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[darlingsdontdie]

for @randomaccforlurking - thanks for your patience, i loved writing about this so I hope you enjoy!

if somebody asked kurama what first made him like you, he'd tell them it was your fire or your inner strength or your cunning, or something else equally intimidating, but in reality, it was the kind way you treated him. naruto was the first human to treat him with respect, but you were the first human to take it a step further - the first human to be interested in him for his own sake

he's more direct than other yanderes - kurama doesn't have any interest in the intricacies of human ways. when he decides you're his, he'll find you and tell you directly. when he feels like your friends and family are encroaching on his territory, he'll tell you they're annoying and to get rid of them

at the same time, he's a total tsundere. he isn't used to caring and being cared about so when pressed to explain why he protects you, or spends time with you, he'll say something about how "irritating" it would be to replace you, or how he finds you "tolerable"

he vacillates wildly between the two behaviors, sometimes mid-sentence. "you're too ridiculous and pathetic to survive on your own, so if anyone bothers you, let me know and i'll destroy them and everything they've ever loved."

one day he gets a good look at you and realizes that you're a pretty little thing, just his type. from then on, the same directness/denial dictates his flirtations. "i am a creature far beyond you in years, power, and prowess - you should be flattered such a being has offered to grant you a place in his bed"

at first, you assume both of these are just part of his strange attempts to cheer you up after a long day. you consider the two of you friends, as funny as that sounds. and it does sound funny, because to literally everyone outside of you, naruto, and sometimes team 7, he's a terrifying enigma

kurama either cares about people or he doesn't. he parses his affections very sparsely and selectively, and those who receive it, receive it in full force. so, strangely, he can acknowledge to himself that he's willing to kill for you before he realizes how he... feels for you

and he does kill for you. often. with great, open pleasure. thankfully, there are enough actual threats to you in a world of shinobi that he doesn't start in on those that just irritate you

at first.

but the world is getting safer, and there are others, humans who understand you intuitively in ways kurama could never hope to, humans who find you interesting and fun to be around, and he knows exactly how right they are and it makes him seethe

on the other hand, there's also those other humans, somehow even more despicable, the ones who don't know their place, such weak, bitter creatures that shouldn't even look at someone like you, let alone insult you with such poor treatment

he takes it out on you at first, with vitriolic words and cold looks, but the confusion and hurt in your eyes quickly puts an end to that. it wouldn't help anyways - you clearly aren't the problem. it's the others

so. he starts getting rid of the problem. and word gets around. he's smarter than to be obvious about it. his security in the village is too fragile as it is. he starts with threats, and if they're too stupid to adhere to his demands, he's a powerful being, physically and politically. he has them disappear, on missions, far outside of the village. when searching, all they can hope to find is a small mangled chunk of bone or a tattered piece of blackening flesh. animals, they suggest with creased brows, trained hounds, or feral wolves? when naruto glances at him, he licks his lips and shrugs

you won't live forever, you note one day with a shrug and a laugh. it's true, and always has been, but it sends him reeling. you're going to die one day - you will, and he'll be left alone again. alone and alive for who knows how long without you? he thinks of all those years he lived before you. maybe that's when it starts to dawn on him that his interest in you is beyond friendship, beyond carnal, beyond normal

either way, this is the moment he decides you're not going to die. he's one of the most powerful creatures the ninja world has ever conceived, and immortality itself has been brushed by plenty lesser. no one will take you from him - not even time itself

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I'm back from the dead and working through requests! Thank you for following and sorry it took so long - like, almost a year? - to return. 2020's been wild but also I sort of got more requests than I was expecting, and it was a little overwhelming.

I closed my inbox atm but I'm considering opening it on my days off. For now, I'm just working through the requests I already have, as well as posting my own stuff that I made but never got around to sharing. It is mostly anons asking, so it's entirely possible that some requesters have already moved on and forgotten about them, but I plan to try to tackle them all anyway. My style may have changed a little, and the formatting of the posts as well, but hopefully nothing so much that you regret sending in the request.

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