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Anything by flakedice
- Recommended by: Zashiki-Warashi, Esmenet, Saltyavocado, LunaSlashSea
- Comments: The author has somehow become one of my new favorites. The AU's are all interconnected with each other and the longest one (Lord and Prince) has managed to become a huge sprawling project that is largely successful because the author knows how to create a real, believable world and even OCs that are engaging. The less numerous canon stories are also enjoyable to read. Most of the stories are yaoi, so be warned.
1 ReviewAnything by Anyjen
- Recommended by: Zashiki-Warashi
- Most of her stories aren't particularly long, but what she writes is well-worth reading. Most can be described as slice of life stories, and one of them, The Woollen Monstrosity, won an UFO award.
General Fics
Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.
In Any Other World, xxxHolic Side by Memory Dragon
Unfair Weather Friends by Nate Grey
Sunflower by metisket
A lowering sky at dawn by evil_whimsey
Aftermath by Arisprite, username_goes_here
In Any Other World, xxxHolic Side
by Memory Dragon- Recommended by: Zashiki-Warashi
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
Unfair Weather Friends
by Nate Grey- Recommended by: Zashiki-Warashi
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
Sunflower
by metisket- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: As a small child, she had loved meeting new people. A Himawari character study.
- Recommended by: Katherine-Sanderson
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Detective Tezuka Akira was assigned two cold cases, and both of them involved a teenager named Kimihiro Watanuki.
A lowering sky at dawn
by evil_whimsey- Recommended by: Lyra_Dhani, noboody
- Status: Dead
- Synopsis: Watanuki in the years following the death of Doumeki Shizuka, and his relationship with his descendants.
- Comment: Featuring shopkeeper Watanuki and Doumeki's descendants.
- Comment: noboody: the summary doesn't do it justice. lovely introspection on Watanuki's part, and the OC's are wonderful too. Please give it a shot!
Aftermath
by Arisprite, username_goes_here- Recommended by: Lyra_Dhani
- Status: Dead
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
Shipping Fics
Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.
Through the Eyes of a Child by nitpickernose
Here's to Your Empty Space by CountlessUntruths
Button Pushing by Neo
Midnight Smile by flakedice
The Professor's Wife by foolish_m0rtal
Footbridge by cest_what
Through the Eyes of a Child
by nitpickernose- Recommended by: Doobydoobydo
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A mysterious narrator recounts her life as a child.
- Pairing: Yuuko/Watanuki
- Comments: Seriously, just read it. If you like epic storytelling and a beautiful romance, you need to check this one out.
Here's to Your Empty Space
by CountlessUntruths- Recommended by: Lavode
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After inheriting the shop, Watanuki takes to wearing Yuuko's clothes. Doumeki tries to keep him sane and happy, but is all too aware that Watanuki doesn't love him.
- Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
- Tags: Angry Sex, Crossdressing, Spoilers for chapter 182 of the manga
Button Pushing by Neo
- Recommended by: guineveredawn
- Status: ?
- Synopsis: Yuuko gets Doumeki and Watanuki cellphones. Hilarity Ensues.
- Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
- Notes: Vanished from the internet. Please post a link if found.
Midnight Smile
by flakedice- Recommended by: Saltyavocado
- Status: ?
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
- Notes: Access needed to read this on the author's journal.
- This was originally posted under the crossover section, upon reading it I couldn't recognize any crossover elements.
- Original link: http://flakedice.livejournal.com/68432.html
The Professor's Wife
by foolish_m0rtal- Recommended by: Tsubasafan
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Watanuki pays the price of having no one else but those with wishes to see him to keep the shop and to not be bound within it. What could have been had Watanuki chosen a different path. (Spoilers for the end of the manga.)
- Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Footbridge
by cest_what- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
- Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Crossovers
Removal of the Curse
by War292004- Recommended by: Jillie_chan
- Status: Complete
- Crossover with: Harry Potter
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
- Comments: A story in which no one goes to Hogwarts to be sorted or learn magic. Everyone is in character and everything happens for a reason.
Addicted to Death
by Sinnatious- Recommended by: ladysekhmetka
- Status: Complete
- Crossover with: Death Note
- Synopsis: Light meets Watanuki on a bus and realizes that Watanuki can see Ryuk. After meeting Yuuko, Light has to figure a way to keep the two quiet about his 'bad' habit.
Butterfly's Web
by Aishuu and Sophia_Prester- Recommended by: Sheliak
- Status: Complete
- Crossover with: Bleach
- Synopsis: A series of individual oneshots that blends the universes of Bleach and xxxHolic'' into one while keeping the backgrounds of both intact.
Ripples of Fate
by Somnium Lacertae- Recommended by: Katherine-Sanderson, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Crossover with: Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
- Notes: Alternate link here.
- Comments: A story about Touya, brother of a reincarnated clone of Sakura, and his wish to meet the nephew he can still reach. Both heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time.
Twenty Facts About Mizuki Bakery
by Thimblerig- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Crossover with: Cardcaptor Sakura
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
Just Another Tuesday
by rallamajoop- Recommended by: Vanessa Taleweaver
- Status: Complete
- Crossover with: Discworld
- Synopsis: Watanuki meets Death - not on official business, fortunately for him. This causes him to meet Susan. Then The Luggage!
Inexorable Inevitability
by ariaeris- Recommended by: Lyra_Dhani
- Status: Dead
- Crossover with: Harry Potter
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
- Comments: Link leads to the Internet Archive. Only Chapter one and six are available.
Fate's Chew-Toy
by fringeperson- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Crossover with: Inuyasha
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: [This description was copied in violation of our Plagiarism policy. Please replace it with original writing.]
- Pairing: Kagome/Doumeki
The Same Night Skies
by tonight_aliv- Recommended by: Lyra_Dhani, noboody
- Crossover with: Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Watanuki and Syaoran watch the stars.
Cripple Mr Onion
by rallamajoop- Recommend by: Anura
- Crossover with: Discworld
- Status: Complete (one-shot)
- Synopsis: Neither Granny Weatherwax nor Yuuko Ichihara can be described as a "mother" or a "maiden", but they fall into two different ideas about what "the other one" in that triad is.
The God of Wishes
by Raven Rein- Recommended by: noboody
- Crossover with: Noragami
- Status: Dead, Uploaded 2016
- Synopsis: When he dies, Doumeki Shizuka does not cross to the Far Shore. Instead he wishes to stay with Watanuki. The price is his memories, and his name.
- Comments: AO3 lists this as chapter 1 out of three, but this could easily be a oneshot. Most of the wordcount is taken up by Watanuki dealing with the passing of his friends. Doumeki's death in particular is heartwarming (and heartbreaking) even knowing that he'll come back.That is not to say that the Noragami side of things is nonexistent. Watanuki has a rather interesting friendship with Ebisu.