[🔄️Updated as I can...🔄️] Transfer student Asada Shino wants nothing more than a quiet reset. Soft‑spoken, anxious, and carrying fractures he refuses to look at, he plans to survive his new school by staying invisible. Then he meets Nakano Miku - the headphone‑wearing strategist who listens more than she speaks, notices more than she admits, and reaches out in ways she doesn't fully understand. What follows is a day‑by‑day unraveling of walls neither of them realized they'd built. Shared lunches. Shared warmth. Shared truths whispered in the spaces where silence feels safe. And a connection that grows too real, too fast, and too quietly to ignore. But first love isn't simple - not when five sisters are watching, not when old ghosts linger at the edges of every smile, and not when silence can protect... or shatter. *Shards of Silence - Volume 1: Origins [REMASTERED]* begins the slow, intimate journey of two people learning how to be seen - and how to stay. --- A/N: This story is a loosely canonical fork of *Gotoubun no Hanayome*, diverging after the end of the first term of second year. It features an original protagonist and explores an alternate emotional path for the Nakano sisters--especially Miku. --- #7 - itsuki (01/13/2026) #6 - nakano (01/13/2026) #4 - nakanoichika (01/13/2026) #3 - nakanoitsuki (01/13/2026) #8 - nakanomiku (01/13/2026) #4 - nakanonino (01/13/2026) #3 - nakanoyotsuba (01/13/2026) #9 - yotsuba (01/13/2026) --- Disclaimer: I do not own The Quintessential Quintuplets or any related media. This is a passion project written with respect for the original work.

In a world full of noise, your voice pierced through my silent heart.

[🔄 Bi-Weekly Updates 🔄] Asada Shino has survived the fall. But survival isn't the same as healing. He wakes to silence, to cold air, to a message he sent into emptiness - *tadaima* - and a memory of someone watching him leave like she might break. He doesn't know why it hurts now. Only that it does. Across the city, Nakano Miku wakes with puffy eyes and a quiet promise: "He shouldn't start his day alone." She forgets her headphones. She doesn't even notice. Her mind is already on him. What follows is a morning built from warmth - miso simmering, toast browning, laughter rising, and five sisters mobilizing like a strike team to protect the boy they've already chosen as family. But healing isn't simple - not when silence still lingers, not when vulnerability feels like exposure, and not when love must be rebuilt from the inside out. Volume 2 of *Shards of Silence* begins the slow, tender reconstruction of two people learning how to stay - not just in each other's arms, but in each other's mornings. And this time, when Shino knocks... someone opens the door. --- #13 - confession (01/05/2026) #14 - familybonds (01/06/2026) #6 - ichika (01/05/2026) #2 - itsuki (01/05/2026) #5 - miku (01/05/2026) #4 - nakano (01/05/2026) #2 - nakanoichika (01/05/2026) #2 - nakanoitsuki (01/05/2026) #4 - nakanomiku (01/05/2026) #2 - nakanonino (01/05/2026) #2 - nakanoyotsuba (01/05/2026) #12 - newbeginnings (01/05/2026) #4 - thequintessentialquintuplets (01/05/2026) #3 - yotsuba (01/05/2026) --- Disclaimer: I do not own The Quintessential Quintuplets or any related media. This is a passion project written with respect for the original work.

Zeniku Kurenai has always lived quietly, overlooked, misunderstood, and never truly seen for who he is. Miku Nakano is gentle and reserved, hiding her feelings behind silence and headphones. When their paths cross, neither of them expects much. But slowly, in the quiet moments, they begin to understand each other in ways no one else ever has. This is a slow-burn story about being seen, being heard, and finding comfort in someone who understands you. Sometimes, love doesn't need to be loud.

Y/N is a track and field athlete and a good one at that. But what if he was forced to leave it all behind for a life in Japan? Only one way to find out

"Ever since that day, I felt like my days began to be brighter."

Dekari Kurosawa...uh...yeah, he doesn't see himself as THAT much of a bad guy.... he's just a dumb student that needs tutoring Ugh...whatever...just let that other guy have his love story and leave me to my peace... I don't own anything relating to Quintessential Quintuplets

A young boy named Y/n L/n, burdened with a secret that no one must ever know - the power and responsibility to protect his city - finds himself facing a challenge of a very different kind. When he and his only friend, Futarou Uesugi, are hired to tutor five troublesome sisters, Y/n suddenly finds his already complicated double life spinning even faster. Balancing homework, heartbeats, and heroics was never going to be easy. But when the mask comes off, when the weight of both the world and his own heart crushes him from within - who will be there to catch him this time? "I always fight alone... All these supervillains, all these criminals, all these people who want to burn the city down... I fight them every night. Alone." "You know, God... sometimes I wonder if you're watching me from up there. If you're laughing at how ridiculous my life has become. I know I'm just a plaything to you - a piece on your board. But still... if it's not too much to ask, could you give me some time off? Just a little vacation. Nothing crazy. Maybe... sixty or seventy years?" "...Just kidding. It's my job, right? I chose this path. I can't get tired of it - not when people are counting on me." "Even if nobody ever thanks me for what I do... even if no one knows that it's me behind the mask that I'm the one saving them - I'm okay with that." "As long as they're safe, as long as they're smiling... I'm fine. So yeah, it's fine, God. I'll keep going. No matter what."

No matter how harsh the world feels, the quintuplets find strength in the bond only they share. With no one else to lean on, they hold each other up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But... what if they did have someone to lean on? A Quintessential Quintuplets Fanfiction I do not own any of these characters except my own original character.

Yugen Katayama... a boy who has lost a lot in the past 5 years. He was involved in a three-way car accident that took the life of his mother and others. Now, he's stuck in a house without his father, who abandoned him and his siblings after the wreck, an older brother who has locked himself in his room and refuses to leave, and a little sister who lashes out at everyone around her. The other thing is is that Yugen... isn't very handsome, you could say. In fact, he's downright hideous to some. He was born with a face that just... wasn't right, but even though he was mocked constantly... he always had his mother to turn to, but now that shes gone, hes having to take care of his older brother and younger sister while also going to a school and a part time job where everyone harasses him and he is barely holding it together. However, one day, the "Nakano Quintuplets" transfer to his school, and within them, he meets Miku, who he bonds with. Because of this, however, he ends up getting involved with some messy family drama the Nakano's have, and from there, while his life does seem to get better... there's also a lot of chaos, and the boundaries of family and beauty are tested as his world turns from upside down... into something WAY more chaotic. The Quintessential Quintuplets was created by Negi Haruba. I do not own any of the rights.