The Perfect Blend of Fear & Courage (boyxboy)

Kutso Onomori is a disappointment. It's as simple as that. His social anxiety is so crippling that he might as well be mute. How is someone like that expected to run the most successful technology manufacturing company in Korea? He can't. His dream was always to be a poet, but he was never any good at it. When his parents send him away to prestigious boarding school, his only goal is to make a friend, but instead everyone seems to dislike him. Despite this, Kutso is determined. You can see into another boy's dorm from the window in his own dorm. All he has to go off of is that the boy likes to run. But the boy behind the window is not who Kutso expected him to be.

Sixteen-year-old academic rival Alexander Proulx is the perfect boy. Handsome, intelligent, athletic. He has it all. His life is a boring routine of studying, chasing off girls and focusing on cross-country running, the only thing keeping him happy. When a curious, seemingly snobby rich kid, Kutso Onomori transfers to his school, his routine is disrupted. Alex is caught off guard at the though of competition and he soon finds himself locked in a fight to maintain his rank as head-boy. His focus shifts and his life is engulfed by Kutso, who becomes the only thing he can focus on. As he gets to know the boy, he's surprised that sympathy is the feeling that the boy elicits. Alex slowly becomes Kutso's light as they share a magical few months before the boys' relationship completely changes with the new year...