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A good number of us have read a mountain of fanfiction, if not several. But most of it sucked, and we know it. Every now and then though, we stumble across a diamond in the rough. So /cm/, what fanfics have you read over the years that stuck with you, that distinguished themselves from the rest somehow?

Give a link, tell what series it's from, featured pairings if there are any, and why it's worth reading.
>> Anonymous
Link: http://split-infinity.org/saiyuki/viewstory.php?sid=358&warning=X
Title: In My Father's House
Series: Saiyuki
Pairings: Giving them away may be spoiling
Summary: The end has come. Options have run out. And Sanzo is nothing but a voice in Kougaiji's head - literally.
Why: If someone had told me what this was about before I read it, I probably never would have. It just sounds like one of those ideas that could never be pulled off. Somehow, the author did though. I usually don't get into multi-chapter fics, but this just sucked me in almost instantly. The way it's written, it's just perfect.
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Link: http://split-infinity.org/saiyuki/viewstory.php?sid=358&warning=X
Title: In My Father's House
Series: Saiyuki
Pairings: Giving them away may be spoiling
Summary: The end has come. Options have run out. And Sanzo is nothing but a voice in Kougaiji's head - literally.
Why: If someone had told me what this was about before I read it, I probably never would have. It just sounds like one of those ideas that could never be pulled off. Somehow, the author did though. I usually don't get into multi-chapter fics, but this just sucked me in almost instantly. The way it's written, it's just perfect.
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Title: The Fool Ascendant
Series: Code Geass
Pairings: General; perhaps a little Suzaku/Lelouch
Summary: What leads up to a gunshot, and what follows it.
Link: http://community.livejournal.com/caveat__lector/36047.html

I simply cannot put into words how much I love this story; this is how Code Geass should have gone. It deals mostly with Lelouch and Suzaku's childhood and the connections they had to their mothers, fathers and, most importantly, each other.

I've never read such a well written piece of fanfiction. Great story, EXTREMELY well written. I suggest reading it if you're in the mood to be depressed. Also, check all of the other stories the author has done for Code Geass.

Pic very related; try to ignore Nunnally.
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Link: http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600044067
Title: Happiness in Salvery
Series: Code Geass
Pairings: Suzaku x Lulu, Schneizel x Lulu
Summary: Happens between seasons 1 & 2, Schneizel has Lulu as his little sex slave
Why: It's the hottest fucking SM sex I've read, maybe ever.
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Link: http://community.livejournal.com/this_is_my_stop/8394.html
Title: Cats in Boxes
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Pairings: Vexen/Saix
Summary: A tale of a ghost, a berserker, and approximately eight thousand cups of coffee. Saix is alive and Vexen is dead, but not every book is closed and done. Set post-CoM, AU for the theoretical.
Why: Because it is a good Kingdom Hearts fanfiction? Well written and all that. Most stories by rabbitprint are.
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Link:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2387783/1/Now_That_Youve_Gone_Away
Title: Now That You've Gone Away
Series: Naruto
Pairings: A little Orochimaru/Jiraiya, and a hint of one-sided Tsunade/Orochimaru.
Summary: Standing at the lonely grave of an enemy that was once (and still) an old friend, two souls reminisce about the life they all shared, and all that has happened.
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>>1117003
Samefag here.

Link:http://aliana-iskassa.livejournal.com/12026.html#cutid1
Title: The Ceremony of Innocence
Series: Naruto
Pairings: Sandcest. (Gaara/Kankurou/Temari)
Summary: A set of 30 short stories, and a very intriguing look into the lives of the three sand children. One of the best things I've ever read in this fandom, or read for any fandom period.

The Author herself's summary: "30 drabbles on illicit relationships. In the darkness, Temari is not a seductress, Kankuro is not a puppet made by his his father's ghost, and Gaara is not the desert's child."
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Link: http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=20243
Title: Elegy
Pairing: Itachi/Sasuke
Summary: PWP rapefic
It's hot. Does it make me a bad person for thinking so? Probably. Regardless, it's probably one of the hottest fics I've ever read.
>> Anonymous
Link:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1071924/1/The_Day_the_Moon_Shines
Title: The Day the Moon Shines
Series: Skies of Arcadia
Summary: The two are enemies, but certain choices and accidents occur to bring Ramirez aboard the Delphinus and unable to return to Valua--and thus stuck with Vyse. But despite it all, it might not be so bad...

Why: It was so well done and how I wish the game should of gone, and how it would have gone if one thing was changed. Sadly they have never finish, yet I still re read it even after 6 years. That and its the BEST Vyse/Ramirez I ever have found.

If I was not at school I would link a picture.
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Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2367916/1/
Title: needful
Series: Trigun
Pairings: Secret character/Wolfwood, Wolfwood/Vash/Wolfwood, slight Wolfwood/Milly
Summary: A serial killer is on the loose, one who leaves his victims in twisted configurations that have earned him the name “Picasso.” Detective Nicholas D. Wolfwood is assigned the case, unaware that he's about to become part of the killer’s dangerous game. When “Picasso” becomes obsessed with him, Wolfwood is pulled into his dark, diseased world and can feel his own mind slipping away into madness.

Why: Present day detective AU, dark themes, suspense, IC character dynamics, twisted relationships, Stockholm syndrome, epic multichapter story with Wolfwood as the main character, fucking hot sex scenes, etc etc. I could go on forever.
>> Anonymous
>>1117305
I should mention that the surprise pairing does not involve an OC.
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Link: http://kia-sohma.livejournal.com/

Series: Bleach (AU)

Pairing: GrimmjowxIchigo

Title: Mistaken

Since there's only three chapters, I can't say too much about it, but the writing style is wonderful. The setting is AU but features all our favorite characters: Grimmjow, Ichigo, Ulquiorra, Stark and I'm sure more as the story progresses.
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Title: Want Me.
Link: http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600044819&chapter=3
Series: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Pairing: GuardiansxTsuna
Summary: Tsuna is under a curse. And his Guardians are the only ones who can help him out.

I laughed, I face-palmed, I came. More than enough I need in a story. Incomplete.

Also, Tuna explicit sex.
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Link: http://anime2.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600020524

Title: Sound of Silence

Series: FMA

Pairing: Roy/Ed

Summary: "Some secrets aren't meant to be kept." If you're looking for a deep, mind fucking, bawfest, this is the best story for it. Ed has been imprisoned for a crime no one could have even imagined. And he tells Hawkeye about the events that had led up to the final breaking point.

Warning: Child abuse, underage etc.
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>>1117341
>but the writing style is wonderful. The setting is AU...

Are you fucking kidding me? That story is another example of how terrible most Grmm/ichi fanfiction is.

Two actually good stories: What We Had by Cheza (http://taintedkibou.livejournal.com/140293.html) and Equal and Opposite by Angstymcgoth (http://community.livejournal.com/6_15/58330.html)
>> Anonymous
http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php/18799
Title: The Mistakes We Make
Series: Digimon 02
Pairings: Digimon Kaizer x Daisuke
Summary: The Kaizer captures Daisuke and elects to keep him. The Kaizer is insane.
Why: It's amazing. Don't let the series turn you off, k?
>> Anonymous
>>1117410

>Disclaimer: Bleach no mine. Cheza sad… *emo tear*

>Summary/Notes: My first songfic; I chopped up Kubo Tite's timeline.

End yourself.
>> Anonymous
I don't normally like their stuff, but:

Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4469087/1/pet_semetary
Title: Pet Semetary
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Pairings: Riku/Roxas
Summary: (copypasta) "You don't want to bury nothin' down in that thar Pet Semetary, Riku... the land's gone sour, ya see. What comes back ain't the same thing as what ya buried. :: Roxas/Riku :: Pet Semetary-AU. Language, violence, sex, child abuse, death, dark."
Why: I'm a complete sucker for anything Stephen King related, and Pet Semetary was one of my favorite books. It's a weird story. There's some sex but it's all kind of vague. I just like the "grit" feeling I get in my stomach from reading it.
>> Anonymous
>>1117469

Nice job passing your judgement on the story before even reading it.
>> Anonymous
http://community.livejournal.com/mgs_slash/459304.html#cutid1

Title: But Only Words
Pairing: Snake/Otacon
Rating: G
Deathfic.
Beautiful imagery.

Almost a whisper. "Dave?"
...
Choked and thick through a broken sob.

"It's Jupiter."

Bawwwwfest.
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Link: http://maldoror-gw.livejournal.com/30383.html
Title: Diplomatic Relations
Series: Naruto
Pairing: LeeGaara
Rating: From PG to NC17
Why: I consider myself a pretty good writer, and have gotten a sizeable amount of praise, but this author and this story completely humbles me. I only WISH I could write as well as she does. She nails down *everything* in this fic. Characterization -- she really, really gets inside the characters' heads, especially Gaara in his madness and isolation -- dialogue, humor, nuances, all kinds of details, and the choreography of her fight scenes is really first rate. No wonder there's a lot of fanart out there for this fic.