#narutoscifiweek2020

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For Day 5 of @naruto-scifi-week, this chapter is for the prompt Artificial Intelligence! Gaara gets a headache, unlocks Lee’s tragic backstory, and makes a decidedly un-Sunan decision. 

Title: All the Grain of Babylon

Rating: M

Fandom: Naruto

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (see notes for specific warnings)

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee, Minor or Background Relationships

Characters: Rock Lee, Gaara, Sand Siblings, Konoha Twelve

Additional Tags: Naruto Sci-Fi Week 2020, Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Alternate Universe - After Earth, Trans Characters, Cultural Misunderstandings, Touch-Starved, Sunans are basically Morlocks with a Vulcan twist, Inspired by the Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Disabled Characters

Summary:

Sunagakure is an outpost’s outpost, the most hidden of the hidden villages. Situated deep in the bowels of the planet Kaze, aptly named for the devastating windstorms caused by its thin atmosphere, the village is mostly nomadic. Under attack, the entire village can close off its tunnel structure and relocate in less than twenty-four hours, so long as the location of the Seed Bank isn’t discovered.

With Gaara as its leader and a code of strict cultural mores, the small underground society has survived, perhaps even thrived. But their safety and stability is put at risk when a ship crashes on the surface of Kaze. A ship whose crew claim to be the last known survivors of the long-abandoned planet Earth. And what the outsiders bring with them causes Gaara to question everything he’s ever known …

Read ‘All the Grain of Babylon’, Chapter 5 here on Ao3!

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Summary: Yashamaru’s thoughts run like ghosts that walk through the backdoor in his head. They barge in unexpected, and unwanted. And the medicine— the medicine was only supposed to keep them quiet for a day. One day. Instead, it ended up burying himself so deep in his own head, that Anko has to find him again and bring him back.

Day 1: Exploration entry for @naruto-scifi-week Ship: YashaAnko Warnings: death mention, ptsd mention, biopolar mention, some vague mention of maybe human experimentation, suicidal ideations are sort of there, people generally have lots of problems in this fickinda trippy? Ish? I mean they’re mentions but they get like a sentence maybe s paragraph

“Sorry, it’s—“ He struggled to put the key in. The wrong key. Struggled to keep the crying baby from squirming in his arms. There was a large tote bag full of grocery items, a bruised apple peeking out from the top. He smiled at her, still trying to jam in the wrong key. “Give me a minute. I’m almost there.”

Anko looked at the man in front of her, at the memory in front of her.

No, not a memory. But a shadow of one.

“You’re not my Yashamaru.”

It stopped wiggling the door knob. The baby was still crying.

“I’m sorry— I can’t seem to get it in,” it smiled at her. That sort of sheepish smile Yashamaru got when he knows he’s in for a scolding.

But that wasn’t how that night went.

Anko held her supplies tightly and turned her gaze to the corridor that continued into the darkness. Keep going. I need to find him. She didn’t think the mirages would be that easy to ignore it— but she knew Yashamaru.

And she knew that evening like the back of her hand. He had dropped the apple when he climbed up the stairs, and it rolled all the way down her corridor like a soft hello. Hey, you dropped your produce— you okay? Yashamaru had all the bad hours of that day streaming down his cheeks, and the little smudge of baby barf on the white coat he forgot to take off. Sorry it’s— the twist of his lips, trying not to break down in front of a stranger. I’m fine— I’m so sorry for the noise—

“You’re leaving me,” it whispered with the all too familiar crack in his voice.

Anko stopped— her weight still in between a stride. “That’s low,” she hissed, holding her supplies tightly and grasping for the shape of a knife.

“But it’s true, isn’t it?”

Stay focused. An echo of an earlier conversation rang in her ears. You cannot get lost down there. If you enter the wrong room, we would lose both of you…

I won’t get lost. I’ll bring him back.

Anko continued forward and unto the next plane of Yashamaru’s mindscape.

Read the rest at AO3!

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Here’s my Day 1 entry for @naruto-scifi-week! For the prompt Lost Civilization. 

Title: All the Grain of Babylon

Rating: M

Fandom: Naruto

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (see notes for specific warnings)

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee, Minor or Background Relationships

Characters: Rock Lee, Gaara, Sand Siblings, Konoha Twelve

Additional Tags: Naruto Sci-Fi Week 2020, Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Alternate Universe - After Earth, Trans Characters, Cultural Misunderstandings, Touch-Starved, Sunans are basically Morlocks with a Vulcan twist, Inspired by the Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Disabled Characters

Summary:

Sunagakure is an outpost’s outpost, the most hidden of the hidden villages. Situated deep in the bowels of the planet Kaze, aptly named for the devastating windstorms caused by its thin atmosphere, the village is mostly nomadic. Under attack, the entire village can close off its tunnel structure and relocate in less than twenty-four hours, so long as the location of the Seed Bank isn’t discovered.

With Gaara as its leader and a code of strict cultural mores, the small underground society has survived, perhaps even thrived. But their safety and stability is put at risk when a ship crashes on the surface of Kaze. A ship whose crew claim to be the last known survivors of the long-abandoned planet Earth. And what the outsiders bring with them causes Gaara to question everything he’s ever known …

Read ‘All the Grain of Babylon’, Chapter 1 here on Ao3!

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It’s finally complete! For day 7 of @naruto-scifi-week, this final chapter is for the prompt Space Pirates! Lee and Kankuro recuperate from their surgeries, Lee gets a new job, and the whole truth about the history of the Konoha Twelve is revealed.

Thank you to everyone who’s been with me on this journey, whether we’ve spoken or not, whether you’ve left a comment or just read in silence. This is the second-longest thing I’ve ever written, and other than the first little bit of Chapter 1, I wrote the entire thing (40k words!!) in just over two weeks. I’m certain there are mistakes, and I’ll do my best to go back and pick over them as I have time. If you have left a comment, rest assured I have seen it and have been absolutely over the moon about it, and I promise I will get around to replying as soon as I can! I’ve just been beyond thrilled with the reception this fic has had, and I can’t tell you all how much it means to me. 

Title: All the Grain of Babylon

Rating: M

Fandom: Naruto

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (see notes for specific warnings)

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee, Minor or Background Relationships

Characters: Rock Lee, Gaara, Sand Siblings, Konoha Twelve

Additional Tags: Naruto Sci-Fi Week 2020, Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Alternate Universe - After Earth, Trans Characters, Cultural Misunderstandings, Touch-Starved, Sunans are basically Morlocks with a Vulcan twist, Inspired by the Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Disabled Characters

Summary:

Sunagakure is an outpost’s outpost, the most hidden of the hidden villages. Situated deep in the bowels of the planet Kaze, aptly named for the devastating windstorms caused by its thin atmosphere, the village is mostly nomadic. Under attack, the entire village can close off its tunnel structure and relocate in less than twenty-four hours, so long as the location of the Seed Bank isn’t discovered.

With Gaara as its leader and a code of strict cultural mores, the small underground society has survived, perhaps even thrived. But their safety and stability is put at risk when a ship crashes on the surface of Kaze. A ship whose crew claim to be the last known survivors of the long-abandoned planet Earth. And what the outsiders bring with them causes Gaara to question everything he’s ever known …

Read ‘All the Grain of Babylon’, Chapter 7 here on Ao3!

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For Day 4 of @naruto-scifi-week and the prompt Across the Stars, here’s chapter 4! An illness, an encounter with Suna’s native fauna, and an unexpected injury. 

Title: All the Grain of Babylon

Rating: M

Fandom: Naruto

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (see notes for specific warnings)

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee, Minor or Background Relationships

Characters: Rock Lee, Gaara, Sand Siblings, Konoha Twelve

Additional Tags: Naruto Sci-Fi Week 2020, Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Alternate Universe - After Earth, Trans Characters, Cultural Misunderstandings, Touch-Starved, Sunans are basically Morlocks with a Vulcan twist, Inspired by the Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Disabled Characters

Summary:

Sunagakure is an outpost’s outpost, the most hidden of the hidden villages. Situated deep in the bowels of the planet Kaze, aptly named for the devastating windstorms caused by its thin atmosphere, the village is mostly nomadic. Under attack, the entire village can close off its tunnel structure and relocate in less than twenty-four hours, so long as the location of the Seed Bank isn’t discovered.

With Gaara as its leader and a code of strict cultural mores, the small underground society has survived, perhaps even thrived. But their safety and stability is put at risk when a ship crashes on the surface of Kaze. A ship whose crew claim to be the last known survivors of the long-abandoned planet Earth. And what the outsiders bring with them causes Gaara to question everything he’s ever known …

Read ‘All the Grain of Babylon’, chapter 4 here on Ao3!

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Rolling on into Day 3 of @naruto-scifi-week, this chapter is for the prompt Cyberpunk. In which the Konoha 12 learn about the wonders of oatmeal, and Gaara learns a bit more about his new roommate. 

Title: All the Grain of Babylon

Rating: M

Fandom: Naruto

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (see notes for specific warnings)

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee, Minor or Background Relationships

Characters: Rock Lee, Gaara, Sand Siblings, Konoha Twelve

Additional Tags: Naruto Sci-Fi Week 2020, Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Alternate Universe - After Earth, Trans Characters, Cultural Misunderstandings, Touch-Starved, Sunans are basically Morlocks with a Vulcan twist, Inspired by the Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Disabled Characters

Summary:

Sunagakure is an outpost’s outpost, the most hidden of the hidden villages. Situated deep in the bowels of the planet Kaze, aptly named for the devastating windstorms caused by its thin atmosphere, the village is mostly nomadic. Under attack, the entire village can close off its tunnel structure and relocate in less than twenty-four hours, so long as the location of the Seed Bank isn’t discovered.

With Gaara as its leader and a code of strict cultural mores, the small underground society has survived, perhaps even thrived. But their safety and stability is put at risk when a ship crashes on the surface of Kaze. A ship whose crew claim to be the last known survivors of the long-abandoned planet Earth. And what the outsiders bring with them causes Gaara to question everything he’s ever known …

Read ‘All the Grain of Babylon’, Chapter 3 here on Ao3!

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Day 2 of @naruto-scifi-week! For the prompt Parallel Worlds.

Title: All the Grain of Babylon

Rating: M

Fandom: Naruto

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (see notes for specific warnings)

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee, Minor or Background Relationships

Characters: Rock Lee, Gaara, Sand Siblings, Konoha Twelve

Additional Tags: Naruto Sci-Fi Week 2020, Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Alternate Universe - After Earth, Trans Characters, Cultural Misunderstandings, Touch-Starved, Sunans are basically Morlocks with a Vulcan twist, Inspired by the Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Disabled Characters

Summary:

Sunagakure is an outpost’s outpost, the most hidden of the hidden villages. Situated deep in the bowels of the planet Kaze, aptly named for the devastating windstorms caused by its thin atmosphere, the village is mostly nomadic. Under attack, the entire village can close off its tunnel structure and relocate in less than twenty-four hours, so long as the location of the Seed Bank isn’t discovered.

With Gaara as its leader and a code of strict cultural mores, the small underground society has survived, perhaps even thrived. But their safety and stability is put at risk when a ship crashes on the surface of Kaze. A ship whose crew claim to be the last known survivors of the long-abandoned planet Earth. And what the outsiders bring with them causes Gaara to question everything he’s ever known …

Read ‘All the Grain of Babylon’, Chapter 2 here on Ao3!

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For day 6 of @naruto-scifi-week, this chapter is for the prompt Experimental! The ship parts are all hauled in just in time for the solar flare to arrive, and Gaara has to make a decision between the things he knows and the things he’s learned.

Title: All the Grain of Babylon

Rating: M

Fandom: Naruto

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (see notes for specific warnings)

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee, Minor or Background Relationships

Characters: Rock Lee, Gaara, Sand Siblings, Konoha Twelve

Additional Tags: Naruto Sci-Fi Week 2020, Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Alternate Universe - After Earth, Trans Characters, Cultural Misunderstandings, Touch-Starved, Sunans are basically Morlocks with a Vulcan twist, Inspired by the Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Disabled Characters

Summary:

Sunagakure is an outpost’s outpost, the most hidden of the hidden villages. Situated deep in the bowels of the planet Kaze, aptly named for the devastating windstorms caused by its thin atmosphere, the village is mostly nomadic. Under attack, the entire village can close off its tunnel structure and relocate in less than twenty-four hours, so long as the location of the Seed Bank isn’t discovered.

With Gaara as its leader and a code of strict cultural mores, the small underground society has survived, perhaps even thrived. But their safety and stability is put at risk when a ship crashes on the surface of Kaze. A ship whose crew claim to be the last known survivors of the long-abandoned planet Earth. And what the outsiders bring with them causes Gaara to question everything he’s ever known …

Read ‘All the Grain of Babylon’, Chapter 6 here on Ao3!