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Title: “Okaeri”
Rating: T
Genre: Friendship, Romance
Summary: Putting your life on the line for a friend can have unexpected consequences – it can turn your world upside down, it can drive you crazy, it can kill you, and it can bring you back to life (and sanity). More than anything, it can reveal what’s truly important to you when you weren’t even aware, yourself.

This story takes place sometime not long after chapter 625 and diverges from the canon storyline there. It was written for the Winter 2013 challenge at the Neo SasuNaru Exchange!

( Sasuke curses his luck, karma, the village, and every person in it. )

Rating: T/PG (possibly PG13 later)

Pairing: Kakashi and Iruka

Warnings: (for whole series) Tragic and angsty, implied character death, alcohol, a tiny bit of violence, Obito's running commentary in Kakashi's head.

Summary: Naruto is off training with Jiraiya. Sakura with Tsunade. Sasuke...heh. And Kakashi is feeling useless and bored, until he comes across an open window--in a ninja village, it's an invitation to go inside and have a look around. But what if he doesn't like what he sees? What if...

( He swore to himself that he would never follow one of Obito's instincts again (and he could detect his counterpart's unspoken agreement). )

Rating: T/PG (possibly PG13 later)

Pairing: Kakashi and Iruka

Warnings: (for whole series) Tragic and angsty, implied character death, alcohol, a tiny bit of violence, Obito's running commentary in Kakashi's head.

Summary: Naruto is off training with Jiraiya. Sakura with Tsunade. Sasuke...heh. And Kakashi is feeling useless and bored, until he comes across an open window--in a ninja village, it's an invitation to go inside and have a look around. But what if he doesn't like what he sees? What if...

I have to ask, does my icon make sense? I always wonder about it, but I've been too shy to go, "Hey, is this icon funny or just stupid?" >_< Damn my shyness.

( 'Might I remind you that you're dead, too? You don't get an opinion, either.' )

Rating: T/PG (possibly PG13 later)

Pairing: Kakashi and Iruka

Warnings: (for whole series) Tragic and angsty, implied character death, alcohol, a tiny bit of violence, Obito's running commentary in Kakashi's head.

Summary: Naruto is off training with Jiraiya. Sakura with Tsunade. Sasuke...heh. And Kakashi is feeling useless and bored, until he comes across an open window--in a ninja village, it's an invitation to go inside and have a look around. But what if he doesn't like what he sees? What if...

This is KakaIru, but I think even non-KI fans can appreciate it. I hope.

( The darkened window he saw there was actually 'darker' than it should be. There was no reflection on the glass. )

LIVE: Interlude 2

Title: The Heart's Remains: Chapter 10
Series Rating: Hard R/NC-17
Chapter Rating: PG
Pairing: YonKaka
Spoilers: Gaiden, Naruto's parents' names, first half of the series (pre-Ship)
Setting: Post Timeskip and between first and second arcs of Shippuuden (though events of neither mentioned), Team 7 are 15 years old.
Squick: Emotional angst, err, character 'death'

Read by moiyahatake and fuyu_no_akegata; thank you both! <3 Lyrics for chapter title are still from "Winterborn" by the Cruxshadows. Series dedicated to bimbomushi-sensei, who has kept me focused and made me WANT to finish. *glompattacks*

( So bury fear for fate draws near, and hide the signs of pain. )

For Kakashi, Genma, Iruka, Minato of Only Silence.
(has no bearing on the story, no spoilers, no title, no point.)

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What we've done? It's wrong, and there are reasons...valid and heavy and growing stronger in the fertile soil of a desperate mind searching for a single justification. A way out.

Blond hair brushes my cheek and I'm jolted awake, already on hands and knees, crawling across an empty bed. Instead of a kunai, I reach for my mask.

Perhaps that's the strongest reason of all.

Every time...every fucking time, there is a scar. And whether it's a scar you can see, a scar you hide, a scar inside that never surfaces beyond your eyes, it hurts it hurts it hurts.

 

A short, silly thing I wrote recently. It's another of the "a few weeks ago" batch.

Title: "Ready + Waiting"
Fandom: Naruto
Series: None/one-shot
Pairing: KakaIru (squint for NaruSasu)
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Squick: None.

( It had been a long day for the weary sensei. )

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A/N: HEY!!! Our layoffs ended today and I still have a job!! YAY!!!!!!

Yet another installment of the "Only Silence" series.

There has finally been a proper read order established, and it is different from before. (Thanks, Barbara!)
_{Soooo sorry for having written them out of order like this. It was supposed to be a one-shot, though, and everyone kept asking great questions that made me want to write more. Thanks for all of the feedback and encouragement; sorry if the previous order had been confusing...it was the order in which they were written, so...}

Title: "Only a Habit"
Fandom: Naruto
Series: Only Silence
Pairing: YonKaka in the background
Rating: R / Teen
Spoilers: Gaiden/Manga 27/Chapters 239-244; Manga 367 re:Yondaime's name
Squick: Angst. Blood at the beginning with implications of questionable [within mission parameters] behavior on Genma's part.

Genma's POV. Overlaps with previous chapters, of course. (See changed read order at the series link.)

Beta by kokiden. <3

( He wasn't used to looking into their eyes as they died. )