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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
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What you've been waiting for. by chaos101 for whiscey
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
02 Jun 2024
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He looks over his own syllabus for the course, which lays out what each and every class period will cover—allowing room for adjustment, of course.
God, why didn't he pay more attention in his student teaching classes? Suddenly he feels like he can't remember anything from any moment he's ever been in a classroom, as a teacher or as a student. And when he glances at the clock on his desktop computer, he only has a few minutes before he needs to get going.
He's so screwed. He's going to be fired and banned from teaching forever on his first day.
Ash Lynx—or, rather, Professor Callenreese—prepares to teach his first university course.
Part of a series of fics in the same universe, but a standalone fic.
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- Part 4 of prof ashie collection
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05 Dec 2025
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In Japan, Eiji goes to get some medicine to take care of a sick Ash and runs into some trouble (a minor accident).
Faced with two options: 1. Fix it and come home late. 2. Go home, hide it and fix it later.
Eiji is super good at hiding things from Ash. Maybe, a sick Ash won’t notice.
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21 Nov 2025
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In Japan, Eiji fights an upward battle of pill bottles, broken relationships, and the bone-deep loss of losing his best friend (and secret first love). He struggles to navigate his life and struggles even more with letting go.
Meanwhile, a dead man roams the streets of New York City. Ash's revenge has only begun. Though his death had been faked, the sharp pain of lying to Eiji follows him as he continues to raze Golzine's empire to the ground. But once this was over, and the dust settled in Ash's wake, he'd go to Japan. He'd finally return to Eiji.
. . . .
[An alternate ending where Ash and Eiji get the second chance they deserve together]
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21 Nov 2025
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Ash returns to the apartment late one night after a job goes bad.
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16 Nov 2025
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"Eiji never liked to talk about his issues. It was always uncomfortable and he felt too out in the open whenever he was forced into those kinds of conversations. Logically, he knew it was good for him; bottling up feelings was never a good thing. He knew that, he had been told it over and over again, and yet it was still infinitely more comfortable for him to not say anything when he had a problem or was upset."
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Ash finds out abt what happens to Eiji at golzines mansion bc istg this fandom never talks about that did we all collectively forget that happened
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16 Nov 2025
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Ash curls in on himself at his own thoughts, sliding down against the subway wall until he's curled up on the blanket at his own feet.
"Ash!" Eiji yelps. "Ash, what's wrong? Are you in pain?"
"I'm sorry," Ash sobs. "I don't mean to trick you."
"Ash ... Please understand that I care about you."
"I love you," Ash whispers.
It's silent for a heartbeat.
"Oh!" Eiji says, shock in his voice. "I love you too."
Ash shifts just a little. "No you don't," he explains.
Pain; realization; confession. Love.
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13 Nov 2025
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“We’re living on the streets Eiji. We are the filth.”
Eiji gazed up at him defyingly, he was not backing down from this fight.
Looking dead into his eyes, he ripped the red converse off of his foot and spoke with determined purpose, “I refuse to believe that.”
“What? That we live on the streets, or that we’re filth?”
“That you are filth. It is simply not true. You may believe what you want about yourself, but I refuse to let you live like filth.”
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A story about freedom and forgiveness— Banana Fish AU without banana fish.
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12 Nov 2025
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When Ash gets his hands on a maid outfit, he hopes to have a night of kinky fun with Eiji. Instead, the proposal brings up unexpected feelings between them.
OR: Ash and Eiji bang it out over an argument about household chores.
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11 Nov 2025
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Improvisations from a parking lot by Honeyvalentine
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
15 Oct 2021
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He shuts his eyes and exhales. Now isn’t the time.
“He lifted his arms like a little baby so I could pick him up—“ Shorter continues making a kissy face, and that detail seems to strike a nerve, because Ash turns red and clenches his teeth.
“I’m delicate! And I was fifteen!”Shorter teaches Eiji how to ride his motorcycle, and a little bit about Ash too.
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29 Oct 2025
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Eiji watches as Ash slips farther and farther away from him.
"Come back," Eiji tries to say, tries to cry, tries to scream, but nothing comes out.
"It's not your fault,'" Ash says. "I know you tried your best. But you've always just been ... in the way. I tried to protect you, but I think it's better if we part ways."
"No, Ash—!" Eiji sobs, reaching out, but Ash is always just a little beyond his grasp. "Please, I—I'll try harder, I'll—"
... I love you, Eiji thinks, helplessly, as Ash leaves.
Eiji wakes with a start.
He has to try harder.
Eiji has nightmares of Ash leaving.
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27 Oct 2025
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"I’m sad you’re hurting yourself but I’m not mad. Eiji, can I help in any way?”
Eiji realizes that getting help is more than just one tough conversation.
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27 Oct 2025