Deal (http://joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com/252288.html#cutid2) by joisbishmyoga
Fandom: Detective Conan/Magic Kaito
Pairing: Kaito/Conan
Warning: Pseudo-shota (Conan is physically 11 at the start of the story)
Length: 17 shortish chapters + epilogues and omakes
Summary: Years after being drugged with the apotoxin, Conan loses Ran and propositions Kid.
Review: This story is wonderful answer to "what if Conan was never cured and had to grow up all over again?" Because what could he do, faced with going through puberty again, alone, unable to date kids his physical age (because they're children) or adults his actual age (because they would have to pedophiles)? So Conan propositions Kid, who knows the truth about him and might just be insane enough to look past his physical age, and he stays in character the entire time.

Excerpt:
"You know," Conan began, the words almost surprising himself, "I always thought I'd get a way to fix this, and just pop back into my old life, but... it's been four years."

And that was the crux of the problem, wasn't it.

"So I'm eleven years old. My classmates are just learning about sex and romance... Ayumi-chan tried to get me to go for ice-cream last week. Ran won't hold my hand anymore; all she sees is a boy getting too old for such liberties.

"But I'm also twenty-one. I can't see my classmates as peers -- can't see past the law, past their ages and how young they all are. It twists my stomach to try. But I can't... god, how could I, with anyone who didn't know about me? The only ones who do are Heiji and you--" And Heiji would have the same problem Conan did. Conan just plain looked eleven.

Kid apparently made sense of that diatribe, filled in the unspoken parts, and asked sadly, "So you think so little of me, Shin'ichi?"




Diplomatic Relations (http://maldoror-gw.livejournal.com/30383.html) by maldoror_gw
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: LeeGaara (Is this pairing still rare? It's been gaining favor lately.)
Warning: None I can think of.
Length: 23 chapters + epilogue
Summary: Lee is sent to Suna as an envoy, and becomes friends with the Kazekage.
Review:This story is alternately hilarious and hot. I love the romance that grows between Lee and Gaara, although it is not in the least bit normal. Not that Gaara would be able to handle a normal relationship.

Excerpt:
Despite Lee's protests, Gaara had wandered deeper into the seedy underbelly of the docks, looking at everything - the boats, the market stalls, the arguments, the bustling life around him - with a tentative curiosity that had eventually defeated Lee's better judgment, which was how they'd ended up in a tavern where a drunken sailor had mistaken the Kazekage of Sunagakure for a hooker and asked him for a good time.

Temari was going to kill him. Slowly.

"So, in that context," Gaara was saying thoughtfully, "what exactly is a ‘daddy’?"

If Gaara figured out that the sailor had thought Lee was his pimp, Temari would not have the opportunity to kill him; Lee would die of embarrassment first.