16 parts Complete MatureYuhi has worked for the Happy Lucky restaurant since high school, and his positive personality and extroverted charisma allows him to get along with most people. Despite never going to college, he has been selected by the retiring owners to run the restaurant as the new owner. Life could not get any better for him.
Yuhi has an array of friends surrounding him, most of them in medical school, but he has two friends that he considers his closest; Kyoya, who has been his friend since his final year of high school, and Shibuya, his best and closest friend from middle school. For years now though, Yuhi has struggled with his growing feelings of love for Kyoya, and it has been a struggle for him to suppress them as he not only doesn't want to jeopardize his friendship with Kyoya but he also struggles comes to terms with his own sexuality. When Kyoya unexpectedly kisses him one day, Yuhi is overcome with joy at the prospect the person he loves may return his feelings.
However...things are not all well. Little does Yuhi know that his best friend Shibuya also harbors feelings for him, and Kyoya and Shibuya have been quietly battling each other for years for Yuhi's affections, with Yuhi none the wiser. When it is apparent that Yuhi and Kyoya may get together, Shibuya makes a drastic and abhorrent decision to win Yuhi's heart once and for all. But it is a decision that will fracture their entire friend group and cause Yuhi undeserving pain.
The rain may wash away tears, but it cannot wash away the pain inside a wounded heart.
*TRIGGER WARNING: Though it will not be depicted graphically, this story has a central theme of sexual assault.*
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Word Count: 40,000-41,000