I ship canon Soubi/Ritsuka too. Is this wrong of us?! This is the perfect hurt/comfort story for me, I'm such a sucker for it. And I too love Kio; I think he and Soubi do it to relieve the pressure, right? And the Zeroes! But I really dislike the grade school characters, and they're even worse in the anime. Those squeally female voices, aaargh!

I did already watch the anime last week before things got crazy. And I've read all the published manga plus the scanlations of the most recent chapters. Did I mention I am hooked? This is what it looks like.

You wouldn't happen to have the first little story about Soubi going to Comiket with his mangaka friend? Or the novel where we find out who Ritsuka's true fighter is? Or links?