#Shisui's ANBU squad

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From The Shadows

Fandom: Naruto

Tags: Prequel to No Tomorrow, ANBU Culture, Worldbuilding, Team as Family, Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi, Yamanaka Inoichi, Hatake Kakashi, Namiashi Raidou, Tenzo, Shiranui Genma

Summary: "The one who protects from the shadows, that’s the mark of a true shinobi.”

ANBU were entrenched in the darkest recesses of Shinobi life. They had no faces, no names, no desires but the completion of their mission and the preservation of their village.

Squad Two was as devoted as any unit, perhaps even more so than most.

…And yet-

They changed everything.

Series: HOPE AU: I hope you'll reach those places

Chapter One: ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS

Summary: Academy students took exams to graduate to Genin. They took exams, pitched against their fellows and foreign-nin alike, to earn a Chuunin vest. It took time, dedication, and experience to achieve a promotion to Tokubetsu, let alone Jounin. It took an impressive mission history and a Bounty reputation to be known as an Elite.

ANBU was different. You didn't 'aim' for ANBU.

They called.

And you answered.

[tora-the-cat]

@philosophicalparadox it's in the novel too actually, not just anime filler! I was not exaggerating at all I'm referencing the scene in the itachi novel where itachi just. Silently seethes over mean rumors he hears about Kakashi lol. They don't have a whole bunch of scenes together, but what they do have is so sweet and sickening and kakashi is trying SO hard in the rare moments neither he nor itachi is dissociating. Why are they child solders. They should be the weird kids that join the same knitting circle to cope with ptsd and then become friends by virtue of being the only people younger then 60 there and they've got like zero social battery so they sit together and quietly parralel play making clothes for Sasuke and Naruto ehile the little old ladies gossip over them and occasionally pull them over to teach them a new pattern. Itachi is like. One of the only people I genuinely believes Kakashi is cool. He is sooooo 11 years old =(

Thinking eternally about how Kakashi is the first and ONLY authority figure in Itachi's LIFE who doesn't have an underlying agenda when interacting with him. Thinking about how Danzo literally put them on a team together because he thought that they were both heartless little tools that would work ruthlessly together but instead Itachi admired how Kakashi never said a rude word about ANY commrade no matter how horrid they were to him. Thinking about the like four months where Itachi is on team Ro and has a little bit of breathing room to maybe perhaps be comfortable in the presence of someone with any degree of control over him, something he hasn't had since he was. Literally four. Thinking about Kakashi being exactly 20 years old and has always been the baby of just about ever social group until he had two traumatized teenagers foisted upon his ANBU team and he just had to be normal about that. Thinking about how Kakashi just hoped that Anbu would 'become a place of pride' for Itachi, cause what else do you say to soften the blow of being an elite assassin at age 11? ETERNALLY thinking about how CANNONICALLY in anbu if someone is talking shit on Kakashi's name then Itachi (11) (creepy as all hell 0.0 ) (half your height and CAN kick your ass) will just give them the most bewildered look in the world and call them all mean jealous losers in his head. THINK.ING.

[ereawrites]

girl please you are my only source of Shisui content😭😭 really feeding us shisui simps🤝🏻 anyways, if you feel like it, can you please write about shisui and (if you want to) your fav characters “the moment they realized they fell in love with you”

MMMMMMM this is cute asf! under the cut for length

shisui

he definitely already recognises he has Feelings with a capital F. he's a smart boy and unlike the other two he is pretty emotionally available. but he doesn't want to reveal his Feelings just yet because circumstances are tricky, and he doesn't want to go through all the emotions of a big confession just to not be able to pursue a relationship with you

side note this is ANBU shisui. so he's pretty busy and just casually risking his life on the regular. tbh you're also probably in ANBU and that's how you guys get to know each other so well

anyway he's been sitting on these Feelings for a while. and he knows you like him too. he knows. he indulges in some lowkey flirting from time to time, but he also tries to maintain some level of professional distance

and then you save his life and he's SCREWED

you're both assigned to the same mission and spend the entire time dancing around flirting/not flirting, trying to hide it from your teammates, just generally having to try really hard not to distract each other too much. then there's an ambush on your squad and shit gets kinda crazy

shisui probably exhausts himself a bit protecting the entire squad and manages to get himself knocked flat on his ass. there's an enemy stood over him and he's out of kunai and his chakra is depleted and he thinks well, that's that and then you're cutting down the enemy out of nowhere

he stares up at you like an idiot lol. you look like shit, you're covered in blood and your headband is lopsided. and he thinks you're the most beautiful thing he's ever seen

HE LIKES A WOMAN WHO COULD BEAT HIS ASS okay

in that moment he just realises how much he trusts you, and how well you guys work together. he can't stop thinking about it long after you guys get back to the village. he's literally dreaming about it. and after a few days he's like. this is love ig. wow.

shisui won't keep it from you for long. he thinks you deserve to know, even if it changes your dynamic as teammates. capital F Feelings are one thing but love is too important to hide. he might try to keep it professional (mutual pining?!?!??!), but I also see him going for a relationship here, even if you have to hide it from your superiors. and let's be real a secret relationship with shisui. it's hot

kakashi

see now kakashi. he knows he has feelings. but he won't admit it to himself. he says no thank you not today. he's so stupid lol he thinks if he ignores it then it'll go away

he can't really keep himself away from you though. he wants to distance himself and that's his first instinct, but he literally just can't do it. he keeps finding himself wandering into your path, or just happening to train at the same time as you, or listening more intently when a mutual friend mentions your name

and the whole damn time he's like ah yes this is normal friendship. you probably don't realise anything is going on with him though, because kakashi is just weird in general. he does all this strange shit and no one questions it. you encounter him in the makeup aisle of a store on the other side of town from where he lives, and he thinks the jig is up, but you literally just assume he's doing Kakashi Things. and he thinks he's so slick

when it does finally hit him though, it hits him HARD. I see him finally realising he's in love in a very random, domestic moment

okok I've got it. he's back from a pretty tiring mission and he just instantly wipes out in his apartment as usual, doesn't bother getting groceries or anything. he figures he can survive off the food pills in the cupboard for a few days until he has the energy to grocery shop

then you just.....show up at his apartment??? carrying grocery bags?? and start putting food in his fridge????

kakashi doesn't really know how to react to this, but he feels bad just standing there, so he kinda sheepishly shuffles over and starts helping you put the groceries away. and it's nice. this is when he realises

literally drops whatever he's holding. this is a big oh shit moment for him. he lowkey really panics, he has no idea what he's supposed to do with these feelings, it's the dreaded L Word and that's scary as hell. he goes super quiet and avoids eye contact bc he's convinced you're going to read his mind

and of course you think this is Kakashi Things yet again. he's just weird. even over the next few weeks when he starts acting REALLY strange - avoiding you like the plague one day, attached to your hip the next - you don't think much of it. and this makes it sooooo much worse for him lol. he's never going to confess on his own

it's honestly torture for him. he's losing sleep over this. kakashi hatake??? in.... LOVE???? impossible

please please please just let one of your mutual friends intervene. hopefully he (drunkenly) confesses to someone, and they're able to pull some strings to force you to talk to each other. he may literally pass out when he has to confess to you, but just roll with it

tobirama

oh god it's so cliche for tobirama but I have to do it. ENEMIES TO LOVERS

like look at him. he's so smug. he has a lot of pride, so he's pretty likely to end up having some kind of political/ideological rivalry with you. maybe you tend to very vocally disagree with his ideas for the village or strategies for missions. and it annoys him so much, especially because you're articulate and convincing with your points

so he's in this weird position where he has respect for you and your intelligence..... but you also infuriate him to no end. over time, he starts to dwell on your encounters more and more - he thinks about them even when he's training, or relaxing at home, or away on a mission. and this just pisses him off more bc he literally cannot get a moment's peace from you

hashirama notices this WELL before tobirama does. and it makes him all giddy and excited bc he knows what it means, but he doesn't want to ruin the surprise for tobirama lol

honestly it gets to the point where he will ignore everyone else in the room just to debate with you. it's at this point that he starts to realise he's got strong emotions towards you, but he kind of just brushes it off as a rivalry. he definitely doesn't even consider the possibility that they're romantic feelings

tbh. you're going to have to be the one to make the first move. unfortunately for you, tobirama is hot AND irritating, so he's going to get under your skin just as much as you get under his. it probably ends up with a pretty heated confrontation at some point

lets say you've had a pretty big disagreement at a meeting, and he ended up getting his way with the rest of the council. so you storm into his office later that day to chew him out. and tobirama is in one of his smug asshole moods bc he 'won', which means he's just smirking at you. and this is the moment ok just kiss him. wipe the smug look off his face

it takes him a few seconds to react, but he definitely pushes you off and orders you out of his office. at first he's absolutely furious, but then he realises a few days later that he can't stop thinking about the kiss, and not necessarily in a bad way. he finds himself wishing he'd kissed you back, even if just out of curiosity

BUT tobirama is stubborn so he won't admit that to you. he waits until he gets an opportunity to come argue with you, then seeks you out, and tries to goad you into kissing him again. hopefully he manages to piss you off enough to make you do it. because it's GOOD

he can't help but kiss you hard. probably pulls you into him by the jaw, wraps his other arm around your waist, won't let you go. don't wanna get too saucy here but I wouldn't be surprised if this gets a little steamy before he stops himself. he gets lost in the moment

then he pushes you off AGAIN lol it's so frustrating. this time it's bc he's like oh fuck. fuck. this is more than a rivalry

it's gonna end up a game of cat and mouse tbh. neither of you want to admit the depth of your feelings, but you also can't stay away from each other

[mixelation]

in toris defense its not like her ABNU friends (kakashi, itachi, shisui (lmao)) are particularly more dangerous than her non abnu friends (deidara, obito, kushina). If anything, being on ABNU is a sign that you are less likely to go nuclear and destroy a village. Though actually, /are/ Deidara/Obito offered ABNU positions? It would be funny if everyone but Tori was offered one, even if she didn't want it anyway, but also I'm not sure I'd want either of them on my secret black ops squad.

tori: i think the average ninja could [insane feat]. maybe even [more insane feat]? i'm a little below average physically so i could only [most insane feat yet] if i [wild plan]. i mean like i can TECHNICALLY do hiraishin but i'm not great at it. pretty normal stuff

kakashi: fascinating. tell me more

as for being offered ANBU positions.... i think it depends on how you view ANBU functioning vs general pool? canon is kind of inconsistent, but we're told minato put kakashi in ANBU so he could directly supervise him. so i can see minato considering the idea of putting obito in there so he can keep a closer eye on him, but i think he would eventually conclude that not only would obito be EXTREMELY resistant to the stricter code of conduct, but also maybe we don't want to send obito on all murder missions all the time? and i think deidara wouldn't be recruited for similar reasons-- he is wildly allergic to being stealthy/secretive or a stricter code of conduct. some people treat ANBU like some elite thing only the best of the best get into, but Itachi was in there as a chunin so I don't think it's like.... that big of an indicator of skill? i like them having some sense of mysteriousness and missions with heightened danger, and i don't think they let you in if you're below average, but i also don't think it's be considered a snub or a lack of skill to never be offered. lots of really excellent ninja never go in, and some middle-of-the-road ninja get offers because their demeanor & skillset are a good fit

also minato can't recruit deidara and NOT tori because then she'd get fixated on joining and he's. he's no longer sure he could stop her??? and tbh tori has a slightly better personality for ANBU than deidara. i say 'slightly' because sometimes tori SEEMS like she's very obediently deferring to authority and then the authority just dies. but she IS better at stealth

(recruiting tori but not deidara ALSO means upsetting deidara, but he'll just take out some buildings and then kushina will give a speech about how it's important for young people to express their feelings. nbd)

[adhdnojutsu]

I think an often overlooked, but glaring sign of Obito, Madara etc. being right about Konoha being a sleazy shit show, is Itachi's ANBU recruitment. And I don't even mean the part where they groomed an 11-year-old child to join an assassination squad, then changed his official age to make it more palatable.

I mean his entrance exam, the assassination of Mukai Kohinata. Kohinata was said to be a capable and respected ninja, but caught selling Konoha secrets to Kirigakure and to be eliminated. When confronted by a very upset Itachi and Shisui, he explained that he needed the money because he had a sick child. The boys killed him.

Okay, so riddle me this: how come a "respected Konoha ninja" has to pay for his sick child's treatment out of pocket, and so much that he has to risk his life spying on his own village? Clearly, Konoha's appreciation for its ninjas is pure lip service.

[akamikazae]

Sorry in advance for asking all these things 😭 but first up, your oc is cool! She’s so stylish as heck! She gives me that 80s funky/chill vibe and her hair is flawless! And I adore for bond with sasuke so much, Ahh. Would it be ok to ask about their lore together? How did they meet and bond together like mother and son? (And kakashi too! He’s papa).

Plus, I also appreciate all the Sasuke positivity so much. From your drawings to random posts. It’s so refreshing and uplifting for me. There’s to much negativity for the poor kid these days. And I greatly respect the “my son!” Feeling to for sasuke. I to get that parent vibe haha (sasuke is little guy no matter what, must squish respectfully).

And for atla, if your oc and characters you like. What benders would they be? And if they are besties with any of the Alta crew?

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P.s; i do Like seeing the snake positivity! It’s wonderful seeing that. Poor things also get bad rap as well. (I like seeing hognoses, they are cute!! Myself I wish I had one and tarantulas😭) ANYWAYS, TY FOR POSITIVE CONTENT SO MUCH. Be well and have a great day/night! Sorry again for the long ask!

Never ever be sorry for sending an ask! I love love getting them and getting to chat w lovely pals like you! So thank you for popping over to send me an ask ❤︎₊ ⊹  You are always welcome to ask about my lil fam! I will try to keep it short and sweet lol ₊⊹ Ahhh thank you so much for saying so, Akami is very very dear to me! I’m glad u think she’s got a bit of a retro vibe. I always see her fitting in well w that 90s-ish style from the 80s to the 00’s ! (I actually have a 90's au for them too)

Shisui was one of Akami's first childhood friends and later her first lil love. She goes w Shisui to meet Sasuke when she’s 13yr, he’s only a few weeks old but the second she holds him and his chubby baby hand swipes her chin she falls in love. Bc of her relationship with Shisui Akami spends more and more time around Sasuke— he’d be tagging along after the big kids, but she always made time for him. Even if it was 20 extra minutes before a mission or after a long day of training, she’d hide her injuries and play with him instead. She’s one of many Anbu called to the scene the night of the Uchiha massacre. The second she found him all alone she knew she was taking him home and she quit Anbu that night.  Akami never felt heard or seen as a child so she tries her best to make sure that Sasuke has a voice. She didn’t intend to take on a parental role; it just happened over the years. She’s always open about his family and ready to listen when he confides in her, she teaches him every single uchiha jutsu she knows (and eventually kakashi does too) so Sasuke can still feel connected to his Clan. She gets him through his nightmares and defends him tooth and nail, she teaches him how to cook and use a sword. No matter what, he's always gonna be her baby and she’ll be his Kami-chan. There is nothing she wouldn’t do for him.  Akami and Kakashi knew each other as kids, they did not get along until their traumas sort of forced them to see eye to eye and rely on each other.  But it wasn’t a friendship until their early-mid teens, even then it always felt like more. Shortly after she takes in Sasuke they start a tumultuous FWB only to realize they very obviously love each other. Sasuke approves bc Kakashi makes Akami happy and is always there for her (for better or worse) and Kakashi and Sasuke start to have a very meaningful connection well before he becomes his sensei.  Yes parent squad ! Sasuke deserves the world and I love that you love him too!!<3 In ATLA Akami would be a water bender, she’s a descendant of the Yuki clan so it just seems fitting for her heritage! Tho I’d be wary of her healing abilities, she’s more of a fighter and I would not put it past her to learn how to blood bend! (She was Anbu Root for a reason💀)  Sasuke is fire bb! Kakashi I go back and forth on but I think he would be fire too .I love love love love ATLA and have tried to make an au for her but I find it hard to imagine Akami interacting w the gang (They all just feel so young lol- though she’d probably like Suki and Zuko best) I think that she would get along really well with Piandao! June, Jet and Iroh too. She’d def feel some sort of kinship for Azula (ruthless + manipulative never taught to love, w similar mommy and daddy issues!🤝lol) Yes Yes! I love snakes, they are so beautiful !! When I made my oc I really wanted to have her be ostracized because of her father and resemblance so it’s so fun to play w both the beauty and monstrous qualities for her. 🐍Akami and her summons Ryū are based off of mangrove pit vipers and Copper bellied water snakes ! Thank you again for the ask! I could blab about them all day if my super long winded response wasn’t proof lol 💕💕Take care my dear and have lovely day and or night :)

[rarepears]

Thanks for getting back to me! I think he certainly had a little pre-teen crush on Kakashi, he and Shisui had this 'us against the world lean on each other' mutual pining thing and Kisame was his most consistent and persistent one on one male influence in his life.

Now picture he's now a young Lan. Going about his days, he's half living his life like a vacation with his cute baby brother and half running his sect and building a pseudo spy ring/information market. (Nothing too impressive, just a few dozen informants in the other sects and spread evenly in all the red light districts between Cloud Recesses and the Nightless City)

And then he's introduced to Nie Mingjue

And Nie Mingjue is the rockin' hard bod and unshakable honesty of Kisame. The overwhelming skill and might of Kakashi and Shisui's unflinching loyalty not so much to a cause but to his loved ones.

And also the muscles. Those chiseled, glistening muscles and those cut from granite eyes and those deceptively gentle but calloused hands.

And how he treats his brother and his duties as a sect leader?

Que little Lan Zhan worriedly asking his brother if he is sick because Itachi has gone glassy eyed, flushed in the face, and breathing rapidly.

This startles Itachi who realizes he had been staring at Nie Mingjue training for the past half hour lol

Another reason as to why Itachi falls for Nie Mingjue is because Nie Mingjue is blunt, direct, honest. There's no self-guessing what Nie Mingjue really meant, no need to look for the underneath of the underneath. Nie Mingjue is predictable with how rigidly he adheres to his personal moral code and yet Itachi is still struck by just how unfiltered and honest Nie Mingjue is, even while playing sect politics. (Kisame was honest, but not that honest.)

Itachi is tired of political backstabbing and manipulation.

Also, I imagine Itachi... kind of sucks at politics. His solution to everything is murder: murder his clan to protect his brother, solve his brother's trauma by letting his brother murder him, etc. Nie Mingjue's reaction to the Wen Clan is thus *chef kiss*. Yup, just murder the whole clan - that fits right in with Itachi's personal solution to... pretty much everything. (Also, what else do you expect when this barely teenager gets through into ANBU which is an assassination squad? And then Itachi gets thrown into the Akatsuki which does a lot of killing too...)

Like yeah, sure, Itachi is a pacifist, but pacifist means something very very different in ninja terms than, well, what we have.

-o-o-o-o-

(It would be really fucking hilarious and sad if Itachi's little PTSD episode gets mistaken as him being lovestruck. Nah, it's just that Nie Mingjue sometimes does something that causes one of Itachi's old memories to pop up and Itachi gets up... not really dissociating but rather living in his memories again. For better or for worse.)

[Read more in the #imagine if itachi uchiha was reborn as lan xichen au]

[ramblebramblefun]

"We were fucking around in the mud with nothing but bodies to show for it. And now you tell me that they call us heroes. But do you tell me of trade between Konoha and Ame, of alliance and backup and support, another border shored up against Iwa? No! We blasted that place to hell for nothing," She takes a long, slow sip of what he hopes is water, scowling at the wall across from her. "Hero of Yanai. Fucking hell. You'll be calling me a princess next."

He wisely does not mention that there are already those talking about how 'Uzumaki-hime' has returned, you know, the one that fought with the Sannin?

The Sannin, as Uzumaki has already sourly informed him, were on the other end of the front far away from the worst of the action for most of the operation. The Sandaime Hokage hadn't wanted to risk his precious students unless he absolutely had to. They hadn't been The Legendary Sannin, then, and they certainly weren't supposed to be anywhere near Hanzo. How the Salamander had gotten so close to their base of operations without detection was a catastrophic failure on the part of the intelligence department.

... The Uzushio squads he'd slaughtered to get there weren't even a footnote in history, which perhaps explained the venom in the Huntress's voice. Shisui hadn't known how involved Uzu had been until this unfortunate war-nin had been spat out of the air in front of him.

Raiko Uzumaki hadn't been thrilled about that either, and his long-dead whatever-aunt Fuyumi was probably very lucky that whatever she'd done had killed her. Shisui had never heard of a Mangekyou that could send people to the future, but perhaps that was why.

Though why Fuyumi Uchiha had felt the need to launch Uzumaki decades forward in the first place was still a mystery.

Uzumaki, for her part, had been doing her best cryptid impression ever since, hiding in the Senju compound that she was able to unseal because, whatever, something something the Shodaime's wife, and only prowling out when Shisui went to the boundary and made a nuisance of himself, because she vaguely valued his opinion or something for some reason.

It was driving the Council mad.

It was exhausting.

And so here they are, both waiting for the Hokage to call them in like naughty children because Uzumaki had discovered and secreted away the other Uzumaki in the village while Shisui was in fucking Kiri.

How is this his fault? He wasn't even here. How is the Anbu being unable to keep track of one jinchuuriki long enough to keep him from tracking down and revealing himself to the long-lost relative the entire village won't shut up about anywhere within Shisui's purview?

If she wants to be a hermit, let her. Just dump some groceries at the boundary every week or so, it would be fine. Shisui has other, more important things to stress about than the Huntress, who doesn't seem inclined to do anything drastic as long as everyone leaves her alone.

At least find someone else to babysit her, if everyone's that worried. Someone else to ask her apparently stupid questions and get their heads bitten off. Shisui is tired. Let him sleep.

[uchihashisui-kun]

Kinda tempted to make an rp oc side-blog for Shisui's ANBU teammates 🤔🤔🤔

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this is a different anon(🕊️) then the other oni anbu anon,

What if some ANBU get reflective eyes? in certain lighting their pupils shine, and with photos their eyes are as bright as a cats?

What if some ANBU have eyes that are too dark? their eyes seemingly absorbing all light they come across?

What if some ANBU start becoming too still? lacking the unconscious ticks and movements that are part of being human?

What if some ANBU start moving too much? their very presence becoming frenzied despite no noticeable actions?

(gahsjakfhsfj these are just some thoughts i had bout this au, but its such a neat idea)

YES ANON, YES TO ALL OF THIS

Skin that's a little too hard, teeth too sharp, something primal and predatory that slowly shifts the features, mouths that open too wide and voices that dip too low or curl too smoothly... And their chakra shifts, Jutsu more temperamental and wild, Genjutsu that you can't tell is broken or not, chakra like smoke between grasping fingers or oil mixing with water, like a creeping shadow and a hunkering beast....

NICE

[backatitagainatichirakus]

I've been OBSESSING with team ro this past week because of the potential it has of turning Kakashi's life into more of the tragedy it already is.

Imagine, team Ro becoming Kakashi's found family. He doesn't want it to, but after Tenzo joins he just can't help himself and starts to care deeply. And his team cares back, they adore their captain, and start fights with whoever badmouths him. Which happens often because Kakashi has a reputation of being insufferable, cold, of killing his teammates.

One time someone says that Kakashi ripped Obito's eye off and killed the boy himself and Shisui breaks their clavicle.

Imagine them sneaking into Kakashi's apartment because they can't handle a particular nightmare and feel eyes on their back no matter where they go. And they know Kakashi's safe, they know he'd die in a heartbeat for any of them, that he'll always go back for them, that they aren't expendable to him.

And Kakashi is 17 to 20 during this time, he's younger than a few members of his team and barely older than others. And he loves them, but he's crumbling under the responsibility that comes along being loved and trusted, of being the only one willing to put himself between his team and certain death. And yet, he feels he is doing good, he is keeping them safe and whole and—

And Shisui kills himself, and Kakashi doesn't understand why, what did he miss? This is the second time he misses the signs, and this time it was his responsibility. He is a failure as son, a student, a teammate and as a captain.

Itachi is avoiding him, he probably blames him too.

Yugao and Tenzou still look at him like he hung the Moon and stars and that's somehow worse.

And one day Itachi snaps and murders his entire clan, and Kakashi looks back to every interaction he had with the boy, and wonders why, why, why. What didn't he see?

He trained Itachi, the boy was already a sharp weapon when he joined his team but Kakashi sharpened it even further, he taught him how to fight multiple opponents compensating for his poor stamina. He taught him every fire nature jursu he knew. He taught him how to use a tanto the same way Sakumo had taught him.

Kakashi has experienced lost, and loathing (from himself and others), and regret, and helplessness, and grief and guilt, but nothing prepared him for the feeling of betrayal.

And now Sasuke Uchiha is an orphan, and it's all Kakashi's fault.

And suddenly he is 14 again and trying to lose his life by the enemy's blade..

And once he is out of ANBU and in the Jounin corps again as a teacher candidate, the old members of his squad start dying one after the other until there's only a handful left, too used to someone caring for them and watching their back, used to the certainty that someone will always come for them.

And it's all Kakashi's fault. He isn't there anymore.

[al-hekima-madara-blog]

I'm rambling but I have to say it again for people in the back. Is there anyone in the naruto fandom who can answer this simple question :

how come Konoha can't deal the threatening Uchiha's rebellion, but Itachi can?

Let me reformulate : How come Konoha one of the most powerful village composed of :

the jonins : highly experienced and highly skilled shinobis who serve as military captains.

the Anbu : short for Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai, Special Assassination and Tactical Squad. Their skills is in their name.

Torture and Interrogation force: Yes. It exists, although Konoha is I've heard a peaceful village of milk and honey.

Root : secret service in Anbu, infiltration, assasination, act of terrorism for Konoha's sake.

The Hokage and his council : head of the village with large influence inside and outside the country

all these people are coming from different clans, who get use to work in team and to combine different jutsu since childhood, some are even war veterans, who knows strategy to avoid the sharingan (because they live next to/work with the Uchihas), who went so far to infiltrate their secret meeting, and already knows about the secret coup which is not secret anymore thanks to Shisui and Itachi. You tell me this elite is HELPLESS again Fukagu and his men? But Itachi at 13 years old can stop the most dangerous civil war of all time on his own?? Are Uchihas extremely dangerous or are they so weak they can be easily handle by an adult (Obito) and a child ? Think about it, make your own conclusion.

[uchihashisuii]

come back to me. | Shisui/OFC

Summary: Some time has passed since Shisui and Akari have broken up, with Akari taking the opportunity to try and figure herself and her life out. Shisui, however, isn’t exactly ready to let her go. | Yandere!Shisui

Pairing: Uchiha Shisui/Nara Akari

Word Count: 1842

Rating: Mature

Content warning for yandere, stalking, possessive behavior.

Author’s Note: this is an off-shoot of the Not-Wedding AU wherein Shisui and Akari realize they’re not in love with one another anymore and subsequently split. HOWEVER I was like. What if he still loved her and wanted her back but I also made it unhealthy aha

Part 01 of ??

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She's using a new brand of soap.

Not, Shisui thinks, that he'd noticed, or anything. It's simply hard to ignore, the fresh smell of citrus coming off of her sheets; something starkly different and new to the last time he'd been in her home. Their home, once. It would seem that Akari's been taking the whole fresh start thing seriously. He'd only swung by to pick up a few things left behind after he'd moved back to the Uchiha compound - a couple of shirts and the odd kunai left laying around. Well, the first couple times, at least; he hadn't wanted to bother her, not after they'd split the way they had. He knew the lock on the window in the living room was broken, so he'd done the mature thing and snuck in when he knew she'd be off on a mission. It was to save them both the awkwardness that would inevitably arise, being in close and intimate quarters after calling off their wedding. Really, she'd be thanking him if she knew.

Only - he didn't really stop.

Sometimes, it was nice to be surrounded by her again. The same clothes in the half-empty closet, the same crack in the corner of the bathroom mirror. It was difficult for him to see the place as anything other than theirs, so it was nice to pretend for a little bit that everything was normal, was right.

And then she changed her fucking soap.

Akari had never deviated from that sort of routine, so why was she suddenly changing things? Shisui stood in her bathroom, brows furrowed as he stared down the brightly-coloured bottle in her shower. Did she know he was clinging to her, even something as small as her familiar scent? She should smell like mint and something vaguely dusty, like the pages of a book. Not citrus and pine. He'd stolen one of her shirts, when he'd first noticed the change; keeping it shoved under his pillow so he could fall asleep and dream of her. More and more he'd drop by her place in secret, and more and more of her would slip away.

Why did she change her soap?

It drives him absolutely insane, and every time he sees that now-familiar bright bottle in the shop he has to resist the urge to throw the damn thing. Why the change? Why now? Was she trying to catch someone's attention? The thought spurs him to further downward spirals, imagining someone else's hands running over her curves and inhaling deep of her scent; he finds a small comfort in the thought that it isn't her true scent, not really. She's always smelled like petrichor and mint, and no one else would ever know that except him.

Only -

What if someone else did know?

The idea drives him to her darkened home once more, and he searches every inch. She's beautiful, and she's free, he thinks with no small amount of bitterness. Of course they'd be lining the block to fuck her. Shisui snarls to himself as he rips her clothes from the half-empty closet, sharingan looking for any sign of something unfamiliar. But there is nothing, and he breathes a sigh of relief. He knicks a pair of her panties from the second drawer as a reward to himself, for going to such lengths to make sure she's safe.

If only he'd remembered to put the clothes from the closet back.

-----

Shisui doesn't return to her apartment after that. He bides his time, losing himself in the smell of her shirt and watching her when she walks through the village, her smile strained next to the easy grins of her ANBU squad.

He wants to go to her, so bad it aches; but he needs to make sure she's learned from what she'd done. That life apart from him is only a waste of time, that calling off their wedding was such an incredibly stupid move. Shisui wants nothing more than to grab her by the shoulders and shake her until she realizes how she'd broken his heart, and make her understand, truly understand that they belong together.

But he's generous. He'll let her realize on her own that she needs him, and when her smile fully disappears then. Then he'll go to her and hold her until bruises bloom on her skin, and love her until they both taste iron.

He's close to the breaking point when she rushes past him on the rooftops, her sash and hair flying behind her. He's on his way to visit Itachi and find some distraction from her, and it's almost as if the vixen knew exactly what he had been planning. She comes close enough that he can smell her soap as she runs past, head tilted to the side and the smallest inclination of her chin in acknowledgement.

It's euphoric. Shisui had been terrified she'd moved on completely, that he'd have to find a way to remind her that they belong together. But he knows his girl, and even if she needed some time and space to figure herself out, well. It's inevitable, that she'll come back.

Shisui's so elated that he's late to see Itachi. Instead of continuing on he'd turned back around, high on the feeling of her eyes on him and the surety that she wanted him too. He'd thrown himself into his bed and wrapped a fist around his cock, stolen panties pressed to his nose and her name on his lips as he'd shuddered and fallen apart.

He'd grinned to himself in the dark as he mopped up his mess with the slip of silken fabric. Plans already half-formed in his head - maybe he'd leave some flowers on her bed for her to find, or maybe hide one of his shirts in her closet, to remind her who she belongs to - with. Who she belongs with.

He catches himself before he can get too carried away. She'd broken his heart, after all - she needs to understand what she did, first and foremost. Shisui takes a deep breath as he locks up his apartment, smile still curving his lips as he remembers the way she had smelled more like mint than citrus on the rooftop.

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And then, impossibly - she comes to him.

It's fate. Or destiny. But Akari knocks on his door in the early morning of a quiet Sunday and he'll never forget the sight of her, hands shoved into her pockets and wind teasing at her hair. She smiles, when he opens the door, and Shisui knows without any shadow of a doubt that she's come back to him.

"I can't stay," Akari says with an apologetic lilt to her tone before he can even greet her. And Shisui smiles, because that's okay; even if it takes years for her to warm back up and realize there's no one else who could love her like he can - he's patient, and you can't rush these things.

"I was just wondering if you'd been back to the apartment recently? I think someone broke in, but I wanted to check out every possibility first."

Shisui's stomach drops somewhere near his knees. The torn apart closet, he remembers vividly; he'd been too lost in his outrage at the thought that someone had been hanging around his girl that he didn't clean up his mess. He swallows thickly, offering her a weak laugh and a shrug of his shoulders.

"I was there a few weeks ago, picking up stuff I forgot when I moved out. Didn't wanna make things weird, so I swung by when you were out. I haven't been back since."

A lie. He'd never lied to her before, not about anything important. But he can't tell her, not yet; she wouldn't understand that he'd been doing what was best for her, making sure no one was taking advantage of her. She'd understand, surely, once she was back in his arms.

Akari nods at his words, looking strangely troubled. That raises his hackles, just a bit; if she thinks someone broke in, then surely she knows he's the only one who can keep her safe? But she doesn't ask, and he has to bite his tongue before he can offer. Akari has to be the one to say the words; she has to learn her lesson and remember that he loves her like no one else, and when she's ready she'll come back to him, tears in her eyes and heart on her sleeve and he'll keep her pinned to his bed so she fucking remembers who she belongs to.

"I've gotta run," Akari interrupts his thoughts with a shrug, though her smile sends a jolt of awareness through his spine. "I'll see you around, yeah?" Akari says with a small wave, before turning on her heel and making her way down the street.

I'll see you around. Shisui's stomach clenches as he fights the urge to grin. A promise. A salvation. She'll come back to him. He just has to be patient, but soon enough she'll remember that she belongs to him and no one else, and he'll drown her in his affections and claim her for the whole village to see. She'll wear the Uchiha crest on her back and smell like mint and everything will be right once again. He just has to be patient.

-----

She's an ungrateful little slut. What a fucking bitch. After everything, everything -

Akari had forgotten who she belongs to, wedding or no. She'd been playing with his feelings this whole time, smiling prettily and coming to his house and giving him hope that she'd come back to him. And there she was, hanging off the arm of Obito and laughing as though she hadn't just ruined everything.  Shisui's vision is awash in red at the sight, sharingan activating without him realizing as he watches them walk out of a restaurant together.

She's so brazen that she might as well be fucking him right in the middle of the street, the way her hand is curved over his elbow and the laughter she buries in his bicep. Obito is no better, leaning down to whisper something against her hair that makes her roll her eyes, the pair of them smiling as they meander down the lane.

Shisui shunshins out of instinct, pulse thundering in his ears and hands curled into tight fists. There's the burn of unshed tears in the back of his throat, but he swallows it down; he won't let her hurt him, not again.

When he ends up back in Akari's apartment, his old apartment, well. It's fate, really. Shisui's breathing is heavy as he moves to sit on her bed, his bed, their bed. He'll wait for her, he decides with a growing tightness in his chest. He'll wait until she's back from fucking someone else, and then he will remind her who she belongs to. He'll show her what happens to bad girls who break his heart, and then maybe. Just maybe. He'll let her apologize.

[nonbinary-itachi]

Shisui Sensei

In a non-mass au, Shisui is chosen to act as squad seven's sensei.

(I love Kakashi as a sensei, but Shisui would be better at it.)

Shisui has one of the best sharingan in the clan, making him doubly qualified to teach Sasuke and Naruto.

(When my diabetic verses overlap with this one, he's triply qualified as he's used to dealing with Itachi's diabetes and knows how to handle Sakura's as a result)

He takes Sakura aside early on to confront her about her crush. "What made you want to become a Shinobi in the first place? It couldn't have been my bratty cousin Sasuke because you haven't even met him yet at that point."

Sakura is forced to actually think about what made her become a kunoichi and why it was so important to her in the first place.

"It's okay to have these feelings, but they can't get in the way on a mission or your entire team could be killed. That's not something you want on your conscious."

He actually takes an invested interest in making sure all his kids succeed.

Sakura's chakra control is unparalleled by the other two, so he teaches her his signature shushin jutsu.

She does not enjoy the speed training it requires to become as fast as he is with it, but she appreciates that he's teaching her.

He also teaches her how to make afterimage clones.

The fact that not even Itachi can do that excites her immensely.

Sasuke and Naruto aren't jealous. Of course not.

(Itachi totally is. "You never even taught me how to do that!" He's been trying to replicate it for years to no avail)

The chunin exams go very differently. Shisui's hesitant to nominate them, but they're well prepared and part of him wants them to get the experience.

They still get attacked by Orochimaru, but they're more prepared. Still lose drastically, but they put up more of a fight. Sakura isn't completely useless.

Shisui is pissed to learn his ducklings have been hurt. He insists on being part of the ANBU squad that goes to check things out inside the forest.

He's so tempted to withdrawal them from the exam when he sees two of his three students are unconscious.

Kakashi (also part of that ANBU squad) has to talk him out of it.

Shisui: People have died from Orochimaru's seal. If anything happens to either of them, I'm a dead man.

(Mikoto, Fugaku, and Itachi have all grown fond of both of Sasuke's little teammates. None will be happy if anything happens because Shisui nominated them for the exams)

Shisui ultimately decided to give it 24 hours. If neither shows any signs of waking by then, he's withdrawing them.

He ends up letting them stay. Not because the boys woke up within the 24 hour period, but because both boys were alive and Sakura was doing a decent job of looking after them.

He worried the entire time though. Itachi was little better (this was his brother after all) but understood this was Shisui's genin team and he needed reassurance that the kids would be okay.

Itachi, who completed the exams alone in record time as a ten year old: I'm sure they'll be fine.

Shisui, who knows everything about Itachi: This does not make me feel better.

(Itachi, now of legal age, decides to distract him with kisses instead. It's much more effective.)

He's kind enough to let Iruka be the first person the kids see at the end of the exams, but he's anxiously waiting to be the second.

Group hug!

Sasuke: Get off me!

Shisui: I just spent the past three days worrying about your sorry asses because you were attacked by a Sanin. Accept the damn hug.

Sasuke: ... We never speak of this again.

Shisui: Deal.

For some reason, I hc Shisui as a seals person. He's not overly familiar with the seal used to contain the curse mark, but he has Kakashi show/teach him and copies it with the sharingan.

Naruto still goes off with Jiraiya (much to Shisui's displeasure) for two years. Sakura learns medical ninjutsu from Tsunade, but he still teaches Sasuke and Sakura until they make chunin.

[liam-cadmus]

─── team pyro headcanons

Team Pyro is always on my mind...Obito, Itachi, Shisui, Sasuke and sometimes Kakashi. ANBU, the lot of them, and all jounin-rank. With Mangekyou's and mountains of katon jutsus.

Obito and Shisui : "Fire." *smirks widely*

Sasuke : *excited grinning*

Itachi : *disappointed but inwardly pleased*

Kakashi : *eye-smiles and allows his team to burn shit down.*

All of them are socially awkward, besides Shisui. Sarcasm tenfold and all of them are always scowling. All of them have flee on sight and people shit their pants whenever they realize who they are. Five, hot men walking as a group ln the streets of Konoha. And they would tease men and women alike just for the fun of it.

Uchiha loves fiercely, and you will be dead. I repeat. You will be dead in their arms if you try harming one of them. You do not hurt them, especially the youngest.

They're fond to cats. Imagine them smiling at the cute felines on their arms and laps.

Pyromaniac tendencies. Like, if you see property damage and fire, you would immediately assume Team Pyro did it.  Sasuke + Obito has Rinnegans in this au, with Kakashi still having one eye from Obito.

(Like, they're the squad, the hokage’s elite squad?? yes.)