NafylaMetal's manga / #Childhood Friends(2)

Uke fell in love with seme as a very young child, and as kids they made a promise to get married.. During highschool, uke confesses and seme says he likes him back and they have sex. Just after that though, seme get a girlfriend and uke walks in on them having sex. Seme apparently saw nothing wrong with that, says as much to the uke, and then proceeds to smooth talk the hopelessly in love uke into sex on the same fekkin day. Uke, knowing it was wrong, can't help himself because of the whole hopeless in love thing. This continues up into adulthood and now they are both 25. In the same situation, uke being basically a caregiver/lover, but seme continuing to have girlfriends. Then, seme's current gf mentions marriage and seme agrees (while thinking of uke in a wedding dress), and then goes on to tell uke he's getting married and again fuck him on the same day...with uke again just letting it happen. Then uke decides that his 20 years of unrequited love is enough to stop the marriage and goes on this crazy thought train of "I'll win him over with my cooking and he'll not go through with it", even though that's basically what he's been doing for the seme for years now. Soon after, an ex-sexfriend of the uke's shows up wanting to hook up again because he's tired of women atm. Uke refuses, but the ex is pushy and they get into an argument and seme sees this. I guess the seme thought that uke had not had any relations with others because he's pretty shocked to hear of this and stops contacting uke for a bit. Uke, just to see the seme, sneaks into seme's work place, and there the seme says something stupid and this time the uke gets mad and leaves and stops contacting seme for even longer. During this time, it seems the seme had finally started thinking of the repercussions of his actions and what it would mean to him if he lost the uke. So he breaks up with his current gf, and goes to see the uke. When seme finds the uke, uke is once again talking/arguing with the ex. Seme drives the ex off and he and uke finally have a halfway decent conversation about their feelings and finally become an official couple. Happy ending? I guess. Honestly, if the art (and uncensored content) wasn't so damn good, this one would be shit for me. Like for real. The seme is shifty and the uke isn't much better. Like all of the seme's actions are shrugged off because of his "natural airheadedness" and because he's an "expressionless idiot", terms used affectionately by uke. And the uke, while knowing seme was using him to cheat, just let it happen because "luuurv"?! No. Just no. 20 years is a long time to be in an unrequited love, but that's no reason to willingly enable someone to cheat. The story is shit, but it makes you sympathize with the uke (and he is cute) and the art makes up.for the rest. An OK read.

Childhood friends re-encounter each other when seme moves to Tokyo for college, and gets the apartment next to uke. Uke is about 5 years older, beautiful and sexy, but his look and character has changes dramatically since they were children. When seme brings a greeting gift to uke, uke jumps him and ends up taking the seme's virginity. They become sort of sex friends, but eventually seme can't pretend to not remember the traumatic memory of the uke leaving him and it all comes to head one night in the rain. Uke explains that he's loved seme romantically even since he was very young, and didn't think it was good to have such lusty thoughts for someone so young. On top of that, his school bully saw them together one day and then threatened uke to expose him to seme's mom and ruin their friendship, not to mention the horrible homelike he had with divorcing parents and no parental love. After this, it's just basically them growing closer and closer until they become an official couple. Happy ending! This one is great. There is a bit of dubcon, but there was already love there so...it's OK I guess. The art is 100! A great read!