I finally finished my tranaslation of chapter 3 on Tuesday........waaaaay past my promised Christmas release date. It ought to show up on Aarinfantasy in a few days. 
As I mentioned before, I'll be taking a break from translating for a couple of months; chapter 4 will be translated by a friend of stzo, my "boss". I plan, however, to be back with Aarinfantasy by spring for the final chapter and to do more work with the group through the summer. Right now I'm just too busy with work, school (well, that's always taken up a rather large chunk of time), and a speech for Japanese. Once SATs and the hectic Easter season at work blow by, I'll have more free time again. 
Then again, since I have an apparent problem of contradicting myself, I may start up again sooner....... 

Thanks to all the fans of "Boku no Koi no Hanashi Himegoto" for making my efforts time well-spent. Also, thanks to kurogane, the editor for "Boku no Koi", stzo, and Aarin. And stzo's friend who will be taking my job.

Yes, I'm still alive.....just been busy!

I the little free time I had, though, I managed to find what I now consider the best piece of RenjiByakuya fanfiction I've ever read (so far). I honestly don't even remember how I found it, it was a week or so ago, but I've read it twice since. The fic in question is called "A Cure for Loneliness" by

day_eight. It can be found here, on Beautiful Devotion, a Byaren community. So far, "A Cure for Loneliness" is four chapters long, with the first chapter split into two parts. I don't want to give away too much of the plotline (Yes! It is yaoi AND it has a plot!), but I will make a point of saying that it is Byakuya-uke and -aptly- labeled NC-17. Also applaudable is the characterization; no weepy-uke Byakuya here! Although the main characters are Renji and Byakuya, many other characters appear throughout the fic as well, and as far as I could tell were in-character, too. The grammar and style is wonderful and the lemon scenes are steamy yet tasteful. 

I'll also mention that there is no bondage, something I've noticed a lot of lately in byaren or renbya, in this fic. If bondage happens to be your thing though, I would highly recommend checking out any of the works by lcpdragonslayer who is also a member of Beautiful Devotion and has teamed up with day_eight on occasion.

 

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