Uke can hear the inner thoughts of people and animals so long as he's touching them with his hands. Because of this, he's treated as a monster as a child and his village drives him and his mother out. After that they live in a mountain shrine. One day the mother's health declines and soon after she dies. For years after that uke lives alone, with animal companions, for years and becomes an adult. One day while searching for flowers for his mother's grave, uke falls off a cliff and passes out. Uke's dog friend goes to find help and finds a blonde guy with heterochromia, our seme, who saves the uke and takes him back to uke's house. Seme ends up sticking around because of the abundance of medicinal herbs and plants that grew around uke's house (he's a medicine peddler), and he and uke become close. Uke, wanting to do something for seme since seme is always helping him, go back to his old village hoping to pick up some meat for the seme to eat, thinking that since it's been close to 10 years Noone should recognize him. He gets recognized, chased away again and goes back to the mountain in pouring rain. Seme finds him like this and they have a heart to heart where uke tells seme about his ability and seme accepts it. The rain continues and begins to flood the village river, which they all blame on uke, so they go and force uke to become a sacrifice. Seme and animal companion save uke and seme reveals that he also has an ability, telekinesis during strong emotions. Seme invites uke to come with him as he travels around peddling and uke agrees. They have a few minor issues while traveling around but happy ending! Cute, but quickly over without much character building/development, and a rushed story overall. An OK read for one time.
Shounen to Kusuriuri