Sorry for the even shorter than usual chapter. Next one should be out by this time tomorrow.
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"Oh, and a word of advice," he adds, and suddenly, despite his attire, who stands before us is no longer a silly man child but an incredibly danger...
2023-05-08 10:24:13 +0000 UTC
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And this chapter ended up not having the fight scene I promised.
I apologize.
(We accept your apology. Damn, love that movie.)
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"It's called the Shadow Clone Jutsu," Naruto says, "and it splits y...
2023-05-06 14:59:17 +0000 UTC
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This chapter was supposed to have a fight scene in it. Unfortunately, you will now be getting that in the next chapter.
Hope you like this one at least.
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My little speech about trust and the earning of it appeals to Na...
2023-05-05 05:04:41 +0000 UTC
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I told Sakura and Naruto to come by at 07:00 a.m. the next morning. Sakura shows up at six.
“Sorry for being so early,” the girl begins as soon as I open the door, her speech pattern sounding almost rehearsed, “I—” and then her brain short-circuits as she takes in my form; messy b...
2023-05-01 17:04:24 +0000 UTC
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How the hell did I end up here? I wonder, staring at the steaming bowl of ramen before me.
“Eat up,” Teuchi Ichiraku, the eponymous owner of “Ramen Ichiraku”, Naruto’s favourite place in the whole wide world, says with a close-eyed smile.
“Thanks for the meal, gra...
2023-04-25 21:27:58 +0000 UTC
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During our sixth year in The Academy, one of the electives we’d had the option to take was Medical Ninjutsu.
Sakura and I had both taken it; me because I’d decided that knowing how to treat myself would be useful, and Sakura probably because she’d known that it would be an easy pass f...
2023-04-25 21:19:21 +0000 UTC
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Naruto’s a brawler. A loud, graceless brawler.
Rather unbecoming for a ninja, true, but for someone who has a notorious inability to tolerate the kind of monotonous repetition that mastering a proper martial style often requires, a near inevitability.
So, yes, Naruto’s ...
2023-04-25 21:13:24 +0000 UTC
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In a so-called mundane world where people could travel across the planet in less than forty-eight hours on giant, metal birds, and small, handheld mirrors could remotely access the collective repository of human knowledge, there lived a nineteen-year-old boy named Caleb.
Caleb was, to put ...
2023-04-25 21:09:34 +0000 UTC
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I look Naruto right in the eyes. “You have to beat Sakura.”
“What?” Naruto screams. “What kinda condition is that, you bastard?”
I shrug casually. “I already know that I can beat you,” I say. “The fact that you never won a single spar against me in The Academy is a...
2023-04-25 21:04:23 +0000 UTC
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“My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I like sunsets. I dislike loud noises. And my dream for the future is to be really fucking strong.”
The members of my new team stare at me; Sakura awestruck, Kakashi with that same aggravating smile, and Naruto... well, Naruto decides to tak...
2023-04-25 20:58:29 +0000 UTC
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First chapter of my Naruto AU fic; Gaze Upon the World. An OC-insert into Sasuke at the start of canon.
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Three hours.
That’s how long we’ve sat in our empty classroom waiting for Kakashi Hatake to show up, and if I’d thought that his behaviour was ...
2023-04-25 20:53:32 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Happy Independence, everyone. Sorry this took so long.
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Early Morning.
Friday, Sept. 20
“Professor,” Harry said halfway through Astronomy, when Prof. Sinistra asked if there w...
2022-12-30 11:13:55 +0000 UTC
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Morning.
Tuesday, Sept. 17
“What’s your favourite colour?” Harry asked as they headed down to The Great Hall for breakfast on Tuesday morning.
Hermione blinked at the abruptness of the question.
“What?”
“Your f...
2022-12-18 08:55:02 +0000 UTC
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Same Morning.
Monday, Sept. 16
Hagrid’s hut was, as always, cramped, despite being big enough to comfortably fit a dozen men.
The reason for it, Hermione knew, was because of the gamekeeper’s prodigious size; Hagrid was over eleve...
2022-12-13 08:53:41 +0000 UTC
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A/N: well, it's been a while.
Thanks for sticking around.
PS: slight retcon to the previous chapter. You might not even notice. If you do, here, have a cookie.
★★★
Sometimes, when Sirius Black slept, he dreamt.
Unlike most peo...
2022-12-10 11:27:45 +0000 UTC
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A/N: dear God, this chapter was a bitch-and-a-half to write.
★★★
Same Morning.
Monday, Sept. 16
“Explain,” Dumbledore said, and Harry gladly obliged.
“Sirius wasn’t the secr...
2022-11-27 14:44:02 +0000 UTC
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A/N: the worst thing about writing is that something that takes you hours (maybe even days) to create, only takes a reader minutes to consume.
The best thing about writing though, is that a billion people can share the same piece of material, and the words will never run ou...
2022-11-22 20:14:27 +0000 UTC
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A/N: this chapter took so long because I was having trouble with the later aspects of it. In the end, I realised that days had gone by without me posting anything, and out of fear of losing momentum, I've clipped out the later half and posted this.
That should be completed ...
2022-11-20 06:47:30 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I tried to come up with ideas for other POV's in this chapter, but my brain refused to cooperate.
Hope you enjoy this at least.
★★★
The Matron
Night.
Saturday, Sept. 14
2022-11-16 12:41:35 +0000 UTC
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That Afternoon.
Sunday, Sept. 15
“I’m hungry,” Harry said a few minutes later, and the boy’s words caused Hermione to realise that she was hungry too.
Quite so, in fact. Which, frankly, was only to be expected, considering she...
2022-11-14 12:26:48 +0000 UTC
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Morning.
Sunday, Sept. 15
“I think we should do it,” Hermione said.
“I agree,” Harry said. “After all, let’s be honest, if we don’t, then she’s most likely just going to print whatever the hell she wants.”
“T...
2022-11-12 16:26:31 +0000 UTC
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Morning.
Sunday, Sept. 15
“I know because Voldemort knew.”
Harry’s words elicited different reactions from the adult members of the room, Hermione noticed.
Madam Bones and Prof. McGonagall both looked confused at what he m...
2022-11-12 16:19:53 +0000 UTC
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Morning.
Sunday, Sept. 15
Harry’s sniffles lasted barely a minute, and when he got them under control, he wiped his eyes with his sleeve and gave Hermione a shaky smile.
“I’m fine,” he said. “Thanks.”
Prof. McGonagal...
2022-11-12 16:15:13 +0000 UTC
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Morning.
Sunday, Sept. 15
“If you will come with me,” Prof. McGonagall said, and Hermione looked at Harry.
The boy shrugged; they’d both known this was coming, maybe not quite like this, but the point remained.
Looking bac...
2022-11-12 16:11:10 +0000 UTC
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The Next Morning.
Sunday, Sept. 15
Hermione Granger woke from a restful, dreamless sleep, thanks to Madam Pomfrey’s potions, to find that she really needed to pee.
The eleven-year-old sat up on the narrow but comfortable infirmary b...
2022-11-12 16:04:14 +0000 UTC
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