#Tobi_Black

[frtunesfool]

I’m not sure what storylines or tropes interest you (if there’s a storyline/episode you want to read about or tropes like, I can provide more tailored ones) but here are some that I liked a lot:

chaparral_crown’s stories are very lyrical feeling (especially liked their midsommar au “it never sings in vain” and but they have others that keep the canon timeline like “turnspit dogs”)

All emungere’s fics are pretty amazing, but the ladder series (featuring a prison break during season 2) is a favorite. 

thehoyden’s “The Fox’s Wedding” is if mizumono had a different ending.

If you want something short and fluffy, FragileTeacup’s “Going My Way” is if they met by accident beforehand.

ironlotus’s “A Consequence of Consumption” is about if Will never worked for the FBI, but instead had been kidnapped by (and rescued) from a serial killer.

Tobi_Black’s “Monsters in People Suits” series is pre-slash and technically a monster au but I was charmed by how well done it was.

If you want a/b/o, Shachaai’s “Commencer Par Faim” (updating/unfinished) has an omega will and beta Hannibal dealing with an accidental pregnancy during Will’s encephalitis.

omg thank you so much for this! i will be checking these out :))

[tobiblack]

The secret tower endures with the child of wisdom

Hikaku had lived through the Warring States, a lifetime of the feud between Uchiha and Senju, and watching it end. He’d lived through the founding of the first great hidden shinobi village, and two wars, seen the third Hokage take the hat. He’d thought that by this point in his life, there was nothing that could shake him that hadn’t already happened.

He’d just never counted on the fact that Kagami might actually succeed in getting Tobirama Senju’s attention. Or apparently anything involved with that hot mess.

Somewhere, Izuna was laughing at him.

1/2

Hikaku had been peacefully enjoying a cup of tea when his wife threw open their door with an uncharacteristic sharpness normally reserved for Council meetings that ran late because of obtuse Hyuuga. There had been no Council meeting today, which left him a very short list of other causes for his lovely wife’s mood.

One in particular, because Sumiko’s son was just as shameless as his mother.

She’d come back pregnant from a mission, and had refused to bow to their Elders about revealing who the father was, and it had only been Madara stepping in for his second cousin that had let her keep that secret. It was only the fact that Sumiko had no interest in clan politics or leading the clan that had kept her from establishing herself as the closest blood tie to their last clan head as the grand-daughter of Madara’s grand-aunt when they’d been deciding whether to keep the tradition of leader-by-strength or fall back into leader-by-blood.

No one had acknowledged Izuna’s bastard as the rightful heir by blood, afraid that the madness that had claimed Madara would show itself in the child and lead further ruin to the clan.

Instead, they’d turned to him and his wife, the strongest left in the clan without Madara’s bloodline, to lead, but Sumiko’s line still represented a special headache. A special status that left them only answerable to the clan head, even if his wife had never enlightened them to the fact as to not upset the Elders further.

As it was, they were still politely ignoring how one of the Hatake now lived on the edge of their compound with Sumiko, with the end of the war and Team Tobirama moving in together being more important to focus on.

Chikako was still upset with Sasuke just letting his heir move out of his compound because it hadn’t given her precedent to deny Kagami, because he’d escaped the compound as soon as he could when they’d tried to sequester him over his newly-received Mangekyou and had since refused to come back.

Which was made more frustrating since the rest of the team kept running interference – particularly the Shimura – and Sumiko had made her opinion clear about how unless her son proved an “actual” danger, she wasn’t going to keep him inside the compound just because they wanted him to be there.

Then there was how she had come very close to accidentally putting him into Tsukiyomi when as they had been having dinner, they’d been interrupted with news of how Kagami had had the Nidaime’s teleportation seal tattooed on his skin. Like they hadn’t all been ignoring his crush for years now, because yes, they all had a bit of a Thing for Tobirama, but the most forward anyone got was asking for a spar. Kagami had all but shouted how much he cared for Tobirama with that tattoo, made worse by how the whole clan all knew he’d gained Mangekyou from believing the Nidaime was dead.

He put his tea down to pour her a cup of sake, “What did he do this time?”

Her eyes were blood-red, nostrils flaring as she tried to find words.

Hikaku didn’t rush his wife, even if he had the sinking feeling the longer it took her that Kagami had managed to find the one thing worse than the whole tattoo thing, and he was increasingly not wanting to know.

She downed her cup before answering, “Akane’s boy was over by Training Ground Nine when he saw Kagami chasing the Nidaime, red silk in hand.”

He immediately regretted taking a sip of his tea, as it went down the wrong pipe and he spent a minute just clearing his lungs.

“W-what?”

“He’s apparently decided to battle-marry, and frankly there’s nothing I can do to oppose it because he technically has been courting the Nidaime the last couple of years even if we’ve previously considered it one-sided. Not to mention that the only way Kagami will capture the Nidaime is if the man allows it, and everyone knows that, which means the clan will consider the battle-marriage binding. Particularly if he wears the silk tomorrow.”

He didn’t have anything to say to that.

Chikako passed him the sake bottle without a word after pouring herself another cup, eyes caught on the hint of red silk beneath the long sleeve of his right arm, “Drink up, husband. Tomorrow we will deal with this, for now let’s just get drunk.”

~

2/2

#you can guess who Chikako is pregnant with #:3

 It was still dark when something woke Hikaku from where he was tangled up with his wife, a brief moment left to remember how they’d kept drinking until very late, reminiscing on how the Senju were full of deadly pretty people and how there had been bets about their feud one day just ending because of a battle-marriage, before he processed that it was the Nidaime politely standing outside the door.

If perhaps this was the first time this had happened, maybe he would have scrambled up and greeted their revered leader. It wasn’t though, the Nidaime had visited several times before – almost always concerning something with Kagami.

They politely didn’t mention the years he’d been banned by Madara from ever stepping foot in the compound, or how it took the Uzumaki princess a year to create a work-around to Madara's spiteful blood-seal so he didn’t set off every trap built into the ground and walls of their compound. Even if Chikako had had to personally ask her to do so because seals weren’t a Uchiha talent but Madara had grasped the concepts enough to create a ticking time bomb not quite specific enough to differentiate between Tobirama and any Senju period.

Because it was Tobirama – and because this was most assuredly to do with Kagami – Hikaku almost buried his face in his wife’s hair and pretended like his instincts were screaming about the very dangerous shinobi that wouldn’t be stalled for more than a few seconds by the door if he truly wanted inside. He didn’t want to know either way if Tobirama had allowed himself to be caught and was now married into the clan – because by the Sage and his sons, Sumiko and Kagami were already special cases in the clan hierarchy, and as it was, he pretended his wife didn’t go drink tea with the Shodaime’s sons about the headaches involved with special cases in their clans, and now, Tobirama would no longer be those boy’s problem but theirs – or if he’d escaped Kagami and was now requesting – demanding, it was all the same thing with the annulment of an instigated battle-marriage – that Kagami cease and desist before he made him.

Chikako was merciless though, tugging on his ear until he moved away, “Get up and answer the door, I think I have to puke.”

Groaning lowly, he got up and straightened his sleep yukata as much as he could considering there was going to be no hiding that he’d gotten massively drunk, passed out, and had just woken up. Then he slid open the door, and blankly looked at the man who-

Hikaku blinked a couple of times in a lack of comprehension at how Tobirama did and did not look like a man who’d just been battle-married.

There were marks on his neck and upper shoulders and chest where his shirt was slipping and kisses had been sucked into his skin. He was wearing one of Kagami’s shirts – Uchiha fan surely prominent on the back. His hair was going in every which direction, falling into his eyes without his happuri – and this had to be the first time he’d ever seen him without it, in the entire he’d known Tobirama.

He looked content in a way that said he’d found happiness after a long struggle to get there.

He did not look like he’d been ravaged within an inch of his life, like was typical of any Uchiha who married of their own choice, and not for obligation or an alliance. He very distinctly remembered Izuna asking if he’d been beset by a wild animal after he’d married Chikako.

He also remembered how Chikako had chased the little fucker down, making him climb a tree where he’d called on Madara for help, and only got thrown into the pond for his trouble.

Tobirama spoke while he was still remembering fondly of how Izuna had given him a wide berth for a week after that dunking and following lecture about how it was beyond rude to mock a couple together for love about their passion.

“Hikaku-san, Kagami told me that any Uchiha that battle-marries should inform the head of their clan within twenty-four hours of the marriage. As he is currently completely exhausted in our room with our sprog, I took it upon myself to inform you of both.”

While he was glad that Kagami had absorbed something about proper battle-marriage procedure, because the sooner the marriage was known to the clan, the higher the chances the bride wouldn’t be accidentally killed if they weren’t from an ally, he felt like he should still make sure there was no doubt to how binding the marriage was, Kagami didn’t have the best track record about this stuff.

Sumiko may not have told him to be sure he went to her for permission and that he didn’t marry on a whim.

Then he spotted the red silk knotted against Tobirama’s skin just as he processed Tobirama saying something about a sprog. And if he was remembering right, sprog was what the Senju called children-

Tobirama’s gaze drifted to behind him, to where Chikako had come up behind him, “What’s this about you and Kagami having a kid, Tobirama?”

“Only that it appears our children will grow up together, and that a congratulations is in order, Chikako-san.”

Hikaku’s mind stalled, and he didn’t hear anything else that was said between his wife and their new clansman as he focused entirely on his chakra sense, and looking at his wife with it even after the other man had left.

She flicked him on the forehead to get his attention, hand resting on her flat belly, “It appears we’re going to be parents, Hikaku. He estimated that I’m just a little over a month along, but a medic would give a better guess. And you heard right, somehow – I’ll get the details of how from him later when the news goes beyond his team, us, and Lady Mito – he’s going to have a kid with Kagami.”

He kissed her, then held her close, “I can’t wait for our child, Chikako.”

It took a couple more seconds before it processed that Kagami was going to have a kid too.

“Oh my Sage, he’s multiplying. I was kidding when I cursed him years ago with kids just like him, but, oh my Sage, I don’t think I can live through a second coming of him as a kid. And- and it’s going to be smart, fucking hell, it won’t be fooled by the stupid shit Izuna used to convince him of.”    

[jedimordsith]

So, we’ve officially had our first snow here and we’re halfway through November, so I figured it was time for the Fall comment challenge to give way to a winter one. Feel free to use the banner and share what yummy-ness you’re reading!

I managed to sneak in comments on a few things this week: 

One Night Series by SkywalkerForever

A Hill to Die On by @bananasareforparties

Dis Manibus by @myevilmouse

let us shed all restraints and no longer be tame by Tobi_Black

Stormlight by @celinamarniss

Interregnum by Admiral_Byzantium

[ao3feed-stevebucky]

Til the End of the Line

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2MyhFxm

by Tobi_Black

The most dangerous space in all the worlds was between Steve Rogers and James Barnes.

 The redone compilation of an older series of mine, all in one place.

Words: 4681, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sarah Rogers, Rebecca Barnes Proctor

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, Sarah Rogers & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Солдат, James "Bucky" Barnes & Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Rebecca Barnes Proctor & Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Magical Realism, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Pre-Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The First Avenger, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Bucky Barnes & Winter Soldier are Different Personalities, Strong Female Characters, Pre-Slash, Pre-Relationship, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, The Morrigan - Freeform, Canonical ASSUMED Major Character Death, The Tesseract (Marvel), Baba Yaga the Cat

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2MyhFxm

[ao3feed-stucky]

by Tobi_Black

The most dangerous space in all the worlds was between Steve Rogers and James Barnes.

 The redone compilation of an older series of mine, all in one place.

Words: 3188, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sarah Rogers

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, Sarah Rogers & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Солдат

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Magical Realism, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Pre-Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The First Avenger, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Bucky Barnes & Winter Soldier are Different Personalities, Strong Female Characters, Pre-Slash, Pre-Relationship, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, The Morrigan - Freeform, Canonical ASSUMED Major Character Death

[duron1ar]

The dead were held back by regrets just as much as they were bound by resurrection, and Tobirama's were many. One of them was the death of a rival - and the death that had caused the whole world to unravel. He wanted to fix that - and there was someone that supported him in that.

[stucky-ficrecs]

Completed WIPs, June 2018

Hi. It’s mid-August, and I’m here with the completed WIP list for... June. Yeah. My summer travel schedule looked sane on paper, you know?

The Reverse Big Bang makes for a long list. Here we go!

Undisclosed Desires. by Alexander_Slamilton (T, 3K)

A Sky Full of Stars by BrighteyedJill for L1av (E, 15K)

Electric Hearts by crinklefries (M, 74K)

who needs a bodyguard? by deceptivesoldier, moblit (T, 15K)

Linger by evieeden for princessoftheworlds (M, 8K)

Sugar Baby Love by roe87 for cobaltmoony (E, 117K)

our bodies are young and blue by orangebricks (T, 11K)

From One Foot to the Other by stellahibernis (E, 43K)

Good Enough by Hopeless--Geek (wuzzy90), octobergryphon, QueenVee1 (E, 50K)

Infinite Starbucks by Menatiera for cpt_winniethepooh (G, 3K)

Handle with Care by LadyFrandrews (M, 17K)

Stars in Our Eyes by LuthienThalia (NR, 64K)

Falling For The Sky by Quarra, sparkly_butthole (E, 18K)

Fractured Mending by crankyfractal (upquarkAO3), mmouse15 (T, 9K)

Into Darkness by fancyh (M, 88K)

Thyme and Tide by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen), seleneheart (T, 22K)

where the leaves fall not by dudewhereismypie, obsessivereader (E, 23K)

Outside In by AraniaDraws (AraniaArt), Parrannnah (M, 30K)

memory is more than a retelling of the past by Tobi_Black (T, 3K)

Nothing ever ends by 50s_housewife_with_a_dark_secret (M, 26K)

Sunshine's Gifts by Quarra, wearing_tearing (E, 53K)

We Could be Heroes (Me and You) by alby_mangroves, Chiyume (E, 91K)

The Voyager by notlucy (E, 77K)

A Good Retirement Plan by relenafanel for umetnica (E, 12K)

A Midsummer Knight's Dream by cobaltmoony, GoldBlooded (E, 29K)

Not A Perfect Soldier But A Good Enough Man by Moss_Gatherer (M, 6K)

Winter Is Cold Without You by ArtThiefAtHeart (T, 1692)

and all dishevelled wandering stars by Kells (T, 33K)

I meet you at the darkest time by goldlining (E, 29K)

How to Pet a Cactus by ColorCoated, TrishArgh (G, 17K)

Homecoming by nanazlovese (M, 13K)

If Only He Knew by spacestationwedding (E, 44K)

Redrawing the Line by krycekasks (T, 32K)

Soldier's Heart by prefertheconsultingdetective (M, 15K)

where we're going by nikkiRA (G, 5K)

Take Control of Your Life-The Minute You Do Interesting Things Will Happen by LeafontheWinf2 (T, 7K)

Grapes and Grenadine by Marcella-ella (MarcellaBianca), MarcellaBianca (M, 17K)

Coffee. by oui_oui_mon_ami for AsguardianAgentSuperSoldier (T, 14K)

Beneath the Gilded Head and Iron Palm by CaptainHoney (T, 18K)

The Assassin and The Aquarist by Kateyfish (014469) (T, 14K)

take my hand (take my whole life too) by layersofsilence, SgtGraves (T, 37K)

A Matter of Time by Beardysteve, Paint_Stained_Heart (M, 83K)

Common Revelations and Other Catastrophes by maikurosaki, Stucky1980 (E, 29K)

Heat Forged by cleo4u2, xantissa (E, 160K)

Almost But Not Quite by rinnya (M, 33K)

Throw Me (A Helping Hand) by Quarra, RemingtonFae (E, 69K)

Fool For Sacrifice by girlbookwrm (T, 52K)

AvengerPets by Kimbali (NR, 38K)

Finding Steve Rogers by CaptainHoney, kawherp (T, 34K)

What Is and Isn't Lost - A Buckypunzel AU by BuckyButt, Hopeless--Geek (wuzzy90) (E, 20K)

Fang & Claw by cobaltmoony, Miss_Aphi (E, 30K)

Northern Sky by littleblackfox, WarlockInTraining (M, 50K)

Lessons Are So Cold by herecomesbucktofuckshitup (E, 58K)

Lord, What Fools by 743ish, littleblackfox (E, 12K)

Golden Age of Illustration by Cryo_Bucky, MissyPJ (E, 31K)

Creative Taxidermy by assemblingbrokenmemories for jinlinli (M, 21K)

I'm Talkin' to Myself at Night (Because I Can't Forget) by TT40_Angst_Queen (T, 22K)

Absolute Barnes and The Great Stevie by Gaia_bing (T, 6K)

The Vantage Point by urbanconstellations (M, 15K)

Nothing New by purpleeyesandbowties (T, 11K)

So, darling, just swear you'll stand by my side by Elendrien, Florianna (T, 7K)

We Never Had a Choice (But I Choose You) by capsiclemycaptain, DrowningByDegrees (E, 37K)

Home Improvements by gracelesso (G, 2K)

Not Your Fucking Captain by Crave (E, 9K)

Sing for Me by Cinnas_muse for Madara_Nycteris (T, 12K)

sensorium by tcp (M, 49K)

What The Winter Gave Me by HowDidIGetUpHere (T, 12K)

No Such Men Return by glasscaskets for Lucidnancyboy (T, 52K)

The Sweetest Spark by deadto27 (E, 73K)

Look at the Stars (Look How They Shine for You) by coldwinterrose (Eris13), Queerily_kai (E, 23K)

The Bargain by GoodbyeBlues (M, 21K)

Anam Cara by Annaelle, kaiwrites, Queerily_kai (M, 30K)

Caught in a Stitch by ElisAttack, scannerbrain (T, 39K)

Sub Rosa (Versus Finem) by Lorien, Queerily_kai (M, 21K)

A Memory Like a Haunting by cobaltmoony, DarkCaustic (E, 29K)

From Hydra with Love by insomnia1999 for Nejinee (M, 21K)

Across the Sea by Ilyone, smithsonianstucky (thelarenttrap) (T, 22K)

Stucky Oneshots by the_fault_in_our_stucky (E, 5K)

Angel Is A Centrefold by Avaaricious (NR, 15K)

Into the Abyss - THE AFTERMATH by snfan75 (E, 17K)

the law of the jungle by thefireplanet (M, 71K)

you are the light, the calm in the day by sheepknitssweater (T, 39K)

Steve calls it "Quid Pro Quo" Because of course he does by Bear_shark, Ribbonsflying (G, 26K)

3,000 Miles by worrisomeme (T, 7K)

In 60 Seconds by FruitofSorrow (M, 10K)

Who Lives, Who Dies by princessoftheworlds, ScarlettsLetters (E, 50K)

A Marriage of Ice and Fire by alby_mangroves, Mystrana (E, 75K)

Far Cry From Home by Dawnwolf17 for AraniaArt (T, 36K)

The Abrelkan Saga Book 1 | Slave by AgentCoop (NR, 54K)

you are the light by buvkissteves (E, 25K)

you're the only friend i need by deathwave1 (T, 2K)

[myakkoh]

Finding fics that don’t bash Jedi is hard. I might add some more fics to this later, for now, hopefully these fics will make you enjoy them!

Let Us ‘Verse by Tobi_Black - This AU series is set during and after Order 66, with the clones slowly rebelling and the Jedi rising as well. I honestly have no words to tell you other than you should read it. Everything is beautiful, and I absolutely recommend it.

Force of Many Sights by DAsObiQuiet - Another AU series that has Anakin travelling back in time after his death in the original trilogy. All I can say is that the author of this fic describes Anakin’s struggle with the Dark Side really well, as well as how the other Jedi view him.

Death, Yet The Force (so rise and shine) by EclipseMidnight (EternalEclipse) - This is a Mace time travel fic, where Mace ends up back WAY before Anakin is born. For this fic, it’s absolutely gorgeous how it describes Mace and how he’s dealing with time travel itself, as well as trying to make changes to the galaxy. Part of a series, but it only has this one for now.

Reprise by Elfpen - This is an AU series where Ben Kenobi dies, somehow ends up in the past, and then changes the galaxy with his younger self. That’s right, his younger self Obi-Wan! This was a beautiful series that describes Ben’s struggles to change the past and save the Jedi.

Do u or your followers have any good fics that aren’t Jedi bashing? I don’t know much about them but almost everything I read blames them for everything that went wrong and ur the only author I know who doesn’t think that. It would be nice to get another perspective.

There’s a masterlist of my SW fic recs here. Anyone want to reply with recs?

[tobiblack]

In the space between doors a heartbeat lasts an eternity

Tobirama had expected to die, but he hadn’t. The world had moved on as if he had, even if he was caught at just surviving out of spite.

It left him out of sorts and at a crossroads.

#Alternate Universe – Canon #Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence #Alternate Universe – Tobirama survives

#This is me being unable to NOT touch upon the fact that Tobi’s got Issues™

DIRECTLY AFTER time is an illusion casting shadows in cracked mirrors

Tobirama was sitting in some bed of the hospital, alone with Mito.

His sister-in-law had sent his team fleeing with one hard-eyed look and orders to go retrieve Tōka from her self-proclaimed exile inside his brother’s overgrown not-so-friendly garden that the village had called the Forest of Death instead of Area 44. Kagami had looked fit to argue, with his eyes a dark red, but Danzō had dragged him off with a whispered conversation Tobirama didn’t quite catch.

Absently, he had tracked their chakras through the village, heading to where his cousin could only faintly be felt while surrounded by her favored summon, that humongous albino Bengal tiger named Byakko she’d always liked to joke was a lot like him if he’d been born a cat. Mito brought his attention right back to her with a snap.

“You have a choice, Tobirama, right now to make. The village thinks you dead; our whole world thinks that Tobirama Senju, Nidaime Hokage, died in the last battle of the Shinobi War. I know that the duties of Hokage have laid heavy on you these seven years since Hashirama died. I myself have only lingered in Konoha so long for you and my sons, and have made it clear that I will be leaving for Uzushio as soon as Hiruzen is settled in as the Sandaime. If you wish to join me, you are welcome to, the Uzumaki will welcome you as a distant cousin and as my brother-in-law.”

She placed her hands over the seal on her stomach containing Kyuubi.

“If you stay, you still have a choice to make. Let Tobirama Senju, one of the last survivors of the Warring States, die, and choose to do something you want to do with the rest of your live, other than being a weapon. Or return to how things were - as either the Nidaime or maybe an advisor of Hiruzen. You need to make some sort of decision soon though, before anyone realizes that you survived and the choice is taken from you.”

He watched as she tweaked the seal as she talked, letting the edges of her chakra blur into the Kyuubi’s, which was normally hidden to the point where it was really only because he knew to look that he could sense the Kyuubi, to something that filled the room like a bonfire did with warmth. Belatedly, he realized that her chakra had been like this, through not quite to the point as to completely obscure his chakra signature even without his engrained control, since he’d neared the village. She’d wanted him to have the chance to decide.

“I- I appreciate this, Ane. I’ve never entertained any ideas of what I would do if I wasn’t a shinobi though, I don’t even know where to start. Aniija used to dream near the end, of a life where he stepped down, and could devote the rest of his life to you and making you happy. I’d remind him that we were the boogeymen of our world, and that there was no retirement for us.”

She laid a hand atop of his.

“I knew, I knew when I was considering marrying him so many years ago, that I was marrying more than a man. I was marrying his clan, his ideas, and everything that meant. He was always open about his dream of a village, and I knew that when he succeeded, it would mean that he would likely be the leader until death, and I accepted that. I made that choice. You loved him, would have chosen him regardless, but he never offered you the choice to be Hokage. You choose Hiruzen to be your successor in much the same way, but the difference was that Hiruzen wanted that dream. He talked to me before he proposed to Biwako, because he wanted her to go in with eyes wide open to what marriage to him could mean as not just wife of a clan head but wife of a Hokage. You wanted something else other than to be Hokage but accepted your brother’s last request because you would never have denied him such a thing.”

Tobirama twined their fingers together, not able to say a word because Mito had always understood better than his own brother had about what he had and hadn’t wanted.

She’d known that he’d been content amongst all the administrative work of building a village, developing it into something to be proud of. He’d wanted none of the leadership, but like he’d taken care of the clan, he’d taken care of the village, with no intention of ever outliving his brother because for all he’d wanted his brother to have passed in his sleep like he had, he’d never thought it would happen. He’d always thought it would have been like he nearly had; fighting to the last, sacrificing himself for their clan, for Konoha. She’d watched as she’d trained her sons on how to lead the clan, to replace him as the steadying hand to their father, then to act as his heirs when he was abruptly the clan head.

Now, he’d not only outlived his brother by decades, six years older than most shinobi died at, and he was at a loss for what to do since he’d somehow managed to successfully pass on the mantle that he had never wanted. Her sons were leading the Senju clan as was their birthright, had been for several years now and had rarely sought his advice since the war had begun. He was practically obsolete.

What he did now that he wasn’t boxed into being a shinobi by virtue of birth, he didn’t know. He wasn’t sure he could be anything else at this point.

Without notice, his eyes drifted from where his cousin was streaking towards them like death was on her heels and his team following as fast as they could, to what he could hardly believe existed.

He’d done all the work to create the jutsu, done everything needed to see his one private dream become a reality, but he’d always known he likely never would get the chance to follow through with it. The war had consumed his life, the worst sort of déjà vu to what his life had been like before Konoha, and the longer it had dragged on, the more he’d been sure that he wouldn’t see the end of it. He shouldn’t have seen the end of it, and he had prepared Hiruzen the best he could to take up his mantle for when the inevitable happened, but then the war had been waning.

He wasn’t ashamed to admit that while his logic had been sound – because he’d stood the best chance to survive or at least hold the Kumo nin long enough his team could get away – he’d volunteered because he was facing the second time that he’d seen an end of seemingly endless war and he wasn’t made for peace. For his brother he’d tried, and come close to succeeding, but six years of war had undone what fifteen years of a relative sort of peace had done to smooth out some of his sharp edges. He’d survived because he wouldn’t give anyone the satisfaction of being able to say they’d killed him, just spiteful enough to not die fighting anyone but an equal, not when nearly ten years of fighting Izuna hadn’t killed him.

He hadn’t lived in a long time, perhaps not since Kawarama and Itama had died, but his team had let him act like he had been.

Now, they’d gone and given him something to live for.

“I think I’ll stay. I want to be a father, one better than my own.”

[avatarpabu97]

There's actually a really fanfic series on ao3 exploring something like this.

I recommended its a good read.

The Soul Reapers think Ichigo is Kaien's reincarnation. Sentaro and Kiyone accidentally call him Kaien or Jushiro, Shunsui, Retsu and Yamamoto give him little test or put him in situations to see if he'll react in the same way.

-Sentarō and Kiyone would probably call him Kaien more than once.

-Ichigo would think nothing of it the first couple of times but he would start to be curious as to why they keep forgetting his name.

-Jushiro would ask him questions about what determines someone’s “heart.”

-The philosophy of the two types of combat (protecting life or protecting honor) would be brought up since Kaien was a firm believer of this philosophy.

-They’re going to put Ichigo in situations to see if his combat skills are similar to Kaien.

-Similarities in personality are obvious so testing Ichigo’s personality is unnecessary.

-They’ll being up memories that only Kaien would be familiar with.

[ao3feed-buckybarnes]

memory is a reliving

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2tUCUj8

by Tobi_Black

Steve dreamed of his life before. He remembered. The Soldier remembered something as well.

Words: 1564, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Waking Dreams

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sarah Rogers, Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Winifred Barnes

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Sarah Rogers & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & the Winter Soldier, James "Bucky" Barnes & Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Winifred Barnes & Sarah Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Pre-Captain America: The First Avenger, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Bucky Barnes & Winter Soldier are Different Personalities, Magical Realism, The Morrigan - Freeform

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2tUCUj8

[ao3feed-stucky]

by Tobi_Black

Steve dreamed of his life before. He remembered. The Soldier remembered something as well.

Words: 1564, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Waking Dreams

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sarah Rogers, Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Winifred Barnes

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Sarah Rogers & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & the Winter Soldier, James "Bucky" Barnes & Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Winifred Barnes & Sarah Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Pre-Captain America: The First Avenger, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Bucky Barnes & Winter Soldier are Different Personalities, Magical Realism, The Morrigan - Freeform

[ao3feed-stevebucky]

memory is a reliving

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2tUCUj8

by Tobi_Black

Steve dreamed of his life before. He remembered. The Soldier remembered something as well.

Words: 1564, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Waking Dreams

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sarah Rogers, Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Winifred Barnes

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Sarah Rogers & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & the Winter Soldier, James "Bucky" Barnes & Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Winifred Barnes & Sarah Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Pre-Captain America: The First Avenger, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Bucky Barnes & Winter Soldier are Different Personalities, Magical Realism, The Morrigan - Freeform

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2tUCUj8

[stucky-ficrecs]

Completed WIPs, May 2017

Welcome to the May completed WIPs list! The Tumblr version doesn’t include summaries, because Tumblr barfs when these posts get too long. To get this list with the summaries included, sign up for our newsletter!

If Steve Rogers Were Your Boyfriend by bopeep (M, 70K)

A Shadow Artifact by MTC1020 (M, 153K)

What goes around, comes around by WinteryFall (E, 41K)

New Moon by parkshan820 (NR, 14K)

Singing Song For Song by cleo4u2, Hopeless--Geek (wuzzy90), xantissa (E, 22K)

Lullaby by Kana_Go (E, 60K)

But what will you be and when? by Dividedpoet (M, 11K)

Arabian Nights by cleo4u2, LadyAngelique, xantissa (E, 37K)

Yours for the Taking by cookie_book_took (E, 33K)

Traveling Light by wearing_tearing for ratqueen (E, 57K)

The Biggest Part of Me by Anna_Heyward (E, 70K)

What a dizzy dance by MsPeppernose (E, 31K)

The Beast and the Magpie by WinteryFall (E, 34K)

Give 'Em Hope by L1av (E, 130K)

War of Hearts by littlefrog1025 (E, 17K)

Don't Miss Your Water by ACometAppears, nightmaresinwintah (M, 37K)

Waking Dreams by Tobi_Black (T, 38K)

Moondance by flowerfan (M, 30K)

real heroes wear scrubs by averse (M, 8K)

This is how it starts by rinnya (T, 10K)

Goddamnit by bleeeeeeep (E, 4K)

I'm Coming Home by WinterBeserker (E, 89K)

Red Vines by Lorien, Lucidnancyboy (M, 73K)

Finding Nina by MPantrochilles (T, 53K)

The Fascinating Tale of Yasha the Deathless by cake0412, Terrenis (T, 23K)

One Day My Prince Will Come by athaclena for Chiyume (E, 13K)

The Golden and Vibranium Couple by Gaia_bing (T, 2K)

Rebirth by Orangistae (T, 17K)

Aim Towards The Sky by littleblackfox (M, 58K)

The Bee's Knees by antigrav_vector for Chiyume (E, 9K)

I've Been A Fool for Lesser Things by sadtrash (E, 51K)

Love and Laundry by fiftyshadesofsebby, LilyInTheSnow (T, 68K)

Dim Vales and Shadowy Floods by velvetjinx for Chiyume (E, 13K)

The Good Monster by Taste_is_Sweet (T, 22K)

the pulse that rages for you by miraclemoon (E, 10K)

Fistfull of Diapers by OddityBoddity (T, 46K)

Making a Fire by basilique (E, 10K)

Murder on the Orient Express by Shinigami24 (M, 8K)

Music To Watch Boys To by lilolilyrae (M, 14K)

The Coffee Caper, or Remedial Heists for Former Avengers by LizzieHarker (G, 9K)

Unrequited Love by mrshopkirk (E, 12K)

Hawk in a Snowstorm by zephyrism (E, 15K)

The quality of mercy by basilique (M, 5K)

An Accident of Time by Pickitup (M, 42K)

Cause & Effect by Avaaricious (T, 26K)

Dishonor On Your Cow by mandarou (E, 112K)

Voice in my Head by whispersofdelirium (G, 9K)

Heart of Fools by Claudia_flies (E, 56K)

[hannibal-abo]

Even as we curse monsters, we admire them, seek to become them, in some ways

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/359FQt3

by Tobi_Black

Will knew not all monsters looked monstrous, and not all monsters were of man. Dr. Lecter was a perfect example of that, of when the line between monster and man blurs and all who look are fooled. But Will also knew that he, himself, was a perfect example of what happened when morals and laws didn't always align on the same side.

An AU take of Episode 1.01 Aperitif where Will is morally grey and Hannibal isn't quite as human as he looks.

Words: 12405, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Hannibal (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Jack Crawford, Minnesota Shrike | Garret Jacob Hobbs

Relationships: Will Graham & Hannibal Lecter, Jack Crawford & Will Graham, Alana Bloom & Will Graham, Alana Bloom & Hannibal Lecter, Garrett Jacob Hobbs & Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham & Garrett Jacob Hobbs, Will Graham & Louise Hobbs, Will Graham & Abigail Hobbs

Additional Tags: Will Graham-centric, Morally Grey Will Graham, Morally Ambiguous Hannibal Lecter, Hannibal Lecter is a Cannibal, Alternate Universe - Canon, Alternate Universe - Monsters Walk Among Us, Canon-Typical Violence, Aperitif

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/359FQt3

[tobiblack]

Let Us ‘verse Master List

The Clones did not follow Order 66 willingly, forced by control chip and compulsion to kill their Jedi. When given the chance, they Rebelled.

One change enacts another, and another. The butterfly bats its wings and hurricanes form.

1. let us steal a better end [Han Solo]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15291363/chapters/35474628

2. let us fight once more side by side [Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15305517

3. let us survive for another day [Asajj Ventress]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15333315/chapters/35576400

4. let us be forgiven for our sins [Bly/Cody/Wolffe/Appo/Rex]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15344145/chapters/35603940

5. let us learn to be more [Leia Organa]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15371106/chapters/35669067

6. let us requite for our ghosts [Kanan Jarrus]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15447450/chapters/35856372

7. let us never be conquered [Jango Fett]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15470331/chapters/35912997

8. let us rebel for freedom [Hera Syndulla]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15484914/chapters/35947092

9. let us act as renegading mavericks [Qui-Gon Jinn]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15512880/chapters/36009981

10. let us grow up to surpass our parents [Luke Skywalker]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15532473/chapters/36056190

11. let us scrap and choose our kith and kin [Ezra Bridger]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15545127/chapters/36086544

12. let us regroup amongst the shadowed [Quinlan Vos]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15633753/chapters/36302868

13. let us illuminate the dark [Darth Vader]

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15655908/chapters/36364605