slipping sideways

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Mitarashi Anko
Rating/Status: G / 100 words, complete
Timeline: Shortly after manga ch.328, Shippuuden anime ep.80, spoilers for events around then.
Summary: Anko prefers her blunt brand of support.

Author's Note: While digging through my huge folder of unfinished Naruto drafts, I unearthed a weird one about Anko and the way of shinobi that I don't even remember writing. No wonder too, because it was a horrible 2000+ words of convoluted crap. So I dove in, trying to see if I can salvage anything, but only ended up saving one line - which eventually grew into this drabble. :P

( Bluntly Sane )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Gaara
Rating/Status: G / 214 words, complete
Timeline: After manga ch.281/vol.31-32, several months after.
Summary: Gaara remembers too well.

Author's Note: For naruto_contest, theme: Control. I'm kind of dissatisfied with the way this came out. :\ I envisioned it being, well... better.

( Residue of Control )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Inuzuka Kiba/Hyuuga Hanabi
Rating/Status: PG-13 / 799 words, WIP
Chapter: 2 of ?, In Death the Sun Shines
Timeline: Undefined future, no spoilers
Summary: In Team 8, there were certain things you simply don't speak of. Perhaps it was because of this that he never really knew her at all.

Author's Notes: Here be the next part of "The Paradigm of Understanding" - ah, goodness, the title is such a mouthful. I suspect the next part will be a while solely because I'm busy with work, and anything I'm posting these days were really written last month while traveling anyway...

Part 1

( The Paradigm of Understanding - Part 2 )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Inuzuka Kiba/Hyuuga Hanabi
Rating/Status: PG-13 / 832 words, WIP
Chapter: 1 of ?, A Razor's Edge
Timeline: Undefined future, no spoilers
Summary: In Team 8, there were certain things you simply don't speak of. Perhaps it was because of this that he never really knew her at all.

Author's Notes: Every time I lie down on the bed, I would get these "snapshots" in my head... like flashes of conversation, scenes, or just brief moments of something. I suppose you can say it's when my muse likes to visit me the most. As a result, that's where the basis of my stories generally come from. The following is a product of one of those flashes, pieced together on scraps of paper throughout the trips I had to take for work this past month. Like Simply Unspoken, it's Kiba/Hanabi, though these two fics are definitely not related in any way. This one has way more angst and much less fluff.

( The Paradigm of Understanding - Part 1 )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi
Rating/Status: PG / 499 words, complete
Timeline: Future fic, probably 2-3 years after The Strongest
Summary: They left her behind, and she finds herself living the lives of the dead.

Author's Notes: A stand-alone sequel-ish thing in the same universe as The Strongest, though I didn't originally intend to write anything of the sort. Somehow, my brain started brewing a ton of "Where Sakura Goes From Here" type of scenes. A couple of them morphed into Terribly Monstrous Things, none of which I'm able to tackle at the moment... so I compromised with this, to shut my brain up. It may or may not eventually serve as backstory to one of the aforementioned Terribly Monstrous Things, but I suppose it's irrelevant anyway as this stands on its own.

( Paths of Deaths )