"This wind coming in feels like home. It's comforting and it soothes me." A place for people who consider YYH home! Also home of the YYH Doujinshi Masterlist. Let's revive this fandom!
For other fics and recommendations, please search /tagged/fanfics ! These are just personal favorites of mine. More fics are reblogged to that tag that might be of interest.
Author Spotlight:
This list is for authors who had written multiple YYH fics and show amazing quality in their works! Thank you for all you’ve written!
Blossomwitch on AO3 & FF.net (Mostly Kurahi, some Yusuke)
Kita Kitsune on AO3 and FF (Lots of Kurahi, more plot oriented)
Miss Gillette on AO3 (Lots of Kurahi, some Hiei/Yusuke, quite a bit of R rated stuff)
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Fanfics:
Links will mostly be to AO3 or FF.Net
Other sites containing YYH works found here: (Sensitive topics include non-con, dub-con, violence, character death, and the like. Archaic writing style indicates fanfics written in the 00s, often with repeated tropes and random use of Japanese phrases. This can be jarring – and bring some memories for older fans! – but many fics are still worth reading)
YYH LJ Kinkmeme (R, various small prompts, characters, and situations. Mostly dead, but some gems are still up)
adultfanfiction.net (also pretty old, lots of archaic writing style, but still has some interesting fics)
Link to Blueutopiah’s Fanfic Rec list (also old, compiled by said author based on her preferences. Some interesting stuff in there, though. Please be advised, sensitive topics are present)
Sans Enigma (an old archive, not updated since 2001. Archaic fanfic language, but there are still some interesting gems in there, as well as some with sensitive topics, so please browse responsibly)
(If you have other sorting suggestions, or fics to add to the list, please message me!)
Before becoming a spirit detective, Kurama’s powers were weak. To send a warning to all demons who sought to harm him, Kurama makes a deal with Toguro. But when it comes to the fee for Toguro’s service, it’s his body the demon wants.
They’re too different, too similar- it confuses him more than it should, makes him think that giving in to one is the closest he’ll ever get to the other. The wrongness of that makes his chest ache, positively swarms him with emotion that he refuses to name.
Onji seeks a team to take to the tournament, and happens upon the beautiful young samurai, Shishiwakamaru. But Shishi would never look twice at an old man, would he?
(Suzuki/Shishi, cute, fluff, M)
Let’s Fly as the Birds DoBy: Hikari NanaseFIRST OF THE BLUE ROSE ANTHOLOGY: Kurama and Hiei have fallen in love, but when human society finds out, pain and sorrow arise. How will friend and family react? Will they survive?
An estimated half of one percent of Japan’s population is Christian. An estimated seventy-three percent of the general public celebrate Christmas by eating a cake. An estimated zero percent of demons care. (Or: why Hiei is having a hard time adjusting to ningenkai, and how Kurama does–or doesn’t–make it easier for him.)
It’s a few years after the defeat of the terrorists in Spirit World and Yusuke is feeling down on his job after a particularly rough day in a string of bad ones. He’s ready to crash after a particularly gross afternoon when none other than Kurama comes calling. How might this lead to a sleepover, drug use, and a foursome? Well, you’ll have to read the story! (And I’ll have to write it hoho)
When you live a lie for long enough, it’s hard not to start believing it yourself.
Set after the Makai Tournament. Keiko and Kurama reach a mutually beneficial agreement while Yusuke is gone. But when Yusuke returns, will it really be so easy to go back to the way things were before?
“My name is Yukimura Keiko, and I am not who you think I am.” When a Yu Yu Hakusho fan dies and is reincarnated in Keiko’s body, she’s faced with a difficult choice: stay true to her former self, or follow the script set for Keiko by the anime. Although the thought of agreeably becoming Yusuke’s helpless girlfriend turns her stomach, can she afford to be herself when one wrong move could rewrite history? As mysterious forces manipulate Not-Quite-Keiko in the pursuit of their own ends, she must choose between honoring the anime by sacrificing her identity, or forging a destiny of her own making.
Canon divergent in places. OC!Keiko. SI!Keiko. Fighter!Keiko. Meta!Keiko
Hi guys! You might have noticed I’ve added a new page for Fanfic Recs. As of now, it’s mostly fics I am aware of or have personally read, thus they will largely skew to my own preferences.
So please send in your favorite authors or fics! All contributions are welcome. Especially if your preferences are different than mine, or you write/read fics of obscure pairings or other fics that aren’t likely to come onto my sinful radar (can’t quite remember the last time I read a T or lower rated fic…)
You can send your recommendations in through submit, asks, or direct messages. Please include a link to the fic!
Let’s throw some love at all the authors who feed our terrible, terrible addictions!
… Okay, but no one judge me that I know about these, okay? No one. Or I will cry, and then you’ll all be sorry.
Anyway, here they are – yes, almost all of them include sexual assault or at least mentions of it. You’ve been warned. Under Cut.
Silent and Still by Lulu White Ten.
Karasu and Toguro are tasked with causing emotional turmoil to Yusuke. They decide to do it by attacking one of his friends… and by attack I mean the other thing.
Then there’s Villain… who… I mean look at their name.
In a ploy to catch a criminal, Kurama is left tied up as bait. But when the others fail to come to his rescue, the criminal takes his fill of the kitsune. But Kurama won’t let that happen without a fight.
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and if you’re a fan of Yusuke being horrifying… uh, there’s Debts, Faux Paus, and Striptease, all from Villain.
And then there’s something slightly more tame (by slightly I mean… its still bad just… not as in the forefront?) :
Beyond the Face of Fear By: kitsuneloverAU—They really shouldn’t have lost the Dark Tournament, because Kurama hates traveling through Makai as Karasu’s prisoner. At the same time, Hiei is the pesky thorn in Karasu’s side who just won’t die, and Bui knows a lot more than he lets on.
Then there is the Mother of All Horrors that will Scar You For Life and You Will Cry… Counting Crows by Sekah. (I only cried like 10 times reading this it’s fine)
– Hope that satisfies your psychopathic, sadist kink! I’m going to go hide in shame now…
Oh man… I was the same. Hurt/comfort were a huge draw for me for some reason, as were “first time” fics, and though I’ve moved away from that for the most part now, I certainly won’t deny I used to enjoy them a little more than I should.
I’m not sure what level of hurt/comfort you’re into, I certainly know of a few fics that gravitate toward 90% hurt and 10% crying about when the comfort will show up… but for a more balanced look, if you don’t mind a threeway romance between Yusuke/Hiei/Kurama, there is a fic I’ve read a few times that I liked called Balm of Gilead, from the author Blossomwitch.
What amuses me is that even Blossomwitch claims Kurama angst is “generic.”
It really gets me thinking what it is about fandom and people in general that we love picking one or two characters in media to torture mercilessly… sure, other characters get some pain thrown their way, but it seems most fandoms I’ve been in have one or two favorites (for example, Marvel and Bucky).
Of course, it isn’t the fans’ doing only, as the characters chosen are often ones who already suffered a lot. The blood Piñata Kurama becomes fuel for torture fetishists, as well as people who simply like comfort fics. Both sides of the spectrum agree though, Kurama is the best subject.
Is it because he’s pretty and seeing pretty people crying is fun or satisfying in some way? Or is it some sick instinct within us, that, seeing someone in fiction suffer, if we ourselves suffer, we project ourselves onto them? We then hurt them, push them to their limits, and see what happens. Whether they recover or not, it’s cathartic, I think. Either you get to see them come back and think “if they can return from that, I can return from my own pain.” Or “at least I don’t suffer as much as this character does.”
Either way, hurt/comfort, no matter which end of the spectrum you gravitate towards, is fascinating. And I think many of these characters being male and dealing with say, sexual assault (let’s face it, half — if not more — of the hurt/comfort fics bout Kurama include it) while the fandom is mostly female also contributes to this phenomena; because there is a layer of separation there. People take out their anxieties on these characters, such as fears concerning sexual violence, and the girlier they appear without actually being female — being like the reader/writer— , the better.
At least, that’s a thought that has occurred to me often…
Anyway if you’re a sicko like me and like the further ends of the hurt genre… hit me up. I’ve got a few horrible fic recs that I am ashamed that I’ve read… recently…. ehem.
– Mod Lola, who is apparently a psychopath sometimes
I know the hxh original anime took alot longer to get anywhere compared to the 2011 version. But even there you get 26 episodes before you even start to learn about nen ( the power system in hxh like spirit or demonic energy equivalent in Yyh or chakra in Naruto) let alone have any of the main characters use nen. In comparison Yusuke already is using the reigun before ep 8 and in Naruto he is using chakra from the first ep. HxH has genuinely creative setups and a really good power system ½
I think the thing about the nen is the most important. How can I have seen a whole season and not know a thing about this nen thing?
And yes, if you care about character, then the show just isn’t for you… and in my opinion, character is the most important part of any story.
YYH-Revival 