Gentle Cage

Gentle Cage summary:

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” so goes the old adage about art, and nowhere is this truer than in the relations.h.i.+p between Itsuki and Tokiwa. To every one else, Itsuki is nothing more than a useless wallflower, but only Tokiwa can see that the man is actually a diamond-in-the-rough.
It all began eight years ago, when amateur painter Itsuki Has.h.i.+moto and up-and-coming sculptor Masatsugu Tokiwa became friends through their love for art. But a few years later, family circ.u.mstances forced Itsuki to cut Tokiwa out of his life. Now, Itsuki is living a confined life as the “human pet” of Yamabe-sensei, Tokiwa’s former teacher.
Can Tokiwa help Itsuki break free of his cage? Or has Itsuki become too much of a living “doll,” without a soul or freewill of his own?