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Oooooh ohohoooo-! Do more, do more!
I love Hisoka\'s and Tsuzuki\'s relationship. If the right buttons are pushed, anything between them can happen! After all, they both teater on the brink of sanity, and their life experiences make it worse.
Though...one thing seems wrong about this now that I read it again. The part with Hisoka is all right, but something is off with Tsuzuki. Eh, maybe it\'s the whole split-personality situation going on. *Shrugs*
Either way, I look forward to reading more of your stuff! ^_^

Well, you have a good writing style, however I just can\'t see it. Now, don\'t misunderstand, by not seeing it, I\'m not saying that Tsuzuki\'s character is incapable of darkness, only that the kind of darkness displayed here goes against the grain of the core that his character was built on. I suppose I may sound harsh, but I do tend to feel slightly annoyed when I see people forget that \'darkness\' is a multi-dimensional platform that cannot only be labeled by one characteristic. Yes, there certainly is an extremely dark side to Tsuzuki, however, it\'s not a darkness that stems from wanting to justify his actions, to himself or certainly to others, rather, it\'s a darkness that stems from the idea that his actions should erase his existence. I often see some Tsuzuki fans speak of this \"dark Tsuzuki\", but I have yet to see any real evidence for him. Yes, Tsuzuki often has bouts of extreme depression and self-loathing, but the eventual violent reaction that some people like to pin him as having does a complete 180 from everything shown in the anime and especially in the manga. The only time Tsuzuki ever shows violence, towards others, is when others are threatened or when he himself is possessed. Yes, there are times when he may rarely be firm, such as when he shook Hisoka by the shoulders, but affirm reprimand is on an entirely different level than violence exerted because of self-pain. The only time I can think of when Tsuzuki acted upon violence without a reason to defend is when he stabbed Muraki after Muraki kidnapped him in the end of the Kyoto arc, however, that act can hardly be used to justify a violent outburst against someone that is not a threat to him. I also have a hard time Hisoka would passively allow himself to be in such a relationship, and also that his empathy would not have let him in on what Tsuzuki truly felt earlier. I suppose in a nutshell I\'m trying to say that \"dark tsuzuki\" doesn\'t automatically equal \"violent tsuzuki\". This \"other Tsuzuki\" or what you refer to as the \'monster\' has never been seen in the manga or the anime. Instead, that \'other tsuzuki\' is a Tsuzuki that sees his existence as being putrid and stained with the blood of innocents. If this Tsuzuki were to ever take over, he would no doubt kill himself, or attempt to, rather than lash out and hurt more innocents, since the painful guilt over harming innocents is what created the very core of Tsuzuki\'s darkness to begin with. Notice I say \"guilt\" here, that is what truly keeps Tsuzuki from wanting to harm people, insane or not. His darkness is built on his guilt, in order to appease his darkness he would have to erase his own existence, which is the cause of his guilt. Even if he did accept his darkness, as you said in your fiction (which has never shown hardly any implications in the anime or manga, except for perhaps the end of kyoto arc), he would try to end his own life because such a large part of that darkness calls for him to do so, as he attempted to do in the end of the Kyoto arc. I suppose I\'m just trying to say there can and often is a large and very real difference between darkness and violence. I\'m sorry if I sound cold, I just get irritated by the idea of a generic \"dark\" Tsuzuki automatically meaning a violent Tsuzuki when all implications of Tsuzuki\'s darkness show self-destructive traits, the exact opposite of violence towards others in some aspects.

I actually really enjoyed it. I thought, though this type of darkness was never displayed in the series that I\'ve seen (first 4 mangas and entire anime series) that\'s the glory of fanfics, you can tweak it. it had nice development, goot plot and purpose behind it. left off not in an absolute end but not in a cliffy. leaves room for more like a series fics like this where perhaps Tsuzuki copes with the darkness. All in all I really enjoyed it and would like to see more from you.