#akatsuki tsunade au

[evilkitten3]

Mutual, I'm lowkey obsessing over your tags about akatsuki Tsunade, can you elaborate more the basic timeline? Like how this would affect Tsunade's arc in classic and such

tbh i hadn't really thought about it lol

but.... let's say it happens during the search for tsunade arc? orochimaru and jiraiya are both gunning to get her on their side but you know what? the shark man said please. get your shit shizune we're going with these guys if you poison the little red-eyed shit on the way no judgement (kisame: maybe don't though?)

jiraiya is pissed, orochimaru is torn between being amused bc wow and being in agonizing pain bc his arms still don't work, naruto keeps trying to get her to come heal lee (and now sasuke) but she's having none of it so she just throws a file of miscellaneous notes at his head and tells him "find someone with good chakra control and pray" (sakura: omg i have good chakra control!!!!)

weirdly the member of team seven affected most by this is sasuke bc sakura has absolutely no fucking clue what she's doing at first and it takes her like an extra month to wake him up, so he needs to get back on his feet before he can decide if he wants to run off to orochimaru or not. lee is.... kinda sol, frankly. sakura works really really hard to help him out, and she's eventually able to get him to a place where he can do a few things, but by the time she's good enough to really be able to help him it's way too late. fortunately he's adapted somewhat, and being lee he's surpassed what anyone thought he'd be able to, but he's never going to be what he could've been. gaara feels terrible about this ofc but lee isn't the sort to really hold a grudge, even if pretty much everyone agrees he'd be perfectly justified in doing so. gai never forgives tsunade, though, not really.

concerning tsunade's role in the akatsuki.... the thing is, it's her own grandparents who started the whole jinchuuriki mess. and she's seen with her own two eyes what konoha did to places like amegakure; she was part of it. she doesn't like that the jinchuuriki die post extraction, so she starts looking into how to make that not happen, but if she does succeed, it isn't until after the gaara debacle, so chiyo still dies. her biggest motivation here is naruto - she doesn't agree with him, but he reminds her of nawaki, so she really doesn't want him to die if at all avoidable. she doesn't get too involved in the actual jinchuuriki capturing process tho; she's more useful patching people up after.

having said that, she doesn't fully agree with pain and konan's plan, she just can't really think of anything better. tobi tells sasuke about itachi while tsunade is patching him up, and since it's her family that led to this, she's pretty on-board with the whole "fuck this stupid baka village" thing (ofc she's been heading down that path since joining the akatsuki, so this isn't like canon!tsunade suddenly making this call; there's a couple years of character development first), so.... she's effectively on team sasuke at this point, and once he splits from the akatsuki she does as well.

iirc, post danzou, sasuke spent about eight and a half volumes just kinda adjusting mostly offscreen to his recent ert (eyeball replacement therapy), before skewering og white zetsu and fucking off to go accidentally reunite with zombitachi, but aside from decking itachi through a few trees on sight, idk how much about all that would change. immediately after, when sasuke brings back orochimaru, they have an awkward reunion, followed by yet another awkward reunion when orochimaru brings back the four dead hokage. she's both very happy to see her granddad again, but it's hard for her to tell him (and hiruzen, for that matter) that she deserted the village completely, even if she doesn't regret her decision.

now you may be wondering: weren't shizune and tonton also around? yes! but when sasuke went after danzou, they stayed behind, leading to shizune finding and managing to save konan after tobito killed her. there's a potential romance subplot there as well but i accidentally ruined it for myself by saying aloud "two girls one pig" and then regretting my whole life.

the other survival is jiraiya; he becomes hokage instead since it's either one of the sannin or one of the elders, and as much as he doesn't want the job, he really doesn't want them to have it. this in part means he can't go spying in ame himself, although he very nearly does after orochimaru's death gets reported, but instead he sends someone else. that person dies, but manages to get the information back to him (it has to be someone important to naruto, and it can't be kakashi, so maybe iruka? but idk how he'd be in espionage. maybe one of naruto's classmates did spy training offscreen? it's entirely possible with jiraiya as hokage instead of tsunade but idk). since jiraiya isn't a healer, he'd either need to be injured badly enough for danzou to be able to step in without him being able to object, or sasuke would just need to have his fight with danzou somewhere else (so the raikage's arm might survive also).

the final thing is that, unlike in canon, this version of tsunade never got naruto therapy'd, so while she does eventually get over the hemophilia somehow (maybe just existing in the relative vicinity of hidan did the trick), she never really dealt with the grief that caused her to leave konoha in the first place, so that's still very much there. however, i think maybe this could work to the story's advantage - instead of just naruto vs sasuke, it could be naruto and sakura vs sasuke and tsunade. tho in this instance sasuke really isn't alone, and isn't really trying to be by that point. it's more a battle of "do we try to fix the system from within, or do we really need to start from scratch for things to improve in any meaningful way", but ultimately the winner is the realization that four people from konoha not only shouldn't but honestly can't be the only ones making this call. if the world is going to move forward, it can't be dragged by a single person, or even two people. it's gotta be a group effort. idk if the story should go into the details of what they decide on, bc i'm definitely not politically savvy enough for something like that, or just have an open ending leaving whatever happens next up to interpretation.

(sorry this took so long lol i kept having to do things XD)

[rose-lalondde]

naruto but it's my modern fantasy world au

[historias-multorum]

@thetoaddaddy liked for a starter!

"It's not safe for you to be here." Tsunade greeted her former teammate. "You should go back the way you came or find another way to where ever you're going. The Akatsuki will not take too kindly to unwanted guests in their territory." She warned.

[x-authorship-x]

UPDATE

Until Dawn Breaks

Chapter Twenty-Six: Blowing In The Wind

"How many times can a man turn his head

And pretend that he just doesn't see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind"

- Bob Dylan

Chapter 1-23

UPDATE

Until Dawn Breaks

Chapter Twenty-four: Once More

"The fire within me had dwindled.

As the wind swept through,

I did not know if that spark

would ignite once more…

Or die completely."

- Anon

[rayshippouuchiha]

i was rereading the team uzumaki au tag and i saw that the gremlins massively underestimate how strong they are because theyre comparing themselves to Naruto. it would be incredibly funny if naruto does the same thing, he's little more aware of it because he knows not everyone has a bijuu tenant but everyone he knows is like Kakashi or tsunade and he keeps fighting akatsuki, orochimaru, sasuke, meaning he has the same problem. "Must get stronger!"

Oh I like that too. Naruto knows he's strong, Kurama and the foxes tell him that, but there's this disconnect in his head where he feels as if he's still behind somehow.

[rkaln]

its akatsuki!Lee propaganda & #like what is the lore

part III

and what does suna's anbu have to do with it? it will be later, but the sktch with anbu!Lee bcse that's what I'm going to end up with... god, the list of my <thing>!Lee doesn't look like a joke anymore…

going back to the last part

> gaara really feels guilty. in general, it looks like Lee literally found himself in the position that Gaara has always been in, and which he is trying so hard to fix. so a one-time dialogue with an apology should end with an unspoken

"you can come if necessary, and you will be accepted/ not handed over"

> So over time it becomes a safe space and a place where one might not be "akatsuki given that, definitely, over time, Lee may have thought that he would like to return home, but understanding how impossible it is now does not give reason to consider such an option

***

a little offtop, but DO YOU REMEMBER THIS FILLER? I know that filler is not canon, but it fits so well into this AU. because my reasoning boiled down to the fact that orochimaru perfectly manipulates emotions and, in fact, there were no guarantees that Tsunade would have been found at all, but Guy? if before the filler, I put it into the fact that Lee could reason that he would prove to him that it was the right decision. And she will only show herself to him when she can prove it. then AFTER this filler, I consider it one of the main triggers for making a decision.

(ok, no one will deny that Lee is very emotional, and in fact there are enough moments in the canon when it acquires an aggressively dark character, but a really difficult emotional state also plays a role here, and if to a huge offense towards Sasuke and doubts about the life position that "really everything can be done with the help of your own work." ADD THIS MOMENT FROM THE FILLER TO IT?? moreover, he is still, you know, a teenager)

s o, this is one of the reasons why I don't consider that he would return to Guy. if at first it was anger and resentment, then with time and the realization of some other things, it would just come down to shame and guilt.

***

> so Gaara and Lee have much more understanding of each other in this AU at the level of life experience.

So even taking into account the fact that they had no interaction here except for the arch of the exam (because the arch with Sasuke's persecution is already superimposed on the time when Lee left), gaara would still be ready to provide unconditional acceptance to him, because he knows that if you do shitty things and everyone around sees only this, matching something else is too difficult

-> running into the "safe space" becomes something quite stable over time

> what about sex? here it is for me the same "slowburn, but they fuck regularly"

AU, in which I believe that sex appeared before "relationships" because:

- no one ever knows if there will be a next meeting at all, because this is not the case when you will receive a letter telling you what happened

- it is also a more "simple" way of interaction, where you do not need to put everything into words or think about social norms

as part of the speech about rough sex, here is a little more detail.

and with a reference to the dialogue about "bad people" in the previous part

The longer Lee stays in Akatsuki, the more he returns to the fact that, according to his worldview, he is still a bad person.

There was no such dialogue between them, so sooner or later Gaara must turn away from him too.

"he just didn't understand."

"he hasn't seen what kind of person I am yet."

"I don't deserve to be accepted and treated like this."

... and Gaara's absolute indifference to these facts even starts to anger to some extent.

"he just doesn't believe in what I can be."

(actually, it's funny separately, because generally remembering that they are ninjas in the canon, is it that "I will become the strongest ninja who cannot use chakra" actually sounds like "I will be the best at killing on my own," you know)

so one day it will come to Lee's attempts to cross the line, to grope for the boundary of this acceptance. (so sex is involved in this too) "now he'll understand and push me away" "after that he won't be able to accept me"

It's clear that this is pretty stupid considering Gaara's experience.

of course, it doesn't work. more precisely, it works as a confirmation that there were no borders there.

so rough sex is also a separate tool of interaction, in which Lee can be convinced of acceptance, not to mention some other things like personal emotions, feelings of possession, etc., and for Gaara, it's just something in which he (FINALLY) can not be responsible for his actions. (here I'm talking about the fact that Gaara's whole life is surrounded by responsibility for others, and responsibility for what you did in the past), not to mention some other things like personal emotions etc lol

[themidnightguardian]

Day 1: Panic Attack & Race Against the Clock -- Kakashi (ft. Team 7)

gen | AU of the hospital rooftop fight | Warnings: panic attacks, hints of PTSD, referenced childhood trauma, referenced child deaths, canon-typical violence, Kakashi's guilt complex, brief suicide idealization (specifically with Kakashi feeling he can only be redeemed in dying)

Whumptober 2024 Masterlist

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Kakashi knew something was wrong by the increasingly familiar trickle of dread down his spine that he had come to associate with his students’ lives being in danger. It wasn’t anything tangible, nothing he had proof of. It was just a gut feeling, but nothing good had ever come of ignoring his instincts.

(He might have managed to save Obito if he’d learned to listen sooner. Might have been able to stop Itachi from slaughtering his clan. Might have fought harder to keep Naruto from going to an orphanage, instead of into Kakashi’s care, like Minato-sensei would have wanted.)

Instinctively, he changed his course from the Memorial Stone back towards the hospital. He’d just been discharged half an hour ago, and he’d left Naruto and Sakura at Sasuke’s bedside where he was still recovering from Tsukuyomi. He’d thought they’d be safe there.

Had something gone wrong medically? It wasn’t like Tsunade to make mistakes, and besides, Sasuke seemed fine when Kakashi left, if grumpier than usual.

What if Orochimaru is making another play for the sharingan? he thought, picking up the pace. His own chakra reserves were still drained from his last fight with Itachi and the weeks he’d spent in a coma, but he pushed himself faster, using shunshin to cross rooftops in the span of seconds. What if the Akatsuki have sent someone else to collect the kyuubi?

Another twenty seconds—so slow, too slow, why couldn’t he move faster—and the hospital was finally in view. The hospital, which had a lumpy mass of orange on its roof.

Naruto’s shadow clones. Fuck.

Faster. His gut had been right; there was a problem. Some kind of fight was happening on the hospital rooftop, and Naruto was involved. And if Naruto was involved, then Sasuke would have followed him, too determined to not get left behind. And if Sasuke had gone, then Sakura would be there, and if they were facing down an S-rank nin—hell, even an A-rank or B-rank nin—then they were all going to get wiped out.

Kakashi refused to let that happen. He’d made a promise to himself when Sarutobi made him take on Team 7 that he wouldn’t fail them the same way he’d failed his own genin teammates. That he would do anything to keep them alive.

(It was a promise he couldn’t hope to keep, not in the world they lived in. But he knew if he lost any of the kids, it would destroy him in a way none of the other deaths of his precious people had managed. His father’s death had been crushing. Obito’s had ripped him in half. Rin’s had shattered him into a million pieces, and Minato’s had left him a shell of a person.

But if Naruto or Sasuke or Sakura died, Kakashi didn’t think he had any pieces of himself left to lose to grief.

If the kids died, Kakashi was certain he would follow them one way or another.)

He was one building away when the clones dispersed rapidly, and the crackling chirp of chidori filled the air. He launched himself forward. If Sasuke needed to pull out an attack of that caliber, then they were in danger, they needed him, they—

Kakashi landed on the edge of the hospital rooftop, momentarily frozen in place.

On one end of the roof, Sasuke ran forward, chidori a bright burst of lightning in his palm. On the other end, Naruto, racing towards him, arm outstretched with a swirling rasengan.

Aimed at each other.

And Rin Sakura—always forced to play peacemaker between the boys—was trying to step between. As if she could stop them. As if they might stop for her.

(Brown hair. Purple marks on her cheeks. A smile. Blood on his hand, warm and wet. Blood, spilling from her mouth. Dead. Dead, dead, dead.

Everyone was always dying, and it was always his fault.)

He was moving before the image in his head fully faded. He was faster than Sakura, faster than Naruto or Sasuke. Faster and stronger, and he would stop them, he had to, he had to—

It was easy. They were inexperienced, and they were too focused on each other to see him coming. He wrapped his hands around their wrists, wrenched them apart just as Sakura went stumbling past.

(Too close. Too close. Too close.)

The rooftop fell silent, but Kakashi could hear his own heartbeat thundering in his ears, smelled the lingering singe of lightning, and he suddenly he couldn’t breathe. He couldn’t—his lungs wouldn’t work, too heavy, weighed down, like they were being crushed, crushed like Obito—

Black creeped in at the edge of his vision, and suddenly the heaviness in his lungs felt less like crushing and more like stabbing, like they’d been torn through, like Rin—

(God, like Rin, when Kakashi killed her.

He killed her.

He killed her. He killed her. He killed her.)

“Ka—”

He tried to breathe in, but it didn’t work, or maybe it did but it didn’t matter, and the dark creeped closer anyway, and maybe that was what he deserved. Yes. It was what he deserved, and when he died, maybe then Rin and Obito could forgive him. When he died, maybe that would be enough.

“Kakashi—”

It would never be enough, but it would be a start. And he was dying—he had to be dying, because he couldn’t breathe and he couldn’t see past the darkness, and everything was heavy, and his body must finally be quitting on him. He’d known it would, one day.

“Kakashi-sensei, please!”

There was a sharp slap to his face, and the shock of it yanked him abruptly back to the rooftop. For a moment, all he could see was pink-orange—the sunset, he thought, until something blue-black edged in, and no…those were his students leaning over him. Sakura, face wet. Naruto, eyes wide and frantic. Sasuke, white-knuckled grip on Kakashi’s vest.

Kakashi inhaled, and the air in his lungs hurt, but it was there. He became aware of the pavement under him. Somehow, he’d ended up on the ground. He must have collapsed.

“Sensei?” Sakura asked, voice wobbling.

“Hm?” He couldn’t manage more than that, his throat still tight enough he worried a single word would be enough to choke him.

But instead of asking a question, she let out a sob and all but tackled him, Naruto following a second after. It was a good thing he was already on the ground, or else they’d have knocked him over.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry,” Naruto said, and now he sounded like he was crying too, face half-buried in Kakashi’s shoulder.

Slowly, carefully, and with his arm still feeling like it weighed a hundred pounds, Kakashi lifted a hand and patted the top of Naruto’s head. Then Sakura’s. And then, because Sasuke had always been pricklier about that sort of thing, even if he needed the same reassurances the others did, Kakashi reached out and clasped his shoulder.

“Me, too,” Sasuke said, much more quietly and without the tears. But there was a heaviness to it. Shame, Kakashi thought. “I’m…sorry.”

Kakashi nodded as much as he was able, and then let his head thunk back down on the pavement.

(Later, when the crying finally stopped and Kakashi was back in the damned hospital again—because apparently he’d re-drained his chakra reserves and also passed out, and that required inpatient care—he’d tear them all a new one, Sakura included. The boys were in the most trouble for fighting each other like that, but to get between two deadly jutsus? It was suicidal.)

(And if, when Kakashi was done lecturing from his hospital bed—and Tsunade was done yelling, twice as loud and with significantly more swearing thrown in—the kids refused to budge from the hospital room, clustering around Kakashi’s bed and taking turns maintaining a point of contact like they thought he would disappear if they let him go for even a second…well.

This wasn’t the way Kakashi had wanted to make them all act like a proper team, but he wasn’t about to argue with the results.)

[mixelation]

(for the tori being a sasori girl au)

Does Jiraiya lurk in the akatsuki rpf fandom? Considering how dedicated fandoms are at keeping tabs on all available info.

i think the rate of fandom actually revealing meaningful and correct information that he can't already get his hands on is extremely low, so no, he doesn't actively monitor it. i can see him dropping in if he follows a lead back to fandom chatter, but it's not an ongoing thing

on the other hand i can see him going into fandom sometimes for his own entertainment. not for akatsuki stuff, but i can see him buying tsunade pinups or tracking down rpf about himself. probably not habitually tho because he has insane emotions about the orochimaru content. plasticity!verse jiraiya also probably dodges fannish content about minato, although mutagenicity!verse jiraiya likely thinks it's funny. he's bought kushina saucy fanart more than once. minato HATES this but kushina gets so giggly he won't say anything

[hellcifrogs]

Can we get some story stuff from your sannin swap au v2? I have literally not found anything with that in Tumblr yet and I doubt I can find anything outside it.

Okay okay, the ideas I had were all mostly separated so let me try and put it all into one plot line lol ->

Sakura is taken by Orochimaru as a child, he notices her skills with chakra control, strategies and her great memory sometime early in the academy, maybe spying around the village. Naruto and Sasuke still get put on team 7 - I could add Sai here just because :) - and the rest of the story goes on basically the same way.

Orochimaru could still try to get Sasuke during the chunin exams, but it wouldn't make any difference really. Once Naruto and Jiraya get Tsunade to be the new hokage she decided to train Naruto herself - being part Uzumaki like his mom and hokage like his dad, and realizing Hiruzen didn't do a good job with Naruto.

Meanwhile Sasuke is still frustrated with Naruto's improvement and his lack of powers, so Kakashi asks Jiraya to take him for a bit too - being his master's master's master lol. So Jiraya takes Sasuke with him to travel, which is also a good excuse to keep him away from Orochimaru and the dangers konoha presents to him as an Uchiha.

Shippuden time ->

Sakura is still training/working with Orochimaru, but she knows her time is close and he'll try to take her body anytime now so she plans to kill him and has been gathering info to get back to her family.

Naruto is already Tsunade's new right hand man, giving Shizune a break - She can go on missions with Sai and Kakashi. And has a growing popularity around the village, some people still don't like or trust him and Danzo is still somewhere around plotting, but Naru and Tsunade are already thinking of ways to get rid of him, though they don't know all of his crimes yet.

Sasuke returns to the village :D the story again goes as before. Naruto, Sasuke and Sai going on missions, briefly meet Sakura in the hideouts. After killing Orochimaru, Sakura joins the Akatsuki with team Taka (I give in, she goes after them :') she doesn't take Zabuza's sword for Suigetsu though, she already knew about Juugo from Kimimaro and meets Karin for the first time, the two had only just heard about each other - Karin is the one who cuts her hair, and they slowly become friends)

[I want to add more here, maybe have Sakura involved in the fight against Jiraya and, because she's trying to find info about Konoha, she saves him/doesn't let him die]

Sasuke finally finds Itachi to kill him, Jiraya had tried to convince him to give up on that, but only got him to slow down on the revenge thing, Naruto and Sai also tried to stop him, but in the end they decide to go with him to make sure he's okay. Sakura is also there looking for information on Tobi/Madara. She sees some of the fight and falls a little for Sasuke, but mostly she's very touched by team 7's friendship.

Sakura takes this chance to finally go back to konoha with them.

She becomes a spy in the Akatsuki and thanks to her Tsunade is ready for Pein's attack. Tsunade and Jiraya agree to teach Naruto the toad sage mode, because Jiraya is still Naruto's godfather and owes him a little more than just the rasengan. 

[A little more I'm not sure about lol]

The war doesn't really happen, since it's basically just the Zetsus, because Sakura also killed Kabuto, not trusting him to be left alone with Orochimaru's labs (wise), and Tobi against all the nations, the incredibly over powered team 7 and no Madara :)

This AU could take a little more time AFTER the war to get Sakura finding her family, team Taka being accepted by konoha 12 friends, Naruto closer and closer to becoming hokage and Sasuke finally rebuilding the clan reputation.

Team 7 becomes the pride of the village. The future Hokage, Sasuke the Uchiha hero and Sai who finally brought down Danzo.

[happyocelot]

send me an au and i’ll give you 5+ headcanons about it 😊

NaruHina - SpyAU

NaruHina - space travel AU

Thanks! I came up with these in a few minutes. Hope you like!

NaruHina - Spy AU

1. Naruto and Hinata are both spies from the same spy training academy but Naruto sucks at being a spy. He is the clumsiest and insists on wearing this eye-bleeding shade of orange whenever he's on a mission and naturally doesn't do a good job of blending in. He has a complex about being the best spy EVER and shouts this out loud...a lot. Again, so many covers blown, so many times.

Hinata is so quiet, she blends in with the furniture and no one notices her, so she's much better at the job than Naruto. A higher-up (Kakashi? Tsunade? I think both...) decides to rein in Naruto and hopefully salvage any missions he's on, and assigns Hinata as his partner.

2. This backfires HORRIBLY...because Hinata has been in love with Naruto for years and becomes a clumsy mess around him too.

3. Naruto and Hinata are assigned to infiltrate the criminal group Akatsuki, and Naruto is so over-the-top about being the best spy dattebayo that no one in the group believes he is a real spy...refuge in audacity works for him. Hinata is also assumed to be a harmless little thing ("why are you even in a criminal group?") and gathering info is pretty easy for her.

4. Against all odds and with the help of inside agent Itachi, they successfully bust the criminal gang.

5. They get married with Naruto wearing a bright orange tuxedo and Hinata wearing a bright orange wedding gown. Naruto's former teacher Iruka is crying in joy that his beloved student is getting married and also crying in rage that he insisted on a bright orange theme for the wedding.

NaruHina - Space Travel AU

Astronaut Naruto forces the space travel director Kakashi to give astronauts dehydrated space ramen and furthermore to make that everyone's meal all the time. The other astronauts in the program hate him.

It proves a hit with the general public. Dehydrated ramen sales have never been higher. Naruto accidentally started a cult around dehydrated space ramen.

He tries to moon walk and trips.

He suggests a trip to Mercury or perhaps Venus on a TV talk show and is gently reminded that humans would die if they ever went to those planets. Not to be dissuaded, he begins suggesting trips to Neptune, Pluto, and the Andromeda Galaxy.

One day, scanning the newspaper, his eyes catch a headline, "Young lady beats astronaut's record for most dehydrated cup ramen consumed in one sitting." He makes it his mission to track her down. Then begins a whole other story...

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Age swap au

Obito goes to gain power from Orochimaru so that he can gain Revenge for his clan by killing their murderer

Rin sticking with Sakura-Sensei to improve her skills and studying to become better with her traps but also to find her path (which ultimately leads to medical ninjitsu as well as fuijitsu)

Kakashi not being able to find someone he wants to train with after Obito leaves, and feeling out of place in the village but also needing protection from the Akatsuki, so he goes on a journey with Naruto-Sensei who gets clearance from Tsunade-sama. Naruto doesn’t really train Kakashi so much as take a whole bunch of Jutsu scrolls that he lets Kakashi study and lesrn from.

He does spar against Kakashi a lot, but finds Kakashi actually excels best on his own with someone to help him gain access to scrolls and test his growth at least once every three days.

[samehadasushi]

I have new sketches for the Naruto Soul Eater Au!

Firstly, we have the Shinigami of Fire: Tsunade is currently wearing the mask. As a rule, this is passed on to a new person in secret and only with the Deathscythe's knowledge.

Secondly, the butterfly witch: Konan. Since I really wanted to bring in the Akatsuki as the second/third (Depending on whether you count the kishin before or after) antagonist, I had no choice but to mix Konan with Arachne. I'm actually quite happy with the idea after drawing her.

And finally Hidan: the chainsaw weapon. I can't help but say that Giriko and Hidan give me pretty much the same vibes, so it was an obvious choice. Although I did think about a scythe at first, but I'll reserve that for others. Plus, I can add Kakuzu instead of Moskito and keep the bickering between the two.

[x-authorship-x]

UPDATE

Until Dawn Breaks

Chapter Twenty-One: Passing Between

Summary: "The winds tore through me,

Passing between flesh and bone.

The winds consumed me,

Hunger that wore solid stone."

- Anon

Chapters 1-19^^^^

UPDATE

Until Dawn Breaks

Chapter Twenty: Blow

Summary: "Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

Feral Neighbors AU Scenes

Haru: *wakes up strangely warm. Raises head to realize Barkspawn is on the bed (which he always does) but so are eight other dogs. Kakashi is laying beside her, staring with haunted eyes.* Bad Mission?

Kakashi: *nods*

Haru: *puts hand on his head* Need a spar?

Kakashi: *head shake*

Haru: Sex? I think Gai is in the village.

Kakashi: *head shake*

Haru: Cuddles only then?

Kakashi: *nods*

Haru: Alright. Oi, Barky. *nudges her dog* Tell the restaurant I have a ninja barnacle today.

Barkspawn: Already did. Let me sleep.

*cue everyone sleeping*

-0-

Kakashi: *walks into the apartment he owns to find Haru and Naruto scribbling seals on a scroll* Idea?

Naruto: store healing chakra and antidotes-

Haru: -combine with explosive seals-

Both: HEALING BOMB.

Kakashi: Great! I'll go reserve a training ground. Now, which clan pisses us off this week...

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Kakashi: *hasn't eaten properly in three weeks*

Haru: *comes out of nowhere with bared teeth and a bento box* SUP BITCH.

Kakashi: Oh! Hello!

Everyone else: What?

-0-

Kakashi: So anyway when you go hunting, here is a a few shinobi you should avoid. *hands Haru Akatsuki pictures*

Haru: ... I slept with like half these guys.

Kakashi: ... What?

Haru: Yeah, this guy, Kakuzu was in Grass, Kisame was in Wave, this Hidan guy was fucking freaky let me tell you...

Kakashi: ... Are you just going through the bingo books sleeping with S-Class ninja.

Haru: ... if I hit on Tsunade just right do you think-

Kakashi: Don't!... also, bet you can't seduce Killer B.

Haru: BET!

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Some Idiot: Genma! I heard your girlfriend is trying to seduce a Kumo ninja!

Genma: What? *cups hands to yell* HEY! HARU! IF YOU DO MANAGE IT STEAL HIS SHIT.

Haru: *calls back* I WANNA TRY AND BED HIM IN HIS OWN HOME I'LL STEAL ANYTHING NOT NAILED DOWN.

Genma: Nice.

Idiot: What?

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Haru: *watches as Shikamaru threatens Sasuke who is smirking as he stands with Naruto. Kiba has heart eyes around Naruto as well gaining more threats. Chouji’s blushing gets a hum*

Haru: *watches Ino be painfully gay around Sakura who is looking at Sasuke*

Haru: *watches Lee flush around Neji while the Hyuuga angsts*

Haru: shoul… should I get popcorn or sake? Or both?

[team7-headquarter]

I have a new au, modern setting with similar shinobi politics, where Tsunade is in charge of the kunoichis of Konoha and their many operations.

It's called Diamond Girls.

Minato made an amazing new system so shinobis wouldn't have to step on a field until they were at least 15 years old. When he died, Hiruzen was forced "by the elders and Danzo" to establish back some of the traditional ways.

The sannins opposed to it and after some serious altercations, they were cleared to offer their own extension programs and run their own operations.

You can join them if you're a Konoha shinobi of any rank, but you must break ties with your clan, if you belong to one. You can join them as a rogue ninja too, but you must become an ally of Konoha. Either way, the program / operation you choose will become your number 1 priority, over any other bond in your life.

As expected, Tsunade has the medical program. Not as expected though is the special operation she runs: an only-women squad, known as the Diamond Girls. Undoubtedly her way of saying she won't allow the kunoichis to be neglected.

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You'll find familiar faces under new light:

Ino and Hinata left their clans, Tenten is living her dream and Sakura hasn't seen Team 7 since she was 15 years old (she'll see them soon enough).

Orochimaru, equally unhinged but slightly more human, offers a squad to support Tsunade. Anko leads it and Karin, Kin Tsuchi and Tayuya are part of it. Rin is alive, she takes turns with Shizune as Tsunade's second. Kurenai ends up accidentally adopting Haku. Karui and Kurotsuchi join the girls from time to time. Temari is a pilot!! Combat level!

And there's also so much going up for the boys. Orochimaru and Danzo are hunting each other. There's a rumor that the sannins plan to kill the Hokage. Jiraiya has "secret meetings" with THE Akatsuki. Naruto knows about his parents and he's after who killed them. Sasuke is once more the key to the Uchiha massacre (but this time he's old enough to intervene!). So. Much. Going. On.

It's mainly girls povs and it's focused on how often the ones that determined the course of a nation are the people with the little roles. I'm so excited to write it, yet terrified of doing it wrong...

Anyway, another au for the future. Hopefully.

[a-ghost-that-writes]

Acidic

Ship: Kisame x Tsunade

Inspiration: One Word Writing Prompts [pt. 4]

AU: Yakuza/Mafia

You never know what life's going to throw at you, once you're an adult. When you're a kid it's so easy to just go with the flow of things, no real care or worry. As an adult, you get hit with reality like a speeding truck. No warnings, no notification.

Tsunade and Kisame knew this reality all too well. Tsunade, the granddaughter of the Police Force in Tokyo. And Kisame, one of the muscle men for the infamous Akatsuki Yakuza group. You'd never imagine such a combination, but here they were; naked and just finished having rough sex.

Her body still recovering from the fun that was had. Kisame was indeed a biter and decorated her skin with plenty of marks with his teeth. Just looking at the marks was turning her on all over again, damn, he was good. The way he made her almost hoarse from yelling and moaning was the biggest shock to both of them.

He was sound asleep so she must have done something right. Too bad life couldn't let them be together. Their lives were too different for that. She was a surgeon, her job was to help others, and he was a Yakuza member. His job was to do whatever was necessary to make it in this cruel world.

But at least, until they had to depart, they had the moments together from last night. Even if it was just sex, it was sex worth having in the end.