the two might be second-guessing themselves.
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25 Dec 2025
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Just a Typical Morning Routine by Sea_Glass_Espresso
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
18 Apr 2022
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Having six people in one house was always going to lead to dirty dishes, crumb-cover couches, and a fight for the remote. However, Eiji would not have it any other way and finds spending time with his wild group of housemates the most fun he has had in a long time. The only thing is, his roommate Ash is not an early riser like the rest of them and every morning everyone walks on egg shells to keep him asleep. But, then there is Shorter, who could care less about waking the morning demon, and poor Eiji who always seems to have to put the fire out before it can consume the house and everyone in it.
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- Part 1 of It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
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23 Dec 2025
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“Hey, love,” Eiji almost whispers, his voice slightly trembling. “Look at me, please.” He wants to make sure that Ash really wants this.
The blond man turns slowly, making eye contact. He is blinking a bit faster than normal.
“If that is what you really want, then I would love to.”
Or, Asheiji exploring their intimacy by taking a bath together.
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16 Dec 2025
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good morning, boyfriend by littlemapleleaf (dayishujia)
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
12 Dec 2018
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It was late and the others in the house had already retired to their own rooms hours earlier. Yet they sat, wide awake at the head of the bed they shared in Eiji's childhood bedroom, backs propped against the headboard and bent over the book as Ash practiced.
The book was large in size, fitting comfortably over both their laps as Ash carefully sounded out the hiragana. He traced his fingertips over the page, following the words as he read them outloud. Eiji only had to correct his pronunciation a handful of times; he marveled at how easily Ash seemed to pick up Japanese.
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- Part 3 of the beginning, with you
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14 Dec 2025
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until you're everything, i have nothing by risquetendencies
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
12 Sep 2018
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“I always overthink,” he says, tone gravelly, “Just let me do something thoughtless for once in my life.”
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12 Dec 2025
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Since he’s evidently stunting Eiji’s rightful chances at pursuing the happy, heteronormative life that he deserves, Ash takes the matter into his own hands.
Except mortality is a much more pressing issue than any fear of taking what you want.(Or: Eiji’s father dies in the most expected way possible, and it still sucks all the way through it)
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- Part 5 of Eight Million Gods
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12 Dec 2025
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“I cannot speak for people. But I can speak for myself. I do not want to hurt you, Ash.”
He abandons his work on Ash’s arm, just to place a hand on his heart.
Well, that’s one of Ash’s theories disproven. If his soul truly had claws the way he thought it did, it would’ve torn through his chest by now and jumped into Eiji’s palm. But even if he isn’t an animal…
“There’s nothing there, Eiji. It’s just a pump for blood.”
“No. I know you. You read too many books to believe that. Too much Fitzgerald, too much Hemingway.”
“You like Stephen King. What do you know about Fitzgerald and Hemingway?”
“Not much. Only that they were drunks, and romantics.”
Alternatively: The 59th Avenue apartment at 2 AM, featuring Ash's battle of attrition with his yearning.
Spoiler alert: he loses in the best way possible.
Set after Ash's escape from the Institute and before the arrival of Blanca.
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10 Dec 2025