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Title: Fine (I Miss You, But I'm)
Rating: R (language)
Pairing: Past Kurenai/Asuma; Kurenai/Shikamaru; could even be Asuma/Kakashi, if you look deeply
Squick: implied sex, blood, implied deaths and similar imagery, unbeta read

Inspired sorta haphazardly by zhangsizheng's drabble set here. Haphazardly because, really, when you've read both, you'll see it has little or nothing to do with her work (which is amazing!), but you may also see the parallels. It was all very unintentional, but her writing affected me this morning and this is what came of it. May have taken from her style a little, as well, because I'm malleable like that, but the run-on sentences are decidedly mine. >_<"

So, thanks very much. Maybe it's okay to dedicate this to you. *shrugs* Hope so, cause it is.

“Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.” Marya Mannes

( WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR MANGA AND COMING ANIME EPISODES. )