Title: Through Brambles and Thorns
Pairing: Hayato/Ryu
Word count: approx. 43,000 words
Rating: R
Warnings: The Gokusen movie never happened. Otherwise, canon.
Notes: For Cora, who is loved. Written for kizuna_exchange 2012, for one of my favorite people on the internet, wintersdancer. Originally posted here.

Summary: It was something more than rough edges and tangled breaths, knuckles and hearts equally bruised. Now it's just silence bleeding into the spaces Hayato used to fill.


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"Ryu isn’t a coward about much of anything, anymore, because Hayato has broken him down and remade him reckless."