Before & After & Inbetween

Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arc: Decagram
Story: Business as Usual
chapter: part.0 - On Vacation
word count: 22.696
rating: Mature
Summary: ...in which Seishiro and Subaru learn the hard way that overcoming the differences of two feuding clans is nothing in comparison to a business merger!
Chapter summary: Golden Week 2000

Warnings: "Business as Usual" as a whole is rated R for violence, (organized) crime, occultism, sexual situations, alternative lifestyles, and a vocal tree having issues. Single chapters may be less restricted.

As a direct sequel it may not make sense unless you know the previous parts of the Decagram, most notably "36°" and "Family Matters". You can find all stories of the Decagram at the Archive of our Own and on my homepage.

My stories are based solely on the German translation of the Clamp manga books, therefore there might be differences in names and details from the English or Japanese editions.

Link to the Archive of Our Own

Title: Family Matters (Sequel to 36°)
Rating: "Family Matters" as a whole is rated NC-17 for violence, crime, occultism, sexual connotations, alternative lifestyles, and a vocal tree having issues. Single chapters may be less restricted.
Characters: Subaru, Seishiro, Tree-san, Lady Sumeragi, (the CCD & X-cast)
Pairings: Sei/Su, (T/Sei)
Genre: drama, history, cont
Words: 148.110
Betaed by: solo
Comments: As a direct sequel it may not make sense unless you know "36°".
Summary: The second story of the Decagram (Sequel to 36°) -- Preventing the End of the World caused some side-effects Subaru is ill-prepared to deal with on his own.
Status: complete

Links:
Family Matters (edited) as PDF [1.64 MB, text-only] on my homepage.
Family Matters (edited) on the AO3 fanfic archive (downloadable in ebook format).

Please note: Family Matters saw some serious editing after it was finished in individual blog posts at the end of December 2010.

Now that Family Matters is complete, it is time to update the statistics:

Family Matters
word count: 152.156
written in: 4.7 years (from April 2006 to December 2010)

36°
word count: 50.964 (discounting side-stories)
written in: 0.8 years (from August 2005 to April 2006)
word count of the sidestories (as published of December 2010):
Carnival: 1686 (written in June 2006)
Taking Care Of: 1331 (written in October 2005)

Continuing Education Course 3-6-1: Onmyojutsu
word count: 4.542 (written in August 2007)

Total word count of the Decagram (as published in December 2010): 210.679 (discounting unsorted snippets)

All stories (and more) can be found in the story guide on Dreamwidth.

Someday, I will compile a "production outtakes"-file for 36° and Family Matters and collect all these snippets!

Until then, have fun with 36°'s "Dennis the Menace", in which Subaru reads Seishiro's analysis of the upcoming end of the world, the new millennium, and Baby Jesus. [Warning: strongly religious people may find some of Seishiro's thoughts (like most of X, likely) disturbing]

( 36° outtake: Dennis the Menace )

This is one of the scenes I was really sad about not finding a place in the fic for it. :)

I'm thinking about whether or not I continue the Decagram past FM. While I have quite some plot I'd like to tell, I'm not sure it would still be a fanfic.
36° was about their connection & Seishiro's past as Sakurazukamori.
Family Matters is about how they continue & the past of their clans.
Additional plots would be (in no particular order):

• Yue's story
• Setsuka's story
• Seishiro's life around the time of making the bet, between the making of the bet and its execution, until the beginning of X
• what happened with Subaru's parents
• and the continuation of Family Matters would tell how all that affects their present existence.

But I'm pretty far from the canon already and the distance would increase necessarily with the next part.
So far, 36° & FM are seen rather positively, but I wonder if I don't "overuse my stay" if I stray that far from the canon into original territory.

What do you think?