Tsujinaka Yoshiki/Relationships

**Table of Contents**

Hikaru ga Shinda wiki ✩ Indou Hikaru ✩ Tsujinaka Kaoru ✩ Asako ✩ Yuuki ✩ Maki ✩ Rie Kurebayashi

## **Relationships**

### **Indou Hikaru**

Yoshiki and Hikaru are childhood friends. Both grew up close due to the fact that they were the only two boys in their village who were the same age, their parents also seem close. There is a lot of things that Hikaru kept secret, especially about his family, that Yoshiki is now discovering due to ‘Hikaru’. After learning about ‘Hikaru’s’ true identity, Yoshiki begins to question whether or not he can really continue on pretending as if nothing is wrong, he even feels sick and burdened with the knowledge he has about him. Hikaru is more carefree, and oblivious to how Yoshiki feels about him. ‘Hikaru’ also admits that he has feelings for Yoshiki, revealing that before he took on all of Hikaru, he had strong feelings for Yoshiki.

In the pilot chapter, it is revealed that Yoshiki had what he thought were one-sided feelings for Hikaru.

One day while Hikaru and Yoshiki are in their PE class, they are playing volleyball and Hikaru gets injured, his arm getting badly scraped and bleeding out, Yoshiki worries, but Hikaru assures him that he doesn’t feel much pain, which worries Yoshiki, Hikaru brightens up and tells him that he’ll show him his “insides” after class. After PE, Yoshiki sits on some mats while Hikaru stands between his legs with his shirt open, Hikaru opens a slit down the center of his chest and stomach revealing a black void. Hikaru shove’s Yoshiki’s hand it, which scares him, noting that it’s a weird unsettling sensation, and also notes that it feels as if something entered him too. Hikaru asks him to move his hand up inside of him, tearing up all the way to Hikaru’s chin. He then doubles over Yoshiki, supporting himself on his shoulders, and revealing that it feels good. It’s implied that it is close to resembling an intimate act. Hikaru then pulls Yoshiki into him, which scares Yoshiki so bad that he retracts himself, hyperventilating. Yoshiki seems to be flustered as Hikaru stands shirtless in front of him and get’s upset when Hikaru jokes about giving him a “nose-bleed worthy service”.

After taking to Mrs. Kurebayashi, Yoshiki becomes more distant. Hikaru notices and becomes distressed, Yoshiki being the only person that knows the real him and has an emotional connection with, he lashes out and they have an argument that results in Hikaru attacking him unintentionally due to his lack of control on his “ugly” side. Hikaru retracts his insides, both crying, he apologizes and leaves the class, asking Yoshiki to not hate him.

The following day Yoshiki goes over to Hikaru’s house after being confronted by Asako and Yuuki about their situation, questioning his motif to apologize to Hikaru instead of it being the other way around. Yoshiki finds Hikaru hiding himself in a blanket in the corner of his room, crying, he kneels in front of him and apologizes for distancing himself and lashing out, Hikaru then tells Yoshiki he’s ashamed of the ugly parts of himself and how Yoshiki is most likely scared of him now. Hikaru then apologizes for what he did, saying he is satisfied just being with him and he doesn’t want to lose him, promising he won’t care about who Yoshiki is meeting with. Kurebayashi’s words still fresh in his mind, he hesitates to accept his words, but realizes that maybe Hikaru is learning how to be human, and he is just misguided, Yoshiki decides that he’ll teach Hikaru how to communicate and express himself properly.

During cooking class, Yoshiki seems unsettled by raw chicken, taking note, Hikaru asks him what is bothering him; Yoshiki tells him that the feelings of touching the chicken reminds him of touching the “weird stuff” inside him. Hikaru then asks him if he wants to try it again and insists that it will build up his resistance to the otherworldly. They end up in a locked, empty classroom, and this time Yoshiki puts his hand in hesitantly and notices that something seems to be entering him as well, he notes that it’s probably wrong, but it feels good. When Hikaru’s insides crawl up too far inside him, making the feeling of pleasure amplify too far, Yoshiki yells at Hikaru to back off, scaring Hikaru into retracting fully into himself. Yoshiki tells him that he can’t do things that other people don’t like, especially not without talking about it first.

When Yoshiki’s house has a spirit terrorizing it, Hikaru offers to go get rid of it. While he’s disposing of it, he gets dragged into the bathtub, Yoshiki runs into the bathtub, worried, and gets dragged in himself, getting possessed in the process. Hikaru gets rid of the spirit, forcing it out of Yoshiki, and they both share a moment afterwards talking about their worries and feelings. Yoshiki is left traumatized by the event and he is seen panicking over the feeling of drowning Hikaru.

One weekend the friend group is seen messing with firecrackers, Asako and Hikaru slip away to find a new lighter and Yoshiki walks in on them on the path, Hikaru about to kill Asako for discovering his secret. They get into an argument, Hikaru claiming that the only life that matters to him and he values special being Yoshiki’s and that is why he won’t kill him. Yoshiki goes home right after , visibly upset ditching their sleepover.

The next day Yoshiki shows up to Hikaru’s house to go to school, acting completely normal. Walking with their bikes Yoshiki suggests skipping school instead and they go out to see a movie, when Hikaru asks him if he’s still upset with him, Yoshiki brushes him off and says it’s nothing. Later, they’re in Yoshiki’s room reading manga together, Hikaru is still nervous about yesterday’s ordeal, but is trying to act as if everything is ok. Yoshiki mentions that they’re completely home alone right now and stand up to the side, when he returns he stabs Hikaru with a kitchen knife on his lower chest. Hikaru is shocked and Yoshiki breaks down in front of him, crying that he thought he would show him what it means to be alive and dead. Hikaru then reaches into his shirt and rips out a piece of himself, offering it to Yoshiki and tells him that it’ll make it possible to kill Hikaru easily that way (as the knife did not work). Yoshiki is taken aback, and asks him why Hikaru is going to such lengths to let Yoshiki kill him. Hikaru shows that he would rather be killed by Yoshiki than see him die. “Hikaru” tells Yoshiki that before he took over original Hikaru’s body he felt as if he didn't have a place, but Yoshiki made him feel like he had one and gave him reason to live. Yoshiki then realizes that this “Hikaru” has imprinted on him and understands that there is no reason for this Hikaru to understand how life works because it is his first time living. He takes the piece of Hikaru’s insides and then tells him that if staying with him is all he wants then it’s ok and they’ll find out who “Hikaru” really is.

### **Bonus Chapters**

In one of the extras, Hikaru is over at Yoshiki’s house, laying between his legs when he notices Yoshiki’s bangs are getting longer. He asks if he keeps his bangs longer because he dislikes his moles, when Yoshiki says yes Hikaru tells him that he thinks he’s handsome.

Hikaru has a fascination for the way that livings things can reproduce, he likes to watch videos about birds and how they grow up, Yoshiki thinks it’s strange considering he himself is a living thing. He tells Yoshiki about how a girl confessed to him: Yoshiki seemed upset by this and asked about his response, Hikaru explains he ran away, but Yoshiki makes him go back to apologize to her and give her a proper rejection. During this said rejection, Hikaru begins to put together pieces, after being asked by Yoshiki if he was interested in dating, he starts to realize that having feelings for someone means to date them. He wonders if the love he has for Yoshiki is the same love that this girl feels for him.

### **Tsujinaka Kaoru**

She is Yoshiki’s little sister, according to a chapter extra doodle, she is in her first year of middle school, but they get along very well.

### **Asako**

Asako and Yoshiki are classmates and friends. They seem to be part of one friend group consisting of Yuuki, Maki, Asako, Yoshiki, and Hikaru. It seems like they may have known each other in junior-high too.

### **Yuuki**

Yuuki and Yoshiki are classmates and friends.

### **Maki**

Maki and Yoshiki are classmates and friends.

### **Kurebayashi Rie**

She stops Yoshiki outside of the convenience store one afternoon telling him to stop whatever relationship he has with Hikaru immediately. Yoshiki is heavily confused, but hears her out, already conflicted by ‘Hikaru’ he exchanges SNS with her.

They later meet up at a local diner, where he asks her to explain what she meant. Kurebayashi had a similar thing happen in her life, where a loved one had been taken over by a spirit, she says she learned the hard way about the terrible things that they can do. She aims to warn him about the dangers before Yoshiki gets too mixed up with them, Yoshiki doesn’t exactly understand, but it leads to him avoiding Hikaru and their fight.

1. ↑ Chapter 6.5 (Volume 1 Extra)
2. ↑ Chapter 11.5 (Volume 2 Extra)