TITLE: Shadow
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Asami Tohjou
PUBLISHED: Bamboo Comics Print Reijin Selection; 3/17/2001
ISBN: 4-8124-5460-3
SHORT INTRODUCTION: Roles of two childhood friends take a
drastic change as they enter their highschool years and try to
bridge the gap of fear between them.
--cirrus.
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co-ordination: cibo
editor: cirrus
scanner: jen
translation: cirrus
project completion date: April 13, 2003
transcription, notations (09/18/03) by San
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- pg. 1 -
Title Page: Shadow
- pg. 2 -
Boy: See you later!
- pg. 3 -
Boy #2: Yoshiki...
Wait!!
Yoshiki: I told the guys I'd play soccer with them today!
You know how much I love it!
You should try it sometime, Arata.
Arata: .......
/*Wheeze*
Yoshiki: {Back then, Arata was the runt in the neighborhood with asthma.}
Arata: *Wheeze...*
*Huff...*
Yoshiki: [I was the only one that could call us friends.]
[He was always chasing after me.]
Arata: Don't go...!
/*Wheeze*
Yoshiki!
L--look! Look what I bought! It's Plasma X!!
Yoshiki: {I was happy to be chased after by him.}
Man, you're such a baby. Forget about it.
{So, I was always cold to him on purpose.}
- pg. 4 -
Yoshiki: Later!
Arata: Yoshiki!!
Yoshiki: Yahoo!
{I would always leave behind that runt, Arata.}
{But now...}
Girl #1: Hey, check it out! Isn't that Ueda Arata from XXX High?
Girl #2: He sure sticks out like a sore thumb!
Girl #3: Isn't that his girlfriend next to him?
Girl #2: Idiot! That's a boy!
Girl #1: No way! He's like the same height as me!
/158cm, that is. (approx. 5'2")
Girl #2: Take a look at his uniform.
Girl #3: Aah, I get it!
/Ooh! How cute!
He looks like he could play dress-up! (heart)
/Squee!
Girl #2: Shh! He'll hear you!
/Tee Hee!
Yoshiki: [I heard every word of it!]
- pg. 5 -
Yoshiki: .........
Arata: Yoshiki, what's wrong?
Yoshiki: I always draw attention when I'm with you.
/I can't stand it!
Arata: I get it... It's 'cuz I'm so damn tall.
Even in class, the professor catches me as soon as I try to get some shut-eye.
Sorry...
Yoshiki: {No! That's not what I meant, idiot!}
[What a blockhead...]
SFX: *Phoosh!*
Girl #4: Ooh! What a hottie! He's so tall!
Girl #5: He's totally famous! I can't believe you didn't know!
Yoshiki: {I'm feeling really self-conscious right now.}
[Finally. Now I can lose him.]
Announcement: Your attention, please. We will be approaching a curb shortly.
Yoshiki: !
Uph!
Ow...!
{I can't breathe!}
- pg. 6 -
Yoshiki: !
Arata: Come here.
This way.
Yoshiki: [Arata...]
Arata: Here.
I'll switch places with you.
There we go.
Passenger: Hey! Quit shoving!
Arata: Ah! Excuse me.
SFX: *Clack*
Yoshiki: Phew...
Arata: You okay?
- pg. 7 -
Yoshiki: *Thadump*
W-why are you wasting your time?
Arata: Huh? But, you were about to get smashed!
Yoshiki: You're too close!
Arata: Sorry...I'm trying my best--
Uph!
Yoshiki: {You're such a blockhead...}
{You'll never realize it.}
*Thadump*
*Thadump*
*Thadump*
*Thadump*
{When you get so close to me...}
*Glance*
{When you get so close to me...}
{I can see that beauty spot on your chin.}
- pg. 8 -
Yoshiki: {I wonder if Arata even knows that he has a beauty spot there...?}
[Maybe he doesn't know.]
[He's not the type to look in the mirror a lot.]
{He's also not the type to be concerned about his looks.}
{There's no way he'd notice my feelings, then.}
[But it's better this way.]
{As long as we're still "friends", I'll be able to be in a position where I can see his beauty spot.}
["Friend" --------- It has the closest...]
{And furthest echo.}
[Not a day passes that I don't think about it...]
- pg. 9 -
Yoshiki: ["If Arata ever got a girlfriend..."]
Schoolgirl #1: No Way!
Look! Look!
Schoolgirl #2: My God! It's true!
Schoolgirl #3: Wow! They said it's for a special magazine!
Schoolgirl #4: Ooh! Arata-kun is so hot!
Schoolgirl #5: Is our school's boxing club that famous!?
Schoolgirl #6: Looks like it.
Schoolgirl #7: Look! That guy in the middle is the champion, Kasahara Shuuji! He's a graduate from here!
Schoolgirl #8: The champion would visit his old school?
Schoolgirl #9: Squee! That Kasahara guy is totally hot!
Reporter: Now then, Ueda-kun. You're saying that you're not aiming to be a professional?
What a pity... Someone as popular as you.
Arata: That's right. I started in order to train my body.
With my weak body, I couldn't keep up with group sports.
Reporter: That's why you chose boxing?
Arata: Yeah, I guess! That, and because of Plasma X!
He was the boxing hero, wasn't he?
Reporter #2: Oh... Is that thing still around?
/Thought it was a few years ago...
Reporter #3: Back in my day, it was the Masked Rider!
Arata: I heard of that one! With Segata Sanshirou, right?
SFX: *Ha, Ha, Ha*
Reporter: Now that takes me back!
/I was so young!
- pg. 10 -
Kasahara: You'd better quit, if you're just going to fool around.
Arata: Huh?
Unknown: Kasahara-san...
Kasahara: Looks like they'll let you in, even if you don't have the skills.
But you'd better quit if you're not going to be serious about it.
It doesn't matter what you say.
Because you're just scared aren't you.
Schoolboy: /Check it out.
Arata: Uh...
N-no... I don't...
Yoshiki: {What the hell's that guy's problem?}
{Of course Arata's wanted this! How dare he--}
Grr!
Kasahara: I'm not training a punk like you.
Don't waste my time. I'm leaving.
Reporter ?: Wait! Kasahara!
- pg. 11 -
Yoshiki: Quit teasing Arata!
Kasahara: .........
/Huh?
Yoshiki: Listen....
Cheer up, Okay?
SFX: *Kaw, Kaw*
Arata: Yeah...
Yoshiki: Don't "Yeah" me! I'm serious!
SFX: *Slip!*
Yoshiki: Woah!
Arata: Yoshiki!
SFX: *Kersploosh!*
Yoshiki: .....
Argh! Arata, you idiot!
Arata: Sorry...
- pg. 12 -
Arata: I'm sorry. I was just trying to avoid it...
But I only made it worse.
Yoshiki: N-
No! That's not it, you idiot!
You didn't have to fall in with me!
Arata: .....
Yoshiki: And quit worrying about what that bastard said.
Ugh! Gross!
Even my socks are soaked!
Arata: Hey, Yoshiki. Stop by my house.
It's still along ways until your house.
Yoshiki: Yeah. I'll hang out for a bit.
Arata: Thank god! Mom's not home, yet!
She just started her job, so she usually gets home late.
I'll start the bath.
You mind going in together.
Yoshiki: [Huh!?]
Arata: Mom'll throw a fit if she catches us.
She's so cheap, we can only take one bath every two days.
Yoshiki: {Together!? But that means...!}
- pg. 13 -
Arata: Hey! Over here!
Yoshiki: *Start*
.......
Arata: We haven't taken a bath together since we were kids!
That reminds me... You couldn't come on the school field trips...
What's wrong? Wmbarassed?
What's there to worry about? We're both guys.
Now wash up.
Yoshiki: Ah!
- pg. 14 -
Yoshiki: Stop staring.
Arata: Oh...
Sorry...
Yoshiki: Pretty pathetic, huh?
My...you know.
Arata: Huh?
Yoshiki: It's still the same size as when I was a kid.
Arata: Y-you're still growing! You'll get taller, and...
Yoshiki: No, it won't.
Arata: Huh?
Yoshiki: Back then...
When I got hurt...
- pg. 15 -
Yoshiki: Later!
Arata: Yoshiki!!
Yoshiki: Yahoo!
Ah...!
Ah... Aah!
Arata: Yoshiki!!
Doctor: According to the tests, there seem to be no problems.
He struck his head and back pretty badly, so...
In the future he may have some long-lasting side-effects...
Yoshiki: ...So,
That's what they told me at the hospital.
- pg. 16 -
Arata: I'm so sorry...
Yoshiki: It's worse than it looks.
I can't even use it.
It's completely useless.
Arata: --------
Yoshiki: {Arata...}
Arata: Yoshiki!!
Yoshiki: {I used to think that it was because Arata yelled at me to stop that I fell.}
{That's why he's nice to me.}
{Because he was always looking at me...}
{The same way I looked at that beauty spot on his chin...}
{He'd look at the scars left on my head.}
- pg. 17 -
Yoshiki: {This tiny wound is like an unfulfilled promise of his...}
{But If I ever told him that...}
Seems they cut off some nerves somewhere.
They said I'll never be able to use it my whole life.
That's why I can never get a girlfriend.
Or get married, for that matter.
Arata: You're...kidding, right?...
Yoshiki: I'm not kidding, or lying.
You wanna see for yourself?
Arata: /See for myself...?
Sorry...
I didn't mean to--
I'm sorry.
So sorry...
Yoshiki.
It's all my fault.
Yoshiki: Don't be stupid.
{It was never Arata's fault...}
{I fell from all on my own.}
{But, Arata...}
- pg. 18 -
Yoshiki: {Arata's putting the blame on himself.}
Arata: No... It really is my fault...
Yoshiki: {I'm such a coward.}
[When I had Arata looking over me...]
[I as afraid I'd be dumped aside...]
[I feel like I'm being left behind...]
Huh?
What's this?
I can't believe you still held onto this thing!
Arata: Oh, that?
Yoshiki: Talk about memories! It's Plasma X!
Arata: You were always Plasma Man.
Even though I wanted to be him, too, you always made me play the bad guy.
- pg. 19 -
Yoshiki: Oh, yeah! Like this!
Hiyaa!
Arata: Gah!
Yoshiki: Ouch!
Ah!
SFX: *Plop*
Yoshiki: It fell off...
Sorry.
Arata: /Ow, Ow, Ow
It's okay. It was old, and I don't play with it now.
Besides, I'm not a kid, anymore.
Yoshiki: You're right...
We're not kids anymore.
{...But I can't change.}
{I'll always be this way.}
Arata: (Flashback) Don't go...! Yoshiki!
Yoshiki: [Is this how it feels to be left behind...? Arata...?
Let me fix it.
- pg. 20 -
Arata: Nah, that's all right. I'll just throw it out.
Yoshiki: *Gasp*
...How can you say that?
Arata: Huh?
Yoshiki: You bought it to play with me, right?
Arata: Uh...
Well, yeah, but...
Yoshiki: That what you told me!!
If you can just throw it away, then you must feel the same about me!
Arata: What...? Yoshiki, I think you're reading a little bit too much into
this.
I would never think anything like that!
Yoshiki: Sorry for reading too much into it.
But I get it now! You never think about anything, do you!
- pg. 21 -
Yoshiki: It's easier that way!
{That's right... He could never think of me in that way.}
Arata: Yoshiki!
SFX: *Slam!*
Yoshiki: {This time, I'll be the one left behind...}
{Someday...I'm sure of it...}
Boy: Ah!
Arata!!
Yoshiki: !
- pg. 22 -
Coach: What happened?
Boy: Coach, Arata's--
Coach: Well, that's rare. You okay?
Arata: I'm...I'm fine...
SFX: *Drip, Drip*
Coach: Let's get him to the infirmary.
Nurse.
Nurse: Right!
I'm on it!
Yoshiki: {Arata...}
Nurse: Ah... You cut the inside of your mouth.
Let me take a closer look...
- pg. 23 -
SFX: *Rub, Rub*
Arata: Hey...!
/Ow, Ow, Ow
You're too close!
Nurse: Oh!
Arata: I know I'm a guy, but...
Nurse: Wanna have a go on that bed over there?
Arata: Huh?
Yoshiki: {Arata...}
{I wonder if he's okay...?}
Nurse: People use this place all the time!
/But that's a secret!
Arata: Oh...
Stop kidding around!
Yoshiki: ......?
Nurse: What's wrong with you?
Don't be so shy...
- pg. 24 -
Arata: No!
If someone sees us...
Nurse: It'll be fine...
Arata: Nn... Ah!
*Haa...*
Nurse: /Mm...
*Suck!*
*Suck!*
SFX: *Slam!*
Arata: !
Yoshiki!?
- pg. 25 -
Yoshiki: What was that!?
Arata: Yoshiki!
Yoshiki: {I knew it.}
{I knew this day would come.}
["If Arata ever got a girlfriend..."]
Arata: Wait up!!
It's not what you think--!
J-just now...
If I'd known, I wouldn't have...
I mean...you see...
Uh...uh...
Yoshiki: .....
- pg. 26 -
Yoshiki: Pff!
Arata: Yoshiki.
Yoshiki: You don't have to apologize. It's not like I'm your girlfriend.
Arata: Yeah, but...
But, really! There's nothing between me and that girl!
Yoshiki: I know. She's the one that tempted you.
You're not very aware, are you?
Arata: Well...
Yoshiki: I know how popular you are. You'd better watch your back, or those weird girls'll be all over you!
Arata: Weird girls...?
Yoshiki: Girls have their own weapons.
If you're caught by a strange girl, do you really want to ruin your life by getting her pregnant?
Arata: Th...
That's pretty scary.
Yoshiki: Exactly!
Girls are scary things.
- pg. 27 -
Yoshiki: {That's what I always say.}
Arata: Thanks, Yoshiki.
...For worrying about me.
{Even though I'm using Arata's unfullfiled promise.}
Yoshiki: I-I'm not worried.
More importantly, what happened to your face?
Arata: /Oh...
Because you got angry yesterday...
I couldn't stop thinking about it...
Yoshiki: ......
Here.
I fixed it.
Arata: !
Yoshiki: So don't go saying you're going to throw it away!
Arata: Thank you.
- pg. 28 -
Arata: Could you stop by my house for a bit?
You forgot your bag there yesterday.
The one with the Plsama Man...
Yoshiki: Urk!
Wow, so this is what you've been hiding...
/Right on top of your bed!
Arata: Huh?
Hey! Wait--
Yoshiki: Ooh.
So, you like huge breasts?
Arata: You're the one holding it! That's private property!
Yoshiki: You know... I can't get an erection, or come.
Arata: ....!
I'm sorry...
Yoshiki: Listen, Arata...
- pg. 29 -
Yoshiki: What's it like? To come?
Arata: What's it...like?
Yoshiki: Show me.
Arata: Huh!?
B-but...I can't do that...!
Yoshiki: Sure you can! Show me! I don't know what it's like, so I'm curious.
Arata: .....
Yoshiki: How do you do it?
Arata: How...? Uh...just the usual...
Yoshiki: Usual?
Arata: Looking at porn, or something....
Yoshiki: Do it.
I want to see you come.
Arata: ......
A...All right.
- pg. 30 -
SFX: *Thadump!*
*Thadump!*
*Thadump!*
Yoshiki: Not like that. I can't see.
Arata: Huh?
Yoshiki: Turn this way.
Spread your legs more, so I can see.
And take off your pants all the way.
Arata: Yo...yoshiki...!
*Haa...*
SFX: *Grab*
Arata: It's embarassing...!
Haa...!
Yoshiki: Sure doesn't look like it...
You're still erect.
*Fuu...*
Arata: *Haa*
*Haa*
Nn! Ah...!
- pg. 31 -
Yoshiki: Amazing! It's so wet!
And it's getting darker.
Arata: Uph...
Yoshiki: Why, even your nipples are hard.
Arata: ...Ah!
Ahh!
No..!
No there...
Yoshiki...!
Yoshiki: What is it? do you feel good?
SFX: *Haa*
*Haa*
*Haa*
Arata: Nn! Ah!
SFX: *Tweak*
Yoshiki: Here. I'll give your hands a break.
Arata: Aah!
N-no! Don't!
I'm...!
*Haa*
*Haa*
*Haa*
*Haa*
Haa!
- pg. 32 -
Arata: Ah!
I'm...I'm...!
coming!
Yoshiki: How's it feel? It feel good? Arata...
Arata: Mmph!
Oh yeah...
Ah!
Yoshiki: It's amazing how you move your hips.
SFX: *Plip*
Yoshiki: Does it feel that good to ejaculate?
Arata: Yeah...
- pg. 33 -
Yoshiki: I guess I'll never know what it's like.
Arata: Yoshiki...
Let me try it!
Yoshiki: Huh?
Wh...What do you mean?
Arata: Ejaculation feels liek...it's coming from your urethra...right? But it feels good the moment it comes out.
That's why...
If I stimulate your urethra with this, then...
Yoshiki: The...cotton swaps?
Wait!! Arata!
SFX: *Ziip!*
Yoshiki: Stop it! Don't look!
Arata: It's okay. It's very cute.
Yoshiki: Don't say it's "cute"!
- pg. 34 -
Arata: Okay? I'm going to put it in...
Yoshiki: Ah!...
Ah!
Aah!
Arata: Here it comes.
Yoshiki: Ow...! Nyah!
No...
Arata: Does it hurt?... Should I take it out...?
SFX: *Haa*
*Haa*
Yoshiki: Ah... Aah...
Mmph!
Just...a little bit...more...
SFX: *Haa*
*Haa*
Arata: Can I try it?
I'm going to twist it lightly.
Tell me if it hurts too much.
Yoshiki: Nn...
- pg. 35 -
Yoshiki: Ah!
Nnah!
Nn... Ah!
Nn...! Right there!
Aah!
Yes! Aah!
Aah...
Nn...
I feel strange...
Ah!
Arata: Does it feel good? Yoshiki...?
Yoshiki: Haa...
Y...yeah.
SFX: *Ping!*
- pg. 36 -
Arata: Dammit... I got hard again...
Just watching you...
Yoshiki: {Arata...}
Huh...?
Arata: How embarassing. I keep coming...
Yoshiki: Arata...
[Is he serious? Arata--]
{When he says that...}
*Shake*
*Shake*
*Shake*
Aah! No...!
I'm coming...!
I'm...!
Arata: Huh!?
Coming...?
But you can't ejaculate...
SFX: *Thump!*
Yoshiki: ...Aah!
- pg. 37 -
Yoshiki: [Don't...look at me...!]
[Noo!]
SFX: *Pssshh!*
Yoshiki: {No! I can't do this in front him!!}
[.....]
{...But I can't stop!}
Arata: Ah...
I see. It was only urine.
Pff.
Yoshiki,you're so cute.
Yoshiki: Huh...?
Arata: It makes me hot how cute you are.
Yoshiki: A...
Arata....
!
A...rata...
- pg. 38 -
Arata: Ah!
!?
Yoshiki: Put it in me...
*Haa*
*Haa*
I want... I want you!
Arata: Wha...?
Don't be ridiculous!
If we do that...!
Yoshiki: Then think of it as a game.
Arata: .....!
Yoshiki: Are you afraid, Arata?
To have sex with a guy?
Arata: Yoshiki...
Yoshiki: But, I...!
{No matter what...}
{I...}
- pg. 39 -
Yoshiki: I can't...
I can't come with this.
So....
Please put it in me. Let me come.
{No matter what...I want to have him.}
{I don't care what he did with that girl.}
{As long as I can have his body...}
{How pathetic I am.}
Please!
[But...]
Arata: All right.
Yoshiki: Ah!
....!
Arata: Oh!
Yoshiki: .....?
- pg. 40 -
Arata: I...I can't do it...
Huh...?
I'm sorry... I was erect up until now...
Yoshiki: {Is this...}
....
Arata: What...what is it?
Yoshiki: {Is this...}
Arata: Yoshiki!?
Yoshiki: [Is this your answer...? Arata!]
- END -