#he's a little more ready to move on

[cebwrites]

not yet (one more chance)

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After Taeru dies during Pain's assault, he wakes up in a bright flower field by the water not unlike the scenery Naruto saw when he met Kushina for the first time.

When he spots Shisui twirling a stem between his fingers a little bit aways, he all but lunges at him. Tae doesn't bother to question if it was real, or if this was some twisted second phase of Pain's chakra rods that would make this world fade into an unfathomable hell. As he sobbed openly into his late beloved's arms, felt the warmth of Shisui's chakra - or perhaps, soul - and took solace in his comforting words, Taeru decided that he'd be fine with living this farce for just a moment longer.

The other proverbial shoe never dropped. All Tae knew was that he didn't have the strength to get up again nor ignore the pain in his vitals. Ah, his siblings were going to be upset, but he was too tired to think about that. Eventually, all sensation fades. He thinks he ceases to exist - but all the same, he wakes up here. With a love that was presumed lost in the Naka River.

There's so much to catch up on; so much grief, so many apologies, so many "I love you"s to say. Tae has his uncertainties, not being in the world of the living anymore, but Shisui isn't worried. He's spent his time in purgatory just in case his partner came soon after, Tae apologizes for making him wait and Shisui emphasizes that ideally he wouldn't see him at all! Or at the very least not until he was old and grey.

Tae cracks the obvious joke that he was already grey from genetics, but he could probably find someone who thought twenty-seven was anywhere near "old", Shisui groans at the fact that he couldn't catch him before he said it.

Conversation goes smoothly, it comes to them easy; like there was never an eight year rift of time where Shisui was absent from his side. They talk for what seems like forever just catching up, Tae's stuck to Shisui like glue the entire time, refusing to let go of his lover's hand. Or whatever imaginary physical forms their souls took. It was warm, like his chakra and Shisui himself.

Tae never wanted to let go of him or this feeling ever again.

Time was weird in purgatory, its passing felt like nothing at all and like they were at a standstill in equal parts - although the scenery was nice at least. They could've been here for a minute or a year; the men whose souls were slowly enmeshing together wouldn't be able tell the difference.

No need for rush, they had eternity together anyway, right?

When the topic of who he left behind came up, Tae grimaced. He was finally allowed rest, finally allowed to see the person who's passing left him with so much grief to carry it was hard to wake up in the morning. There were other reasons for the latter, but he wished not to dwell on such hardship in a place like this.

Shisui felt his regrets deeply, they resonated where his chest would be. The pain Shisui felt for his clan, for everything he sacrificed for them and Konoha itself, was immense. Though as selfish as it made him feel, he'd waited around long enough. He was ready for what came next; whether that was reincarnation or an endless nothing, he couldn't stand the thought of spending another minute wandering aimlessly in search of a reason.

For what, he wasn't quite sure.

He was ready, however, to let go. Of the life he left behind.

Extending his hand with a smile, Shisui mentioned that it was about time they headed off. Taeru looked conflicted, admittedly the most emotion his face had shown in years, but ultimately returned the gesture. Or, at least he tried to.

Something had grabbed the back of his shirt before he could grasp Shisui's hand and Tae felt the fear and panic set in as it dragged him away. Was this all a sham, the honey coating bitter poison that would be his ultimate torment? The last thing he saw of that flower field oasis was Shisui's surprise, followed by the cheerful laugh he'd fallen in love with all those years ago.

A disembodied voice filled Tae's ears as he was thrown through the darkness, familiar sears of agony beginning to spark in places he only vaguely remembered being injured in a fight that felt so far away now. That voice was one he resented at some point, yearned to hear what it never directly said, it forbade him from joining Shisui, not until he was its age and beyond because he still had lots of life to live and lots of hearts to break.

As the Gallant Toad Sage's son.

Tae opened his eyes to a ravaged Konoha; everyone was scrambling to make sense of what was going on and being fair, so was he, freshly revived, but his senses hadn't fully returned yet. It took him a second to realize the blurriness in his eyes were from tears, as the last few moments before he was flung back into the mortal realm surfaced to the forefront of his memory.

That old bastard. Even now...

When Tae groaned at the abject agony he was in, he was grateful someone had taken the time to remove the chakra rods he remembered being impaled on, and was met with the tearful faces of his friends. He vaguely registered his brother in the corner of his vision a little while later, though he couldn't make out what everyone was saying. He didn't know how many of his facial muscles responded to the impulses, but in Tae's head he was smirking a little at how silly Takashi looked.

Well. Taeru might have been robbed of eternal rest (at least for now). But knowing that he was cared for like this, regardless of what guilt he'd feel later, was nice.

As he felt the healing glow of medical chakra knitting torn flesh and bone, Tae allowed himself to fall under exhaustion's spell once more, though he knew this one wouldn't be the same as before. He knew he'd wake up in a hospital room, if he was lucky to not just be sent home, feeling like abject dogshit along with everyone else who'd been brought back.

His older brothers would fuss over him between their duties and Takashi would pull overtime to help out because he felt responsible somehow, his friends would come visit in varying states of emotional calamity. Maybe Tenzo-senpai would drop by when Konoha wasn't working his mokuton abilities like a mule. His injuries were bad but they'd heal in due time, the world would continue to spin with him in it. Normalcy would return, and Taeru was fine with all of that.

He could go on living with these terms.

[brainrotcharacters]

just giggled kicked my feet twirled my hair again

[barawrah]

sweetheart

[zappedbyzabka]

Sacrificial lamb and all that

[momotonescreaming]

lowkey obsessed with the domestic college stommy au that lives in my head

[danieyells]

Felt a bizarre little sense of discomfort seeing a character with my deadname is aroace (whereas ordinarily i would either be happy or indifferent) so today is perhaps going to be a sensitive day

[phioneplatinum]

He's ok! I think! Maybe! Probably...

anyways late night saturday vrchat session was a thing that happened and it sure was chaotic as you'd expect we didn't get a lot of pictures but we do have these ones! :D hoping to add emotes to the tempo soon, but alas....visemes are hard to work with. hopefully i can get it sorted out soon! i def wanna get the silly emotes working oh yeah don't mind the basil omor in the third image that's just @komasan192

also im fully willing to plan out a vrchat session for harmoknight tumblr! i usually do em on friday, saturday, and sunday nights since thats when im mainly free :D maybe this weekend? :0

[iniziare]

Tag drop: Aventurine.

[snowbatsims]

i am giving forgotten hollow THE SPACE IT DESERVES 👏

[windor-truffle]

*chants in increasing volume* ghost AU ghost AU GHOST AU GHOST AU

[isaut]

Ophie are there any outfits in particular for your divorce au that Rex really loves you in? 👀

gray ily…. there are in fact!!!! rex loves summertime ophie….. wearing skirts and dresses and sandals, just a little more carefree. a little more relaxed. a little more well rested. he just loves the flowing skirts and little tops……. going to dinner after a beach day……

but during the year he has two favorite outfits in rotation…. school year is mostly jeans and tops. always high heels no matter what…. these are definitely friday night going out outfits but they make him constantly do double takes…… (he also has on more than one occasion flung me over his shoulder to carry me home because i wasn’t walking fast enough)

and last but not least……. anything off the shoulder makes him go insane. like nearly unable to function. it’s the collarbones and the shoulders…..

safe to say the closet is endless….. nothing gets thrown out or donated because what if the daughters want to wear them???? rex has emergency out first at his house, which are just a few tshirts, two pairs of jeans, socks and sneakers. he’s concerned about when we move in together because my closet is not kept up to his level of tidiness. he comes over one day to help and realizes it’s never clean because there’s literally not room for anything.

[the-physicality]

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[hauntingblue]

Strong world is the nami and luffy twins manifesto written by oda this is my one piece.

You see luffy's finishing attack with his giant hammer being fueled by lightning which is nami's main weapon with her clima tact and she even made the guy steer the islands towards the cyclone so even if the lighting isn't produced by her the lighting is provided by her either way so luffy AND her finished that guy and even luffy attacked after nami announced how he will lose which also means nami knew and trusted luffy to end him after that and of course he did and

Oh my god luffy making nami explain herself about the message he left on the tone dial and being pissed that she didn't trust him to save and protect her but he got so mad and didn't hear the whole message and she asked luffy to save her omg....... she knew after all that they will come and win..... I love this ending I am going to walk into the sea now goodbye.

Why are whitebeard and ace on the ending credits I already cried. Watching aces part again cause he looks so good. Hello alive dead wife

[harmonizewithechoes]

It’s my middle child’s 3rd birthday today 🥺

3 years ago my partner was deployed overseas and couldn’t come home for the birth because the military didn’t want to spend so much time quarantining their soldiers. Fortunately I had help as my parents were watching my son (at the time just a month shy of 2) for a few days before my due date and we had moved across the street from my partner’s parents when we found out about the deployment. So I had his mom with me at the hospital holding up her phone while we got to have a rare video call with my partner as we welcomed our daughter into the world after a very quick labor. I then had two months with our two very little kids by myself before he came home. It was an incredibly hectic time and I’m still not quite sure how I was able to get through all of that but here we are with the sweetest little 3 year old (let’s call her C) we could have asked for 🥰

C loves to play dress up and she has specific characters she’ll play as where you can’t refer to her as her name or she’ll get mad. She’s not C she’s Dr C or Baby or Baby Kitty or Princess Bucket (this was her first character and yes she does put a bucket on her head as a crown). Her favorite game to play is hide and seek and she loves dance parties and drawing and she’s obsessed with her 1 year old sister. We love C so much and I’m so excited to see how she grows and changes and learns over this next year ❤️

[longagoitwastuesday]

I'm loving how, being stagings of the play and not reinterpretations, many productions are able to add some characteristic creative twist to it that adds or enhances something in particular

[lamentablesbian]

moving out (take 2) tomorrow 💃💃💃 let’s go!