Shards of Sanity - slight crossover with the Vorkosigan universe
Characters/Pairings: Watari, Tatsumi, mentions of Cordelia
Warnings: None
Summary: Watari attempts a new way to use his powers. For a very practical reason.
Comments: I giggled my way through this because it is just so in character. And also, because the thought of Cordelia dealing with the pack of neuroses that the shinigami are amuses me to no end.
One-shot, complete

Domestic Bliss
Characters/Pairings: Konoe, Tatsumi, Watari
Warnings: None
Summary: When Konoe is injured, he is taken care of by his two subordinates.
Comments: This is just, well, cute. Konoe-fic is very rare, and this does a nice job of characterizing him, while also focusing on Tatsumi and Watari. There’s something very family-like about this fic, and I just don’t get enough of that.
One-shot, complete.

Epilogue
Characters/Pairings: Watari/Tatsumi
Warnings: None
Summary: Not even Watari can be cheerful all of the time.
Comments: Just a beautifully in-character vignette about Tatsumi cheering up Watari after a really bad day. No, it isn’t nearly as fluffy as the words “cheering up” made it sound. It’s just very very nicely done.
Notes: I have two windows of Mozilla open with 8 or 9 tabs open apiece, of mostly fics that I mean to rec. I still haven’t begun to rec them all, and am instead borrowing recs from tomomichi’s current batch. …Oh well. I’ll rec the other later.
One-shot, complete.
One-shot, complete.

The Doll
Characters/Pairings: Watari/Muraki, Watari/Tatsumi
Warnings: Graphic, iffy-consent, BDSM-influenced sex.
Summary: Watari decides to make a deal with the devil to get rid of the devil. When Watari makes a deal with Muraki to help Watari and Tatsumi with the Yatonogami case, Watari must struggle more than he expected to avoid being sucked too deeply into Muraki’s games.
Comments: Wow. Just wow. This is a fic that managed to make me like Muraki/Watari. If there’s a more random pairing, I don’t want to hear about it. Unless it’s Wakaba/Muraki, in which case, link please? But this fic is long, interesting and the plot and the character dynamics are just amazingly well done. It’s co-written by the person who I would consider to be the single best Watari author out there, and one of the better Muraki authors, and damn, does it show in the characterization. Both Watari and Muraki’s characterizations are just nailed, even in the situations they put themselves in. And Tatsumi’s reaction is done just about right. And it’s just… very, very well done.
Notes: There are also sequels to this fic. Unfortunately, they are not nearly up to the level of quality that this fic reaches, and frankly, I lost interest about three chapters in. I do not recommend the sequels.
Long one-shot, complete.

Unravel
Characters/Pairings: Muraki/Hisoka
Warnings: …It’s MURAKI/HISOKA. Rape. Dark content.
Summary: “Following King of Swords, Muraki metes out his promised revenge to Hisoka by using his empathy as a weapon against him.”
Comments: This is a fic that’s stuck in my mind for … at least one year, maybe two. It’s just perfectly dark and in-character, and oh holy fuck, I pity Hisoka in this. To me, it’s the model of what a Muraki/Hisoka fic should be like, and that’s a rare status for a short fic to obtain.
One-shot, complete.

Gray Knight series
Irresistible Force : Immovable Object
Ghost Ship
It’s The Little Things
The Story of Chess
My Partner : My Lover - Adult
Shattered
A Snowball in Meifu
Characters/Pairings: Watari/Tatsumi
Warnings: Except for the one graphic sex one, none that I can think of. Maybe a little graphic violence, mature themes.
Summary: Gray Knight is the code given to assignments with extenuating circumstances. The cases that tear emotionally at whoever is assigned them. When Tatsumi takes one such case to spare Tsuzuki and Hisoka another heartrending case, Watari assigns himself as his partner. This is the story of that case, and the relationship that develops after that.
Comments: Hey, a not quite as half-assed a summary as I usually do. Still a little melodramatic and inane, but you can’t have everything. Anyway, this is flat out the single best Tatsumi/Watari series on the Internet, as well as one of my favorite YnM fics period. It takes the time to develop their relationship properly, and both Watari and Tatsumi’s characterization are well done. And there’s actual plot!
Multi-chaptered fics and one-shot fics, all complete. However, the series itself is permanently incomplete with, alas, a few unresolved issues from Shattered left unresolved. Please allow me a few seconds of complaining that the one fic that left open threads is also the one that is the last one that the author wrote.

Metaphor
Characters/Pairings: Tatsumi, Watari
Warnings: None
Summary: Watari attempts to use metaphorically explain what’s wrong with all the Shinigami. Tatsumi misunderstands.
Comments: This is just nicely done. The interplay between Watari and Tatsumi is just so well done, with Watari being his eccentric, mad genius self, and Tatumi being his irritably repressed, “No, you can’t have a bigger budget” self. I’ve always loved the way Tatsumi and Watari work together, and this fic nicely shows why.
One-shot, complete.

Rite of Passage
Characters/Paiirngs: Hisoka-centric. All characters appear.
Warnings: None
Summary: When Hisoka loses his temper and destroys Meifu’s cherry trees, his coworkers’ reactions surprise him
Comments: Rarely have I seen a fic combine fluff and humor and angst quite so well. It just…works. And the premise is surprisingly believable and entertaining.
One-shot, complete.

A Fish Dinner in Chijou
Characters/Pairings: Muraki/Tsuzuki
Warnings: Dark.
Summary: A quiet candlelit dinner with a familiar ghost.
Comments: Wonderfully, wonderfully written. The state of most Muraki fanfiction makes me want to run screaming in the opposite direction as rapidly as possible. This almost makes me want to go on a Muraki reading kick. It’s…heavy and soothing and yet there’s a darkness to it. It’s everything that a Muraki fic should be.
One-shot, complete.

Paper Cuts
Characters/Pairings: Watari/Tatsumi
Warnings: None
Summary: (Stealing author’s) Sometimes, Watari wishes he had a dark, angsty past that he could wave under Tatsumi’s nose and catch his attention with.
Comments: This is just a wonderfully cute and sweet Tatsumi/Watari fic that I absolutely adore. I love the characterization, and the insights on Tatsumi’s character - on how Watari just defies categorization for Tatsumi, because he doesn’t understand anyone who isn’t a protector or a protectee. I love how Watari’s easily the most mentally stable of the shinigami, but sometimes almost wishes he weren’t because he knows Tatsumi well enough to know that he doesn’t fit into his easy categories. And the ending was almost unutterably cute.
One-shot, complete.

Small Mercies
Characters/Pairings: Terazuma/Wakaba
Warnings: Yuri sex.
Summary: When Watari’s potion finally works, Terazuma and Wakaba take advantage.
Comments: I have an utterly irrational fondness for Terazuma/Wakaba, and this is wonderfully, wonderfully done. The characterization is nice, the sex isn’t bad, and it’s just a nicely done PWP on a too-rare pairing.
One-shot, complete

Coming Home
International Relations
Gender Relations
Drunken Relations
Characters/Pairings: Sanzo, Goku, Hakkai, Gojyo, Tatsumi, Watari, Tsuzuki, Terazuma.
Warnings: None, really
Summary: A group of Chinese shinigami meet the Japanese ones.
Comments: This is a series of drabbles that alternately amuse me and fascinate me. THe characterization is just nailed, and the Sanzo-ikkou just works so interestingly with the YnM characters. And Hakkai and Tatsumi cooking together and talking is just a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful idea.
Series of drabbles.

Hisho no Kage (and sequels)
Image
Better to Light a Candle
Networking
Hokkaido
Characters/Pairings: Tatsumi/Watari. A little Watari/Tsuzuki.
Warnings: Sexual situations
Summary: Tatsumi suffered an accident and exists only in shadows. What happens when a certain hyperactive blond learns?
Comments: This is just beautifully, magnificently, done. The author has a wonderful grasp of all the characters, and the situation is nicely handled. And there are just some lines in there that make me want to worship the author’s grasp of the character and wish that I could write half that well. “During their most recent case, Tatsumi permitted injury to his partner.”
Ongoing series of drabbles and a one-shot.

Retaliation
Pairings: Maybe Tatsumi/Tsuzuki if you really look hard. I’d call gen though.
Warnings: Semi-spoilers for what little we know about Tsuzuki’s past
Summary: Tatsumi protects Tsuzuki. And when a partner of Tsuzuki’s starts spreading rumors about Tsuzuki, he knows just what to do.
Comments: Madamhydra is an author I’ve been reading since…1999? I’m lousy at keeping track. When she moved into the Yami no Matsuei fandom while I was still actively searching out fics, I pretty much did hosannas of joy. And this is a fic that fits my tastes surprisingly well. I have a deep-seated fondness of watching people being politely ripped apart verbally. Usually in fiction. And this is Tatsumi, and he rips people apart so very well.
One-shot, complete.

The Joys of MotherhooD
Pairings: Slight Tatsumi/Watari, Hisoka/Tsuzuki
Warnings: Much gender-switching.
Summary: Watari succeeds in creating his gender switching potion. Everyone else wants to kill him.
Comments: I was grinning madly thoughout the entire fic. It’s just…funny and so in character and the sheer random cuteness of Wakaba and Terazuma actually being able to touch because they switched genders was just fun. The author has a real knack for writing wonderful, wonderful Watari fic.
One-shot, complete.

Musical Chairs
Pairings: Tsuzuki/Hisoka, Muraki/Oriya, Tatsumi/Watari, slight implied Tatsumi/Tsuzuki
Warnings: Slash
Summary: Watari is determined to make Tatsumi drunk. And succeeds.
Comments: This is a fic that, in the hands of another writer, could have been very poorly done. But I enjoyed the utterly batshit insanity while still managing to keep the characters pretty close to their original selves. And Watari, as always, amuses the crap out of me.
One-shot, complete.

Undemanding
Pairings: Tsuzuki/Watari
Warnings: Implied sex, yaoi.
Summary: Plotless fluff. Tsuzuki and Watari are working on a case together.
Comments: This is not a pairing I tend to like. I prefer Tatumi/Watari, or even Watari by himself as a general rule of thumb. But this is well written, and manages to capture the inherent playfulness of Tsuzuki and Watari’s relationship wonderfully.
Notes: I beat my previous high score on Civ II! *dances with glee* …Yes, now that I did that, I’ll go back to reccing fics. Promise. Hopefully.
One-shot, complete.

The Awful Truth
Pairings: Tsuzuki/everyone
Warnings: Yaoi. Character reinterpretation for humor purposes.
Summary: Hisoka comes to Muraki and offers him a deal.
Comments; This amuses me far too much. I was mildly amused up til the end, but the line “Bribe Tatsumi and he’ll even lose the mission records and swear that Tsuzuki was last seen heading for the Bahamas in search of the Big Rock Candy Mountain.” cracked me up. And good humor is far too rare.

Sugar
Pairings: Tatsumi/Watari
Warnings: Yaoi
Summary: When Tatsumi bribes Watari not to add anything to his coffee, Watari has a creative mind.
Comments: So cute. I adore Watari when he’s being evil and manipulative, and this is Watari at his best. And I like Tatsumi’s pragmatism. Really, he’s the only one who’d survive long with Watari.
One-shot, complete.

Something like Chemistry
Pairings: Tatsumi/Watari, Tsuzuki/Hisoka
Warnings: Yaoi. Duh.
Summary: How does Tatsumi’s and Watari’s relationship develop once Watari no longer has to beg Tatsumi for money?
Comments: This is utterly charming. The reason Watari suddenly has money is hilarious, and the way Tatsumi starts coming to Watari’s office because he’s wondering why Watari’s no longer hitting him up for money is hilarious (and so very true) and Watari so blows up the lab on purpose on occasion. Just to see people’s reactions. Did I rec the fic solely about that? Do I remember what fic that is? My memory sucks.
Multi-chapter, incomplete.