Japanese Stories

A heartbroken fashion designer escapes to Tokyo to be an assistant on a movie set, only to get caught up in an illicit, whirlwind romance with the lead actor. ***** After discovering her fiance is cheating on her, heiress and fashion designer Lily Porter is whisked away to Tokyo to help a production company adapt one of her great-aunt's novels. She isn't thrilled about lying about being her aunt's assistant until it throws her into the path of the movie's lead actor, who is enough of a distraction to keep her mind off her ex for good. But can there really be a future for them when their relationship is built on lies, false identities, and a secret engagement? [[Wattys' Longlisted]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Eraser crumbs swept onto her desk. Her name turned into the class punchline. Rumors that reach a room before she does. Teachers who see all of it and mark her present. For nineteen months, that is Fuuko's whole school life, and she survives it by counting. Fifty-six ceiling tiles. Ninety-one steps. A three-hundred-yen notebook that holds her weeks. Coco Sakurai is the girl behind it, and the girl the whole class watches. Every laugh is placed. Every kindness has an audience. Under all of it runs one engine: fear. Nobody steps in. Nothing changes. Then six days do. ··· Prologue + 16 chapters, updating Mon, Wed, Fri. The final seven chapters post daily, one each day, ending Sunday night. This one carries real weight. A note before you begin, and resources at the end, are part of the book. Sixteen and up.

An unknown number ff where Yori, a girl filled with jokes and laughter, gets dared to text a random number by her friends. The boy she texts has the same personality as her, and they get along instantly due to their similar sense of humor, only for her to find out he's not an ordinary teenager. Their relationship grows quickly, even after knowing each other for a very short time. She's loud and full of energy, he's the same but in a different way

SMILE, KUROSE 黒瀬くん、笑って。 Haruki has spent most of his life pretending he cannot see the threads. Thin black strings tied to the little fingers of strangers, classmates, teachers, and people passing him on crowded trains. Some stretch only a few feet. Others disappear through walls, beneath doors, or into places Haruki has learned never to follow. He does not know what the threads mean. He only knows that whenever he notices one, something terrible seems to follow. So Haruki keeps his head down, hides behind his glasses, and tries to survive Seiran Academy without drawing attention to himself. Then Sōma arrives. Popular, effortlessly charming, and always smiling, Sōma is the kind of person Haruki normally avoids. Yet for reasons Haruki cannot understand, Sōma keeps finding him. Sitting beside him. Talking to him. Smiling at him as though Haruki is someone worth knowing. There is only one problem. A black thread is tied around Sōma's little finger. And the other end is wrapped around Haruki's. For the first time in his life, Haruki cannot simply look away. Because if the threads really lead people toward something terrible, he needs to know why his leads directly to the boy who keeps asking him to smile. Some fates are tied in ways we can't see.

October1944. The steel fortress encounters a nightmare beyond human comprehension. While navigating near the Mariana Trench, the Imperial Japanese Navy's pride, the Super Battleshis Musashi, slips into an uncharted, misty spatial anomaly. There, the laws of physics dissolve, and the ocean itself transforms into a colossal, living entity. As the maddening song of Sirens turns elite saiilors against their own flesh, Major Takeshi Takahashi witnesses the ultimate despair---the flagship Yamato, mutated into a writhing. rotten Leviathan of iron and meat. With steel melting into digestive fluid and sanity slipping into darkness, Major Takahahi must wield humanity's last embers of defiance against an eldritch horror from the abyssal depths.

It isn't a want anymore. Whatever this is has become a need-something deep and relentless, a hunger I can neither quiet nor escape. WHEN THE CAMERA'S TURN OFF SOCIAL MEDIA JAMES ZHAO YUFAN / FEM!OC WRITTEN BY MADIXU

until we meet again- ✧ 𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡, Kazumi gets shipped off to Portugal to live with relatives she barely knows and, because apparently moving across the world wasn't enough, runs into the boy who broke her heart two and a half years without them ever being in a relationship. written by rosy_ree

her fantasy comes true in real life. Is red string theory true? Well, let's welcome Heidijoan Faith Cruz DeVera And Aito Ryosai Schmadt Kazuki " My Heidi and Ryo "

They say if you hear your name whispered in Kamikawa Forest... don't answer. At twelve years old, Luna Morrigan loses her parents after a family hike deep within the mountains of Japan. Their bodies are never found. The only thing left behind is a forest that seems to remember her. Six years later, haunted by grief and desperate to see her parents again, Luna begins practicing lucid dreaming. But the dream world is not a place she controls. It controls her. Every night, the dreams grow darker. Every morning, reality feels less real. A faceless child follows her through impossible forests. A forgotten shrine waits with its doors open. And something that has known her name since childhood whispers from the shadows. Some dreams are meant to stay asleep. Others are waiting for you to wake up.

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii 12 year old Kai O'Brian an Irish-American boy is at the beach with his older sister Skylar. He is doing what any typical kid would be doing building a sand castle. When another boy about his age comes up to him and says in very broken English "Build Castle" Kai took the opportunity. He finds out the other boy's name is Kenta and he's from Japan. He didn't speak very much English so he had to gesture a lot and break it down. Kenta only replying in nods and sounds. At the end of the day they had so much fun that they got each other's info so that they could play games. What started out as just gaming buddies and teaching Kenta English became something bigger as they grew older over the next couple years.They were slowly falling for each other not knowing it about each other.This would all start to come to light during Kai's Senior year of high school when Kenta tells him his dad and family is moving to Hawaii for his job.After years of seeing each other through a screen Kai is willing to show his best friend the American experience while finding the best way to express how he feels like wise for Kenta.Together they find themselves and each other one step at a time regardless of distance or language barrier.

Having vanquished the X bandits on Xorus, the Ozanians found the capital world utterly destroyed upon their arrival. The recent antagonist, Xolly, alluded to a mastermind controlling this assault, a creature known as 'Overlord'. Is he allied with the Goblin soldiers on Xorus, or is a more significant development unfolding? Join Navar, Miri, Jax, and their newfound allies as they navigate through this brewing conflict. The Goblin War!

After departing from the western hemisphere and returning home to Eden, Alice and her team discovers that a succubus army has been plotting to seize Eden, and will strike soon. Without rest, the group finds themselves in the middle of an ancient conflict between nations - the results of which will push them to their limits. Can Alice overcome her biggest fight yet and learn more about an erased past?

━━━ 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐋! ↳˗ˏˋ 𝗮𝗱𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 • 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗳𝘂𝗹, 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲, 𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹. ˊˎ˗ ↴ 💥 ❛ ❝𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴?❞ ༉‧₊˚✧ ⊱ ────── {.⋅ ✯ ⋅.} ────── ⊰ in which CORTIS has a sixth member, Sakai Akira 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙨: -ˋˏ [✓] ˎˊ- 𝙤𝙣-𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 -ˋˏ [✘] ˎˊ- 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚

⭐ Manu lived his life in the shadow of a tragedy that stole his sight and his heart's greatest melody. Now, he navigates a world of "velvet blackness," finding solace in the white piano left behind by Felix-a ghost he can't stop playing for. When he meets Kris, a street busker with a voice that sounds hauntingly like the one he lost, the silence of Manu's world is shattered. As they begin to breathe new life into unreleased songs, Manu must decide: Is this a second chance at harmony, or a dissonant echo of a past that's better left in the dark?. "Gold is not what survives the fire. Gold is what the fire reveals."

Sargent Major Ian MacDonald of the New World Militia has just survived his ship being destroyed by remnants of an asteroid. His capsule and his team's capsules have been scattered to different moons surrounding a large water plane. He finds himself on a moon, with high oxygen levels, covered with tropical foliage. Within minutes, he finds himself being hunted and limited weapons to defend himself. But here they do not use bullets, they use toxins and poisons and he has just been stung. He's losing consciousness when he sees a small leopard creep towards him and morph into a petite woman. Fiery, bold and fearless, Xiara has endured personal tragedy to rise up to be one of the top trackers of her tribe. The Hunters are actively hunting their moon and one of the young is missing. She finds him ensnared in a net trap set by the Hunters. Xiara hears the hum of the Hunter's pod closing in. Suddenly, a male bursts through the foliage wielding a sword that slices through the netting, freeing the young leopard, when the man is hit with a barb, tipped with poison. He begins to stumble and eventually collapses, succumbing to the neurotoxins flooding his body. The pull to save him overrides her fear. As she creeps forward, his scent triggers something deep inside her...mine!

Shibuya High School - a prestigious institution famed for its top-tier students, immaculate reputation, and an admission process so selective that getting in feels like winning the lottery. But behind the polished walls and perfect smiles lies a darkness no one dares to speak of. Kei Sanji, a 17-year-old transfer student, arrives mid-year-not because of academic achievement, but because his previous school expelled him for repeated discipline issues. Intelligent yet reckless, Kei has no intention of settling down. His plan is simple: cause enough trouble to get kicked out again. But the moment he steps onto campus, he feels it-something's wrong. The air is heavy. Shadows move where they shouldn't. Black, distorted figures drift silently among the students... and no one seems to notice. No one except him. As weeks pass, whispers spread. Students are dying-some in tragic suicides, others in brutal, unexplained murders. Kei begins to suspect the "figures" are connected. Worse, they seem to be feeding on something... or someone. Then, Kei meets a small group of students who can see them too. Together, they start uncovering the school's buried truth-a truth soaked in blood and bound by something far older than Shibuya High itself. As the death toll rises, the authorities finally send in a detective to investigate. But with the monsters closing in, the question remains: will they uncover the truth in time... or will they become the next names on the list? Start: 12/08/2025 End: 19/08/2026

❝ ᴏᴋᴀʏ, ɴᴏ ᴏꜰꜰᴇɴꜱᴇ, ʙᴜᴛ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴀʟʟ ᴏꜰ ᴍʏ ᴋɪᴅɴᴀᴘᴘɪɴɢꜱ, ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴏɴᴇ ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴇᴀꜱᴛ ꜰᴜɴ ᴇᴠᴇʀ. ❞ ❝ ᴍᴀʏ ɪ ᴀꜱᴋ ᴡʜʏ ʏᴏᴜ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴀʏ? ❞ ❝ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏꜱᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴇɴᴊᴏʏ ɪᴛ! ❞ -ˋˏ ִֶָ𖥔 ִ ࣪ ˖𖥔 ִֶָ ˎˊ- Copyright © December 2023 Blys @tiger-milk-tae Wattpad, All Rights Reserved Disclaimer: I do not own Stray Kids, (tragically), nor do I own the members. The only things I personally own are the plotlines I created, and my own fictional character versions inspired by real life idols.

"She belonged to the red soil of Bengal. He ruled the scorching desert sands of Rajasthan." Trisha (21) thought her life would follow a beautiful rhythm in the artistic lanes of Santiniketan, rooted in books, poetry, and a tight-knit circle of college friends. She thought she knew everything about them-until graduation ended, and her friend Abhijit invited the squad to his cousin sister's grand wedding in Udaipur.Trisha expected a modest family gathering. She didn't expect a towering sandstone fortress, bowing servants, or the shock that her middle-class college buddy was actually a royal prince. But the real storm arrives straight from the airport. Enter Abhimanyu Singh (30). The Crown Prince and ruthless Global CEO who demands absolute protocol. Returning to find a group of middle-class students occupying his ancestral palace, his patience is non-existent. He expects everyone to bow.But Trisha is a Bengali Brahmin girl with fire in her veins, and she doesn't know how to bow.When she openly defies him on his own palace balcony, the fortress walls shake. To him, she is an uninvited distraction. To her, he is an arrogant dinosaur. But as the royal wedding begins, forced proximity blurs the lines between hatred and dangerous desire.He knows she is off-limits-she is his younger brother's best friend. But when she suddenly vanishes into thin air after one stormy night, the cold king realizes some things cannot be bought with royal power. 🔥 THE BI-WEEKLY WEEKEND DROPS 🔥 Mark your calendars! This story updates every other week, bringing you a double dose of massive weekend drama: 🗓️ Saturday: 3 New Chapters 🗓️ Sunday: 3 New Chapters That's 6 chapters in one weekend to keep you hooked. Hit that follow button and add the book to your reading list to stay updated!

Almost everyone is dysfunctional in this story. So, it's drama with a dash of comedy and a sprinkle of gore. Ryouma lives with the Yamaguchi family. His dad is the deputy prime-minister of Tokyo, so he enjoys a pretty average popular-boy life until he gets betrayed by his best and only friend, Daichi. Mistreated by bullies, sick of life, Ryouma wishes to die. Instead, the ground opens up and swallows him whole like he committed a sin. Down there? Hell? No. It's a whole other world. The underworld. A world where different species reside, some living among humans in the human world. Ryouma's reality gets twisted with every minute spent with the creatures of the underworld. Ryouma finds that the Yamaguchis are actually his adopted family. And his real family was murdered by his psychotic elder sister. Not to mention, since his family, the royal family, is gone, Ryouma is the heir to the throne. His elder sister is out for his head and he is tasked with defeating a world - wide conspiracy, beating her, and securing the throne for himself. Lest his sister turns the underworld, his true home, into her personal playground. Problem is, he's a coward and egoist by default. Ryouma doesn't even want the throne; just a peaceful life with his dysfunctional family. Surrounded by weird brothers, hot-headed sisters and a creepy father, all adoptive, Ryouma is forced to play the 'good king'.

Maria have always longed to visit Japan. Visiting Japan was the only thing she planned that she hasn't gotten yet. She thought she already has everything she wanted. "...it's not like I'm looking for anything. I have everything I want!" was her favorite line. What if something she is not looking for appeared in front of her in a form of a man from Japan?