[ON-GOING] Aniki Has a Suitor

Shinji Aoyama never wanted an older brother, especially not Marcello Louise "Cello" Villaroman, the gay Filipino son of the man his mother married. Two years younger, stubborn, and determined to keep his distance, Shinji makes it clear that sharing a house doesn't make them family. Cello eventually stops trying to convince him otherwise. But one night, Shinji sees the brother he thought needed no one at his most vulnerable, and the distance he worked so hard to maintain suddenly feels impossible to keep.

Without telling Cello, Shinji makes a promise: nobody will ever hurt him like that again. Unfortunately, his idea of brotherly protection quickly becomes excessive. He watches, follows, interferes, and somehow turns into the clingy younger brother Cello never asked for. Then Eli Akira Monsanto appears with every intention of courting Cello, and Shinji immediately decides that Aniki's newest admirer has to go.

Except Eli refuses to be chased away. Worse, Shinji discovers that the seemingly Filipino suitor is half-Japanese, understands every insult Shinji thought he was safely saying in Japanese, and somehow becomes increasingly difficult to hate. As Cello wonders how the stepbrother who once wanted nothing to do with him became the biggest obstacle to his love life, Shinji faces a problem he never prepared for: what if the man he's trying to drive away is actually someone who can make his Aniki happy? And if Eli finally earns Cello's heart, will Shinji protect that love, or is sharing his Aniki the one thing he simply cannot do?