This is just my opinion but out of all the 3 I hate Naru the most right now. I get what Masato did in his past was wrong and obviously he should be prepared to deal with the repercussions.
BUT Naru if he knew what "prank" Masato was playing, as his friend he should have tried his best to get through to him, he should have helped heal him. Naru could also have let Kou know about what Masato was upto before things escalated too much. Naru did neither, rather he did the same thing as what Masato did and he would never face the repercussions of it because it's not even his relationship!!! I get where Kou is coming from, hell if I knew my sibling was with someone like Masato (given his past) I would not be super happy about it either but Naru ... he literally has nothing to lose. And didn't Naru see Masato trying to get better ??? So why go ahead and still continue with the revenge?? Putting your FRIEND down is not the way to help them heal -_-
I can understand Kou, pardon Asahi (his family was hurt so I get it) but Naru, no, he is Kou's friend but he was also supposed to be Masato's friend. While Kou had Asahi and Naru on his side, Asahi has literally no-one to lean on not even his so called "friend".
End of rant ~ （￣へ￣）
PS: I'm sad for Asahi (if he really now has feelings for him) but I hope Masato never talks to Naru again ....
I get what you are coming from, but I kind of get a different vibe from Naru (or maybe I am just naive and want to believe the best in people). The way he didn't really justify anything and leaves Masato to reflect on his own. I think Naru knows that Masato always carried this guilt with him and just wanted to force him to face this. Because Naru said himself: Asahi isn't the type of person to judge based on the tales of others. He confirms it himself - and he came to the conclusion, that he still likes Masato. Now all that is left is for Masato to forgive himself and talk it out with Asahi. To quote Masato "If you can't overcome an obstacle as small as this...". If Naru really wanted to hurt him he would have kept silent in front of Asahi about the matter of Masato and Kousei and let it all blow in Masato's face once he finds out. That would have been much worse.
But - as said - maybe I am just naive:) I still hope my interpretation is correct.
I wonder if Naru is doing it out of malice? The feeling I’m getting is that he understands how both of them feel about each other but this is his way of testing the waters? Giving Masato a taste of his own medicine to see if their love can survive it. I think in a twisted kinda way, Naru is doing what he thinks will bring them closer together. He’s one of those characters I believe.
If what you say is true, it actually makes me hate Naru more not less. It's not Naru's decision to force or how to force someone else to confront their feelings of guilt - especially since feeling guilt means a person regrets their actions and is trying to change, in the first place. Naru is simply an asshole and Masato deserves a better friend than him.
I still think that ,makes Naru an asshole and Masato still deserves better but your reasoning seems to deal more with his motivations than his actions, in and of themselves. I do agree that he might not be doing this out of malice but, as I said, that still makes me feel worse towards him.
TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!! First, plz just don't make excuse like: he makes Masato reflect it himself what he did in the past was bad. Really? Do you want to let your friend all that bad (in hurt others and hurt themselves) or would you try somehow to save him? At least I won't do that to my friend, I would try to stop her, I am not her parent, I won't teach her what she should do, but I will let her know, she is doing wrong, she is getting hurt and so on. Not let her drown in her sad and karma. The way Naru did these, just like when you see a child playing with fire and you told him to stop, but he didn't so you let him get burn to wake him up. That is not what you do to your friend when they are stuck and crying for help.
Second, well, it's Masato's life no matter what others say, what would you poke your nose in his life, and making excuse like "I am doing that for your good", if the karma comes, let it comes on it own way, don't invite it like that. And if it happens, let's face it together. THAT IS HOW RELATIONSHIP WORK!
Don't know if anyone like me, but, when I read the part where the seme' brother told about Masato like this and like that. I just feel ridiculous, well I don't say that Masato was right, but drama appears in your life one way or another, if it's not this, then it's the after. You need to learn to face it with your lover if you want to last long. Moreover, literally, that lil brother HATE Masato for what he had done in the past. If you hate someone that much, just say you do, don't just fake your emotion like that, smile and gentle stuff are so stupid. And he can see that Masato is regretting his past wrongdoing, that's why Masato willing to let you in, he willing to apologize, to hear all those things. Instead of moking you or humiliate you.
If you hate him that much, then speak, hurt him in his face, do it like a man. Don't excuse this and that, you don't like him so you don't want he to get close to your brother. == Just plzz, do it like a human would do, punch him or what so ever.
Umm, no. Kou WAS confronting Masato directly, telling him that he didn't want him around his brother so he wouldn't be hurt by Masato. He simply doesn't want his brother hurt so he WASN'T acting fake, AT ALL. If he wanted to punish Masato, however, he could do it in any way he wanted.
Well, I have to agree - to my real life friends I also would talk it through with them like "By the way, your new roommate is the brother of the guy you regretted your whole life to have broken him up with his boyfriend. Maybe while rooming together you can figure shit out" And it would have been best if Naru did it similar (under the condition that he really had good intentions). And I have to agree, it is a shitty way to help your friend. But in manga logic I think maybe - just maybe - he did it with good (...misplaced...) intentions.
:v right? Normally, no one will do that to their friend, with precious people. Naru is either S or a yaoi - logic - fail - helper
Yup, nothing to disagree with here! :)
as for me, i would not smile while telling someone I hate to "talk about the past" and try to act really nice, and visit him or try to act like a normal talk with an acquaintance like that. If I was Kou, I would just, " you know what, I don't really care your feelings, I think you might hurt my brother just like me, so why don't you let it go". I mean go straight to the point, not going around like that.
See, the thing is, *I* think he did care, that's why he was going about it in such a roundabout way. He's just prioritising his brother over his former friend.
Yesss exactly! I completely feel you ... (〜￣△￣)〜
Now I get that you wanna give Naru the benefit of doubt, I do too, but the if the method you are following does more damage than good, no matter how good your intentions are the loss outweighs the gains. Also giving the benefit of doubt does not necessarily make you naive as long as you acknowledge the consequences of certain actions. Also this is IMHO and God I hope Naru at-least had good intentions -_-
Adam is sooo cute and ugh my heart can’t take it. He needs to be protected (though I doubt he needs it)
And Noah OMG, shirtless Noah caused a system error for me ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄
Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort to translate this and sharing it with us!!!
PS: the language is grammatically correct and flows smoothly!
so in regards to whatever happened with Yu.... is there a prequel I need to read or is it something that will be revealed later?
Yes, it's the sequel of "Rush!" :)
- http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/rush_hashimoto_aoi/
Ahhhh... thank you so much! After reading the prequel it makes more sense (づ￣ ³￣)づ
My heart! Indian-Kun better be alive! ┗( T﹏T )┛