A New Leaf: Courage

VITAL! Explanation and Notes

This fanfic is a sequel to my Taito/Yamachi, A Love Born of Hate, and is the story of what happens to Taichi after he and Yamato have gone their separate ways, several years later. You don't have to have read ALBoH to understand this, but it might help (and as a shamelessly egoistic author, it wouldn't hurt me either ^_~). If anyone wants a detailed explanation of why I think Taito/Yamachi wouldn't work in the long run, email me and I'll gladly send you about three hundred pages of rant. Don't get me wrong. I love Taito and Yamachi in all their glorious forms. But it's time for me to move on.

The New Leaf twinfics are written in parallel with each other. This one follows the ups and downs of Taichi's life follwing the split, and the other, A New Leaf: Friendship documents Yamato's experiences. What this means is that those who read BOTH fics will have a much clearer picture of exactly what is happening and why, because they will see events from both points of view. It is perfectly possible to read one New Leaf fic only, and not suffer confusion or headaches. But personally I think it would be interesting to see how the two plots slot together. That's why I'm writing it this way ^_~ As far as I know, nobody's ever written anything quite like this before, and I want to try out a new technique.

Both fics will follow the SAME TIMELINE. This means that:

chapters will be posted in pairs. For example, the first chapter of both Courage and Friendship will go up on the same date, the second chapter of both fics will go up on the same date, and so forth.

chapters may have strange lengths. The first chapter of Friendship is much longer than the first chapter of Courage, for example. This is because, in the space of time covered, a lot happens to Yamato but very little happens to Taichi.

events may be described twice. I have cut this out as much as possible, except where it is necessary to show Taichi and Yamato's different takes on a situation. Therefore by reading both fics you will gain a 'rounder' picture of events, because I have tried not to repeat myself too much. Repetition isn't just boring to read, remember, it's boring to write. It's not there unless it has to be.

Well, that's it I guess. A New Leaf: Friendship can accessed through my profile page, the same as this one. Happy reading!

Random Warnings and Junk

Taishiro/Kouchi! Also sideline Yamajou/Joumato and past Taito/Yamachi.

PG rated, for language which is not merely bad but actually foul in places. It might get upto an R if I decide to make it a bit kinky, but I don't know about that. If it does get citrusy, it won't be very. Taichi's only thirteen here, remember, and Koushiro is only twelve. I'm not into shotakon.

Note: Yes, I am spelling Jou's name differently now. No, I can't be bothered to go back through all twelve chapters and epilogue of ALBoH and convert all the Jyous to Jous. Sue me.

Right! Now go read it!