The Kiri delegation arrived at the boundary outside the Fire Daimyo’s palace in the middle of a downpour. Gaara stoically endured the change from sunshine to rain. Utakata tossed his hand up to use his sleeve to shield his hair, lip curling in distaste.
Aiko made deliberate eye contact wi...
2020-03-23 05:26:55 +0000 UTC
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She waited until they were safely back in the diplomatic housing to beckon Kakashi past the door.
“So, why do they hate you so much, and should we leave?” She asked. “I now assume this is why you’ve been acting so weird since we came here.”
He gaped at her. His jaw opened an...
2020-02-23 13:29:53 +0000 UTC
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The scene where he helps her with her obi and thinks to himself, in a John Mulaney voice for some reason "I'm an adult. I know how knots work."
"MAKE A BIG-ASS BOW!- and then... oh no."
"Not enough fabric. So we pull it through here, and then tuck that ugly end over here......
2020-02-18 11:44:33 +0000 UTC
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You asked- I answered! (Badly, probably.)
The questions are taken from volunteers in our discord chat, and then I took what was probably an infuriatingly long time to answer them (two weeks.... for me, not so bad lol).
I'm gonna start off with the one with the most chaos energy, from ...
2020-02-16 10:58:38 +0000 UTC
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For those of you in the chat who asked questions about Great Lakes, how would you like me to answer?
2020-02-13 02:26:20 +0000 UTC
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They were summoned to dinner at six, Kakashi tailing Regina in her kimono.
‘He switches modes so easily.’ She was a bit envious. He’d just stood up, put the book away, and suddenly behaved like a cold-faced professional- complete with different posture and attitude. It ...
2020-02-12 15:40:44 +0000 UTC
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Regina woke up the morning of her trip with both boys in her bed. Naruto was protectively hugging her still, even in his sleep.
Sasuke’s little fingers were entwined in her hair.
‘This is going to be hard to get out of.’ She gently moved her head away from S...
2020-02-12 06:31:53 +0000 UTC
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Regina arrived at the restaurant at exactly 7:30, wearing the same thing she’d worn to work- her red top/dress cut like Tsunade’s with black and white trim, black thigh-high leather boots over black pants, and a white jacket. It was a limited color palette, for sure, but if there wasn’t a p...
2020-02-11 06:51:41 +0000 UTC
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Regina was relaxed. Regina was, for once, not in physical pain or under incredible stress.
Regina was also feeling super not into going back home.
“Whyyyy do we have to go back?” Naruto whined. He shoved another cheese-flavored snack into his mouth. She’d banned fish...
2020-02-09 05:38:01 +0000 UTC
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At the bottom of the pile were personal correspondences- from her father, Orochimaru-san, Tsunade-san, and one from the land of Iron. The big-ass seal on top was kind of a giveaway that it was probably from Mifune-sama.
She decided to open them in descending order of perceived stressfulness...
2020-02-08 15:21:20 +0000 UTC
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Professor Maki did indeed see them to the door, and waved politely until they were out of sight. She told them to come back at any time, and she might have meant it. She and Elathor had had a brief conversation about the leadership structure of the College, which implied that after all...
2020-02-04 17:00:00 +0000 UTC
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‘You know, it is super fucked that Naruto literally spends every birthday at a festival about kicking that fox demon’s ass.’ She tried not to grimace as the boys rushed from stall to stall, playing games and begging coins off of her to get their butts kicked at catching fish.
2020-02-04 09:58:02 +0000 UTC
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“Can we have that?” Elathor asked. It was not the first time he had said that.
Lilli sighed. She did not bother to say no, because she knew how this was going to play out.
“Of course, it’s ours.” Igni picked the silver decanter up delicately, pinching it bet...
2020-02-04 04:12:59 +0000 UTC
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“It’s not the amount of chakra that’s wrong.” Despite knowing that, Aiko couldn’t resist fiddling with it some more. No matter what she tried, the chakra lock stayed stubbornly shut.
Seabirds wheeled overhead, calling loudly.
The solution was pretty easy to se...
2020-02-04 00:53:17 +0000 UTC
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He had barely left the relative safety of Rejina-hime’s office before his eye was assaulted.
“Hello, Hatake-kun. How was Rejina-hime? You know, after I rolled all over her paperwork for thirty minutes, she finally said she bet that she could bounce a ryo off my ass and agreed to go out ...
2020-02-03 10:57:32 +0000 UTC
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At the end, she had so many questions. Like, ‘what, really?’ and ‘why are you all like this, as people?’, and importantly ‘wtf is an energy fox monster, and why does it hate you almost as much as I do right now?’ but the most pressing one was-
“When can I tell him?” She rubb...
2020-02-03 10:55:25 +0000 UTC
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Regina began her morning the usual way- she knocked on the boys’ doors on her way upstairs, and she stretched with them before doing her own separate workout while they reclined on the floor with juice boxes until it was time to get ready for work and school, respectively.
She enter...
2020-02-02 14:11:29 +0000 UTC
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Regina began her morning the usual way- she knocked on the boys’ doors on her way upstairs, and she stretched with them before doing her own separate workout while they reclined on the floor with juice boxes until it was time to get ready for work and school, respectively.
She enter...
2020-01-31 15:54:58 +0000 UTC
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Up close, this new person was as large and intimidating as they had seemed from across the room. They looked down at her with surprisingly tired-looking eyes. Despite being made of a shiny blue stone, they somehow communicated absolute exhaustion.
She reached up.
The other perso...
2020-01-31 14:57:00 +0000 UTC
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Lilli felt the air grow colder and more damp as she carefully climbed down the slick stone stairs. It was dark, and silent but for the occasional dripping of water.
Oddly, while there were occasional landings, there seemed to be no doorways.
‘I guess I just keep going deep...
2020-01-31 14:51:14 +0000 UTC
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Regina ruthlessly denied most of the requests that day- no longer caring about whether they liked her one bit.
‘If they’re unnecessary, improperly done, or otherwise unacceptable, they get the block.’ She thought, stamping a denial on yet another request from Mitarashi-...
2020-01-27 15:52:29 +0000 UTC
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I put an extremely sophisticated chart in the chaos fiends discord chat three days ago, so that potential stories could be suggested from the format “Aiko (kidnaps)(is kidnapped by) (accidentally proposes to) [Hinata] [C] [Gai] and (a very large amount of money) (a religiously significa...
2020-01-24 02:49:45 +0000 UTC
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When Ikemoto-san called them all down for dinner, Regina waited for Sasuke to run down the stairs before entering Naruto’s room and shutting the door.
‘It looks like the work of a highly localized typhoon.’
The stuff from the boxes was everywhere. Blankets and cus...
2020-01-17 06:42:25 +0000 UTC
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She dreaded the dawn and the aftermath of the meeting the day before- but today was also the day that they’d be moving into their new house, sooo…
‘It’s a real mixed bag. On one hand, I am now a symbol of nepotism or corruption for the village. On the other hand, I mo...
2020-01-13 13:37:41 +0000 UTC
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She escorted Hatake out, but he followed her into her office.
‘Oh, no.’
“Saaa, you prepared a presentation against me?” He asked, sounding miffed even as he tried to drawl it out. “You made me do so much work, I thought you supported me.”
The absolute ...
2020-01-06 05:03:14 +0000 UTC
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She escorted Hatake out, but he followed her into her office.
‘Oh, no.’
“Saaa, you prepared a presentation against me?” He asked, sounding miffed even as he tried to drawl it out. “You made me do so much work, I thought you supported me.”
The absolute ...
2020-01-05 17:26:06 +0000 UTC
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“There’s something off with him.”
Asuma snorted and flicked his cigarette. “What isn’t?”
Genma heaved a huge, put upon sigh, like the drama queen he was. “He’s taking initiative for missions. If it was anyone else, I’d say he’s trying to expand his inter...
2020-01-03 07:47:41 +0000 UTC
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‘He did not give up, no way. Nobody wants to do their job if he’s the one standing in front of their desk, and that did not happen by accident. ...But things are definitely different. He didn’t try the usual arguments. And that creepy little eye-smile and wave… Would Keiko-san have an...
2020-01-02 12:51:34 +0000 UTC
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He had a nice, early night, because he had a mission in the morning. He had been planning to phone it in because he didn’t care about it, but that was the attitude of the old, wrong Kakashi. This version woke up feeling the most cheerful and alert he had in weeks.
He gave his best grin to...
2020-01-02 12:51:06 +0000 UTC
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The next time that he came into the office, he did not wait for any power games. He stalked to the office of the ridiculous woman who barred his way to the Hokage and slapped his materials down on her desk. He ignored the child napping on the couch.
“Good morning Jiraiya-hime, this ...
2019-12-31 17:22:46 +0000 UTC
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